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Another dismal quarter.
Left 4 Dead 2: The first person shooter equivalent of Space Invaders. Seriously. I’ve seen cattle in a slaughterhouse feeling less herded than the unwitting player of the L4D series. Linear like a 2D scroller. And dumbed down as well with console-like controls and abilities.
And how about Dragon Age. Role-playing. Cute. Massive install anyhow. Not for SSD owners certainly. I just don’t have the patience for games like this anymore. Half-baked interfaces and backwards inventory systems. No thank you.
The only game recently that I’ve been able to play for more than an hour is Borderlands. But even that got boring after a while. Fat chance that you’ll ever take the time to replay the game using any of the other characters.
It’s interesting though that many of these games, including the dreary Modern Warfare 2 now have co-op in some form. Too bad it obscures any effort to make single-player last a little longer.
Looking forward to a new year of utter dismal releases. Only now in DX11. If we’re really lucky, Battlefield 1943, Assassin’s Creed II and Mass Effect 2 may not totally suck.
Oh and props to EA or DICE or whoever finally screwed up Battlefield Heroes. I guess someone got greedy and figured they could make people pay to get ahead in the game. Even though they promised this exact thing would never happen.
