EA Dismisses Middling Medal of Honor Metacritic Score

[Mezzo.]

Eh, I called it that it wouldn't receive praise. If the series is still doing the same thing it's always been doing, let me say, it hasn't been good since the Allied Assault pack, and even then it wasn't anywhere above, say, Call of Duty.

But, it is a new take, so let's be nice to it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Who else pictured this with the title ?

I don't get it?

What's Garrus saying there, I can't read it!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Who else pictured this with the title ?

LOL, good one. Made me chuckle quite a bit, fellow Alex Grey fan. (That's the guy who did the original drawing you use for an avatar, or maybe Adam Jones did, not sure...)

What was the joke?

 

[Ubermetalhed]

It is the unfortunate staple of what FPS games should be like nowadays.

'It is unfortunate, but all other FPS's should be like it.'

What?

So it is sad... but all other FPS's should be like it?

You, sir, make no sense at all.

'It is unfortunate that the gaming industry should make COD their new FPS template.'

Uber's statement made perfect sense to me.

That's not what he said.

"It is the unfortunate [implying he dislikes the series] staple of what FPS games should be like nowadays [meaning he wants other developers to look to the Call of Duty series for ideas]"

You should probably read what others type before quoting them.

Um...frankly no. What GBlair wrote was exactly what I was getting at.

The FPS genre is saturated with COD styled gaming and hence developers are trying to emulate said style case in point the new Medal of honor game. So my statement of how it is unfortunate that COD is now the staple of what FPS style gaming, in the minds of most publishers, developers and even gamers, should be nowadays still stands.

I hope that clarifies a comment which didn't require this much discourse.

 

[Autofaux]

Danger Close Games had one job. ONE. And we get a piddly 4-5 hour campaign that isn't sure which direction its meant to take, and is very, very buggy. Too busy cosying up to professional killers than doing their goddamn job.

If this is the kind of approach they are attempting at "taking on Call of Duty", all they are doing is making the game reek of good old useless Medal of Honor sequels.

I was excited. I gave them a go. They fell through. This is rubbish.

 

[Irridium]

75? Honestly, people. Since when is scoring in the top quarter a bad thing?

Truly jaded and spoiled, this generation is.

Agreed.

We live in sad times where anything less then an 85 is considered a complete failure of a new franchise.

 

[1blackone]

I played the online beta. Its LITERALLY Battlefield Bad Company 2 sprinkled with CoD killstreaks.

the soldiers look the same, feel the same, the guns shoot with zero recoil the same. you take damage in the same sans-nervous system way. You can't go prone. Everything. THEN they took stuff away. you can't use vehicles.

It was like they were purposely trying to make a game worse than BFBC and COD:MW while still technically having most of the same features.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Off topic: So yeh...now COD ripoff has failed do you mind publishing a new timesplitters game EA? You know seeing how you like money and high scores and all...

EA may publish it, but if you want to ***** at someone to make a game ***** at Crytek who bought [http://www.next-gen.biz/features/cryteks-advantageous-timesplitters-buy] Free Radical.

OT: Never the less, the game looked like an ape of COD and BC2. If I want to play COD (God knows why the fuck I'd want to do that), I'll play COD. If I want to play BC2 (yay) I'll do that.

Well I actually kinda hope they get good sales out of this so they can learn from their mistakes and make a much better game down the line. Picasso didn't make the Mona Lisa on his first try painting.
(Before anyone flames me for the "Mona Lisa" reference, just know they were trying something new with this Medal of Honor.)

I never said COD was original but it is the unfortunate staple of what FPS games should be like nowadays. And medal of honor looked near identical to the recent COD game.

Well, now isn't that the most defeated statement about First Person Shooters I've ever heard.
The only reason why it's a "template" for FPS's is because the consuming mass will only buy that. Once we stop showing them that we want recycled garbage for a game, then they'll learn to stop making it.

no prone in multiplayer even if there's prone in singleplayer

That's not really all that surprising given the fact that there's no prone in BC and MOH was built off the same multi-player engine.
No prone is made for balanced multi-player. Gamers have become too reliant of going prone to the point that you take it away, they whine like you took a 5 year olds toy away.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It's not Garrus, it's the council guy from the turians. Get it now?

No... now before I have to slap myself for my stupidity, could you explain it to the dumbass? Is it somehow connected to the council dismissing the Reapers?

 

[AndyRock]

I called it, ever since i played the closed beta, I was very iffy, and when I saw that they hadn't changed any of the gameplay in the open beta, I made up my mind. back to BC2 for me, hoping BF3 will be good.

 

[TurboPanda]

75? Honestly, people. Since when is scoring in the top quarter a bad thing?

Truly jaded and spoiled, this generation is.

We're not spoiled, we just want to make sure that the only games we buy are the ones that are worthy of our limited amount of money. Out of my entire game library I only have 2 games with an average score below 90% (and I got those for free with my xbox controller so they don't count) and I bet most people on this site are the same.