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Your least favorite fads. Name them.

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JMapleton said:
FPS games are not a fad. If you want a game fad, it's these stupid "story mode" games where there is more storyline than actual gameplay. Talk about boring.

FPS games are by far the most entertaining to play, especially online because it's genuine competition.

As for story mode games, if I want a story, I'll watch a movie.
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Now when you say "competition" you don't mean skill right? Because that would be hysterical. FPS games are only "popular" because they are so easy to pickup. You don't need to be literate, have any common sense, any grasp on basic math, or ... come to think of it, all you really need are hands and eyesight, generally speaking. FPS games ARE a fad. You don't still see humans playing ancient tree carrying games.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Now when you say "competition" you don't mean skill right? Because that would be hysterical. FPS games are only "popular" because they are so easy to pickup. You don't need to be literate, have any common sense, any grasp on basic math, or ... come to think of it, all you really need are hands and eyesight, generally speaking. FPS games ARE a fad. You don't still see humans playing ancient tree carrying games.
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That's really a terrible analogy.

In the context of video gaming, which is what matters since it is what the genre must be measured against, it's impossible to define the FPS genre as a "fad".

Starting in the early '90s, the genre remains and has consistently remained one of, if not arguably THE most popular genres in gaming, to date.

You can say what you want about its qualities or lack thereof, but calling it a "fad" only seems to highlight your ignorance of the definition of that word.
 
I think you'd be better off calling video games in general a fad if anything. However, people have been playing them since the invention of computers so...
 
"Open" work place layouts. Give me back my damned cubicle walls so I don't have to listen to and see everyone else in the office 10 hours a day. Or let me wear headphones. It's amazing how everyone has to work in an open office except for the bosses.
 
Sulaco said:
That's really a terrible analogy.

In the context of video gaming, which is what matters since it is what the genre must be measured against, it's impossible to define the FPS genre as a "fad".

Starting in the early '90s, the genre remains and has consistently remained one of, if not arguably THE most popular genres in gaming, to date.

You can say what you want about its qualities or lack thereof, but calling it a "fad" only seems to highlight your ignorance of the definition of that word.
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How about AOL as a comparison? Also a fad that is almost thankfully dead. Also appealed to the masses for the same reasons FPS games do.
 
rsbennett00 said:
How about AOL as a comparison? Also a fad that is almost thankfully dead. Also appealed to the masses for the same reasons FPS games do.
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FPS games have been a fad since the first kid picked up a stick and said, "bang". They ain't going anywhere but up. The granddaddy of them (Wolfenstein) all just created a plot opening for a new generation of characters to carry on the franchise for another thirty years.
 
IronWing said:
FPS games have been a fad since the first kid picked up a stick and said, "bang". They ain't going anywhere but up. The granddaddy of them (Wolfenstein) all just created a plot opening for a new generation of characters to carry on the franchise for another thirty years.
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Look, I understand all the little halo fanboys get their feelings hurt when someone says that there's no depth or skill to their genre. Talk to me when you can use a single USS Excelsior to maneuver and defeat 4 Valdore's at once.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Look, I understand all the little halo fanboys get their feelings hurt when someone says that there's no depth or skill to their genre. Talk to me when you can use a single USS Excelsior to maneuver and defeat 4 Valdore's at once.
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Aaaaaand way to to completely destroy any remaining credibility you had. Congrats. 🙄
 
IronWing said:
FPS games have been a fad since the first kid picked up a stick and said, "bang". They ain't going anywhere but up. The granddaddy of them (Wolfenstein) all just created a plot opening for a new generation of characters to carry on the franchise for another thirty years.
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And The New Order could have been a movie. The story was solid.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Look, I understand all the little halo fanboys get their feelings hurt when someone says that there's no depth or skill to their genre. Talk to me when you can use a single USS Excelsior to maneuver and defeat 4 Valdore's at once.
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We don't care if depth or skill is involved or not. We want to see shit blow up. You're in the pron industry and understand so little about what people want?
 
IronWing said:
We don't care if depth or skill is involved or not. We want to see shit blow up. You're in the pron industry and understand so little about what people want?
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Oh, woops, I thought we were talking about fads. My industry has been around longer than some people think humans have been on earth.
 
This got me to thinking that a prequel to the Wolfenstein series would make a badass short (very short): Blazkowicz, the Early Years. It would feature BJ as a little kid running around the backyard shooting stick guns at his friends. Anytime a kid gets hit the graphics would go full Tarantino with the other kid being blown apart.
 
IronWing said:
If you think people pretending to kill other people is a fad then there ain't much hope.
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I just meant in the FPS genre, not in general. Virtual murder will always be awesome.

IronWing said:
This got me to thinking that a prequel to the Wolfenstein series would make a badass short (very short): Blazkowicz, the Early Years. It would feature BJ as a little kid running around the backyard shooting stick guns at his friends. Anytime a kid gets hit the graphics would go full Tarantino with the other kid being blown apart.
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That could be quite funny.

Just ignore me in this thread, I don't think my brain is working today, yesterday was an extremely busy day at work and I'm still exhausted.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Now when you say "competition" you don't mean skill right? Because that would be hysterical. FPS games are only "popular" because they are so easy to pickup. You don't need to be literate, have any common sense, any grasp on basic math, or ... come to think of it, all you really need are hands and eyesight, generally speaking. FPS games ARE a fad. You don't still see humans playing ancient tree carrying games.
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FPS games take 100 percent skill. It takes strategy and extreme hand to eye coordination to play on a large map with a dozen or more other players to understand player positions, habits, and scoring the objective.

I exclusively play CoD and Battlefield online. There is nothing else worth even buying besides multiplayer FPS games. "Story mode" games and other puzzle "press x to open" nonsense games are stupid.
 
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JMapleton said:
FPS games take 100 percent skill. It takes strategy and extreme hand to eye coordination to play on a large map with a dozen or more other players to understand player positions, habits, and scoring the objective.

I exclusively play CoD and Battlefield online. There is nothing else worth even buying besides multiplayer FPS games. "Story mode" games and other puzzle "press x to open" nonsense games are stupid.
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Shadow. Of. The. Colossus.

Now that was a moving experience. Fuck your shit.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Oh, woops, I thought we were talking about fads. My industry has been around longer than some people think humans have been on earth.
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I just thought of a new FPS....hmmm...:hmm:

Ass Blaster V: Rise of the Spermazoids. 2 MILLION HEART POUNDING LEVELS OF FIST PUMPING - THROBBING FIRST PERSON ACTION THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE-ODE-ode-de!
 
ImpulsE69 said:
I just thought of a new FPS....hmmm...:hmm:

Ass Blaster V: Rise of the Spermazoids. 2 MILLION HEART POUNDING LEVELS OF FIST PUMPING - THROBBING FIRST PERSON ACTION THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE-ODE-ode-de!
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We're working on it. We have every virtual reality device known (and several the public hasn't heard of yet). We call it FPF to make fun of the FPS crowd.
 
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