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There's a shit ton of adventure games coming out this year. Frog has a thread dedicated to it.
"It's all in the reflexes"
I would love a sequel but it will never happen. Easily my favorite Wii game. I'll take a million games like this over 1 more FPS game. I think games of this nature disappearing is largely why my passion for games has been fading since the tail end of the original Xbox. So much imagination instead of everything looking and acting real world.
There's a shit ton of adventure games coming out this year. Frog has a thread dedicated to it.
"It's all in the reflexes"
I know, and I'm looking forward to many of them. It doesn't change how the market went all FPS and military shooters. Hopefully it is a sign of a steady stream instead of a fad that will be gone in a year.
I buy a lot of games, and almost none of them are FPS or military shooters, so that's clearly not the case. In fact, there is probably more variety right now than there ever has been.Originally Posted by Glass Joe
FPS games will never go away. Not even close. First-person games immerse the player and there's no easier way to interact with things than shooting at stuff.
"It's all in the reflexes"
The point I was trying to make, though poorly I admit, was that some time after the PS1/N64/Saturn era and into the PS2/GC/Xbox era there was a huge shift in games that made most of them go towards FPS/military shooters/etc. It seemed that all of the imagination was stripped from games and everything was focused on making things look, feel, and act realistic. I play video games to escape the real world for a little while. The last thing I want is shit to look and act like real life. Here is an example that best describes it: I would rather play Madden 93 on the Genesis than any football game put out today. Do today's games get closer to what real football is? Without a doubt, but there is just something a lot more fun about diving 10 plus yards and killing the quarterback only to have to run for your life so you don't get run down by the ambulance. I don't doubt that there is more variety today, especially if you dig but that X factor that made games so much fun just seems to be on a steady decline.
My problem with that argument is that the current generation just annihilates the 32-bit one, seemingly no matter what your tastes are. If you want to compare the 16-bit era to today, it gets harder, but in terms of variety, I don't think there's a contest. I think what has really happened is that a couple of genres have gotten louder and drowned out a lot of others in terms of media coverage. If you could only buy and play what is advertised during prime time TV or sporting events, we'd have a problem, but that's not the case. There are more horror, adventure, and other niche genre games right now than maybe ever before at one time. Just put on your headphones to tune out the noise and play them.
I was just bitching that they don't really make games for me anymore, but that is a lie. There are a lot of offbeat, quirky titles out there. I think the problem lies in the fact that you have to own a lot of devices in order to take advantage of them.
I really wish we could go back to a two system reality.
That's an interesting take. It seems as though the PC and consoles have become increasingly redundant as exclusives have dwindled, so are you more talking the 3DS/Vita/iOS devices?
This generation has been the best for games. Rose-tinted glasses all up ons, seriously. That isn't to say some genres are being under-represented, but that's about it.
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