Why I don't play shooters anymore

Lou · **Posted:** April 4th, 2012, 3:00 pm

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I love all the developer ads thrown in at the start! :lmao:

Eadwulf · **Posted:** April 4th, 2012, 9:21 pm

I'm just bored with shooters, personally. Seriously, I can't even get back into things like DOOM or Quake for more than 15 minutes at a time anymore.

Although the idea that modern shooters lack complexity is bullshit. I played the Quake series TO DEATH when I was younger, and I can tell you that the only damned thing you needed to know how to do to play well was run and mash the fire button at ridiculous speeds. If anything, the genre has simply gotten a lot more difficult than just running down a hallway and spewing eleven metric tonnes of lead. Although I really take exception to this nintendo-hard AI that can headshot you from the hip on reflex before you've realised there's an enemy on the screen to begin with...

Also, in retrospect, Quake was ugly as Fuzzy Bunny

. No, literally. It was completely brown.

Hiei · **Posted:** April 5th, 2012, 3:24 am

Eadwulf wrote:

I'm just bored with shooters, personally. Seriously, I can't even get back into things like DOOM or Quake for more than 15 minutes at a time anymore.

Although the idea that modern shooters lack complexity is bullshit. I played the Quake series TO DEATH when I was younger, and I can tell you that the only damned thing you needed to know how to do to play well was run and mash the fire button at ridiculous speeds. If anything, the genre has simply gotten a lot more difficult than just running down a hallway and spewing eleven metric tonnes of lead. Although I really take exception to this nintendo-hard AI that can headshot you from the hip on reflex before you've realised there's an enemy on the screen to begin with...

Also, in retrospect, Quake was ugly as Fuzzy Bunny

. No, literally. It was completely brown.

Fortunately there's still Serious Sam.

Freeasacar · **Posted:** April 5th, 2012, 5:08 am

Hiei wrote:

Eadwulf wrote:

I'm just bored with shooters, personally. Seriously, I can't even get back into things like DOOM or Quake for more than 15 minutes at a time anymore.

Although the idea that modern shooters lack complexity is bullshit. I played the Quake series TO DEATH when I was younger, and I can tell you that the only damned thing you needed to know how to do to play well was run and mash the fire button at ridiculous speeds. If anything, the genre has simply gotten a lot more difficult than just running down a hallway and spewing eleven metric tonnes of lead. Although I really take exception to this nintendo-hard AI that can headshot you from the hip on reflex before you've realised there's an enemy on the screen to begin with...

Also, in retrospect, Quake was ugly as Fuzzy Bunny

. No, literally. It was completely brown.

Fortunately there's still Serious Sam.

Also Tribes.

Eastgotenks · **Posted:** May 10th, 2012, 4:05 pm

Lol @ the Aldi's logo at the beginning. That is a grocery store.

bluecoat · **Posted:** May 13th, 2012, 4:09 pm

That didn't touch on much of any of my problems with modern shooters... I lol'd pretty hard at the achievement at the end though.

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