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 On 02/16/2014 at 10:58 AM by gigantor21 See More From This User » |
No game is perfect. No matter how close it gets to perfection, even the absolute best titles fall short, whether it be in areas large or small. Here are a few examples from my personal favorites:
- Mega Man X - The weapons aren't even remotely balanced. Like, at all. Seriously, once you get Storm Tornado, Fire Wave and the full powered Rolling Shield, you really don't need anything else outside of boss fights.
- Final Fantasy X - The voice acting is wildly inconsistent. And no, I'm not talking about the laughing scene--that was SUPPOSED to be awkward, and thus wasn't any better in Japanese. No, I'm talking about how wildly inconsistent the acting is in general, with solid performances for Khimari and Wakka vs. Yuna's VA not knowing what she was doing half the time. The rather awkward dialouge certainly didn't help, but still...
- Street Fighter 2 - The cast is horribly imbalanced. The Shotos (Ryu, Ken, Akuma), Sagat and Dhalsim stand head and shoulders above most everyone else. Also, if they were going to re-release the same game 4 times, would it have killed them to make more new sprites? It's hilarious how the characters in the Super upgrades (Cammy, Feilong, T.Hawk and DeeJay) look so much better than the original 12.
- Victorious Boxers 2 - The graphics are woefully basic and lack detail, and the vast majority of the cast (including several of the main characters) are just clones with different special moves. The lack of voice acting makes the in-game cutscenes really awkward, and the story mode glosses over several parts of the original manga while covering other stuff in too much detail.
- Tomb Raider 2013 - The story and voice acting are just "eh". I don't feel any investment in any of the characters--including Lara, whose supposedly slow and unwilling evolution into a powerful opponent to Mathias doesn't jibe well with how indestructible and lethal she is from the beginning. She's never feels as vulnerable during actual gameplay as the story tries to make her look.
- Devil May Cry 3 - I don't like Dante as a character. As cool as he is in combat, his goofy one-liners are more facepalm-inducing than funny. Really, the writing in these games has never been good, whether it's been done by Capcom internally or Ninja Theory (who was actually WORSE). The fight scenes are certainly cool though.
What are things YOU don't like about your favorite games? Let me know in the comments.
All that grinding you have to do in Pokemon Heartgold/Soulsilver (and the originals) is definitely up there. They don't give you nearly enough trainers to fight and the wild Pokemon are too low leveled, making it super tedious when you can get to level 35 realistically and the first member is at the 39-42 range, with the last at level 50.
Another would be swords in Mass Effect 3. No reason those things should exist in a world where everyone's using guns.
The abrupt ending of Halo 2, which is pretty infamous. Though I didn't care much on my early days, looking at it right now, it certainly ends with a sour taste.
At first I didn't care, but the tripping in Super Smash Bros. Brawl got more annoying as I started to get better. And Meta Knight is overpowered.
The water levels in Rayman Origins aren't as excellent as the rest of the levels in the game.
That goddamn Jigglypuff challenge and one or two others are way too hard and keeping me from 100% completion.
In the Mass Effect series, 99% of the female characters in the games are human and Asari. All these other races around and there aren't any female versions of them. That's just lazy on Bioware. I won't even mention the obvious problem with the series. 
God ov War, The fact they keep making them, I really hated the searhing through the dark on GoWIII. I think it is an awesome game series, but come on, enough already. I just hope Ascension "IS" the last one.
Being an Assassin in Borderlands 2 is a chore. Enemy bull rush you all the time making it hard to take careful aim and fire. They also throw grenades at you with startling accuracy no matter where you are. It's really annoying. The game seeems built for up close fighting. My friend is a Gunzerker and mows 'em down with a shotgun. It seems the way to go in the game.
Borderlands 1 had the same problem.
bioshock series in general. They totally missed a DLC opportunity to have either your character from Bioshock 2 or Bioshock Infinite to revisit old levels in the first game. Now that might be the case since I've yet to play Burial at Sea (trying to play the whole infinite game first) but I'll see.
Final Fantasy X is considered PERFECT?!?!?!
That's it, something needs to be done here....
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