Posted on 12/18/2004 6:56:39 PM PST by silent_jonny
My Best & Worst List
The best game I played this year:
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (this is the best game I've ever played--period)
The worst game I played this year:
Syphon Filter: Omega Strain (completely pointless sequel with terrible graphics and horrible mechanics)
The most surprisingly good game I played this year:
Red Dead Revolver
The most disappointing game I played this year:
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (a strictly by-the-numbers shooter, no where near as exciting as the hype led me to believe)
Most Despicable Product Placement?
What kind of category is that?
And what's with the uber-PC War of the Year?
LOL.
"Are you a profession moron, or just a gifted amateur?!"
"What kind of license you got - a fishin' license?"
BTW - The new Leisure Suit Larry is for Playstation 2? Alright! It won't run on my dinosaur PC.
That means that a certain war was focused more on this year than any other. This year it was Vietnam and the WOT. Some years it's WWII.
Rome: Total War is freakin' awesome.
Biggest disappointment: Knights of the Old Republic II. I loved KOTOR so much I was probably setting myself up, but jeez. All kinds of interesting story lines that went NOWHERE. It's like they just ran out of time and stopped making the game. I was willing to overlook a lot, too, but this was simply too much.
Funny, of all the games listed, the only one I have and played is Call of Duty: United Offensive.
I can see them putting down "Doom 3" as one of the year's biggest disappointments, but they didn't even list it in the "best graphics" category? Come on now...give credit where credit is due!
Doom 3(PC) is nominated under "Best Graphics Technical".
My biggest dissapointment was hands down DOOM 3. Along with Everquest II. (both PC)
Currently playing Warhammer: Dawn of War and I must say it rocks. If your into RTS this is a great looking and great playing game with plenty of carnage, if your into that sort of thing :)
Go World of Warcraft =)
Old School! :)
I have played Halo 2, HalfLife 2 and Doom 3. It's not that I think Halo 2 is the best game out there but the people lined up to buy it at Midnight should speak for itself.
Now that World of Warcraft is out, it is difficult for me to justify paying for more than one MMOG at a time. I am going to give it a couple of months to see which one of the two I like best.
WoW is beautiful, by the way.
I'm surprised D3 didn't make the lists more: it was stellar. I hadn't been freaked-out by a game in a long time.
HL2 is waaaaayyyy over rated. And WTF is up with the ending? Just when you reach the point that you expect you're going to be transported to another dimension BAM! The game's over. It's like the coders just gave up and called it quits.
And don't even get me started on Steam for HL2....IF I HAVE TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET TO AUTHENTICATE MY COPY OF THE GAME EVERY FREAKIN' TIME I PLAY IT THEN WHY DO I HAVE TO INSERT THE PLAY DISK? ONE OR THE OTHER, A$$HOLES - NOT BOTH!!!!!!
ARG!
BF: Vietnam was sweet but there are serious problems with the connect net-code......which really surprised me.
Riddick for PC was good.....but not THAT good.
I just picked up Battle for Middle-Earth yesterday.....so far it's pretty impressive.
a better one from one of the ghetto pedestrians...
"That ese put dust in my weed!"
or
"I smoke weed cause it gives me knowledge."
I haven't played Halo 2 yet (mostly because I've never played Halo 1 :o)
I sense anger.
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