Is anyone else sick and tired of how many games these days are focused around gun fighting? IMO, FPS games haven’t markedly improved since the original counter strike which I played as a CHILD. Frankly, I just wish we could all stop obsessing over guns and come up with something new.

EDIT: A good example right now is Starfield. Why is a game that is ostensibly about exploration and discovery so obsessed with guns? Let’s be honest, the combat doesn’t even look good. It’s certainly not better gun combat than 90 percent of FPS games from the last decade. So it begs the question: Why have guns at all?

EDIT 2: I’m realizing I should have posted this in c/UnpopularOpinion

  •  shakesbeare   ( @shakesbeare@beehaw.org ) 
    1•1 year ago

    Maybe you just don’t like fps games. Which is okay.

    Personally, the gameplay loop of fps games is really engaging for me and I like it a lot. I also happen to like other systems a lot.

    And anyway, hard disagree on the counter strike thing. Even modern counter strike games suffer from the rapidly aging gunplay model of the original counter strike days and I feel that it’s tired and frustrating.