Perhaps I'm just showing my age, but does online, competitive multiplayer seem to not be as great as it used to be? I have fond memories of Halo 2, 3 and actually, even Reach during the years they were popular. It almost seems like a golden age to me that has since passed. These days we've got Fortnite, Overwatch, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 (!), etc. It just doesn't seem like online gaming is as good as it used to be. What are everyone else's thoughts?
I'm no marketing or business strategist, but it seems to me like Microsoft has almost no coherent strategy for the Xbox product. Other than Forza, Gears and Halo, I can't think of any exclusives they have or have lined up. Gears 4 was actually a good game, and Halo 5 was, except for the single-player, pretty good also; however, Halo 5 was 3 years ago and Gears was 2. There has been a drought of exclusives for 2 years now. Serious question: what are they doing?
Aside from the NES catalogue that comes with Switch Online, where is the Retro Catalogue/Virtual Console? Come on Nintendo, you have such a great catalogue of older titles that could be on the Switch, and surely even GC era could be included now. What are they waiting on, if anything? Seems like a lot of money just sitting on the table.
A combination of Rogue Squadron (space combat), KOTOR (general feel, etc.), Star Wars Galaxies (exploration and MMO-ness) and the Jedi Knight games (combat).
They honestly should have released the game after the movie, if that is what it took to have more content. They should have taken 2 of the expansion packs and rolled those into the original product. Thoughts? Agreement, disagreement?
More vehicles. More weapon variety (close, medium and medium-long range instead of all close to close-medium range combat). Bombers for fighting infantry and ground vehicles. Better air vehicle controls, specifically aiming the blaster cannons. Old Republic era maps, vehicles, infantry units and heroes. Would have preferred that this was a class-based shooter, but the card customization thing is ok I guess.
You know, game devs are at least hiding most loading screens behind cutscenes and what-now now, but I am pretty disappointed that "next-gen" has focused on better graphics and physics while neglecting the reduction of load times and installation times. To be honest, a good looking last-gen game with no load times or installs would be just fine with me. Instead we have games that have increased 8 fold in size and have *increased* load times and installation times.
I haven't played Phantom Pain yet but I've played Ground Zeroes and I simply must play the mission non-lethal. Why you ask? Well, the two guards at the front gate themselves don't even know who Skull Face and XOF are, let alone what they are doing there. As far as I can tell they're just some random US Marines tasked with guarding what they are told are terrorists ("enemy combatants" as one puts it). One conversation between a couple guards shows that even they're uncomfortable with how locked down and intense the base is becoming. Yeah, they're not civilians, but they're just doing their job aren't they? Remember in the tanker mission of MGS2? The only enemies you were allowed to kill were the terrorists that took over the boat. The marines listening to the Metal Gear Ray speech were to be left alone and simply avoided (partly because there were so many of them! haha)
Try to answer this as best you can without spoiling anything please. Does the Phantom Pain pit you against more deserving enemies like the Cipher group and XOF soldiers or is it more of this morally ambiguous fighting against everyday grunts?
I am at the part where you are interrogating Junior at his hideout in Oxenfurt and I'm wondering... why has Geralt been intent on killing him since the start of the quest? I seem to recall him being someone who Dandelion got into trouble with but only saw him as a lead, just like Sigi Reuven.
Also, does it seem strange to anyone else how he shows up at the Arena and Geralt doesn't try to chase him down but instead goes on looking in the casino etc. like he doesn't know where he is?
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