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RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Tommy Gun - 01-27-2009
Kedjane, yeah your right, it is pretty meaningless to cry about unreleased units, but they still had cool abilities!
As for the black hole, i'm not sure, but go onto the starcraft2 homepage, and it's abilities have been reduced. I have poked around the web too, and consulted said friend, but no definate answers, just people muttering "its gone" (there's even been whispers that planet crack may be on the chop...i doubt that though)
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - graykin - 01-27-2009
Star Wars: Force Unleashed, by far. It was cool being able to kill people with flying debris, but the lack of...actual USE for the physics, besides as a weapon, killed the game. It was just a run-through-and-kill-everything kinda game.
I don't always mind games like that, but Unleashed went about the whole thing poorly.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Penumbra - 02-02-2009
I actually wouldn't be too upset if Blizzard made you have to buy expansions to get Zerg and Protoss. Then they might be able to add new races, which is what I've been waiting for since back in the 90's when I first got it.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Tommy Gun - 02-03-2009
The hybrid race of protos and zerg won't be playable unfortunately, imagine a drag-lisk.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Yuhaney - 02-03-2009
Most of the games doesn't really have much NEW to add to the gaming world. Mirror's Edge was very nice, since it was something new.
:Nowdays, most of the games follows the same code line = same games all over again.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Tommy Gun - 02-04-2009
I agree with Scraper (moderator now, Well done!)
Most games are just getting old know, the newer ones or the ones that had potential have just been produced badly. There are of course, games that will be more enjoyable then others, but they are always the ones you get bored of the first in my expirience.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Kedjane - 02-04-2009
I think new innovations within games come along all the time.
Today each new game needs something new to get anything above a 7/10 rating, in fact. Most of theese innovations are pretty small though: the movement system of Assassin's Creed, the dismemberment system of Dead Space and so on.
There have been a few major innovations lately though: the third person action games. Gears of War popularised the genre extremely and now I think most action games are third person actually. Gears also introducted the cover system that now is standard for action games (and is beeing experimented with for FPS games in Killzone 2) and popularised two player games. There are more two player games now than in a long time: Gears of War, Army of Two, Kane and Lynch, Fable II - the two first working a bit better, the two latter a bit worse.
Mirror's Edge did something completely fresh aswell, but sadly I don't think it will be enough to start a new genre. It will probably go the way of Hack n' Slash games (The Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden series) and never become largely popular as Mirror's Edge alone pretty much fills all our third person acrobatics needs.
I have to mention Portal aswell. That one did something completely new and did it damn well.
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - jamhaw - 02-05-2009
Yeah, good work Scraper! How did you get the position anyway?
RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Yuhaney - 02-05-2009
(02-05-2009, 12:45 AM)jamhaw Wrote: How did you get the position anyway?
That's a TOP SECRET!
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RE: Name the 10 most overhyped games of this decade. - Kedjane - 02-05-2009
(02-05-2009, 11:24 AM)Scraper Wrote:(02-05-2009, 12:45 AM)jamhaw Wrote: How did you get the position anyway?
That's a TOP SECRET!
Bah, we all know a pizza bribe can get you anywhere these days.