Cole Monroe finally makes sense of his ongoing struggles with console loyalty.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
solid bro
I was worried about what this article would be about. Then I got to this:
"The critical point to realize in all of this flip flopping is the fact that I support all the systems. I don’t elevate one console above the other one in terms of which I think is the better console or the better company. Those terms are hard to define. What I can define is what I’m interested in at the moment is what I’ll be playing. It keeps me from being a fan boy and helps me focus on just being a fan."
Preach on. If only more N4G users and commenters shared your philosophy. We'd have much less stupid console war pissing contests, company zealots, and trolls.
Great read!
the last 2 gen's there was no (Console Wars) Sony owned the last 2 Gens
There's no definitive need for console loyalty. Play what you enjoy. If one company provides the gaming experience you want, while the others don't, then stick with that one company until the others do something to change your mind.
In the eyes of others, that makes you a fanboy, but why give a damn about what they see? They're not in it for the games, not the games you're in it for, anyway. That's ASSUMING they are, indeed, into gaming- and the gaming debates that follow- for the games.