Ever wanted to see a game fail. :P
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I don't ever wish failure on any game because I like to see progress. However, I am absolutely tickled at how some games, like Warfighter, fail, because those are the games that don't make any progress.
For me, it's BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma...
...is what I would say if I were huffing massive amounts of paint. Joking aside, I can't really think of any kinds of games that I'd like to fail. I'd love to see them stop milking the Repetitive Modern War FPS Cows if that's what you mean. Though if games like Halo and Call of Duty kicked the bucket, I feel like people would probably burn down Microsoft and Activision's buildings and trample all their employees. I mean after all, according to the stories about MW3 last year, isn't that just what they did to get the game?
...is what I would say if I were huffing massive amounts of paint. Joking aside, I can't really think of any kinds of games that I'd like to fail. I'd love to see them stop milking the Repetitive Modern War FPS Cows if that's what you mean. Though if games like Halo and Call of Duty kicked the bucket, I feel like people would probably burn down Microsoft and Activision's buildings and trample all their employees. I mean after all, according to the stories about MW3 last year, isn't that just what they did to get the game?
I hear this a lot, and I only half agree with you.lRookiel said:
I want to see Infinity Ward fail, because they suck, but I want Treyarch to survive. Why? Well, this is why:
They appear to be growing slowly insane. I truly believe them to be our best hope for a truly insane triple A shooter.
Call of Duty: Space Scorpion Wars! Jetpacks, freeze rays, armored scorpion Calvary vs Space Godzilla.
I can dream, can't I?
OT: Aside from Infinity Ward's CoDs, no, not really. Maybe World of Warcraft, as I see it strangling all other MMOs, but that's never really had an affect on me.
Never seen Nostalgia Chick, and critiquing Lara or Dante's character is like critiquing an B action movie star. You're there to see some badass give one liners and blow things up. Not everything has to be deep and artistic and try to make a statement. Honestly I don't remember much of her character since the only Tomb Raider I played was the first one when it came out, and I remember her being a female Indiana Jones.BrotherRool said:
I can tell you that, it's not secretly there. Though you seem to have an issue with boobs, do you honestly think the author was trying to attract people by drawing boobs in their comic? One of the first things people noticed about new Lara is she had smaller boobs, so in an effort to show how different they are the author exaggerated old Lara's. Though you seem like one of those people who read waaaay to far into crap and see things that aren't even there. There's nothing of hope or imagination or forgetting how to dream in there. Where did you pull that from? They're mad because they got fired for the new hip trendy guys and going "why do people like that crap?". It's like listening to you're favorite radio station and then having them play Justin Beiber. That's what the people are into now, you just didn't go with the trend. I can agree their forgetting in booze, but not about what you said. Can you imagine reading it without them drinking and how it would look? The booze is used as an excuse to let them ***** and moan and be stupid.
And the game proved them wrong, I'd love to see DmC prove all the haters wrong by being good. If it doesn't I can say I told you so.
i'd like to see the following fail
CoD
Battlefield
GTA
Madden
and
Farcry3 just for annoying me with all the fucking adds
CoD
Battlefield
GTA
Madden
and
Farcry3 just for annoying me with all the fucking adds
I saw that, and that just made me think the leaked ending is true. If it is the ending is going to be so much worse than that cutscene.Punch You said:
the series[/quote]Shadowsetzer said:
I'm torn on this; I want DmC to fail just because of how they screwed up the Devil May Cry feel, but at the same time, I'm worried that a failure might kill the franchise as a whole.[/quote]the series is already dead to me, but i'd rather see it die a honorable death than become some bastardization. If they kept the gameplay i would accept it but there is nothing left from the original series but the name.
Honestly? Every game that is hyped up to the nth degree, the rage on forums is glorious when games like Duke Nukem Forever flop, imagine the same scenario with Half Life: Episode 3!
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My view is if you want to make a completely different game make a different game. A name has expectations and a promise of quality. Not to mention theres already a lack of new IPs, so if they have new ideas they should make new games instead of butchering old ones.The Tall Nerd said:
Street Fighter X Tekken.
Luckily, it kinda did fail. No one really cares about it anymore in the fighting game scene.
Luckily, it kinda did fail. No one really cares about it anymore in the fighting game scene.
I don't know by what standards you're holding the new XCOM game to, but the games it was based off of emphasized replayability and strategy, and the new XCOM is fairly shallow from that perspective.Grey_Focks said:
The macro game is all about making sure you can rush enough satellites into the air fast enough to make finances a non-issue before you lose too many members. The micro game is about moving carefully enough that you don't spawn more monster closets than you can handle. You only really need to get good at doing those two things and XCOM becomes a breeze, regardless of difficulty.
I wasn't making out that it was anything the author was trying at all, in fact I'd say the opposite, I just meant it backfired with me, because I think I was meant to like the old guys and think the young ones were being a bit silly.TehCookie said:
And there's a reason they're b-movies rather than a-movie action stars. But actually thats unfair to b-movies, because b-movies often have interesting action stars, just not very complicated ones. It's part of the reason b-movies are worth watching. Think of Bruce Campbells career =D He would never have made it if his characters were flat. That weren't deep but they were interesting, like how in Predator you can give everyone a one line label. 'Guy who tells inappropriate jokes' 'hunter' 'non-talkative tough guy.' But that one line was a strong inline and it made them interesting and helped set Predator as a film that's talked about decades later.
But Lara wasn't like that, she was an A-movie knock off rather than a b-film star. She's one of those characters out of the really big budget blockbusters that people watch and forget instantly, a Battleships star to a Transformers star. heck you even described her as an Indiana Jones knock-off. Not that that couldn't work. Nathan Drake is an Indiana Jones knock off, but when people describe him he's a joke cracking everyman. He's nowhere as big as Lara Croft, but people who've heard of him but haven't played the games could probably make a fair go at describing his personality. Lara Croft? I've played some of the games and watched the film, but I couldn't tell you if she was nerdy or outgoing, romantic or a party girl. Confident or does Nathan Drake/Indiana Jones 'oh crud oh crud I'm going to die' thing.
Oh wait a sec, old Dante is a good example. I think new Dante is a significant downgrade even if I'm not a hater. But both old Dantes were b-movie action stars, like you said and they have a very strong wisecracking, utterly calm in the face of danger persona that instantly comes to mind. It's not deep, but it's not cardboard. And actually DMC3 had a really strong personal Dante storyline. He's got all kinds of things going on, think of Vergil.
So it's really not a b-film thing, it's Lara Croft herself. I mean to be fair, it was bound to happen because when they sat down to create her the geminating thought process was 'what if the lead protagonist is a women?' (the plumber thing I mentioned was a direct quote from the original developers), but being a women isn't a personality description at all. . It#s like making the central thing about your protagonist that he has brown hair. There's no surprise it turned out flat. Whereas Dante's creation was 'lets make someone cool' and that is a personality description and gives a key into actual actions.
as much as i think COD failing would bring a revolution in the VG industry, i just dont see that happening. there are too many "L33T" teenagers (AKA my generation) that cant play anything with the slightest bit of pacing without foaming at the mouth, and COD has also proven that simplicity sells. a pop up gallery is all blops 2 needed to simulate to make 1 BILLION DOLLARS. Call of duty only seems to be getting bigger. at least it has one benefit: it keeps all the squeaky kids and the "L33T" people out of the other games that are definitely better off without them.xPixelatedx said:
I'll join the list of people wishing CoD to fail in particular and all 'spunkgargleweewee' games in general.