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gss89
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What is your favourite mediocre game?
Mine is Imperial Glory. It's a turn based Napoleon era strategy game. It very much feels like Risk (the board game) fancied up for computers but I like Risk so I enjoy the game. It's problems are inadequate political system, too few playable nations, almost unplayable naval battles (you can avoid them by auto battle) and at times stupid AI. The thing I like the most about the game is that sometimes the other nations make coalitions against you and out of the blue you're fighting for survival and praying that some of them will sign a peace treaty so you don't get trashed from all directions. Also I like how if you're waging war on one side your neighbour wont miss the chance to screw you over and attack if your rear is undefended, even if you're in good relations. The game could have been better if only a little bit more attention was given to few detalis and was bested by Medieval 2 but i still like it, I play through it at least once a year.
Anyway, that's mine, what are yours?
Mine is Imperial Glory. It's a turn based Napoleon era strategy game. It very much feels like Risk (the board game) fancied up for computers but I like Risk so I enjoy the game. It's problems are inadequate political system, too few playable nations, almost unplayable naval battles (you can avoid them by auto battle) and at times stupid AI. The thing I like the most about the game is that sometimes the other nations make coalitions against you and out of the blue you're fighting for survival and praying that some of them will sign a peace treaty so you don't get trashed from all directions. Also I like how if you're waging war on one side your neighbour wont miss the chance to screw you over and attack if your rear is undefended, even if you're in good relations. The game could have been better if only a little bit more attention was given to few detalis and was bested by Medieval 2 but i still like it, I play through it at least once a year.
Anyway, that's mine, what are yours?
12 Yrs♥✓#
I've got several mediocre games that I liked more than I should have.
Primal Prey is a dinosaur hunting game that no longer works on modern systems but even back then it was pretty glitchy and was never patched. Also, all the levels take place on one map...yet I loved that game.
Postal 2...I also enjoyed a lot more than I probably should have :P
Carnivores, another dinosaur hunting game.
Creatures, a game about hatching and taking care of some...creatures, and avoiding a goblin like thing that will attack them. No idea what me and my brother found so compelling about this game.
SimCopter, you fly around a city in a helicopter (you could also import your own city from SimCity, which was cool) and take care of various problems like traffic jams, medical transports, or dumping water on fires.
Body Harvest, N64 game that let you drive a lot of different vehicles but also traverse on foot. It was sort of like a 3rd person metroid, in that you had to find certain items or upgrades to progress through areas you had been.
Primal Prey is a dinosaur hunting game that no longer works on modern systems but even back then it was pretty glitchy and was never patched. Also, all the levels take place on one map...yet I loved that game.
Postal 2...I also enjoyed a lot more than I probably should have :P
Carnivores, another dinosaur hunting game.
Creatures, a game about hatching and taking care of some...creatures, and avoiding a goblin like thing that will attack them. No idea what me and my brother found so compelling about this game.
SimCopter, you fly around a city in a helicopter (you could also import your own city from SimCity, which was cool) and take care of various problems like traffic jams, medical transports, or dumping water on fires.
Body Harvest, N64 game that let you drive a lot of different vehicles but also traverse on foot. It was sort of like a 3rd person metroid, in that you had to find certain items or upgrades to progress through areas you had been.
11 Yrs♥✓#
Sim Farm - Not sure why I enjoyed running my farm so much back then.
Utopia for SNES - I had a blast with this game, it was by no means amazing but I kept going back to it...maybe ill plug it in to the super nintendo on my next day off.
Utopia for SNES - I had a blast with this game, it was by no means amazing but I kept going back to it...maybe ill plug it in to the super nintendo on my next day off.
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notenoughfreetime83
11 Yrs✓#
My favorite mediocre game is probably Epic Mickey. I really loved the art style in the game. The platforming was average, the camera could be really frustrating, the lack of any voice acting was disappointing, not knowing where you were supposed to go could be frustrating, and having to constantly talk to characters to get one liners for some sort of clue of where to go was annoying. I played it for a good while and put it aside and have yet to return to it. I did have a lot of fun and love the cartoon world's it puts you in. I also like Mickey Mania for the art style but it is a fairly mediocre platforming game as well for the SNES and Genesis. I enjoy Kirby's Avalanche for the SNES a lot too. It is a poyu poyu (spelling?) game with Kirby Characters. Nothing special here but for a puzzle game it is a ton of fun.
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notenoughfreetime8311 Yrs✓#
Originally Posted by: acidzero
I loved Sim Farm back in the day! It was really addicting but yeah I agree I don't know why.
Sim Farm - Not sure why I enjoyed running my farm so much back then.
Utopia for SNES - I had a blast with this game, it was by no means amazing but I kept going back to it...maybe ill plug it in to the super nintendo on my next day off.
I loved Sim Farm back in the day! It was really addicting but yeah I agree I don't know why.
11 Yrs#
Bowser
11 Yrs#
Mediocre? Well, it's a bit of a relative term.
From a subjective point of view, I would have to go with Dungeon Lords. It wasn't that great a game, but I was hooked to it more than I needed to. *shrug*
From a subjective point of view, I would have to go with Dungeon Lords. It wasn't that great a game, but I was hooked to it more than I needed to. *shrug*
12 Yrs♥$✓#
I like the DIsciples series of games. I don't know if you could consider them mediocre, more just relatively niche and they often get over shadowed by the Heroes of Might and Magic series. 1 and 2 I consider to be some of the best turn based strategy games out there, and 3, well it has a lot of problems and I would even agree that it is a bad game, if even just a bad disciples game, but there's something about the gameplay that while not as good I still find oddly enjoyable.
There have been a handful of other just low key games that stood out as well, just off the top of my head, Chaser was something I'd just never heard of and it turned out to be pretty awesome. And Doom 3 for as much as people dislike it, I appreciated what they achieved with that game. I'm sure there's a bunch of other games but yeah it's all subjective really as was already said.
There have been a handful of other just low key games that stood out as well, just off the top of my head, Chaser was something I'd just never heard of and it turned out to be pretty awesome. And Doom 3 for as much as people dislike it, I appreciated what they achieved with that game. I'm sure there's a bunch of other games but yeah it's all subjective really as was already said.
12 Yrs♥$✓#
I feel like the game that best fits that description for me is Haven: Call of the King. The art style and music are pretty astounding, but the voice acting, writing, and gameplay can be pretty atrocious at times. It's biggest gimmick is that the gameplay style would change dynamically like a true action adventure. And it was actually pretty seamless. Unfortunately the level design was sloppy and the item-collecting system was handled poorly. Overall, worth a look though.
But I'm actually the kind of person that likes bad games. It's like reading bad novels or watching bad movies... most of the time it's good for a laugh, and if not, it'll at least inform you of what does and doesn't work in the medium. Haven just stands out.
But I'm actually the kind of person that likes bad games. It's like reading bad novels or watching bad movies... most of the time it's good for a laugh, and if not, it'll at least inform you of what does and doesn't work in the medium. Haven just stands out.
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ArchaicGamer
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I guess that really depends on what is classified as mediocre, more is it mediocre based on ratings of the main gaming sites like IGN, Metacritic, Gamespot Etc. Or Mediocre based on my personal criteria.
Tsugunai: Atonement - Although IGN gave it good ratings, most places had it mediocre. I absolutely loved the game, I have played through it many times, and I am sure I will play through it again, it had a pretty decent plot, no one of the best plots I've seen played out in a game, with very few that can rival the plot. The story telling was so-so, I wish it had voice acting, and that there were some slow moving parts that would speed up just a bit, but over all my rating is about as close to perfect one can get for a game. The graphics are dated but were good for the time frame.
The Bard's Tale - Again IGN rated this as good, but everyone else had it middle of the line or lower. It was another game I simply loved, not so much for the game play, but for the antics, the game play wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. The story wasn't anything to write home abut, heck I vaguely remember the story, but I can still remember the songs, the jokes, the puns, the main character that reminded me of a very shifty friend I had growing up, even down to the unkempt hair and his corny lines he thought were cool, but were so bad people snickered at him behind his back, yet he thought they all loved him. It was a true classic to me.
As for personally found to be Mediocre I can't think of many, perhaps anything from the GTA series, the stories to me were so-so regurgitated mobster/gang drivel. Who do you want me to whack? The soundtracks to some of them are great, the driving wasn't great, the characters some were great concepts that died to quick and others should have been sunk in concrete shoes before development. I've never much cared for the controls, nor any of the senseless killing sprees, the hard to find death defying stunts. What I do love and what draws me back is really the radio, some of the stations, the commercials, the radio personalities, comments from people you walk past, there are some aspects that keep me buying and playing games in this series that keep me from hating it enough to never play it again, and enough annoyances and irritations that keep the GTA series from being highly rated as a game in my books, yet enough appeal I do go back to it for a laugh now and then.
Tsugunai: Atonement - Although IGN gave it good ratings, most places had it mediocre. I absolutely loved the game, I have played through it many times, and I am sure I will play through it again, it had a pretty decent plot, no one of the best plots I've seen played out in a game, with very few that can rival the plot. The story telling was so-so, I wish it had voice acting, and that there were some slow moving parts that would speed up just a bit, but over all my rating is about as close to perfect one can get for a game. The graphics are dated but were good for the time frame.
The Bard's Tale - Again IGN rated this as good, but everyone else had it middle of the line or lower. It was another game I simply loved, not so much for the game play, but for the antics, the game play wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. The story wasn't anything to write home abut, heck I vaguely remember the story, but I can still remember the songs, the jokes, the puns, the main character that reminded me of a very shifty friend I had growing up, even down to the unkempt hair and his corny lines he thought were cool, but were so bad people snickered at him behind his back, yet he thought they all loved him. It was a true classic to me.
As for personally found to be Mediocre I can't think of many, perhaps anything from the GTA series, the stories to me were so-so regurgitated mobster/gang drivel. Who do you want me to whack? The soundtracks to some of them are great, the driving wasn't great, the characters some were great concepts that died to quick and others should have been sunk in concrete shoes before development. I've never much cared for the controls, nor any of the senseless killing sprees, the hard to find death defying stunts. What I do love and what draws me back is really the radio, some of the stations, the commercials, the radio personalities, comments from people you walk past, there are some aspects that keep me buying and playing games in this series that keep me from hating it enough to never play it again, and enough annoyances and irritations that keep the GTA series from being highly rated as a game in my books, yet enough appeal I do go back to it for a laugh now and then.
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Originally Posted by: ArchaicGamer
Is that the 1985 or the 2004 game? I would imagine it's the 2004 version if IGN have a review of it
The Bard's Tale - Again IGN rated this as good, but everyone else had it middle of the line or lower. It was another game I simply loved, not so much for the game play, but for the antics, the game play wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. The story wasn't anything to write home abut, heck I vaguely remember the story, but I can still remember the songs, the jokes, the puns, the main character that reminded me of a very shifty friend I had growing up, even down to the unkempt hair and his corny lines he thought were cool, but were so bad people snickered at him behind his back, yet he thought they all loved him. It was a true classic to me.
Is that the 1985 or the 2004 game? I would imagine it's the 2004 version if IGN have a review of it
11 Yrs✓#
ArchaicGamer11 Yrs✓#
Originally Posted by: Chronoja
That would be the 2004 on PS2, I never tried the NES version even if it is easily obtainable. Maybe one day I will try it out.
Originally Posted by: ArchaicGamer
The Bard's Tale - Again IGN rated this as good, but everyone else had it middle of the line or lower. It was another game I simply loved, not so much for the game play, but for the antics, the game play wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. The story wasn't anything to write home abut, heck I vaguely remember the story, but I can still remember the songs, the jokes, the puns, the main character that reminded me of a very shifty friend I had growing up, even down to the unkempt hair and his corny lines he thought were cool, but were so bad people snickered at him behind his back, yet he thought they all loved him. It was a true classic to me.
Is that the 1985 or the 2004 game? I would imagine it's the 2004 version if IGN have a review of it
That would be the 2004 on PS2, I never tried the NES version even if it is easily obtainable. Maybe one day I will try it out.
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Gyyrro
12 Yrs✓#
Glory of Heracles - The entire series isn't great, but hey, Sparta.
Does Fable count? Because the first Fable game is one of my all time favorites.
Does Fable count? Because the first Fable game is one of my all time favorites.
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Originally Posted by: ArchaicGamer
I thought so. Was just asking cause I agreed with what you said, I considered saying The Bard's Tale myself but I remember that I ended up disliking it towards the end (the gameplay that is), but I did like the "general atmosphere" of it. The Overlord games are sort of similar to The Bard's tale, both in humor and gameplay, but a glance at metacritic suggests that people don't consider them mediocre.
That would be the 2004 on PS2, I never tried the NES version even if it is easily obtainable. Maybe one day I will try it out.
I thought so. Was just asking cause I agreed with what you said, I considered saying The Bard's Tale myself but I remember that I ended up disliking it towards the end (the gameplay that is), but I did like the "general atmosphere" of it. The Overlord games are sort of similar to The Bard's tale, both in humor and gameplay, but a glance at metacritic suggests that people don't consider them mediocre.
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Humlon
12 Yrs✓#
Hmm.. I know alot of games that are highly overrated but underrated is harder to think of.. Maybe Army of Two series, Dantes Inferno, APB, Alice Madness Returns, Lollipop Chainsaw, Just Cause, Binary Domain, Bomberman 64, Jet Force Gemini, Snowboard Kids Tabula Rasa, Kane and Lynch series, The Bard's Tale, The Gex games both 2D and 3D, Mischief Makers, Tomba! I think these are slightly underrated but still most of them got 6/7 which is a decent score.
My favourite game that got very average reviews is Shining Soul for Gameboy Advance. Me and my brother played the shit out of it.You could play as different classes, learn new attacks, bosses were challenging and fun. It reminds me a bit of Secret of Mana. It's definately my favourite coop gba game and it has 56 on gamerankings! What a shame.
My favourite game that got very average reviews is Shining Soul for Gameboy Advance. Me and my brother played the shit out of it.You could play as different classes, learn new attacks, bosses were challenging and fun. It reminds me a bit of Secret of Mana. It's definately my favourite coop gba game and it has 56 on gamerankings! What a shame.
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Hmm... probably Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana. It really isn't all that special or great a game, but I like it a lot. :)
Code Of Honor 3: Desperate Measures
Completely unknown and mediocre compared to mainstream.But I came back for 2 more playthroughs.
check it out
Completely unknown and mediocre compared to mainstream.But I came back for 2 more playthroughs.
check it out
11 Yrs✓#
warplink
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I guess Super Ninja Boy and Azure Dreams for the GBC they aren't very good but they are very addicting to me xD
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stealthrush
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Pandemonium 1 & 2
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churros
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The Death and Return of Superman
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Please stop necro-ing years-old threads. It just clutters up the forum.
One or two specific ones would be fine, but you've revived 10+ threads in the past few days - some of which hadn't been active for seven years - just to chip in to a conversation that is long dead.