Videogames you love, videogames you hate thread

[megaMasquerain]

I HATE any Ty The Tasmanian Tiger game that isn't the first one.

I'm not even 100% sure why exactly. It's like... the series went in a direction that just didn't sit right with me. The overworld is way too cluttered to get anything done, the characters have either lost their original personalities, or have been reworked severely.

Like for example: Ty himself just spams catch phrases over and over, barely getting in any real sentences throughout both sequels. Shazza is even more overly concerned for Ty and everyone, whereas she was much more independent and tolerable in the original. Sly is the worst offender of all; Instead of being the anti-Ty, he is now just "Ty's brother", and is in no way similar to how he was meant to be.

It really seems like, after the original was released, the publisher(EA and later Activision... yeah a good combo amirite?) decided to have more input for the sequels... hence why they suck.

Seriously, I don't understand how anyone who enjoyed the original can enjoy the sequels. They only take steps BACKWARDS. The only compliment I will pay the sequels is that they run at 60fps as opposed to the original's 30fps... but that isn't something that can save them from mediocrity.

I don't hate them but I agree with you that the sequels were a step back from the original.

Games I hate... well, I already mentioned Persona 4 (mostly because the story seemed shoddily-thrown together to me to try and fit with the game mechanics, and P3 was a much better game story and character-wise) earlier in the thread... and I don't really like open-world western RPGs that much, I feel like they're basically the same thing done over and over. I had a bit of fun with Fable 3 when Steam had it for like 5 bucks but I quickly got bored when I realized "this is sort of like a single player MMO with an alignment system".

I can find the good in most *decent* games, provided I like the genre. A lot of games people hate are my guilty pleasure games! I think the thing that gets me most is disappointing sequels (Persona 4, Jade Cocoon 2, Yume 2kki to an extent), but even then I like JC2 and Yume 2kki.

I guess P4 would be my most hated game then.... hmm.

[Tellis]

I guess P4 would be my most hated game then.... hmm.

aaaaaaa, don't say that right before I'm about to start that game, geez!

[megaMasquerain]

I guess P4 would be my most hated game then.... hmm.

aaaaaaa, don't say that right before I'm about to start that game, geez!

Ah, it's sort of an overstatement to say that. The game has a huge fanbase so there has to be something I'm missing. The gameplay is great as well, though nothing *new* if you played P3.

I'd say go for it, honestly!

[tsr moderation staff]

Mega Man X

lol then I must not be a good player because I like


can't get past the first boss

oh my god

i know you probably aren't talking about vile

but i want you to be
i want it with all my heart

[Tellis]

I guess P4 would be my most hated game then.... hmm.

aaaaaaa, don't say that right before I'm about to start that game, geez!

Ah, it's sort of an overstatement to say that. The game has a huge fanbase so there has to be something I'm missing. The gameplay is great as well, though nothing *new* if you played P3.

I'd say go for it, honestly!

Haha, okay thanks for that. Yeah, I've played P3 (and loved it enough to go to PAX dressed as Junpei), so I figure it'd play the same. Kind of sad they didn't change the Velvet Room music at all between games. I mean, P2 changed P1's song quite a bit...

Um, a game that I hate, so I can actually contribute to this topic...
Viewtiful Joe 2, definitely. Fitting in with masquerain's distaste for disappointing sequels, it just lacked the charm the original had, and the level design seemed really uninspired as well. Also a lot of the humor wasn't clever or witty at all. It was like they remembered the cheesy movie themed bits from the first but forgot to actually make it funny. And Sylvia's just... a lame character. >>; It's enough to make me want to just consider VJ just a standalone game, and just deny the existence of its sequels.

[Azure-Tranquility]

We could make a topic just for disappointing sequels and we'd be at 5 pages easily by the end of the week, I'm sure.

Funnily enough, everyone and their mom seems to hate Yoshi's Island DS. Myself, I managed to tolerate it, but it got way too hard in the last world, so I gave up on it and never came back to it until recently. It definitely doesn't have the same charm as the original, but it IS a sequel, and the gameplay itself is still there, albeit with different controls.

[Rökkan]

Mega Man X

lol then I must not be a good player because I like


can't get past the first boss

oh my god

i know you probably aren't talking about vile

but i want you to be
i want it with all my heart

I just imagine every time Vile shoots him with his paralyzing cannon he goes "oh SHIT" and resets the game.

[Gors]

tbh I really did die one life with that guy

[DadNier]

it's true, it really is possible though extremely rare to die against vile; if you get EXACTLY one health mark above the point where the cutscene activates, and he hits you with some specific attack (maybe it's if he punches you? whichever his most damaging one is) you can actually die, I've had it happen before
although it does have to be that EXACT amount of health and that EXACT attack so it's like one in a million

[TomGuycott]

Actually it's not that hard to die against intro stage Vile. All you have to do is get hit by him dashing forward when he's shooting the electric ball at you and you'll be damaged so much that you die instead. It happened to me once and I was just like.............. T_T

[Azure-Tranquility]

lol can that happen in Maverick Hunter X?

[Garamonde]

Funnily enough, everyone and their mom seems to hate Yoshi's Island DS. Myself, I managed to tolerate it, but it got way too hard in the last world, so I gave up on it and never came back to it until recently. It definitely doesn't have the same charm as the original, but it IS a sequel, and the gameplay itself is still there, albeit with different controls.

I really don't think everyone hated YIDS. There's not much to hate about it seriously. Everyone complains that it's not just like the sequel but everyone just needs to let that go. That's what really annoys me. I agree that the game is pretty difficult in the later worlds and I haven't played it in a long time (but I always get away from games like that), but it really does feel like YI and it's really a good sequel (having a different baby give you a different ability was a very nice addition), taking in the fact that you're probably never going to get something better than the original, in which everyone knows that. It was just too good.

[puggsoy]

I had a go at Yoshi's Island for GBA some time back, but it got too difficult, like, halfway through, although it's fairly likely that I just wasn't that good at gaming then. I might want to try YIDS.

[Azure-Tranquility]

I had a go at Yoshi's Island for GBA some time back, but it got too difficult, like, halfway through, although it's fairly likely that I just wasn't that good at gaming then. I might want to try YIDS.

whoa, Yoshi's Island was too hard for ya? I remember beating Hookbill at the age of 3-4... YIDS is harder than the original once you get to World 5.

[puggsoy]

Either it was too hard or I was too lazy. One of those two. But nowadays I'm much more determined than then.
I mean, I play TF2 as the Spy, how more determined can you get?