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Garnett on 11 November 2009

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Eh already the most hated user on here so its ok, they usually ignore me.

 

Oh and not all RPG are bad, i liked Fable and Valk Chronciles. But old school RPG like star ocean, tales of vesperia and the rest are all last gen games.

 

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KungKras on 11 November 2009

yes.

it seems gamers were much better when they tried to be fun and not blockbusters



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Alterego-X on 11 November 2009

I hate ALL genres.
Every new game should create its own genre or GTFO.

I already played Half Life 2, I don't need the same game with other things to shoot at, with gimmicky new controls, and another crap story.
I already played Elder Scrolls, I don't need another version this time with space aliens.



Cactus on 11 November 2009

I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect and Ratchet & Clank are all shooting games. Sure they may fall into other genres as well, but for the most part, they involve picking up guns and shooting things.



Spiteful49 on 11 November 2009

A lot of people like instant gratification. You can pop in a shooter play a few rounds of online play and be satisfied if you don’t have much time. You can also hang out with a bunch of friends laugh play the shooters together all night long. Its hard to beat that for a lot of people. What other types of games let you do that? Certainly not a story driven game.



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AdventWolf on 11 November 2009

I blame Goldeneye.



Avinash_Tyagi on 11 November 2009
Serious_frusting said:

Well yh like the title says.

 

I mean back in the PS1 gen everyone played RPG's, platformers, fighters and action adventure's.

PS2 gen the same but platformers became less important and shooters started getting a little bit popular

 

 

Now this gen it is all about shooters, shooters, shooters. Dont get me wrong i dont mind a FPS now and then but when 90% of the game i like this. I dont know dont you just get the feeling that gaming has passed you by.

All the genre's we used to love no-one cares about anymore. It has very rare i see a good platformer and RPG's the same. Fighter are already the way of the dodo and shooters are King.

 

When i see games Like MW2 get like 10mil sales in a week it just makes me sad. Where are these kinda sales for the epic platformers and everything else. I think i am still stuck in the 90's or something because i hate most games now a days. It isnt very often i come across a game that i enjoy. but back in the Megadrive days the was too many good games for me to play.

 

OK i will just shut up now because i am going on a bit too much now

 


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bonkers555 on 11 November 2009
Spiteful49 said:
A lot of people like instant gratification. You can pop in a shooter play a few rounds of online play and be satisfied if you don’t have much time. You can also hang out with a bunch of friends laugh play the shooters together all night long. Its hard to beat that for a lot of people. What other types of games let you do that? Certainly not a story driven game.

Exactly!  I personally love FPS because of this reason.



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dobby985 on 11 November 2009

Shooters rule!



okr on 11 November 2009

I disagree.

Patapon, LocoRoco, Lumines, Flower, Critter Crunch, Pixel Junk, Castle Crashers, Valkyria Chronicles, LittleBigPlanet, World of Goo, LostWinds, Swords & Soldiers, Little King's Story, Muramasa, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Elite Beat Agents, Scribblenauts, AudioSurf, Braid, Auditorium, Machinarium, Portal, The Whispered World.
=> Just a small and very incomplete list of (IMO) original games/franchises this gen already brought us up to now.

Beside those there's of course tons of new mainstream or already established mainstream franchises on every platform, which are NOT ego shooters and still more successful than most ego shooters (Uncharted, AC, R&C, GT, MGS, FF, DQ, Mario, Zelda, SSBB, Metroid, FIFA, PES, Madden and on and on).

This gen also marked the mainstream breakthrough of online gaming and casual gaming (the latter one is not only extremely successful on Wii, but most probably even more on PC).

Gaming is extremely diverse today in my opinion. Probably more than ever.