GAMES?: "Impulsively: Yes. Excellent examples include Snake’s slow crawl through Metal Gear Solid 4’s microwave hall, the nuke in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Final Fantasy X’s tragic ending. There are simpler examples, of course, like the lights suddenly going off or the blaring hum of a grenade."
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
I have felt disempowered while playing certain games, but this has been due to poor desing choices more than anythign else. Gamers are passively aware of the 'invisible walls' or constraints of the medium - even the biggest open world games have set boundaries.
A good example is Heavy rain - which gives the player a good range of choices with which to drive gthe story forward. however it is this fact - driving the story forward' which inevitably lead to a constricted path, no matter how wide the illusion of choice is!
If my son went missing from his bedroom, and I recieved a mysterious letter leaving a clue to his whereabouts, I would still immediately call the police! Heavy Rain however failed to provide this most basic of options, which would be a parents first impulse should such a thing happen. This is an example of how such games disempower players, by giving an illusion of choice, while at the same time omitting certain basic in real life choices.