why Los Angeles? don't they get enough gun fire around anyways?

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lol just messin' all you LA fans. love LA myself.

i think the problem goes beyond that. it's not so much that modern FPS shooters are played out, that the whole sci-fi thing has been done since practically sci-fi's inception, or that historical war games has been done over and over again. i agree that its constant rehashing and familiarity is what drives gamers mad, but i think it's also how poorly developers try to offer a unique experience.

it seems like to me that just about every developer has been opting for the same controls and format similar to COD4, same mission types and mission structures, same weapons and feel, and almost all online mulitplayer games seem impartial to weapon-pickups like in the good ol' days.

i don't know if i'm making too much of a point, but i guess what i'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter what the theme of a game is (although i guess you could account for WW2 shooters since it's usually based upon existing knowledge we already know about the war), but more so of offering unique story premises, better set pieces, more uniqueness and variety, etc etc.

some of the best games to offer that this gen has been bioshock, mirror's edge, killzone 2 (not so much for the campaign since it has some of the problems that i've mentioned, but more so because of the technical and graphical fidelity of the game was unrivaled, arguably even to this day as a matter of fact), halo reach (THIS is the true Halo 3 imo), singularity, resistance 2, rainbow six vegas 1 & 2, borderlands (before it starts getting boring), and a bunch of other FPSs.

other FPSs to look forward to based on what i think looks unique about them: brink, killzone 3, rage, crysis 2, and again other titles that i'm too lazy to mention.

it's not the genre or the type of game that makes it lame, it's the developer's lack of originality to put into a game's mindframe.

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