OT: Thank goodness. We have been screaming for a good sequel to UT for a while now since that release of UT3: Console Edition that we got.
We have? I don't know about you but I was pretty bored with arena shooters by about 2007 and there will still plenty of popular ones around back then. Y'know, when you play a certain kind of game for 10+ years, it tends to get old.
I personally don't think very many people care about arena shooters anymore.
Although the one thing a UT game will never have is the shared careultural fantasy of being in some kind of real military unit, with real guns, real settings, etc. I honestly think this is a huge part of why the biggest shooters are COD and Battlefield, and not Quake, UT, Halo, etc.
"get the tank!"
a lot of these kids playing Call of Duty, I don't think they know what a proper arena shooter is.
I say bring it on. CliffyB has said some douchey things during his Gears of War days, but PC games is where he started out so he obviously has some affection for it. I guess we'll see. The trouble is, seasoned veterans of the genre are so fucking anal-retentive that it'll be almost impossible to actually please the niche audience he'll be aiming for. So good luck with that, I guess.
Does that align with common perceptions of the failure of Tribes: Ascend?
I'm very loath to agree with this point, as I still pointlessly cling on to the hope that there are more people that do out there, but I do. I agree.I personally don't think very many people care about arena shooters anymore.
Amen.Capt.Toilet said:To add to this glorious glorious turn of events. Activision has ever been so keen to announce CoD made a billion dollars in xx amount of days since I believe MW2 was released. For Ghosts? NOTHING. Only article is one that came out a week or so after release that mentioned it sold a billion dollars to retailers. Not the same thing Activision so stop spinning it like it is.
I'm very loath to agree with this point, as I still pointlessly cling on to the hope that there are more people that do out there, but I do. I agree.
The thing is, recently, I've seen a lot of people hand in their modern shooters back to the game store after only a little while since its release, all saying the same thing, "It's just more of the same."
Personally, I think if anything, arena shooters can make a comeback if they just push hard enough. If they manage to bring more of an interesting spin on their gameplay like the original UT had done back in the day, I really think arena shooters could become interesting again.
See, this is actually what bothers me. If the industry is going to try to revive arena shooters that's great - but if they do it in such a way that it's forced down our throats like most other AAA genres/franchises today, then I am simply going to tune out.
These days I mostly play indie titles that provide interesting or long-term gameplay, like Starbound, Space Engineers, and Project Zomboid. The games themsevles are awesome, but what I love most about them is that there is not a $20-million-dollar ad campaign behind them. Word of mouth is best, and if you make something right, word will spread.
Anyone else instantly hear Dark Pulse's voice when they read that?
Speaking of which, does anyone remember where he is from? Cuz I think I ran across him in Planetside. If that's not him, then he should totally start playing. He'd love it.
https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?members/dark-pulse.31219/
I tell my Planetside 2 outfit all the time to "get the Tank!!1" and they have no clue what I'm talking about.