Comments on: Red Carpet http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Game of the Year Bullshit - z a c k h i w i l l e r http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Game of the Year Bullshit - z a c k h i w i l l e r Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:49:30 +0000 http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/#comment-533 [...] will do the same here, but today I start with some tongue-in-cheek titles like I did in this article last [...] [...] will do the same here, but today I start with some tongue-in-cheek titles like I did in this article last [...]

]]> By: zack http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/comment-page-1/#comment-103 zack Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:18:32 +0000 http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/#comment-103 It's not that I feel that Call of Duty 4 wasn't a good game - it was. I just didn't find it worthy of all the superlatives the community graced it with. And while it is a good game, I can think of at least ten games this year that were both polished AND provided a more innovative experience. At its heart (and especially up to the Death From Above level) it was your standard throw-a-million-guys-at-you corridor shooter. I commented to my roommate a bunch of times that I felt like I was playing Time Crisis what with all the suicidal enemies that took fifteen shots to the gut before they reacted. Especially on the level where there were trucks chasing you as you escaped. I was wondering where to put my quarters in. Your comment about multiplayer may be dead-on as I completely avoided it. I know what kind of people play popular FPSs on Live and I don't get a kick out of it. I may be underestimating it, but the single-player left me wanting. *spoiler ahead for those who haven't played the campaign* They totally ruined the emotional impact of the whole nuclear blast angle by 1) not making the player feel connected to that character in any way. I can't even remember the guy's name and I played last week. And 2) putting a damn loading screen in between the crash cutscene and the last gasp cutscene which would have been tremendously powerful if uncut. I actually found Halo 3 to be a more enjoyable single-player experience, all-told. But there were things I enjoyed in CoD4 - the Death From Above level was great. Calling in airstrikes was pretty entertaining. Throwing a sneak mission right in the middle was a great change of pace. I just don't think it was Game of the Year material. It’s not that I feel that Call of Duty 4 wasn’t a good game – it was. I just didn’t find it worthy of all the superlatives the community graced it with. And while it is a good game, I can think of at least ten games this year that were both polished AND provided a more innovative experience. At its heart (and especially up to the Death From Above level) it was your standard throw-a-million-guys-at-you corridor shooter. I commented to my roommate a bunch of times that I felt like I was playing Time Crisis what with all the suicidal enemies that took fifteen shots to the gut before they reacted. Especially on the level where there were trucks chasing you as you escaped. I was wondering where to put my quarters in.

Your comment about multiplayer may be dead-on as I completely avoided it. I know what kind of people play popular FPSs on Live and I don’t get a kick out of it. I may be underestimating it, but the single-player left me wanting.

*spoiler ahead for those who haven’t played the campaign* They totally ruined the emotional impact of the whole nuclear blast angle by 1) not making the player feel connected to that character in any way. I can’t even remember the guy’s name and I played last week. And 2) putting a damn loading screen in between the crash cutscene and the last gasp cutscene which would have been tremendously powerful if uncut.

I actually found Halo 3 to be a more enjoyable single-player experience, all-told. But there were things I enjoyed in CoD4 – the Death From Above level was great. Calling in airstrikes was pretty entertaining. Throwing a sneak mission right in the middle was a great change of pace.

I just don’t think it was Game of the Year material.

]]> By: Matthew Gallant http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Matthew Gallant Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:11:40 +0000 http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/01/22/red-carpet/#comment-102 "The last five aren’t real categories." I wish they were though! I completely agree with the first four. I'm curious why you singled out Call of Duty 4 as not worthy of GOTY. It had a surprisingly innovative single player campaign (especially for a war game), the best online multiplayer of any game this year, and while it wasn't terribly revolutionary, it was polished to perfection in every way. “The last five aren’t real categories.”

I wish they were though! I completely agree with the first four.

I’m curious why you singled out Call of Duty 4 as not worthy of GOTY. It had a surprisingly innovative single player campaign (especially for a war game), the best online multiplayer of any game this year, and while it wasn’t terribly revolutionary, it was polished to perfection in every way.

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