That's why this guy is popular:
How is it a power fantasy to be a surprise volunteer henchman for people that would rather kill you than pay you
It's been like that for the last couple of years, and even budget wise you've got pieces of shit like Duskborn that had governments spend millions of dollars on propaganda against the USA.
I thought the series was on ice after Absolution and all the gay shit that came after was tacked onto that game. The more you know.
This is why Hitman 3 is good. When they put out the Freelancer mode for free, they also gave everyone the Hitman 1 and 2 content. You always could get plenty of mileage out of the missions because of all the challenges and special modes but freelancer really should be a mainstay for the series from now on.
The hint for why is your notice that JRPGs started it. It's for wank/schlick material, so it won't end.
Those dont even exist anymore? They were a brief experiment like 10 years ago. Hitman 1 had it but that was 2016. The last one I remember was RE revelations 2. For most consumers theyre very alienating so they just stopped.
Don't agree 100% but yeah, what were they thinking by putting AoE4 in the same time period as AoE2, a game that's been resurrected for a long time now and gets new content regularly? AoE4 offers nothing new and meaningful, it's just a shittier 2 by every metric. I also don't like 3's gameplay overall but the whole colonialism/age of discovery/line warfare theme it has going on is at least interesting and different plus the way some home city shipments are designed are pretty cool and offer wildly different playstyles for a single civ.
He is one of the few people in the game that treats you better than your surviving family who even after you save them countless times and prove you're "for the hood" they blast you. Sweet didn't come around until about mid way and close to the end of the game but Woozie immediately treated Carl like he was a friend and knew he was capable. Kind of crazy to me that GTA SA is still a great criticism of this hood gangbanger lifestyle that very few games have done. Saints Row tried it with the first two games then went off the rails lol.
So many games try to casually remarket themselves into some kind of "definitive collection of games". Hitman.. World of Assassination? But it's still just the newest hitman game.. engine? All call of duty games putting content into the BR warzone whatever they call it.
I want to play as a cat in FPS in a regular suburban town.
Problem with rockstar is they take it too seriously. It's the same problem naughty dog has, they see games as "experiences" and not just cool toy with a story on top. The narrative is optional, it should be treated as optional and the gameplay is what comes first. Rockstars game design forces narrative into the gameplay to immersion breaking degrees. All their "systems" and attention to detail is a gimmick to sell the world, it's not like an immersive sim where you can exploit it to your benefit which is what I expect it to be. Missions are not problem solving sessions, they're just cutscenes which you take part in. By taking narrative so seriously they try to write something Hollywood quality like a hipster and end up selling a narrative which is subpar and less thoughtful than something which doesn't take itself as seriously, say doom or dead rising. It's part and parcel of western game design to de emphasize gameplay to such degrees but companies which focus on narrative more end up extremely pretentious and equally hollow.
Didn't this start with GTA IV? In San Andreas you play as a gangsta nigga that can fly (stolen) military VTOL jets
