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Posted June 29, 2019
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isengrim.wolf: Why? It's simple.

You want to entertain yourself with something "dumb" and "simple" after your X hour long shift and other activities (like sports for example). Some people drink, some people sleep all day and some of them play "stupid" games and watch "stupid" movies. It doesn't mean that people don't watch documentaries about space. It just means they want to take a rest.

Remember: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

You cannot think for 20 hours a day.
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tinyE: To put it more succinctly,
Schindler's List is a great movie, but when I get home from work, I want RoboCop!
Thank you! Exactly what I was thinking!
Posted June 29, 2019
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escapist23: The common themes are:

1. Boredom and tedium
2. Nonsense and tripe stories and worlds
3. The battles are a mess
Such things don't exist, moving on.
Post edited June 29, 2019 by Mafwek
Posted June 29, 2019
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escapist23: the very first review is obviously written by a discerning and intelligent person. And the other ones offer objective criticism.

I could do that for almost every other game I can think of. I said it before and will repeat it: the best reviews are often the negative ones.

Most games are just mindnumbing, and their quality almost always falls short. It makes me question why the hell I would sit doing something mindnumbingly boring when I could watch a documentary on black holes, for example, or 'The story of all of us' or 'the story of Earth' and be strapped to the chair from start to end.

But hey, it's your brains ;)
Maybe you could/should try turning off your brain a bit and just enjoying some stuff and not be so snobby about it? ;)


To put it more succinctly,
Schindler's List is a great movie, but when I get home from work, I want RoboCop!
The original or the parody where he shoots a bunch of people's d**ks off?
Post edited June 29, 2019 by GameRager
Posted June 29, 2019
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escapist23: It's coming. It HAD to happen.

My collection of bad reviews about all the games I researched and thought I'd buy (or bought). Subjective? I think NOT. :)

The common themes are:

1. Boredom and tedium
2. Nonsense and tripe stories and worlds
3. The battles are a mess

in short, all I mentioned at the start of the thread.
gr8 b8 m8, r8 8/8
Posted June 29, 2019
This is equivalent of :
99% of books are trash
Most TV shows are not worth it
All romantic novels and movies are trashy
Crime novels and romance stories are for uneducated masses

All statements above are meaningless due to the fact that the reasoning behind those are usually just plain bitchiness.
Posted June 30, 2019
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BeatriceElysia: This is equivalent of :
99% of books are trash
Most TV shows are not worth it
All romantic novels and movies are trashy
Crime novels and romance stories are for uneducated masses

All statements above are meaningless due to the fact that the reasoning behind those are usually just plain bitchiness.
Quit whining.
Posted June 30, 2019
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BeatriceElysia: This is equivalent of :
99% of books are trash
Most TV shows are not worth it
All romantic novels and movies are trashy
Crime novels and romance stories are for uneducated masses

All statements above are meaningless due to the fact that the reasoning behind those are usually just plain bitchiness.
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Emob78: Quit whining.
In what possible universe is that a whining?
Posted June 30, 2019
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Emob78: Quit whining.
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BeatriceElysia: In what possible universe is that a whining?
We should be able to agree that different people value different things. To quote the old addage "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

Back to the OP's premise...

IMHO the skewed perception that most games are "trash" comes from the lazy, bloated, stagnant, uninteresting, and generally unfinished (often-broken) state of much current AAA output. When a game that's simply complete and runs smoothly is a selling point, you know the AAA space is troubled.

With that said...

There's a multitude of good AA and indie games out there -- possibly the most ever (it certainly seems liek it from where I'm sitting). When these titles are factored in, I'd say the problem might actually be...

... how could you ever hope to find time to play all of the worthwhile games being made?

I spend quite a bit of time researching games and almost everyday -- exploring down the "rabbit hole" -- I find out about a new game that's interesting and others claim to be fun and worthwhile.
Post edited June 30, 2019 by kai2
Posted June 30, 2019
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BeatriceElysia: This is equivalent of :
99% of books are trash
Most TV shows are not worth it
All romantic novels and movies are trashy
Crime novels and romance stories are for uneducated masses

All statements above are meaningless due to the fact that the reasoning behind those are usually just plain bitchiness.
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Emob78: Quit whining.
What? Beatrice is actually stating that OP was wrong, and actually NOT whining. :\
Posted June 30, 2019
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kai2: IMHO the skewed perception that most games are "trash" comes from the lazy, bloated, stagnant, uninteresting, and generally unfinished (often-broken) state of much current AAA output. When a game that's simply complete and runs smoothly is a selling point, you know the AAA space is troubled.
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There's a multitude of good AA and indie games out there -- possibly the most ever (it certainly seems liek it from where I'm sitting). When these titles are factored in, I'd say the problem might actually be...

... how could you ever hope to find time to play all of the worthwhile games being made?
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I spend quite a bit of time researching games and almost everyday -- exploring down the "rabbit hole" -- I find out about a new game that's interesting and others claim to be fun and worthwhile.
1. Many games I liked had bugs but I mustered past them because the games were good...and that includes some modern titles.

2. Lets build a tardis and solve the problem once and for all.....by destroying gaming....mwahahaha....

I kid :)

3. Me too
Posted July 01, 2019
OP - Everything I dislike is terrible, because reasons.

Everyone else. - Whatever.

End of thread.
Post edited July 01, 2019 by drewpants
Posted July 06, 2019
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escapist23: So here's my simple question: name to me TWO games that:

1. has the characters and NPCs full of personality and wit
2. has a sense of humour (but not too much, for too much of it becomes annoying)
3. has sense of tragedy and great drama
4. has a highly compelling story from start to end, that NEVER gets boring. Basically, a work of solid literature.
5. has a battle system that is imaginative and intuitive, yet never simplistic or brainless, that keeps you on the edge of your seat everytime.
6. and, ultimately, is a game that made you want to play it ALL OVER, from START to END, at least TWICE.
I found SW Republic Commando fulfliiling some of 1, definitely 2, and 6. I have played it 8 times now. I will probably be playing it again very soon.
Posted July 06, 2019
i bought dao ultimate. I PLayed the main campaign in 2009 and i wanted to play the stone prisoner but did not because the installation was painful, and did not want to waste time with codes and trash like that. I still think it is a top notch game. If even a skeptic like me can say this today.....

So, yeah, most games are trash but this is not one of them. It is one of the very few I ever finished and not regret doing so. At the current price it is an amazing bargain, and the Galaxy downloader handled it supremely and painlessly well. All I had to do this time was let the installation take care of itself. This GOG version is incredible, and succeeds where Bioware failed. I can even run it on high settings with my super cheap radeon 5450. It looks great.
Post edited July 06, 2019 by escapist23
Posted July 06, 2019
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TARFU: Sturgeon's Law - “Ninety percent of everything is crud.”
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GameRager: What about that one statistic that many statistics are a bunch of nonsense? :\
56% of statistics are made up at the time they are quoted.
Posted July 06, 2019
@escapist23 So which games do you actually like?
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