What are some games that could have been so much more in your opinion?

• Zekkii wrote on 2015-05-12 22:29

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  100% agree with the sonic comment. I stopped playing sonic games after Sonic AB 2 simply because my favorite feature was gone lol
  
  Mario party 10, I don't mind motion control but what bothered me was the fact there is no online playability. In the wondrous age of internet, why can we not party with people from across the country/globe?

  
  I'm guessing because they thought people would keep quitting in the middle of the game, or idling. I wish they got rid of that stupid car/vehicle that you have to drive around in.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-05-13 02:35
  
  
  • Bowser Party seems a little underwhelming. There's not a lot of mini-games and the four players fighting him seem to have an unfair advantages.
    
  • Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. Decent, but it's extremely tutorial obsessed, everyone constantly restates the obvious and most of the time you're FORCED to listen along.
    
  • Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Also decent, but drops too many concepts from its predecessors, while also being much much shorter.
    

  
  
  Really, Nintendo seems to be lacking far behind in their games than before.
• Zeo wrote on 2015-05-13 09:45

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  • Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. Decent, but it's extremely tutorial obsessed, everyone constantly restates the obvious and most of the time you're FORCED to listen along.
    

  
  
  Really, Nintendo seems to be lacking far behind in their games than before.

  
  
  I agreed with you on Mario and Luigi dream team part too... and it's heavily-relied on the gyroscope control which made some parts in game nearly unplayable... especially in that one giant boss vs giant Luigi. The best one is Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga and Mario and Luigi: Partner in Time... probably because it doesn't rely on any of those gimmicky features in a battle.
• spirit2roam wrote on 2015-05-13 10:14
  Dead Space 3. There were some others, but I'll edit them in when I remember.
  
  EA's part on making the game "less scary" was just dreadful. It ruined what made Dead Space awesome. The setting was bland too as almost the whole campaign you stay on a planet, which I thought defeated the purpose of "Space" being in the title of the game.
  
  The game was enjoyable, but I didn't feel like it was nearly as good as the first or second game.
• Compass wrote on 2015-05-13 10:26
  Metroid: Zero Mission - Handholding
  Skyward Sword - Fi is more annoying than Navi
  Persona 1 (PSP Port) - Soundtrack is abyssmal
  Legend of Heroes Gagharv Trilogy - Translation
  Dragon Quest 2 - End game is just a chore, difficulty spike is just bad
  Class of Heroes - Dungeons were re-used from one of the Wizardry Xth games.
  STED: Iseki Wakusei no Yabou - English translation has lag, makes it unplayable.
  .hack//G.U. + TWEWY - Shitty edgy main character is edgy at the starts but becomes a nice guy character progression trope.
  Dragon's Crown - MP is locked until your character is around level 16.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2015-05-13 10:51

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  • Bowser Party seems a little underwhelming. There's not a lot of mini-games and the four players fighting him seem to have an unfair advantages.
    
  • Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. Decent, but it's extremely tutorial obsessed, everyone constantly restates the obvious and most of the time you're FORCED to listen along.
    
  • Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Also decent, but drops too many concepts from its predecessors, while also being much much shorter.
    

  
  
  Really, Nintendo seems to be lacking far behind in their games than before.

  
  
  I've felt that way for a while now. That's probably why Dark Souls was so refreshing (alongside the ballin combat and atmosphere).
  
  Favorite M&L was Bowser's Inside Story. You're right about Tutorial Team. That game is outright exhausting.
  
  Developers everywhere need to unass their heads. I'm primarily looking at eastern developers.
• Compass wrote on 2015-05-13 16:51
  Most if not all last gen hunting games suffered from local co-op only.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-05-13 19:08

  Quote from Zeo;1274742:

  I agreed with you on Mario and Luigi dream team part too... and it's heavily-relied on the gyroscope control which made some parts in game nearly unplayable... especially in that one giant boss vs giant Luigi. The best one is Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga and Mario and Luigi: Partner in Time... probably because it doesn't rely on any of those gimmicky features in a battle.

  
  
  I've played SS and PiT and they're all great. BiS is also great since it's, well, Bowser, but on an emulator I got stuck on the first giant battle because I didn't have a mike to breathe fire.
  
  

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  Metroid: Zero Mission - Handholding

  
  
  Zero Mission was my first metroid game, and what got me into the Metroid franchise.
  
  
  Sm4sh. Nintendo doesn't know how to balance; they nerfed Ganon to shit in Brawl and barely buffed him (despite better KO potential he still has moves that are just downright awful) while Bowser, whose a little higher tier than Ganon, got massively buffed to mid-top tier, and even Diddy Kong, a really high tier character, got hugely buffed. I'm also more annoyed that there has to be a fucking option to allow custom moves, and that it doesn't exist in online, non-friend matches, which I can use to remedy some of Ganon's major weaknesses.
  
  Also why the fuck is Ridley STILL not a playable character, and that they reduced him to a mere stage hazard?
• Zekkii wrote on 2015-05-14 05:57

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  Also why the fuck is Ridley STILL not a playable character, and that they reduced him to a mere stage hazard?

  
  Why would he be? He isn't particularly likeable, unique, and in most renditions he's massive. Even at his smallest, he's the largest character easily.
• Shanghai wrote on 2015-05-14 06:00

  Quote from Darkboy132;1274780:

  Also why the fuck is Ridley STILL not a playable character, and that they reduced him to a mere stage hazard?

  
  

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• Splatulated wrote on 2015-05-14 09:10
  Arche Age could have been amazing
  
  Trion decided to make it pay to win as hell ... not even fun anymore unless you count being one hit killed by people that been dumping $5,000 a week since launch as fun
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-05-14 21:48

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  Why would he be? He isn't particularly likeable, unique, and in most renditions he's massive. Even at his smallest, he's the largest character easily.

  
  
  Well... Ridley's been highly rated as a wanted character, and Bowser's been bigger than Mario many many times and he got shrunk.
• Shanghai wrote on 2015-05-15 04:29

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  Well... Ridley's been highly rated as a wanted character, and Bowser's been bigger than Mario many many times and he got shrunk.

  
  
  I don't think there's a legitimate reason for Ridley to shrink or grow in size; Bowser's always had Kamek or his own magic and powerups to justify his size changes, and even then he's not AS big proportionally as Ridley to Samus is.
  
  People just want pirate-space-dragon things I guess.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-05-26 04:21
  Youtubing stealth games, almost every single one of them is lacking in their dumbass AIs. Enemies often stand still like an idiot even if the assassin is right in front of their fucking faces.
  
  Ace Attorney vs Professor Layton. Not only was it full of plot holes (as expected for a Layton game, so I've been told), but the final trial was horribly rushed. One of the cutscenes has two crucial animated errors, and how the Guilty verdict ending plays out.
  Also not enough trials.