misterd on 30 December 2007
| SlorgNet said: Games of the year, my foot. Here's the problem: the top ten list contains... a shooter. A shooter. A shooter. A shooter. A racing game. An action game. A shooter. A shooter. A Cold-War-themed war strategy game. Oh, wait, there's also a music game and a platformer. Sure, some of these are great games. But we're talking two games with possible mass appeal (music game and platformer). The rest are niche games for a niche market -- the shooter demographic -- mostly very young guys looking to get their crosshairs on. Nothing wrong with that, shooters can be great fun, but that's not the only kind of gaming experience out there. |
I don't think you can fault a game for it's genre. Yeah, there are a lot of shooters there, but a good deal of diversity within those shooters (half life-portal, bioshock and CoD4 are all very different experiences), and truth be told there really were a lot of great shooters. This is a result of the marketplace - shooters are hot right now, as at one time were platformers and fighting games. That means that shooters will get disproportionate amounts of resources devoted to them, and have a bigger attraction to talented artists, and thus it should be no surprise that you get a number of very well made shooters.
