There are plenty of other Genres out there. Just in the last 4 months

Racer- Forza 3
RPG- Dragon Age
Stealth/Action- Batman Arkham
3rd Person Adventure- Uncharted 2
Music- Beatles Rock Band
2D scroller- Shadow Complex
2D Adventure- Sam and Max, Monkey Island, etc
Fighter- Tekken
Diablo type game that is a  shooter- Borderlands
Music -RB Beatles
Then you have Brutal Legend, Sports, Ratchet, Etc

Lot's of Variety out there that is very good. You don't need a ton of crappy games in a genre, just need to get one good one.

ckmlb said: Kasz216 said: ckmlb said: Kasz216 said: My favorite Genre is SRPGs. So no, i'm used to not being the primary focus of the industry. SE should remake FF Tactics in HD with online multiplayer, how amazing would that be? As an XBLA and PSN game I mean, 10$. I... wouldn't really see the point. Of course that's because i own the original.  Online multiplayer would just be kinda broken due to the broken class balances.  Unless you had a lot of ribbons. Or whatever that item was that protected you from all status effects... Dancers would destroy everybody.  It's good but it's not the end all be all a lot of people like to make it due to it being Final Fantasy.  Matsuno has made better SRPGs. Really i'd like them to get that "Quest" team on something new even without Matsuno. Assuming they're still in the company   Well they could fix the problems and add a lot of stuff geared towards multiplayer, but there are no online multiplayer SRPGs and FF Tactics was the best selling SRPG (I think) and we might get a remake if SE thinks they'll make money out of it.

Yeah, it was the best selling one.  I think a new game would be better though.  I mean an HD remake would be coming off the heels of the PSP remake.  That wasn't that long ago.

it's like that everywhere man, the best music band are not the one who sells the more, the best movies rarely do more then 100mill at the box office, the best sex are from ugly girls

patapon said: Cactus said: patapon said: Cactus said: 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. They are actually quite different. I can't get the experience that I had in Uncharted 2 anywhere else. The same can be said with MGS4, ME and R&C and so on. Unsurprisingly, the games listed here are story-driven/single player experiences. Because the emphasis on SP is so great, set pieces, story and characterization are huge! And because of that, each game you listed are vastly different from each other even though they "involve picking up guns and shooting things." I never said that the games are all the same, or anything about their quality. I just said that they fall into the category of "shooting game," which too many people here are ignoring. Ahh, okay... But who ignored that they were apart of the shooting catagory and why did that matter? Just to note, the term 'shooter' is almost exclusively used for FPSs.

Well, I think that's why we're butting heads here. When I think of a shooter, I think of a game where using guns to shoot things is the main aspect of the gameplay. To me, games like Gradius, Contra and Mass Effect are shooters.

I just found it ironic that people were naming shooters while trying to prove to everybody else that there are a lot of other popular games this gen besides shooting games, but now I realize that I just wasn't aware that the term shooter is now synonymous with FPS.

I used to feel this way, but then games like Demon's Souls and 3D Dot Game Heroes came around.

I still like gaming, thanks to the Nintendo games, and the wider variety of genres usually available on the Nintendo consoles...

I know it may sound fanboyish or full of bias, but you have to know that my favourite genres are action/adventure, platformers and RPG's... always have been, even if i like a fun shooter from time to time... but FPS, racing, sports and music now seem to represent 90% of the games on PS360, and that's why i miss only a handful of games on these consoles...

If that was all that gaming had to propose, then i wouldn't bother anymore...

So, @OP: if you have such a "platformer and everything else" nostalgia, why don't you buy yourself a Wii and a DS then?

Even if you're really hard to please, you'll easily find 10 to 20 little gems on each console, and each of these will give you hours and hours of fun, enough to keep you entertained till next gen, along with all your other "Hd favourites"... just my two cents, of course...

dont worry
this generation is not about shooters, at least not completely

there are still "classical console games" lover around

but, remember, back on the PS1/2 day, remember this little GTA game that was more and more successful ... this is the guy that you should hate because all is his fault !

Serious_frusting said: Na i aint bashing shooters i think they are cool. Its just that i dont like that having so many shooters has come at the expense of "killing" other very good genre's I just feel like the gaming world has just left me behind. I must have missed something. I dont really mind 3rd person. Buts its the FPS that get to me the most. I just dont understand why so many people can love them so much thats all.

Cos it's so fun to shoot and kill stuff.

llewdebkram said: ... I guess I and others that grew up during the first few generation of video games were very lucky as we got to feel the excitement of playing completely new games with exciting new ideas and styles of play. These days all there is to get excited about is playing exactly the same game as you did a year ago with a slight name change or the number after it increased by 1.

Pff... I have more or less your same age -at least in gaming terms- and I think this is navel-gazing.

Back in old days for each pacman there were dozens of maze games, some of which pitiful. Same as with today's genres. And do we want to remember the absolutely huge amount of trash shoot-em-ups? Or the invasion of mediocre platformers/adventures/fighting games?

There have been tremendously original games in the last years, some of them genre-defining, other more subtle in their originality. But putting things in perspective: each new experience will look more significative in a poorer context of previous experiences. It was easier to get that feeling back in the days because of everything being relatively new to us, but look at the experiences per se and they're still growing both wider and deeper.

If you want your youth and innocence back, well, i've got bad news for you :)

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.

Bingo.