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Damn you and your cards, limiting my right to talk out of my ass.
I like video games.
Burgundy: "It's unlike other FPS's, but it's still an FPS"? If this line of thinking, that it's an FPS since it's first person and you shoot sometimes, were carried over into the genre of 2d side scrolling games, then you'd have Mario and Super Metroid grouped with Contra and Metal Slug. Come on man, it's got a first person perspective and you shoot sometimes, those are the similarities with every other FPS. You don't really get different "guns", the combat is completely different from every other FPS in that the enemies move and act in ways that wouldn't be feasible with straight FPS controls, the focus of the game has nothing to do with your shooting skills compared to how much it's focused on exploration and puzzle solving skills. It's not an FPS and shouldn't be compared to FPS', unless we're going to start comparing Mario to Contra.
It all depends on how far you stretch you're categorization. Everyone does it differently. I call everything from Doom to Metroid Prime to Deus Ex first-person shooters and I call both Mario and Contra platformers.
Prime takes place in the first person.
It involves shooting a lot more often than sometimes.
It has lots of different weapons. Ten, at last count. The fact that these weapons are modifications to the basic arm cannon is sort of irrelevant.
I've said that the combat is different. Prime is an FPS with a lock-on and errratic targets.
Take a trip through the Mines, then tell me shooting skill is irrelevant.
And I'd definitely put Mario and Contra in the same category. At least the originals. I think they're more alike than either is to Metroid.
I never said the game doesn't involve shooting skills, I said the game isn't focused on them as much as it is on other things like exploration. To call a game a shooter it's focus should be shooting, Metroid's isn't. It's created a new genre, it's a First Person Adventure game or a First Person Exploration game. But this genre stuff is meaningless in the first place, I only mentioned it to point out that critisizing Metroid Prime for not being a good FPS is like critisizing Quake for not having enough exploration.
One thing Prime cannot take credit for is inventing a new genre. Like with the game I mentioned a few pages back, the FPS/Adventure genre has been done before.
OK. Let me clarify.Quote:
Originally posted by burgundy
This is perhaps the dumbest post you've ever made, and you've made some pretty dumb posts.
I don't like first person games.
To me they are shit.
All of them.
Even the "good" ones.
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Originally posted by 88mph
Correct. I think its a piece of shit.
I'm not arguing with you, or anyone else (for once).Quote:
Originally posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
oh wow....best valid argument EVER. mebbe you're shit for getting ill. seriously....that is the lamest argument ever.
I'm stating facts. I don't enjoy first person games.
Prime had plenty of emphasis on shooting. I didn't beat **PISSED-OFF WILL WARNING** Ridley **END PISSED-OFF WILL WARNING** by exploring him.
To say that Metroid isn't about shooting because it's about exploration is to say that Mario isn't about jumping because it's abour running.
That made no sense...