Does anyone feel like gaming has passed them by?

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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.