1. COD is one the best online multiplayer shooters of all time
2. DMC remake was better than any Devil May Cry game in the series.... across the board
3. Nintendo has been a complete failure for me since Nintendo 64
4. All these battle royale games are extremely overrated

I agree. Every time my wife has watched me play a game it's always been a game that was very heavily focused on narrative. So Heavy Rain and games like it she'll play as they have very simple mechanics and are mainly focused on telling a story. I'm personally not into those games but I know she likes them so if I'm playing my normal COD and BF games it can get annoying when she asks about continuing the story of one of those games so be careful what you wish for lol.

As far as getting her to play games like shooters from my experience it's just the complicated nature of those games that turn them off. We play them like everything is second nature and when you've been gaming for years it literally is. It's nothing for us to pick up a controller of some new shooter and immediately do extremely well in it as if we've been playing the game for years. Que the wife (or anyone who doesn't game regularly) and she has to learn how to first move the character, than throw in the fact that a separate stick is for looking, throw in the triggers, and wait you can ADS to aim better, crouch, jump, run, reload and you haven't even touched the nuanced mechanics of the game and it's just too much to learn in one sitting.

I say start with the games that got you into gaming in the first place. Basic platformers and some fighting games. Very easy to pick up and play.

Uncharted but TLOU is close behind. I like the action and puzzle solving of an uncharted game.

The thing about a game review is that it's most effective in advance of a games release. As a normal consumer with limited free time on your hands, its almost impossible to legally get your hands on a game well enough in advance to give a solid review before release date. Now if you have free time, you can push an in-depth review out of a game on release date or the day after with maybe around 20 hours of straight playtime. Perfect for a console shooter or something along those lines.

True but that would have to be mine as well. Well crafted puzzle game with an excellent narrative, it deserves all the praise

@henrythefifth: It was just overly ambitious, sometimes that can be a bad thing.

Not worried since anything Rockstar puts out tends to be single player focused and free of microtransactions to that end. The issue is when you give us a bs campaign, then proceed to copy and paste a multiplayer together from the last game and flood the experience with lootboxes. That's not R*'s style

Superman 64.... underrated

Which probably fits the COD formula of going from cinematic set piece to set piece as now the action won't be constrained by a cohesive story. Think the operator videos from R6 but where you can actually play through the action.

I think the biggest thing is the annual release schedule because you'd be hard pressed to convince me that COD (outside of COD3 and AW) is inherently bad. I've played all of the battlefield series and all of the COD series to date and honestly there's not much of a difference to me. I agree, COD is more of an "arcade shooter." It's flashy, over-the-top and fast paced. None of those traits made it bad.

Besides the annual release, I also think it's a lot of copy/paste work that goes into the series. You can literally trace things like animations, gameplay mechanics and sounds between COD games. I think it's absolutely lazy for a dev to do especially when each dev supposedly gets 3 years development time to put out their COD. So I can personally understand the "it's just an expansion" argument.

Now what COD does get right (or historically did get right because Blops 4 seems to be making cuts) is give us a lot for the money. Campaign, zombies and multiplayer has been the package and it's worked.