2013-03-25, 08:44 PM
byakugan Wrote:And it's not just CoD that needs to disappear, its the whole shooter genre that needs to go. It's been slowly taking over other genres or bending with them, to the point that most big games, if not all, that come out today have a combat system built around shooting. Since this is a proven to sell formula, it just takes any chance of new and innovative ways of playing to be developed. It's defintely sad. There's also the issue of how these type of games can affect violence in our society, I know taking the genre out wouldn't fix that, but I strongly support the idea that damn it would help.
I'm confident if the shooting genre disappeared, many of the issues you're worried about that make you want to kill the industry would disappear. It¡d be one great first step definitely.
Nah. Shooters are just this generations equivalent of platformers in the Genesis (MegaDrive)/SNES era, or 3d adventure/rpg/mascot games in the n64-ps1 era. Sure, there probably are a few good ones, but if you want a quick buck? poop one of these out, let idiots buy it. Fools and their money are easily parted as they say.
Only the truly standout games in the genre will make it through to the next gen, just like every other generation of gaming. After all, how many 3d adventure games are still going from the n64-dreamcast era? Mario, Sonic, Zelda, ...?
In fact, it's pretty obvious why "shooting" in all of its forms has become a big mechanic, it's an easy way to interact with "enemies" in a 3d space, the same way that "Jumping" on enemies became the go to choice for 2d platformers.