Games you like that people DESPISE

Originally Posted by Fluffykitten McGrundlepuss

I really, really enjoyed Too Human, one of the worst commercial flops of all time...

I've got to agree. Did it have its flaws? Yes, among them being the absence of a loadout-swap functionality (as introduced in D2) - plasma combined with the various bonuses from the human alignment might melt faces like nobody's business, but laser remains king for smacking the assault goblins' Itano Circuses out of the sky - but the mechanics were sound and once you got the hang of them, things just worked and you were tearing through most comers like the hybrid offspring of Dante and Kratos. And if you found a charm or weapon with the Graviton Pulse or Necrotic Pool effect... yeah, good times.

THat aside, you have to give SK props for their sci-fi take on Norse mythology (itself not that commonly used in games). It's a shame we'll probably never know just what they were going to do story-wise for part 2. After all, you may have taken Hel out, but Loki's still out there...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by LeHah

Star Trek (2013): Though I'd loathe to recommend it to anyone, this game wasn't the worst thing I ever played. Frankly, I enjoyed it more than the last two movies. Its broken, certainly - but not unplayable - and the banter between Kirk and Spock is pretty great. If there is one major flaw with it, is that it suffers from "sameness" (same three minigames to crack a computer, same types of weapons, generic level design, etc).

Given that the shows themselves never really had this as a major point, so the game's developers following suit can be understandable. However, I would point out that STO not only manages to give each type of DEW its own distinct effects, but they come in a range of flavors (increased critical-hit likelihood, increased critical damage, et cetera). Firearms in other games also manage to show differences within a category as well (Defiance, for example, has several sizes of spread pattern - including zero (slug rounds) - on shotguns).

There's nowhere I can't reach.