| Goatseye said: I'm willing to bet with you that FPSs were not released as much as RPGs or Platformers this year. And even if it is, what's the problem? Why all this hate towards a genre that is doing really well? Is it because it's doing well that it is provoking anger on you guys? I don't play JRPG that much but each month there is like megaton of them released in Japan and they are mostly CTRL+C, CTRL+V. Do I hate them for that? No, I just think who likes that genre is lucky and giving devs a lot of attention with their wallet. |
I have to admit, I generally roll my eyes whenever a new game is announced and it turns out to be yet another FPS. I do like the genre, though I'm more into immersive single-player ones like BioShock and Doom than military and multiplayer focused ones, but the perception is that there have just been way too many this generation. Making a ton of them was just sort of the natural thing to do with the proliferation of online play for consoles and the massive success of Halo, COD, and Battlefield, but at this point there just aren't many FPS games that are doing so hot. The mass market seems to be cooling to them as well, even to Halo slightly, so the market may be saturated now.
So I can agree with Spector in the aggregate. There needs to be more variety. But the problem here - much like the problem with people singling out a little game like Dragon's Crown for "bad" representation of women - is that it's a dick move to take out your frustrations with the whole industry's failings on one particular game. Here's Spector talking about the feelings of his dev team on Epic Mickey even as he's shitting all over the feelings of the guys at MachineGames. What a prick.
