Iran White writes:
Some horribly sad news was recently released. 15 year old Brandon Crisp of Canada has been found dead after having running away in mid-October.
Even sadder still, the reason according to his parents that this happened is that the boy was angry with them for taking away his Xbox 360 and Call of Duty 4 game because his grades were sliding.
My heart goes out to Brandon's parents. It really does. My heart sank a bit when I first heard the news, because it really is horrible beyond belief.
However, amidst my heartache that this has happened, and my attempting to understand what these parents must be going through, I can't help but shake my head once again at the outright lack of responsibility and finger pointing that continues to plague gaming.
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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The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
Love me some Scarface! I even bought the comics. Yeah, licensing would probably be an impasse.
I played through Scarface again last year and it still holds up. Such a fun game. I would love for Xbox to get the rights back to remaster Scarface and make a sequel. It sold well and they had plans for Scarface 2, 3, and 4. With how long it takes Rockstar to make games the market is wide open.
That game was so much fun. Expected a cheap GTA clone but it was a good drug empire building game.
They didn't just have plans but there's actual gameplay out there for scarface 2
Seriously man we need games like
True crime
Sleeping dogs
Watch dogs( more like original not legion)
And proper saints row
GTA can’t be the only option we need other games
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
the kid commited suicide for how bad the warranty was that when the parents had to ship it to microsoft for the 5 time over rrod problems to get the xbox360 back in the next 6 month again he went crazy and commited suicide.
I blame the cheap parents who bought him a xbox360 instead of a ps3 this would have easily been avoided.
Do you really need to be such a knob, so soon. They just found his body today, show some f'n compassion. And no one is really blaming video games. the article says - “It’s still being analyzed a little further, but at this point we have no reason to believe there is any connection to date between the Xbox and his disappearance,” Sgt. Goodbrand
So try to think before YOU start blowing things out of proportion.
p.s. your a d1ck
you'll never hear a black kid doing things like that at all; if so name one incident? that a black kid or person running away from home because parents took away his xbox or ps3? or commiting suicide or shooting his parents or school. not saying he did any of the last 3?
white parents are so SOFT when it comes to parenting their kids.not saying blacks are any better but to some aspects they are though.just a thought, dont start your rally's on this please.
If there is any message in all of this, it's that parents should never try to separate children from videogames.
I'm just saying: when someone goes on the news with a story like "Our son was *addicted* to videogames and when we took them away from him he ran away", well, the only conclusion that can be drawn from that story is that they really shouldn't have taken the videogames away.
I don't really see how one can blame videogames if it's their lack thereof that leads to tragedy.