Shattered Dimensions is also a good one.
I always feel that it's hypocritical of this type of media to shine the words ''WAR BAD'' when in reality, they profit off that shit and make money off it. And Spec Ops: The Line is even worse because it's castigating the player who spent sixty bucks on it. Oh, I'm the bad guy for picking up the controller and enjoying killing bad guys, yeah sure, how evil it is for people to enjoy simulated violence. As if society doesn't have things like gladiator games, melees, jousting tournaments, boxing and martial arts tournaments, and a whole boat-load of war movies where people jerk themselves off to completion with simulated violence. But no, it's the guy who's sitting on his ass playing CoD or Halo, they're the real bad guys here.
The best way to teach a message is to not beat someone over the head with it. There's a reason why something like the Batman or Superman Animated Series manages to get across messages about things like age awareness or responsibility, whereas Captain Planet is so hated for being such blatant environmentalist propaganda, even though most of its viewers would agree that pollution IS BAD. Something like Halo shows the dark side of religious fanaticism, Star Wars shows how weak and easy democracy is to subvert. Gundam shows the dark side of war, but still accepts it as a necessity to fight evil. Dragon Ball shows how hard work and patience is rewarded with success.
Metal Gear handled this topic very well. While you might say 1 is hypocritical calling out the player for enjoying the killing without offering a non-lethal alternative, for me it gets a pass being so early to the punch as well as being a general critique of all games at the time. The rest of the series also holds a lot of reverence for the topic, it's clear Kojima holds a passionate fascination towards war and guns and violence and the motivations for wars but also portrays the tragedy of them. While the word "scene" used for 3's theme is a terrible choice for what it is the theme itself is pretty strong in a setting where the alliances and trusts changed month to month.
MGS 1 always reminds me of that one line from Miller - "Don't feel guilty for the soldiers that died from your bullets. They knew the risks they were taking, just like you." It still had plenty of critiques on war and killing, but the moments that displayed the opposite sentiment stood out potently.
In the same vein, I give Gundam a pass for the so-called ''anti-war'' message in it. They don't castigate the customer for watching a robot war cartoon. They just show the dark reality of war, but they still accept it as a necessity to defeat evil. You're not going to stop Gihren Zabi or the fucking Devil Gundam with demonstrations or peaceful protests, you need to kill the son of a bitch in order to set things right. It's not going to be a pretty sight, it's going to be a mess, and people are going to die, but fighting is still necessary to end the madness.
MGS is more critical of the alliances and political bullshit that lead to war, not necessarily war itself, but rather, the extent to which governments and people will go to preserve their power and the current political order, even if it means getting people killed.
I've seen that with other genres. The kind of people who do that judge others fundamentally by their scores at said games. That's, I believe, how those kinds of communities wind up with actual pedophiles, and others that cover for them.
Notice all the games he mentioned were of the same genre? Yyyyyyup. Competitive gaming is a blight. Imagine getting into the mindset where someone famous in the character action community got busted raping a 13 year-old, but the community looks the other way because he's just got the highest number of combos in the PlayStation 2™ Home Computer Entertainment System Video Game, God Hand.
What the fuck are you smoking? What community? They're all single player games.
I never said they weren't. But you said:
You are comparing scores and applying competitiveness, in the fashion of communities where horrible malcontents flourish.
I have no clue who you're talking about nor do I care, it has nothing to do with the discussion of a game. Are you actually fucking retarded? That's like saying a pedophile watched the matrix so you anyone who watches the matrix is a pedophile. Actually kill yourself.
Gameplay-wise, yes.
That's my take, too. If the writers were trying to write some high art work of fiction and the final word on the horrors of war, LMAO.
The problem is, so much of the writing and the story is focused on that. To the point where it feels preachy and annoying, especially the white phosphorous scene and the fact that you hallucinated the colonel. It really doesn't do any payback and the only thing it did was make me a bit better with cover-shooters, to the point where I went back to ME2 and ME3 and I was tearing through whole legions of foes as a soldier-class Shepard because of what I learned in SOTL.
Wrong. The PS1 game was called "Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro" not just "Spider-Man 2"
If you like the linear beat-em-up type of Spider-Man game, Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time are both nice. The voice acting is really good. My favorite part of SD was Noir, partly because Chris Barnes (from Spider-Man 1994) is perfect for it, and because they did a really good job with the overall feel of those levels. The stealth was a cool experience for the time too; it was a really different sort of Spider-Man experience. An entire Spider-Man Noir game based on that experience back then would have been a welcome thing. Sadly, later Spider-Man games decided to take that and combine the idea with the Arkham games' Predator environments and do it all very badly with more typical Spider-Man versions instead. Also SD's head writer was that colossal faggot Dan Slott, who wrote some awful Spider-Man issues for like a decade, after all the retcons, and was also involved in the newer Insoyniac games' writing.
The swinging feels a lot more "floaty" than other games, but once you get used to it, it's a really satisfying web-swinging experience. Also swapping between using and not using the symbiote at will is pretty fun. That said, I wish the writing were better. Spider-Man is written really whiny, and the voice actor doesn't help things. Also I'll never understand why the hell they made Black Widow so ugly in that game.
Theres a lot of weird stuff about 3 you get the ability to just cartwheel up buildings right away, theres no option to control your web swinging and the physics of swinging are a bit weird, the character models are VERY ugly and the symbiote suit doesnt add much. Its a very uncanny game after how good the one before was.
Not sure if you mean improved wall-running or the thing where you can hold the crawl button to jump up when you're on a ledge, but I found both of those pretty handy.
I believe this was something to do with the guy who set up the swinging mechanism in the previous game leaving. He made his own game later, called Energy Hook, reusing the original swinging mechanic.
That's my point, in broad strokes.
Ive never heard of this game but its on steam with 19 reviews. Im interested.
