[General Discussion] Titles you just don't get why other people can't get into

I liked The Bouncer, but it was a rent-only title. You could complete it in less than a night.

But I didn't like the fact that only certain parts of the story were revealed after beating the game through a certain amount of times. This feels like a tacky way of forcing people to squeeze replay value out of the game.

And yeah, it did come out at the wrong time. All I remember seeing were boring titles around 2002, and then there's this fighting game made by Square that pops outta nowhere. Remember what Square's previous fighter was?

For me I can't understand people who dislike Broken Sword. Shitty reviews, short game, but it's really a fun and entertaining game. The art style is nice as is the story, which is quite light hearted. It seems as if people either like or dislike point-and-click adventures. Same goes for Touch Detective, which is a short game, had shitty reviews, and it's basically the same thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Easy one for me. DDR. You hit an arrow on a pard and match it up with a hit area on the screen. I don't get how people have a hard time comprehending this kind of physical demand. Even Wii Sports demands more from you and people get into the Boxing game like it's no big deal. But hitting an arrow on a pad is so much harder than picking up a Wii-mote and figuring out which action lets you punch high and which one lets you punch low, even if you DID read the damn tutorial before the game started.

Are you seriously comparing a japanese dancing game to Wii Sports?

You don't need to do major movements with the Wii remote to play the games. Rit told me there were only a few Wii Sports games which actually will make you build up a sweat.

DDR is fucking awful, because it's repetitive. New games are released with a few new titles and the same songs. Seriously, I'm so fucking sick of hearing "drop the bomb" "max 300" and songs by naoki which seem to be on every DDR game to ever exist.

Also they've done a terrible job of geting it into europe. It's called Dancing Stage in PAL, and hese versions have a bunch of mainstream titles thrown in. For example, Kylie Minogue and David Bowie songs. They really butched the release of the game here.

I also don't see why you should have to turn around and purchase a dance mat. Have you tried the slippery dance mats which sometimes are included with the game? THEY'RE SLIPPERY. And they move around all the time. I don't think I should have to fork out x amount of dollars to import some RedOctane DDR mat which will cost as much as the actual item in postage just to get it here.

It's good in the arcades, sure. But that's where it should stay.

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Originally Posted by RABicle

I still don't get why people don't like Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. That said all the people who don't like it are dickheads who haven't played it and boycott it because it doesn't conform to their stupid, preconceived, imaginary Donkey Kong universe. Those people are wankers and don't understand anything.

I knew you were going to say Jungle Beat. Either you or Grubdog would've brought those up sometime soon.

I haven't played it because I've never seen the bongo drums. I usually like music games, but I've not once seen Jungle Beat's drums down here. Plus the last music controller I bought was the ugly Taiko no Tatsujin drum controller which didn't respond unless you abused the hell of it.

Most people don't want to buy non-standard controllers specifically for 1-2 games so that's probably why there wasn't that much attention brought towards it.

Originally Posted by Skexis

The truth is that playing the PC version you don't encounter as many bugs as you would on Xbox, and the few you do are easily overlooked. It's extremely fun for fans of action or shooter games, and plays in some ways similar to P.N. 03. The powers and the combat are by far the best things about the game, and being able to level up weapon skills and powers is what gives it some great replay value.

P.N.03 is a brilliant game. But it only got a 5.3 score on gamespot, and it was generally disregarded by everyone as "a unique game which failed" because it was too short. Personally I felt like it was a good game, and I don't get why there's so much hate for it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

To my credit, I've never played the game to know if it really is a music game or not.

I might be thinking of another GC title that also uses the drums.

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I still think it isn't worth it. A controller for two games and only two games. The same could be said about Guitar Hero, which is a game I can't understand why people like.

But I can perfectly understand the purchase of a beatmania controller. Not the ASC huge ones, but the smaller ones usually issued in japan with a game. Since there's IIDX 3rd - 10th Style, Pop'n Music 7 - 13 and Taiko no Tatsujin 1 - 6 (I think it's 6) on PS2, purchasing the controllers is pretty much justified with the range of games available.

If there was more games playable with the bongos, sure. But there isn't.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

Well, that goes for a lot of peripherals. Lightguns don't get much use these days, no matter how much one insists Crisis Zone is really, really awesome, same for fishing games, etc. Doesn't make the game any less great.

I'm just saying I don't want peripherals shoved in some closet or laying around for a couple of games I might play once or twice every year.

What I'm getting at is, I prefer games that work with the standard controller. Yes, light guns also apply, but you'll probably find people won't be playing their light gun based games half as much as their regular games either.

Originally Posted by RABicle

You make it sound like the bongos cost extra Elixir. They didn't.

I don't know about that. I remember reading a magazine advertising them with and without the bongos, with a price difference.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?