Why do console games suck so bad???

[Arnwyn]

But isn't "quality of gameplay" completely subjective?

Absolutely it's subjective. And he was responding to your subjective original statement.

As both you and he point out (albeit indirectly) - different types of games work better on different types of systems. Flight sims? RTSs? FPSs? MMOs? That's a PC. Everything else? Consoles.

 

[Iron_Chef]

I'm 20 and I can relate to Iron Chef.

Now, if you were only female and not too far away, LOL.

But seriously folks, I'm in agreement with whoever said there used to be so many "cool" games being released you could never play 'em all, and nowadays you're lucky to have one or two come out per year that are of interest... and maybe only one of those is "good". :\

I didn't like Morrowind despite liking Arena and Daggerfall, so I'm not excited about Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Age of Empires III is what gets me excited now, and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows.

I just tried Fable and didn't like it. Too cartoony -- what's up with the big hands and feet Hobbit look? Yuck. Next on my list is Jade Empire.

I also tried DOOM III and while it was scary, it was also confusing and too complicated for me to control.

Tried Star Wars Battlefront 2; it sucked AFAIK.

 

[Tewligan]

Hate Myst, 7th Guest, that kind of "smarty-pants" crap.

Teehee! I am now officially adding "smarty-pants crap" to my vocabulary to describe things I don't like. I'll also hitch up my pants really high and shake my fist as I say it.

I have to admit to sometimes having trouble with learning all the stuff to do in a game. If a game uses more than a couple of controller buttons, I usually have the book open to the controller diagram sitting beside me or on my knee while I'm playing for easy reference. Crap - it's what I get for having crested the over-30 hill as well, I guess.

 

[RigaMortus2]

You know what game rocked for multi-player? Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. You play one screen up to 4 players at same time. That's the kind of multiplayer game I want.

God, the gauntlet games just suck. They are the same game as the original, just updated graphics. Mindlessly killing the same things over and over again. What fun. Oh, yeah, you could "upgrade" in between quests or whatever, but that really didn't do anything for you except keep you on the same playing field as the creatures you were fighting. Might as well just skip the upgrades and make the monsters have the same health all the way through the game. And the playing on the same screen thing is so annoying. Players constantly getting stuck in the geometry as their friends wandered off ahead, then having to back track to get unstuck, meanwhile their friend is getting beat on. You couldn't flank very well either. At least w/ split screen you could do flanking maneuvers and what not, and you don't get stuck behind the geometry.

Don't get me wrong, the original Gauntlet was awesome for that time period, but in this day in age, I think gamers crave a little more substance in their games.

 

[Orius]

I liked the arcade version of Gauntlet Legends. The PS version wasn't as good, particularly because of the bad camera angles, and they removed my favorite level, the desert, although the desert world was a pretty good addition. Sometimes some old-fashioned monster smacking is fun.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

And Morrowind was acutally pretty fun on the Xbox.

I actually prefered it on the xbox. I'm getting a 360 almost just to play oblivion in my prefered format.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I have a PS/2, and only a few games for it. Most are variations on the Dynasty Warriors franchise, because they're simple and fun. The combos are pretty easy, as everyone uses the same button pushes, it's just that they do different things. And there's nothing quite so stress-relieving as hacking through swarms of enemy soldiers with your halberd, occasionally impaling one and flinging him around into his compatriots.

The other games I've gotten for it I haven't finished. The 3-D Castlevania was so annoying it wasn't funny. I hate games like that and Devil May Cry where the camera angle is pre-determined, so, say, YOU CAN'T SEE WHERE THE (BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP) YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO JUMP TO! Sorry, I'm still miffed at that.

I don't have any FPS games, but I really wasn't that good at those in the first place.

Brad