Remember when games were sometimes different from each other and / or what you expected???
Please remove nostalgia glasses before posting. Games in the past took advantage of what genre was popular, we simply don't remember the bad ones because they weren't played that often or most of us were too young to care. There are uncountable early 1990s 2D platformers that are basically carbon copies of one another cashing on the times; only the best are remembered now. The same will happen with the current popular genres, only the best/best-selling will be remembered.
Yeah, I sure miss when I played Doom and shot things whilst sometimes pressing as switch. And then I went and played Blood where I shot things whilst sometimes pressing a switch. On to Wolfenstein where I shot things and sometimes pressed a switch.
Hahaha, okay, you got me.
But hey dudes! Switches! Where have they gone?
(I still play Doom 2 often so I guess I *do* miss those times)
Jervill - you are very much correct, but we remember games from the past like Mario and Megaman and Sonic (given the limitations on what sort of games you could actually have at the times, moderately different.) Today, what sort of games will be remembered?
Halo and Call of Duty and Gears 571 - I quite like these but they are 'bad' apparently eh I guess we'll have Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 and uhh umm
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I think the thing was back in the day you had computational reasons / limits why most games were 2d platformers. These days... eh, I don't know. There are still lots of good games around that I enjoy.
I was mainly having a go at the flanderisation of Samus. If you can find me a female heroine who doesn't look like a supermodel these days, then I'll be surprised. They probably exist, but I don't know of them.