Everything that's wrong with modern video games.
You can play through an entire level of the new Call of Duty game without actually firing your weapon or doing anything. It’s just a movie you sort of interact with. A bit.
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Just sooo concerned about looking good.
Wow, bonus for the video maker tell me to skip ahead.
I consider it a problem with the new call of duty game, but not “modern
Video games”
You don’t think this is representative of the bulk of new games? That far more time and energy is devoted towards cutscenes and non-game type theatrics than actual gameplay?
John said:You don’t think this is representative of the bulk of new games? That far more time and energy is devoted towards cutscenes and non-game type theatrics than actual gameplay?
nah, most of the new games that I have played within the past year you still have to kill enemies along the way in some form or another. For example in Batman: Arkham Asylum, while it had some great cut scenes which felt like a movie you could either kill bad guys all stealth like, or up close and personal. And the boss fights were unique as well.
This COD game could be a flaw, because in other ones I’ve played you yourself had to kill people to advance.
Batman: Arkam Asylum is the goddam Citizen’s Kane of modern games. It’s a shining beacon of hope and awesomeness and everything that a new game should be. I do not, however, think it is remotely representative of 95% of the games on Gamestop’s wall.
This CoD stage, on the other hand, is the other end of the spectrum. I’m not saying that they’re all (or that any) are quite this bad. Just that it’s come to this. I’ve played the other CoD games and sure, there’s more skill involved, but this is the direction they’ve been heading for a long time. It seems only sports games and the occasional weird art game (or the even more occasional brilliant blockbuster like Batman) are allowed to be challenging and balanced.
Its not just CoD, I recently beat Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey with my daughter and you can simply run past the evil Bogs instead of using your magic wand turning them into butterflies.
I’m not big on FPS…zzzZzzzZZZZzz..but yes the batman game was awesome, I also liked the force unleashed (i know you didn’t hutch, I also here 2 sucks) i’ve played that game a dozen times already. Street Fighter 4 is AMAZING I’ve played over 3,000 matches on it.
anyway, the same could be said about most things, bands, movies, books, if you look on the shelves most of it is trash.
i also prefer more cinematic gaming, it sure beats the bordem of just jumping over things.
AND I’m pretty sure there are levels of Mario 3 that you can just fly through and not have to do anything.
Ah, the P-Wing. But even with that, there’s an element of strategy in terms of which boards to use it and how to use it the most effectively. And there are hundreds of boards. So, y’know.
Nintendo still makes the best games around, in my mind. They just don’t make enough of them.
fuck, i’m more upset that i wrote “here” instead of “hear” double fuck.
Also, Ryan, I’m convinced that if you were able to get used to the mouse/keyboard controls and played a few rounds of TF2 with me, Sam, and Paris, you’d change your tune on FPS. It has Street Fighter 2 levels of super-fast reflexes and quick-paced strategy.
how awesome does your computer have to be to run TF2?All I have is a 3 year old laptop.
THat’s more than enough. That said, you’d better have a mouse. Playing it with a trackpad is nightmarish.
I don’t think this topic has been bought up in regards to the CoD games, but I think those games are designed more for multi-player (so 9 year olds can call John ‘niggerfag’) more than single player, so maybe the designers sleepwalk through single mode, i dont know..just a thought. Still would be interesting to go into a GameStop and look at the games and see which ones are like the COD games (I’m guessing the ones designed for multi-player) because games like Red Dead, Fable, Fallout require you do do shit and kill people.
Even Red Dead pushed that envelope, though. I mean, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but there was little actual skill involved. The only things that felt like a game at all were the sidequests.
Speaking of Nintendo games. while I love Super Mario Wii, looks like Behemoth (the dudes who made Castle Crashers) are making the game Super Mario Wii should have been (essentially, bigger, more focused on collaboration, and more varied):
http://www.battleblocktheater.com/
Super pumped to play that.