Xbigy Games Writes: Everyone likes to be an a-hole every now and then. There's a sense of satisfaction and being an absolute d*ck and this idea crosses over into video games. We often lean towards the dark side when booting up our consoles/PC, simply because we can do or say things that we couldn't in the real world.
We purposefully have left off any RPGs like Mass Effect or Fallout from this list, as those stories are tailored by individual playthroughs. Light up the fire, grab pussikins and turn on some classical music; these are the best games where it's good to be bad.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
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Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.
I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing
1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.
It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!
I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.
Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.
Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:
- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2
I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.
Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.
I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.
I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.
But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5
Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.
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We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now
Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.
This site supposed to be for news.
These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.
In Growlanser WoT for PSP, you can act like an ass if you want, one of the many paths has you killing all your friends and trying to conquer the world...... and felt great.
Psychological term for this is called Deindividuation, where a person loses self awareness through groups or behind masks or whatever it may be.
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There is an illusionist named Darren Brown. Sometimes he does experiments on people and he tested this in a episode on his TV series called Darren Brown: The Experiments, episode is called the Gameshow if anyone is interested in watching it.
Really amazing episode, he faked as a show host, set up an entire audience to decide a mans fate for the entire day through elaborate set ups and he had them all wear masks while choosing decisions for this man fate for the day, the audience thought it was all real they never knew it was an experiment, he would then give them option to have something good to happen to the guy they were spying on or have something bad happen to him instead.
Literally every decision they made was based on each others or just based on the fact they knew they could get away with it because no one could see who they are or judge them. So every time he asked them whether to be nice or not they always chose to have something bad happen to this guy they were watching on a screen.
At the end of the episode Darren fakes a scene with this man where the audiences decisions took a turn for the worst and he ends up getting hit by a car.
The entire audience freaks out and they immediately take the masks off once they see the damage they had done but the entire thing was an experiment to test how volatile a human will become when they know their identity is hidden or how they would make bad moral decisions they would never normally make without a mask covering their face. I mean it was griping some people were crying they were so disturbed they had no idea the show was all staged to test the human will or how they react in groups with hidden identities.
He then tells them it was all fake to see how far they would push this man knowing they were causing him harm anyway, the look on all the audiences faces when they realized they were all pawns and they all had did exactly what this psychological syndrome describes.. was just priceless.
It's also a very scary example of the things people are willing to do when they know, no one will catch them or will know about the bad things they have done, it shows how quickly people can become two faced. Many people have really weak minds so that doesn't help them think on their own..
Psychology is one of my majors. I thought reading this article others might be interested in seeing that episode, I thought it was a perfect example of this type of behavior.
I usually play the good guy in my video games, but being bad in Mass Effect is just too good to pass up. Case in point:
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overlord you can kill people