Opens with Death Stranding, so its already off to a bad start. That game's plot is complete nonsense, and the ending is basically like 4 hours of cutscenes with a very minor amount of gameplay every now and then followed by a bad bossfight in the middle.
As someone who actually enjoyed the game, its fucking awful anytime you are forced to actually interact with the story and leave behind the isolating atmosphere of the gameplay. A few cutscenes are legitimately great, and the ending does hit really hard on a parental level, but there is so much garbage surrounding it that it doesn't matter. "Princess Beach" destroys every bit of care you keep mustering.
Also they list Bioshock Infinite, revealing themselves to be the exact type of retard Ken Levine is. As in "if it makes me feel stupid then its really awesome and cool." The ending falls apart on every level beyond "lol quantum means anything is possible if we say enough words!"
The rest are all pretty cliche but popular for a reason.
Personally, I'd throw Transistor in there because the final boss is, imo, one of the greatest in gaming simply by flipping the script on you so successfully and leading into a pretty gut punching, but wholesome ending right after.
You'd think it would be more popular, considering its a game littered with gays, "neurodivergents" and a game long criticism of the evils of democracy (before that was cool to do!), but that would require them to not be fucking tourists and have played Supergiant's far superior pre-Hades games.
Also they list Bioshock Infinite, revealing themselves to be the exact type of retard Ken Levine is. As in "if it makes me feel stupid then its really awesome and cool." The ending falls apart on every level beyond "lol quantum means anything is possible if we say enough words!"
Then the DLC take a steaming shit on the ending, and anyone who liked BioShock 2, with retcons out the ass.
As someone who thinks Bioshock 2 is the peak of the franchise, I simply laughed at how blatant it was.
You could literally feel the seethe from Levine throughout it because people had been comparing his baby masterpiece to the "throwaway sequel from a B team" and he was losing.
Not terrible, although they missed System Shock 2’s mega based ending. I’m a sucker for Mass Effect 2 as well, the suicide mission still gets me hyped after all these years.
Suicide mission, more like stupidcide mission! Now I’ll list all the dumb things in the story because I don’t want you to enjoy the emotional beats of a video game. For starters you can’t have sex with a robot, I hope they fix that in the next game.
This seems like it's just a list of recent games aside from listing KOTOR. I have to imagine there are some better entries available, but then I guess a lot of Sci-Fi games skew gameplay heavy rather than getting a strong narrative focus.
Dead Space is in there, but they use the remake version of the Nicole stinger, which was weak compared to the OG. And as much as I like Gunner Wright, he didn't pull off the expression of grief nearly as well.
Opens with Death Stranding, so its already off to a bad start. That game's plot is complete nonsense, and the ending is basically like 4 hours of cutscenes with a very minor amount of gameplay every now and then followed by a bad bossfight in the middle.
As someone who actually enjoyed the game, its fucking awful anytime you are forced to actually interact with the story and leave behind the isolating atmosphere of the gameplay. A few cutscenes are legitimately great, and the ending does hit really hard on a parental level, but there is so much garbage surrounding it that it doesn't matter. "Princess Beach" destroys every bit of care you keep mustering.
Also they list Bioshock Infinite, revealing themselves to be the exact type of retard Ken Levine is. As in "if it makes me feel stupid then its really awesome and cool." The ending falls apart on every level beyond "lol quantum means anything is possible if we say enough words!"
The rest are all pretty cliche but popular for a reason.
Personally, I'd throw Transistor in there because the final boss is, imo, one of the greatest in gaming simply by flipping the script on you so successfully and leading into a pretty gut punching, but wholesome ending right after.
You'd think it would be more popular, considering its a game littered with gays, "neurodivergents" and a game long criticism of the evils of democracy (before that was cool to do!), but that would require them to not be fucking tourists and have played Supergiant's far superior pre-Hades games.
Then the DLC take a steaming shit on the ending, and anyone who liked BioShock 2, with retcons out the ass.
As someone who thinks Bioshock 2 is the peak of the franchise, I simply laughed at how blatant it was.
You could literally feel the seethe from Levine throughout it because people had been comparing his baby masterpiece to the "throwaway sequel from a B team" and he was losing.
Not terrible, although they missed System Shock 2’s mega based ending. I’m a sucker for Mass Effect 2 as well, the suicide mission still gets me hyped after all these years.
Suicide mission, more like stupidcide mission! Now I’ll list all the dumb things in the story because I don’t want you to enjoy the emotional beats of a video game. For starters you can’t have sex with a robot, I hope they fix that in the next game.
It doesn't sound like they understood the point made in Soma.
It's a game journalist, of course they misunderstand games
This seems like it's just a list of recent games aside from listing KOTOR. I have to imagine there are some better entries available, but then I guess a lot of Sci-Fi games skew gameplay heavy rather than getting a strong narrative focus.
Dead Space is in there, but they use the remake version of the Nicole stinger, which was weak compared to the OG. And as much as I like Gunner Wright, he didn't pull off the expression of grief nearly as well.
What? No Titanfall 2?
Protocol Three: Protect the pilot!
Trust me.