Poll: Most overused concept in games?
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Should have probably mentioned, not dissing these games (many of them I really enjoyed), just pointing out how overused some of these concepts are.Shadow-Phoenix said:
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Morality systems that make no sense, or take away from the game. The best example it the end game of Fable 3. It should have been me or them, not they live to hate me or die liking me. Awful way to end a game.
silent protagonist.
It's becoming less common but if you're looking back through gaming history it was a rather popular concept for devs granted console limitations had alot to do with it too.
It's becoming less common but if you're looking back through gaming history it was a rather popular concept for devs granted console limitations had alot to do with it too.
I voted for Zombie Invasions, because I see them used a lot, and I don't understand why they are so popular. I would've said war, but that seemed a bit too vague, because basically most forms of conflict between two groups can be seen as war, so in any game with two groups at odds with eachother, it's unavoidable.
i put zombie invasion. zombies are seriously just boring me now. i do think post apocalyptic settings are over used, but i can dig that more than i can zombies because "post apocalyptic" in itself is an environment thing that adds atmosphere by nature while "zombie invasion" has become more of a recipe for repetitive nonsense than a theme.
i did not put war because, well... name a non war shooter that doesn't have to do with zombies or is set in a post apocalyptic world. sure there are a few, but war is the basis of all conflict and its just something we're gonna have to roll with as gamers. and also war can be anything from a gang war to a war between galaxies. so yeah thats a very general term.
also, i'm not implying that all good games are shooters. in fact, if you put shooting things on your list, i'd probably tick that one instead of zombies.
i did not put war because, well... name a non war shooter that doesn't have to do with zombies or is set in a post apocalyptic world. sure there are a few, but war is the basis of all conflict and its just something we're gonna have to roll with as gamers. and also war can be anything from a gang war to a war between galaxies. so yeah thats a very general term.
also, i'm not implying that all good games are shooters. in fact, if you put shooting things on your list, i'd probably tick that one instead of zombies.
Bugs and/or robots. Sometimes they even call a temporary truce to their eternal war so they can take out those meddlesome humans, 'cause those fools just need killing
I'm gonna go another way and say "realism"*.
These days we seem obsessed with having games that look "real"* and play "real"* - only 2 guns, everything is brown. What happened to FUN games? I have more desire to go back and play doom than replay CoD4. Sure, it was good. But doom was more fun. Another one is Roller Coaster Tycoon VS Theme Park. Ok, so challenges are fun and certainly the detailed coaster designing is awesome, but what happened to the fun of building a whole park, selling it and starting again rather than "oh, you met arbitrary objective XYZ now we take the park away"
* I call it realism, but all games fail miserably. Some just try harder than others.
These days we seem obsessed with having games that look "real"* and play "real"* - only 2 guns, everything is brown. What happened to FUN games? I have more desire to go back and play doom than replay CoD4. Sure, it was good. But doom was more fun. Another one is Roller Coaster Tycoon VS Theme Park. Ok, so challenges are fun and certainly the detailed coaster designing is awesome, but what happened to the fun of building a whole park, selling it and starting again rather than "oh, you met arbitrary objective XYZ now we take the park away"
* I call it realism, but all games fail miserably. Some just try harder than others.
Shooters. Just shooters. There are too many of them and all of them have little to no mechanics to introduce. I praise games like Mirrors Edge because despite being kind of bad, they tried something new. Everything else is so bland now. COD is, well, COD, Bioshock had plasmids, an idea that had been used in System Shock 2, I doubt I need to go on. There are too many shooters being released now, I want something creative, like maybe a stealth game that takes place in the dark ages. An adventure game about cowboys fighting giant spiders, I don't know something ORIGINAL!
