This gen? Where to begin.....
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a mockery of everything Metroid as a whole stands for. But for some reason people think it's an awesome shooter..... it's not. It's a terrible shooter with overly simplified level design, poor puzzles, poor combat (which ironically became the focus), a shoe-horned story, terrible characters and a genuine lack of atmosphere. So yeah, Corruption sucks and don't ever let any Wii fanboys tell you otherwise.
Mass Effect 2 tried to become a shooter while ME1 was a neat hybrid. The end-result is a game with barely present RPG elements (which are completely unnecessary to playing the game BTW), very dull, unpolished combat (glitched on me multiple times), CoD level design, scripted enemies, no exploration, no plot, cookie-cutter characters and a laughable suicide mission. I mean, in any other game that suicide mission would be the freaking tutorial. For BioWare, it's the best they've got.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is criminally over-rated. From the moment I played it I knew I was in for a sorry ride. Call of Duty 4 was over-rated as it was, but that game was nowhere near as bad as MW2. A campaign that involved killing you off like six times, endingin a cliffhanger, bringing back dead characters from the original, taking four and a half hours to complete.... and hey, there was this multiplayer that apparently was so buggy and glitch-ridden that I immediately returned to playing Halo 3.
Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty 4 are over-rated as well, but not as much as MW2.
Gears of War 2 is way over-rated by critics. It's nowhere near as good as the original and yet it has been just as critically successful. The level design abandons the entrenched and more guerilla feel of the first and goes for a more "push forward" mentality that just doesn't lend itself well to Gears. The campaign was overbloated, childish at best and took itself far too seriously. There are Gears of War fans that say they cried when Dom had to kill Maria. Honestly, I cry when I realize people like that actually live in the same freaking world as me. Shoot them or teach them to get a grip on reality. Multiplayer was a mess as well, but Horde was decent.
BioShock earned praise because of its setting and story. However it was never criticized for its stupid corridor shooter gameplay, incessant fetch-quests, poor enemy AI, floaty gunplay and piss-poor finale that destroyed all of the atmosphere the game had going for it.
Fallout 3 is just a bad game. How anyone can tell me this is a good RPG is beyond me. The world is huge.... but it's empty. And while I understand that it's a post-apocalyptic world, there's still NOTHING to do in that world. The combat blows on top of it all. VATS is the only way to play, too bad it just leads to a ton of cutscenes of your ugly-ass character shooting bullets at raiders and mutants.
Shadow Complex is a ridiculous rip-off of Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night. I don't give a crap what people say, this is not the direction XBLA should be heading. It's bad. Uninspired and basic design that never elevates itself from its inspirations, but rather tries to mimic to the point of plagiarism.
Braid is terrible. I still can't believe I willingly dropped $15 on this game. I mean, there's literally nothing to do other than to solve some stupid puzzles to learn your a stalker...... oh right, spoiler alert.... or something.
Super Meat Boy sucks! I can't believe this crap got a 9.5. It literally feels like a flash game. I paid $15 for what is a flash game. F*** this!
And probably more, but I'm getting sleepy. :P
Log in to comment