Can we get some originality? Please?
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Honestly I think that's a bit of a stereotype of the gaming industry.
At the moment I'm playing LIMBO, a black and white puzzle platformer set in purgatory where you play a boy with dazzling eyes searching for his sister, complete with spiders, brain worms, machinery and incessantly creepy use of gore.
My current favourite multiplayer first person shooter (The action comedy genre of gaming) is Team Fortress 2, a truly team based multiplayer slugfest which is like an interactive Norman Rockwell piece complete with bionic hands, drunken Scotsmen, jars of urine, psychotic ex-SS physicians and Sandviches (OM NOM NOM!).
The most successful and widely recognised gaming franchise of all time involves a fatass Italian plumber ingesting mushrooms and flowers to jump on turtles in a place called the mushroom kingdom so he can rescue his princess girlfriend from the clutches of a fire breathing turtle.
Science fictioney type games, while there certainly are alot of them I find that most of the bigger titles go at it from a unique angle, Halo is a sci-fi first person shooter which displays the aliens from a fanatically religious standpoint, Mass Effect is a third person action rpg which explores the concept of space diplomacy and the human race's acceptance with alien species, starcraft 2 is an RTS which simply basks in science fiction badassery and polishing it to a T being set in a warring universe of overcompensatory power armour and mass hordes of bloodthirsty 8 foot tall beasts.
At the moment I'm playing LIMBO, a black and white puzzle platformer set in purgatory where you play a boy with dazzling eyes searching for his sister, complete with spiders, brain worms, machinery and incessantly creepy use of gore.
My current favourite multiplayer first person shooter (The action comedy genre of gaming) is Team Fortress 2, a truly team based multiplayer slugfest which is like an interactive Norman Rockwell piece complete with bionic hands, drunken Scotsmen, jars of urine, psychotic ex-SS physicians and Sandviches (OM NOM NOM!).
The most successful and widely recognised gaming franchise of all time involves a fatass Italian plumber ingesting mushrooms and flowers to jump on turtles in a place called the mushroom kingdom so he can rescue his princess girlfriend from the clutches of a fire breathing turtle.
Science fictioney type games, while there certainly are alot of them I find that most of the bigger titles go at it from a unique angle, Halo is a sci-fi first person shooter which displays the aliens from a fanatically religious standpoint, Mass Effect is a third person action rpg which explores the concept of space diplomacy and the human race's acceptance with alien species, starcraft 2 is an RTS which simply basks in science fiction badassery and polishing it to a T being set in a warring universe of overcompensatory power armour and mass hordes of bloodthirsty 8 foot tall beasts.
I'd say that Samus is more of a classic "spacefaring knight errant" like, for example, Ratchet - she's not actually working for any official body, as far as i know.Abengoshis said:
I have never played Crackdown, so i wouldn't know. And you don't get to play as a member of cool alien species there, because there's no aliens. The main part of the pitch is "you get to play as an alien space cop instead of just plain space cop".coolredmk said:
Sure, I'm planning on making a fourth person shooter at some point in my life.
You're an evil mastermind and when you point at people your robots shoot them for you.
You can upgrade the robots, give them better weapons, make them smarter, etc... all of the standard stuff and then we move up from there.
You're an evil mastermind and when you point at people your robots shoot them for you.
You can upgrade the robots, give them better weapons, make them smarter, etc... all of the standard stuff and then we move up from there.
But Space Marines are awesome! If you don't like games with Space Marines, go buy something else.
Whats wrong with Space Marines? I like them....although I wouldn't mind a FPS (with lots of co-op) about the Imperial Guard.
You want original material? Okay, go. Think of something truly original and groundbreaking. Jeeze, what's taking you so long?coolredmk said:
I hate the people who complain about "originality". It's like bitching out every movie director in the world for not being Hitchcock. After all, you can have a brilliant, creative, groundbreaking idea if you *try really hard*, right?
"Originality" is a personal thing, not a product of effort. You can't force genius, and even more so you can't fund it.
Exactly, one persons purchase can make a difference,... just not a very big one.Alpha1089 said:
Games with good and original ideas need to hit the spotlight in order to be successful, just like anything else.
For this to happen, there needs to be huge sales, hype, good reviews, maybe even merchandising and the like.
Which means tons of money is needed.
Unfortunately all the good ideas are always coming from little know publishers who dont have the money to pretty up their products and shoot them out there.
I know what im saying is pretty damn obvious, but its what happens and its just damn unfortunate that good stuff is not recognised while everyone lines up to get Call of Duty 70 and Halo whatever.
What also sucks is im one of these people...
There is a huuuuuuuuge Operation Flashpoint mod lurking on the internet somewhere packed to the brim with stuff, would be the closet thing to that.One of Many said:
Some of the missions that come with it are Imp focused and are awesome on co-op.
(well i imagine they would be anyway.)
Problem is, no one plays it, and the mod has a giantic emphasis on quantity over quality.
Mods are nice but I want a real game about the Imperial Guard, complete with commissars that shoot you if you run the wrong way!IBlackKiteI said:
