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The top five annoying trends in videogames

The Downloadable Content. Good idea. But often the content appears only a few days after release. This raises the question whether the developers really couldn't implement it into the game. More annoying trends: Open World, Realism, Loveless Multiplayer-Modes and more.

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Voltago5253d ago

Games are about fun so too much realism can kill the gameplay as well as the entertaining elements. I'm no well trained soldier I'm just a gamer. I want fun not getting killed by one single hit...

darkmurder5253d ago

Well that's where sim and arcade come into it, COD tries to be borderline sim and arcade but it is pretty arcadey compared to say Arma 2 which sets out for realism. Dev's just need to decide which way they want to go and the consumer will then win.

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Solidus187-SCMilk5253d ago

I think its stupid that every game has recharging health. It made sense in halo with the shields and wolverine games. But games like gears and uncharted have recharging health too. Almost every game has recharging health now.

AKNAA5253d ago

I play games to get out of everyday reality and have fun doing it. like dynasty warriors for example, I feel like I made a big difference in the battlefield when I kill like 2000 enemy soliders or be able to climb like a monkey in uncharted!

As for open world games, I find them repetitive, same everything through out the game... single path games however always takes you to new places, different sceneries, gameplay, better detailed graphics and just plain more fun in my opinion.

DLC... just a scam to make extra profit.

Darkstorn5253d ago

I like what Media Molecule is doing with DLC (except for the water thing - put it in a patch!), but for the most part DLC is a scam. It's overpriced, shallow, and almost always not worth it.
As for realism in video games, military sims tend to be the worst case. That being said, it's mostly military buffs who play those games...or little kids who want to be a soldier when they grow up...

blu_yu_away5253d ago

@ 1.3 And walking over a magical box that heals all your injuries makes sense? While I would argue medi kits make games tougher I wouldn't say that are any more logical.

Solidus187-SCMilk5253d ago (Edited 5253d ago )

Medkits represent medical aid, regenerating health represents a day in gaming where everything is simplified and easy.

Sure medkits arent realistic but neither are videogames. I just wish developers wouldnt blindly follow the leader and copy the regenerating health. I think games can represent extra health in many different ways(rest/potions, aid station, medical bots, herbs, food, water fountian, sex with hookers, etc), not just med kits. And there is only one way to represent inexplicably recharging health, and thats with inexplicably recharging health.

Edit-- ALso, I think medkits are ALOT more logical them regeneration. Ive never heard of a person who can regenerate after 5 seconds, but I have heard of medkits helping injured people.

Skip_Bayless5252d ago

I got my own top 5:

1. more multiplatform games
2. rise of casual gameing with Wii and DS
3. rise of Microsoft Game Studios
4. decline of Japanese development and games
5. too many FPS games that follow the same mundane formula

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Maikrobi5253d ago

Yeah, that's why I like fantasy games

WhoopDiDoo5253d ago

Open world is worth discussing, indeed. I'm really tired of running around searching for quests in order to complete a game. Worst thing is: most of the time I find myself doing the same thing over and over again :/ But I know a lot of people who really like open world games. It's a matter of taste.

BYE5253d ago

I was sceptical about open world games until I played Assassin's Creed 2.

It manages to offer the benefits of a big, free world while still being immersive and capturing you in a great storyline. AC2 is open world done right.

Kiriel5253d ago

Ehm, peeps. Can we NOT post articles that are in another language than English? Google translate makes this (and others) pretty much unreadable.

ThatArtGuy5253d ago

How about not reading articles that bother you? Don't try to penalize everyone just because *you* don't like something.

PS3Freak5253d ago

Although people have every right to post in any language, some of the sentances and paragraphs in this article make little to no sense. Most of the time i can understand the jist of what is trying to be said though.

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Which Far Cry Should I Start With? - A Beginner's Guide 2023

If you’re new to this long-running franchise, we’ve got you covered.

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masterfox419d ago

Farcry 3 and literally thats it! lol

GamingSinceForever417d ago (Edited 417d ago )

I recently tried 3 for the first time but the frame rate was a turnoff.

I liked 5 and 6 though.

banger88417d ago

If you have a Series X or S, the Xbox 360 version runs at 60 fps with fps boost. It's a shame the remaster doesn't.

isarai418d ago

2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol

cooperdnizzle417d ago

Ummmm 3 than stop.

Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.

JEECE417d ago (Edited 417d ago )

Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.

Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.

It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.

XbladeTeddy416d ago

Far Cry 2, the one with the AI that find you through walls and trees, can one shot you from a mile away and have 100% accuracy? That was frustrating not fun because cheap AI.

JEECE416d ago (Edited 416d ago )

Uhh, I mean, it isn't one of these games where once the enemies have detected you they will magically forget you exist because you walked behind a wall or went into a bush. And yeah the AI isn't stormtrooper level accuracy. Again, these are positives, not negatives to me.

To be fair, I'm really directing this at the people most critical of "Modern Ubisoft" or "Modern Open World" design elements. Like the type of people who fawned all over Elden Ring because it had a clean UI because they are so burnt out by the "checkbox" type of open world design.

If you like those types of games, then a later FC game like 3 and especially 4-5 would be more your style.

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10 Old Games With Outstanding Graphics

GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."

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ShwaaMan464d ago

Bioshock still looks fantastic, one of my all time favorites.

Yui_Suzumiya464d ago

Beyond: Two Souls on PS3 can compete with modern day graphics.

SonyStyled464d ago (Edited 464d ago )

Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3

jasonismoney464d ago

I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.

SonyStyled464d ago

@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think

cthulhucultist463d ago

Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen

Fist4achin464d ago

I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.

SonyStyled464d ago

They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though

JEECE464d ago

Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.

iNcRiMiNaTi464d ago

It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good

JEECE464d ago

In terms of art style it still holds up.

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Far Cry’s best game gets brutally realistic as mod remakes Ubisoft FPS

The Far Cry series’ best game – not Far Cry 6 – just got more brutal and realistic thanks a mod than revamps and remakes the classic Ubisoft open-world FPS

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lonewolf10586d ago

Far Cry 2 where your guns never ever jammed until you got into a gunfight is their best? I disagree.

MIDGETonSTILTS17586d ago

I liked 3 more.

The malaria angle was more annoying than immersive.

And, the enemy AI had too good of eyesight to allow any stealth. They’d spot you a literal half mile away, I hated it.

lonewolf10586d ago

Yeah, some weird mechanics for sure, some did really enjoy it, I certainly didn't.

bloop585d ago (Edited 585d ago )

The map was designed badly and an absolute pain to navigate from what I can remember too. You ended up having to go to the same few places all the time and there was a huge inaccessible area between them that you had to go around.

It definitely had the best physics system of the entire franchise, but a lot of the mechanics took the enjoyment out of it.

LordoftheCritics586d ago

It was fun for its time but a bunch of those systems today won't survive a launch weekend.

Profchaos586d ago

I'd say it was their most ambitious and had the best setting to date next to the original island.

But gameplay wise it was clunky and maybe it was released to early if the teams had modern systems to build it on the game would have been much better less corridors more open and less gaurd outposts that auto regen

Knushwood Butt586d ago

How do you use guns when not in a gunfight? Shooting trees?

lonewolf10585d ago

Yes and you could do that for hours in FC2 with a gun and it wouldn't jam, not hard to grasp is it.

Knushwood Butt585d ago

I see.

I haven't spent hours shooting trees.

I must try it.

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MajorLazer586d ago

Love Far Cry 2 on Infamous difficulty.

Hikoran586d ago

This should be an opinion piece. Not news.

Gwiz586d ago

Blood Dragon is much better.

Pedrof586d ago

Far Cry 2 may certainly not be the most "fun" game in the series but from a narrative standpoint it definitely is the most interesting of the bunch. FC2 couldn't be further away from the pointless fragfests that the following episodes turned out to be.

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