When good games go bad.

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When do you tend, to have the worst game related problems? 1. At the climatic battle or in the middle of solving a tough puzzle?
 
After I've played for a long time...

Just before I was going to save my game.
 
Thats usally the standerd. you getcaught up in the action and forget to do the saves every five to ten minets.
 
Picture this: You play the game, you work your ass off, you make this major breakthrough and then:
1. it craps out before you get a chance to save
2. you save the game but just after you did that you realize that you fucked up big time somewhere along the line and now you either don't have a previous save or the save is so old you might as well start the game over.
I'm not counting the occasional power failure or any of that.
 
c0ldst33ltrs4u said:
2. you save the game but just after you did that you realize that you fucked up big time somewhere along the line and now you either don't have a previous save or the save is so old you might as well start the game over. .
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That one happens to me quite a bit, the most recent is in Deus Ex2 which was a piece of shit game to start with but now i just really hate it, the first one was so much better.
 
Yea the fuck ups after a long session are the worst. I''ve started a number of games over just for that reason. The worst is with so few good games available right now it makes the starting over part more tedious.
 
When I start a different game that catches my attention, and then I put off the prior one. Eventually I forget all the important info pertaining to it and either start over or never play again.

That, or when my pc barely meets the requirements until I reach some point in the game where it makes my system crash.
 
My biggest problem seems to be when I reach about 75% complete in a lot of games. After many, many hours of playing and knowing that the end game is close it hits me that I've had all the fun I'm going to have, and that the rest of the game is going to be repetitive, tedious and anti-climactic with no incentive to finish it beyond being able to say that I completed it. This is usually how I judge good games from mediocre ones - if I finish a game, never get bored, and want to go back and play again then it's a great game. Sadly, most games aren't
 
Montez said:
My biggest problem seems to be when I reach about 75% complete in a lot of games. After many, many hours of playing and knowing that the end game is close it hits me that I've had all the fun I'm going to have, and that the rest of the game is going to be repetitive, tedious and anti-climactic with no incentive to finish it beyond being able to say that I completed it. This is usually how I judge good games from mediocre ones - if I finish a game, never get bored, and want to go back and play again then it's a great game. Sadly, most games aren't
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Sad but true. I do agree!
 
Games turn bad when:
1. there is no more coherent plot, just pointless massacre
2. the game gets either really or insanely difficult, I like 'em to be difficult, but I hate puzzles that you can't get past without checking out a spoiler or walk-through. I also hate the mega-monsters/bosses that just won't die.
3. when the game starts to eat up your RAM like it's candy and you have to wait like a century to save/load a game, or to load the next map.
4. you finish the game and you expect some grand finale, but all you get is a mile of credits.
 
Ancient Oldie said:
When I start a different game that catches my attention, and then I put off the prior one. Eventually I forget all the important info pertaining to it and either start over or never play again.
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This almost always happens to me.
 
Yes i really hate after playing a long game to get nothing more than a mile of credits instead of a grand finale.
 
Except for Mafia where you got a Grande Finale AND a mile of credits played with a damn good soundtrack :p
 
I've always gotten annoyed in sports games when the AI goes into "catch-up" mode. The team that you've been dominating for the first three quarters suddenly turns into "The Chosen Squad" that can do no wrong and your entire team gets secretly substituted with players drafted from the Dead Poets Society.
 
When I finish a game, find out that theres a better ending, and then realize my last savegame was just after I could have gotten the better ending.
 
Mad Larkin said:
Except for Mafia where you got a Grande Finale AND a mile of credits played with a damn good soundtrack :p
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Yes Mafia was an awsome game that i loved. I have played it about 10 times all the way through agian, with a little luck they will develop a sequel or another game similar to it with a strong story.
 
Mad Larkin said:
Except for Mafia where you got a Grande Finale AND a mile of credits played with a damn good soundtrack :p
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Yes Mafia was an awsome game that i loved. I have played it about 10 times all the way through agian, with a little luck they will develop a sequel or another game similar to it with a strong story.
 
Yes Mafia was an awsome game that i loved. I have played it about 10 times all the way through agian, with a little luck they will develop a sequel or another game similar to it with a strong story.
 
I would definately never use 'when good games go BAD' with Deus Ex but at like the 3rd mission, when your in hell's kitchen and you find all these secret government soldiers operating in the sewers, i wish it would have stayed more on that storyline. I really liked that evil conspiring government theme and once you get to Hong Kong and France, i think the storyline just went downhill.
 
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