GAMES YOU HATE OR DISLIKE?

I never really got into Megaman; it just seemed way too basic. The great thing about games like SMB3 and Super Metroid is that, yes, they're fairly fundamental platformers, but there are a TON of secrets and plenty of incentive to search for them. The only thing Super Metroid needed was some optional content to really drive home the need for stocking up on goodies.

I like a platformer that combines speed with secrets so that it caters to a variety of playstyles and moods. I'm less concerned about impeccably placed enemies and games that require a more methodical approach (Metroid notwithstanding). Sonic was my childhood.

The only 2D Sonic game that gets under my skin is Sonic 1, but it's mainly because the level design was very blocky and didn't allow you to go blaze through levels that often, the Labyrinth Zone being the worst offender.

The rest I still enjoy to this day.

I tried to play Star Fox Adventures again today.

It's not really a bad game, it's OK. But it's just so...OK. The story isn't terrible, but it's not very notable, either. It takes place in such generic areas (ice world, fire world, tropical world, and dinosaurs everywhere...what is this, Diddy Kong Racing?) The characters are borderline annoying, although I do like the somewhat more cinematic dialog sections.

But Tricky is just a little shit. He says the most annoying things, I just mute the game. And given the very mediocre music and generic sound effects, I guess it's not too big a loss.

So I guess I would just say 6/10. But then there are the flying stages. Again, extra mediocre. But they are designed explicitly to remind of Star Fox 64. Which was an insanely fun game. I can play that game over and over again. I can play that game any day of the week. I can still put that game in, I know every quote, I know where everything is, but it's still tons of fun. They even somehow managed to make just going for points fun, when that had gone out of style ten years before.

Why taunt me with that? Because it should make me nostalgic? Because it's in the same series? No. That's what makes this game terrible, because it is just not even close to being as good as the earlier games.

author=Sooz
Been playing one of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeons and mostly I really love it, but JESUS LORD THE CUTSCENES. This is one of the worst games I've ever seen for balance of gameplay versus expodump. I've taken to just sitting with the advance text button mashed and browsing the internet, because I have to wait for like five minutes to get on with it.

Yeah, PMD takes roguelikes, which are all about the gameplay, and makes them story-based. I guess people who play the games because they like roguelikes can take issue with that. I personally have no problem with that, to be honest. But then I tend to think story and music trump gameplay in any game. My favourite game franchise of all time is Ace Attorney, after all.


I tend to dislike games that focus more on gameplay than story. Good gameplay is great, but only if integrated into an even better story. If I finish a game with questions remaining about 'why', I am always very disappointed. I'm usually fine with games that have no story at all, like city builders, but games that throw in a story for the sake of having a story and then focus only on gameplay leave a bad taste in my mouth. It's one of the reasons why I'm not a fan of many multiplayer games. They tend to have a singleplayer campaign with a half-assed story.

author=Sated

I tend to dislike games that focus more on gameplay than story.

It's not like gameplay and videogame share a common word fragment or anything...

Oh wait.

Games can do all kinds of things. We've been over this.

I read the story the first time through a game, but more often than not I play most games on mute nowadays. I'd say I'm 60% gameplay, 20% story, 15% graphics and 5% music

author=Sated
Meh. I guess I just never thought speed was what the Mega Drive Sonic games were about and so the speed never really bothered me.

I think it's a thing to advertise the game with swooshy aesthetics and FAST FAST FAST (and more fast) only it to be more slower than megaman in terms of pure pacing. If the loop ramps are there just to look good (in which you have no control over other than letting go of right) than I would find the game to have a lot of unnecessary elements. Same for stealth games that turn out to be action games with stealth being completely optional or a SURVIVAL HORROR just being a tongue and cheek campy third person shooter. Maybe it doesn't matter as long as the game's good, after all I find Dark Souls YOU WILL DIE advertising to be very adverse to what is basically to me an atmospheric exploration game so it doesn't affect me.

This point could also relate to the tangent thing about story/game where as long as the game let's you know that it's going to be a very story driven game then there isn't much to complain about.

Barring that there are some design moments inside the game that do seem like a "fast moment" where you're assumed to go down this ramp and pick up speed from the spinny things that make you go more fast and then- WIAT WAIT WAIT STOP, moving platform section. Like the game itself teases you and stops you.

Well even so in the SEGA GENESIS sonic games there are level points that contradict the very nature of slow platforming but for some reason there's always a slow platforming segment coming up anyway? idk the game is very good at tricking me. in the DREAMCAST NTSC sonic games they're a little bit better when you're ONLY just playing as sonic/shadow, there's a speed and flow to a lot of the sections and I find the homing attack replaces the deliberate jumping sections with faster deliberate hit thing sections pretty well. there are still a lot of problems like camera problems or broken level geometry but at least it doesn't contradict itself.

It takes me like 35 seconds to beat that act :(

I can beat Emerald Hill Act 1 in about 28 seconds though!