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I like being the good guy, I just don't like being the good guy that takes orders.I’d like to play the good guy sometimes. I’d like to be the police/sheriff/navy instead of the gangster/pirate.
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I like being the good guy, I just don't like being the good guy that takes orders.I’d like to play the good guy sometimes. I’d like to be the police/sheriff/navy instead of the gangster/pirate.
I’d like to play the good guy sometimes. I’d like to be the police/sheriff/navy instead of the gangster/pirate.
If you're willing to go indie, and you like tactical FPS games, there's Ready or Not, a game in which you play as SWAT charging into FUBAR situations to rescue hostages and demand the bad guys to surrender or face the business end of your gun. You get a better rank for taking them alive, but that can be easier said than done, as some levels feature fanatics like Islamic Terrorists who'll gladly go down fighting than be taken to justice, and many crooks will fake their surrender only to draw another weapon moments later.If we include fantasy and such its probably common, but I can't think of any AAA games where you play law enforcement except for True Detective and its spin-offs (all very old), LA Noire, and Sleeping Dogs (a cheat, because youre undercover, its a crime game at its core).
That was probably my first post in this thread, and I agree completely. It's always what comes to mind. I love and hate RE4 for that. Capcom could easily serve fans of the original style too but choose not too. Just leaving money on the table.I hate the transition that REsident Evil had from a survival horror to an action game. RE 4 was a good game but it wasnt a good Resident Evil game if that makes sense.
There's also Shadows of Doubt where you play as a detective.If you're willing to go indie, and you like tactical FPS games, there's Ready or Not, a game in which you play as SWAT charging into FUBAR situations to rescue hostages and demand the bad guys to surrender or face the business end of your gun. You get a better rank for taking them alive, but that can be easier said than done, as some levels feature fanatics like Islamic Terrorists who'll gladly go down fighting than be taken to justice, and many crooks will fake their surrender only to draw another weapon moments later.
Here's some gameplay footage. Looks like it has some minor mods (SWAT 4 voiceovers, bodycam HUD), but otherwise looks like vanilla gameplay.
Funny thing is that Ready or Not did face some backlash from the ACAB crowd, simply because it's a game where you play as a cop and your goal is to arrest and/or shoot at violent criminals.But yea, I've had it up to here with the western "bad guys ackshually good, police corrupt and eebil" trope. Oh these despicable people who sell women like chatle and sell drugs to kids HAVE A HEART?! Yes they shot 10 people in broad daylight, but THEIR CLOSE RELATIONS! They're pushing drugs and making kids miserable TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES.
Fuck off.
Ready or Not’s realism is effective enough to disturb but too shallow not to descend into farce, or worse, Blue Lives Matter cosplay with fascist overtones and alt-right dog whistles.
Then there’s the law and order ideology that frames the rest of the game. America is on the brink. Crime is at an all-time high. It can’t be fixed, only subdued. The game trains you to fear everyone you meet, not as commentary but as wish-fulfillment, and with seemingly no awareness of the nation’s recent reckoning with an epidemic of police killings.
That hasn’t stopped Ready or Die from receiving a flood of positive user-reviews praising the game on Steam... Others likely because of the way it drapes that gameplay in strong-man cop worship (there are no female police in the game yet) and provides a neat and tidy way to counter one system of violence with another.
No, the series would have died if they continued doing fixed camera angles tank control survival horror with veru limited inventory and obtuse puzzles.That was probably my first post in this thread, and I agree completely. It's always what comes to mind. I love and hate RE4 for that. Capcom could easily serve fans of the original style too but choose not too. Just leaving money on the table.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on it when you're done, because I can easily imagine myself having the same issue as you.Well thats a relief at least, was gonna be really let down if the story went like i thought it would
Completely right on the character archetypes, think the fact that most of them arent the typical JRPG party members is what made me warm up to them
It was doing pretty well, I know later entries sold more but the games sold and scored consistently well.No, the series would have died if they continued doing fixed camera angles tank control survival horror with veru limited inventory and obtuse puzzles.
There was PvP in earlier beta builds, but it's been scrapped and no-longer exists in current builds. Instead, you get cooperative multiplayer, where all players are tasked with taking care of AI suspects, whose amount and locations on the map are randomized to keep you on your toes.I had a vague awareness of it and had it on my Steam wishlist as a possible Rainbow Six Siege replacement, except it's not a competitive multiplayer. (Rainbow Six I had on PS4, but people say it sucks nowadays, went over the top.) It sounds good if it has all that.
There's one map in RoN with only a couple of suspects holed out in a house which seems to be inspired by Ruby Ridge. Also, the Islamic terrorists shooting up a nightclub feels reminiscent of the Pulse Nightclub shooting.R6S was neat in that many of its maps were inspired by specific operations, but the White Mask (muh generic terrorists) were boring and lame.
Or SWAT, as it is in RoN's case. You have to be able to quickly identify who is a threat by watching their body language and attire as you scan their hands for weapons. You're expected to give suspects warnings to drop their weapons unless they present an obvious threat to you or someone else, and are penalized for being excessive or reckless. It's not a game that you can just rush about shooting everything in sight. You can even roll onto the site with less-than-lethal weapons like Beanbag Shotguns and Tasers if you're really intent on bringing the crooks in alive.The jackass from the second quote is willfully ignoring that a game like Ready or Not is portraying how careful paramilitaries fight that they DON'T shoot everyone on sight and have to be very cautious to avoid collateral damage.
No, the series would have died if they continued doing fixed camera angles tank control survival horror with veru limited inventory and obtuse puzzles.
It was doing pretty well, I know later entries sold more but the games sold and scored consistently well.
I mean, when you have games like Sonic 06, Shadow the Hedgehog and Boom the bar is REALLY low.There have been more good Sonic games than bad ones in the past 15 years.
Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't THAT badI mean, when you have games like Sonic 06, Shadow the Hedgehog and Boom the bar is REALLY low.
Great game, but it was crazy how brutal the difficulty was, especially juxtaposed with the ultra normie songlist.It's a shame that Elite Beat Agents never got a sequel.
I mean, when you have games like Sonic 06, Shadow the Hedgehog and Boom the bar is REALLY low.
Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't THAT bad
I don't know the sales figures for those ones upon their original releases, but CV was a spinoff (perceived/marketed as such anyway) on the worst selling system of its generation so I'd be more surprised if it actually sold well. I'm pretty sure RE1/RE0 did fine, I'd think they comfortably passed the million mark at least.Didn't Code Veronica, REmake and RE0 kinda flopped commercially?, granted that was most likely because those games were originally released on the Dreamcast and GC and those consoles didn't do well, regardless i just can't imagine Resident Evil going on for much longer without RE4.
Japanese OST for Sonic CD is god tier.As an aside, I think this franchise has some of the best music in video game history. If I didn't explicitly mention that one of these games has bad music, it's a total fucking banger.