Any good Vid Games you've seen recently?

Posted on 2188-01-19 11:01:33

SkullKrusherKrogan:

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To put this all simply, please do not reference Halo or really any other 21st century pop culture example, even if you append some ridiculously far off number to them. I mean, at the end of the day, it's pop culture, and disposable at that. It's hard to imagine it will survive nearly two centuries. As fun as the games may be, they're not exactly our era's Othello or Odyssey. It's a product, and defined by demand and existing trends. And like all products, will decline eventually as demand changes and trends shift. In fact, we can't even be sure if Microsoft is going to survive the next two decades, let alone the next two hundred years.

Most importantly, it's just sort of lazy. It's easy to say Call of Duty 205: Modern Warfare, it's harder to come up with N7 Code of Honour: Medal of Duty. But not unreasonably hard. This is a world so far past us in culture, technology, and scale and it's just silly to wink at the camera and declare how much fun you've been having playing Halo or Final Fantasy XXXII.

If you're not feeling up to being a bit creative, no one's really gonna tell you off if you phone it in a bit. At the end of the day, Devil Bojangle: The Knightening is gonna be a better title than Star Wars Episode 98. And it took me three ill-thought out seconds to write that down. Don't feel like you have to come up with anything aside from a name, either. Roleplaying is a collaborative experience after all, in nearly all aspects.

Furthermore, think about it like this - how much legacy pop culture can you honestly claim to enjoy that emerged around a hundred and seventy five years ago. How much of it exists? I doubt you'd be able to bring up much any examples.

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With this all out of the way, this is an official warning that this sort of thing is to be avoided on CDN. Please edit your post accordingly - if you're really drawing a blank on what to replace it with, remember that there's already an existing 'shooter' game in the ME universe (established by BioWare even) - N7 Code of Honour: Medal of Duty.

Thanks.

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