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The QOTD Thread: Goodbye
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Post by
Nathanyal
It depends. I usually eat cake, but for Thanksgiving last year I made 2 Sweet Potato pies and they were delicious.
I also saw a recipe for Tres Leche cake that I want to try someday.
Post by
Dragalthor
I did.
What the hell.
I think that is a case of be very careful what you ask for with some supposedly professional bakers!
Post by
Patty
Cake > Pie. Sorry not sorry.
Post by
Rankkor
Cake > Pie. Sorry not sorry.
"
Even if the cake is a lie, its still better than pie.
"
OMGERD! I MADE A VERSE =D
(*^_^*)
Post by
432158
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Post by
Rankkor
#334: What are the biggest disappointments you had with videogame releases?
You can mention more than one, and also you can mention both in a broad scope (a full game that didn't lived up to your expectations) or on a more specific scope (A part of a game, a boss, an ending etc that didn't lived up to what you expected)
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Baldur's Gate: Enchanced Edition -- I really don't know where my high expectations came from. I think I was just blinded by my absolute love of the Baldur's Gate series. Turned out to me a very slightly modded out version of Baldur's Gate which the years of actual awesome mods were not compatible with.
Mass Effect 3 -- No, it has nothing to do with the ending. I hated what they did with the dialog and the combat wasn't that much fun. The only thing that kept me going in the game were the characters from the previous games.
Post by
1069282
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Post by
Interest
Diablo 3.
Error 37...
Post by
Rankkor
On a broad scope (Whole game) one of my biggest disappointments is Duke Nukem Forever.
Asides from the fact that it took FOREVER to get this game done, the end result was a generic shooter that they slapped a Duke Nukem cover to try to cash in. The game was announced as far as
1997
(Read:
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO
) but got pushed back, canceled, uncanceled, pushed back again, canceled again, and the cycle repeated itself across multiple developers over and over and over.
naturally, with nearly 12 years of waiting, the expectations and hype of the Duke Nukem fans would be impossible to please, but surprisingly, mine weren't so high. I would had been happy with a simple remake, with a callback, a homage to that long gone, classic shooter era. An era of over-the-top violence, poor plots that you don't really wanna know about it, carrying 12+ weapons, and generally being you vs hundreds of monsters all alone. This is how shooters previously to the year 2000 used to be (Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Duke Nukem, etc) before the realistic, hand-holding "tactical shooters" took over.
If they had delivered us a simple Duke Nukem game with modern graphics, I would had been satisfied. Just go back to the old formula for nostalgia's sake. Instead, they put all the limitations of a modern shooter, and almost none of the classic elements that made DN a hit game in the first place.
You can only carry 2 weapons at any time, you have regenerative health, levels are completely linear and uninteresting, there are no gimmicky weapons like the shrink-ray or freeze-ray, the FANTASTIC level design of the predecessor (Which included destructible parts of it for you to blast through) is instead replaced by generic "Las Vegas" levels, and bombed out urban landscape that looks the same, and INCREDIBLY ANNOYING PUZZLES. Duke Nukem, THE REAL Duke, would never stop to do a frikking puzzle, so why start now? This is just an average, very generic, very boring First Person Shooter, with a tacked on Duke, absolutely none of the zany, classic, satiric humor of the original is present here, instead, we get jokes about boobs and poop.
Awesome. Like going from Jim Carrey, to frat boys smoking pot and giggling about the word "pee-pee"
A disaster of a game that disappointed me in every conceivable way. On gameplay, on plot, on setting, on nostalgia factor, EVERY SINGLE WAY I could be disappointed on a game, was met on DNF.
On an individual scope (Features, bosses, etc, of an otherwise decent or even good game) There's these:
Bosses: Few things are as shameful as when a game does its best to build up for a confrontation, sets this villain up as THE ultimate most powerful being, shows you what they're capable of, they spend the entire game making your life hell, and this climmatic confrontation is now expected to arive sooner or later. Now here you are, final level, you got your weapons ready, you prepared yourself as best as you could, you've overcome many obstacles, and the time has come to dish out some payback.............. and the boss dies in 2 hits. Or no hits at all, he just dies in a cutscene.
This is what happened in Legacy of Kain.
After more than
FIVE GAMES
(Blood Omen, Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, Defiance) of setting up Kain as THE ultimate badass whom NOBODY can defeat, be them Eldritch Gods, rival vampires, abusive alien races, or demons from the pits of hell, starting on Soul Reaver, the game sets up this ultimate confrontation between Raziel and Kain. A duel meant to be, a fight that EVERYONE in-universe wanted to see happen, a confrontation that was built up over almost 7 real-life years............. ended up being a fairly mediocre boss fight.
Considering that the fights against the Sons of Kain were quite impressive, fighting the Overlord of all the Vampires himself consisted of: Hit him 3 times, dodge his ranged attack, watch cutscene, repeat till he dies.
LAME!
Post by
Patty
I'll go with WoW: Cataclysm. It just didn't
awe
me. The irreversible changes were cool, but I would have liked more of a warning so I could have finished all the classic things that I wanted to. Luckily, I'd already got
Benediction
, but still.
The dungeons, whilst okay at first, never grabbed me in quite the same way as TBC and WOTLK's did. The storyline was pretty weak, too, comparably imo. Older and revived zones were interesting, don't get me wrong, but it just didn't feel the same. Repeating them for loot felt more and more hollow. I don't really know. It's likely that a lot of this was just me burning out of WoW as well, but yeah. Cataclysm just wasn't good to me.
Post by
Sagramor
Diablo III.
#$%^ you very much, Blizzard.
Post by
Rankkor
Bad one indeed...
I'm going to say either or both WoW Mist of Pandarian or Cataclysm. Why? PvP was big fail, killing rabbit? Thats so epic. Lame story, more horde paladins, more kids to game, fat fur balls, more unbalanced then before, not epic last boss, boring quests, worst talent system, ugly gear, too much cuteness, too much happy colors, crz, lame bosses with no good lore behide and stuff like that.
Only good thing in thous expansions were mogging nothing els.
ok what the hell.
more horde paladins
And this is bad because? The alliance got more shamans, why don't you complain about THAT?
more kids to game
fat fur balls
too much cuteness
too much happy colors
-.- seriously? this again? have you ACTUALLY played this expansion before jumping into the "ITS A CHILD'S GAME" bandwagon?
This has got to be by far long and wide THE MOST darkest most mature expansion blizzard has ever made. We have children being enslaved, held hostage, possessed by demons, and nearly assassinated. We have trolls blindfolded, lined up against a wall, and shot in the back of the head en masse, execution style. We have people undergoing massive deppresion, suicide, genocidal tendencies, and overall madness induced by the very essense of negative emotions made manifest. We have an entire ethnic group purged from a city, every man woman and child thrown in jail, those who resist are shot on the street, we have civil liberties suppressed, and political betrayal on every level. We have mass scale war that scorches the land and devastates what used to be a paradisaic land. We even have quests where a pregnant woman dies, and another one where a man contemplates suicide due to his entire family being wiped out.
And you go with the bandwagon of "OMGWTF PANDAS R FOR CHILDZ"
For shame.
I'll go with WoW: Cataclysm. It just didn't
awe
me. The irreversible changes were cool, but I would have liked more of a warning so I could have finished all the classic things that I wanted to.
o_O hmm.......... we were given a year and a half worth of warning. I'd say 18 months is a hell of a lot of time to get things done.
Post by
Patty
Was it really that long? Huh, it didn't feel like it.
Post by
Rankkor
Was it really that long? Huh, it didn't feel like it.
yep, Cataclysm was announced on August 2009, and released on december 2010. That's almost a year and a half right there.
Post by
Raleandris
Diablo 3.
Error 37...
This. One million times this.
Post by
Monday
Probably Chain of Memories. It was nothing like the first KH and threw me off, and then the game turned out to be rather difficult.
At least it had Org XIII, though. Made everything better.
Post by
MyTie
Skyrim - It was fun, but it just didn't have the amazing effect that Oblivion did. I think it's problem was that it just had to much to live up to, for me. Oblivion broke new ground. Skyrim didn't.
Oh, and Dead Island.
Post by
Rankkor
Probably Chain of Memories. It was nothing like the first KH and threw me off, and then the game turned out to be rather difficult.
At least it had Org XIII, though. Made everything better.
Aye, I wasn't much of a fan of the whole card thingie. I liked the plot BETWEEN floors, but having to revisit old worlds again and do everything again was a chore.
Skyrim - It was fun, but it just didn't have the amazing effect that Oblivion did. I think it's problem was that it just had to much to live up to, for me. Oblivion broke new ground. Skyrim didn't.
o_O ta.......... ta hell?
Skyrim improved on just about everything that Oblivion built up, and while some aspects got simplified, the overall experience was MILES better for it.
Besides, it wasn't that long ago that
you were clamoring how Skyrim was the best thing ever.
Post by
MyTie
o_O ta.......... ta hell?
Skyrim improved on just about everything that Oblivion built up, and while some aspects got simplified, the overall experience was MILES better for it.
Besides, it wasn't that long ago that
you were clamoring how Skyrim was the best thing ever.
It's a great game, no doubt. It definitely should be played, no doubt. But, it will never be the great leap forward that Oblivion was.
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