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[Retronator]

That article is fantastic. The first image about sums it up for me. Actually, 4 years ago I've already seen the same image somewhere else.

At the time I was working as a game reviewer and I was browsing through the latest issue of our magazine (Joker, Slovenian gaming mag). It was in 2007 after the Games Convention and we had a big report of upcoming games shown in Leipzig that year.

I was disappointed. Gun, gun, army, battle, gun. It was the same as the image from the article - I was staring down a gun sight in every fucking screenshot. I was getting tired of the industry year after year. So I went ahead and showed what's happening to games. I grouped all the upcoming games from that report by theme - focusing on whether gameplay is on the destructive (FPS, RTS) or the creative side (think SimCity).

Firearms   Other weapons (FRP, fighting)
Sport      Racing
Arcade     Puzzle (thinking, adventures, etc)
Creative

And now I'll show you exactly why we're here. Because 4 years ago, I went to Abandonia to use it as an example, of what old-school gamers like us desire today. I took the top 100 games (by popularity) and again counted how many fall in which category.



I think the results speak for themselves. We're here, because what the industry is offering is way off of what we (perhaps a tiny, dieing segment of gamers) actually want.

I loved me a good shooter back in the days, but what I hate about today is that we're forcefed a shooter after shooter after shooter (with a new year of EA Sports games and Need for Speeds as a side dish). Fuck that.