OXCGN commented:-
"In our present video game age of infamous five hour tours and over-saturation of multiplayer, the meaning of finishing a game has become quite convoluted.
Are we finished when we've completed the static aspect? Or are we finished when we doom it to the shelf for untold millennia, moving on to the next great thing?
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This iteration of OXCGN's participation will [attempt to] dissect what I personally mean when I say "I've completed a game".
Goodbye, but not the end
While retreating from the Philippines in World War II, United States Army General Douglas MacArthur said, "I shall return."
GB: "The best of the best games from the last several years to earn the ever elusive 10."
Earthbound
I don't know if it's on the list and I'm not giving them 9 clicks to find out but it's one of the greatest games ever made with a story that stays with you months after the game ends so it's in my list
Sorry, this list needs a lot of work. remakes should not be a part of it, Missing original Halo is a mistake IMO. I also think Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn warent consideration. Again it's all subject to opinion.
Everything you need to know about Modern Warfare III coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
Will be interesting to see what sort of numbers GP users draw in come tomorrow. It is believed that this is one many have been waiting for.
Darth,
That is not accurate; this game is old, and most people who want it have already bought it. You might get a small number of subs, but we will mostly see a good influx of players(not new subs) from people with Game Pass who will try it, which is what happened with D4.
CoD: BO 6 will be the test for actual sub numbers.
That's fair... seeing as many have been saying they want CoD in GP. My comment was more of , now that its here... what can it do. Im sure there will be other titles in the franchise that will either entice or turn off different users.
No one's buying a console and signing up for a monthly bill just to get this game to avoid buying it. That's ridiculous. Besides everyone bagged the crap out of this on release for the 4 hour campaign.
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.
When I've finished single player I consider it 'finished'. However I may still play it and finish side quests or do the multi. Generally I like to play 1 game at a time, so that's why I classify finished this way.
When I've leeched it of achievements and have grown to loathe it!
Much the same, although, I do keep 95% of all my games, both last gen, and this gen.
But the numbers I get this gen are far less than last-gen.
SO I invest more time into specific titles, looking for better times, more ways through levels, different eways of attacking the game etc.
If a developer has put 2-4 yrs into a game on such huge levels, how can one finish (cough cough) a game in around 4-6 hours time???
I think Call of Duty 4 was my biggest completion challenge...
Need I mention Mile High Club on Veteran?
No dlc on disk, no patches needed on release = Done..