Game

[The Fake Shemp]

BioShock

[Mupepe]

they try to tell you pretentious things and talk about philosophy or stuff like that

it's not meant to be profound, most of it is meant to be crazy talk and creepy.  what the fuck, man?

either Oblivion, Bioshit or Portal... probably Portal

I hate your irrational hate of Bioshock.  I want to fuck you in your fucking ass every time you mention it being overrated.  in fact, i'm going to fucking skull fuck you.  grab you by your fucking ears and shove my shaft down your throat and fill it with sweet fucking cream.

This post gets a thumbs up. Hate on bioshock is usually just nitpicking or issues of taste. Wtf dont like shellfish dont eat shellfish gtfo my place!

BioShock

[Eel O'Brian]

the ending is pretty bad, though

i really enjoyed it up until then

[The Fake Shemp]

It's not that bad.  I think it was jarring, because it's so old school ("Let's throw them a giant boss thing!") and definitely doesn't feel like there was too much thought put into it or into meshing it with the rest of the game.  But it's hardly a deal breaker.

[AdmiralViscen]

they try to tell you pretentious things and talk about philosophy or stuff like that

You mean smart things? Sorry we're all too smart for you, you fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

[Eel O'Brian]

It's not that bad.  I think it was jarring, because it's so old school ("Let's throw them a giant boss thing!") and definitely doesn't feel like there was too much thought put into it or into meshing it with the rest of the game.  But it's hardly a deal breaker.

it didn't make me hate the game, but it did make me think of cheesy 80s scifi movies - and God of War, for some reason

[hyp]

they try to tell you pretentious things and talk about philosophy or stuff like that

You mean smart things? Sorry we're all too smart for you, you fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

not surprised to hear him shit all over bioshock.  his game of the universe is hot shots golf.   

[The Fake Shemp]

If BioShock was a PS3 exclusive, Mondain would crap his adult diapers.

[Eric P]

It's not that bad.  I think it was jarring, because it's so old school ("Let's throw them a giant boss thing!") and definitely doesn't feel like there was too much thought put into it or into meshing it with the rest of the game.  But it's hardly a deal breaker.

it didn't make me hate the game, but it did make me think of cheesy 80s scifi movies - and God of War, for some reason

i like that they made him look like the representation of atlas from the sculpture earlier in the game.

i think my favorite moment overall was "a slave obeys, a man chooses"

[drew]

the ending is pretty bad, though

i really enjoyed it up until then

I barely even made it halfway.  Guess it's time to go look up the ending on youtube.

Bioshock was just depressing, it came out completely at the wrong time for me.  I probably would have been really into it if it came out during Winter, but during Summer all I really am in the mood to play is flowery shit like Forza 2.

[Mupepe]

Forza 2

Is Forza 2 pretentious too, Mondain?

[AdmiralViscen]

the ending is pretty bad, though

i really enjoyed it up until then

I barely even made it halfway.  Guess it's time to go look up the ending on youtube.

Bioshock was just depressing, it came out completely at the wrong time for me.  I probably would have been really into it if it came out during Winter, but during Summer all I really am in the mood to play is flowery shit like Forza 2.

The ending is like 12 seconds long lol

[y2kev]

My favorite part of Bioshock IS the early game when they ARE spouting pretentious shit at you. The stuff with the doctor is BRILLIANT, and it never really does that again throughout the entire game. The only other part that is so explicitly well narrated is the Sander Cohen part, and that's just so obnoxiously referential that you almost need a guidebook to understand exactly what he was talking about.

The Iceman Fucking Cometh? kewl lol *pow pow*

[Eel O'Brian]

i just messed with the difficulty setting until i found a balance i was happy with

[AdmiralViscen]

I thoroughly enjoyed Bioshock, it's one of the only SP FPSes that I actually played to the end.

[Smooth Groove]

Mondain has interesting tastes, to say the least.

Here is his review of Ratatouille:

Hooray, another cut & paste Pixar job with the same mix of "coming of age" themes and annoying animals that talk and make bad jokes! Aren't you tired of always seeing refinements of the same core film over and over again?

And don't go tell me that this had poignant emotional moments, there are countless old european cartoons who were placed in a similar Paris setting and did a MUCH better job at telling a good story. But oh, no one remembers them because either they've never been broadcasted in America, or no one cares because they're not 3D.

The only good thing about Pixar films are the character designs. Also, I'm happy that kiddy Disney films now feature guns and acknoledge terms like "killing", "afterfile" and "death".

I've never been this glad to send back a film through the mail.

[y2kev]

mondain supporting my argument destroyed it  :'(

[CurseoftheGods]

No More Heroes by far.

[Smooth Groove]

bioshock was overhyped perhaps, not overrated.

How was it not overrated?

Bioshock has no fewer than 4 fetch quests, an escort mission, 4 enemy types, sucky gunplay, and the Life o Matic tube thing that totally breaks gameplay balance (yes, I realize you can remove this with a patch).

This is what happened with Bioshock:

Ken Levine: blah blah blah blah blah MISE EN SCENE
Gaming press: omg omg omg omg

Nobody asked any questions afterwards, like, "Do you think the game is about 5-6 hours longer than it should be?" or "Why do you build up the little sister as some precious creature and then destroy this in the end?" or "Why do you have a ridiculously bad final boss?" or "Did you run out of ideas and thus put in yet another fetch quest?"

I'd give it a high 8.

Just out of curiosity, what would you give Resistance since you think so highly of it?  

Personally, I liked Bioshock for the same reasons that I didn't like Resistance.  Bioshock had atmosphere and mechanics which feel unique for a FPS whereas Resistance was like every other well known FPS but a bit more bland and boring.  

[Rman]

I thought NMH reviewed badly.

[Darunia]

Bioshock was too long, or rather: the content after the Ryan reveal wasn't as interesting as what preceded it. I'm not saying the game should have ended at that moment, but it was an important plot point and you kind of expect the game to go from there, but it didn't. The areas post-Ryan looked like they could've come from a dozen other games (gritty urban environment, hospital), in contrast to pretty fucked up areas like the Medical Pavillion, the gardens (forgot the name) en Fort Frolic.
After that came a fucking boss battle of all things, and a poor one at that, so I feel the game didn't end on a particularly good note.

I may come off as negative here, so let it be known that I thoroughly enjoyed BioShock up until that point and I was ready to sing its praises with little ifs and buts, but then the game overstayed its welcome.

That is why I welcome experiences like Portal, Gears of War and other shorter campaigns. Don't pad your game with content because you have to cater to the 'it's $€60 so I better get my money's worth' crowd.

[Bloodwake]

The most overrated game this gen was, without a doubt, Gears of War.

The multiplayer wasn't that great, and it quickly gets boring. The campaign is way too short, and the atmosphere that's praised to high heaven is ineffective because of the lack of diversity in the atmosphere. Seriously, I think every ingame environment in that game looked the same. One dark gray place after another.

The only interesting thing about the entire game was the final stage and the final boss. That was the only time I really enjoyed Gears. That was basically it.

Other than that, Perfect Dark Zero was rated pretty highly. OVERFUCKINGRATED AS SHIT. One of the worst games this gen.

[y2kev]

don't mistake my defense of resistance from the horde as any infatuation with it-- it is only at times great. Cheddar gorge, angel's nest, some others...

Grade deflated score of 7.5

[Vizzys]

COD4

so you haven't played it online?

[The Sceneman]

Mondain has interesting tastes, to say the least.

Here is his review of Ratatouille:

Hooray, another cut & paste Pixar job with the same mix of "coming of age" themes and annoying animals that talk and make bad jokes! Aren't you tired of always seeing refinements of the same core film over and over again?

And don't go tell me that this had poignant emotional moments, there are countless old european cartoons who were placed in a similar Paris setting and did a MUCH better job at telling a good story. But oh, no one remembers them because either they've never been broadcasted in America, or no one cares because they're not 3D.

The only good thing about Pixar films are the character designs. Also, I'm happy that kiddy Disney films now feature guns and acknoledge terms like "killing", "afterfile" and "death".

I've never been this glad to send back a film through the mail.

wow what impeccable taste of the arts, what are these old european cartoons youre talking about? Care to name any?

[y2kev]

COD4

omfg yes

[Eric P]

gay purr-ee, right?

[Fragamemnon]

Oblivion easily gets my vote. It's the cheap and nasty pizza buffet bar of gaming-tons of content, none of it interesting, and the actual digestion of the game's mechanics will make you feel ill.

PC modders sort of salvaged the game for that platform, but it's a big heaping POS if you play it on a console or aren't willing to go through the herculean effort to mod it to hell and back on the PC.

[MrAngryFace]

Morrowind was more memorable for me

[Eric P]

Morrowind was more memorable for me

goddamn i loved morrowind

i should buy that again

it can't be expensive

[Smooth Groove]

What makes Morrowind better than Oblivion, other than the leveling system?  I never got too deep into Morrowind because it's so hard to keep track of objectives. 

Objectives tracking is probably the best thing about Oblivion. 

[Smooth Groove]

Did anyone here like the dialogues in Oblivion?

It was well done for a game of its type.  The minigame got boring fast though. 

[Van Cruncheon]

The answer is SMG you dumbs.

smg is overrated, but it's not the MOST overrated. i'd go with uncharted, gears, or smash bros.

[Van Cruncheon]

but unlike uncharted/gears/smash, smg is actually good! not 10/10 good, but a sore sight better than those other three offerings

[Laramie]

Easily "Drake's Schicksal"  (fuckin kittonwy).  It was supposed to be a fun adventure game but I just could not get over the amount of pirates.  It was like a Goddamn pirate nation out there.  That is ridiculous.  There are nowhere near that many pirates anywhere in the real world. 

Plus the boss was dumb.

[CajoleJuice]

Gears.

[Akala]

COD4. Couldn't finish the SP due to boredom, and Couldn't get into MP. What makes it worse is that it's all my friends play.

[AdmiralViscen]

I borrowed it off my friend and I just can't get myself to play it. I did the first mission on my PS3, I've seen a later one at his house and a  middle one at another friend's house. None of those three parts were interesting. Just wait for the sequel.

[Rman]

I want to play Resistance 1. I think it looks interesting and I always liked shooting some kind of aliens more than humans (Halo, Doom etc.). Fuck Kittonwy, Resistance is probably really good.

I want to play R1 as well.  I liked the demo, but no way in hell am I paying 60 dollars for it.  I don't get why million sellers don't drop in price to at least 40 dollars after 9 months or so.  Gears is still $60 msrp.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yup. EB doesn't even stock any used copies, at least not on their site.

[Smooth Groove]

Yes, it's weird that Sony doesn't even cut the prices of games that didn't sell very well.  

I wanted to give Motorstorm a 2nd try but it's still $60.  I traded my copy with a friend after having only played it for 2 levels.  

The game wasn't bad but the long loading times drove me nuts.  $60 is simply too much for something that I didn't even like that much.  

I might as well wait for Motorstorm 2 which is coming out pretty soon.