Recent reviews by BlacKDeniM

This game is *immenselyr* cozy. If you like the scenes of a rainy, neo-noir, dimly lit city, hanging out in the shop watching the raindrops on the window beneath flickery neon signs, this is the game for you. it takes place in an alternate 1979 megacorp-dominated world with lots of japanese influence, and a very blade runner-like vibe, mixed with the late 70s and early 80s. It's great - and the way you organize and discover and link information together in your investigations is *incredibly* detailed, too.

At the end of the day, North America has yearly releases of things like Madden, for American Football, FIFA for European Football, NHL 2k for Hockey, and NBA 2K for basketball. They've got Tiger Woods PGA tour, they've got sports games for every major sport. When it comes to competitive military guys shooting guns, commonplace here, you get a yearly release of Call of Duty, and an updated Warzone.

They say you only move as quick as your slowest person, and if that's true, then that means that CoD, and Warzone, only move as fast as it's mobile version - also true. You can see where the mobile-ification of games like this comes into play - WZ mobile shares content, guns, blueprints, characters between games, but you can't play cross-platform. Meanwhile on PC you've got all the console players, and the PC players - now there are a multitude of PC platforms. Steam, Battlenet, and whatever the other one is.

There's a lot of hands on the wheel, here. This game has somewhere around 5 or so developers. It's an enormous project. Because of this, they've tried to make it uniform across *their* entire Call of Duty platform, by basically turning it into an FPS as an MMO type service, reminiscent of what Asian gaming companies were doing with things like Combat Arms, and War Rock. Back in the day, CoD reigned supreme over these types of Free-to-play cash shop games. Now, they have become exactly like that. This is probably in part due to the very large market that is represented in Asia, especially with mobile gamers that like their battle royales. You see it spreading into the western market, CoD is the shining example of this.

So, this is what you get, when you get CoD. And yes, it's greedy with it's pricing. CoD itself has a launcher, Warzone is it's free to play cash shop venture, and when you buy the latest CoD, it tacks itself onto the Call of Duty HQ represented as DLC inside of a launcher instead of a standalone game. It's all quite confusing and takes some getting used to. Not to mention the fact that monetary non-game-currency purchases are permanently locked to whichever platform you bought it on - this means that when you spend money on pro-packs in this game, they are stuck on your steam or your battlenet, not transferrable.

The art direction is a mess. It's painfully evident that there are way too many people making content for this game. Some months you get cool cyberpunk-themed stuff, the next month you might get halloween stuff for some reason, the month after that it'll be zomething to do with zombies, and there are all sorts of cross-over cameos that make no sense - like Spawn? The only people who know what Spawn is are all like 35 now. Dune was there, The Walking Dead was there. It feels like the bizarre premium events are being marketed predominantly to what a 50yo thinks a 20yo likes when in actuality it's what a 35yo would *remember.*

Occasionally you get some cute anime-themed stuff, or cute girl skins and emblems, cards, stickers, blueprints etc, but they really dole that out in small amounts to keep you guessing.

It is that it is, this is what CoD is now. It feels like WoW, and that makes a lot of sense considering their corporate formation that they exist within.

Would I recommend someone get *into* it? Not really. Doesn't seem like a financially responsible thing to do. Is Warzone pretty good? As far as battle royale games go - absolutely. That's the free part. If someone want to go into it because they just want a game that you can run and shoot and also get giddy over all the crap you unlock, which is fun in and of itself, and you like the challenges, and you're someone like me, who spent the most formative years of her life playing 2009's MW2, playing Hardcore and dying repeatedly, going into a completely dazed trance at my computer screen, dying, respawning, dying, respawning, spraying my gun and getting 1-hit kills like everyone else, unlocking challenges and parts and guns and camo, doing this for hours, listsening to my music and going into a respawn trance - well there's plenty of that. And maybe I'm weird, but that's rather relaxing for me. CoD's a slippery slope though. it's very easy to stop paying attention, next thing you know you've spent $500 on the game.

It's fast, it makes my animal brain go zoom and that feels good

You can swap p@nties with the other girls in your party A++

Neon White answers the question: What if heaven were populated entirely by beautiful bisexuals that have only ever experienced Twitch culture? What if the Christian heaven had class disparity?

This game makes me not want to play it. Both campaign and Multiplayer crash like they're running on Source. Every time it crashes, you have to start your entire mission over. I've re-cleared The Tower like, 5 times. big ups to 343i for ensuring that nobody can refund this ♥♥♥♥ after playing the multiplayer for a week

its a good game tho

i'm from loch mor and i say "kill'em all!"

Truly a gem, story is a really wonderful analysis of an over-commodified society backing itself into a corner as a species due to constant, impending effects of climate change, and the other journeys that come with that.

Love the game, the example of what one single person can do with the source engine, and a lot of dedication, and the story that it tells, truly.

All the fun of getting incredibly angry at a number, without having to open your banking app.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this game. It's great.