Oh, I so didn't want this to turn out into a Half-Life 2 vs Doom 3 debate. Trust me, I stay as far clear as I can from these type of posts.
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You are perfectly right with regards to Doom 3, in that you know what your are getting. You are also right with regards to Half-Life 2 being hyped into this and that and it ends up not being exactly what you thought you would get. I can tell you I am not a huge fan of FPS, I can also tell you that Valve happens to be my least favourite developer, large part due to their "wonderful" water-vapour program, called steam. I was merely pointing out at that at least valve tried to make characters and create a story line. Doom 3's storyline is scarier than its monsters.
If it means anything Picard, I wasn't bashing one of your faourite games, merely using it as a tool for my argument. You could easily place many other games in that situation. I could do one with Half-Life 2 if you like :Brain: Same thing can be said for many games.
Picard I see you have come up for a system for reviers too :P, I too do that. I regulary increase of decrease their scores to come up with a fair reflextion.
Come bashing EA is fun - their motto: EA GAMES - CHALLENGE EVERYTHING could easily be changed to EA GAMES - BUY EVERYTHING, just ask Ubisoft, and ex-Westwood and ... If you don't see what's wrong in that, then I guess Microsoft are angels as well. Monopoloies are never good - in everything and in anything.
efthimios, it's not just my opinion with regards to sequels. The developers are saying the same thing, but its the publishers that pay their bills. As I stated in an earlier post there is nothing wrong with a sequel even another - there just needs to be a limit. It's all releative of course. I'm sure someone out there, would by the 20th sequel.
With regards to using my brain and being lazy, you are missing my point. I have no problem filtering through articles and reviews to find my games. I am talking about the general public. Look at what I said with regards to people, before its release, saying how great Half-Life 2 was going to be. Likewise, there was no way in hell that a reviewer would dare to criticise Half-Life 2. I am not sure of this, but I don't even think Half-Life 2 received a single score of below 90%. The game isn't as great as the reviewers make it sound. Many games are getting what they are getting all due to A) HYPE, B) GRAPHICS, and no I am not saying that having good graphics is a bad thing.
I also said I have no problem with people liking something different. DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS. With regards to adventure games, again it was an example, used to facilitate my arguement. It was included as an example to show what the industry is about.
Picard by the way, NILES rocks!
P.S. Picard, please don't tell me you are excited about Quake 4 :P I know it will have great graphics - but come on the 4th iteration. Save us Sid Meier or Warren Spector.
