Editorial Mass Effect 2 Is Overrated

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: BioWare; Mass Effect 2

<p>... according to Tom Chick who compiled a list, <a href="http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/12/the_ten_most_overrated_games_o.php#more" target="_blank">The ten most overrated games of 2010</a>.</p>
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<p>Take <em>Mass Effect</em> and strip out the RPG elements so that you're left with a not very good shooter about a whole lot of busy work, mainly involving aliens addressing their family problems, before going on a 20 minute mission to save the universe. And...scene! Also, planetary scanning. Lots of planetary scanning.</p>
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<p>But what about all the emotional engagement? Does that count for nothing?</p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/?rwsiteid=1#16333">RPGWatch</a></p>

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Same guy, http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/01/ten_ ... _wrong.php

After the jump are the ten things (spoiler free) that killed Mass Effect 2 for me.

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10) Coming out so soon after Dragon Age
Dragon Age is a tough act for any game to follow.

 

[Crooked Bee]

So it's a bad RPG and a "not very good shooter". But is it a good game?

 

[Erzherzog]

Can't argue too much with his list. The right games are placed on it for mostly the right reasons.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Dragon Age is a tough act for any game to follow. Especially a story-heavy RPG from the same developer. Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 are very different approaches to the same genre, but when one of them is so richly detailed and shrewdly written, the shortcomings of the other are that much more conspicuous.

Yeah, no.

 

[lisac2k]

10 most overrated years in gaming history:

2001-2010

 

[JagreenLern]

A Bioware game is overrated? STOP THE MOTHERFUCKING PRESSES!!!

 

[Silellak]

Choose your favorite response:

1) Why the fuck is this news?
2) Who the fuck is this guy?
3) Why the fuck do I care about the opinion of someone who thinks Bioshock 2 is fantastic and poignant?
4) Why the fuck is the Codex wasting time giving attention to this obvious attention whore? "HEY GUYS LOOK I HATED POPULAR GAMES PLEASE NOTICE MEEEEEEE"

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

I take response "3".

 

[racofer]

Dragon Age is a tough act for any game to follow. Especially a story-heavy RPG from the same developer. Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 are very different approaches to the same genre, but when one of them is so richly detailed and shrewdly written, the shortcomings of the other are that much more conspicuous.

 

[Black]

Fun fact: ME3 won't be overrated.

 

[Silellak]

It's amusing going through this guy's archives. He clearly gives overly-positive reviews to games that weren't "mainstream popular", and is overly-critical of games that are mainstream popular. Why would the Codex possibly be interested in the opinions of someone like tha--

Oh.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

That's how VoD makes money, didn't you know?
Linking to IGN, Gamespot or some other shitty website while he slips pictures of George Washington into his pocket.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

4) Why the fuck is the Codex wasting time giving attention to this obvious attention whore? "HEY GUYS LOOK I HATED POPULAR GAMES PLEASE NOTICE MEEEEEEE"

Just like the Codex. :singletear:

 

[MicoSelva]

What Silellak said (in his first post).

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

That's how VoD makes money, didn't you know?
Linking to IGN, Gamespot or some other shitty website while he slips pictures of George Washington into his pocket.

What I don't get is why you're making this public. Some things are confidential for a reason.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

I wanted to feel what Assange feels when he leaks something.

 

[SolipsisticUrge]

There's nothing inherently wrong with a cover-based shooter

Round up the guns, skyway's got a new target to take out.

Site is OK, I guess.

 

[ortucis]

His Hot Pursuit review is pretty brutal and I agree with everything he said. I actually uninstalled HP and installed Burnout Paradise since it was depressing thinking about what Criterion was forced to do with NFS.. the horror.


EDIT: WTF is with GameShark's two page reviews? They were running out of virtual ink or paper? If they did this cause of ADS then it's good to know that my host file blocks are working just fine.

 

[CrimHead]

So this is by that guy who doesn't like Deus Ex huh

*ignores article*

 

[waywardOne]

Tucson, AZ

this rain sucks.

 

[Silellak]

Tucson, AZ

this rain sucks.

Yeah. I was supposed to play Ultimate Frisbee tonight. Looking less likely now.

Shame, too. I was quite enjoying 70's in December.

 

[Hirato]

http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/12/the_ ... ng_gam.php also the same guy

Here are the worst games of 2010, even worse than the merely bad [...]
10) Fallout: New Vegas
I've heard it's great. I wouldn't know because it remains egregiously broken for me. Fallout: New Vegas, which I literally cannot play, is hands down the worst experience I've ever had with a console game.

Ignoring him sounds like a very rational choice.

 

[GarfunkeL]

He's pretty controversial. I don't agree with him on many issues but on the other hand, he is pretty much the only big-name "journalist" that, even if it's very rare, swims against the stream.

 

[Excommunicator]

Why the fuck is the Codex wasting time giving attention to this obvious attention whore? "HEY GUYS LOOK I HATED POPULAR GAMES PLEASE NOTICE MEEEEEEE"

This guy is a wannabe monocled hater, but unlike the better Codexers he fails due to his inability to separate his emotional biases from his attempts at rational analysis. What we end up with is a whole lot of shit written by someone who tries to make all of his opinions more intellectual and thought provoking than they are, and failing to hide his approach of "I like this game, and here are some [pseudo-substantial] reasons why my opinion is better than yours" rather than doing the competent thing and arguing "I like the game because of the following substantial reasons:"

Simply, he wants to be an intellectual but can't let go of his obsession with himself and his preoccupation with his counter-culture stance.