For the little things, I liked the new Metal Slug Tactics game.
So after years of just mowing the enemy down, NOW they think about tactics?
Love the art style of wizard with guns,
Guns? You mean those metal wands that muggles use to kill each other?
The Avatar reveal was just weird. It seems like a game that was made decades too late.
There's no shortage of properties that have been adapted well after the release date of their source material.
Does anyone still care about James Cameron's Avatar? Did anyone really care at the time? Does anyone care about the sequel that's supposedly in the works?
If it was an Avatar game starring Aang I think at least some people would be very hyped for this game, but I have no idea what audience this Avatar game is for.
Avatar was the highest grossing film of all time, so yes, people cared. Going by traffic, people clearly do still care.
On a somewhat related note, can we just agree that revealing a new IP with a pre-rendered cinematic trailer is a complete waste of time?
Not really. Plenty of games have made their debuts with cinematic trailers, and do so well.
Halo Infinite's story looks cool, not that I'll ever play it. The Chief finally has a chance to be an actual character, now that he has to play the mentor to some rookie AI. I appreciated how he stopped to check on all the marines that died.
John's never not been a character. Even going just by the games, the level of characterization generally incre
They putting Tekken characters in Smash now. Alright then.
Still whoring out Smash then?
Ooooooo so Fusion was real good but its also the point where they started trying to have more story and introducing... sigh Adam which eventually let down the path to other M. So I'm not sure about this...
I don't think Fusion can be held accountable for that.
Samus is one of those characters whos backstory should never really be explicit, just hinted at. She works much better with it being mysterious.
Even if I agreed, it's way too late for that - the manga lay out her backstory explicitly.
What, what are you talking about? Pretty much everyone hated the story in that game, who the hell was defending it?
I'll happily defend Other M (to an extent).
It's not a good game, but it's not a bad one either, nor is it the worst Metroid game I played (that would be Hunters).
They are still doing Russia lol for the new battlefield. I swear it's the year 2200, and after the Russians have a reduced population, and are basically a rump state likely controlled by China, they will still be doing Russia.
Here some ideas...
US civil war, EU civil war, South American inter-state war, and of course aliens.
Russia's in the sweet spot for antagonists. It's not China (so no insecure CCP to piss off), the Russian people are "white" (so you don't get claims of racism), and Russia remains at odds with the US today.
That said, the claim that by 2042, the US and Russia are the only viable states left...really? I mean, nothing about 2042's backstory makes sense, but that's a whole other box of grenades.
As for aliens...yeah, good luck. Remember the backlash to Infinite Warfare? That didn't even need aliens to make people's heads explode.
Technically the Chinese are part of the other side in Battlefield 2142 so being a prequel 2042 might well have them too.
I'd like to think so, but this is DICE. They can't write a Battlefield story to save their lives (outside Bad Company, sort of).
I mean, even by the standards of 2042 to 2142, we have to accept that:
-The world went through global heating, then reverted to an ice age.
-The EU collapsed because Germany did (why Germany? It's a stable country), but by 2142, the EU has its successor fighting the PAC.
-China is apparently gone by 2042, but by 2142, it's part of the PAC.
I suspect that DICE doesn't care, and to be frank, a lot of Battlefield's playerbase probably don't care either. Story's never been a strength of Battlefield, even when the stories weren't absolute dog-shite.
