Aggressive Gaming
November 2013 marked the beginning of a new generation of game consoles with the release of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. And with each new generation comes new innovations that define the next era in gaming. But in the wake of progress there are causalities, gaming trends and entire genres that seem to lose their meaning even though at one point the whole industry was all about them.
Here is Aggressive Gaming’s look at some of those lost, but not forgotten features and genres that still have a place in our heart, even if the larger gaming community, developers and publisher have moved onto bigger and better.
Helldivers 2 players have taken it upon themselves to shoot those wearing pre-order armor. The developers are asking those involved to stop this undemocratic behavior.
Soul Covenant feels like a game from the early 2000s, with its repetitive gameplay loop, waggle controls, and nonsensical story.
Indie developer Carlos Alfonso is working on Cold VR, a game where standing still isn't an option. The complete opposite to SUPERHOT VR.
I have to admit, sometimes music in Horror games did give away scares. They set you up for it, and then lessened the desired effect.
Music is a tough thing to balance in these games, because in my view, it needs to make you feel fear / dread to turn around that corner or something. Dead Space did atmosphere well, mostly the first game, but the loud noises were just ''whatever''.
Anyways, the genre is definitely on the backburner for now, because they're being turned into action games. Who knows if The Evil Within can give it some life.
I miss random games about nothing. The games that didn't make sense, who's characters I may not be able to guess what they are, the levels were random, but it was always fun.
80% of games now are Aim the gun, go to next room, spot 3-4 guys, shoot them, move on to next location, checkpoint, continue to next room, more bad guys ect.....
A lot of them feel like empty demo ideas where nobody ever said" hey this really sucks, maybe we should do something different instead"