Killzone is bad. Why do people like it?

I bought Killzone 2 on a whim, and played a littelf of it. The campaign was fun until I realized I was just doing the same thing over and over and over again.

So I dropped it and I haven't picked it up again. I'm not terribly broken up over that.

I'd give the multiplayer a chance, but that's been dead for years.

DarkLink77

Only good thing about Killzone is the graphics. Guerilla could have made Killzone 3 great if they just kept a lot of things from Killzone 2 and just got rid of the input lag. Instead KZ3 is just a CoD-Clone with awful maps and a dead community.

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I bought Killzone 2 on a whim, and played a littelf of it. The campaign was fun until I realized I was just doing the same thing over and over and over again.

So I dropped it and I haven't picked it up again. I'm not terribly broken up over that.

I'd give the multiplayer a chance, but that's been dead for years.

ShadowsDemon

The gameplay is pretty fun. The AI is damn smart, and the enviroments are full of detail and life. The art style is great and the graphics are fantastic. Multiplayer is good too. Ain't no Halo Killer, but these games are fun and have a place in the populated shooter market

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I bought Killzone 2 on a whim, and played a littelf of it. The campaign was fun until I realized I was just doing the same thing over and over and over again.

So I dropped it and I haven't picked it up again. I'm not terribly broken up over that.

I'd give the multiplayer a chance, but that's been dead for years.

AcidSoldner

I actually don't get this either. Live in NZ and yet I stil find plently of games in KZ3 and a few months ago could find a hell of a lot of matches in KZ2.

I think Killzone is a decent series but it needs to find better ways to differentiate itself in the multiplayer realm in my opinion. I thought KZ2 had some pretty bangin multiplayer action, and then KZ3 came around and it just blew in my personal opinion. I respect that thye tried to change some stuff up, but it just didn't work for me.

Halo is bad. Why do people like it?

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Only good thing about Killzone is the graphics. Guerilla could have made Killzone 3 great if they just kept a lot of things from Killzone 2 and just got rid of the input lag. Instead KZ3 is just a CoD-Clone with awful maps and a dead community.

BPoole96

It's beyond overrated. These games shouldn't get free passes because they have nice graphics.

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Only good thing about Killzone is the graphics. Guerilla could have made Killzone 3 great if they just kept a lot of things from Killzone 2 and just got rid of the input lag. Instead KZ3 is just a CoD-Clone with awful maps and a dead community.

Grawse

Yeah aside from the bad controls, Killzone 2 was a good game. Great maps, custom ranked matches, custom soundtrack for MP, and balanced classes (aside from the demo class which had the Rocket Launcher as a primary, but that was usually disabled on most servers). I actually played KZ2's MP quite a lot despite it's bad controls.

For whatever reason, Guerilla decided Killzone 3 would have half assed maps, downgrade from 32 player matches to 24, give the best AR in the game to the recon class so people could kill other while cloaked, introduce jetpacks but only have them on 1 map on the vanilla game, have OP mechs, and failed to add any sort of online co op MP modes

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GreenGoblin2099

Why would I be upset?

How do people enjoy these games? They're full of uninspired gameplay, crappy stories, and awful characters.

The controls in Killzone 2 were atrocious. It was like they decided to give every action the most inconvenient button they could.

I honestly see no redeemably qualities besides the graphics (which are good for a console game, but nothing amazing.)

Discuss.

EDIT: Apparently people can't pinpoint my question, so it's in thetitle as well now.

UnrealLegend

It's beyond overrated. These games shouldn't get free passes because they have nice graphics.

GeoffZak

Killzone is different to other shooters with the heavy feel and shooting your weapon just feels awesome.Thats why I like the games,the amazing graphics are just a bonus.

ofcourse its a terrible series. with one of the worst controlling ever. sony is big company. they give tons of money and it got 91 on metacritic. ZOMG its ps3 exclizive!. its teh best everz!!SNIPER4321

People are impressed with the graphics which gives them the illusion that what they are playing isn't just another generic cookie cutter shooter.

People are impressed with the graphics which gives them the illusion that what they are playing isn't just another generic cookie cutter shooter.

MikeMoose

[QUOTE="SNIPER4321"]ofcourse its a terrible series. with one of the worst controlling ever. sony is big company. they give tons of money and it got 91 on metacritic. ZOMG its ps3 exclizive!. its teh best everz!!lightleggy

No one cares about the actual control scheme, it's the laggyness and the supposed "weight" of the character when turning.

I can basically ask this with every game.

I liked Killzone 2 for the same reasons i like Gears and Bad Company series. They are not as fast paced as most modern shooters. You actually feel the weight of the character armors, guns, etc.

[QUOTE="SNIPER4321"]ofcourse its a terrible series. with one of the worst controlling ever. sony is big company. they give tons of money and it got 91 on metacritic. ZOMG its ps3 exclizive!. its teh best everz!!lightleggy

People pretend to like every overhyped exclusive

People pretend to like every overhyped exclusive

loosingENDS

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People pretend to like every overhyped exclusive

dvalo9

The Original Gears was amazing. 2 was good, and the campain in 3 was dissapointing. Mutliplayer is a blast for all three though.

I like the Gunplay in KZ2

I wouldn't say it's bad but just a middle tier shooter in an already oversaturated market.

It's good. While the story sucks ass the gunplay and MP are just pretty good and are different from

what we get most of the time.

I don't think it's bad. It's certainly got it's good qualities and the game is fun, just once. After that they are very forgettable experiances with virtually no replay value and some pretty dry multiplayer.

People like bad things... Killzone 2 was ok. I didn't think it was really anything special. Killzone 1 was boring and I'm not willing to give Killzone 3 a chance. Far more promising games to play and not enough time for them all.

[QUOTE="whiskeystrike"]People like bad things... SNIPER4321

Come up with something new already. Its boring if you stick to the same sh!t over and over

Because it's a PS3 exclusive :o if mutiplat, it would have been forgotten about long ago.