Hold up sailors Soulcalibur II was a port. The game itself released 2002 for arcades. Suppose if ports count this all becomes very confusing to me so will personally just look at original releases. SCII is still arguably the best entry in the franchise, however it is a game of the prior year, likewise with Wind Waker.
And with SCII & WW unpacked seems I agree with @ghosts4ever, despite that coming across as grossly negative to those who found these games fun. Ask yourselves, would you play your list of games today?
As such don't think much of 2003 looking at the full list of games (only two standouts, one being very subjective). If people think gaming use to be better? pick a better year. .
Siren, Silent Hill 3, Makai Senki Disgaea, & CastleVania: Aria of Sorrow are the only games I would give any form of praise. The first Disgaea is a game I would defend for its refreshing take on the genre, narration and characters. Gameplay however in-need of refinement (which sequels would provide).
The undisputed great game in my positive listing is Aria of Sorrow. That game alone sold the previous collection to any fan. AoS is a masterpiece. Many put it up with SotN and for good reason.
Manhunt was an interesting concept, and a guilty pleasure, but as a video game? it's below average. Shame it didn't turn into anything with sequels. I recommend if anyone wants to hunt gangs in bloody hellfire, and sneak in the shadows? play Huntdown (not released in 2003) it's just a better video game and captures all the grit and scumbaggery Manhunt offered.
2003 sadly for me (outside two games) is always known as the year that gave us Devil May Cry 2, which is disgusting.
we had masterpiece like Doom 3
@Litchie: I have a lot of negatives regarding D00M III, and argued with a few users years ago over the game itself, and they gladly died on a hill telling me how wrong I am.
I probably came across as mean spirited as would call D00M III a "glorified tech demo", which is grossly exaggerated. Namely because tech demos end in an hour or less, D00M III is at least a 10 hour game.
DIII is a pretty game which I'm sure wins some people over, namely for the time, the lighting and shadow effects in the game for the early 2000's are second to none, that I will give praise. My P.C. struggled to run it with its three CDs needed to run the game.
However even that wears thin as you'll be spending majority the game looking at the same cargo shelter c&p environments, that are as interesting as looking at wet paint. Pretty texture quality will grow dull as you are exposed to the same stuff over and over again with very few shake-ups.
All that could be fine if the level design was as solid as previous entries. . nope! Biggest sin is its level design, sound design (guns sound like a pea-shooter), and overall encounters are pretty. . pitiful. Shooting is fun but the level design absolutely cripples shoot-out encounters.
Once you've seen an Imp teleport to that noticeable crack in the tunnel you'll be seeing that 1,000 more times. It's bad enemy placement that makes me think it was handled by an intern.
So just for context this is a map from Ultimate D00M_
Keep in mind I really like D00M, it's setting, art style. D00M III for me is not the proper third D00M. D00M 64 is and has aged far better. Well, I didn't like D00M III the year it released on P.C. so I don't think it aged well at all.
And I do apologies to those that look back at D00M III with nostalgic love, as noted it was a pretty game. It's just not a good game, let alone a good FPS. Age didn't hurt D00M III, it is flawed by design.
The gameplay is so generic and bad the guns sound like toys.😂
^ Preach! At times I feel alone seeing D00M III for what it is, seems this forum has a lot of supporters for the game that I don't see elsewhere.
I got into D00M just as screenshots started leaking for this third entry. I had a new powerful P.C. and I was playing a lot of shooters.
The hype was real and I chewed up every D00M game, loving them all (I emu'd 64). Then D00M III can out and I bought it on release, the game starts as a walking simulator (I seem to notice people complain about this in the forum) and then when you get shooting the level design doesn't work. It's too linear for a FPS, older D00M games worked because the level design allowed options and had wide spaces, designers have even noted FP struggles in tight spaces by design.
D00M III has the same level design issues of Callisto Protocol; in fact Callisto Protocol & D00M III have a lot in common. Difference is CP is third person so you can at least gauge your surroundings.
So to conclude, I don't mind if people like D00M III, but I'm certainly not going to agree it's a masterpiece logically. Heck I think many points made argue that it can barely be called a good game.
D00M III is in the same tier of game as Manhunt. At best it can be viewed as a guilty pleasure. It's just too flawed to be anything else when viewed at rationally.
didn't think they were too bad or too frequent.
Issue is the magic seals, it was for every boss, if you failed (keep in mind it's timed and must be done in a certain order) the boss would reset and you're back to square-one.
Wasn't well implemented. It's a major reason the game gets flacked_
Just a dumb feature honestly pushed to advertise what DS could do differently from the PSP.
Feel like a buzz-killington_
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind came out in 2002. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is also recorded as the prior year.
Feel like a buzz-killington_
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind came out in 2002. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is also recorded as the prior year.
He could be referring to the PC version of Vice City that came out in 2003 I was thinking of adding Vice too but I usually go by original release date.
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