How about a gun that fires Sawblades? That was my favorite part of Half Life 2.Indigo_Dingo post=9.71776.736859 said:
Poll: Are FPS games becoming unoriginal and bland?
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Whilst you're restricting yourself to a singly genre, obviously it's pretty goddam impossible to be 'original'. I mean, how much has really changed between Doom and Crysis?
I'm trying to be optimistic though, really. Incresingly powerful physics engines are letting Devs do things that would have been impossible a few years ago, and these are starting to have real gameplay effects...
So, whilst in many ways we're being unoriginal, we're getting really really good at it.
I hope.
P.s: On a random aside, I actually bought Painkiller the other day (mmmmmmm!!! Bargin bins!!!). So. Much. Insane. Fun.
I'm trying to be optimistic though, really. Incresingly powerful physics engines are letting Devs do things that would have been impossible a few years ago, and these are starting to have real gameplay effects...
So, whilst in many ways we're being unoriginal, we're getting really really good at it.
I hope.
P.s: On a random aside, I actually bought Painkiller the other day (mmmmmmm!!! Bargin bins!!!). So. Much. Insane. Fun.
They're not unoriginal, they're played out. Pretty much every other Xbox title is a shooter. Just stop playing them for a while.
a lot of shooters do disappoint me... but then a lots of games in general disappoint me.
searching for the good original (or at least different enough) stuff is part of the fun.
Zero Punctuation helps a bit... I never would have gotten Painkiller had I not seen the review (and if it wasn't $5 at my local game shop). Yes, many FPSes (FPS's? FPSs?) have the same guns and similar enemies... but you don't need to play them all.
I just grab one from each family of FPS I find...
ie. CoD4, Bioshock, Painkiller, Stalker, TF2, HalfLife, Serious Sam...
and they're different enough from each other that I'm happy
searching for the good original (or at least different enough) stuff is part of the fun.
Zero Punctuation helps a bit... I never would have gotten Painkiller had I not seen the review (and if it wasn't $5 at my local game shop). Yes, many FPSes (FPS's? FPSs?) have the same guns and similar enemies... but you don't need to play them all.
I just grab one from each family of FPS I find...
ie. CoD4, Bioshock, Painkiller, Stalker, TF2, HalfLife, Serious Sam...
and they're different enough from each other that I'm happy
all new fps developers care about is making tons of money, they don't care about the quality or originality of their games, if there was actually decent competition other than just 3 main companies we could have a nice stride between industries to try to make their games just a little bit more interesting, until then. Everything is shit
I think Insomniac is a great developer that is a good role model for others. Even in their fifth installment of R&C, they still manage to stay fresh and interesting.Indigo_Dingo post=9.71776.737263 said:
Pretty damn good if you ask me.
I think one of the biggest problems is that we inevitably compare the games we play now to the games we played in the past. Nostalgia sweetens them, but really, going back and playing through them again, sometimes you can see the difference.
I do retro game from time to time, but I've found that, say, Half-Life 2 makes for a more enjoyable replay than the original. Why? Well, the original is a lot more predictable. Simpler AI, dumbed down "physics" engine that makes throwing a grenade a joke, etc.
I think one of the biggest problems we have lies in when we start comparing everything we run into to everything we've played before. I don't think it's such a bad thing that games can be derivative. Especially if they can present their derived works in a fun to play manner. Even in a case of System Shock 2 and Bioshock (as Yahtzee complained), I have to say, Bioshock was still an amazing game. Excellent atmosphere, excellent characters and good story telling, if a bit on the stupid-simple side due to the death mechanics.
Even if it was only just a more refined version of SS2, couldn't we enjoy it for that? Maybe replace the memories of SS2 with memories of Bioshock, instead of complaining that it was the same thing over again.
I mean hell, there will probably be someone complaining that Force Unleashed is just a dark side version of Jedi Knight, which was just a version of Dark Forces that had a lightsaber in it, which was just a clone of Marathon, which was just a clone of DOOM, zomg.
Here's to pitching TIE Fighters at massed phalanxes of stormtroopers.
I do retro game from time to time, but I've found that, say, Half-Life 2 makes for a more enjoyable replay than the original. Why? Well, the original is a lot more predictable. Simpler AI, dumbed down "physics" engine that makes throwing a grenade a joke, etc.
I think one of the biggest problems we have lies in when we start comparing everything we run into to everything we've played before. I don't think it's such a bad thing that games can be derivative. Especially if they can present their derived works in a fun to play manner. Even in a case of System Shock 2 and Bioshock (as Yahtzee complained), I have to say, Bioshock was still an amazing game. Excellent atmosphere, excellent characters and good story telling, if a bit on the stupid-simple side due to the death mechanics.
Even if it was only just a more refined version of SS2, couldn't we enjoy it for that? Maybe replace the memories of SS2 with memories of Bioshock, instead of complaining that it was the same thing over again.
I mean hell, there will probably be someone complaining that Force Unleashed is just a dark side version of Jedi Knight, which was just a version of Dark Forces that had a lightsaber in it, which was just a clone of Marathon, which was just a clone of DOOM, zomg.
Here's to pitching TIE Fighters at massed phalanxes of stormtroopers.