Zannah said:
Disclaimer: This is by no means a judgement on the upcoming games, I don't know those. It's just that all the "good old games" mentioned in the various discussions about these games, are from my perspective horribly boring, repetetive grindfests soaked in testosterone and immaturity, and that I'm trying to grasp why anyone would want a game coming out in 2011 to be like a game that wasn't any good in 1995.
Yes, that's precisely why the topic of your title goes "Why would
anyone want that."
Because it is exclusively from
your perspective.
*Sigh* It's one of
those topics.
OT: To answer the question: Why would I want that?
The same reason I don't want every movie to try to be Citizen Kane; I occasionally like a "Naked Gun" thrown in there as well.
Serious vs Comedy. Hell, I actually enjoyed Bad Company's less-serious approach. I'm personally rather tired of the Tom Clancy/Starship Troopers nonsense that keeps cropping up into every game featuring an assault rifle.
Of course, every single time someone comes to dethrone these games, they're doing it along the lines of "It's sexist and misogynistic! A byproduct of darker days long past! It's not funny!"
And every one of these arguments then fails utterly to substantiate that claim beyond the subjective. They say it isn't funny, I find the jokes to be hilarious.
They find the combat to be repetitive, I find it entertaining to blow 100 targets away in a single level with a variety of weapons.
See, it's entirely subjective.
My problem with these recent arguments is that it allows no provision for taste, but rather attempts to imply that if you ENJOYED games like Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, etc, you are now inferior to them by virtue of having poor taste.
If that seems like a rather shallow argument, that's because it's what we're left with when you make an argument that's purely subjective; the topic itself can no longer be objectified, so that only leaves those who are discussing the subject involved. The argument becomes a veiled attack on the audience for these other, older titles; it's such pretentious bullshit, and I would rather it stopped.
