games for the 2004!! [Archive]

chomamadog

09-02-2004, 21:47

I gotta say that you need to stop believing the hype man. Don't start throwing in at best mediocre games just to make a top ten list. A few of the games on that list are pretty reminiscent past XBOX games that had crazy hype and didn't deliver. Example? Brute Force. TimeSplitters 2. Keep going? Midnight Club 2 (pretty much undriveable, or rather it's perfectly driveable if your version of driving is riding the rails and buildings in the game, it's just too fast and nothing short of crackhead reflexes can make the game playable). I guess I'll stop there. Here's how the list would go if I was making it.

1 Halo - Don't count it out just because Jesus himself has delayed the title personally at least 5 times, if you find yourself not following the hype on this game then you haven't engaged in a Halo Lan party lately which instantly brings a smile back to the face of even the most hardcore Halo enthusiast

2 Ninja Gaiden - 'nuff said for lack of a better cliche

3/4 Fable or BC, both really with really big ambitions and a matter of whether or not the devs can maintain a full head of steam going into the homestretch

Before I get to number 5 and on, I just have to eliminate the ones that I don't think are worthy of this top ten list. After the pitiful showings of 007 on the XBOX, I honestly don't even know how the newest 007 ended up as a candidate for the number 6 slot. Actually having this game ranked above games with decent credibility (unreal, though it wasn't a smash hit like everyone was talking about it was a little above decent if you don't include the horrible menu system that goes with the game. And then there was the original Driver on the PSX which was adolescent GTA 3, I never got around to playing part 2 so there's a slight chance that the series went to ****, but I'll gladly take that chance since I know in fact that the 007 series went to **** after Goldeneye and Perfect Dark (feminist bond as I like to refer to it) ) this game will most likely suffer the fate of it's past incarnations, that is, at best a table coaster. As far as the X-Files goes welllllll, there's a 95% chance (and that's being generous) that it will flop like most TV video game/video game TV conversions, with the exception of pro wrestling games (WWF No Mercy on the 64 was the best ever made in my opinion).

5/6/7 This is the first I've heard of NBA Ballers so I can't count it out of the race yet, but for the moment I'll say it's as good as Street Vol 2 (not a b-ball fan but the game was a good game none the less). Not familiar with Tenchu either (though I've heard a lot of good things about the series) so I can't knock it out of the race, and Unreal was as good as NBA Street 2 IMO so it's a toss up for the 5/6/7 slots, if anyone has some real blockbusters that I've probably forgotten to mention here then have at it.