| oniyide said: @robzo isnt that what Wii is for??? and maybe Move?? |
Shoot em ups right aren't viable for any console unfortunately. I think they would be looked at as some sort of half-assed game that didn't have enough development time to make a real 3d world etc... I think shoot em ups can be for any age, but they would be most marketable on the likes of wii ware, xbla, or psn.
The problem is no one wants to pay 50 dollars for a game they think costs like 10 bucks. People see them in the arcades as these short spontaneous experiences, so they are socialized to view them as lower-level games. I can't really judge well since I am unaware of any full fledged attempts at a recent home console shoot em up.
I just know that when 3d shoot em ups first started out, they were more the likes of the original FPS games. Like the original Doom or Quake. Those games had the shoot em up essence to it so clearly it's an extenuation of the shoot em up genre if you ask me. But today we see them as something totally seperate. One being a serious genre, and the other being non-serious.
