Poll: Shooters, what are they good for?

[Syht]

I wish single player was a bit longer for your average shooter... but story usually gets the Axe, gotta adjust I guess...

As for the fucking lack of Color... The Grey/Brown is extremely annoying these days.

Why can't we fight wars in places like this:
Black Sandy Beaches http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/gal04/GEOL388/images/03/black.sand.jpg
Salt flats of Utah: http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/geography_images/salt_flats_bonneville_utah_usa.jpg

Arctic Forest:
http://www.connecting-with-nature.net/images/large_place_artic_refuge_wi.jpg


imagine war on a black sandy beech... bad ass.

I agree I don't dislike FPS's but I had it with the crap degrade style now-a-days, it was only good in fallout 3

 

[scoHish]

For the most part, I want the most solid and fleshed out part of a game to be the part I play the most. And for me that's multiplayer. I usually only go through a campaign once if theres an online component. So I said good enough.

 

[Ace of Spades]

The only shooter I bought for the multiplayer alone was Battlefield Bad Company. Every other shooter I bought had good singleplayer. Multiplayer is like the icing on the cake when it comes to games for me.

 

[DirkGently]

When people talk about the whole gritty-ness thing, they're complaining how everything looks like it's been giving a fine goating of grit. You only ever see browns and greys, you don't see many other strong colors than those few types of colors. That's a nice thing about Fable and Halo; the color palette varies from levels to level and they contain bright, strong colors to make things interesting. Look at Gears of War or Call of Duty. They look the same. Everything is brown, gray or rusting.

The thing is, they are fucking identical. Enemies in COD or GoW look different from enemy to enemy. Sure, there's only a dozen or so different enemies overall, but with their faces will be slightly different, or they'll be wearing a helmet, or goggles, or something to distinguish them from the other enemies, and not just in the "He has a shotgun, he has a sniper rifle, he has a Lancer" type of thing. When you're fighting dudes in gasmasks and identical black-on-black outfits, it's hard to tell them apart.

Yes, the singleplayer aspect can be a bit lacking, but they're also expecting you to go back and play on hard, and then fuck-you-hard.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I always play shooters once on regular difficulty and then once again on the hardest difficulty. That, in a sense, lengthens the game. I always play multiplayer and it's also very fun. I don't mind how many enemies look the same, I don't have to have 500 different unique people running at me to consider it a good game.