Nidzumi writes: I've been on quite a journey. The last eighteen months have been a complete rollercoaster while I try to maintain Nidzumi. I've been lucky enough to sample a lot more games than before and I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity. Its come at a cost though as I feel like I'm starting too lose touch with the "common-gamer" when it comes to these, so called, AAA titles.
When Modern Warfare 2 was announced I should have joined in with my fellow gamer and get giddy for the next round of Call of Duty. In fact it was the opposite as I was overcome by a sense of apathy. Infinity Ward has clearly created a brilliant game but I was left thinking, "it's just another shooter". How much is it going to revolutionise or even slightly push forward the medium we follow and love?
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.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
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.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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That depends on your opinion of what is thought-provoking content. For me, sexuality and nudity are not the type of thought-provoking content that I would call mature. They certainly do provoke thoughts, though.
My idea of thought-provoking content came first (at least for me) in the form of Bioshock. A lot of people criticized the average gameplay and the cliche Boss fight ending, but for me the environment and the audio diaries revealed a story about a particular vision of society. Games like Halo, while fun, have stories which have been visits so very often (alien invasion stuff), that they no longer seem mature.