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I decided to write this blog after reading the
blog about the new Wolfenstein game. Now, we don't know a whole lot about it yet, so I won't pass judgment on it yet, but I have still wondered the following quite a bit. Where the fuck are my arcadish FPS? Some of my favorite games when I was a kid were DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, and Wolfenstein3D. Those games knew what they were, and they didn't hold any pretenses about it. You were given a gun, and you were supposed to go kill motherfuckers.
Have they made anything like that recently? If so, I haven't played it. They can churn out plenty of Rainbow Six, Ghost Recons, Medal of Honors, and Call of Dutys, but they cant make one throwback game? I know I'm talking about 360 games here, but thats all I have, so maybe there are some amazing arcade type shooters on PC, if so let me know. And I don't just mean non-realistic games, cause I know there's Gears and Halo, but in Gears there's so much cover bullshit and Halo...meh. Don't get me wrong, I own and enjoy a lot of the games I just listed. However, I just want a game where I get to start shooting bitches seconds after the game begins and there's never a break in the action. I want a testosterone-driven, dick-swinging, explosion-filled, gory first person shooter on a current-gen console. Is that too much to ask for these days?
For games like that, you have to go Wii. Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, Ghost Squad, Target Terror, Metal of Honor Heroes 2, Link's Crossbow Training are just five examples of the genre exclusive to the Wii. Better yet, three out of those five are actually worth playing.
Wouldn't those be considered light-gun games? Or even on-rails shooters? And are you mocking the guy for a term that is pretty common?
I didnt know DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, or Wolfenstein3D were "Arcade shooters". I always thought that was like.. uh.. the old area 51 game... etc. Yeah?
I agree though we need some more simple, but amazing "just shoot your face off" FPS games.
hell of a lot of fun, racking up big scores got my blood pumping. It kinda threw all of the tactics needed to play online out of the window, and you went on a crazy kill fest.
Also I support the general agreement that UT3 can be a arcade shooter, bloody hell that game is fun, it's the very definition of what you are saying Coonskin. Stupidly fast and 'balls-out, in yer face, blood pumping' action. Not serious at all and awesome to play
Also. Dunno if this'll count, its 3rd person, not 1st, the totally awesome underrated Earth Defence Force 2017. Should get some entertainment with that one.
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