2013-04-27, 03:58 PM
Declaimed Wrote:Some games are worth $50. A first person shooter isn't worth my $50, in my opinion, and this is especially true of the Call of Duty series. It's more or less the same thing reskinned year after year in what could've easily been DLC instead.
Thats probably one of the main things that turned me off to this generation. Guns, guns, and more guns. First Person Shooters, everywhere you look... I enjoyed Turok (On N64) when I was younger, Goldeneye was okay, and Halo (the first one) was pretty decent too. But I'm not interested in this overload of FPSes. I think one of the main reasons I chose the Wii over the other two is because I knew there would be less of that.
I agree with this. First the shooters everywhere, its got to a point that it's taking over other genres. Because its easy, because its effective, because its cheap, that might be true but its keeping developers from even looking at different ways of playing or creating others. I've said it before, today's game industry is one big bubble that keeps growing bigger and will reach a point it can't support itself anymore and blow up and by this I am refering to the developing costs. I didn't know about Tomb Raider, but having to sell above 8 millon copies just to then become profitable is atrocious and the best example. At some point the gaming industry will start de-evolving to lower resolution games, it already is with the help of channels like Steam, network shops and new devices like smartphones and tablets. I just hope it doesn't go as low as all main consoles diying (not even to pineappleing PC
) and everyone ends playing on an Iphone/Ipad.The only way I can really enjoy myself playing a shooter is when the other elements of the game are as good as the shooting, for example Fallout 3.