[General Discussion] Modern classics?

I doubt you'l get much support for touting the story in a Mortal Kombat game as defining it as a future classic, especially as Kratos is also available in the most recent Soul Calibur game. Also no, none of the Modern Warfare games are remembered two weeks after the newest comes out, let alone in ten years time but each to their own.

I don't think any FPS from the last few years will be regarded as a classic in the future, if only because there are so damn many of them. I think in ten years time, Halo Reach will be seen as the defining end of a genre, as the last FPS game without a retarded unlock-better-stuff-by-playing-lots mechanic that serves only to alienate occasional players. When in ten years time you have to pay real money to access the only guns that give you a hint of a chance to kill people online, you'll think back and remember how everyone in Reach started every match with the same gun and how much better that was as a system.

I also believe people will look back at Shadow of the Colossus with great fondness, if only because it was one of the first games (Mainstream PS2 games anyway) to embrace the idea of a game as a work of art and it's just such a stunning looking game that you don't realise how little there is to do and how simple a concept it is.

Other than that, I think the vasty majority of modern games are fairly forgettable, with endless sequels and imitators serving only to dilute the impact further.

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What is it with you and saying FFT was difficult? I really don't get that, I found it easy to the point of being boring towards the end but then I did play the PSP version, perhaps they dumbed it down a bit for that?

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I remember the first Wiegraf one being a bit of a bitch but none of those others strike me as particularly taxing, I guess the extra characters does make a difference.

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I'd say Burnout Revenge is better than Takedown but you're right, they're both pretty much classics. It's a shame they ruined it by making Paradise al that open-world crap and in the process getting rid of the racing.

There are rumours of a Suikoden VI but each time I hear one it's on a different console so I doubt any are concrete.

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