Well, I think so.īut the initial release and the PR debacle had destroyed all hope of saving it.Īlso, I happen to think the general response to the subscription option was short-sighted and stupid. Near the end of its life under Flagship, the game became quite stable and was well on the way to becoming the best ARPG of all time. But the actual core of the game was fantastic - and I still think it represents the most visceral and satisfying combat of ANY action RPG. It was heavily flawed upon release - and the PR handling was very, very unfortunate. I probably have dozens of examples, but the one that immediately leaps to mind is Hellgate London. It's one of those games that actually deserved the media bashing, but let's not get into that It's funny, as I think Alpha Protocol is much more favored than not - except by the mainstream media. It was rather simplistic and really easy). It feels like the game was designed by two separate groups of people, one wanting a deep & complex tactical RPG, and other one wanting a Final Fantasy: Mystical Quest throwback (for anyone unfamiliar with it, FF:MQ was considered an entry level JRPG back in the SNES era. Also, the game was designed in such a way that you just did not have to know anything about what was going on under the hood, so by the very design of the game, any depth it had was pointless. And judging by the Wiki, the fans have not, after repeated attempts, managed to figure out all of these stats yet. You had a lot of stats that influenced things, but the game would just give you the stat (often with cryptic names such as Love or Loyalty) but nowhere in the game game is it explained what Love actually does.

And it is true, there is a lot of interesting things going on under the hood in this one, but whatever depth the game had was squandered on the fact that it never actually told you anything. People I've heard talk about it have talked about how deep it is. I like every other part in the series, but I just don't like Civ 3.Īlso, The Last Remnant, mentioned by Zloth is one of those games that I just did not like. People do see to enjoy this game more than the press did though.Īs for games that the press & people in general really liked but I did not enjoy? Civilization 3. Sure, it had its flaws (some were pretty major), but it also did some things really well (mainly how your actions had consequences down the road).

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