Seth Carter said:
Destiny 2 (which is Destiny 1 but worse in almost every conceivable way)
How so?
SckizoBoy said:
What's your rationale behind this entry? I know people are allowed to have their own opinion, but damn, that game bored me to tears and everyone I know IRL who played it (between us, me and a buddy took turns and still couldn't be arsed to finish it).
Perception of quality notwithstanding, though, surely that's a previous gen game?
By the criteria I used, Colonial Marines fits. Granted, it was released on the prior console generation, so arguably it doesn't. If so, Wolfenstein gets bumped up one, and Doom comes back into the #5 spot.
But as to why it's on the list...because I liked it?
Okay, that isn't an answer. But as to why I like it, I'm going to start by establishing that the false advertising and glitches don't really concern me, least how it relates to the game itself. That false advertising was used is iffy, but it doesn't impact the game's quality in of itself. Similar to Halo 5, which had a similarly misleading ad campaign, but that it's misleading is the campaign's fault, not the game's. And as for glitches, obviously they exist, because there's footage on YouTube that demonstrates it, but speaking personally, I didn't encounter any glitches. Maybe the mech loader fight, but that's it.
Still, I did enjoy the game, and do consider it to be "good" at the end of the day. I thought it did a good job of capturing the feel of Aliens, in that while I had the firepower of a pulse rifle (among other things), the game never made me feel completely invincible. That the xenomorphs were tough, and I had to keep looking at the motion tracker if I wanted to stay alive. Certainly helps that I'm a fan of the Aliens/Predator setting. The characters, while not special, were ones I cared about, and it did a good job of selling the hell the marines were going through. I thought there was decent weapon variety (even if the phased plasma pulse rifle is absolutely useless), and I like the health system used. Regenerating health, but only to a point, with the health metre being divided by bars.
Furthermore, I actually do like that you take on WY mercs. I know I'm overthinking this, but there's something to be said in the fact that WY can engage the Colonial Marines with impunity, and think they can get away with it. Because they can. Go just a few decades later in the timeline, and we see that the Marines are basically doing WY's bidding (see the AvP games for instance). Now, I know this game wasn't written to act as some kind of bridge between the USCMC actually serving the United Americas and being in the pocket of the Company, but still, it did occur to me. And even that aside, I found the gunplay decent, and it does mix the game up when you have to engage the mercs and xenos at the same time. Plus, there are some distinct sections, such as the sewer sequence where you're stripped of weapons, or the giant rhino xenomorph.
That said, the game isn't perfect. The graphics aren't the greatest, and the Hicks retcon (I know it's not technically a retcon, but whatever) is unneeded. FFS, Alien 3 came out two decades before this game was released, GET OVER IT. I know a lot of people dislike Hicks and Newt being killed off, but can we please just move on? But even that aside, the plot isn't all that great. And while I like the characters, none of them are "great" either. Still, I do like the game. And if not for the controversy surrounding the ad campaign and Gearbox siphoning funds for Borderlands 2, I think the game would be better received, or at least, not disliked as much.