EX: "Hardcore badasses are common enough in video games that you can hardly play through one without bumping into some embodiment of raw testosterone and exaggerated masculinity. After all, unless you find the Final Fantasy X or Metal Gear Solid 2 model of protagonists endearing, you want your hero (or heroine) to be snapping necks and spouting snappy one liners; not whining about their emotional issues while being entirely useless."
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.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
that had to be one of the bast shooters I played on the pc aside from halo 1 at the time. The story was amazing and the characters were badass.
I hate that Sev(7) is left behind and a sequel would be more than greately appreciated. seriousely go and download the demo of that game now!
You seriously get bonus points just for mentioning SW: Republic Commandos. One of the most underrated shooters ever made. It's criminal they haven't gotten their own TV series or video game sequel yet.
Would've also mentioned Sheperd's Suicide Squad from Mass Effect 2 and maybe team Star Fox.
I like how the author goes out of his way to list the most obscure references to make it look like he's smart. LOL. Most of the list completely sucks. Team Rainbow? What a gay name. The game looks like complete crap too -- thank God they made Halo otherwise we'd sitll be playing the same, boring military FPS' like Rainbow Six.
And this list fails for not including Noble Team from Halo: Reach, easily the most badass characters created this gen.
My kingdom for a new Republic Commando game.
What about Alpha and Bravo team from Full Spectrum Warrior?
Reboot that game why dont you.