Alright, it's been a while, a long while but whatever. I'm sitting here and watching some of the E3 coverage and listening to music. I guess EA is doing their big press conference thing or whatever right now. They just demoed (that's a stupid fucking word by the way) their gritty new Medal of Honor reboot. God damn it looks shitty and derivative.
Quick aside: I think I can only take 3 or 4 more gritty reboots of storied franchised before I go insane. But hey, its gonna make money. The kids who played these games/watched those movies/tv shows they're all grown up now. They want darker and cooler everything... Oh they also want it in 3D for some god-forsaken reason I wont under stand.
Alright back to that Medal of Honor thing. If they didn't tell me before hand that I was watching the MoH trailer I would have been pretty sure I was watching the a CoD game or something (Not saying I like CoD better, I haven't even played this new gritty MoH). What I'm trying to get at, albeit slowly is that there really seems to be a lack of originality among these FPS that are supposedly grounded in reality. It seems like any real innovation lies outside of that genre. Even then finding something different or new doesn't seem to be the goal. Which is fine. The goal is to make money. I mean 99% of the time the goal is to make a shit ton of money, .5% of the time the goal is to create something resembling art or at least creating something original. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying these games aren't fun. A lot of them are and a lot of them really met their goals of making a shit ton of cash. The last innovation that penetrated (dick jokes aside) FPS games was the addition of RPG-like elements. But that will only take you so far. Something new needs to be done for this genre not to stagnate.
I hope someone is listening.
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