Games you wish had been better than they were

[Fifthfiend]

I was just thinking how Grandia III was a sweet game for like 10 hours before the plot drove itself right off a cliff.

So this thread I guess is for games you totally wish would have been as good as you hoped they'd be or as good as they could have been if X thing hadn't been fucked up or games that made you think they were going to be before they fell completely apart.

PS NOT CHRONO CROSS WE'VE HAD THREE TRILLION THREADS ON THAT IT'S BEEN COVERED

PPS NOT CHRONO TRIGGER EITHER YOU SARCASTIC FUCKS

[Kim]

Persona 4 was still pretty great, but I would have loved it much more if it weren't for the insufferably long, unskippable in-game cutscenes before every boss fight. With almost every boss fight taking at least two or three tries, it became rather infuriating.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I am going to say Jade Empire as I loved that game and wish BioWare would expand on it. Hell give me a 360 re-release and DLC and I would be happy.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

GTA: San Andreas.
The first couple of hours just cruising around, stealing a plane way before you supposed to and making millions at the casino, and doing crazy shit were totally fun. Then they rammed in a ridiculous story with stupid characters and a lot of repetitive missions and it was just urgh.

[Regulus Tera]

As much as I love Sin and Punishment (BUY SIN AND PUNISHMENT 2, fuckers!!!), I wish Treasure hired someone else to do the plot. Radiant Silvergun proved to me that, despite their idiotic story-telling, they have some really crazy and amazing ideas.

I downloaded Mario Kart 64 for the Virtual Console like two weeks ago. It really is not what it used to be for me (fuck everyone's insistence on boosting without any apparent reason whenever the fuck the AI feels like it).

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

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What about Radical Dreamers? It was sorta boring.

[Fifthfiend]

Never played it? I mean I guess it'd have been nice if it'd been super-awesome cause then they wouldn't have had to do Chrono Chr-NICE TRY I AM ON TO YOUR GAMES, FUCKER.

Also I think like every racing game ever would be better with semi-realistic AI instead of "every competitor car lives like right up your asshole and leaps out the instant you fuck up anything at all".

[Seil]

Nearly every Spiderman game. Web swinging around town is awesome, but the constant side missions - that are pretty much the exact same thing over and over again, and all the bad guys being the same, just different nationalities - ethnic gangs - gets old quick.

[mauve]

If you'll forgive me for delving into the semi-forbidden realm of non-sprite era Final Fantasy, I'd say I really enjoyed FF9... up until Disk 3. It was at that point that Square seemed to forget what the hell it was doing and started just pulling things out of thin air to fill the other two disks.


"Okaaaaay, we've built up some intrigue, revealed that the Queen is evil, got some semi-decent character development, and now we'll--- wait, what was our plot again? Hmm, I can't remember. Oh well, just throw in a couple of extra characters to fill in the time on these last two disks. How about.... an emo guy and a sickeningly cute little girl. It worked for FF7, right? Hey, now let's add a final boss who doesn't get mentioned ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE PLOT and shows up at the last minute for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. Okay, then toss in the generic "ZOMG Main character, you're not who you think you are!!!" plot twist... aaaaaaaaannnd we're good."

[greed]

Who was the sickeningly cute little girl in 7? Marlene?

Anyway, Super Mario Sunshine the only game in the main Mario series that really dropped the ball.

Also GTA4, why the fuck did they take everything they had done right in Vice City and San Andreas and bring things back to GTA3 with pretty graphics. I mean sensible physics and sane fights? Fucking boring. San Andreas felt like a cheesy action film, Vice City was only slighlty less crazy, that is fun. GTA 4 was them minus the fun, minus the crazy car chases, minus the you vs dozens of police and the military shootouts, minus the planes. I sold it and bought TWEWY a while back after it gathered dust on my shelf for six months, only game I have sold, ever, that was how big a disappointment it was. Don't regret it one bit. Saints Row 1 was better.

Finally FF8, if it had a less abusable junctioning system, less stupid level scaling, a far less retarded story it would have been fun. It had an interesting world and the fights where you weren't absurdly unbalanced were really enoyable because the combat was far smoother than any other ATB using FF, they really just nailed the pace and flow of combat. The compexity of the GF system was interesting too, they just made junctioning too abusable.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

If you'll forgive me for delving into the semi-forbidden realm of non-sprite era Final Fantasy, I'd say I really enjoyed FF9... up until Disk 3. It was at that point that Square seemed to forget what the hell it was doing and started just pulling things out of thin air to fill the other two disks.


"Okaaaaay, we've built up some intrigue, revealed that the Queen is evil, got some semi-decent character development, and now we'll--- wait, what was our plot again? Hmm, I can't remember. Oh well, just throw in a couple of extra characters to fill in the time on these last two disks. How about.... an emo guy and a sickeningly cute little girl. It worked for FF7, right? Hey, now let's add a final boss who doesn't get mentioned ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE PLOT and shows up at the last minute for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. Okay, then toss in the generic "ZOMG Main character, you're not who you think you are!!!" plot twist... aaaaaaaaannnd we're good."

What's this fifthfiend post doing here and why does it have Mauve's name on it?