What you expected in 2004 and how did it work out?

[wilka91]

What games were you expecting in 2004? And did they live up to your expectations?

My idea is to rate every game based on your expectations before the release, and then rate the final product if you have completed the game.

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 95%
- after : 95%

Doom 3
- before release : 95%
- after : 70%

Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 98%

Halo 2
- before : 95%
- after : 60%

FarCry
- before : X
- after : 95%

STALKER
- before : 99%
- after : X

 

[Top Secret]

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 80%
- after : 90%

Doom 3
- before release : 90%
- after : 90% (Yeah, I'm one of the few that liked it)

Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 98%

Halo 2
- before : X%
- after : X%

FarCry
- before : 85%
- after : 90%

STALKER
- before : 90%
- after : X

R:TW
- before : 80%
- after : 90%

I'll add more later.

Good thread idea BTW

 

[Alig]

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 90%
- after : 95%

One of the most enjoyable MP i've played.

Doom3
- before : 95%
- after : 95%

People thought this game was supposed to be different than Doom1 and 2.

FarCry
- before : 90%
- after : 98%

Best FPS i've ever played in my life. Simple as.

F.E.A.R
- before : 95%
- after : ?

Looks like real intense, good action scary ass fun!.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R
- before : 95%
- after : ?

The only FPS this year i was disapointed by when it got delayed...looks like a game that could take everyone by surprise.

Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 85%

More overated than Halo2. Its not Half-Life...'nuff said.

World of Warcraft
- before : 90%
- after : 99.9%

The best game i've ever played in my whole 8 year gaming life.

Need for Speed Underground 2
- before : 95%
- after 85%

Fun to play for a week...good game for making a car look wicked but felt to much of a chore after a week. NFS1 was better, gameplay wise.

 

[_J_]

Halo 2:
Before - 90%
After - 80%

Doom 3:
Before - 90%
After - 70%

Chronicles of Riddick:
Before - 75%
After - 90%

Star Wars: Battlefront:
Before - 60%
After - 85%

GTA:SA:
Before - 90%
After - 80%

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time:
Before - 90%
After - 60%

Paper Mario 2:
Before - 90%
After - 95%

 

[Loke]

Half-Life 2
Before - 96%
After - 98%

Unreal T 2004
Before - 91%
After - 95%

Far Cry
Before - 70%
After - 94%

Doom 3
Before - 80%
After - 65%

GTA: SA
Before - 94%
After - 96%

Chronicles of Riddick: EFBB
Before - 75%
After - 94%

Star Wars: Battlefront
Before - 90%
After - 90%

Jak 3
Before - 90%
After - 92%

Ratchet & Clank 3: UYA
Before - 92%
After - 94%

 

[Feath]

Doom3
- before : 95%
- after : 95%

People thought this game was supposed to be different than Doom1 and 2.
Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 85%

More overated than Halo2. Its not Half-Life...'nuff said.

God, I hope you don't become a games developer. Apparently sequels being slightly innovative is a bad thing, according to you.

 

[Harryz]

Unreal Tournament
- before : 80%
- after : 98%

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 90%
- after : 94%

Doom 3
- before release : 95%
- after : 70%

Half-Life 2
- before : 97%
- after : 98%

Halo 2
- before : 95%
- after : 75%

FarCry
- before : 89%
- after : 94%

STALKER
- before : 95
- after : X

Grand Theft Auto: SA

- before 97%
- after 97%

 

[kupocake]

Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 85%

More overated than Halo2. Its not Half-Life...'nuff said.

And thank god it isn't Half-Life. And why say it's "more overrated than Halo 2" when you apparently haven't played Halo 2 to find out?

Half-Life 2:
- before : 95%
- after : 97%
(Taken as a single player game at least. Though I try to like it, CS still does my head in).

UT2004:
- before : 75%
- after : 96%
(I desperately wanted to like UT2003. I fooled myself into thinking that there was still a little bit of my beloved Unreal Tournament there somewhere. Only after UT2004 was released did I realise just how dreadful 2003 really was.)

Doom 3:
- before : 75%
- after : 80%
(I never get excited about ID games so I never get disappointed.)

Deus Ex 2:
- before : 90%
- after : 69%
(The european release took enough extra time to delay the release until 2004. Frankly the game was the most atrocious sequel this side of Unreal 2. And that's a bad comparrison considering that Deus Ex 1 was far far better than Unreal 1 ever was.)

Rating things with Percentages:
- before : 90%
- after : 3/10
(No seriously, 2004 has shown me how ridiculous percentage scores are when previously I thought they were great ^^)

 

[joule]

My expectations for 2004:

Half-Life 2
-before: 98%
-after: 98%

That is all. Of course there were other games this year, but they all became a big blur once Half-Life 2 was released.

 

[Alig]

Feath. Why not just shut the **** up and let someone have an opinion.

Kupoartist. I've played Halo2 and it sucks as much as i thought the first one did. I would'nt put a game i've not liked since the day Xbox came out in a list of games i was looking forward too....

 

[kupocake]

Kupoartist. I've played Halo2 and it sucks as much as i thought the first one did. I would'nt put a game i've not liked since the day Xbox came out in a list of games i was looking forward too....

You still made the claim that HL2 is more overrated than Halo 2 though. Halo 2 just became a Gamespy GOTY... does that make any sense to you at all? Surely with the far greater sales that Halo 2 achieves, and the shining reviews it recieves, doesn't that make Halo 2 more overrated if you like it even less than HL2?

 

[wilka91]

Deus Ex 2:
- before : 90%
- after : 69%
(The european release took enough extra time to delay the release until 2004. Frankly the game was the most atrocious sequel this side of Unreal 2. And that's a bad comparrison considering that Deus Ex 1 was far far better than Unreal 1 ever was.)

Oh yeah, the European release was in 2004, so we can talk about it :

Deus Ex 2
- before : 95%
- after : 65%

 

[Feath]

Feath. Why not just shut the **** up and let someone have an opinion.

Hmm, no need to bite.

I'm just saying, I don't agree with saying that games are great because they are very similar to their prequels. I prefer something a bit more innovative.

Are you going to let me have my own opinion or are you going to swear at everyone who doesn't agree with yours?

 

[Dalamari]

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 70%
- after : 90%

Doom 3
- before release : 85%
- after : 55%

Half-Life 2
- before : 100%
- after : 110%

Halo 2
- before : 100%
- after : 85%

FarCry
- before : X
- after : 30%

STALKER
- before : Not Interested
- after : Not Interested
- still: Not interested

 

[Sparta]

Half-Life 2
- before: 98%
- after: 94%

A little disappointed but still the easily one of the best FPS games i've ever played.

Far Cry
-before: 93%
-after: 85%

Before i got this game i had to wait three weeks to play it, and during that time i spent it on the ubisoft forum and read about how everyone on there thought it was the best game ever. So i got hyped up for it, but let down. Great game, but nothing special. First few levels were great fun, afterwards it got really dull, really fast.

Ninja Gaiden
- before: Didn't know it existed
- after : 96%

Best game i've played all year. And the hardest game i've ever played. Anyone whose played the Master Ninja Tournament knows what i'm talking about.

Doom 3
- before: 95%
- after: 75%

Average shooter, fantastic graphics.

Deus Ex 2
- before : 95%
- after : 80%

Could've easily been so much more if Ion Storm just went with another engine.

Halo 2
- before : 95%
- after : 88%

Its a real shame this game turned out to be the exact same game as the original. Nothing new here but the multiplayer, which is damn good.

UT 2004
- before: 85%
- after: 95%

Best MP ever.

GTA: SA
- before: 94%
- after: 94%

Wicked game. Like Halo 2, it was essentially the same gameplay with a few added features. But hot-damn those features are SO MUCH COOLER then anything in Halo 2.

Burnout 3
- before: 90%
- after: 93%

Best racing game ever.

Fable
- before: 85%
- after: 70%

It wasn't even an RPG, it was an action-adventure game.

Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines
- before: 85%
- after: 88%

Great game, could be a shitload better if they fixed the bugs (specifically the LONG load times, stuttering and FPS bugs)

Rome: Total War
- before: 80%
- after: 94%

Best RTS i've played since Starcraft. and its also provided one of the most memorable gaming experiences of the past few years for me.
This year has taught me that less attention i pay towards games, the bigger the pay-off is. Now to save up for WoW

 

[B.Calhoun]

Hmm, no need to bite.

I'm just saying, I don't agree with saying that games are great because they are very similar to their prequels. I prefer something a bit more innovative.

Are you going to let me have my own opinion or are you going to swear at everyone who doesn't agree with yours?

I would suggest not talking like a jerk.

Halflife 2
B: 95%
A: 92%
Im really looking forward to the mods and such.

Farcry
B: 90%
A: 88%

RTW
B:90%
A: 97%

GTA:SA
B:90%
A: 90%

WoW
B:85%
A:99%
I was really looking more forward into EQ2 at first....

EDIT:

Stalker
B:95%
A:....

 

[PvtRyan]

Half-Life 2
Before: 97%
After: 95%

Doom 3
Before: 90%
After: 70%

WoW:
Before: 85%
After: 95%

Far Cry
Before: 90%
After: 80%

Soldiers: HoWW2
Before: 85%
After: 85%

BF:V
Before: 75%
After: 80%

RTW
Before: 95%
After: 93%

Freedom Fighters
Before: 80%
After: 88%

STALKER:
Beginning of the year: 97%
Now: 80%

Hmmm that's about it.

Doom3
- before : 95%
- after : 95%

People thought this game was supposed to be different than Doom1 and 2.

No actually, I didn't think that, but in the end I was wrong, it was very different. In a bad way. It wasn't innovative, but it wasn't like Doom 1 or 2 at all either, it just screwed up. It tried to be a Doom remake, but failed horribly.

 

[Feath]

I would suggest not talking like a jerk.

Are you referring to me?

EDIT: All I said was that I perfer sequels to be innovative instead of just the same game with a different name. And then he told me to shut the "****" up. And I'm acting like a 'jerk'. HA!

 

[AntiAnto]

Half-Life 2 (only game I was expecting):
before: 99%
after: 90%

 

[Murray_H]

HL2

B - 97%
A - 95%

Far Cry

B - 85%
A - 60%

Doom 3

B - 90%
A - 60%

UT 2004

B - 80%
A - 90%

 

[thehunter1320]

HL2
B: 97%
A:1000%

When the credits began to roll I literally got up and begane to clap.

Metal Gear Solid 3
B: 100%
A: 100000000000%

OMFG!!!

Halo 2
B: 100%
A: 73%

Besides MP, meh...

GTA:SA
B: X
A: 91%

Bought it on release day, better than Vice City, still have to beat it

Fable
B:X(didn't look into the Peter M. BS)
A: 96%

A damn fine Action/Adventure/RPG

UT 2k4
B:100%
A:97%

Playing that demo 14 hours a day on onslaught, when it finally arrived, some of it sheen was already gone

Farcry
A:X (this SOB came outta NO WHERE)
B: 96%

r0x0red my b0x0rs

Doom 3
B: 94%
A: 3%

WTFz0r, ID? when people have to force themselves to get only half way through the game, it has issues

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
B:-10%
A:X

.... people who like this POS... go to hell, tell Hitler I said happy chanukah

F.E.A.R.
B:95%
A:X

Little girls scare me... I like scary

World Of Warcrap.. err, Warcraft
B:92%
A: -1000000%

was planning on buying this, i was even in the beta! but the utter hype around this game and all of the praise it's getting just pisses me off! immediately turned me off to this game... it;s just another MMORPG w/ a warcraft license and a Blizzard logo... prove me wrong and i will buy the game, pay my months, and run around a server yelling "I LOVE WoW!!! I BE BLIZZARD'S [insert your own comment here! ]"

PM me

 

[<RJMC>]

Half-Life2 didnt played yet

Halo2
before:X
after: 80%
it was ok and multiplayer is very fun

Cronicles of Riddick
before:50%
after:95%
how was based on a movie I thought will be crap but when I played it blow me away

Killzone
before:80%
after:90%
most underrated game ever it deserve more score that the reviews give

metal gear solid 3
before:X
after:97%
is just a masterpiece

unreal T 2004
before:80%
after:90%
is very fun to play

GTA:SA didnt played enough but my rating until now is
before:70%
after: (possibly) 93%
I wasnt so interesed on this game but when I played it I get amazed

thats what I can remenber so far

 

[destrukt]

this year has been 1 of the best for gaming in awhile.

halo2
hl2
ut2004
d3
codename panzers: phase 1
nfsu2
sid meier's pirates!
nexus: the jupiter incident.
myst 4
cod:uo.
sacred.
lotr:bfme.
fable.

and others

Unreal Tournament 2004
- before : 70%
- after : 85%

Doom 3
- before release : 60%
- after : 90%

Half-Life 2
- before : 80%
- after : 90%

Halo 2
- before : 85%
- after : 90%%

FarCry
- before : 72%
- after : 88%

STALKER
- before : 78%
- after : n/a

 

[Asuka]

To many to name. Like all but Evil Genius. Evil Genius = most boring game i ever played!

Painkiller, farcry, doom 3, Halflife2, Chronicles of Riddick etc etc

 

[kupocake]

Deus Ex 2
- before : 95%
- after : 80%

Could've easily been so much more if Ion Storm just went with another engine.

I think the Unreal 2 Engine is fine, it's just a matter of how Ion Storm modded that engine and gave it a bunch of ridiculous low quality textures, micro-environments and low model densities so they could afford Ugly but fairly high-poly models and fancy "look we're almost Doom 3!" shadows that don't do jack-s**t. Oh, and then there's the ultimate issue that Deus Ex 2 looks uglier than every other Unreal Engine game i've ever seen, yet it runs worse than all of them.

Oh and I was suprised to hear that Half-Life 2 uses Light Bloom. I thought that was an Ion Storm code word for making everything impossibly ugly.

 

[wilka91]

Oh I totally forgot one game :

Painkiller :
- before : 75%
- after : 5%

"Crap game of the year"

 

[Toffee]

Half-Life 2
- before : 95%
- after : 98%

Thief ( 3 ) Deadly shadows
- before : 95%
- after : 83%

FarCry
- before : x %
- after : 85%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R
- before : 60% ( based on some screenshots..)
- after : x

Prince Of Percia; Warrior within
- before : 88 %
- after : 60% ( Played the Demo. It just wasnt as pretty as the first ( 3D ) one, and the half naked bimbos were a poor add to it )

Doom 3
- before : 95%
- after : 90% ( uhh..The hero was so cute! hehe, nah it just reminded me of, ah the classics, Doom 1 and 2 )

The Sims2
- before : 80%
- after: 40% ( Nothing new actually. Spent all the time shaping the faces of the simfolk, till I got tired with it.. :/ )

 

[^Ben]

HL2

B: 95%
A: 100%

It deliverd the goods nuff said.

Doom 3

B: 80%
A: 25%

I don't usually go into I.D's games expecting much, but this was the worst out of the bunch.

Theif 3

B: 70%
A: 50%

Can you belive this game used the same phyiscs engine as HL2?

Dues Ex

B: 80%
A: 50%

Boring.

Sid M's Pirates.

B: X%
A: 90%

YARGH!

 

[lister]

Half-Life 2
- before 96%
- after 98%

BF1942
- before 90%
- after 92%

Doom 3
- Before 94%
- after 90%

BF-Vietnam
- Before 90%
- After 83%

 

[KagePrototype]

Are you referring to me?

EDIT: All I said was that I perfer sequels to be innovative instead of just the same game with a different name. And then he told me to shut the "****" up. And I'm acting like a 'jerk'. HA!

There's nothing wrong with stating your opinion, but you were still acting like an arsehole in the process. "God, I hope you don't become a games developer". Seriously, how is that NOT being a jerk?

 

[Murray_H]

Oh, forgot one:

Burnout 3

B - 80%
A - 95%

Rediculously good fun

 

[Loke]

Forgot some as well.

Bunout 3
Before - 90%
After - 95%

Killzone
Before - 92%
After - 93%

Pirates!
Before - 80%
After - 90%

The Sims 2
Before - 35%
After - 85%

 

[lans]

HL2

Before: 98%
Now: 87%

Kinda dissapointed. Didn't live up to expectations

Doom 3

Before: 87%
Now: 79%

Not up to the mark, boring and uneventful.

Riddick

Before: 76%
Now: 92%

awesomeness!

WoW

Before: 69%
Now: 97%

Best game of 2004!

Far Cry
Before: 85%
Now: 86%

Easily more fun to play then most games.

Halo 2

Before: 93%
Now: 90%

Great game. Screw what the critics said - the story is fine. Xbox live is amazing.

 

[Alig]

Hmm, no need to bite.

I'm just saying, I don't agree with saying that games are great because they are very similar to their prequels. I prefer something a bit more innovative.

Are you going to let me have my own opinion or are you going to swear at everyone who doesn't agree with yours?

Stop being such a tart. If you can't handle someone telling you to shut up then you should'nt use the internet...or even go outside your own house. I never quoted and disagreed with your opinion so come again?

Oh and i never said a game has to be the same as its prequel for it to be good...but Doom3 is supposed to be and play like mother****ing DOOM man. It plays like DOOM, it FEELS like DOOM...it is DOOM. If you bought Doom3 expecting a complicated, strategic FPS then more fool you.

Are you referring to me?

EDIT: All I said was that I perfer sequels to be innovative instead of just the same game with a different name. And then he told me to shut the "****" up. And I'm acting like a 'jerk'. HA!

God, I hope you don't become a games developer. Apparently sequels being slightly innovative is a bad thing, according to you.

#

....Eh? You didn't make a statement about nothing.....

 

[Stigmata]

Half-Life 2
before - 100%
after - 98%

UT2004
before - 90%
after - 75%

Doom 3
before - 40%
after - 65%

Far Cry
before - 90%
after - 60%

Halo 2
before - 95%
after - 85%

BF Vietnam
before - 95%
after - 70%

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
before - 90%
after - 85%

Hitman: Contracts
before - 70%
after - 70%

Fable
before - 80%
after - 80%

And now that I see people rating Burnout 3, I'm all but 100% sure that I'll buy that game. Ridiculously good fun sounds like... well, fun

 

[Sparta]

And now that I see people rating Burnout 3, I'm all but 100% sure that I'll buy that game. Ridiculously good fun sounds like... well, fun

And thats why Burnout 3 won Xbox game of the year at Gamespot. Because it is ridiculously fun. Especially when smashing your best friend into an oncoming truck, and watching his car twist and wretch in slow-mo :E.

 

[Sparta]

Oh and i never said a game has to be the same as its prequel for it to be good...but Doom3 is supposed to be and play like mother****ing DOOM man. It plays like DOOM, it FEELS like DOOM...it is DOOM. If you bought Doom3 expecting a complicated, strategic FPS then more fool you.

But Doom 3 didn't play like Doom.

Doom throws you into a map where there are 10-20 monsters in each room. Doom 3 threw you into a corridor where there were 2 imps waiting in the dark, a health pack in the corner with a zombie camping next to it in the darkness and another imp hiding in a secret wall.

Doom was/still is really fun run-and-gun gameplay. Doom 3 was walk and wait the imp to jump kind of gameplay. Not that fun to the majority of people out there, and nothing compared to its predecessor.

but anyway, like you said, its my opinion. But i seriously doubt that you'll find alot of people who agrees with you on what you think of Doom 3 compared to the original.

 

[<RJMC>]

I'm just saying, I don't agree with saying that games are great because they are very similar to their prequels. I prefer something a bit more innovative.

in my opinion the reazon of why the people say that the first game of a serie is the best cuz sometimes the sequels are very diferents and feel like playing a diferent game
is good that a sequel can be a lot innovative but is better that the get sticked to the principles of the first game

for example I watched a video of HL2 and I see that the sounds was very similiar to the sounds of HL1 so that makes me happy cuz I was worried if HL2 was going to be very diferent of HL1

but someone say the opossite in this thread so I am worried again

 

[Alig]

Well RMJC...i don't think HL2 is a shit game, its far from shit compared to most FPS games we get but i just don't think its half the fun HL1 was. It is quite similar to HL1 but the advanced AI has made it less fun tbh.

 

[Venmoch]

Far Cry was my suprise of the year. Not because I loved the game. Not that at all, (Although many bits of it were great).

The engine is certainly capable, and I found myself wondering around on many cases going "This would be a good engine to mod (idea)"

However the game itself was let down by a few rather irritating things. And its all design based. (Who the hell thought the Catacombs were a good idea?)

Enemies that can fire stupid amounts of rockets at with you and take a lot of damage are cool, but only outside when there is room to run around. Putting this same enemy in a choke point area in a corridoor where there seems to be no way round isn't a good idea its a silly one. And one that almost forced me to put my keyboard through the wall. Oh that and it has one of those damn Trigent "olo one hit kill" punch things. So the typical way of dealing with someone with a rocket launcher can't happen. GAH!

Oh and don't get me started about the Trigent "UBER LEAP OF DEWM!" I'm walking round a map, put two bullets in this thing and then whoosh and I'm dead. Woo.

However in Far Crys defense it did improve on that mess that is Catacombs by using the total awesomeness that is Swamps. And then all the other levels all the way to Volcano. Which sucked. Incidently however the story didn't annoy me. It was a little like Quake 2's. Its an action game. Its meant to be in the same vein as an action movie. Where not much story happens and a lot of shooting does.

Also Far Cry wins for one of the best gaming lines ever "Doyle! My arm is turning green!"

But as a Game, HL2 beats it. But enginewise, I'm not so sure now.....