Comments on: Shooters Are The New Platformers http://www.couchcampus.com/lecture/shooters-are-the-new-platformers/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:09:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Phaethon http://www.couchcampus.com/lecture/shooters-are-the-new-platformers/#comment-325 Phaethon Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:11:33 +0000 http://couchcampus.com/blog/?p=2021#comment-325 Right, but you'll never see a Halo with a EX Bar or a Gears of War with party switch. I was commenting solely on gameplay mechanics as they involve user input. Even if every game became Mass Effect as long as you hold down the trigger to blast your enemy to kingdom come while dodging incoming fire, it won't be a generational leap of the same magnitude. Right, but you'll never see a Halo with a EX Bar or a Gears of War with party switch. I was commenting solely on gameplay mechanics as they involve user input. Even if every game became Mass Effect as long as you hold down the trigger to blast your enemy to kingdom come while dodging incoming fire, it won't be a generational leap of the same magnitude.

]]> By: deftangel http://www.couchcampus.com/lecture/shooters-are-the-new-platformers/#comment-324 deftangel Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:12:34 +0000 http://couchcampus.com/blog/?p=2021#comment-324 The same can be said for RPG elements. Experience, levelling up, unlockable rewards etc. The COD4 reward system was like digital crack. In prestige, it even has a form of level reset. Increasingly third person action games adopt some sort of experience system, see Prototype or even mainstream licensed titles like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The 2D scrolling games of old aren't even immune to it, see Shadow Complex.<br><br>CliffyB said the future of shooters would be RPG's so we might be on the brink of a new cycle going back the other way. Borderlands looks interesting in this regard. What price Gears of War 3 continuing in the same vein? The same can be said for RPG elements. Experience, levelling up, unlockable rewards etc. The COD4 reward system was like digital crack. In prestige, it even has a form of level reset. Increasingly third person action games adopt some sort of experience system, see Prototype or even mainstream licensed titles like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The 2D scrolling games of old aren't even immune to it, see Shadow Complex.

CliffyB said the future of shooters would be RPG's so we might be on the brink of a new cycle going back the other way. Borderlands looks interesting in this regard. What price Gears of War 3 continuing in the same vein?

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