That was the Xbox's original calling, to be a console PC with a controller. Then the FPS boom exploded, and Xbox and its offspring the 360 became the console of choice for many FPS aficionados, mostly because of Halo being a Microsoft exclusive and being one of the biggest FPS games of the era.
At least the bald space marine guys were made to appeal to the audience by giving them a strong character to play as. Modern games that make the ''strong independent wahmen'' type characters make such characters to pontificate to the audience. I miss the days when female game characters were fun. I mean, nobody complained about Bastila Shan from KOTOR or Mass Effect's Femshep.
I really miss the 2000s through early-2010s.
Persona 3 is the best one
Samus, Jill Valentine, Lara Croft, Joanna Dark, Cammy White, et al were all strong wamyn. But they don't count because they're also sexy.
I like the idea, but not in current year. I can see it right now. Turok gets several racisms thrown at
Average stuff always gets the most hate because shitting on the really awful things is boring.
White people are the real dinosaurs that should go extinct
It gets thrown out in less than a year. Games with value are games that stick with you forever.
What's funny to me is that they have this reputation of playing the hardest game available to gamers today, yet I've got a funny feeling that if they played some of the harder games of the previous generations like Jedi Outcast or Halo on Legendary, they'd get massacred like pigs. They're too comfy with fighting bosses whose patterns they can figure out and counter. If they went up against enemies that adapt to their tactics or are completely unpredictable, they're fucked.
I know. Funny thing is, that used to be kosher for feminism; having a beautiful woman kick ass was once seen as ''empowering'' and ''badass'', like that was something to look up to. Now, the fact that they're attractive makes them a bad thing, because it appeals to the male fantasy, and feminism nowadays sees that as bad.
It's basically them disfiguring something once meant to be beautiful as a form of protest. As if guys salivating over someone like Naomi Hunter, Bastila Shan, or Zero Suit Samus is somehow tantamount to sexual assault.
Name 15 of those that came out this year that you have played every day.
Not every day, but every year.
It's not for everyone.
I'm gonna make two counterpoints that may seem contradictory, but please bear with me.
The same could also be done in those games. You just have to observe your enemies and change your strategy accordingly. It can apply like in Souls, but unlike Souls, it's not baked into the game.
The thing is, some games adapt to you, not just the other way around. You hide behind cover and pick them off, they chuck grenades to smoke you out, then shoot you in the face when you leap out of cover. You snipe them from afar, and they start zig-zagging to make you waste your ammo while moving close enough to make your sniping useless. It's one thing to have a hard boss that you adapt to with the right tactics and strategy, it's another thing entirely to have an enemy that adapts to your tactics and counters them based on what is effective.
Some games, yes, other games, no. Jedi Outcast, for instance, will always have snipers in the Nar Shaddaa level who can disintegrate your ass from five miles away no matter how easy the game is supposed to be. Oh, and you're forced to walk around in platforms and catwalks with little to no cover. Good luck.
There's nothing stopping anyone from playing NHL 95 now. It's still a great game that will turn 30 soon.
Yet people ditched it because of an outdated roster. That is my point entirely.
I'll say it till the day I die: New Vegas is in my Top 5, but Heaven have mercy, its fans should all be beaten with hammers.
