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edjevink on 27 March 2010
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CommonMan said:
gekkokamen said:
the only thing these two games have in common is that both are sequel that are very much the same as the previous games. But in ME2 case, critics didn't seem to bring that up that much (that is the same) than they did with GoW3. Sales wise? GOW is a bigger franchise than ME, even though ME involves shooting that goes well with its target audience. Maybe they should include Multiplayer for ME3, that would do it....

I see by this and several other posts that we're back on the "360 is for shooters!" mantra again, why does this keep coming up? Is it just because Halo is so popular? This goes in waves and has been used to at any point indicate: the 360's library is terrible, the 360 users are shallow/young/n00bs/dull/sheep or that the games themselves are just copies of each other. It's a brilliant bit of spin that is a very versatile way to trash a bunch of things at once, but doesn't repeating it get a little old?

You wanna know why this keeps coming up? If you look at the top 20 most sold Xbox 360 games, of course excluding all the heavily bundled games, the list looks like this:

11 shooters (games wherein the only thing you do is shooting)
3 semi-shooters (games with a lot of shooting elements - GTA IV, RE5, Fallout 3)
6 NON-shooters (games with (almost) no kind of shooting elements)

The list of top 20 most sold PS3 games looks like this, also excluding heavily bundled games:

5 shooters (games wherein the only thing you do is shooting)
6 semi-shooters (games with a lot of shooting elements)
9 NON-shooters (games with (almost) no kind of shooting elements)

Anyway, i think you're overreacting. The above lists show that shooters, and games with shooting elements, on the 360 are indeed more popular than most NON-shooters. Specially compared to the Wii and PS3. That's the only thing gekkokamen was saying. Does that mean the 360 has a terrible library and that it hose no other games than shooters? No. Does that mean that 360 users are shallow/young/n00bs/dull/sheep? No. Is gekkokamen implying these things? No. Sorry, but to me it seems that you're traumatized by the fanboys that occassionaly bring these kind of things up. But in this case gekkokamen said nothing more than the FACT that shooting elements go well with the 360 audience. You can't argue with that.