Random Gaming Talk

[DocWager]

Sometimes we forget how great things used to be.

I’d give that a shot today. I remember not liking the demo at the time, but that might’ve been mostly because I really liked what the original version of that game was, but they abandoned it in development.

Conviction is a case of an entry incongruent with series expectations. It eased up going into 3/Chaos Theory and Double Agent, but those older Splinter Cells were all stealth and going loud is the poor choice. The flow of Conviction expected you to get spotted and play loud. Takedowns refilled your auto kills. Play it like John Wick rather than a stealth game, it’s pretty fun.

Follow up, Blacklist, managed to hit a sweet spot of stealth and action. Great game. Don’t think it sold well.

When you become further removed from the game it definitely sounds like a more scratch an itch type of game that a lot of games don’t touch in these days. 

Honestly with the popularity of “Old guys kicking ass” I’m surprised there hasn’t been a game that played it up in recent times. Closest we got was GoW4. But something in the actual espionage genre would get over huge.