What Tom is looking for can definitely be done in the single player experience (Brothers in Arms immediately comes to mind), but I have no clue why he's going on about regenerating health and respawning in multiplayer. It just doesn't make any sense. Greg was right in emphasizing that Warfighter is a first-person shooter, because that's simply what Warfighter has to be FIRST, before anything! Before authenticity, before respect, before it's even Medal of Honor, it's a First-Person Shooter (first), It's a video game (first). Those two things (being an FPS, being a video game) take precedence over Tom's definition of authenticity because those two things directly affect gameplay. Tom's definition would seem to defeat the entire purpose of playing multiplayer. Danger Close choosing to create a head shot counter isn't a reflection of their respect for the troops, enemies, human life, war or authenticity. It's a reflection of the genre, the players, and the stat tracking/achievements they are likely to be interested in, in a first-person shooter. Everything Tom says is completely irrelevant to making the game a good video game or good first-person shooter, he pretty much admits this in saying it would have been okay for their game to not have been fun at all to fit only Tom's standards of brilliance.
Horizon is looking great. It still looks very Forza and if the cars still feel like Forza, just in an open world setting, with typical action race game attributes then so be it. I rather that than the Test Drive and NFS games I didn't like in the past.
The only thing more frustrating than the tone of this entire article is that the changes haven't even had a chance to make an impact (and we're assuming these changes are going to make one at all). Is it wrong to speculate? No, but it would kill you, Mr. Sinclair, to back up your stance with even a smidgen of real evidence, wouldn't it? Instead let's compare a crappy ending of a video game to the likes of Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, George Lucas and the mother***** Beatles! I can almost smell the bull**** from the GameSpot offices in California across country.
Definitely thought I was playing Man on Fire the video game 5 minutes in, but it was still awesome. I was worried about the plot (don't know why, because I loved Max Payne 2) and this game really delivered.
Yet and still the graphics are sh***y and going, you know, only by the trailer of course, the game play looks exactly the same, so...what's this guy's point?
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