Delta Force: Task Force Dagger on the PC! I also had the cardboard insert that you could put over your keyboard to help know what keys were which, so cool back then 😄
I forgot about Delta Force which is kinda dumb as I've been following the upcoming new game just this week🤣
Another one is Operation Flashpoint which eventually would become Arma.
Ubisoft are blaming a ‘technical error’ after thousands of users experienced in-game ads popping up during their games. One user was greeted with a huge Assassin’s Creed Mirage banner when they opened the World map while conveniently playing AC Odyssey. The advert element scaled perfectly across the entire world map to the exact pixel for some users yet Ubisoft want us to believe this was some sort of ‘error’ lmao! They should come clean and just say they were trying something stupid for Black Friday and sorry for pissing everyone off. Other users were experiencing adverts appear during black screen transitions which adds a certain tackiness.
This shit has been on the cards for years though and even Xbox are welcoming disruptive pop-ups upon starting the console of late but not for third party titles. I think 2K already do this for their casino basketball game but no surprises there. I remember revisiting Warzone back in 2020 and had 9 store pop-ups in the main menu before I could even start, but having your live game disrupted with a targeting advert sets a bad precedent. Thankfully it looks like Ubi have been left with egg on their face after a damning reception to this and their laughable excuse that nobody believes.
Doom 1993 when I played it in 1995 on my old IBM Aptiva.
From then on it was the usual suspects of Doom II, Final Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem, Quake, Unreal, GoldenEye, Half Life, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Perfect Dark, Counter Strike, Project IGI, SWAT 3, No One Lives Forever, Kingpin, Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty, Halo etc..
Crazy to think how FPS games evolved within a 10 year period back then and the sheer variety available. Going from Doom to Half Life in just 5 years was nuts although as I was younger, five years felt like an eternity. You also had some iconic first person immersive sims like the ground-breaking Deus Ex and System Shock 2. I still have quite a few of the big boxed PC games in storage although everything after 2001 was DVD cases.
That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time - giving me almost Machinima vibes! It was a pretty nifty concept until Activision bought it way too late in the day. They did nothing much with it and have really struggled with eSports in general. Should've probably capitalised on the idea around 2009-12 rather than several years later when competitive gaming was heading in a more professional and lucrative direction.
Microsoft seem to be going in for the cull and I think the Overwatch League was one of the first to be offed. If that can't survive then GameBattle wouldn't have stood any chance. Games like COD are way too broken and corrupt these days so unless you are hosting a LAN event with fixed balanced weapons then I wouldn't trust any match to be fair especially from an Activision brand.
I miss FM so much but more when it was Championship Manager. The additional toggles and tweaks on the latest games absolutely blow my mind! Maybe worth picking it up on one of the platforms to chill in the background whilst the boring stuff in life carries on...might end up with a different career it seems 😅
I kinda departed management games when SI games lost the CM licence and moved to FM. Although it was the same team making the same game, I just felt burned out by then and it wasn't the same. Been playing Championship Manager from 2 until 4 which was ultimately 95-96 all the way to the 03-04 season - literally a decade! FM also didn't have the photo backgrounds which sorta killed the immersion in some way. Nowadays it's just too complex and time consuming to get into although I have been tempted to pick up a new release in recent years.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also...
Funnily enough I watched one of Tom's videos the other week for the first time ever after wanting to see what FM was like these days and his content was excellent! Glad he's making a living off content creation and way more deserved than half the gaming tripe we see plaguing YouTube.
Apparently Fireteam Elite is supposed to be good but the servers died off quick or something?
Been out for a couple of years and popularity kinda fizzled out quite early apparently. Supposed to be a half decent title but it's sorta ended up just a flavour of the month game.
Another nightmare port which is insane as this is an essentially 10 year old product with established games of 20 years across multiple systems and generations. PC version is bad and the consoles aren't faring much better.
The older Metal Gears' Steam debut is getting a rocky reception.
My PS5 copy should be arriving in the post tomorrow and I'm toying with whether to send it straight back. This has been another shocking year for unfinished and broken games. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and Valve should ban developers from being able to patch their games for the first 60 days and then maybe they may release them to some reasonable standard.
PC Gamer has just done a brief article about a recent live service concept where an original game is being overwritten and essentially erased from existence and replaced with a sequel that is largely inferior in terms of overall quality or its content offering. One of the first instances of this was Warzone Verdansk along with Caldera and has since happened with Overwatch 2 and then CS2 replacing the massively popular and longstanding CSGO.
Warzone Verdansk was absolutely huge for a good 3 years and was replaced by Vanguard's Caldera taking people's expensive bundle purchases with it. Overwatch was one of the biggest IP's of the decade and probably the only game where lootboxes were done right. It built some incredible lore and remained popular for a good few years after release. Blizzard neglected the hell out of the brand amidst controversies within the studio and with many big names departing for many reasons, the game was then picked up by remaining employees and it's unwanted sequel arrived taking away the identity of the first game and further delivering a barrage of microtansactions. They also failed to deliver the campaign which was the sole justification for the sequel and now to earn one skin, you may have to play for 170 hours or stump up $39.99 rather than earning it through challenges or a lootbox.
Shiny CS2 has completely replaced CSGO and whilst it looks and plays the part, it's missing many maps, modes and features plus the new ranking system is completely illogical. It was very unusual for Valve to not at least leave a legacy watered-down version of CSGO available especially as it was a title of 11 years and now it has erased without a trace seemingly. CS 1.6, Source and Condition Zero remain playable as a standalone game to this day but it seems Valve couldn't separate their skins from the sequrel so they took the knee-jerk reaction to instead wipe a game from existence than explore alternatives.
I hope this trend will not continue. Preservation is already a problem especially with bad remasters and those that are attached to launchers but to have games disappear for good and have a shite title in its placed forced upon users is another reminder that live service gaming is only good for the present.
UK regulators approve the $69bn tech giant's takeover of Activision Blizzard, the maker of Call of Duty.
A good result in the end for all parties and the CMA as acknowledged did a ground-breaking job in driving several key concessions to protect other global developers, technological concepts and the industry as a whole which Microsoft duly amended to get the deal through. The UK may be slow in some areas but it really is thorough to a tee especially when it comes to legality. It's a testament to the CMA for all their work and it is utterly ridiculous that major entities like the collective EU would immediately sign off such a dangerous move without any scrutiny of consideration. The FTC tried but America seems to only have the Judge Judy method and no other form of negotiable resolution methods available🤣
I just hope Microsoft can actually make an impact because their acquisition of Bethesda has been nothing shy of a major disappointment. I have a feeling that nothing will change through especially if the keep Kotick in the seat.
In the wake of a massive controversy regarding previously announced (and then walked-back) install fees, Unity's John Riccitiello is stepping down as president, CEO, chairman, and member of the board of the...
I'm only getting Metal Gear Solid Master Collection and maybe MW3 this year. Haven't really checked out what's coming in 2024 as of yet I'm sure there will be a few surprises here and there especially from the non-AAA variety.
I'd also have to say Watch Dogs 2. The game was somewhat tainted by the sheer disappointment of the original plus the general dislike of Ubisoft especially at the time. It's actually an incredibly fun game that looks amazing, has lots of highly entertaining missions plus the AI is incredibly dynamic and alive. It's an absolute travesty that they didn't follow this standard up with Legion and have probably killed of the series altogether.
As said above, Days Gone is another I forgot about. Had a miserable reception at launch on PS4 due to various woes and when it was fixed, many users had already moved on. I took a punt when it arrived on PC and thought it was a remarkable game and a very rare instance where I never got tired of the open world and was left wanting after I finished it. The hordes are very impressive from a technical standpoint and the game is mechanically on-par with TLOU. Absolutely scandalous Sony cancelled the sequel.
He has to retire at some point I guess! Difficult to know right now what it will do to PlayStation for the future but I wouldn't expect this to change anything much in the short to medium term. He has overseen some almighty years and pulled them back from the brink when the original Xbox and Xbox 360 took control of the market.
Xbox definitely has never been in any control of the market even against niche Nintendo. PS2 is still to this day the biggest selling console of all time and every PlayStation console has sold substantially more than the 360 by tens of millions of units. Even the PSP sold 3x the rate of the original Xbox. The one thing Sony has always achieved was its relentless dominance over Microsoft in the past 30 years.
The only things they got wrong IMO was the backwards compatibility and shitty online service but even then, it didn’t harm them at all.
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