Comments on: When It’s Just Not Right

By: cary

cary — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:47:30 +0000

Yep. The levels designs are among the laziest I’ve ever seen in a game, and the characters are…okay. Hawke’s (your character) backstory is kind of interesting, but the story is so long-winded, it’s easy to forget where you are with it between plays.

The combat is so much better than it was in Dragon Age: Origins, but like with that game, the enemies are rather boring. It’s a lot of hack/cast spells, slash, move, repeat.

By: fminuzzi

fminuzzi — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:23:00 +0000

It did feel like separate games to me, which was my biggest problem. Your days go something like this: 1. Go through a dungeon to collect ingredients/things to sell. 2. Get back to town, choose what to cook/put on display. 3. See how your sales went, repeat.
Recettear had more going on (such as bartering), but I think I would have enjoyed them more if there were no dungeons. Or if you didn’t have to go into the dungeons yourself. Or maybe it could be more of a stealth harvest game?
Either way, they were probably not bad games, I just wasn’t enjoying them as much as I thought I should.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:01:51 +0000

I does get harder to enjoy the games that lack substance. For me, flashy graphics and cool abilities used to be enough to justify a purchase. No longer (not for several years now actually).

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:58:26 +0000

It sounds like it’s two different games in one? Do these two stories intermix at all or are they entirely separate?

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:56:47 +0000

I’ve been on the fence with this one since it came out. I’ve been told the combat is improved over Origins but everything else is rather dull and forgettable. Would you say that’s the case?

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:55:08 +0000

I’ve found that Skyrim is one of those games that’s fun to play, but also incredibly boring to watch, and that’s coming from someone who really likes the game. It’s a pretty enjoyable game and worth a try if you can borrow or pick it up cheap, but if you don’t you’re not missing anything ground-breaking.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:49:21 +0000

You know, I’ve heard a lot of similar comments when it comes to Max Payne 3. When it comes to that game, it seems like you either loved it or didn’t quite know what to make of it.

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:40:40 +0000

I do certainly have games that I just can’t get into. Some games are just bad, but others are not so much bad as the fact that, like you said, something is just off about them. Lately, I’ve been going through my games and finding ones to sell. One of the things I am basing this decision off of is the feeling such games give me. Some games I adore, and they make me happy not only to play, but to think about. Other games, I don’t have a lot of fun with, plus I just have no attachment to them whatsoever. “Sonic Colors”, “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed”, “The Legend of Spyro” trilogy. They just don’t do it for me like “Kingdom Hearts” or “The Legend of Zelda”. So I may as well sell them and make room for more games I’ll actually have that bond with. As I get older, I no longer have the desire to play these games that feel, well, soulless for me. They may be good ones or they may be bad, but I no longer want to keep the games that aren’t right for me.

By: naughtynefarious

naughtynefarious — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:57:28 +0000

Army of Two I returned post haste and reacquired my money back. Duke Nukem I managed to stick with, but, I tell you, there were times when I was considering ditching it!

By: fminuzzi

fminuzzi — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:00:51 +0000

In an attempt to find some different RPGs I tried Recettear and Adventure Bar Story. In theory I should really enjoy them – they have some combat/dungeon exploration, but the game is really about managing a shop. Recettear’s humor seemed appealing, and Adventure Bar Story is about cooking and selling food (an aspect which in many games is just thrown in, but all I need is the idea of food to get me excited). However, in both cases, I got bored within the hour. The two parts of the game didn’t seem to add to each other much; in fact, the shift in focus detracted, since I couldn’t (or shouldn’t?) always do what I was in the mood to do.