Zodiac Eclipse writes: "It has come to my attention that I can no longer sit idly by and ignore the first-person shooter genre. We got off to a rocky start back in my formative years and since then, well, I haven't really made an effort to rekindle the relationship. I'm willing to take the blame in this regard. Sure I could have picked up a game from time to time, given it an honest try, but the truth is, I didn't realize I was missing anything.
My first attempt at FPS was Duck Hunt. It doesn't get much more first-person then that, you are literally holding a gun for crying out loud. Sadly I was only four or five at the time and my childish dexterity was ill prepared for the challenge of simulated duck slaughter. To make matters worse, my only friend in the neighborhood at the time was a few years older then me and had marginally better hand-eye coordination. Based on these early matches I decided I just wasn't cut out for shooting games."
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
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