(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

[Pax]

Originally posted by solops:
10. SM’s Alpha Centauri - aweful graphics, absurdly unintuitive tech tree. Graphics usually do not matter to me, but I found these offputting to the point of making the game unpleasant.

I just thought of something.

Solops, are you by chance red/green color blind? That'd make sense to me; the graphics in SMAC were just fine IMO ... nothign to celebrate, but not "awful" either.

There IS, however, a specific changed graphics set, for R/G color blind players -- Firaxis included it, IIRc, right on the CD. Dunno what effect that has, or how bad the graphics look, though.

Personally, I rather LIKE forestign an entire continent (with Tree Farm adn Hybrid Forest, that's some decent Nutrients and Energy output ... and arid ground doesn't matter ... Great Desert, here we come!)

[gregebowman]

I saw another game on a store shelf I'd like to try out that I know was buggy when it first came out, but the box said Version 1.2. And that is Pool of Radiance. Has anybody checked this game out, and what do you think?

[ March 10, 2003, 15:24: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

[gregebowman]

Looks like I'll be getting my new computer in a couple of weeks, and I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the following games:

Freedom Force
Microsoft Train Simulator
Trainz
the new wargame Heart of Iron? (can't remember the exact title)
America

[Malfunction]

bad games
MOO 3
Universal Military Simulator 2
Simgolf (I should have known better)

great games
Civ 1,2,3
XCom
MOO 1,2
Front Page Sports Football

Many others don't come to mind right now, but the first 3 "great games" have kept me up all night more than once.