icemann on 7/6/2019 at 04:28

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Exactly, which was my experience. if a game leaves a sour taste in my mouth quite quickly, then I don't have the motivation to keep going. I'd far rather move on to something I'll enjoy.

Jason Moyer on 7/6/2019 at 11:12

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I have about 5 pages of games with no rating, because they aren't in the store anymore. But of the ones I can get a rating for:

1. 21.59% Spacebase DF-9 - haven't played, don't care
2. 22.59% 10 Years After - HP,DC
3. 27.66% Hyper Fighters - haven't gotten to it yet
4. 29.25% Razor2: Hidden Skies - kill it with fire and then burn whatever memories you have of it
5. 29.50% D&D: Daggerdale - just kind of boring more than offensively bad
6. 29.72% Confrontation - HP,DC
7. 30.85% Stronghold 3 - HP,DC
8. 31.75% Two Brothers - tried it, too broken to bother with
9. 32.38% Iesabel - KIWFATBWMYHOI
10. 33.15% Future Wars - HP,DC
11. 33.57% DX: The Fall - JKOBMTOB
12. 34.23% ArmA Tactics - HGTIY
13. 36.27% Prey: Typhon Hunter - HP,DC
14. 36.58% Legends Of Dawn Reborn - KIWFATBWMYHOI
15. 37.37% Shattered Haven - HP,DC
16. 39.01% Hacker Evolution Duality - HP,DC
17. 39.82% Twin Sector - JKOBMTOB
18. 40.27% Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate Deluxe Edition - JKOBMTOB
19. 40.31% Trapped Dead - JKOBMTOB
20. 40.87% Alone In The Dark - HP,DC

Somehow I skipped Underworld:Ass - HGTIY

Malf on 7/6/2019 at 15:40

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You know, I didn't mind 1... 2... 3... , but it was very reminiscent of their other titles.
And Burn Zombie Burn! is actually quite good, dunno why it's scoring that low. It's a Robotron-esque Zombie-masher with a neat scoring mechanic centred around setting zombies on fire to increase your multiplier as far as I remember. I also seem to remember it having a pretty good Psychobilly soundtrack too.

Mind you, I also enjoyed WET, which was pretty widely derided at the time of release, so make of that what you will. Indeed, one of the guys who did level design for the game used to regularly post over at Quake3World, and even he said the game was shit.
He also worked on Watchdogs and managed to sneak in a Quake3World easter egg, in the form of some trash arranged in the letters Q3W :D

icemann on 8/6/2019 at 04:30

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For a game that's got overwhelmingly negative reviews I enjoyed most (but not all) of Aliens Colonial Marines. Once you fix that 1 line of code in that ini file, the game is heaps better.

I'd say about the first 60% of the game is pretty good, with some sections rising up to excellent. Then you get to the other 40% and it all gets very meh. My assumption is that by the time development got to that bit, the ini error was in there and they couldn't find the source of it anywhere they looked. And so they eventually gave up and said meh fuck it and just kept going, but by that stage they had barely any time till release, so were like ah fuck and just did some quick levels.

You'll know when you've hit that final 40%. Quite noticeable. The really good bits though are great. Hadley's Hope being my favorite.

demagogue on 8/6/2019 at 07:34

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I'm double-post to look at my own games. I used lorenzostanco, as it's most convenient.

Putting aside the unrated games, my worst one is
X-Rebirth at 33%.

Now this one is interesting. It's undeniably terrible compared to X3, and the poor comparison no doubt drove it to getting trashed in the reviews.
But I kind of ... well liked it would be going too far. But it has its unsung virtues. It's goofy and glitchy in a way that made me laugh more than a few times.
You can walk around FPS style, which was a long-sought thing for a space sim. But, e.g., everytime you enter a ship, the graphics will glitch to make it clear it's respawning you in an empty grey room and then building the ship around you. Every station is a maze of the same empty hallways where you have to walk for ages just to find one alien in the back insult you. The universe, and each system with it, is much smaller, in size and ambition. It has a ridiculous "highway warp" system, like a rainbow way in space, that pulls your ship like a waterslide, and you can just slip on and off at any time... And it just doesn't have anywhere near the depth that X3 had, if someone even had the patience to stick with it.

But I don't know... I was laughing at it a lot when I was playing it, with that "I'm not even mad" face. They tried and failed, but I could feel that they were still trying, and somehow that put me in a more forgiving mood. It's a bad game & deserves the bad rating it has, but I didn't mind playing it for a bit. But that said, space sims like this are supposed to suck you in for 100s of hours, and this definitely isn't going to do that for me. I'll save that for the good space sims I have. Even then, this game also make me hold off on getting X4, and I'm still holding off on it until the bugs are fixed and ratings go up. But I'll get it someday.

Then under 50% is:

Deus Ex: The Fall at 45%.
I believe I got the Deus Ex bundle on sale, so that explains how I got it, and I think that was still cheaper than getting the other games outside the bundle. I haven't gotten to it because I haven't even finished DX:MD yet. It's notable because of the disparity to the other DX games. I wasn't even fan of the new ones because of the disparity to the original, but I still appreciated them as nice-looking & good shooters in their own right. The reviews don't give me much incentive to play this.

Viridi at 46%, a taking-care-of-a-plant sim.
I believe this is supposed to be like a tamagachi, where you just pop in every now and then and take care of your plant. It's a zen thing, and a glitchy one at that. The in-game purchases all over the place kind of sour that one thing it had going for it. But it's free so one can hardly complain. It's not really supposed to be anything more than just jumping in to take care of a retrogame looking plant, so it's almost not even worth being disappointed if someone was expecting something more.

Karateka at 48% - I think this was one of the games packaged in that "buy 10 games for $8" deal I bought. I haven't looked at it so I don't have any opinion yet.

The rest of my rated games are all over 50%.

Edit: That's metacritic scores. If I go by user ratings, then Viridi gets much higher ratings at, uh let me check, lol, 90%. Somebody could probably write an article how the user ratings and metacritic score can be so different with that as a case study. And Karateka is 80%.

Aside from those two, X-Rebirth and DX: The Fall are still rated very low. And then Prey: Typhon Hunter, as mentioned earlier.
I recall someone playing Prey TH here and liking it, with the understanding that it's not like vanilla Prey, so I'm still giving it a chance.