The topic of the day (as well as the week and the month and the year) is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Oh boy.
The past three to four years has seen the floodgates open up. What was once the domain of the PC is fast becoming that of the consoles. The first-person shooters have exploded on the charts and I... am not happy about that. Not the most popular opinion around these parts, but in the same way you guys look upon the minigame packs and the Suzie Homemaker portable pap with disdain, I feel uncomfortable by the popularity of the shooter genre.
Am I not trying hard enough? Have I just not played the right games? I don't know, but they all start to blend together for me. I feel no connection whatsoever. How can I? I'm a floating gun barrel. How do I relate to that? It's all so impersonal. That guy over there? Point that circle over him, push a button, and BOOM! He's dead. Like divine judgment. Just look at something at it dies. What a power trip.
So... Modern Warfare 2. Wooo. Here we go. Biggest game of the year. Whoop-de-shit. Hold me, the excitement is too great. Another bombastic Jerry Bruckheimer prouction where the viewer can feed instructions to a disembodied hand which will in turn spark carnage and mayhem for the spectator's wonderment.
You know what? The next time I go to a party and someone wants to bust out some Call of Duty or Halo or whatever, I'm going to offer a better alternative:
Pfft, Bomberman. Child's play. Why can't Hudson Soft try and aim that guy at a more mature audience, so it can be as awesome as Call of Duty and whatnot? Just take away the cute stuff and replace it with a dark and gritty atmosphere, throw in a story about trying to fight your way to the surface of the earth, and for kicks, be forced to play through 99 levels without the ability to save anywhere. There's no way it can go wrong.
Wow, I guess I should have asked for permission before I decided to like FPSs huh. Can't disagree with Bomberman as an amazing multiplayer competition though - that series has serious staying power.
God, those kids in the Bomberman ad are just one step away from shouting 'Wooooah, radical dude!'
I loved Bomberman up until it went 3D and they started adding needless ideas to refresh each title, then I lost all interest in the series. Hudson Soft are about as clueless as Sega with the Sonic franchise. Just give me classic 16-Bit era Bomberman, dagnammit! It's not that hard!
I'd say that outside of Bioshock and Borderlands I haven't really gotten into a FPS experience in the past few years. And those two aren't even pure shooters. I see why people dig them, but the genre is so saturated that it is very difficult to provide a unique experience.
Huh ... guess you must have liked my blog entry on the FPS? I do think there's a little too much attention paid to the genre, since RTS games make GOTY just as often. (And not that I need to remind anyone, but Okami was also GOTY.)
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Pfft, Bomberman. Child's play. Why can't Hudson Soft try and aim that guy at a more mature audience, so it can be as awesome as Call of Duty and whatnot? Just take away the cute stuff and replace it with a dark and gritty atmosphere, throw in a story about trying to fight your way to the surface of the earth, and for kicks, be forced to play through 99 levels without the ability to save anywhere. There's no way it can go wrong.
'Caps are still rad.
Wow, I guess I should have asked for permission before I decided to like FPSs huh. Can't disagree with Bomberman as an amazing multiplayer competition though - that series has serious staying power.
God, those kids in the Bomberman ad are just one step away from shouting 'Wooooah, radical dude!'
I loved Bomberman up until it went 3D and they started adding needless ideas to refresh each title, then I lost all interest in the series. Hudson Soft are about as clueless as Sega with the Sonic franchise. Just give me classic 16-Bit era Bomberman, dagnammit! It's not that hard!
I'd say that outside of Bioshock and Borderlands I haven't really gotten into a FPS experience in the past few years. And those two aren't even pure shooters. I see why people dig them, but the genre is so saturated that it is very difficult to provide a unique experience.
Also, FAP THE CAPS!
Huh ... guess you must have liked my blog entry on the FPS? I do think there's a little too much attention paid to the genre, since RTS games make GOTY just as often. (And not that I need to remind anyone, but Okami was also GOTY.)
Good work. FAP.