Thread:Lilliana:3/@comment-397235-20140912011340/@comment-397235-20141016235830

Well, now I feel special. :)

With Spec-Ops there were so many who went on and on about how it's such a "brilliant" story and a "wonderful" deconstruction of the FPS genre. Never mind that it rips all of its gameplay from Call of Duty. Never mind that its story fluctuates between being mindless and just plain stupid. Never mind that your characters is a complete and total moron. Never mind the mechanics themselves are shit. About all I can say is the graphics are good and the acting is solid. Did it deserve the awards it got? No. Does it deserve any acclaim at all? No. It's just another white noise entry in the action games genre.

Half Life 2 is buggy, broken, and moronic. The music is terrible, the acting is stale, the guns are poorly modeled or impossible to fire, the controls are wonky, the AI is stupid, and on top of that the story is barely explained at all. Halo out performs it in all regards, and came out earlier.

Resident Evil 5 and Zero are the two worst games in the series (I'd say they're two of the worst games I've ever played). If you want the better games, play Resident Evil 2, Re4, or Revelations. Resident Evil 6 is decent but it's not as good as those three. You can also pick up the Nintendo remake of Resident Evil for the GameCube or the Wii. Or you can wait until early next year and get the HD version for either the Xbox, Playstation, or the PC when it comes out. The REmake is one of the better games out there.

My best games are: Fallout New Vegas, Paper Mario, Resident Evil 4, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Fire Emblem, Banjo-Kazooie/Banjo-Tooie (I treat these as one game), and FEAR 2: Project ORIGIN.

My worst are F3AR (FEAR 3), Half Life 2, Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Spec Ops: The Line, and Call of Duty: Ghosts (though to be fair to Ghosts I've only played the mingames; I've heard the campaign is decent..for an Infinity Ward CoD game).

I play way too many games, to be honest. It's hard to pick favorite overall games. It's easier to go by genre:

For shooters, I liked "Survival" in Modern Warfare 3, "Combat Training" in Black Ops 2, FEAR and its first few sequels, Killing Floor, and Star Wars: Republic Commando.

For straight action games, I like Resident Evil 4, Revelations, Resident Evil 6, Assassin's Creed 2, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Hitman: Silent Assassin, Star Fox 64, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2.

For RPGs, there's New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, Pokemon: Soul Silver (yeah...I know), Golden Sun, Final Fantasy VII, and Mount & Blade: Warband (this isn't a very polished game, but it's cheap and has a lot of replay value).

For strategy games, there's Advance Wars (any of these for either the GameBoy Advance or DS), Fire Emblem, Axis and Allies, World in Conflict/Soviet Assault, Company of Heroes (and its expansions), Empire at War/Forces of Corruption (for space battles; the land combat is lame but man playing this is just like watching the Star Wars movies it's based on), Age of Empires 2/The Conquerors, and Breach and Clear.

I'm not a huge sports person either but I'll play any Mario Kart (or just about any other Mario sports game). And I'm always up for watching and making stupid comments while my friend plays FIFA 14 and NHL 14 at Best Buy.

Well, I appreciate your interest in my writing all the more then. ;) The fact you're reading this at all makes me feel good. :) Take your time. I'm not ready to send much, but I can send you some more later.