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heruamon on 11 November 2009

"...She keeps on passing me, byeeeeeeeeeee...."

Shooters are king, but there's alot of good stuff in other genres...Dragon Age is GOTY, imho.



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chocoloco on 11 November 2009

No Sir, this Gen has made me the biggest game fan I have ever been in my life. Sorry to thoose who are missing the past.



Adjudicator on 11 November 2009
heruamon said:
"...She keeps on passing me, byeeeeeeeeeee...."

Shooters are king, but there's alot of good stuff in other genres...Dragon Age is GOTY, imho.

Is it really, I was in a toss up between this and Demon's Soul this Christmas.



 

ameratsu on 11 November 2009
bonkers555 said:

Sony have published Resistance, Resistance 2 and KillZone 2.

M$ have published Halo 3, Perfect Dark and Halo ODST.

Nintendo have published 0 FPS this gen.

So its safe to say that is just a 3rd party phase that will pass like every other genres. What bother me is that Sony is publishing more and more FPS then JRPGs this gen. I would like to see Sony go back to a diverse library.

 

Links Crossbow Training and Disaster Day of Crisis have rail shooter parts, not sure if you want to count that.



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Kasz216 on 11 November 2009
ckmlb said:
Kasz216 said:

My favorite Genre is SRPGs.

So no, i'm used to not being the primary focus of the industry.

SE should remake FF Tactics in HD with online multiplayer, how amazing would that be? As an XBLA and PSN game I mean, 10$.

I... wouldn't really see the point.

Of course that's because i own the original.  Online multiplayer would just be kinda broken due to the broken class balances.  Unless you had a lot of ribbons. Or whatever that item was that protected you from all status effects... Dancers would destroy everybody. 

It's good but it's not the end all be all a lot of people like to make it due to it being Final Fantasy.  Matsuno has made better SRPGs.

Really i'd like them to get that "Quest" team on something new even without Matsuno.

Assuming they're still in the company

 



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disolitude on 11 November 2009

lol...I felt like this when PS1 came out. This gen is more old school than PS1 and PS2 gens ever were.

Just cause it doesn't sell 3 million copies first week doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

2D is something that was very hard to come by last gen or evenwith PS1 (Saturn is king of 2D) but this gen its all over the place. I'll be playing 2D sonic in less than a year. Holy shit!



Chairman-Mao on 11 November 2009

Intense FPS games are more fun then platformers. Shooting vs Running to the right and jumping.



Adobo on 11 November 2009

I am not crazy about shooters as well, I'm more of a RPG guy and there are so many great MMO's out there but you have to pay for it to enjoy... aside for some other good RPGs this gen, I think I understand how you feel.



ckmlb on 11 November 2009
Kasz216 said:
ckmlb said:
Kasz216 said:

My favorite Genre is SRPGs.

So no, i'm used to not being the primary focus of the industry.

SE should remake FF Tactics in HD with online multiplayer, how amazing would that be? As an XBLA and PSN game I mean, 10$.

I... wouldn't really see the point.

Of course that's because i own the original.  Online multiplayer would just be kinda broken due to the broken class balances.  Unless you had a lot of ribbons. Or whatever that item was that protected you from all status effects... Dancers would destroy everybody. 

It's good but it's not the end all be all a lot of people like to make it due to it being Final Fantasy.  Matsuno has made better SRPGs.

Really i'd like them to get that "Quest" team on something new even without Matsuno.

Assuming they're still in the company

 

Well they could fix the problems and add a lot of stuff geared towards multiplayer, but there are no online multiplayer SRPGs and FF Tactics was the best selling SRPG (I think) and we might get a remake if SE thinks they'll make money out of it.



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patapon on 11 November 2009
Cactus said:
patapon said:
Cactus said:

I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect and Ratchet & Clank are all shooting games. Sure they may fall into other genres as well, but for the most part, they involve picking up guns and shooting things.

They are actually quite different. I can't get the experience that I had in Uncharted 2 anywhere else. The same can be said with MGS4, ME and R&C and so on. Unsurprisingly, the games listed here are story-driven/single player experiences. Because the emphasis on SP is so great, set pieces, story and characterization are huge! And because of that, each game you listed are vastly different from each other even though they "involve picking up guns and shooting things."

I never said that the games are all the same, or anything about their quality. I just said that they fall into the category of "shooting game," which too many people here are ignoring.

Ahh, okay... But who ignored that they were apart of the shooting catagory and why did that matter?

Just to note, the term 'shooter' is almost exclusively used for FPSs.