FF is apparently far more popular in then West than Japan, where DQ is king. One of the dipshits at SE probably got the idea in their head that "Westerners hate turn-based games, we gotta go action!" or some shit.
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I really miss Sony's focus on gameplay from back in the day. Their cinematic games are fucking slogs. I actually had a lot of fun playing Horizon Zero Dawn unlike most others but that's cause I mostly ignored the story and played on the hardest difficulty where you really needed to set up and plan for the boss fights.
Haven't played Astro Boy and refuse to buy a PS5 but it's nice to see something gameplay focused win GOTY at least.
Love my yearly linear sub-10 hour COD campaign. I've recently been getting back into the series and playing through a bunch I missed and while some are truly terrible most are fun and most importantly don't overstay their welcome like everything else these days.
Absolutely not worth MSRP but usually worth it if you find a good sale.
Edit: Play Bioshock 2 it's the most fun of the series.
I still remember when quite a few people in Lumi's chat were saying that Halo was better than Doom because "it has a better story".
Well, for Halo 1, there's not a lot of story, actually. It's solid, but that's not the point of it. It doesn't become the "Master Chef is the Messiah" stuff until later.
That said, Halo:CE is still a better "game". Doom is amazing, but Halo:CE is where all of the gaming systems finally coalesced. Even firing it up after years, 3 minutes on The Silent Cartographer will remind of "oh yeah, this is what playing a Game should be like". It matters that Bungie had cranky genius Marty O`Donnell as Audio Director. It's the "audio director" bit that no one else does that separates so many of the older games from modern ones.
Gaming is an Interface Experience. That means Video, Audio and Mechanical. This is the problem with VR, as your Mechanical Interface is pretty terrible. And from about 2006 until mostly today, the Audio experience normally is far worse, unless it's a horror game. (The only genre that still understands how important the melding of the audio effects the experience.)
Pure gameplay always stays in the mind a lot more because it allows the rest of the experience to be heightened. You can appreciate the quality of something without it inducing the greatest of emotional responses. Some of my favorite games aren't that great. But, I had a great time with them. Music operates the same way.
They glazed Infinite so hard, but Ken only now has another game even on the horizon. He burned out his welcome pretty hard.
Environmental storytelling is hard than people realize. It takes effort, planning and design consistency. It really sticks, but it technically pretty "expensive" from a design perspective.
Time matters. That probably had more to do with it.
I'm pretty sure Japan fell off of FF after 10. Tifa & Aerith are still the Queens over there. That should tell you something, haha.
Astro Boy is a pure Nintendo knockoff, but the new haptics in the PS5 controller are legit. It wasn't a GOTY game, but, from everyone that's actually played it, it's really good. Mostly because it's just providing a game Nintendo hasn't done in a while.
Sony's Sony Game issue stems from wanting to impress Hollywood types. Which is still the damn weirdest thing. Hollywood is massive smaller than the gaming industry. They should be looking up to you. What dimwits. As for Horizon, the story always struck me as the part that drug the most. When you're very clearly referencing Zelda & Shadow of the Colossus, you need that Mono no Aware in your story presentation.
The 3-4 hours of set piece campaigns in CoD are actually necessary. A huge chunk of the player base wants that couple of hours to live in an action movie before moving over to playing multiplayer. It's also something you can just pop in and do without having to experience playing multiplayer, haha.
That's not necessarily Sony's fault people in general treat movies as respectable far more readily then games I do agree with you otherwise though.
Stick with the AA and indie spaces, that's where much of the passion for gaming still lives. AAA (with a few exceptions) can die in a fire.
That and just stick to older games like I do most of the time
That and just stick to older games like I do most of the time
Except it's only in their heads. I think a lot of it is there's just not as cocaine around anymore. So they can't go to the coke parties.
I'd agree with this assessment. Their games publishing department wants to write movies, ignoring their budgets are actually bigger than most movies and they actually can turn a profit. But we also got a full email server dump from the Sony Hack. We know they're all pathetic idiots.
As for Astro Bot winning GOTY at the VGA, it should have dawned on me sooner. It's the only game 2/3rds of the voters could finish. It's a really good copy of Mario 64/Sunshine line of games and a great Member Berries experience for Playstation fans, but there's no way half of the "esteemed" journalists will get through a game with any difficulty.
The best example of this isn't even Silent Cartographer, it's 343 Guilty Spark (on original graphics that is, Master Collection fucked every bit of environmental storytelling in that level). The moment where you're fighting your way to the elevator, just to have it take you further down, with the little sting on the music to emphasize the way you're supposed to feel at that moment?
Sorry, Doom. Great game, but Halo CE may as well be the Seinfeld of console shooters. People look at it now and think "well this isn't that good" but it invented modern procedural audio, it was the first console FPS that actually felt good to play on a controller, and it revolutionized enemy AI on about ten different levels. I love Goldeneye, but I play it and it feels dated and clunky (C buttons fucking sucked, who knew?). Halo feels like a modern FPS, mostly because it invented the modern FPS. The story isn't what makes Halo good, it's the atmosphere.
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Halo was mediocre at best. God I wish I had the skillset to make that video dissection of why Halo is the true Ground Zero for FPS gaming going to shit. The genre still hasn't recovered.
The best example of this isn't even Silent Cartographer, it's 343 Guilty Spark (on original graphics that is, Master Collection fucked every bit of environmental storytelling in that level). The moment where you're fighting your way to the elevator, just to have it take you further down, with the little sting on the music to emphasize the way you're supposed to feel at that moment?
Sorry, Doom. Great game, but Halo CE may as well be the Seinfeld of console shooters. People look at it now and think "well this isn't that good" but it invented modern procedural audio, it was the first console FPS that actually felt good to play on a controller, and it revolutionized enemy AI on about ten different levels. I love Goldeneye, but I play it and it feels dated and clunky (C buttons fucking sucked, who knew?). Halo feels like a modern FPS, mostly because it invented the modern FPS. The story isn't what makes Halo good, it's the atmosphere.
Goldeneye - and later Perfect Dark and Timsplitters, by the same group of devs - adapted the intensity of First Person Shooters to consoles way better than Halo. They realized doing a one-to-one conversion of mouselook would be impossible, especially on the N64 pad, so they had to alter things. Halo tried to do one-to-one with dual thumbsticks, but it simply doesn't work. So in order to get around this, they kneecapped the hell out of the speed and intensity of what is an Action FPS to make it actually function. The result is something that's more of a bland chore than an actual game.
I have no idea how someone could think the dull slog that is Halo is better than the true greatest of all time, Doom. Halo's one true strength is its polish, which really was on another level at the time. But it's like the polish of a film - window-dressing. Great for atmosphere, but not for game. On top of that, it's the atmosphere of a popcorn film, like Independence Day or Transformers, and not masterful atmosphere in a game like you'd get in a Silent Hill or Myst.
Halo was a baby step into trying to make dual thumbsticks act like mice but also with really strong polish. That it became the blueprint for all First Person Shooters going forward is why I hate that fucking thing so god damn much.
You sound like Miyamoto whining about people liking DKC on snes because it was pretty at the time. Halo on xbox was as much of a social situation as it was gaming; you had fratboys and college dorm people who, in their life, had ever touched a gamepad sit down every weekend with a case of natural Ice. Thence you also had their little brothers in school who picked up on this and they too, carried the tradition onto college.
Normal people outnumber enthusiasts by geometrical factors.
by your own logic that applies evenly. touch a controller once you doom your lineage to being nerds.
Halo is factually better then Doom it has years of advancements made in shooters since then I like Doom better to make the NoSexBox simps mad.
Halo 3 was a truly fascinating zeitgeist as all those barriers regarding social groups disappeared as soon as the words "dude, you play Halo?" was brought up.
To be honest, I like Goldeneye and Halo over Doom. I feel the original Doom is a product of its time, and, while it's fun, it's an older game with not nearly the same dynamics that make enemies interesting. Put me in Facility or Bunker, with their more interesting environments and scenarios, over running breakneck through a maze with a full on slog of enemies. Good luck hunting all the secrets down in each map also
I know, and I hate those faggots. Halo caused a monumental shift in gaming, and most especially first person shooters.
This was mostly inevitable, since the more visually appealing games became the more they'd attract outsiders, but god damnit, it had to be the third iteration of Halo that did it. Fucking hell. Why couldn't Timesplitters have been the explosion?
That line was what the guy in the video said. I'm one of the oldest faggots here.
Hey fellow olds, how does a round of CTF with runes and grapples sound? Q1 or 2 is fine. Instagib instead of runes is acceptable as well.
Both consoles and PCs were better when they are separate but equal.
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