(November 16, 2015 at 10:19 am)Kaiser Wrote: The Call of Duty games and their similarly massively popular ilk are the junk food of the gaming industry - cheaply-assembled formulaic fluff that sells a fucktillion copies and makes a cuntillion dollars, and is quickly disposed of and forgotten about. You don't hear an older CoD like World At War being lauded as a benchmark of gaming perfection these days, do you, despite it being a blockbuster when it landed? The ones that are remembered are the really, genuinely great games - the Mass Effects, the Skyrims, the Arkham City's, to name a few off the top of my head. Some have cult followings, such as Okami (the only game I've ever played that did Zelda better than Zelda itself), but are fondly and rightfully remembered as being classics.
Nostalgia is bullshit. Games have never been better.
I love this blurb from a review for Black Ops 3 on metacritic.
Quote:If you’d like to play a limp amalgamation of Deus Ex, Crysis, and BioShock with a multiplayer mode you’ve been able to play eight times in as many years, then Call of Duty: Black Ops III is definitely for you. For the rest of you, it’s just another condom of a game to be spunked into and thrown in the trash.
That sums it up perfectly.
