| miz1q2w3e said: That's where the discussion lies. ...Which one is, in fact, newer? |
I don't know. Just because the games in the second example all play differently from one another doesn't necessarily mean they're doing anything truly new, and it's not really all that desirable to have your favorite franchise changing things up drastically from game to game.
Seems like a false choice, though. I'm bored by the sheer number of them this generation, but are there many shooters that really play exactly the same? I don't think so. Every one seems to have its own thing that sets it apart. I understand that it's easy to become jaded toward the idea of staring down the barrel of yet another gun in yet another brown-and-grey ultrarealistic military FPS, but if you take the time to dig into them, they are at least as different as the various Mario games that use the same characters but play quite differently.
