What single player FPS campaign are you playing?

[Pulsar_t]

Found the disc, playing through mission 1. This is CoD2 reskinned where you get to kick some imperialist Frenchies in the ass (funny how in the west only Japan was demonised for imperialism in Asia, but the rest of the imperial powers whitewashed themselves).. What's not to like? Obviously it's made on a shoe-string budget, but I'll play through it regardless.

[MrPopo]

I think Resurrection of Evil is actually better than the base Doom 3 game. Some of it is massively toning down the light management and monster closets cause jumpscares. Some of it is how damn satisfying the super shotgun is. Some of it is blatantly stealing the gravity gun from HL2 but letting you toss corpses and still-living small enemies like those damn lost souls; not to mention throwing fireballs back at enemies to OHKO them.

[Pulsar_t]

Thief 2014 is kind of boring. But I wasn't a fan of the originals either, so I'll give it another hour to see if it can hold my interest. I read that the ending sucks so even if I dropped it it'd be no great loss.

[Xeogred]

Thief 2014 is kind of boring. But I wasn't a fan of the originals either, so I'll give it another hour to see if it can hold my interest. I read that the ending sucks so even if I dropped it it'd be no great loss.

I beat it just like two months back and already forgot what the ending/story was about. Doesn't get more generic than that.

The asylum level was the peak of the game, but still nowhere near as good as the one in Deadly Shadows.

The apprentice, Dishonored, has clearly become the master and destroys this game.

[Exhuminator]

The apprentice, Dishonored, has clearly become the master and destroys this game.

That's because some of the people who worked on the original Thief 1 & 2, also worked on Dishonored. Where the talent goes, the technique follows.

[Xeogred]

The apprentice, Dishonored, has clearly become the master and destroys this game.

That's because some of the people who worked on the original Thief 1 & 2, also worked on Dishonored. Where the talent goes, the technique follows.

Makes sense.

Development on Thief 2014 was a real disaster though. Sounds like it was scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up possibly more than once or twice. And I don't think many of the key staff behind Deus Ex Human Revolution were involved, since I think that game was completely fantastic. But I guess that's a testament to how bloated dev teams are thesedays, despite sharing that same main name, it's hard to tell who's really working on it.

It's a shame because the art direction is amazing though and it has the right tone, a lot of cool ideas, but... mechanically the game falls flat on its face on critical elements. The level design in the hub areas is so ultra complex it's straight up annoying, to get to a street over you sometimes have to go around a block, climb through buildings, go through weird hidden paths and windows, then go through a loading screen, to simply get on the other side of some street you were at originally. And this is how the entire hub areas are designed. It's so claustrophobic and annoying, then there's the invisible walls at some heights, whereas vertical scaling in Dishonored was a beautiful thing and you could get on top of just about any building in the vicinity.

And then the enemy AI and sound design just didn't really work. And well, it's a stealth game, so... sound is a little important. This really hurts it. Once you're detected you may as well die or restart, there was something very frustrating about it, like I would have rather had Sam Fischer radio in to immediately tell me I failed and auto restart to a checkpoint, lol. I get that it's a stealth game, but you can usually recoup a bit in other games of this style, but here it was just... frustrating to deal with because you get caught by the games wonky sound design and the inconsistent enemy line of sight.

Otherwise it's a very well polished game visually and I'm glad I stuck it through, but it's a shame it messed up some major things.

I'd probably give it a 6/10, but only recommended to hardcore fans who are very interested in it.

[ElkinFencer10]

I haven't said this about the series since I played Call of Duty 2 ten years ago, but I actually REALLY enjoyed Black Ops III's campaign.

[Xeogred]

I can confirm, it's very awesome. Reminds me a lot of the Killzone games (but not broken and glitchy like Killzone 1 haha). These games are weird in that they kind of feel like first person shmups to me, they aren't aimless like Serious Sam or something, but there are a LOT of bullets flying and it's intense awesomeness. That probably makes no sense, but that's how I see it haha.

For whatever reason I have a strange fetish for urban industrial levels in FPS's too and this seems loaded with that. So it's got cool atmosphere as well. My least favorite level so far was the night time forest one where you might want to be a little stealthy (I wasn't finding many health packs). It's amusing how cliche' this level type is in FPS's back then... and I can't think of a single time I really liked one of them. Beyond that though, it's been fantastic. I'm up to the asylum level.

[Exhuminator]

Doing it right. Black is like snorting cocaine through bullet cases while shooting bullet heroin out of bullet needles.

My favorite stage is the final one. I was so pumped when I was going through it I didn't die a single time. A friend of mine refused to believe that because he died like 20 times getting through. I was in the zone. The Black zone.

The second best FPS I've played on Xbox was Urban Chaos: Riot Response, I think you'd enjoy it. It's not as frenetic as Black, but it's challenging in a tactical way that I think you'd appreciate. It was made by Rocksteady, you know the little indie developer behind those obscure Batman Arkham games.

[BoringSupreez]

I'd really like to see a sequel to Black, but for some reason it's the one game EA didn't make into a franchise.