Rate the Game: Week 102

[M-A-G]

Good morning, y'all! We're back at it again with Rate the Game marching towards the final edition as we're down to the final 25 games. We drew one of those games last week and it was one of those rare titles that the "Haven't played it" option wasn't an issue. We all love our Ninja Turtles here, I suppose. But how much love does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time end up with? Let's go to the board....

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<option>1. (TIE) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)</option>
<option>3. (TIE) Hitman: Codename 47, Mass Effect (4.75)</option>
<option>5. Goldeneye 007 (4.72)</option>
<option>6. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)</option>
<option>7. Silent Hill 2 (4.66)
<option>8. (3-WAY TIE) Chrono Trigger, Portal, Red Dead Redemption (4.5)</option>
<option>11. (3-WAY TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (4.44)</option>
<option>14. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)</option>
<option>15. God of War (4.4)</option>
<option>16. Mega Man X (4.36)</option>
<option>17. (TIE) Metal Gear Solid, BioShock (4.33)</option>
<option>19. Perfect Dark (4.3)</option>
<option>20. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)</option>
<option>22. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)</option>
<option>23. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)</option>
<option>24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)</option>
<option>25. Super Mario 64 (4.07)</option>
<option>26. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)</option>
<option>28. NBA Jam (4.05)</option>
<option>29. (10-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart (4.0)</option>
<option>- Sonic the Hedgehog 2</option>
<option>- Super Metroid</option>
<option>- The Simpsons</option>
<option>- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night</option>
<option>- Donkey Kong Country 2</option>
<option>- Resident Evil 4</option>
<option>- Super Smash Bros.</option>
<option>- Banjo-Kazooie</option>
<option>- EarthBound</option>
<option>39. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)</option>
<option>40. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (3.92)</option>
<option>41. Mega Man (3.89)</option>
<option>42. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)</option>
<option>45. Half-Life 2 (3.85)</option>
<option>46. Half-Life (3.83)</option>
<option>47. (TIE) SimCity 2000, Final Fight (3.8)</option>
<option>49. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)</option>
<option>50. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)</option>
<option>51. (TIE) Double Dragon, Max Payne (3.75)</option>
<option>53. Tetris (3.69)</option>
<option>54. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)</option>
<option>55. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)</option>
<option>57. Mortal Kombat (3.65)</option>
<option>58. Doom (3.625)</option>
<option>59. StarFox (3.61)</option>
<option>60. Resident Evil (3.58)</option>
<option>61. (TIE) Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi (3.5)</option>
<option>63. Dead Space (3.4)</option>
<option>64. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)</option>
<option>65. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)</option>
<option>66. (5-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D, Left 4 Dead (3.33)</option>
<option>71. Gears of War (3.27)</option>
<option>72. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)</option>
<option>74. (3-WAY TIE) Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Darkstalkers (3.2)</option>
<option>77. SoulCalibur (3.16)</option>
<option>78. Pac-Man (3.125)</option>
<option>79. Killer Instinct (3.11)</option>
<option>80. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)</option>
<option>82. (5-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid, Halo 2 (3.0)</option>
<option>87. Guitar Hero (2.875)</option>
<option>88. Streets of Rage (2.84)</option>
<option>89. Altered Beast (2.8)</option>
<option>90. Bayonetta (2.75)</option>
<option>91. (3-WAY TIE) Dead Rising, Gauntlet, Assassin's Creed (2.71) </option>
<option>94. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)</option>
<option>96. Tomb Raider (2.55)</option>
<option>97. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)</option>
<option>98. (TIE) Twisted Metal, Crackdown (2.42)</option>
<option>100. Gran Turismo (2.3)</option>
<option>101. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)</option>
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Well it certainly rises above the middle but it ends up ranking and scoring lower than its predecessor, landing at number 40 with a 3.92 average. Mind you, I included Fignuts's score of 4 even though it wasn't shown in the poll results. Being in the top half is nothing to sneeze at, I suppose.

Which brings us to this week's game. Will it have enough to join the top of the pack? Come on out here, bowl, and show us your wares....

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There we are. One game, fresh from the pile. This week we go venturing out into the wasteland as we take a look at Bethesda's Fallout 3! This title marked a radical change in the presentation of the Fallout series but was it a welcome change? Did we end up with a masterpiece with this new direction? Let's go to the poll and do that rating thing we do and share our experiences with this game, if any. Until next week!

[Sepholio]

Im voting 3 but its more like a 3.5. Built the foundation of modern fallout and did a lot of cool things along the way but boy that shit was jankarific. Still an awesomely weird time and a great world to just get lost in.

[drave]

Gonna give this a 3. This was my 1st Fallout game and I had no fucking clue what I was doing. Never finished it, but remember it being really cool. The one aspect I didn't care for was having to go under tunnels or what seemed like fucked up car garages to get to new areas. That was very boring.

[DAMN iNATOR]

I know it's somewhat of a hot take, but I'm giving it a 5 and actually like it better than FNV. There, I said it.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Im voting 3 but its more like a 3.5. Built the foundation of modern fallout and did a lot of cool things along the way but boy that shit was jankarific. Still an awesomely weird time and a great world to just get lost in.

And Three Dog and the GNR radio station? Not a single bad song in the bunch.

[ClockShot]

Never played.

[Lock Jaw]

Never played it.

[Destor]

i prefer the original 2, tactics and new vegas and i still think this is an easy 5

[M-A-G]

Never played it.

And thus the streak of games played by Lock Jaw ends at 2. :(

[M-A-G]

I tease but I haven't played it either. :o

[DAMN iNATOR]

Disappointed to see LJ not out there fighting the good fight.

Also, the guy who voices Three Dog, Erik Todd Dellums, also voices a Skyrim Dark Brotherhood NPC who gives side contracts.

[Lock Jaw]

And thus the streak of games played by Lock Jaw ends at 2. :(

To be fair, I may or may not have played that Turtles game

[Big Vic]

Game looks nice but sadly I haven't played it.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Game looks nice but sadly I haven't played it.

Main complaints are that they shouldn't have had to release an add-on (Broken Steel) to let people keep playing upon completing the main story, or to actually allow the game to have a decent ending to the main story, and the other is just how weak the Mothership Zeta add-on is.

[M-A-G]

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[M-A-G]

Gonna give this a 3. This was my 1st Fallout game and I had no fucking clue what I was doing. Never finished it, but remember it being really cool. The one aspect I didn't care for was having to go under tunnels or what seemed like fucked up car garages to get to new areas. That was very boring.

See, that last part played a lot into my decision to not bother playing it. It looked boring. Right before the game was set to release I remember a co-worker showing me the VATS system. That seemed pretty neat but as I learned about the structure of the game I was turned off because it fell under the Open World Rule. I have a friend who played it religiously and anytime I happened to be there while he played it I was just underwhelmed by what I saw. It looked tedious and I can safely say I was playing something far more engaging at the time so I never bothered looking into it.

[drave]

Fallout has always been one of those games where I have to immerse myself mentally. Like, okay, the world was just nuked, what would we be doing, how would it be going, etc.


FO76 nailed this feeling. People complained about the isolation and lack of NPC's........ but that's literally how things would be. It didn't make for the best "game" because of that, but with the right approach, it was quite the experience.


For me, FO4 was the best. The story from that game really hooked me the 1st time through. The idea that underground, things were still technologically advanced because they were not affected by the bombs and getting able to mess around with it was amazing.

[M-A-G]

Apparently there's a cookbook for this stuff?!? :wtf:

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[M-A-G]

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