Played any games that started out really well, that went completely downhill at a certain point? Or do your favourite games have some almost fatal flaws that annoy you no end?

This idea has already been done on other forums, but whatever :P

For me it has to be Burnout Paradise. Everything is all very exciting at the beginning, I spent a great deal of time looking around at the scenery before I even started the ignition. The first races were pretty good but once you worked out that you had immediate access to everything straight away (except for the cars) there seemed little point from constantly driving from A to B. And with the removal of Crash mode to Showtime proved to be fatal as one incredibly long Showtime event would instantly show the repetitiveness. Without a decent map, large arrow or restrictive courses it was all too easy to lose your place and miss the turnoff. Without any real distinctive buildings/environments in the open map it was too hard to work out where all the shortcuts were. Within a couple of days I was already sick of it and online play against Stevo (with lack of communication) didn't give me enough interest to continue further

Stranglehold also proved to be the same for me. Started off good but got too repetitive too quickly. Being able to constantly fly around in slow-motion shooting, sliding across tables/trolleys got old pretty fast and the lack of a decent credible story (when compared to Max Payne) failed to lift my courage to finish the game.

2 other games were Resident Evil 4 & Project Zero. Both were high class games, I wanted to finish them but I was always too shitscared to venture any further :(

Perfect Dark... I know it's ancient now but still. As soon as the plotline went alien it was stuffed.

Super Mario Galaxy. Rape me all you want, that game got bloody boring about half-way through, especially with the absolutely tedious hunting for every star.

You suck! :P

That's the way Mario games go in 3D.
They're pleasantly easy until halfway through, at which point they become quite difficult.

Perfect Dark Zero, it's pretty damn bad when a next gen launch title is worse than games released ten years earlier.

He said when GOOD games go bad... when was PDZ ever that good?

Halo and Crysis - absolutely brilliant for the first few acts, but then in the arse end of the game they decide to throw in some new enemies and linear level design that totally scuppers the feeling of fun you had in the first place.

I can understand the need for variety in games, but variety needs to ensure that it's still fun.

*leans back in armchair, smugly*

*also leans back in armchair, smugly*

Such n00bs...:P

Nah, just pretty darn bad when people's rose coloured glasses are so thick they don't recognise the games are of equal quality (which is damn bad since the FPS genre has moved on since PD). :)

Anyway for me it is Fahrenheit which completely dropped the ball in the games final act. Still an awesome game though.

I'm happy to keep my rose coloured glasses on really as the original Perfect Dark was fucking awesome. Shits over half the games out today... (nice and thick pair I have ;))

Perfect Dark Zero on the other hand? Big fat meh. However, multiplayer had potential.

As for Burnout Paradise, I have already posted elsewhere on these forums that I disagree with most on that game. I thought the city design was excellent and that the game itself was pretty damn awesome as well. Not the best game in the franchise for me but it is right up there.

Also Pres, what the fuck? Fahrenheit might have gone off in a slightly weird direction in the late parts of the game, but dropped the ball? Not sure I agree as I still thought it was quite good even during those parts.

I've got to agree with the Halo mention but that's more of a franchise thing than an individual game thing. Halo 1 was fantastic at the time but continuing on through the sequels the franchise just lost it. Multiplayer made Halo 2 interesting for a while but by Halo 3, everything was just meh. That's not say it is a bad game as such but by the end of it I was just over the series I think. Shame too because the Halo world isn't half bad as a fictional story (including the books).

Perfect Dark was fantastic for its time, but I don't think I could play it now .. and what I did play of Perfect Dark Zero was such shit.

And while I enjoyed Fahrenheit, I would agree that it went all weird at the end .. I would have prefered it they went in a different direction, but ah well, still great.

I have to agree; the story did go a little bonkers. I liked the idea of the chroma and all the awesome powers, but the whole A.I. thing, 'The Cyborg' character, was rubbish. If they had limited the bad guys solely to The Oracle and his crew, it would've been more enjoyable. The A.I. folks seemed to have been added in as an after thought; they just popped up in the closing sequences of the game. Still, Fahrenheit is easily one of my all-time favourites.

I have to agree with Andy and Nismo on Halo. Halo was great for its time; Halo 2 never really seemed to satisfy, whilst the infamous ending left me wanting to smash crockery over my Xbox. Halo 3 could've ended brilliantly, but the last two levels were an absolute mess. A terribly lazy finish, IMO.

I've never understood how you can happy plug away at Silent Hill, yet RE4 scares you so much you can't play it :D

Also, click!

Oh Silent Hill scares the shit out of me too :P The random noises, the fog, the darkness. I didn't finish Silent Hill 2 (got pretty close) but I managed to beat Silent Hill 3 which didn't seem that scary to me

Your Fahrenheit comic stands up so well to that storyline outcome :lol: You still have that one of SH4 vs RE4?

2 was more scary than 3? Youse is crazy Mr Slash :D

And http://lazytigersan.deviantart.com/art/re4-vs-sh4-15882110

Super Smash Bros Brawl's subspace emissary. Amazingly fun, then you get to the great maze and it drops from being Epic Win to Epic FAIL.