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voty2000 on 06 September 2010
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Ajescent said:
voty2000 said:
Ajescent said:

Nope, fuck it, I decided to stick around and live up to the allegations.


You come into this thread and insult fans of the game by stating it's a facepalm that people will buy the game and you expect people to be nice?  Then you state your losing faith in the community when your first post in the thread is a insult and adds nothing to the thread.  Really?  I'm not calling you a fanboy because I don't know, but don't expect nice responses when you insult someone.

 

I guess I should have expanded on my "Facepalm" comment. I made that comment because I feel that too much emphasis is spent on FPSs, there are in my opinion things out there deserving of the revenue that FPSs get but NEVER get a look in because FPSs just act like a sinkhole.

Sure Reach and the Halo series in general are good if you are into it but then again the same can be said for other games of other genres but they never get the attention that they deserve. Instead, as soon as a new FPS hits the market, people are more likely to perk up than any other genre, IMO people should expand beyond the tried and tested guy with a big gun goes bang, bang shooty shooty. But it seldom happens.

I apologise if it came across more agressive than it meant to but that's my opinion on the matter. There are too many FPSs and the Halo series is one of the more outstanding ones so it's beyond doubt that it will sell something silly in its first week, and the reason this annoys me isn't because it's Halo, or a MS game, it's because it's a FPS albeit one of the better ones but at the same time, all it will do is give further confirmation to the more half assed developers out there that Dude in a space suit armed with a big gun FPSs sells loads.

And so it keeps going, more diverse ideas get back burned/cancelled we just end up getting more FPSs, I guess I'm the only one who doesn't like this idea.

In summary, I'm not hating on Halo specifically, just what it will lead to i.e more FPSs.

 

There has to be a saturation point in the FPS craze.  I've loved the genre since the original Doom and I'm at the point that few FPS's really excite me.  I find myself wanting more and more other genres.  Right now, I want more good Hack and Slash and good plaformers.  There have been a criminally small amoun of platformers this gen and their sales have been less than stellar for the most part.

Fads come and go and I do believe the FPS craze will die down, it has too.  There are multiple ones being released each month and competition has been getting stronger, so weaker games are getting less sales, and as the number of FPS's increase, sales for individual games will decrease.  At least I hope.  By no means do I want the genre to die, but it needs to die down.