Firstly I'd like to say that the last brown shooter I played was quake, and I don't really like brown shooters that much. That being said, like fucking clockwork, every single week, I see a complaint along the lines of "The industry is dead/has lost creativity because there's a lot of brown shooters coming out".
I have 2 problems with this complaint.
Problem 1. It's really ignorant. Look at the games coming up in the following months/years. Batman Arkham city, Saints Row The Third, Lollipop Chainsaw, NeverDead, Firefall, Once Upon A Monster, Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Serious Sam 3, and so on. Now, compare that list to this list. Modern Warfare 3, Ghost Recon, Battlefield 3, Gears of war 3.
So that's 8 original and/or non-shooter game franchises that are coming up, as opposed to the 4 brown shooter franchises getting another sequel, or in the case of gears 3, have already gotten one. Yeah, the original and colorful and/or non-shooter/shooter games outnumber the brown shooters by half, and that's just new releases, and I didn't even list EVERY original or non brown shooter/non-shooter release. Therefore, I can only conclude that these complaints come from people who only look at the industry for 5 minutes. Oh, here's another colorful and original shooter. Bioshock Infinite. Yeah. So don't bullshit me about how the whole industry is brown shooters, because it just plain goddamn is NOT.
Problem 2: It's really fucking repetitive.
I swear to god I read this complaint every other week. To be honest, what pushed me to write this was this topic right here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.317641-Poll-Is-the-gaming-industry-losing-creativity .
Not only has it been probably the 100th damn time I've read the brown shooters complaint, but also the 50th time I've seen the "Gaming is dying" thing. People, come the fuck on. Hell, just browse gametrailers for a few minutes and you'll see that the industry is way more creative than you're giving it credit for. Oh sure, there's brown shooters and sports games. There's also sandbox games, fighting games, racing games, flying games, puzzle games, and many more.
So can you people please shut up about brown shooters? Yeah, they release quite often, but that doesn't mean EVERYONE is making one. It just means the people that are are making another sequel.
And I didn't even TALK about indie or flash games here, and just look at how diverse they are.
I have 2 problems with this complaint.
Problem 1. It's really ignorant. Look at the games coming up in the following months/years. Batman Arkham city, Saints Row The Third, Lollipop Chainsaw, NeverDead, Firefall, Once Upon A Monster, Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Serious Sam 3, and so on. Now, compare that list to this list. Modern Warfare 3, Ghost Recon, Battlefield 3, Gears of war 3.
So that's 8 original and/or non-shooter game franchises that are coming up, as opposed to the 4 brown shooter franchises getting another sequel, or in the case of gears 3, have already gotten one. Yeah, the original and colorful and/or non-shooter/shooter games outnumber the brown shooters by half, and that's just new releases, and I didn't even list EVERY original or non brown shooter/non-shooter release. Therefore, I can only conclude that these complaints come from people who only look at the industry for 5 minutes. Oh, here's another colorful and original shooter. Bioshock Infinite. Yeah. So don't bullshit me about how the whole industry is brown shooters, because it just plain goddamn is NOT.
Problem 2: It's really fucking repetitive.
I swear to god I read this complaint every other week. To be honest, what pushed me to write this was this topic right here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.317641-Poll-Is-the-gaming-industry-losing-creativity .
Not only has it been probably the 100th damn time I've read the brown shooters complaint, but also the 50th time I've seen the "Gaming is dying" thing. People, come the fuck on. Hell, just browse gametrailers for a few minutes and you'll see that the industry is way more creative than you're giving it credit for. Oh sure, there's brown shooters and sports games. There's also sandbox games, fighting games, racing games, flying games, puzzle games, and many more.
So can you people please shut up about brown shooters? Yeah, they release quite often, but that doesn't mean EVERYONE is making one. It just means the people that are are making another sequel.
And I didn't even TALK about indie or flash games here, and just look at how diverse they are.
