Omni
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I hear Hendrix was funny. "On the other hand, getting left behind isn't too bad."
Posted on 2004-08-26 01:58:42
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Interference22
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Quote:Originally posted by Omni
I hear Hendrix was funny. "On the other hand, getting left behind isn't too bad."
Humerous once, but the acting was so bad that his opening line - "Parker, my name is Hendrix and I want to help you" - was delivered so flatly and so utterly poorly I cringed for a full five minutes.
Posted on 2004-08-27 00:06:41
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MudGolem
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Neverwinter nights (original)
Hated that with the last chapter you couldn't change your henchman guy, and if you didn't have one with you before it started and old saves you're screwed.. same with the last boss being unkillable with many character combinations. Insta kill spells cast on you by monsters were really fun too, but for most of the game it wasn't game over when you died.
Posted on 2004-09-04 19:10:02
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evilbob
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Far and away the shittiest games ever to hit shelves include, imo:
Final Fantasy XI along with several other FF's, but this thing takes stupidity in game design to a whole new level.
Ultima IX has fucking more bugs than Starship Troopers.
Anything Based On Spawn Sorry Todd, you make awesome toys and used to make decent comics, but give up on games.
Also, I can tell you the worst ending in the history of gaming.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault ends with one of the greatest levels I have ever played in any shooter, or other game, ever. It's like being sucked right into an Indiana Jones movie or something. You infiltrate the Nazi installation, pretending to be an office, and you put on a gasmask (awesome effect) and head down to the lower levels where the chemical warfare experimentation is. You set off a gas leak, and then KERSPLODE THE FACILITY. Then you must turn back around, fight your way back through the several floors of nazis (your cover is 'blown,' so to speak), while doing a Samus AND BEING CHASED BY A FIREBALL OMG.
The awesome Williams-ish music is beating the whole time. When you finally make it out of the facility, you have to run like hell to get to the train that the POW's you saved in the previous level have commandeered. You take down the guards in the towers, make it to the train, and hop in. And then the guy says something like 'You did it!'
And then, in shitty little white letters, 'The End' fades onto the screen.
THAT'S IT.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Posted on 2004-09-13 20:36:40
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loretian
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It should be pointed out that they fixed all the major bugs with Ultima 9, and sent out updated CD's to everyone that had registered the game. Yeah it was buggy at first, but they did everything possible to right that after being forced to ship early by the publisher, and it was a pretty damn good game after that.
Posted on 2004-09-13 21:21:52
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Interference22
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I'd like to re-aquire Ultima 9. I got it once but it crashed my videocard every ten minutes so I was sadly forced to return it.
MOH is totally outclassed by Call Of Duty, by the way: the Russian missions in that are utterly awe-inspiring and go quite some way towards showing us how utterly terrifying WW2 was. Still, MOH is good in places but ends without any warning and has some painfully obvious set-ups and irritating moments (like having to snipe off Germans while protecting a tank crew.. Argh!).
Posted on 2004-09-14 00:12:06
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evilbob
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Quote:Originally posted by loretian
It should be pointed out that they fixed all the major bugs with Ultima 9, and sent out updated CD's to everyone that had registered the game. Yeah it was buggy at first, but they did everything possible to right that after being forced to ship early by the publisher, and it was a pretty damn good game after that.
The patches they released did little to change my experience with the game, and you are still the only person I've talked to, even amongst the Ultima fanboys I know in person, who considers U9 in any higher regard than a bug-riddled mediocrity at best. I probably waited around for a year or so after I got the game before I finally got fed up, snapped the fucker in half, and tossed it in the garbage. Of all of the games I own for console and PC, over 300 of them have been purchased, not warezed. U9 has the distinction of being the only game out of all of them that I've ever destroyed. I didn't even keep it around for shits and giggles. 'Check it out guys, I'VE STILL GOT ULTIMA IX LOLLERZ.'
Whether Origin is to blame for crapping out a mess of an unfinished product onto shelves to meet the Christmas demand does little to change the fact that it was in fact shrink-wrapped feces sitting on the shelf. It is a shame all that work went to such waste.
Posted on 2004-09-15 09:20:51
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loretian
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I don't understand it. I installed the updated version and basically had no bug related problems with the game (aside from the occasional crash that would occur every few hours, which isn't that big of a deal to me, since I save often). Maybe I just got lucky, or maybe my computer is just the best, or maybe, I'm just the best.
Posted on 2004-09-15 15:41:54
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evilbob
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Oh right, that was my other problem. My save games would get corrupted all the god damn time, making it impossible to progress.
I mean I WANTED to play it, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. The fates just conspired to bless you with the ability to enjoy a game I couldn't really get the chance to. This is also not the first time we've had this particular discussion! But I will always be bitter and FULL OF RAGE ARGH
Posted on 2004-09-15 19:20:06 (last edited on 2004-09-15 22:11:10)
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loretian
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Well, anyway, for the record, Morrowind did a much better job achieving what they attempted to do with U9.
Posted on 2004-09-15 20:53:14
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evilbob
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I love Morrowind, but I would admit that I remember some of the art direction in Ultima IX being prettier (at least for the characters, or at least as I remember?). It doesn't matter what race I pick in Morrowind, they walk like they have a 2x4 rammed up their anus ;_;
But man, the world needs more big huge complicated rpg's. Morrowind is the sort of stuff I grew up on.
Posted on 2004-09-15 22:16:45 (last edited on 2004-09-15 22:20:38)
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loretian
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I know! Have you heard about Oblivion, the recently announced Elder Scrolls 4 game?
Check out: http://www.elderscrolls.com/index.php and click on the Game Informer mag.
They claim that is an actual in game shot, where the only work they did was to manually modify the model to give it a better pose.
Posted on 2004-09-15 23:16:25
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Interference22
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For the lazy, the screenshot in question:
This is HOT SHIT. I mean, that looks cooler than cool itself. Morrowind is gorgeous, but Oblivion? Looks like it'll make everyone go 'Woooooo!' all over again. Let's hope they keep the quality of dialogue and interaction at the level they left it in Bloodmoon.
Posted on 2004-09-15 23:43:37
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evilbob
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My two reactions:
'Holy shit!'
and
'GODDAMNIT. My machine is like just NOW able to run Morrowind smoothly on the higher settings.'
Posted on 2004-09-16 03:10:14
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Troupe
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Anyone ever play the magic candle? Now THAT is fucking epic.
Posted on 2004-09-16 04:38:58
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evilbob
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Quote:Originally posted by Troupe
Anyone ever play the magic candle?
That sounds disturbingly like a homosexual innnuendo :D
Posted on 2004-09-16 05:44:40
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Interference22
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Oblivion will require an absolute MONSTER to run.
Besides the technical aspect, Bethesda tend to go down what is affectionately referred to as the 'Art Path': they gear their engine towards being easy for artists to import their coolness into the engine while flagrantly ignoring coding the engine to actually OPTIMISE the gaming experience into something that runs fast on as many computers as possible.
I mean, if you've seen how Morrowind processes graphics you'd think it was programmed by MONKEYS. Buildings stick through the ground in multiple places but the rendering engine STILL processes the polygons you can't actually seen even though they're several metres below you're feet! The landscape mesh is also a FAR higher polycount than it really needs to be. Some objects have CRAPLOADS of seperate textures applied to them when uniting them into one texture would improve performance.
Still, it ROCKS all the same. Even if I'm going to have to fork out a large sum to play Oblivion. Yargh.
Posted on 2004-09-17 00:50:10
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Toen
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The great thing about Morrowind is that it is easy to play at 15fps. But Oblivion sounds like it's going to need some twitch for the combat and stuff so that might not work out so well if they don't optimize things.
Posted on 2004-09-17 09:41:39
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Thebrog
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Crappy games ive played.
1.Destruction derby arenas
2.NFL street
Posted on 2004-10-16 14:50:35
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loretian
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More shitty games:
1. License to Poop Remix
Just kidding bs! I mean, it was more of a pun than anything else.
Posted on 2004-10-18 19:15:56
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