Your most deceived hype game

[hey]

If a game offered you godmode throughout the game you'd probably use it too.

No thanks, I'll pass, just like i didn't use gambits for my main character in ff12.

Almost all games are balanced to be playable by casuals. As many of us have realized by now, that usually means it's so easy there's little point even playing for those of us that know what the fuck, even on the hardest difficulty for games that have harder difficulties. Fortunately it's usually pretty easy to handicap yourself to make it challenging.

It's on the developer to figure out the balance between functionality and fun, not the player.

Not really. They can do their best to balance things for the average player, but there will always be those who still find it way too easy.

That's second/third/fourth/etc play through shit, intentionally trying to make the game more difficult then it has to be.

Not for me it's not. My first play through of zelda ss was done with no shield, no potions/fairies, and no heart pieces. In games like dragon age, i never use more than a single character. I often avoid using potions entirely when it's possible, etc, etc. All on my first play through. And i almost always do this.

[Charismatic]

>developers create a mode of game play specific to this game for players
>players fault for using it

Yes.
Especially if they don't want to use it... then do it anyway.


"Gee, I sure hate it when games play themselves" *turns on auto-battle*

[Rhyis.]

>developers give players the option of using said mode
>players kick and scream about how it ruined the game

'Cept I never said nor implied it in any way. I said I liked 12.

FF12s battle system consisted of running into a mob and AFKing until it died. Battles were more about preparing proper macros then actual combat.
I still kinda liked 12... More then 8/10/13 anyway.

People going full fan boy on me.

[chazzyphizzle]

we arent going fanboy lol, we are pointing out your and other people silly arguments. "all you did was AFK and kill stuff" even though you could completely forgo that and be active in battles. also, we are legion

[Rokku]

God, I swear, mentioning FF12 on these forums is like some sort of mutation of Godwin's Law. Everything goes to shit in a matter of posts once it enters a discussion.

[Rhyis.]

Use it or don't use, I don't care. Gambits were a bad design for a single player game. End of. Quickenings were to powerful imo as well. Once you got it down you could nearly one-shot most of the non-hunt boss fights.

12 did a lot of other stuff well though.

[Salodin]

Sure you could disable it, but it felt silly when the option is right there to make life easier. The problem was, that turning it off completely made shit way too slow to enjoy. So either use it in all it's glory and it become to easy, or turn it off and be like fuck these battles take too long or im dying cause im standing there doing nothing for so long.

I don't like being given a big, insta-kill gun with unlimited ammo that makes the game easy, then being told not to use it cause it'll ruin the game. It's just like...why give it to me in the first place if it'll ruin my experience of the game. But that's just me, don't let my opinion ruin get any one elses panties all bunched up.

[Omniyoji]

Great thing about XII, once you go IZJS you never go back.

[Charismatic]

Sure you could disable it, but it felt silly when the option is right there to make life easier. The problem was, that turning it off completely made shit way too slow to enjoy.

wat
it doesn't change the battle speed at all unless you're a wait mode *CENSORED* gay person.

[hey]

Use it or don't use, I don't care. Gambits were a bad design for a single player game. End of. Quickenings were to powerful imo as well. Once you got it down you could nearly one-shot most of the non-hunt boss fights.

12 did a lot of other stuff well though.

Sorry, no. FF12's gambit system was amazing for controlling multiple characters at once. I'll take gambits over retarded AI that you have no control over, or needing to manually select attacks for 3 characters at once, in real time any day.

[Sup3rB4d]

"Turn it off" they say. lol

[Xno Kappa]

I regularly do "No turtles lost, no turtles hurt" speed runs with Raphael on the original TMNT on NES. I'm the hardcorest and clearly have the biggest epenis in this thread.

[miokomioko]

Great thing about XII, once you go IZJS you never go back.

This is truth. It pretty much "fixed" the game for all the people who bitched about it.

(I fucking loved both versions. :3)

[Rhyis.]

I regularly do "No turtles lost, no turtles hurt" speed runs with Raphael on the original TMNT on NES. I'm the hardcorest and clearly have the biggest epenis in this thread.

I give props to said hardcoreness. That game was fucking brutal.

[Charismatic]

"Turn it off" they say. lol

If you don't like it, yeah... why wouldn't you?

[Lonely]

We really need a Final fantasy Bitchfest thread in the Square Enix subforum.

[Moridam]

oh, also i was massively disappointed with legend of mana. i warmed up to it years later (in large part because of the fantastic soundtrack) but i had some serious buyer's remorse on that game when it first came out.

[The Stig]

This link to a thread seems to be going this direction:

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/111...PC-PSN-XBLA%29

[Xantavia]

Games that I hyped myself up for, but felt a little let down.
Ratchet and Clank: Deadlocked. Really cut down on the platforming parts of the game
R&C: All 4 One. I knew this was going to be a multiplayer set-up, but it just doesn't feel like a ratchet game

FF4 After hearing about it being one of the best FF games ever, I couldn't be bothered to finish it. Couldn't get into it. (first FF was 6, so its not an older gen distaste type thing)
FF12 and 13

[Xno Kappa]

Anyone mention Too Human? I was crazy hyped for that game with all the lore, mythology, and Nietzcheism being put into it. What a fucking piece of shit let down.