Computer games.

ijjysmith · November 13, 2012

I'm excited by the new Hitman.
Can someone confirm to me it will be boss please?

Brennan · November 13, 2012

ijjysmith said:
I'm excited by the new Hitman.
Can someone confirm to me it will be boss please?

It's funny. PC Gamer UK gave it 62/100. But every other review i've seen as rated it an 8/10 or above. The German version of PC Gamer even gave it their editor's choice award !

The PC Gamer UK review got loads of things factually wrong too, the guy seems to be a bit of a tit.

JamesEFC · November 13, 2012

Switched of listening to any cod news expecting same old same old. But read a review today and its perked my interest, anyone played it yet?

ijjysmith · November 13, 2012

Brennan91 said:
It's funny. PC Gamer UK gave it 62/100. But every other review i've seen as rated it an 8/10 or above. The German version of PC Gamer even gave it their editor's choice award !

The PC Gamer UK review got loads of things factually wrong too, the guy seems to be a bit of a tit.

Bugger.

Does that mean get it or not?!

Tubey · November 13, 2012

ijjysmith said:
Bugger.

Does that mean get it or not?!

If you liked the other Hitman games, there's nothing to suggest you aren't going to like this one.

ijjysmith · November 13, 2012

Tubey said:
If you liked the other Hitman games, there's nothing to suggest you aren't going to like this one.

That'll do me.

Brennan · November 13, 2012

Tubey said:
If you liked the other Hitman games, there's nothing to suggest you aren't going to like this one.

Pretty much.

The game has retained everything that makes Hitman great but the new engine makes the game feel a lot less clunky, the missions are more story driven and the whole thing seems to be a lot more polished.

Tubey · November 13, 2012

JamesEFC said:
Switched of listening to any cod news expecting same old same old. But read a review today and its perked my interest, anyone played it yet?

It's difficult to tell. This seems a reasonable review of it on Metacritic:

Look at my review history. Am I someone who jumps on a bandwagon in any way? Look at my review of mw3, and by the way, BO1 was mt favorite COD. BO2 is a compete waste of my money and it makes me happy mw3 was so poorly recieved. Granted, I've only played it for 1 night. But, the campaign is as most basic as possible, and the multiplayer is so steriotyplical that I amost knew what was going to happen next based on a game I played 5 years ago, and that game is blah blah blah. I let mw3 slide even though I knew it was the same as usual but I can't let this slide because now I have to sell this and accept a $30 dollar loss because I didn't listen to a !,000,000,000,000 other gamers.

But at the end of the day it's still Metacritic.

The problem with a game like CoD is that it's in all likelihood going to be the exact same thing you've played before with extra bells and whistles on.

If I were you, I'd rent it at the very most and only buy it if you were addicted to it after the rental.

heatmeiser · November 13, 2012

It's basically just Call of Duty DLC in a shiny box.

If you like those kind of games and can afford it, great.

heatmeiser · November 13, 2012

This is my latest purchase. Hotline Miami.

About as far from COD as you can get. It's like playing the original GTA games on LSD while balancing on a neon lightstrip.

And it has the best soundtrack since Vice City.

[video=youtube;UgXM7ivgYTo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXM7ivgYTo[/video]

This one's a bit more graphic.

It's like they travelled back to 1992, necked a load of acid and made a game of the film Drive.

Brennan · November 13, 2012

Seems weird that people who are happy to pay Â£30+ to watch 90 minutes of football a week would be so critical of spending Â£40 A YEAR on a video game which is similar to one they bought a year ago but adds a lot of new content.

It doesn't stifle innovation by purchasing these games, by that logic there wouldn't be amazing films released all the time because blockbusters are successful.

Tubey · November 13, 2012

Brennan91 said:
Seems weird that people who are happy to pay Â£30+ to watch 90 minutes of football a week would be so critical of spending Â£40 A YEAR on a video game which is similar to one they bought a year ago but adds a lot of new content.

It doesn't stifle innovation by purchasing these games, by that logic there wouldn't be amazing films released all the time because blockbusters are successful.

FFS two threads, one subject ^^

Ah well.

Perhaps, however, we need to think about the critical criteria we use. "I do wonder whether we should be scoring games more on innovation than we do," says IGN reviews editor Keza MacDonald. "Usually when you get something particularly innovative you're tempted to give it an extra point, to reward it for what it's trying to do â€“ that hardly ever works in reverse."

Her colleague Daniel Krupa agrees. "This is a problem that the movie industry is facing. Once upon a time, blockbuster movies had critical merit too â€“ the likes of Jaws and Star Wars, for example. But now you get these behemoths like Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers and they are just explosion and spectacle. Most people will defend them by saying it doesn't matter, they're just about fun. Maybe we're falling into that trap with Call of Duty. Perhaps we should expect more from our games."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/nov/10/modern-warfare-3-internet-hatred

I can't argue with that.

You have series like COD which are really not pushing any boundaries. Like Heat said, it's glorified DLC and living on it's reputation alone. Like some big shiny gaming version of the Transformers films.

We're in a world where new ideas are increasingly having to go to Kickstarter to gain funding - I find that sad really.