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Chambers,
I think you make some valid points, and I agree with some of them. I think the biggest argument against your complaints is that video games are a diversion from reality. If they made every FPS as real and as close to authentic as possible, the idea that it's a "game" starts to become blurry. Are you trying to have fun or are you training through simulation? Don't get me wrong, some simulation is fun. GRAN TURISMO and MADDEN come to mind. Here are two franchises that try to make the experience you have as "real" as possible. However, I'm not always in the mood for that. Sometimes i want to hop in a car and drive all crazy, like NEED FOR SPEED. SPLINTER CELL and RAINBOW SIX are two FPS that lean towards more realistic encounters and physics. I play and expect totally different experiences than i do when i play HALO or C.O.D. The suspension of disbelief and the opportunity to immerse yourself in a world where you can be a Ninja, or Super hero, or Western Gunslinger, or a bad ass whomever is the attraction most people have to gaming. If I played FPS where one bullet killed or disabled you, as in life, I would probably find a different genre to invest time in.
I also hate A.I. teammates usually. It's so bad that when i have A.I. party members that don't get in the way (MASS EFFECT, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE) I view it as a win. Generally, when i see "escort Mr. Blah blah to check point Blah blah..." I'm irritated immediately. As for enemies that spawn indefinitely and out of nowhere, i believe that is a sacrifice the developers make to free up memory. If you had to program enemies to try and make them as clever as real people, there wouldn't be much memory left to construct the rest of the world.
Lastly, have you tried BATTLEFIELD 2, or BF: BAD COMPANY 2? Although it's far from a simulation, the maps are much larger than C.O.D and it;s a less twitchy game. You can utilize more strategy, and it has vehicles. It's kind of a middle of the road title, in that it melds aspects of real battle with the fun of C.O.D.
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Chambers,
I think you make some valid points, and I agree with some of them. I think the biggest argument against your complaints is that video games are a diversion from reality. If they made every FPS as real and as close to authentic as possible, the idea that it's a "game" starts to become blurry. Are you trying to have fun or are you training through simulation? Don't get me wrong, some simulation is fun. GRAN TURISMO and MADDEN come to mind. Here are two franchises that try to make the experience you have as "real" as possible. However, I'm not always in the mood for that. Sometimes i want to hop in a car and drive all crazy, like NEED FOR SPEED. SPLINTER CELL and RAINBOW SIX are two FPS that lean towards more realistic encounters and physics. I play and expect totally different experiences than i do when i play HALO or C.O.D. The suspension of disbelief and the opportunity to immerse yourself in a world where you can be a Ninja, or Super hero, or Western Gunslinger, or a bad ass whomever is the attraction most people have to gaming. If I played FPS where one bullet killed or disabled you, as in life, I would probably find a different genre to invest time in.
I also hate A.I. teammates usually. It's so bad that when i have A.I. party members that don't get in the way (MASS EFFECT, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE) I view it as a win. Generally, when i see "escort Mr. Blah blah to check point Blah blah..." I'm irritated immediately. As for enemies that spawn indefinitely and out of nowhere, i believe that is a sacrifice the developers make to free up memory. If you had to program enemies to try and make them as clever as real people, there wouldn't be much memory left to construct the rest of the world.
Lastly, have you tried BATTLEFIELD 2, or BF: BAD COMPANY 2? Although it's far from a simulation, the maps are much larger than C.O.D and it;s a less twitchy game. You can utilize more strategy, and it has vehicles. It's kind of a middle of the road title, in that it melds aspects of real battle with the fun of C.O.D.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
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I think you should send this message to everyone playing Bad Co. 2! The objectives are the key people! If you kill 30 people and only die twice while trying to accomplish the objectives, god bless you! However, it sucks to be on a squad where two people have 3000 points and everyone else has 300.
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I think you should send this message to everyone playing Bad Co. 2! The objectives are the key people! If you kill 30 people and only die twice while trying to accomplish the objectives, god bless you! However, it sucks to be on a squad where two people have 3000 points and everyone else has 300.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Kratos is the best at what he does, and...wait...no that's someone else. Kratos is war. War is not pretty, fair, or very nice. You don't have to understand it, justify it, agree with it or even have a good reason for it. All you can hope to do is prevent it or survive it. I would feel weird about slaughtering every one i see if Kratos wasn't a jackass. It gives you an excuse to rip off heads, and gouge out eyes.
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Kratos is the best at what he does, and...wait...no that's someone else. Kratos is war. War is not pretty, fair, or very nice. You don't have to understand it, justify it, agree with it or even have a good reason for it. All you can hope to do is prevent it or survive it. I would feel weird about slaughtering every one i see if Kratos wasn't a jackass. It gives you an excuse to rip off heads, and gouge out eyes.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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BAD COMPANY 2, GOD OF WAR 3, and HEAVY RAIN...uh 1, it's weird to see games with no numbers after them. If i'm feeling lucky, i'll even take on that BLASTER MASTER remake. Yeah, that's right!
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BAD COMPANY 2, GOD OF WAR 3, and HEAVY RAIN...uh 1, it's weird to see games with no numbers after them. If i'm feeling lucky, i'll even take on that BLASTER MASTER remake. Yeah, that's right!
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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I concur with the above article with all my heart. Perhaps, all of these missteps are intensified by the inevitable and welcomed comparison to GOD OF WAR. DANTE'S INFERNO is almost too good at jacking the GOD OF WAR formula, that the player is irritated that it's not actually GOD OF WAR. If you are going to clone another game, make sure you go all out, and get EVERYTHING right. DANTE'S INFERNO made me crush a controller....i haven't done that in years!
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I concur with the above article with all my heart. Perhaps, all of these missteps are intensified by the inevitable and welcomed comparison to GOD OF WAR. DANTE'S INFERNO is almost too good at jacking the GOD OF WAR formula, that the player is irritated that it's not actually GOD OF WAR. If you are going to clone another game, make sure you go all out, and get EVERYTHING right. DANTE'S INFERNO made me crush a controller....i haven't done that in years!
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
"you play your cards right, shouldn't she be squeezing things out of you That's nasty... Anyway, i will probably pick this game up based on the demo, reviews, and the fact that's different."
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"uess that's the only "good" thing that can be said about [PROTOTYPE]. Yes, Alex smashed things good! Too bad it was only cool for about five minutes before i didn't care anymore. AND didn't i play that game already, when it sucked less, cost the same, and had Spider-Man in it??? [PROTOTYPE] = {the wackness"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"man doesn't commit murder on purpose. He never said he didn't paralyze, make quadriplegic, paraplegic, brain dead, or leave one as a drooling, toothless, wheelchair bound, colostomy bag carrying shell of a former nameless thug"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"se dudes look like they should play Dungeons and dragons! Someone holler at Vin Diesel, he has enough scratch to fund the ad-tech version of D&D.;"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The images are just the next rung in the ladder. Even if the offending parties are few, and do not represent the gaming community as a whole, they are MUCH more vocal and now visual. I might be shocked by this artwork if I didn't already listen to foul mouthed, racist, sexist, homophobes, on PSN and LIVE, all the time. The internet is worse than alcohol in they way it empowers people to "express" things that would normally be afraid to say in person, for fear of the social repercussions. I guess that's what it really boils down to. Who spends all that time and creative energy, constructing a emblem of a Klan member with a lynching rope? The same person who is overly aggressive and insulting to people over a headset because they believe another player to be, black, or jewish, or gay, or (gasp!) a girl. (God help all those black, jewish, gay, girl gamers out there! )
These people are cowards. They lurk in the shadows of internet anonymity and "fire" insults behind uninspired gamer-tags. I want to believe that these people are a very loud and annoying, but tiny section of the gaming populace. They are definitely the reason I use my ear piece sparingly, if at all. I tune them out, not out of fear, or because I'm too sensitive, but because I don't have time for it. I am here to play games, and enjoy myself. I choose not to listen to three guys verbally sexual assault the only girl gamer in the room, or hear two people screaming at each other about who could "really" beat the other in a physical altercation, or be subjected to a room where everyone is calling each other every type of racist, gay slur they can remember. I just want to play a game like Joshua.
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