I didn't know about a Polygon article, a friend of mine was playing it and got to the bit where Garrus was going Punisher on some random planet
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That article has nothing to do with anything. And once again, Polygon are full of shit, and are talking about nothing.
Polygon gonna Polygon.
If you don't like it, stop giving them hate-clicks, stop spreading their articles via archive, etc.
Hell, probably counts as a gaming hot take all its own. Only time I ever read gaming website articles is the The Gamers get mad at one.
If you don't like it, stop giving them hate-clicks, stop spreading their articles via archive, etc.
Hell, probably counts as a gaming hot take all its own. Only time I ever read gaming website articles is the The Gamers get mad at one.
Nice to see Jim’s video schedule isn’t interrupted by the holiday.
I do respect the Yakuza series, but I for the life of me cannot get into the series combat. Before anyone starts, I did play 0. The mainline series sticking turn based combat has me even less invested, but I am happy for the series continuous success and gaining new audience.
This is less of a hot-take nowadays, but back during the 7th generation, some people got pissy with me on the IMDB forums when I claimed cover shooters with regenerating health/COD clones will age worse as time moves on and seen as way outdated compared to most old-school shooters from the 90s/early 2000s. I claimed that games like Vanquish and Bullestorm would age better than most of its contemporaries. They could not handle my opinions; especially this one dude who claimed COD and Uncharted franchise are better nearly all games or games of different genres. I was proven right. Out of all the old cover shooters to be ported to 8th gen consoles, Vanquish and Bulletstorm are the more noticeable ones and getting more appreciated each year.
This is less of a hot-take nowadays, but back during the 7th generation, some people got pissy with me on the IMDB forums when I claimed cover shooters with regenerating health/COD clones will age worse as time moves on and seen as way outdated compared to most old-school shooters from the 90s/early 2000s. I claimed that games like Vanquish and Bullestorm would age better than most of its contemporaries. They could not handle my opinions; especially this one dude who claimed COD and Uncharted franchise are better nearly all games or games of different genres. I was proven right. Out of all the old cover shooters to be ported to 8th gen consoles, Vanquish and Bulletstorm are the more noticeable ones and getting more appreciated each year.
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Bulletstorm is a brown shooter with regenerating health.
I mean, I know we've gone over this before, but Bulletstorm's primary color pallet is brown and yellow, and it has regenerating health.
That's not the main point I was going for this time. Besides, there is more than brown and yellow. There's plenty of orange and blue. I definitely remember (more so between mid to late game, but it's still there). My argument is in terms of gameplay and being creative with. Both games allow flexibility and creativity in your kills and skills than a majority of 7th generation cover shooters. Bulletstorm slogan is kill with skill. The game is basically combination of Mad World and Wild 9. You are rewarded for the style and over-the-top depravity of your kill(s). This gets even better on New Game + in the Full Clip Edition. New Game+ gets rid of the three weapon limit and allows you have a full on weapon wheel. Grayson can too slide like Sam Gideon, and get creative with the shooting and combat allowing unique mix ups. Vanquish though takes it to further heights being the pinnacle in Stylish Action of 3rd Person shooting.
Now if a sequel ever comes out for either games, they can ditch the regenerating health for standard med kits or armor. In Vanquish's case, they have better management of the AR meter and two separate bars. One for health, and the AR for shield/slow mo a la Gungrave or Halo 1.
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It's just always funny to me when you complain about regenerating health and brown shooters and then bring up Bulletstorm as being the antithesis of this design philosophy you have a problem with when Bulletstorm has both.
And I understand that that you're shorthanding "brown shooter" to mean "tactical style military shooters" but I still have to point it out every time because it's funny.
I complain a majority of them did nothing with them. I am more than aware that Bulletstorm has its problem, but at least did something interesting and unique. You've must've missed the part where I said, that if a sequel ever happened, they can ditch the regenerating health. You've also must have missed the part about the how creative you can get with the shooting and gameplay. That is the major advantage it has over most of the crowd of Gears/COD wannabes. You don't see any modern console ports of dark Sector (at least Warframe happened, until they retconned both games not being in the same universe), F.3.A.R. (not gonna find too many defenders), Kane and Lynch (mediocre shooters that even IO Interactive seems to hate), Army of Two, Matt Hazard (anyone remember that guy?), Turok (2007), Wanted: Weapons of Fate (decent game and almost a proto-Vanquish) nor Inversion (shameless Gears clone) for a reason. They either look like shit or are run-of-the-mill shooters with not much to standout and fade in with all of the others.
Amusing on two levels. It's funny because it's true. Vanquish and Bullestorm have done more interesting gimmicks and ideas with cover shooting than most of these games ever could. I find both more enjoyable the Gears, COD4, and all the other bad, average, or mediocre clones that came afterward. I would not mind a console port of Singularity. Not exactly a cover shooter, but it did have a two weapon limit, and was the love child of COD and Bioshock.
Anarchy Reigns >>>OverWatch. There, I said it. OverWatch should have been multiplayer brawler and have a single player.
Well, ACAB stands (I think) for “All coppers are bastards”, and the character in that shot - fan favourite and fan girl pantry dropper Garrus Vakarian - starts the game as a member of C-Sec; the law enforcement team on the Citadel which is a major seat of government in the setting.
The Streets of Rage series is the best The Defenders games ever made.
Devil May Cry 1 and Devil May Cry 3 are the best 3D Castlevania games ever made.
Devil May Cry 2 is the best Vampire Hunter D game ever made. Not much of a milestone, but worth a mention.
DmC (2013) is the best Underworld game ever made. Also, not much of a milestone. In fact, an even lesser milestone.
Devil May Cry 1 and Devil May Cry 3 are the best 3D Castlevania games ever made.
Devil May Cry 2 is the best Vampire Hunter D game ever made. Not much of a milestone, but worth a mention.
DmC (2013) is the best Underworld game ever made. Also, not much of a milestone. In fact, an even lesser milestone.
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Origins I'd play through again, but it does have some notable issues(The incredibly linear and arcadey nature of the battle of the Nile, the jankiness of it's opening moments, the incredibly rushed nature of the ending after Bayek and Aya part ways).
Odyssey I might play on NG+ to skip the grind but sure as hell wouldn't replay from the beginning. It was just WAY too long and drawn out for it's own good and the DLCs make this even worse.
Also Aya got done Dirty by Ubisoft. She was originally supposed to have a much bigger role(which is hinted at) but the Ubisoft higher ups think "WOMEN DON'T SELL"(The same ones who got accused of allowing rampant sexual harassments/assault at the company, go figure) so she got most of her stuff stripped away in favor of bayek. And don't get me wrong, I really like Bayek, but Aya is supposed to be at least(if not moreso) important to the story and she's just not really onscreen much.
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