Games that you wish never existed Options

[Dr. Knickers]

Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Universe at War, and Starshatter.

Probably others I can't think of right now.

[Pink_Supervisor]

Any of the Tom Clancy game ports for the Play Station 2, what the fuck.

[MARS]

``Not to mention they seriously downplayed the problem with tiberium in C&C 3. It's like they went "okay, we got
Kane and some green crystals and some similar blue crystals and generic looking aliens" and just stopped at that.´´

Like they said in that article I've posted on Fallout some time ago: Tiberium has become something lifeless. They took away all of the mystery and turned it into a mere resource/generic sci-fi plot device. In the old games, Tiberium used to be so much more. There was fauna, there was flora and the crystals actually spread asymmetrically beyond that pre-determined circle around the tree...err...the 'pit'. They scrapped all the interesting aspects that made TS more than just another above average two-faction RTS.

[Shock]

As for C&C3 and KW, I'm also inclined to agree. Even though I didn't find it so unredeemably awful that I wish it was never made, it was still quite disappointing, mainly because of the lack of unit diversity and the utterly forgettable story which didn't really make the best of the scenario and presented one of the most mundane alien invasions I've ever seen. Tripods with heat rays burning down cities is all fine with me but if the bigger part of the planet has already been a smoking, crystal-infested wasteland for four decades, it kinda loses some of the the appeal.

This is why I only put KW there. CnC3 isn't that much a bad game and I've had my fun with it, but I have just never touched KW after I finished the campaign. It has so few content aside from the campaign, that it's really a waste of my money. I had hoped that they would fix up CnC3's shortcomings, like atmosphere (Tiberium creatures anyone?) and faction variety (Just compare the differences between the factions to Generals and you will get my point) and replayability.

But no, everything aside from the momentarily passable campaign is a complete fail.

[Jester]

Almost all of the Childish Nintendo games and The Wii's Shitastic Stick wagglers.

[MARS]

Those gimmicky kindergarten games were quite a disgrace for Nintendo veterans, indeed. Would have been easier to accept if they had released any good
games from their main franchises as well but that didn't happen for quite a while. Oh well, at least they announced a whole lot of promising games on the E3.

[C.o.m.m.a.n.d.e....]

the wii itself and i know evry1 has said this alrdy but im gonna add to it...WoW

[MARS]

There's nothing wrong with the Wii itself in my opinion. Everyone may argue that the whole motion control thing was gimmicky or that it could have been done much better but the mere fact that they DID it rather than just releasing yet another console with the standard controller-with-buttons system like EVERYONE else speaks positively of Nintendo's ability to come up with fresh concepts i.e. what they're KNOWN for and which sets them apart from the others. Plus, the big name titles like Zelda or Mario were just as good with motion controls. It's not like the new control scheme did any major damage to them.

[Shock]

Problem is third party developers seem unable to develop good games for the Wii, so after the standard Nintendo titles from well known saga's, there is not much to enjoy on the Wii.

And they did that better in previous consoles. When Nintendo was still in race with Playstation, their licensed games were the best ever, but they cannot do that anymore with a graphically demoted console.

[MARS]

Demoted hardware is less of a problem for Nintendo's first party titles (Because Mario and the likes don't really NEED realistic graphics) than it is for third parties. Any game that goes multiplatform - i.e. 360, PS3, Wii - is completely inferior on the Wii because the hardware simply doesn't hold a candle to the other systems. If the Wii had better hardware, Nintendo could benefit from its own titles AND decent third party games. The problem is that developing games for the Wii is simply too easy.

[C.o.m.m.a.n.d.e....]

honsetly you might as well by a gamecube because thats literaly what a wii is except with a motion chip and internet card theres only 1 game thats even good on the wii and thats super smash bros. the new zeldas are horrible compared to the nin64 ones

[MARS]

Ahh, the old Gamecube-argument. The Wii is competing in the same market as the 360 and the PS3 unlike the Gamecube which rivalled the original X-Box and the aging PS2 in the last generation. Just because the Wii's hardware is undoubtably inferior to the other systems doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be compared to them. Nintendo's simply making different use of their resources. They didn't go for 'ZOMG realistic graphix', they went for innovation and while you may rightfully argue that some of that innovation was pretty gimmicky, you can't deny that the thing was pretty damn successful. But oh well, this is getting dangerously close to the dreaded console war scenario and since this place isn't Gametrailers (thankfully) I better get this over with. Consider this: If the Wii is basically just a Gamecube with such minor improvements, would it have been an equal success if they had just re-released the Gamecube without any major changes? I doubt it. The system was at least innovative enough to get some new people into gaming. People who wouldn't have played video games if it weren't for the funny motion controls. People who now know first hand that games are more than GTA and 'murder simulators'. Isn't that a good thing too?

[C.o.m.m.a.n.d.e....]

u know wat ima end this now and just say computers will always be the best systems as they meet all our needs

[MARS]

Well, we can all agree on that.

[Shock]

I miss the good days of Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Racer and James Bond Goldeneye though, too bad that ball isn't in the Nintendo alley anymore.

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C.o.m.m.a.n.d.e.r
I don't mean to be picky but I have gotten used to reading full english on these forums that your l33t abbrevations are just making things harder. If you can, avoid it. (:}

[MARS]

Goldeneye 64 was great. Until this very day, the game is actually banned here because
at the time it came out, the death animations were 'too realistic' for our moral watchdogs.