The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Noodleface · Dec 29, 2013

In most colleges anything below a C or C- doesn't count towards your major and is considered failing.

Column_sl · Dec 29, 2013

Killzone was fucking awful, I called that shit before it even came out.

You have to be a real PS4 fanboy to attempt to defend that game...

Xarpolis · Dec 29, 2013

When I graduated highschool in '99, anything below 64 was considered an F.

So they must have changed something if that's now a D-.

Vaclav · Dec 30, 2013

Similar for me about a decade earlier (67 I think) but now its 60-69 D, 70-79 C, etc with 10 pt brackets.

Laedrun · Dec 30, 2013

Ok, dunno if i'm just a tv noob and everyone knows this already, but i just improved my graphics by switching the aspect ratio mode on my tv from "16x9" to "just scan". Apparently the "16x9" aspect ratio setting on LG tvs chopps off a half inch off every side. I usually have to use the game's little "visible area arrows" thingy to get everything showing on screen, but you lose lines of resolution scaling it that way. The "just scan" mode sends the image pixel per pixel straight to the lcd panel with no scaling done by the tv, had to go back and undo all the "adjust the arrows" crap but battlefield is a lot crisper now. >;p

spronk · Dec 30, 2013

another girl joins the master race, but hands off gaige, her training in assassins creed will surely prepare her in hand to hand combat

(why the fuck do girls cry so much)

Needless · Dec 30, 2013

With all that money spent on black ink, you'd think they could at least make it BF4

huehuehuehue

(Origin, i know)

Utnayan · Dec 30, 2013

Kedwyn_sl said:
Killzone wasn't great but it was an average shooter with some stupid mechanics in levels. The story was Meh and felt rushed in places but ended on a decent note.

Hardly the abortion Spronk claims it is. 6/10 game.

I am going to have to agree with Spronk here. This game was an abortion and glorified tech demo. Definitely not worth anything but bargain bin pricing. If it had decent MP that would redeem it, but even that sucked when compared to everything else out there. I won't be playing another Killzone game again.

Araxen · Dec 30, 2013

95% of FPS's nowadays are stale and boring. The genre is played out as a whole.

ohkcrlho · Dec 30, 2013

Araxen_sl said:
95% of FPS's nowadays are stale and boring. The genre is played out as a whole.

unfortunately that is the truth.
it was invaded with war type fps's which are all the same.
the other (good) ones were fucked

Intrinsic · Dec 30, 2013

I don't think you can blame the war setting (think that is what you mean) too much. The original Medal of Honor was awesome and the first gen of spinoffs were good as well. Just general over saturation and dumbing down of mechanics overall has eroded a strong genre in to mediocrity or worse.

Szlia · Dec 30, 2013

Kotaku reader's GOTY (NB: N?2 was probably an honest submission, but prankster jumped on it - it's an erotic visual novel, so, even if it is very good, it's unlikely enough Kotaku reader played it to make it rank so high):

EDIT: Wrong thread... so I put the big image in spoilers...

Kedwyn · Dec 30, 2013

I really enjoyed Last of Us, not surprised it would be that far ahead in the GOTY voting.

Selix · Dec 30, 2013

Intrinsic_sl said:
I don't think you can blame the war setting (think that is what you mean) too much. The original Medal of Honor was awesome and the first gen of spinoffs were good as well. Just general over saturation and dumbing down of mechanics overall has eroded a strong genre in to mediocrity or worse.

This is spot on. I think the skill required for old school Quake games made them unpopular. You didn't go 42-15 in old school FPS if you were good. You went 55 - 2 because you got bored and killed yourself twice. Made it fairly unpopular with any new players who couldn't get luckly occasionally.

Tuco · Dec 31, 2013

Selix_sl said:
This is spot on. I think the skill required for old school Quake games made them unpopular. You didn't go 42-15 in old school FPS if you were good. You went 55 - 2 because you got bored and killed yourself twice. Made it fairly unpopular with any new players who couldn't get luckly occasionally.

yup. Modern FPS games are like fighting with kid gloves on.

Dioblaire · Dec 31, 2013

Selix_sl said:
This is spot on. I think the skill required for old school Quake games made them unpopular. You didn't go 42-15 in old school FPS if you were good. You went 55 - 2 because you got bored and killed yourself twice. Made it fairly unpopular with any new players who couldn't get luckly occasionally.

Lol, this makes me think back to the first Delta Force. My buddy would go 100-6. Four of his deaths would be because he naded himself due to no more ammo.

Utnayan · Dec 31, 2013

Intrinsic_sl said:
I don't think you can blame the war setting (think that is what you mean) too much. The original Medal of Honor was awesome and the first gen of spinoffs were good as well. Just general over saturation and dumbing down of mechanics overall has eroded a strong genre in to mediocrity or worse.

2015 was awesome before full acquisition by EA. When Medal of Honor Allied Assault was launched it was one of the best games of it's time. Then we saw two horrible expansion cash cows, and the next games being forced out after the acquisition. Rising Sun I think was the last one which put the nail in the coffin and killed the franchise. The latest 2 are an abortion. Now we see the yearly ripoffs and 15 dollar map packs already designed before the game launched and resold as additional DLC - usually they are rehashed from previous versions of the games.

People need to stop buying this garbage.

Gaige · Dec 31, 2013

Utnayan_sl said:
People need to stop buying this garbage.

Including you, Mr. Need for Speed: Rivals which is made byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fucking EA.

Utnayan · Dec 31, 2013

Gaige_sl said:
Including you, Mr. Need for Speed: Rivals which is made byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fucking EA.

Need for Speed Rivals on PS4 was pretty damn fun. I definitely got my money's worth out of it. However, I barely played any of the others.

The post was in regards to the FPS genre and what EA did to the Medal of Honor series, and now how Activision has mangled the CoD series with rehashed content and charging for downloadable maps. I would agree with other posts that the FPS genre is nothing but re-skinned, mostly reused, and low cost content for the highest profit returned. While it sucks for the gamer, as long as people buy it, you can't blame Activision for doing as little as possible to make the most profit. That's on us for being stupid enough to buy it.

Noodleface · Dec 31, 2013

Eh, Killzone had a decent story with pretty good graphics and decent enough gameplay. Wasn't the best game I've ever played but I mostly had fun (minus freefall, FUCK THAT SHIT). 6/10 is a fair grade. Like I've always said, the game is worth a rent - definitely not a buy (I would redo it if I could). The multiplayer was just extra and not a main feature like you'd expect from COD or BF4.

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