This holiday, the launch of the Wii U will be upon us, hailing the start of a new generation of consoles. Additionally, its expected that Microsoft and Sony will both be making some sort of next generation console announcement, meaning the next Xbox and PlayStation could launch as soon as Holiday 2013. However, before we leave behind our current crop of consoles, I recommend dusting off your controllers, and pick up a great game you might have missed.
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darksiders was great
enslaved was okay
I didn't miss those games. I chose to pass :P
Ha I sound like an ass. But I played a couple of these and could not bring myself to continue any further.
Seriously, this has to stop. The same 10 or so titles always appear in lists like these. They're MEDIOCRE games that got the attention they deserved as MEDIOCRE games.
Enslaved's combat was incredibly plain, the game was short, and the ending was goofy.
Alan Wake was short, failed at horror, and copy-pasted Steven King with ads slap-dashed into it.
Xenoblade was booooooring.
Darksiders sold just fine and doesn't really belong on this list - it's combat was just sort of "okay" and it stole its ideas left and right, but it was ultimately an decent title.
Short, unoriginal, boring combat....not at all "odd" descriptors of mediocre games like the ones of this article's list.
Now you show up and think that you can correct the author, simply because you have a different opinion.
Sorry to say, but if you find Xenoblade to be boring, then that doesn't make it mediocre... and calling that game mediocre is an odd statement.
A game being short is somewhat of a fact, although I'd disagree that AlanWake is short, it seems to be of typical length, not sure of Enslaved. A game being short isn't really a bad thing.
As for a game being unoriginal or boring, that is mostly an opinion and doesn't make for a proper measuring stick because no matter how great a game, there'll always be someone who'll find it unoriginal or boring.
At the risk of making this comment long, I'll add that I recently played Spec Ops:The Line. It was a short game, with rather boring combat. It copied elements from existing works of literature. It satisfies your criteria for mediocrity, but I would disagree in calling it a mediocre game, because it was well thought out game, and gave me an experience unlike any shooter before it.
Similarly, AlanWake was an interesting experience and while I've yet to play Enslaved, it does look like an interesting game.
My definition of a mediocre game is one that fails to provide any new experience. A game which can be substituted with a different game that can do everything better and then some. I don't think the games in the list fall under that category.
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i've played alan wake about 3 times. i can't say that about too many games. mgs4 and uncharted 1 in this generation are the only other two games i can say that about.
i never beat enslaved, but i really enjoyed the time i spent with it.
darksiders wasn't memorable at all. and mark hamill is the biggest ham in the voice acting industry.
Seriously, I wish it was on the ps3.
Lol, your name might suggest you know something about games. If you did, you'd know that the game "Prey" had the portal based puzzles, before Portal did. So, either way, someone copied someone who copied someone.
Darksiders i really want to play and will buy soon since if you have played darksiders than you will get a level 5 armor in darksiders 2 but if you finished darksiders 1 than you will get some even more awesome
so there is incentive to play the 1st, i wish more publisher would do that
Twisted Metal
Outland
The Sly Collection
Resistance 3
^ must play gems
To the guy below mentioning it being an Uncharted wannabe, have you thought that maybe Last of Us is taking some cues from Enslaved?
That's highly unlikely. More like I Am Legend.
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
Alternately, I see no mention of Folklore or Valkyria Chronicles...This saddens me.
Not perfect, but pretty good.
Was one of the few games that really made good use of the Sixaxis too. Remember that??!! I mean, seriously, all DS3 pads still have that functionality built into them, but NOBODY ever uses it any more.
Anyway, i played Darksiders and it was pretty fun. The rest i haven't got to play though.
Played a little bit of Enslaved but I think Ninja Theory should've worked on Heavenly Sword 2 instead of Enslaved IMO.
Enslaved was meh.
Alan Wake was interesting.
Xenoblade Chronicles was beyond great.
Sin & Punishment, I didn't play it.
The second was fairly decent, but it lost the "feeling" of the first.
Darksiders was just not my cup of tea.
Sins & Punishment I missed :/
Alan Wake was okay (I'm a chicken for horror games)
Xenoblade was fantastic
I would mention Valkyria Chronicles though
Also, Vanquish and Singularity needs to be on that list =)
That game was trying to dumb down a story from a greater book. I will say that the actor behind Trip was great.
Darksiders is one of the best games i've played. It was a more mature Zelda game with its puzzles and simple but enjoyable combat. I could see why people thought of Portal at endgame, but it was fitting for a game like that.
"To the moon Alice!"
That guy. Don't ask me why.
Comparatively to other hidden gems, it sold fairly well after the PC release. Within the stretch of two days, Remedy said the steam purchases already broke even with the cost it took to retool it for that platform. AW and American Nightmare seemed to be doing well during Steam's Summer Sale.
Enslaved is ok at best. I got it for cheap so I've been meaning to beat it some day, too busy playing good games like Battlefield to have any time to play this.
Those other games I haven't played yet, but they don't appeal to me...at all.
If this article said 5 good games you missed like Brutal Legend, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Vanquish, Bulletstorm, and Socom Confrontation(after all the patches this was by far the best online shooter without respawn. Hackers then ruined the end of it's life.) then this would've been a good article.
I also don't see too many playing Dead Rising 2, Just Cause 2, Mirror's Edge, Rage, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction/A Crack in Time, Infamous 1/2, Darksiders, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1/2. Some other solid games worth full price.
But Darksiders was fun for me. Enslaved was okay, I just didn't like the artstyle and weird character designs.