Venetica. Venetica is a horrible game in so many ways yet it has 81% positive user reviews on steam. I already wrote a big thing about why the game is bad here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Resoula/recommended/338140/ a long time ago.
It's one that I don't understand why anyone would like. From the bad design choices to the bugs to the complete mediocrity of the game even for the exact date it came out. I mean /maybe/ if you've never played a good RPG before you could like this....but I assume the 81% positive reviews HAVE played other RPGs. So I just don't understand what they like about it. The only thing I liked was the music, but even that was bad because they only had 5 tracks for a 19 hour game.
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I mean you /can/ try it. Just know you're probably going to run into a lot of bugs in the first third of the game. At least one of them gamebreaking but has a work-around. And you're doing all this work around work for mechanics don't really pay off and the most repetitive RPG experience I have ever, well, experienced.
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Hmm...I played it for a bit and actually enjoyed it for the most part, it certainly isn't one I regret purchasing. My main gripe with it is that it seems to be unusually CPU heavy for what it is .
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Well I do agree with most of the things you said and yet I finished it, unlike Skyrim or Oblivion, so at least it's not as dull as those two.
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I agree. I don't understand why so many persons like it when there are so many better shooters available.
I remember when CSGO came out too. And a LOT of persons were saying it sucks and the original counter strike is better. I am not sure when that sentiment died off and "CSGO is the best game ever" sentiment started.
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CS 1.6 and Source are still alive and have decent community. I wont be surprised if things will be like for StarCraft, where PRO gamers continue to abandone SC2 to play SC:BW more. SC2 championship is dead for few weeks now, as 5 best pro teams decided to not participate anymore.
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5 best pro teams decided to not participate anymore
that's quite weird tbh xD
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I played cs original... back in the betas all through 1.6 at a pro / invite level. From RiTD invite to CAL-invite... as well as a handful of cpl events. Then things started to split, CS Source was the 'place' people were moving to and then CS Go sometime later. A friend of mine gave CSGO a huge talking up to me a few months ago... I said I would give it a shot, bought the game, renewed my esea account... and I was shocked to discover how horrible it felt to play. I probably have put in hundreds of thousands of hours in the original cs... no exaggeration, between scrims, practices, lans, tournaments, matches, pugs, etc. I just couldn't play more than 1 hour of CSGO before I was enraged by it. I can't put my finger on why I hate it something fierce... but at the very least it gave me some fond memories of the best times I ever had in gaming... that I hadn't thought about for well over a decade.
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Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton
Got it in a bundle, tried it because it had good reviews and nice looking art. Wow, just...wow. I honestly don't even know where to begin describing what's wrong with this game. Other then the art (what little there is) everything is terrible; level design, enemy variety, character moveset, 'cutscenes', etc.
Its like playing an early alpha of a game that ran out of money in the prototyping phase and then took the existing assets and stretched them as far as possible so it could be passed off as a full fledged / completed game.
I don't do reviews on Steam because I don't want to deal with the drama, plus since a lot of my games are from keys the reviews wouldn't count towards the overall rating anyway. But this is one of the worst games I've played on Steam.
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This is obviously just my opinion since I know a lot of people who like this game. I found it to be extremely buggy, way to linear, and an overall dull experience. Not to mention without a guide I could not figure out what I was suppose to do half the time. It's good for a dollar but thats about it.
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show me any review (from a real critic, not steam users or something) that talks about nothing but graphics. i have yet to see something like that. i bet you can't find even one. the claim that most reviews of AAA games talk only about graphics is simply false.
the truth is, most AAA games are actually pretty solid. sure, not every AAA game is brilliant. but you will rarely find one that is truly garbage. since you mentioned CoD - those are all pretty solid shooters, in single- and multiplayer. indie games on the other hand have a much wider range. meaning, most of them are crap. sorry, as much as like good indie games, but for every good one you have 10 bad ones. and those are really bad. not CoD-level bad. more like 5 levels below that. look at Slaughtering Grounds, for instance. suddenly CoD doesn't look as bad anymore, right? ^^ it's easy to call AAA games garbage. but i'm sure if you're honest you will admit to yourself that most AAA games are at least mediocre. i mean, if you use the lowest possible term for CoD, what kind of words are left for the games that are clearly 10 times worse like Slaughtering Grounds and all that other bullcrap on Steam nowadays? ;)
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But the thread asks about stupid games and personal opinion. And CoD and the similar spunkgargleweewee games in general are stupid. They are stupid on purpose to make sure they can allure even the absolute most simplistic gamer ever lived.
But I could have used Arkham Knight as an example as well. Promotional materials were gushing about the new graphics engine. They showcased how detailed the city was. There was an entire video about that the Battank had more polygons than the entire Arkham Asylum world map. We knew everything just not what the damn game was about and how it played. As it turns out, because it was mediocre. But hey, everyone praised the graphics. One local magazine here went on for two pages out of four on how good the game looked.
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Mafia 1 (if it had steam store page xD)
Not that I didn't enjoy it - but when you think about it - the best thing in this game was this 1930-1940 mood. Same with mafia 2 (just enter different time period).
Also mafia 2 did good job with colectibles xD First time I was happy to get them all (and I'm talking about wanted posters).
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haha I remember that xD
Also my bad - I wanted to write that I'm NOT talking about wanted posters xD Just lost this word somewhere :)
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"The Underground Man" - http://store.steampowered.com/app/513230/
It's a completely broken, stupid, unplayable piece of trash.
Apparently trolls united to give it piles and piles of gushing positive reviews to trick people into playing it. But it's a trap; it's a troll game, intended to frustrate the poor suckers who purchase it.
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At least it's hilariously bad. XD I watched two people play it, their reactions were gold.
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The Culling Of The Cows
http://store.steampowered.com/app/297020/
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imagine how "easy" it was to finish the game without dying :P...
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I agree. Trial and error with penalty of death should be banned in puzzle games.
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But it wasn't trial and error. You could use visual clues, empirical findings, reason and deduction to solve the puzzles, so it is more properly called trial and feedback, also known as the Scientific Method.
Sorry, misuse of the accusation of "trial and error" is a pet peeve of mine.
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Goat Simulator.
But that's what you get when a developer gets goaded into selling a stupid, silly and half-broken tech-demo as a game.
The expansions for it (including the free Goat MMO Simulator) do add some decent entertainment value, but they don't change that the core gameplay being a godawful mess is the thing's main selling point, and that makes sure it can never really be called a good game.
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It's a joke game. It's boring, something to play once and never again just to pass the time and laugh at its stupidity.
Still, has some nice criticism here and there, I think they're quite valid, as some kind of protest, you know.
Maybe it would really be fun to get drunk and play local coop with friends, I don't know, I wouldn't know since I neither get drunk or have friends.
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I went in hoping for hilarity and I got it. Goat Simulator's been a blast to blindstream. It's a ton of fun for when I just want to do stupid things without worrying about much. =P
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Probably would be easier to simply choose a game which is not as good as the reviews claim instead of just being bad.
If that was the case I'd pick Borderlands due to the slow and pretty anticlimatic story, combat with abilities is not as good as later installments, and the dull colored looking landscape giving very little visual stimulation which did make it difficult to play for long sittings (especially considering how much more vibrant the following two games in the series were). Don't get me wrong, it is a freaking good game and I both love and recommend it. But 94% review rating good? Maybe a 90% would be more fair partially because BL2 really freaking EARNED that 97% in comparison as it was better in pretty much every way. Not a big dip but the game did have it's flaws.
My opinion of course ^^
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I like it, it's brainless entertainment. But, of course, your opinion, my opinion, nothing wrong with that.
Now, if the devs ever manages to get an online mode, give them a Nobel prize.
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Time for an unpopular opinion, but here I go.
Bioshock. The first Bioshock game is one that I feel is really just not good. It's not super terrible and, visually, its pretty good considering it came out in the early 2000s, but I found the level design to be awful. Dark, repetitive and boring. The atmosphere was spooky for all of 10 minutes, after which everything becomes predictable. Everything was SUPPOSED to be scary, so everything became predictable. Fast. Not to mention the gameplay was rather boring. Sure there were some things that you COULD do with the special powers, but they were all tedious, complicated and only worked half the time. Heck, even the guns weren't that cool. I spent the majority of the time running around with a wrench because it was by far the most useful thing. If I died, no big deal. There were no consequences.
I toughed it out anyways because everyone said that the story was ground breaking and phenomenal. After being haphazardly introduced to a cast of bland faces that I didn't give a single fluff about, they revealed the epic plot twist of who the real villain is! It was... Some guy they mentioned early on in the game that I had completely forgotten because it sounded boring. But what about the plot twist of your nameless, faceless, unimportant protagonist being a nameless, faceless, unimportant protagonist? I wasn't floored by that either. Finally, I got the "good guy" ending because I thought the eventual in game rewards would be better for not murdering children. (They weren't) That ending was grossly unsatisfying. It was sickeningly sweet to a point where it undermined the whole atmosphere of everything that came before it.
Honestly, the only reason I think it became popular and well liked is because there was no competition for it in that year. It was a 2005 Xbox 360 game. Since that was the the dominant platform of that time and nothing else good came out for it that year (I could be wrong, I haven't looked at everything that came out that year), and it was an fps that sought to mix up the formula with powers and an focused narrative, it got an inordinate amount of praise. I mean, Half-Life 2 did everything Bioshock did much better a year earlier.
Y'all can start hating on me now.
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I respect your correction and accept it as such. Thank you.
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I mean, Half-Life 2 did everything Bioshock did much better a year earlier.
Have to disagree xD
What you said is 100% true - but I still liked Bioshock. Even if I was really disappointed at the beginning. Seriously - watch fist bioshock trailers - game was supposed to be much faster - and ended up with slug-style combat xD.
Half life 2 was really boring for me. Yeah they introduced a lot of new things but didn't mixed it properly. Look! Have this boat! Now use it for next 2 hours... Have a car - drive it for next 2 hours... Helicopter fight!!! Fight with 3 of them in a row xD
Also story was bland.
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You didn't clarify if those games you mentioned are the bad ones or the "better than nothing" ones
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Unfortunately these are the games that I consider bad, 'cause doesn't start and I just wasted money and time trying play.
I've bought the Redux Bundle to give Metro 2033 a new opportunity, but if doesn't work again, don't gonna be a surprise.
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*some aspects* of SOMA - Barely any review even adresses how "walkingsim-monster-walkingsim-monster" is the build of the game - it's like the game repeatedly needs to remind the player that it is a horror game. Everything is sterile and passive (but delivers the story) in the walking sections, and then nothing but holdup happens at the monsters with counterproductive mechanics. Still one of the best sci-fi stories told recently.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
The reviews are only mostly positive (still 77ish %)
Cardboard cutout characters,ongoing technical problems, bad pacing (you don't even get time / opportunity to get to know what/who are you fighting for), nonsensical character decisions, overdramatizing scenes that ruins consistency. It's like a B movie after the outstanding TWD S1 and S2. review
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Hexen worked a lot worse for single player than Heretic, but a lot better for co-op [in part because splitting up mattered so much]. In the end, its appeal really is based heavily in context. It also appealed to a very different mentality than the usual FPS games of the time [or now].
In the end, of course, what you're really criticizing is Steam's binary review system- all things said, Hexen still deserves a positive over a negative, even by more critical considerations (even if, in a scaled scaled review system, it might end up closer to 75 - 80% positive [but then, quite a few games on Steam would drop similarly, so no telling how much that'd change how it contrasts to other games]). Or, well, it did for the time, and most of its Steam purchasers are likely doing so out of nostalgia for the specific games or overall FPS style of the era. If you read the positive reviews, you'll notice people generally admit the game's faults, but note that the game really did stand out for its time (for its unusual play style and creative features)- and even then, wasn't suited for every play style.
At this point, I wouldn't say any of the older ID Software games are 'worth the trouble', unless you've a clear idea of why you're going into them. So if you're saying 'Hexen is the least accessible of the older, notable FPS games', no argument. But, then, it never was, and that was part of its appeal.
As for me, I recall it being a highly memorable co-op experience [for the time]- or as Gamestop mentioned back during the N64 release:
but if [it's] the first time you've tried the title, you'll likely find it a nice break from the monotonous "run and shoot" first-person games because of its puzzle aspects and more strategic take on fighting.
[Which co-op highly enhanced- it was one of the earliest FPS games where you could really feel like you were working together toward things in a strategic manner.]
In any case, there's a reason Hexen was better received than Heretic, at its release- Heretic is, for all its charm, a straightforward game. Hexen stands out. If you're bothering to "go back in time", I'd definitely recommend Hexen, for its more distinct gameplay.
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Bioshock Infinite - below average gameplay, worse than previous 2 games, and a story with more holes than story. Only visual design and Act 2 was good.
Fallout 4 - there was no RP in my G
Skyrim - it was an rpG, with a world wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle. And a buggy mess.
GTAV - OK, it was pretty great, but overhyped by 500%. It was merely a good open world game, not the second coming of Christ. If it wasn't for stunt videos and mods, nobody would've been talking about it month after release
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Obviously we're talking about your opinion.
That's not the case you don't like the genre, but you admit it's a good game. Try to tell why the game is really bad, despite having a lot of good reviews. Or they're not even different enough to deserve their reputation, especially if there are games which do the same stuff a lot better.
Mine is GTA (all of them). Going to places is boring, driving system is terrible, missions are not fun, you just keep repeating the same things. "Open-world" is a lie, since you don't do more than commiting crimes when you try to get out of the missions line or doing stupid common stuff like driving around the city, watching short movies or listening to the radio, which, come on, could make it get called a "real life simulator". For me, it's a whole world which pretends to give you freedom you don't have.
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