name='OllieWall' said:
Actually, I think that Rare were starting to die off even before they left for Microsoft. Look at Star Fox Adventures and Banjo-Kazooie: Grunt's Revenge. Definitely not the standard you'd expect to see them. I might be wrong, but I think that Conker's Bad Fur Day seemed to be their last big band before a few key members of the company left (which is a killer of a game ;D)
Yeah Conkers was bloody marvellous. It was the songs.. Especially the giant poo that you had to throw toilet paper at..
"I'm going to pepper you with shiiiiii****t" Dude I was crying during that level. So much that I had to redo it about ten times. And the cow with the trots that you had to ram... "
Eeee ! I think I'm going to have the screaming sh*ts !"
Absolutely marvellous
TBH the Stampers weren't getting any younger and I suppose you have to stop somewhere. Especially when you have the kind of cash they do.. No point being the richest man in the graveyard !
name='OllieWall' said:
Anyway, I can't help but get the feeling that you absolutely love Half Life 2 and regard it as the King of FPS. But I disagree. I think it's the king of game storytelling. The shooting mechanics aren't really all that in the game, where as the atmosphere, the environment and the story itself are all elements where the game really shows itself. And to be fair, I love it as well! Where the hell is Ep.3???
No idea where Ep3 is tbh. However, I disagree really. HL2 was the first real physics based game (Havok engine IIRC). The gravity gun was brand new, the vehicles had not been done before in a FPS... ETC ETC ETC. Maybe now it doesn't seem quite so awesome but back then it was absolutely ground breaking.
Back to EP3.. Actually yes, I know where it is. Valve are one of the very very few companies who do not use their games as complete cash ins and thus make sure they are good, long, complete and working before they let them go anywhere. Fair bloody play to them tbh.
name='OllieWall' said:
But there's no way I'd really be able to compare it with MW2, simply because MW2 tries to focus on it's gameplay more than anything else. Yes, the story is dog-poop and singleplayer is pretty dull. But personally, I found that the multiplayer made up for this and in the end I didn't really care that the campaign was lame.
You can not rate a game based on the online multiplayer man. That's not something they did, it's something
you do . Actions, events, stories.. They are all left up to you. And whilst it may last forever based on that it's nothing they did. I mentioned this in my Fallout review. Something along the lines of
Fallout does not rely on mechanics used in multiplayer games because they were all there in the first place
I'm not a huge multiplayer person, but that doesn't have much to do with it really. When a game relies heavily on multiplayer it lacks anything else. And that's lazy. Look how long it took them to make.. Not very bloody long. Look at how long a decent game (like Fallout 3 or Half Life 2) takes to make. Years.
I do not rate or review games based on something that YOU are left to create.