#Introduction
2007 was the first full year after two major consoles released – the Wii and PlayStation 3 in November 2006, with the Xbox 360 releasing in November 2005. Parallels can be made to 2021, with two major consoles also releasing the November prior – the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in November 2020, with the Switch releasing in March 2017. 2014 would’ve been the eighth generation version, and while it did have some great games (Shovel Knight, The Evil Within, Mario Kart 8, etc.), I think most would agree 2007 was more impactful.
To give a better frame of reference for this period in time, here were some of the things going on in 2007 outside the gaming industry: Apple had rolled out their first iteration of the iPhone, American Idol was the #1 show on Cable TV, George W. Bush was president of the United States, Blockbuster still existed, MySpace was still relevant, The Simpsons finally got their movie, J.K. Rowling released the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter …
When Arkham Knight released, many complained about the fact that the Batmobile didn’t feel “right” due to the ability to run over goons and to have big tank battles/shooting rockets. This clearly clashed with Batman’s established moral code not to kill. Even though the game insisted that everyone Batman ran over was just unconscious afterwards and that the tanks Batman was shooting were unmanned, those explanations felt like a thinly veiled attempt to make the game mechanics of “open-world with goons roaming the streets” and “big tank battles” work within the established moral code of the player character Batman. Whereas the player is at no point forced to run over goons, he is absolutely forced to have those tank battles to advance the story, further highlighting the dissonance between Batman’s established character behaviour and the game mechanics.
I was thinking a lot about this the last few weeks: the actions a player can take …
Powershell command to see if Windows 10 KB5001330 gaming issues patch is applied. Rebooting may get fix and apply it; some are saying registry entry is there but issues persist.
Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FeatureManagement\Overrides\4\1837593227
Run the PowerShell command above (paste into Powershell window), edit: IF Registry Key EXISTS (i.e. patch/FIX to issue applied) output will look like:( the bold keys and values are of interest, ignore italic part, that’s just PS extra info; there for clarity):
EnabledState : 1
EnabledStateOptions : 1
Variant : 0
VariantPayloadKind : 0
VariantPayload : 0
FlightId : FX:11F4161E
PSPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FeatureManagement\Overrides\4\1837593227
PSParentPath : …
There seems to be less singleplayer fps games where you’d fight against regular humans. Or maybe I’m just not noticing them. It seems that many titles in thr mentioned style are just multiplayer focused.
So I’m talking about not having zombies, infected etc. just regular human “bad guys”. Also not set in a heavy scifi environment with plasmarifles and what not. Cause there ard tons of those (Like titanfall 2 which was fun).
Some notable titles are Far cry 5 and sniper ghost warrior 3. But I’d like to find more.
What games would be worth noting that fall under those requirements? Recent: let’s say something like released in the last 5 years.