Triple A games gone bad

This is a big article so bear with me, it is worth reading, we can discuss about it =D

It has been interesting for the gaming world in the past year and a half, we had big AAA titles come to

consoles and pc, yet I feel they lack something I cannot put my finger on, either way here goes. Now for

starters Halo 4 is a game that I was anticipating big time and when I got it it just didnt felt right, for the

campaign Im going to say it has a cool story based of some books to my knowledge but for the gamers

that only followed the game story is just a giant mess, the gameplay is what you expect to be, but with

the addition of the new enemies its just feel weird in my opinion, the big  prometheans are cool to fight  

but the crawlers and watchers aka (dogs and flying bastards), they just felt stupid.

                Digging deep into the story the interaction between chief and Cortana didnt feel like  in

previous games, this was more of a hero- whining girl interaction rather than a hero- A.I. interaction,

Cortana had pretty much a human  mindset in the way she talked rather than being the A.I. character she

had in other games, the ending was weak rather than the awesome endings of halo 1, 3 or reach, so yea I

wasnt amazed by the campaign. N

Now the real problem comes in multiplayer, they brought the BR back all right but the weapon is not as

accurate as the dmr so the 90% of people uses dmr, the new grenades are useless, I rather have my

flame granades from halo 3 which we never had in online multiplayer than this crappy granades, now the

gameplay of the standard team slayer just got messed up, let me put it this way,  halo multiplayer works

with everyone spawning with the same weapons and then you have to fight your way for power weapons,

now im sorry to say but they made it like call of duty a little bit with the new ordnance drops (killstreaks),

this defeats the fun in halo multiplayer, ordnance drops now turns one team into camping in one corner,

killing from  a far distance call more weapons and repeat, this is no fun at all at least not in halo, now the

game shipped with not many maps which nowadays the dlc strategy is working wonderfully for gaming

companies but I hate it.

If I pay 60 or more bucks in my country I should have a complete game, I am seriously considering making

an anti dlc campaign because it is just stupid, you are paying for some dlcs that are already in the disc

but blocked, mass effect 3 anyone???, of course there are some freaking awesome dlcs but they are few

and far between like dark souls dlc which is amazing, but paying for a dlc that has 3 maps????? Really???? 

That pisses me off, do not buy dlcs from any game it, will teach the gaming companies a lesson and they

will begin making games the old fashioned way. All in all halo 4 doesnt have an amazing campaign or

multiplayer component, it is just average, I cant compare it to the halo 3 multiplayer or the awesome

campaign from reach, period.

Moving on, Gears of war: Judgment sigh this game is just using the unreal engine, the gears

characters, the gears trademark in general but it is not a gears of war game, believe me, the campaign is

a big pile of shit, sorry to people can fly, they made Bulletstorm which in my personal opinion is a fun

game, but this was an arcade mess, the story was weak, so was the dialogue, I wasnt connected to any

of the characters, even with Cole which was a badass is just plain stupid here, it doesnt add up anything

to the story, it doesnt add up anything good to the gameplay.

On the contrary it takes away some basic trademark awesome stuff in this game, again they made it more

simple, you can only hold three weapons instead of four, dont ask me why but that was actually cool to

have, they removed the ability to plant granades on the ground or wall, the new weapons are not that

cool and they just **** up the hammerburst, they took out horde mode and put it in some sections of

the campaign and some on the multiplayer with the new beast mode or whatever???????? Wow really, and

the multiplayer has like just 6 maps divided in the various game types, this felt like watered down dlc of

gears 3, luckily I can change it back for gears 3 and all is good.

This is a sensitive one Resident Evil 6, bare with me ok?... I am not the biggest fan of resident evil

games, for me the best game in the franchise is RE 4, it just had that balance on survival and action with

the mix of clunky controls that make you panic like a little girl and poop your pants, for starters the

survival part is gone, this is a third person shooter with the resident evil game on it, now the game has

much more refined controls but since RE 5 the franchise in terms of survival gameplay has gone down,

now dont get me wrong RE 5 and 6 are amazing coop games, they are truly one of the most fun coop

games period, but in essence the resident evil gameplay is gone, Resident Evil 6 is not a survival horror

game anymore, it shifted in something different, if I ask you today about Mario, Zelda, Metal gear Solid, 

metroid, starcraft, you know what genre it is, the gameplay evolved in some way but in essence you do

the same things in game like years ago in the first games, call it platforming, puzzling, sneaking, etc, you

do  the same things in those triple A franchises, well in Resident evil you dont, this time around they

tried to make an action game for the western world gamer.. tis true, and this didnt bode well to capcom,

which it has been messing around with several of his franchises, like devil may cry, bionic commando, lost

planet. Anyway hardcore fans are pissed at resident evil 6 and capcom is blaming their faults to an

excessive outsourcing in its games, o well we will see what happens next.

Assassins Creed 3 is one of the biggest letdowns for me, the gameplay feels old now, they are pumping

AC games faster than cods or at the same rate, which is bad, this game had tons of glitches, the story

was really bad, the main missions are same old, track guy, hunt him down, and kill him from behind,the

dialogue of characters was one of the most retarded and badly reproduced, the voice of Connor was

stupid, the voice of the father of desmond was appallingly bad, I dont know if voice actor or the lines of

the character was bad but is was, and in general Connor was a boring main character, with predictable

moves, in the other hand haytham was soo much more interesting than Connor.

 And this is one of the most annoying gameplay mechanics games should never have, AC3 had it several

times and I wanted to tear my control apart and punch my monitor, ok lets say there is a cutscene, right,

then in the cutscene there is a barrel of dynamite like 3 meters from your guy(connor).. then the thing

assplodes and you are dizzy and you cant move right or walk or see or anything and you have to walk like

10 miles with a character that only crawls, instead of running like a gazelle, instead of that the cutscene

could have ended to the recovery of the character and then moving normally, PLEASE game developers

dont do it again, I have seen it in other games and its so FRUSTRATING. Also Assassins creed games

have a fame of being really slow at the beginning and this is no exeption, you have to take the slow start

of Haytham and then the slow start of connor whos real name is howgstrouhskkdvñbla, lol. Another

problem it has is that they put you too often in following quests or missions, you have to follow this guy

to some place and you are just strolling trying not to listen to the boring conversation.  Sigh,

Anyways, I have to say AC3 grace was the naval missions, OMGWTFBBQ, this was freaking awesome,

thats why we are having AC black flag which is about pirates, the core of that game I bet are those naval

missions, anyways if I had just played pure naval missions I would have said this was the best AC ever

period but is not, it is the weakest, in previous games you had to take control of districts, train assassins,

and go find some awesome tombs, the tombs were amazing on previous ACs and we didnt had that here.

Another problem in AC3 is that the environment that you play on is not fun like in Italy,  this looked just

plain boring, navigating through the city wasnt as good and the city didnt felt alive. I hope that they fix

these problems with the next AC  because after every AC launch I say to myself, here we go again, like

this is going to be a drag. Anyways it was fun at times , and when I say times I mean on the open sea.

Moving on kitties, last but not least DIABLO 3, make no mistake this was a good game but it has too

many bad gameplay mechanics and game design, maybe it was too soon but we gamers wanted it, I

finished this game 8 times, only 1 in the hardest difficulty, sometimes trying to run from enemies in the

last chapter, the game is fun indeed but the loot is always bad for the average gamer, and here comes

the worst thing ever happened to D3, the auction house, yes, the auction house made it that the

developers forced players to buy gear in  real money action or normal game currency auctions, the game

loot drop the majority of time drops garbage.

 I remember in Diablo 2 or torchlight or whatever action-rpg in your progression you get some good

weapons from loot or you could combine some gems and make awesome gear for the current level, here

you cant, period, I played 3 times Diablo 2 with friends and for me the environment, the sound, the

music, the dialogue, the characters, the bosses were the best, it was a breathing world in its own way

and I could really play some time just for the looting, in this game I cant stand it, I it didnt took long till

I grew tired of it, with the addition of pvp is increases its longevity but not by much.

Ok this is the end of my rant, if you want to talk about other games you thought were going to be good

and wasnt feel free or just reply to what I posted, =D

DEGABOSS

Maybe post this in a blog and create a summary for a thread? You might be able to get more people on board with the discussion that way. 

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lol

Well reading the games you've mention no damn wonder you feel like they are missing something. None of those games has anything that inovates or makes itself stand out from any of the other games in the same genres. Assasins creed kind of is it's own thing but every single one of those games felt shallow, slow to get started and in general boring games anyway. The new gears game was a cash grab and so was the new halo game.  Try not playing sequals. All those games do lack something that I can never put my finger on but they aren't horrible. Maybe your just bored of the same old gameplay? Try games that aren't sequals and branch out from the main AAA games marketed to 15yr boys who want to kill shit on screen.

About halo 4. The relationship between Cortana and MC is more emotional and emphasized a lot in halo 4.Cortana helps build MC's character in halo 4.The watchers and crawlers can be really annoying on harder or higher.The watchers can easily be beaten with the auto-turrent armour ability.343i is planing ot address your problem with the weapon sandbox with a weapon tweaking update that is currently being tested which will release on june 3rd.I cared little about the rest of your OP.

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Michael0134567

Summary of TC's post:  The quality of AAA game sequels has gone down, partly due to dumbed down gameplay, but also due to poor design decisions.

My answer:  I agree. :P

This is a big article so bear ...

...DEGABOSS

degaboss

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