Pissed off Japan? He does have a point, metroid, penis, and fuckall if it is new gets the fps/fake fps (see metroid prime 1&2 (hunters is actually true fps which is nice compared to the console versions), gta3 and above) gameplay structure. Pretty creative of these developers to be able to use vastly different formulas in the making of a videogame, this seems to be an effect of mainly being a licensed game library.
Oh I see, too scared to try and deviate from the standard formula because that is what sells because the majority of them play the thing for halo which is at best a generic as hell if not horribly slow and unengaging of a first person shooter let alone a multiplayer deathmatch game.
Weather the gameplay is boring or not is completley subjective. FPS games generally have the most attention put into graphics, so you're just wrong there. The story in FPS games generally sucks because game developers think that all FPS players have ADD and will skip any story content anyway (note: this assumption is incorrect as is the other common game developer assumption that all gamers are horney 15 year old nerds despite numerous studies and statistics).
The problem lies not with the FPS concept, itlies with the fact that all the execs in the gaming industry played Donkey Kong or Mario Brothers as a kid and havn't figured out that the demographic has changed (games used to be for nerdy kids, that's not the main audience anymore). The game develoeprs themselves are most often those nerdy kids who spent 20 hours a day trying to get a high score and save the princess (again).
As time goes by and more execs and devs are from the playstation era rather than the NES/ATARI era things will get better.
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Anonymous2006-05-06 16:22
You would be right... except you're not.
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A wang2006-05-06 16:47
Rei loves you. So does the FBI.
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Anonymous2006-05-06 20:55 (sage)
Waaah waaaah, games that I don't like exist. I'm going to post on the internet about it.