Has anyone played "Legendary? Your thoughts

[obiwopkenobi62]

Hi all,
Has anyone played the game? What did you think? I was thinking of buying it but want to hear what you all think about it.
Thanks in advance for your input.

[Icemage]

Never played it; I steer clear from all but the best FPS games, and Legendary does not qualify.

A quick peek at the Metacritic score shows a 49% composite review average. The commentary indicates its a really short, somewhat broken plain vanilla sci-fi shooter.

If I were you I'd rent the game, not buy it.

[obiwopkenobi62]

Thanks a bunch. I'll check that link out.

[xino]

what a crock! So you recommend someone a game if it gets a good score at Metacrite!?

I wonder how many people you've turned away from playing great games.


Don't bother checking biased and trash sites such as Metacrite, IGN, Gamespot, Gametrailers, 1UP etc.

Do your research yourself. Look at 2 reviews, 1 review will be fanboy biased calling a game 10/10, the other will be hateful calling it a 4/10.
Read both reviews, and find out the pros and cons each user will put down.

This is how to tell if you'll like a game or not.



Anyway, Legendary is/was supposed to be a great game. It's another FPS. It's about Pandora's box, it was unleashed and curses the earth. A lot of sh.. start happening.
You fight bosses ranging from small size to GAINT SIZE.


I never played the full game but did try the demo.
The graphics was good.
But I think it was hard....at least the demo was hard O_o




If you love FPS like I do, then I think you should give this a go.
If you are biased and only interested in hyped games such as F.EA.R, Halo, Killzone, then don't bother.

[obiwopkenobi62]

Originally Posted by xino

what a crock! So you recommend someone a game if it gets a good score at Metacrite!?

I wonder how many people you've turned away from playing great games.


Don't bother checking biased and trash sites such as Metacrite, IGN, Gamespot, Gametrailers, 1UP etc.

Do your research yourself. Look at 2 reviews, 1 review will be fanboy biased calling a game 10/10, the other will be hateful calling it a 4/10.
Read both reviews, and find out the pros and cons each user will put down.

This is how to tell if you'll like a game or not.



Anyway, Legendary is/was supposed to be a great game. It's another FPS. It's about Pandora's box, it was unleashed and curses the earth. A lot of sh.. start happening.
You fight bosses ranging from small size to GAINT SIZE.


I never played the full game but did try the demo.
The graphics was good.
But I think it was hard....at least the demo was hard O_o




If you love FPS like I do, then I think you should give this a go.
If you are biased and only interested in hyped games such as F.EA.R, Halo, Killzone, then don't bother.

Thanks a bunch. I read some reviews and most were positive. I'll probably end up liking it since I love FPS games. Found it on Amazon for like 29 bucks. I think that's a pretty good deal. I also bought Dark Sector marked down at Walmart(under 20 bucks). I've been playing that and love it. I am going to buy Legendary because I watched some videos and it looks great.
Thanks again.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by obiwopkenobi62

Thanks a bunch. I read some reviews and most were positive. I'll probably end up liking it since I love FPS games. Found it on Amazon for like 29 bucks. I think that's a pretty good deal. I also bought Dark Sector marked down at Walmart(under 20 bucks). I've been playing that and love it. I am going to buy Legendary because I watched some videos and it looks great.
Thanks again.

Dark Sector is 5$ new at gamestop. I think I will pick it up.

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by xino

If you are biased and only interested in hyped games such as F.EA.R, Halo, Killzone, then don't bother.

Sorry but you are the biased one. When a game gets below 50% on metacritic, it has problems...for most people. Some people MIGHT still like said games, but recommending one as a blanket "Don't trust metacritic" is being inane.

The only game with <50% from Metacritic I like is Cross Edge, but I would *never* recommend it to people, because I understand why people don't like it.

Get some perspective. This isn't arguing about whether a game deserves 80 or 90. This is a game that is just bad for most people. The fact that you like it doesn't change this fact.

[Icemage]

I don't bad-mouth games that I haven't played unless they score very low on Metacritic (i.e. below 70).

Not every game is hyped, and yes, hyped games "tend" to get better reviews - and often don't deserve them (i.e. GTA4). However, for most games that aren't hyped, any composite review score below 70 is a red flag that you should at least do more research before buying.

I'm with Terjyn - unless there are extenuating circumstances (as is the case with Cross Edge) any game that earns extremely low marks across the board is very likely to be an unpleasant experience for anyone other than die-hard fanatics of that specific genre. And I agree that while I like Cross Edge well enough, I would never recommend it to anyone else that I didn't know for a fact was a die hard JRPG fan.

[xino]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

Sorry but you are the biased one. When a game gets below 50% on metacritic, it has problems...for most people. Some people MIGHT still like said games, but recommending one as a blanket "Don't trust metacritic" is being inane.

The only game with <50% from Metacritic I like is Cross Edge, but I would *never* recommend it to people, because I understand why people don't like it.

Get some perspective. This isn't arguing about whether a game deserves 80 or 90. This is a game that is just bad for most people. The fact that you like it doesn't change this fact.

hold it there cowboy.
You are misunderstanding the argument here.
I am saying the guy is only recommending games that have a high rating scores to users.
Sites such as Metacritic cannot be trusted because they are vulnerable!

It's like wikipedia, anyone can edit, Metacrtic, anyone can rate.


Where were you when fanboys swarmed Metacritic by voting down their enemies games and voting up their favourite game.
I think it they rated down Killzone 2, Gears of War 2, God of War and Metal Gear Solid 4 etc.


Like I said before, you need to search for yourself and compare two types of reviews. If you rely on trash sites such as Metacritic or IGN because they gave a game a 6/10, then clearly your an gullible idiot:/ (no offence).




It's like saying Ninja Gaiden 2 that got a 8/10 in most places.
Because IGN gave the game a 8/10, would you buy it right? Not knowing the piece of trash is full of bugs and sh**. Downloadable content Mission Mode that you had to pay for but yet crashes your game saves. When loading chapters, the game freezes, causing you to restart the game. Enormous slow downs constantly during gameplay. This is what you would recommend and rate 8/10!???

And then you have a nice comparison Ninja Blade. A good game that had a bad rating 4/10. Yet the game had little bugs that doesn't compare to Ninja Gaiden 2's. It doesn't have to copy Ninja Gaiden stuff, because Ninja Gaiden already copied stuff from another game.


So tell me...which game would you recommend?
A game full of bugs and glitches and was rated by a gaming site 8/10
or
A game with the same gameplay standards of Ninja Gaiden 2, with little bugs and was rated by a gaming site 4/10?



I wonder how many great games you have missed out for trusting a trash site like Metacritic:/

[Shin-Ra]

Originally Posted by xino

It's like saying Ninja Gaiden 2 that got a 8/10 in most places.
Because IGN gave the game a 8/10, would you buy it right? Not knowing the piece of trash is full of bugs and sh**. Downloadable content Mission Mode that you had to pay for but yet crashes your game saves. When loading chapters, the game freezes, causing you to restart the game. Enormous slow downs constantly during gameplay. This is what you would recommend and rate 8/10!???

And then you have a nice comparison Ninja Blade. A good game that had a bad rating 4/10. Yet the game had little bugs that doesn't compare to Ninja Gaiden 2's. It doesn't have to copy Ninja Gaiden stuff, because Ninja Gaiden already copied stuff from another game.


So tell me...which game would you recommend?
A game full of bugs and glitches and was rated by a gaming site 8/10
or
A game with the same gameplay standards of Ninja Gaiden 2, with little bugs and was rated by a gaming site 4/10?

Ninja Gaiden 2, even with the bugs, slowdown, camera problems and cheap enemies. Ninja Blade is cack. Reaks of cheapness everywhere you look.

[xino]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Ninja Gaiden 2, even with the bugs, slowdown, camera problems and cheap enemies. Ninja Blade is cack. Reaks of cheapness everywhere you look.

And have you tried Ninja Blade!? Why is the game bad?!
Don't tell me you are not a fan of QTE!?
Cheapness???LOL

Please I need to know how this game is cheap.
The game is dead easy, the enemy A.I isn't smart, they perform the same thing.


I mean you have the insane awesome Tendomes. Complete badass movesets.
You get to customize your outfit, instead of paying Money for an ugly costume design and 5 different colours.


Ninja Blade may not compare to Ninja Gaiden's standards, but Ninja Blade is definitely a better game than Ninja Gaiden 2!

[Icemage]

One person in this thread does not know how Metacritic operates, and that person is not me.

I suggest that person get informed before they dig themselves any deeper.

[JTStarkiller]

I worked for the publisher of this title for about two weeks. The game looked pretty mediocre to me at the time.

[xino]

so what does it look like to you now?

[funnymanbing]

Originally Posted by xino

what a crock! So you recommend someone a game if it gets a good score at Metacrite!?

I wonder how many people you've turned away from playing great games.


Don't bother checking biased and trash sites such as Metacrite, IGN, Gamespot, Gametrailers, 1UP etc.

Do your research yourself. Look at 2 reviews, 1 review will be fanboy biased calling a game 10/10, the other will be hateful calling it a 4/10.
Read both reviews, and find out the pros and cons each user will put down.

This is how to tell if you'll like a game or not.



Anyway, Legendary is/was supposed to be a great game. It's another FPS. It's about Pandora's box, it was unleashed and curses the earth. A lot of sh.. start happening.
You fight bosses ranging from small size to GAINT SIZE.


I never played the full game but did try the demo.
The graphics was good.
But I think it was hard....at least the demo was hard O_o




If you love FPS like I do, then I think you should give this a go.
If you are biased and only interested in hyped games such as F.EA.R, Halo, Killzone, then don't bother.

Okay, let me get this straight. You don't recommend using metacritic because people will rate the game. You also don't recommend using game site reviews either. You think people should just read two user reviews, one from a fan, and one from a hater. Isn't that how metacritic works? Fans of the game and haters of the game score it, thus ending in a final number? I don't get it.

[xino]

Originally Posted by funnymanbing

Okay, let me get this straight. You don't recommend using metacritic because people will rate the game. You also don't recommend using game site reviews either. You think people should just read two user reviews, one from a fan, and one from a hater. Isn't that how metacritic works? Fans of the game and haters of the game score it, thus ending in a final number? I don't get it.

Metacritic is mostly based on scores! Why recommend a game based on scores!??? What is so special about scores? I can say buy Iron Man 9/10, would you buy it because I gave it a 9/10!???

So you would trust trash/biased sites such as IGN, Gametrailers, Gamespot, 1UP for reviews? I don't think so! You are better off trusting a gamer's review not Journalist biased reviews.


Metacritic doesn't work like that, basically that's how every review site works:/ You have users rating a game and fanboy rating a game.
Just look out for those 2 reviews and ignore journalist reviews.

Fanboy reviews will post wonders about the game, purrpose is just to list out the good/pros of the game.
Hate review will consist of parts that annoyed him/her, or basically cons of the game. Compare the two together and you have a legit review.

Example: Dead or Alive 4 review
Fanboy (10/10): GREAT GRAPHICS! ONLINE!!! New playable characters, Avatars for online, points to unlock, Camera screenshot system, Spartan Nicole FTW! Best DOA IMO.
Hate (4/10): annoying A.I, Hardest boss that is unbeatable, trash players online, same playable modes from old DOA nothing new, Graphics could have been better, less unlocks. DOA3 is better than this trash.



You can research Dead Or Alive 4 yourself, same conceit details I pointed out is what you'll read.

[Gamma_Winstead]

that EXACTLY what metacritic does! you just dont get it do you?

[xino]

and you still don't get what I'm trying to say:/

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by xino

and you still don't get what I'm trying to say:/

No, we do, we just don't agree with your elliptical logic.

Asking a fanboy of a genre/game/franchise what's good isn't going to get you much of anything useful because they're going to gush over features, even mediocre ones that you - personally - might dislike, in their enthusiasm, and they'll conveniently not mention the bad things that annoy them.

Asking a hater isn't useful either because many haters have never even played the game in question. On top of that, haters will often bag on features that are intrinsic to the game's genre that are not necessarily bad, but which they personally dislike (for instance, grinding in a JRPG, auto-aim/lack thereof in a third person shooter, etc.)

I trust NEITHER type of gamer's opinions when it comes to finding out what works and what doesn't in a game.

With "professional" reviewers, you at least have a modicum of assurance that they played the game for an extended period of time. You may not trust what they have to say, but that's up to you.

Smart gamers will try and find a reviewer who shares their preferences in gaming and whose recommendations mirror their own tastes. THAT is why Metacritic is useful - because not only does it show the composite score amongst many professional reviewers, but it also shows a brief synopsis of why each reviewer awarded each score.

[jeabombers]

Originally Posted by xino

and you still don't get what I'm trying to say:/

Are you trying to say that Metacritic has biased score reviews because of the possibility of 90,000 fanboys giving a game a 9/10, whereas 10,000 non-fanboys (not necessarily haters, but realists) gave it something like a 4/10, but the game ends up with a 87% (I didn't do the math, don't blast me because I'm solely estimating?) I *think* that is what you are trying to say. I agree with the idea of going to something like gamefaqs and reading a few reviews (never just two, though.) I like reading two of the "good" reviews, two of the "bad" reviews, and two of the "in between" reviews.

As for the main topic, I cannot comment, as I'm JUST NOW getting around to playing Killzone 2 I don't have much time for new games lately unless they were on my "must have list", and even games like Killzone 2 that were on said list, but fell to the wayside on basis of playing other games at the time....