GameSpot's most disapointing game

[Trifna]

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2002/pc33.html

Guess what's GameSpot most disapointing game for 2002? Play the World.

You agree? You don't? Is it THAT disapointing??

[Madcaptn]

I really don't care about what reviews or all the pools and crap that other sites do or cry about. Me and a friend are on a 11 hours game right now on Regent with 6 AIs and are just having a little lag. All these stupid reviews and stuff should just wait till PTW has better patches. I'll just laugh at them for now since it seems that I'm one of the few that is having an hell of a good time with PTW, maybe these guys are just having crappy connections and aren't running 1.14F yet. The game is awesome and I'm sure that the next patches will make it even better.

Every online games are getting patched all the time so these reviews are coming in a little too fast imo.

[Inverse Icarus]

PtW was my biggest disappointment for this year.

Every online games are getting patched all the time so these reviews are coming in a little too fast imo.

but, in almost every case, the game RUNS out of the box (multiplayer). and yes, playing games with people you know IRL that lvie close by only have moderate lag, but playing with people across the world (or, even across new york state) lags unbelievably, even after 1.14f. my friend counted our 56 seconds from the time he hit R until the time the worker started roading.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Madcaptn
All these stupid reviews and stuff should just wait till PTW has better patches.

When did it become standard for games to not be complete when you bought the box? How many patches must the reviewers wait for before it is considered to be an off the shelf product?

"Sorry, this game cannot be reviewed at this time as we are still waiting on the fourth Firaxis patch which will then complete the BASIC product purchase."

[WarpStorm]

The thing that has lowered GameSPot's credibility in my eyes is the blatant disinformation that they've been spreading.

They repeat the fabrication that MP was promised with Civ3 and then made an expansion. This may have been wishful thinking on their part, but I've seen no evidence that this was promised anywhere on the net. If anyone has a link where a Firaxian states this please show me it.

They don't mention that a patch is available that solves many players MP woes.

They brush off the single player enhancements as 'less than a handful of new units and upgrades and a bunch of jumbled scenario maps'. Less than a handful would be 4 or less correct? By my count, an un-modded game of PTW has 35 new units (admittedly, this is counting kings). This isn't counting the 54 units in the Extras directory. Oh yeah, and that 8 new civs thing. (And all the other SP changes that have really made the game a joy).

I'm not ticked that they were Dissappointed in it. That's their right. The crappy journalism does piss me off though. A little research rather than trying to be dramatic would serve me better. If their 'facts' are this far off on this title how about those other titles they review.

[Nubclear]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by WarpStorm
They brush off the single player enhancements as 'less than a handful of new units and upgrades and a bunch of jumbled scenario maps'. Less than a handful would be 4 or less correct? By my count, an un-modded game of PTW has 35 new units (admittedly, this is counting kings). This isn't counting the 54 units in the Extras directory. Oh yeah, and that 8 new civs thing. (And all the other SP changes that have really made the game a joy).
[QUOTE]

IMO, new units and civs just dont cut it.....

[WarpStorm]

Maybe the single player enhancements don't cut it for you, but they weren't even mentioned except to brush them off as if they weren't there. They are there, they are significant, IMNSHO. They were the reason I got PTW, not the MP modes (I know that is not the way it was marketed).

[vee4473]

the chjoices for this poll are not good. It seems to me that choice 2 and 4 are the same

what the ****?

[rockhopper]

Easily my biggest dissapointment of the year, as the award is for.

Prior to this, I had nothing but total confidence in Firaxis and their products.

I just want to play PTW on a 3-system LAN, nevermind the Internet. 4 second lag when moving a unit is unaccaptable for a turn-based game played over a LAN, period.

I should not have to micromanage every single detail so I dont miss when a new improvement is built, or a new scientific advance has been acquired. I dread to think how non-fun the game gets when you have a sprawling empire.

Firaxis' own Alpha Centauri is the benchmark for this style of turn-based 4X gaming. Does PTW measure up to that? Not even close...

For all of you who are enjoying your PTW, thats fine. Personally I expect quality when I pay for things.

[jdd2007]

i will buy PtW months from now, and i know I wont be disappointed...

[Inverse Icarus]

all the online websites selling civ3 had multiplayer listed until about 2 weeks before release.

[Zero]

The truth (IMO) is that PTW IS the most disappointing release of this year. Well I bought it anyway and I dont like it one bit. But hey that doesnt stop me from playing it with my friend.

[Dis]

well if it worked out of the box it wouldn't have been disappointing. having to wait for patches is no fun.

[CrONoS]

True. PTW was DISAPPOINTING... not the worst game of the year. It's good to show what Gamespot say:
" However, sometimes it's impossible not to approach a particular game with a certain set of expectations; some games have such ambitious concepts or such good predecessors that you can't help but wonder whether they could have turned out differently."

Earth And Beyond was in the list of the most disappointing game of the year to.
Look at the WORST game of the year,

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2002/pc34.html

hahahhaha, look at Demonworld: Dark Armies, THAT'S look real bad. hahahahha

[Anguille2]

I was looking forward to this expansion...but i am not a patch guy (i change my computer too often...work) i just cannot download 5 patches every time for just 1 game.