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But does that make it a bad game?

In any case, I preferred it to Wind Waker by a pretty large margin, and I still enjoyed Wind Waker for the most part.

I didnt enjoy the game very much just because it was on the wii. If it had been with a different kind of controller or i had been more used to it than i may have liked it but for now my experience was sub par.

That’s how I feel about all RTS games but they’re apparently very popular on the whole.

It’s another one of those games that caters to a certain crowd. The reason a lot of people like it is because of all the possible permutations of play and different victory conditions, and because there’s a desire to see if what you did one turn will do what you predicted it would 30 turns later. In that way, it’s kind of like playing chess, albeit more complicated. The frequent motto of the Civ player is ’just one more turn…’

I didn’t understand it at first, but I sat through the tutorial once to try and learn instead of dismissing it as too cerebral and wound up ’learning the game’ for four hours. It sneaks up on you. In any case, it’s an excellent example of iterative game design. It’s worth at least observing to understand how people can get so much enjoyment out of what is essentially a guided simulation (that occasionally pits you against your friends).

I love RTS game on the whole but civilizations is la dumbed down version of AGE of empires with more ”faces” in it so that people could relate to the game more and ”pick favorites”. It focused less on micromanaging and more on simple boardgames mechanics.

At the time, there still wasn’t as many mainstream RPG players, so a lot of them still tried to do some things to cater to the hardcore fanbase. The way leveling up in the game worked (reflecting upon what you’ve learned when you go to sleep) made sense to me, because I tend to do a lot of thinking right before I fall asleep. Benjamin Franklin used to sleep in a chair and hold a plate, so that when he dropped the plate he’d wake up and remember to write down the things he was thinking about before he fell asleep (since quite frequently people will forget things they thought of the day before without a reminder, and generally forget the dreams they had by the time they wake up).

I’m not sure what you felt was unfinished, but I can completely understand being bored by the game. It’s not for everyone, generally the people who get the most out of it are the ones who are there for the atmosphere it creates, which is something Bethesda excels at. If you’re not the kind of person who can camp on a rock for 8 minutes stalking deer or watching a lich tear apart a group of bandits, then you might not like it very much. I’ve personally spent 400 hours in Cyrodiil, so obviously I enjoyed it a lot. On the other hand, I’m certain a few of the games you find to be fantastic are incredibly dull to me. But it did get quite a few Game of the Year nods. A lot, actually. And it still goes for a pretty decent price despite being around for 5 years.

If it makes you feel better, though, Skyrim doesn’t make you have to sleep to level up.

As one who was ranked in the top 10 in the US for 360’s oblivion leader board, I have to say I disagree completely with this. If you though Oblivion was bad, don’t play morrowind. Oblivion was the mainstream version of Morrowind, giving up a lot (and I mean A LOT) of really cool mechanics that was cool to old school rpg fans but proved to not appeal to the mainstream. The world was huge, the graphics were awesome (at the time. I’ve seen the game run on the crysis engine and it was gorgeous) combat was improved and the game’s mechanics were incredibly deep. Now, not as exploitable as morrowind, you could make some sweet spells, which acted as sort of adding onto the class creation. So if you had a mage, let’s say a necromancer if you leveled up in that tree, you could then create custom spells that involved necromancy, making your character more yours.

The thing I hated about oblivion was the fact that it followed your level. In Morrowind, if you found a cave, you really had to sit and assess the situation: ”Is my gear in good condition? How are my health potions. do I have a scroll of teleportation in case I run into an epic level dadric lord?” You could go anywhere in that game but the game left it to you to figure out where you were supposed to go in terms of how strong the enemies were. There’s actually a mine shaft near one of the beginning towns that has a group of thugs in there that will tear you up until you’re about level 35. I could go on forever and not even scratch the surface of either game. but hey, if you didn’t like it, then you didn’t like it :/

I kind of wanted to check that out. That along with Ju-On but I’m afraid they’ll be so bad they’ll ruin the movie for me :[

Saw did have soem decent gore to it. I saw a few levels of it and it wasnt the cool of a game but it had some merit.

I still wake up at night screaming from the nightmares that game gave me. That game looked so cool on the back of the box but when you played it…. dear lord, when you played it…

that game was so terriable. I remebered my dad taking us back to the store and demanding a refund for that game.
I think we wound up burning it when we couldnt return it on the fact that it ” sucked almost as bad as ET”

I never got a chance to play nuts and bolts but it looked like it was a far cry from the original two. I do have to say that without nuts and bolts, I wouldn’t have been slipped the free code from a friend to get Banjo Kazooie on my xbox so I mean, some good came out if it, right?

The first tow of the series were alright. I never played nuts and volts and i thought it looked great. Guess not lol.

We at gamestop actually got a letter of apology from the developers of Two Worlds for making the game. Never seen anything like it.

I’ve actually heard a lot of good hype for Two Worlds 2. As far as I know, they realized making an Oblivion clone was a terrible idea, and are working on making it more original. I guess only time will tell though.

you are just crazy lol, i can see your point but you had to pass the whole game to see how awesome it was, i admit it got boring in the whole Mexico part but the ending was great and i really loved hunting things lol.
it wasn’t that much like GTA, you didn’t go around killing random people, you could but most people don’t in this one, and you don’t hijack horses or w/e, you can find them roaming in the plains lol
its all preference though

I know some people that couldn’t get into it. Just because it’s a well-made game doesn’t mean that you have to like it or feel bad for not liking it.

I think the main reason it got more praise than GTA IV is that RDR hada much more consistent main character, setting, and sense of direction. In GTA IV, Niko started as an immigrant who wanted to leave his past behind, and then killed a bunch of people anyways… which of course was when he wasn’t getting interrupted by his needy, car-less friends and girlfriends who wanted to hang out all the time.

Red Dead stayed serious, even when it was making fun of Western tropes, and Rockstar was smart to lump all of the silliness into a contained package–Undead Nightmare.

I’m explaining this to say that you’re wrong for disliking it, just explaining what all the fuss was about for people.

I didn’t care for red dead either. It has the same appeal to me that GTA does: wait for a friend to buy it, play it at their place, game content fully explored. I spent a good amount of time stealing horses and dragging people behind me and then setting up shop on top of a building and sniping people until I either ran out of ammo or made a mistake and died but that’s about it. Was the zombie expansion any good?

i have it on SNES lol

lol, your snes emulator on your dreamcast? is that possible

No matter how bad I hear this game is, I still want to play this game.

Shaq-fu was a great game!

well thats disappointing…I wasnt expecting much but its sad to hear it so terrible

I can’t even explain how mush I agree with this comment.

as the lol cat said dynasty worriors needs to die.
I played it for 10 minutes then sold it to game stop right away. I could tell it wasnt gunna get any better and i didnt think it would.
I troleld that game really bad back in the day.