I don't mind Call of Duty, I just find games like Halo with way different shooting mechanics to be better.
Poll: Tired of all the Military Shooters?
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No, I'm not tired of them because I don't buy them. I prefer interesting games and buy those instead.
To be honest I thought the Battlefield 3 ad before it that bleeped out '*****' from '99 Problems and a ***** Ain't One' was hilarious.
Well, artificial intelligence is unlikely to ever be perfect, and when it does become perfect, next thing we know we all start dying. I'll agree that the AI in most of these games isn't actually very good, though, and all the others are totally valid without an asterisk.realist1990 said:
[hyperbole]Crazie_Guy said:
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Tired of all the skyrim? (sarcasm)
You do not have to play the military shooters. Why can't you let those people have their fun? Why can we not let bygones be bygones?
You do not have to play the military shooters. Why can't you let those people have their fun? Why can we not let bygones be bygones?
leet_x1337 said:
Good point, I also meant friendly AI but I didn't make that clear, the amount of times I lined up for a headshot only for my "allies" to get in the way has happend so often i'm positive the developers coded that in on purpose
Make a first person version of Grand Theft auto. Make it a sandbox. Let there be an online mode along with a first person story and sidequests. Give it the freerunning abilities to jump over fences and stuff. THEN let the military guys play cops/military depending on how high your bounty is, come in to try to stop you. That should help.
Well, I don't know, I haven't played many. I played CoD4 SP recently and it was okay, but not particularly memorable. I did buy Battlefield 3 and am loving it, I have been waiting for a game like this since BF2 which started this whole thing. I'm not holding out much hope for Rainbow Six: Patriots given who is publishing it and the contempt they hold for fans and for PC gamers, but the single player campaign looks to have a strong concept.
Apparently people got sick of WW2 shooters too, but I never seemed to play any of them other than BF 1942, Day of Defeat, and Enemy Territory.
Apparently people got sick of WW2 shooters too, but I never seemed to play any of them other than BF 1942, Day of Defeat, and Enemy Territory.
I like shooters, but I am definitely not a fan of military shooters. Why? Because they all seem to feel like I'm playing the exact same game. When I play an FPS, I tend to go for the bizarre and crazy (Portal, Bioshock, etc). I don't want to pretend I'm some assclown in WWII shooting Nazis.Soviet Heavy said:
Yes. And I'm also tired of space marine shooters. You know what I'm not tired of? Hilarious shooters about a 60's female spy who uses wacky gadgets to complete her missions. If Monolith would just drop this Batman TF2 ripoff and make another NOLF, I would be stoked.
I love fps, but I prefer less realistic ones. In a sic fi setting you can fight things like jetpack wearing Monsters who can teleport. In mil sims you fight dudes with guns and vehicles. Boring.
That's only when your dealing with singleplayer though. Cod multiplayer is good.
That's only when your dealing with singleplayer though. Cod multiplayer is good.
I think yes they can becoming fatiguing to a point. When the sequel is just by the numbers it becomes a problem IMO because there really isnt anything to expect. I saw this in MW3 when my friend was playing and I saw the kid death scene. It was just a token shock moment, not an actual "oh my god!" moment like MW1's nuke scene
MMS will always have a place and refining the mechanics is a great way to continue sales and a growing medium. Problem is some things get changed when they are unquestionably worse like Bad company 2's Recon class having motion balls and then now in Battlefield 3 it has the worse set it down style motion detector.
To be fair, a good sequel is made around the idea of refining the core elements of a game to make them work better as well as adding new elements to the game. Some MMS follow that formula, others not so much
MMS will always have a place and refining the mechanics is a great way to continue sales and a growing medium. Problem is some things get changed when they are unquestionably worse like Bad company 2's Recon class having motion balls and then now in Battlefield 3 it has the worse set it down style motion detector.
To be fair, a good sequel is made around the idea of refining the core elements of a game to make them work better as well as adding new elements to the game. Some MMS follow that formula, others not so much
I wish I wasn't, because I like shooting (avatars representing) people by the several-thousands.
But none of them do anything different anymore.
I am looking forward to Arma 3, but it looks really similar to previous entries in the series thus far.
The FPS genre needs innovation. Desperately. Something is wrong when 90% of fresh ideas come from the indie market, when there's several hundred people working at a AAA-title company.
From what I've heard, Ubisoft managed to turn mediocre Assassin's Creed into a good game with the sequel. Unfortunately it sounds like they dropped the ball with Revelations, but I don't actually know why people are complaining. I haven't read into it. It's a good example of a successful sequel.
But what do I know. I only played Brotherhood.
But none of them do anything different anymore.
I am looking forward to Arma 3, but it looks really similar to previous entries in the series thus far.
The FPS genre needs innovation. Desperately. Something is wrong when 90% of fresh ideas come from the indie market, when there's several hundred people working at a AAA-title company.
From what I've heard, Ubisoft managed to turn mediocre Assassin's Creed into a good game with the sequel. Unfortunately it sounds like they dropped the ball with Revelations, but I don't actually know why people are complaining. I haven't read into it. It's a good example of a successful sequel.
But what do I know. I only played Brotherhood.