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Fusioncode said:
Shooters are simply want the majority of gamers want right now. 15 years ago, it was RPGs. 20 years ago, it was platformers. Who knows what the PS4's best selling games will be 5 years from now.





Eh no.  The number of gamers wanting RPGs hasn't changed and is in fact larger.  The sales #s of niche games like Ni no Kuni, Tales, Disgaea, etc, dwarf even SNES and PS1 RPGs.  The demand for RPG and adventure games is clearly more than it ever has been.

It's just that tens of millions of new ADDITIONAL casual mainstream dude bro "gamers" were added to the "gamer" market who refuse to play anything that isn't spilling over in machismo and testosterone.

And that's fine, you don't have to play shooters if you don't like them... except you can't avoid them.  Studios who are now so big that 4 million copies sold is a failure (when selling 100k units of a niche game is what MADE them in the first place).  They want a slice of the Call of Doodoo pie and are ruining our beloved once legendary franchises trying to appeal to these douchebags. 

Resident Evil is no longer Resident Evil.  Final Fantasy is no longer Final Fantasy.  That's why it's a problem.  I don't care if shooters outnumber RPGs 20 to 1, as long as the RPGs stay RPGs and not one button linear corridor machismo 1 liner quipping I’m too cool for myself casual dudebro games because they think it will sell 20 million copies in the first hour of release.

So where does that leave us, the original old school gamers who have been here all along?  Guess our money isn't good enough anymore.