Which videogame will become 2008's greatest?

Originally posted by jaden101
the problem i have with the games you mention is the numbers on the end...there is no real innovation between those games and the games that came before them

for me...i never liked gears 1...and so i never liked gears 2

i went off metal gear after the stupidity of the plot of sons of liberty and the fact that you have to sit and watch hours upon hours of cut scenes just doesn't do it for me...if i wanted to watch a cheesy 3rd rate plot with shit acting then i'd watch daytime tv movies...when i want to play games...i prefer the playing part

fallout 3 i haven't played yet but 1st person futuristic shooters are becoming as common as ww2 shooters...gears, resistance, killzone and fallout..they're all effectively the same...and not really my thing

i thought GTA4 was disappointing...looked great but lacked the humour and depth that previous GTA games had

force unleashed i enjoyed alot although it was far too short and didn't have a lot of variety

the only other games i've played alot this year have been the guitar hero and rockband games

and call of duty 4...which i would give game of the year to for the 2nd year in a row 😛

It really doesn't matter to me. The longer the good cut-scene, the better. Gameplay is gameplay, and I wish more games had more cutscenes, especially MMO's. The storyline, that is why I play. I could care less about the gameplay if the story was great, I mean, look at Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter... Gameplay on that game was awful and nearly impossible at some points, but the storyline was very sound.

But I digress to my next point.

I believe that Resistance 1 and 2 take place shortly after WWII, correct? Which would prove your futuristic theory wrong in that case, since it would need to take the tone of "future" to be correct. Though, I'm sure you played the game and knew that beforehand that 1953 happens to be in the past. I believe you are looking for the term "Sci-Fi".

As for CoD 4... Well, I agree that it was a good game, but beyond the campaign, I was unimpressed. The multiplayer was all fine and good, but it really got old with all the "noob tubing" and "Juggernaut" bullcrap spouting that was going on, nor was I happy with every time I won a battle, it would get disputed because the other team couldn't take getting spawn camped because they were too stupid to move to another spot.

yeah sci-fi...but my point stands...they look similar...play similar...are similar

can't see how anyone could be unimpressed by the multiplayer in CoD4 though...it was about as perfect as it could get...looked amazing...the size of the levels for the number of players was exactly right on almost all the maps...yes noob-tubers were annoying especially on search and destroy but anyone will skill could easily deal with that

we're gonna have to agree to disagree about cut scenes though...the more the better?...nah...doesn't work for me...not even if they make them mildly interactive like on metal gear and CoD4...i even got annoyed at the one of CoD4 when the president is being driven to his execution in the car...far too long for my liking

the only game i've seen where i thought the cut scenes were a perfect length were Resi 4

So what if Gears 2 has the same combat system as Gears 1? Halo has been pretty much been keeping the same combat system and Halo 3 became 2007's game of the year. If you think a sequel sucks just because it has the same system, then don't talk about it.

bit of a silly thing to say is it not?...don't talk about a game if you don't like it?...

as for Halo...didn't like it...never have...for the same reasons i've already given

Originally posted by Nemesis X
So what if Gears 2 has the same combat system as Gears 1? Halo has been pretty much been keeping the same combat system and Halo 3 became 2007's game of the year. If you think a sequel sucks just because it has the same system, then don't talk about it.

halo is severely overrated, and has been for years.

2007's best was COD4 by a large margin imo...

Originally posted by Raoul
halo is severely overrated, and has been for years.

2007's best was COD4 by a large margin imo...

Bioshock for me, but COD4 was great.

I agree though Halo 3 is so overrated it's sad, you can clearly tell it's not in anyway a good game...let alone a great game, for those who start going on at me about that, no i don't play the multiplayer i only play the single player of the game, because 1) i was brought up around single player so i always gravitate towards that. 2) the modes just didn't seem interesting enough on multiplayer 3) 13 year old fanboys spam the servers spouting the same annoying phrases and insults over and over again.

And based of the single player it was awful, fair enough have multiplayer, but i still expect a good single player experiance and a game to appeal to both multiplayer and single player modes, however that said i never found the multiplayer to be that good, hardly up to the standards of say Timesplitters.

i was never much of a fan of Halo. I've always thought that Halo was nothing more than a smooth playing FPS. To the games credit, the single player campaign in all three games has been known to offer a few sequences of memorable moments and the music is also, at times, stunning. I think Bungie are good developers but their focus was obviously geared towards the multiplayer aspect in Halo which may be why all three games feel the same. I'm still surprised that people are, not yet, sick of deathmatches. I hate online gaming because most of it caters to, who can kill most people in this time limit. I'm glad to see that more games are headlining online co-op.

Ok...I have no problem with people thinking Halo is over rated and the like...but saying it is not in anyway a good game is being exagerated. As for the 13 year old fanboys you can easily mute them and it takes only a second.

I don't think Halo is "good" in any way.

I think it's mediocre in all ways. It's not shit, but it's not good.

-AC

Well the year aint over yet but the best in 07 was...Uh oh, here it comes (got my shield ready)

HALO 3!!! It's kind of a fact, it won like 4 Game of the year awards

Although I have yet to see a game match GTAIV that came out this year, not even MGSIV (which I think is more overrated then Halo, at least around here anway)

(runs out quickly)

I thank god for giving everyone different tastes and opinions. I really do.

Originally posted by Man of Violence
Well the year aint over yet but the best in 07 was...Uh oh, here it comes (got my shield ready)

HALO 3!!! It's kind of a fact, it won like 4 Game of the year awards

Although I have yet to see a game match GTAIV that came out this year, not even MGSIV (which I think is more overrated then Halo, at least around here anway)

(runs out quickly)

GTAIV is the most overrated game that i have ever played in my 22 years of gaming.

!0's across the board and quotes like, "single handedly changes how we look at and play video games" is just absurd and leads me to believe that some of the people reviewing GTAIV didn't play it for longer than ten minutes. I love Rockstar and think GTAIV is a decent installment in the franchise but it doesn't deserve half of the praise it received.

Agreed, I think there is a lot of overhyping of Halo and especially GTA, me? i get bored of GTA after a few hours of doing the same grotty "ime a tough guy, I wanna make me some money" missions etc etc

Just a boring place, especially now theyve taken out the military vehichles like tanks.

i think GTA4, being the 1st installment in a new generation of consoles, and being the 1st to experiment with online gaming, is obviously going to be highly flawed...although i can see the next installemt being as big an improvement as san andreas was over GTA3 on the PS2

given that it still up there with the best games available on the current generation of consoles then i'd say it bodes well for things to come

although personally i'd like to see them do 2 seperate games...one fully online and the other fully single player story based

Out of all of those Fable 2 was my favorite.

But I bet f@ggoty overrated COD will win.

which one?...world at war?...not likely as it's not that great....and obviously not 4 because that's from last year

but the fact that it's probably still the most played xbox live game shows how good it is...everyone disappeared for a while to play GTA4...but went back to CoD4...same with assassins creed, bioshock, halo 3 and every other game since CoD4

Yeah I meant World of War.

Not great? YES! HAHA! FVCK COD!

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
FVCK COD!

that's sexual abuse of fish...i'm reporting you to the authorities 😆

Originally posted by jaden101
which one?...world at war?...not likely as it's not that great....and obviously not 4 because that's from last year

but the fact that it's probably still the most played xbox live game shows how good it is...everyone disappeared for a while to play GTA4...but went back to CoD4...same with assassins creed, bioshock, halo 3 and every other game since CoD4

You know those games you just listed either came out before COD4, or at the same time as it, right? So people couldn't have stopped playing COD for a while to play those games and then gone back to it, not unless they had time machines.

Originally posted by Peach
So people couldn't have stopped playing COD for a while to play those games and then gone back to it, not unless they had time machines.

call of duty 4....nov 6th 2007
assassins creed...a week later
halo 3 and GTA...2008

and yes in relation to bioshock...i did play it alot later...just a couple of months ago....didn't like it...went back to CoD4

but that's the general pattern i've seen on xbox live...people go and play a new game when it comes out...then went back and played CoD4...and are still playing it now...not bad for a game that's over a year old

i'd even wager that people playing CoD5 will go back and play CoD4

Originally posted by jaden101
call of duty 4....nov 6th 2007
assassins creed...a week later
halo 3 and GTA...2008

and yes in relation to bioshock...i did play it alot later...just a couple of months ago....didn't like it...went back to CoD4

but that's the general pattern i've seen on xbox live...people go and play a new game when it comes out...then went back and played CoD4...and are still playing it now...not bad for a game that's over a year old

i'd even wager that people playing CoD5 will go back and play CoD4

Call of Duty came out the 6th, yeah. Assassin's Creed came out the 14th. So they came out at basically the same time.

Bioshock came out August 20th, and Halo 3 came out September 25th (2007, not 2008). Both quite a bit before COD4 😛