#4368328 - 07/10/17 01:32 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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Operation Flashpoint on the original Xbox. It was HORRIBLE. Graphically, looked like a PS1 game. Audio was like an Atari 2600. It was horrible. When your soldier ran in 3rd person a friend of mine noted that it looked like he was facing away pleasuring himself. LOL
I actually returned it to Gamestop the next day. They were helpful back then if they knew you.
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#4368335 - 07/10/17 01:46 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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Operation Flashpoint on the original Xbox. It was HORRIBLE. Graphically, looked like a PS1 game. Audio was like an Atari 2600. It was horrible. When your soldier ran in 3rd person a friend of mine noted that it looked like he was facing away pleasuring himself. LOL
I actually returned it to Gamestop the next day. They were helpful back then if they knew you. You should have bought it for PC. A game like OFP doesn't really lend itself well for the console.
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#4368336 - 07/10/17 01:47 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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At the risk of getting on SimHQ's blacklist I'll have to say Elite Dangerous. The space exploration thing, the "guilds" or whatnots, the fancy tech and the latest upgrades have left me terribly cold. Something did not click, that simple.
Cheers, Slug
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#4368346 - 07/10/17 02:19 PM
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Probably Back to Baghdad, way back in the day. The graphics were amazing, but there was no multiplayer option and no AI wingmen like Falcon 3.0 had, either. The manual that shipped with it had absolutely NO instructions for the radar, and anyone who's played F4 or F4AF knows you're not going to just pick it up by trial and error. By the time the detailed manual came out - at extra cost - I had no desire to bother with it any more. I'd probably gone back to F3 and Tornado and was having much more fun with their older graphics.
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#4368348 - 07/10/17 02:23 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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Operation Flashpoint on the original Xbox. It was HORRIBLE. Graphically, looked like a PS1 game. Audio was like an Atari 2600. It was horrible. When your soldier ran in 3rd person a friend of mine noted that it looked like he was facing away pleasuring himself. LOL
I actually returned it to Gamestop the next day. They were helpful back then if they knew you. You should have bought it for PC. A game like OFP doesn't really lend itself well for the console. Didn't have a gaming rig then. It worked out, AA came out a week later, a port of the pc game. Wasn't perfect, but it was still really good just the same. Played that for a long time.
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#4368393 - 07/10/17 05:09 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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At the risk of getting on SimHQ's blacklist I'll have to say Elite Dangerous. The space exploration thing, the "guilds" or whatnots, the fancy tech and the latest upgrades have left me terribly cold. Something did not click, that simple.
Cheers, Slug +1
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#4368395 - 07/10/17 05:12 PM
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Good point Jayhawk. I've never pre-ordered a game nor participated in early access or kickstarters, which I suppose could reduce the chances of getting a game I don't like. Matter of fact, the only game/sim related thing I've ever pre-ordered was the Cougar stick.
Not to derail the thread, but I think early access is a dangerous trend in this buisness, allowing companies to generate revenue irregardless of the quality of the finished product, if it ever gets finished at all. True, but that's mostly for DCS World. I pre-ordered Guild Wars 2, MechWarrior Online, and MechWarrior Tactics. On the beta testing, I played the hell out of those games but had to admit they weren't for me or what I was looking for and got a refund for my money. I also pre-ordered Steel Division Normandy and do not regret it one bit! I am on the Kickstarter backer for BattleTech as well and so far love the game. So not all pre-order stuff is bad... but there are doozys out there. X Rebirth comes to mind; so glad I avoided that one. The hype was very strong there.
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#4368412 - 07/10/17 05:46 PM
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I don't think X Rebirth is the mess it was at launch.Since update 4.0 it's improved a lot. In fact it's one of a handful of games I still have currently installed.
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#4368425 - 07/10/17 06:11 PM
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Battlecruiser 3000AD. For anyone who hasn't heard of it, the idea was a space combat exploration diplomacy game where you control a battlecruiser, and can manage lots of things, leave it up to the AI, explore a fully functioning universe, and so on. In reality, no. Just no. Awful micromanaging of every single crewmember, bad graphics, a universe consisting of less life than Frontier Elite 2, and awful controls as well.
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#4368472 - 07/10/17 08:48 PM
Re: Worst game purchase?
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At the risk of getting on SimHQ's blacklist I'll have to say Elite Dangerous. The space exploration thing, the "guilds" or whatnots, the fancy tech and the latest upgrades have left me terribly cold. Something did not click, that simple.
Cheers, Slug I'd probably say the same. It makes the mistake many old MUD RPGs made - by adding complexity it just feels like work. I love the setting, but MP seems to consist of waiting for a parking space or getting dusted by a 1,000,000MW beam laser.
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#4368487 - 07/10/17 09:42 PM
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At the risk of getting on SimHQ's blacklist I'll have to say Elite Dangerous. The space exploration thing, the "guilds" or whatnots, the fancy tech and the latest upgrades have left me terribly cold. Something did not click, that simple.
Cheers, Slug Same here. I got it during a Steam sale and did give it well over 100 hours before I just got bored to tears with it, so I guess it wasn't a total loss. I was playing it with nothing more than an old Sidewinder joystick and realized to get any more efficient, I was going to have to invest in eye or head tracking plus probably some voice command software. It's still on my hard drive, but I might as well remove it since I don't think I'll ever play it again. Cheers
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