Cleaning out a back room in Jane's old house, I found a copy of MechCommander for the PC. I'd never played this title before, but I'd enjoyed other mech computer games. Jane had staged a clever take over of "Knights of the Old Republic" on our Xbox, so I fired it up MechCommander tonight. Old games can still be good times!
I went looking for some reviews - MobyGames is a reliable collection of user reviews for games too old to be for sale. There were three reviews for MechCommander, one of them written by Rick Jones, someone who was pretty disappointed with the game. I did a search on the MobyGames site, and I found Rick Jones is kind of a game curmudgeon: Rap Sheet - User : Rick Jones. Here's some of his one-line game summaries:
"A horribly disappointing bug jar."He reviews a wide range of games, and he's seldom satisfied. That's not to say that Rick doesn't like games; he's a fan of strategy and simulations it seems. But for a medium that's reviewed by so many boosters, it's refreshing to read a little bit of Rick Jones, who has trouble looking past the greater potential of games.
"A Disgrace To The Entire Series"
"An innovative but ultimately unsatisfying game"
"The best hockey game there is, but not the best there COULD be"
"An atrocious waste of time - it's not even offensive."
"One of the most disappointing games ever published."
When reading the One Liners you posted above, I had the feeling the guy was a bit of an ass, but then I looked at his rap sheet, and saw the games they were connected to.
Granted, I only played about 1/4 of the titles listed there, but I have to say that all but one of his One Liners were pretty damn accurate for the games.
Posted by: Bowler | 07/18/2003 at 09:39 PM
wow i looked at his rap sheet and finally a realistic look at crappy games that get overglorified by the throng of overpaid and soft reviewers out there... I think this kind of outlook should be employed more and maybe the industry will learn they can shovel out crap games like roller coaster tycoon 2 and postal (1 and 2)... i love the postal review by the way... "An atrocious waste of time - it's not even offensive." Recently revisiting this game I failed to find what was actually interesting in it... As for mechcommander (1 and 2) mediocre at best games deserve those kinds of reviews... Look what they did to mechaslut errr.. mechassault for xbox my god they butchered that to the point of pull right trigger shoot, jump, rinse wash repeat... that was my experience from it anyway... In my opinion all of those games got what they deserved as far as a review goes...
Posted by: Ghoest | 07/18/2003 at 11:24 PM
i enjoy acerbic reviews. it's true that gaming in particular suffers from a surfeit of slobbering boosterism. we need more seanbabys and old man murrays!
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