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specialkid8 posted...

I'm fairly excited for it. Combat has been greatly expanded and they've added some platforming/puzzle bits to shake things up. I still want another Doom 3 but Eternal looks like the perfected version of what DOOM set out to be. Still not paying 60 bucks for it but I'll buy it eventually.

I may do the same. I'm still just salty about Doom

Open world is almost always bad and only serves to artificially inflate game length.
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EffectAndCause posted...

Open world is almost always bad and only serves to artificially inflate game length.

Generally agree but a rich open world is so damn enjoyable. GTAV and RDR certainly benefit from it because it is so immersive. Something like Far Cry doesn't really benefit too much.

I think Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts did a great job in striking a balance. Learning that GW 3 was needlessly open world so they scaled back to individual levels that were still massive and dense.

The only reason Halo has ever been considered good is because it popularized MP on consoles.

An entire generation of Japanese devs have had their storytelling abilities ruined by exposure to anime. Ok, there are (literally) a couple exceptions.

(Related) JRPGs haven't been consistently even decent since 2005.

Far Cry 3 was one of the smartest narratives of last gen but a lot of people missed it because the game satirized its own audience.

Bethesda does diegetic storytelling better than From (or at least, they have, who knows what the future holds with Bethesda now).


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UNLIMITED Saga is a good game.

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vigorm0rtis posted...

The only reason Halo has ever been considered good is because it popularized MP on consoles.

An entire generation of Japanese devs have had their storytelling abilities ruined by exposure to anime. Ok, there are (literally) a couple exceptions.

(Related) JRPGs haven't been consistently even decent since 2005.

Far Cry 3 was one of the smartest narratives of last gen but a lot of people missed it because the game satirized its own audience.

Bethesda does diegetic storytelling better than From (or at least, they have, who knows what the future holds with Bethesda now).

Regarding Far Cry 3, would you say Spec Ops The Line did a similar player takedown more effectively?

Also I played Ocarina of Time as a teenager and thought it was extremely overrated. I liked Twilight Princess and Wind Waker bettee.

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_RETS_ posted...

Regarding Far Cry 3, would you say Spec Ops The Line did a similar player takedown more effectively?

It was different, I think. FC3 was actually satirizing the players themselves, which was different than overturning player expectations and the way gamers let themselves be led unthinkingly through gameplay itself. FC3 even touched on stuff like the dichotomy between the modern primitive movement and how pop culture regards tattooing. One satirized the players-- or at least a stereotype of them that was becoming more apt, the other satirized how they play, both effective, but not quite the same beast.

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Eternal Darkness on Gamecube is boring.

LttP's soundtrack is really mediocre and sometimes nauseating to listen to.

Hotel Dusk is a top five DS game easily. (We need more Kyle Hyde ffs)

Streets Of Rage, any of them, doesn't touch the greatest beat em up ever, Turtles In Time.

Pilotwings is a stupid and pointless game.

Super Punch Out is easy as all hell, this is coming from somebody who never beat the original Punch Out.

I might edit and add more if i think of them


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Zelda Twilight Princess is a perfect Legend of Zelda game. It's everything I ever wanted in the series

I would love for them to make another similar entry into the series.

Gamecube is the best console of all time

I didn't care for Tomb Raider reboot. Felt boring

Hollow Knight is okay. I enjoyed Bloodstained more

Heroes of the Storm is the best moba

Street fighter 5 is a great fighting game

The recent Batman games look boring


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The Arkham games? I think that's the name of them

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The Halo franchise is trash.

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The batmobile was great in arkham knight.

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Platinum Games is overrated to all hell. Their games are fun but the combat is far too praised, when a good amount of their games just boil down to basic combos with a slow time gimmick. MGR and Nier Automatia are probably the most overrated games of their generations.

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Aside from some clunkiness and the ARK levels, Shadow the Hedgehog was a great game and I would buy a remaster on Day 1.

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Ironically the primary reason people whine about Nintendo ignoring franchises like F-Zero and Star Fox is because they're the most likely company to bring those sorts of franchises back. If it was any other company (outside of maybe Capcom who suffer a similar issue) people would accept them being dead.

The average game is better this generation than they've ever been and there has never been more good to great games to play but gamers will always focus on the negative stuff from now and the positive stuff from before.

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im not 13 posted...

The Arkham games? I think that's the name of them

Man you should REALLY give them a shot. I slept on them a long time but once I started couldnt get enough. Dropping into the center of a group of enemies and dominating them all is a great feeling

_RETS_ posted...

Man you should REALLY give them a shot. I slept on them a long time but once I started couldnt get enough. Dropping into the center of a group of enemies and dominating them all is a great feeling

Hmm. I watched a friend of mine play one of them and it didn't seem that interesting

But I might check them out you've sparked my interest

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Dan Southworth is not good as Vergil's voice actor

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vigorm0rtis posted...

It was different, I think. FC3 was actually satirizing the players themselves, which was different than overturning player expectations and the way gamers let themselves be led unthinkingly through gameplay itself. FC3 even touched on stuff like the dichotomy between the modern primitive movement and how pop culture regards tattooing. One satirized the players-- or at least a stereotype of them that was becoming more apt, the other satirized how they play, both effective, but not quite the same beast.

You really shouldn't look that deep into Farcry 3. This is Ubisoft we're talking about here. You put more thought into this post then they did in the narrative of that game.

If the Wii U Gamepad had good battery life and a capacitive touch screen it would be an awesome controller.

Every controller should have and use gyro sensors for aiming in shooters as an option.

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Movie adaptation games are only worthwhile when Lego is involved.

That I probably like these games
Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy
No Man's Sky
The Order 1886
The Division 1 & 2
Shadow the Hedgehog
Legend of Spyro Trilogy
Spyro a Hero's Tail
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric
Indie games
Anime Games
Games based on movies
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World
Godzilla(PS4)
Starfox Adventures & Assault
Sonic Forces

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The Wii U was a good gaming system and it was possible to build a nice library of games with it between first party, indie titles, and the occasional third party gem (Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2, both from Platinum, being the 2 most notable examples). I myself managed to have 30-ish games on it. This isn't including the Virtual Console BTW that, while obviously weaker than the Wii's, still offered some nice classic games.

I might not exactly recommend the Wii U NOW since the Switch basically has had almost all of the first, third, and indie games mentioned above ported to it, and also it took the Wii U's console/handheld bybrid idea and handled it MUCH better.

Still, the complaints about it "having no games" or lacking games or whatever were exaggerated. lacking in third party games specifically sure, but there were a decent amount of games in general.

Left Alive is a decent game on paper, but a culmination of little bad design choices make it a janky and hard to love game for casual players.

Persona 5 is a boring grind that's 90% pedophile dating sim, 10% JRPG, and the new edition is a $9.99 DLC that negates all your progress being sold at the price of a full AAA game.

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Gurifisu posted...

Resident Evil 5 was great

Yeah, I loved it too. That said, I played it co-op with my brother, so it was tons of fun for us with none of the drawbacks from the AI, which was apparently pretty lame.

im not 13 posted...

Hmm. I watched a friend of mine play one of them and it didn't seem that interesting

But I might check them out you've sparked my interest

Please do. If you even like Batman at all in general it will be well worth it. Asylum is still a strong game and a good intro to the world, but City is an incredible experience and Origins, while it gets shit on a lot, is still very fun and has amazing boss fights. Haven't played Knight yet but will soon and it looks to be just as great

-Articuno- posted...

That I probably like these games
Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy
No Man's Sky
The Order 1886
The Division 1 & 2
Shadow the Hedgehog
Legend of Spyro Trilogy
Spyro a Hero's Tail
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric
Indie games
Anime Games
Games based on movies
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World
Godzilla(PS4)
Starfox Adventures & Assault
Sonic Forces

I didn't hate The Order 1886. It was beautiful, dark, and compelling and had a brutal gore system but holy shit did it pry control from your hands for lengthy periods of time every few minutes. If it had longer sections of letting you just play and didn't resort to QTEs for the wolf fights it could have been an incredible experience. Doesn't have to be open world but it was WAAAAAAAY too linear

Questionmarktarius posted...

Movie adaptation games are only worthwhile when Lego is involved.

The Wolverine Origins game was muuuuuuch better than the movie but it could also have crashed 1 minute after launch every time and still have accomplished that