Play-mag: "Five games you all claim to love and have played a million times… but… you haven’t. And I know you haven’t. So stop lying – it doesn’t make you cool."
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.
Hanzala from eXputer says, "After multiple delays, cancellations, and ownership changes, the misfortune of Deus Ex continues; this gem of a series deserves better."
One can only hope at this point Embracer will need to generate an influx of cash flow, and what better way to do so than to sell off some of its IPs... namely Deus Ex, to a competent and talented studio capable of delivering a game noteworthy of the name in future. And thinking about it further, I don't know why Embracer would sit on the IP vs sell it if it means staying in business or not.
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.
All BG&E is is a Zelda clone?Stopped reading right there. Sure, there's Zelda style dungeons and gameplay elements but this game fits nearly EVERY genre it can into it's campaign and Zelda is one of SEVERAL different inspirations.
I guess that makes me 'cool' then, as I've played all of those (as I'm sure many of n4g have too).
Played them all loved them all minus a battered piece of fish multiplayer. :o
I don't understand....
-ICO/Beyond Good and Evil wouldn't get a re release if the studio didn't see a need for it. You can't simply lie about something, it needs to have enough fans to warrant the time to re release it. I only included ICO because thats the only logical title, tons of people played Shadow of the Collossus. It was featured in the movie Reign Over Me, and was a ground breaking game visually on Ps2...
-COD, people HAVE played it and experienced it. I play COD daily and it might not be 13 year olds per say (while there are a LOT of them) its mostly 20 something year olds acting like 13 year olds. Even the statistics prove COD has a younger audience. There is nothing wrong with it, either love it or hate it. Personally I jump on COD when Im getting my arse kicked in another game, but i mute EVERYONE because of this crowd.
There are better choices you could of chosen, and going more in detail (perhaps with facts and evidence) would of been good too. For example how many of the Kojima people actually played and want ZOE? A majority of them are kids following a trend and would take MGS instead everyday of the week. want an example? How popular was the MGS HD collection? Yet nobody bothered to talk about the ZOE collection AT ALL here, go look up the articles.
I've played none, but never claimed I have. Well, I started play ICO but it didn't really work for me and also started Deus Ex but was just borrowing from a friend so didn't get a chance to do much in it.