After quietly sitting on my words for years and watching mediocre games receive rave reviews, I have to voice my opinion on this issue, even if it is unpopular. Valve, the company responsible for games such as Half-life, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress, is one of the most, if not the most, overrated company in video games today.
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."
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.
Video games are no longer just a simple past time. Today's games are evolving into true works of art. Offering intriguing narratives, cinematic setpieces, and profound messages, games can entertain us for hundreds of hours.
I never got around to mass effect - I’m skeptical that it would hold up if I were to try it now
The most disappointing and infamous video game endings even sour the overall thoughts of a game. Most of these titles represent some of the finest entries in their respective series, marred by an ending we can't quite forgive.
There is no game called Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2, but Rebirth had a great ending imo. Felt robbed by the ending at first, but the more I've seen it and during my 3rd playthrough, I started to understand and realize a lot more that make me appreciate the ending.
I was enjoying FFVII Remake, even though those whispers throughout the game were annoying. But the ending was so bad that I don't even want to play Rebirth. On top of that, from what I saw on reviews, the ending of Rebirth is even worse.
Also, I'm glad to see Zero Time Dilemma being recognized as the trainwreck it is. After the amazing two first games (especially the near perfect second one), the low quality of the trilogy end is baffling. The new characters are bad, the old characters don't feel like themselves, a surprise "alien technology" pops out of nowhere, the big twist was like "eh?", and it doesn't really finish the story nor explains the loose threads from the second game.
All they know how to do is first-person perspective games for the most part. Gabe Newell would rather develop for an outdated platform than actually learn how to develop for the PS3 as well. And they take like 8 years to release new games.
Disagree completely, Take it from someone who was actually gaming when Valve entered the gaming market. Half-Life innovated the FPS genre with intelligent level design and was one of the first FPS to use interactive events. Something that every FPS seems to use today.
Half-Life 2 continued to innovate the FPS with creative weaponry (gravity gun) and intelligent story telling that actually made you care what happened.
Valve deserves the praise it has in the video game world.