An article by Michael Swiontek of the New York Post states that the man who gunned down five people and wounded 16 in an Illinois lecture hall was a 'loner' who opted to study rather than party and was obsessed with the 'ultra violent' video game Counterstrike. One of his dorm mates stated he played a lot ot of video games especially Counter Strike really loud. The article says that the killer shunned medication for an undisclosed illness and purchased weapons like those used in Counter Strike such as a Glock handgun and Pump action Remington shotgun.
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
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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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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Yup, it's the fault of video games and not the fault of his mental illness and lack of medication.
Jack Thompson made the right assumption on this killer; this loser was a Counter Strike Junkie. But then again what kind of man who stays home all the time and study not at least unwind a little and participate in some recreational activities like videogames.
You know what they say: All work and no play makes jack a psychotic murderer...oh no wait, is that how it goes?
I love Counter-Strike!
How dare a mentally unstable person put shame upon such a great tactical shooter!
How DARE he!!!!
and.......so what?!?! i bet he even ate at mcdonalds every once in a while too. I am sure we could come up with a way that would cause him to go nutts. Stop looking for a scapegoat. How about violent movies, tv shows toys. I mean seriously why cant people just be crazy these days. The guy went nutts, something was wrong with him and for some reason no one caught it in time. Case closed! No it wasnt the video games, millions play counter strike but not a million plus people go shooting at schools. Get real
So the guy legally buys firearms from the corner store (not literally of course) but that is not the problem. He stops taking medication for an "undisclosed illness", but that can't possibly be the problem.
But the fact that he was a loner who played video games means that he was a time bomb just waiting to go off.