i really dont care about many of these games. but as long as they dont crap on killzone 2 im okay.

Bwahahaha. The writers of this article sure are iconoclasts! The great unwashed masses will tear them all new ones for insulting their sacred cows.

Hahahahaha!!

You said CoD4 had an intelligent story!

I found the link that Brett mentioned. It's http://www.gamesradar.com/f/about-gamesradar/a-20080410113831512001 but remember we've now got profiles to update so the 'now-playing' etc is all out of date. Erm... as is the list of who actually works here. Still, I must say I'm amazed only one person (so far) said they liked Super Mario World. I really expected people to defend that with their lives!
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The only reason the Super Mario World defense hasn't come rallying is that you're SO clearly wrong about it.

LOLZ! F1@M3 0N!!!!!!11!!1one

Ahem.

people can choose not to like Halo, but saying the story is bad is a decleration of having downs syndrome. halo's story is up there with Deus Ex, System Shock 2 and definately Half Life 2.

Halo's story is one of the biggest in gaming history, its bigger than LoTR.
CoD's(assuming meaning MW) story was like a bad, bad tom clancy novel and the only good part about it was Cpt. Price. luckilly the online MP was extremely good.


World of Warcraft sucks, why play a game that plays itself?

I think you guys should review every new release this way... although then you'd just be the new Edge, except without taking yourself anywhere near as seriously. Not that anyone could ever take themselves as seriously as Edge; nor would an Edge reviewer be allowed to mark down games such as Braid.

*takes Edge-bashing hat off*

GR used to annoy me - full of immature content and words like "goresplosion". Now I love it for these exact same reasons. Unpretentious, and never forgetting that games are supposed to be FUN to play and discuss. Unlike most other games sites I could mention.

Thank You! I Hate Halo!!!

I just realised how much different the GR community is from any other sites.
If this had been posted on Gamespot or IGN it would only have HOW DARE U and HALO DOSNT SUK, PS3 SUX comments.

Have to agree with the Halo 3 comments. I loved Halo, liked of Halo 2 and was indifferent Halo 3. Good point about Jackson in COD4 but can you imagine the outcry if Soap was killed and we were forced to continue as generic marine!

"Halo 3's much-vaunted "epic" plot pretty much consists of, 'Here are the bad guys. Kill 'em, barely-characterised hero man!' "

And that isn't fun...how?

I absolutely agree on GTAIV. That game was the biggest letdown. They took all of the fun out of the previous games (including the top-down GTA and GTA2) and replaced it with realistic physics. Yippee.

I couldn't agree more about Halo being generic and overhyped. Halo is a bland space shooter with no character that only became a big deal because it introduced seven-year-old homophobic racists and drunk-ass frat kids into the gaming world, which used to be (especially online) more of a niche thing, populated by generally intellegent people who were there to have fun and cooperate. Thanks, Halo, for ruining the future of video games while bringing nothing intereting to the table (though I will admit, local multiplayer kicks ass on Halo 2....not through any innovation, but the maps are just well suited for it)

I have to agree about World of Warcraft :P Have been playing for a full year and I am starting to get SO bored because of the fact that it's just NO fun anymore ... i got to level 60 yesterday and it just made no difference to me >..<

Also, one game everyone adored but I loathed (and still do) is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the ps3. Truth is, I only bought this game because everyone kept ranting about how AWESOME it was.

But the moment I started playing, I was plainly disappointed. First of all the graphics of the characters(NPCs or not) looked not in the least bit like in real-life, which made character creation a torture for me. But I pressed on either way.

A little later I was supposed to set my character's unique skills, choose classes etc. I REALLY enjoy having the ability in a game to make my character unique and being able to control his/her development. But. TES4's customization was TOO much. It was so complicated that it just wasn't funny after a while. After I was finally done, it was time for me to check the battle system itself.

Which sucked. I don't think I've seen a worse battle system in a supposedly good game. Ever. It felt terribly unstable and as complicated and confusing as the customization before.

Finally after a while I managed to escape from the underground path that led out of the prison I was in, so after a few I entered the main city, whose name I don't currently recall. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy realism in games. I really do. But it's supposed to be a damn RPG for f*'s sake! It's not about realism, it's about fantasy and imagination and supernatural stuff, not pesky guards that are literally following your every step, meaning that simply entering a house at night could result in your arrest(or death, if you're a free spirit). There are so many random objects that one could pick from inside the houses, but even taking one of them will have the above-stated result. It's annoying, and to me, it robs the freedom that RPGs are supposed to offer.

Other than that, most of the general mechanics of the game are heavily flawed in my opinion. For example, leveling up: while you gain levels, the npcs level up silmutainously, and in so doing get more powerful attacks and abilities. Which means that, if you don't level up at all during the game, and remain eternally at level 1, then the final game boss will also be level 1. So why should one bother to level up in the first place?

Another thing I hated about Oblivion was the fact that in the huge world which it featured, I was all alone. No clumsy, silly, brave or intelligent party members. Just me, staring at the distance. Boring.

Also, don't get me strated on the voice-acting thingy. The same actor is voicing almost every NPC of the game. The look on the NPCs' eyes is also pretty much dead. DEAD I tell you! :P

The only thing that Oblivion succeeded in for me was in the scenery graphics. They looked gorgeous and realistic, but still had an RPG flair to them.

We gamers play games to have FUN. Most of us play in order to relax from a day full of tedious daily chores. At 22.00, when I come back home totally exhausted from a day full of school and extra lessons on both school curriculum and foreign languahes, I want to let my brain cool down a little. Trying to memorize all thousand tiny symbols that exist in Oblivion is a task that can't be accomplished in such a state, and I am not willing to strain my brain even further for a game, because this game just doesn't worth it.
I 've played coulntless games that are so much simpler than The Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion, yet so much better.

It's been awhile since I played FF8, but wasn't there a option to turn the summoning videos to short.

On the rockband/guitar hero front, i used to love these games, i loved them because they reminded me of frequency and unlike other music follow the dots games that had been around they had real music (not little japanese girls squeeling to techno) and music i actually liked. They also introduced me to more bands i amy not have given a chance and older bands that i almost missed. But it got old fast. As soon as my friends wasted their money on rockband and forced me (the only one who can carry a tume) to scream songs i didn't know at the mike for 4 hours i was done. I will never enjoy that game again, besides the fact that my friends can't sing as well as they think they can, and now whenever we are at their house what do they want to do? play effin' rockband. Still. But it is a game that the girls love to play as much as the boys and you can dl all kinds of good music so it does bridge that gap.
Also you are the only musician i know who doesn't like to pwn at that game. They all like to get on the drums and play expert to make all us non musicans look bad and tell us to play real insturments so we can be as good as them. And to all of you who think that; If i could afford a guitar, amp, and music lessons i wouldn't have made guitar hero so bloody popular. So you can bite me, or buy me the supplies and i will gladly take guitar lessons so i can pwn your face in the virtual world and in real life

wow that cod 4 argument was weak.....Also halo 3 isnt know for its campaign and i still had entertainment value.

And now that i look at rock band/guitar hero without music you all looked like IDIOTS.

also that gta argument for 4 and san andreas were both pretty weak

i actually hate all of them except for original mario to

I'll just say this article fails to all the others from the week of hate, so there.

And about time someone noticed my "these guys are british" remark. Sheesh.