IAmRandom31
Banned
With the coming of the popularity of Call of Duty 4 it was inevitable other developers would attempt to cash in on the hype surrounding it and release their own titles of its ilk. For awhile there I enjoyed quite a few of them. But over the past few years and now this new generation, I think I've found myself completely through with this entire genre.
I recently got Wolfenstein New Order in the mail from gamefly and put some time into it. The opening spectacle, the gunplay, the chaos of war, the giant mechs and mech dogs and dual wielding weapons. Ripping off mounted chaingun and running around firing away. All happening within the first few hours! Fantastic right?
Nope. Bored stiff. Totally disengaged with the dialogue. Couldn't give 2 shits about the story. Yawning while tossing grenades and knifing people in the throat while taking bunkers and finding secret files. Bored to fucking tears. The same thing happened with the other hyped shooter this year in Titanfall. I picked it up first thing on the PC. And while the different dynamic of wall running and double jumping was cool, it again bored me to tears. After maybe 8 hours of online play, which as usual just became a game of running around in circles shotgunning in the face and avoiding any Titan gunplay as you died in about 10 seconds getting into one, I was through.
Maybe I am done with this whole genre. I just can't seem to get engaged in any of them anymore. Even Killzones fantastic playing Multiplayer barely kept me going long. Hell it may be since Call of Duty 4 that I've actually been able to play a FPS for long. Left 4 Dead 2 has the fun dynamic of tons of different modes and that one was just fun for some reason. BOOMER! Pop. Destiny held my attention due to the various worlds and the badass looking equipment and all the moves and attacks you could do, but again that had been shelved and untouched for months now.
Anyone else at this point? Pretty much signing off with FPS shooters. I just can't seem to get entertained by then anymore. Maybe it is the same as it was back in the NES / SNES / Genesis days where after a decade of side scrollers it's time to move on. Hopefully the industry finds another love child genre to abuse this gen. Thank god for indies and such as that is mostly what I play these days. Heck just look at my most anticipated list for 2015. I believe 7 of the 10 are indies and could of been more.
TPS games are still holding my interests as they tend to allow for other gameplay dynamics and just have a different style about them. But it seems to take some sort of catch to keep me going even in those. Tomb Raiders first 2 hours or so were incredible. But as soon as the game turned into just another run and gun shooter with bad crafting mechanics and fetch shit quests it got turned off and read the rest of the story on Wikipedia.
Rant over. But just curious if anyone else finds themselves in the same type of gaming mode.
I recently got Wolfenstein New Order in the mail from gamefly and put some time into it. The opening spectacle, the gunplay, the chaos of war, the giant mechs and mech dogs and dual wielding weapons. Ripping off mounted chaingun and running around firing away. All happening within the first few hours! Fantastic right?
Nope. Bored stiff. Totally disengaged with the dialogue. Couldn't give 2 shits about the story. Yawning while tossing grenades and knifing people in the throat while taking bunkers and finding secret files. Bored to fucking tears. The same thing happened with the other hyped shooter this year in Titanfall. I picked it up first thing on the PC. And while the different dynamic of wall running and double jumping was cool, it again bored me to tears. After maybe 8 hours of online play, which as usual just became a game of running around in circles shotgunning in the face and avoiding any Titan gunplay as you died in about 10 seconds getting into one, I was through.
Maybe I am done with this whole genre. I just can't seem to get engaged in any of them anymore. Even Killzones fantastic playing Multiplayer barely kept me going long. Hell it may be since Call of Duty 4 that I've actually been able to play a FPS for long. Left 4 Dead 2 has the fun dynamic of tons of different modes and that one was just fun for some reason. BOOMER! Pop. Destiny held my attention due to the various worlds and the badass looking equipment and all the moves and attacks you could do, but again that had been shelved and untouched for months now.
Anyone else at this point? Pretty much signing off with FPS shooters. I just can't seem to get entertained by then anymore. Maybe it is the same as it was back in the NES / SNES / Genesis days where after a decade of side scrollers it's time to move on. Hopefully the industry finds another love child genre to abuse this gen. Thank god for indies and such as that is mostly what I play these days. Heck just look at my most anticipated list for 2015. I believe 7 of the 10 are indies and could of been more.
TPS games are still holding my interests as they tend to allow for other gameplay dynamics and just have a different style about them. But it seems to take some sort of catch to keep me going even in those. Tomb Raiders first 2 hours or so were incredible. But as soon as the game turned into just another run and gun shooter with bad crafting mechanics and fetch shit quests it got turned off and read the rest of the story on Wikipedia.
Rant over. But just curious if anyone else finds themselves in the same type of gaming mode.
