[QUOTE="fatshodan"]SunAge is the worst PC game I've ever played.
Honourable mention to: Gears of War, Warrior Within, Grand Theft Auto London, Condemned, Divine Divinity, BioShock, Dungeon Siege, Painkiller, Postal 2, Psychonauts.
JangoWuzHere
whats wroung with those games??
Gears of War is the most constricting game I have ever played. The combat is so repetitive as to be considered formualic, and every single firefight in the game can be described with one sentence. In fact, the game is so formulaic that player participation is so minimal that the game may as well have been an on-the-rails lightgun shooter with a foot pedal to move in and out of cover, because the game felt more like a Yakov Smirnoff joke than an actual third person shooter. And the checkpoint save system? The automatic checkpoint save system? The automatic checkpoint save system that automatically overwrites old saves so the only way I can replay a certain part is to restart from the beginning. No thanks. It's a very constricting, very repetitive game. Stale, is the word.
Condemned is a melee game, and melee games don't work. The AI is simply not developed enough and every fight in every melee game ever is simply a matter of learning and then exploiting the basic AI routines, and Condemned is no different. Fights were boring and played essentially like quicktime events, with me waiting for visual tells before hitting the correct buttons. Add to that some absurdly stupid concepts, like how certain weapons are required to get through certain areas (because I can't smash open a door with a sledgehammer?) or how the protagonist, who is an FBI agent, throws his weapon away at the end of every level for no reason whatsoever? I can only stand so much formualic combat and so many stupid, impossible to overlook contrivances.
BioShock is System Shock 2 redux, excelt every single thing is considerably worse in BioShock. It's a bad, bad copy. Had System Shock 2 never been released, BS would have impressed me, but BioShock is just a bad copy of a game nine years old.
Painkiller is a game where you walk into a room, all the doors lock, ten identical and stupid looking enemies spawn, you kill them, ten more spawn, you kill them, ten more spawn, you kill them, then the doors unlock and you move to the next room where it happens all over again. The bosses are cool, but Painkiller is a joke compared with Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 on ultraviolence/nightmare. I find it hard to take a game seriously when it's rendered obsolete by a game released twelve years earlier.
Psychonauts has two genius bits - Lungfishopolis and the Milkman conspiracy, and those two bits carry the entire game, but the rest is just very, very tedious collect 'em up platforming with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. The combat is terrible, the game is boringly easy and collect 'em ups stopped being fun around the time Sonic and Knuckles came out.
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