SWM 5th Anniversary - Paper Mario flops big time, Vita redeemed? (hint: no)

so who is more negative User on SW? Me or darklin? we both hate too many games...SNIPER4321

I really should play more of them.funsohng

Yes.

aaaaaaannnnnnndddd.....

Good Lord, I have a disgusting taste in FPS.funsohng

Yes.

...

Just kidding. You're taste is just fine.

My top 5 (top 10 is too difficult):

1) Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

2) Timesplitters: Future Perfect (yes it released in 2005 so I'M KEEPING IT!)

3) Team Fortress 2

4) F.E.A.R. (Had glaring issues, but damn that gunplay + AI combo was immaculate)

5) Crysis (again, had some serious issues. But that whole first half of the game was divine, and even some of the linear segments at the end were good too).

EDIT: I have not even played the following: Tribes: Ascend, Metro 2033 (I own it though), CS:GO, L4D2, ARMA 2 (I own it though), any of the Killzone games, any of the Resistence games, Red Orchestra 2, Cryostasis (I own it though), Borderlands series, and a host of other games I foegot to mention.

Metroid Primecharizard1605

mae a list thenSNIPER4321

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="SNIPER4321"]mae a list thenSNIPER4321

but if u cant make a list then why did you criticize others list?

My list owns all of your lists.:)

In no particular order.

1.Rainbow 6 black arrow

2.Battlefield 3

3.Team Fortress 2

4.Crysis Warhead

5.Deus Ex Human Reveloution

6.Bioshock 1

7.Borderlands 2

8.Far cry 3 (when it comes out)

9.Portal 2 (come at me)

10.Fallout 3 (FPS RPG)

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]Metroid Primekhoofia_pika

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]Metroid Primecharizard1605

It's just as much action adventure as shooter, if not more.

Games do not have to be one genre and one only. Or rather, they don't have to be crammed into just one of the big, established genres.

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]Metroid Primecharizard1605

Makes me kind of sad I've only ever contributed one thing to the magazine. I love reading this thing.

Makes me kind of sad I've only ever contributed one thing to the magazine. I love reading this thing.

WiiCubeM1

I've always regarded ARMA 2's in-game editor as an awesome feature of the game. I'm happy to see SW sees it that way too.

That Superman Returns review was funny.

Wow, glad to see this is still running. Great job guys.fabz_95

[QUOTE="fabz_95"]Wow, glad to see this is still running. Great job guys.jg4xchamp

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]Metroid Primekhoofia_pika

Yes it is.

It has various other aspects like environmental puzzles and platforming, but it's still a first-person shooter.

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]Metroid PrimeNeonNinja

Yes it is.

It has various other aspects like environmental puzzles and platforming, but it's still a first-person shooter.

A first-person shooter incongruous with all other games classified as first-person shooters, making the label virtually meaningless.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"] Not a shooter.Cherokee_Jack

Yes it is.

It has various other aspects like environmental puzzles and platforming, but it's still a first-person shooter.

A first-person shooter incongruous with all other games classified as first-person shooters, making the label virtually meaningless.

It's hardly an inappropriate label. Metroid Prime is a first-person shooter and it succeeds by taking a massive risk for the genre and pulling it off spectacularly. Whether people believe the label is deserved or not has little to do with the fact that Metroid Prime a sci-fi FPS. And a damn good one at that.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

Yes it is.

It has various other aspects like environmental puzzles and platforming, but it's still a first-person shooter.

NeonNinja

A first-person shooter incongruous with all other games classified as first-person shooters, making the label virtually meaningless.

It's hardly an inappropriate label. Metroid Prime is a first-person shooter and it succeeds by taking a massive risk for the genre and pulling it off spectacularly. Whether people believe the label is deserved or not has little to do with the fact that Metroid Prime a sci-fi FPS. And a damn good one at that.

Its foundations have everything to do with previous Metroid games and virtually nothing to do with actual first-person shooters.

If Metroid Prime had been the first game ever made in which you shot a projectile weapon in first person, it wouldn't have come out much different because its ideas owe so little to the FPS lineage. Even when it had an ammo system (beyond missiles) in one of the 3 games, it handled it in its own weird way that resembles no FPS ammo system that I can think of.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

A first-person shooter incongruous with all other games classified as first-person shooters, making the label virtually meaningless.

Cherokee_Jack

It's hardly an inappropriate label. Metroid Prime is a first-person shooter and it succeeds by taking a massive risk for the genre and pulling it off spectacularly. Whether people believe the label is deserved or not has little to do with the fact that Metroid Prime a sci-fi FPS. And a damn good one at that.

Its foundations have everything to do with previous Metroid games and virtually nothing to do with actual first-person shooters.

If Metroid Prime had been the first game ever made in which you shot a projectile weapon in first person, it wouldn't have come out much different because its ideas owe so little to the FPS lineage. Even when it had an ammo system (beyond missiles) in one of the 3 games, it handled it in its own weird way that resembles no FPS ammo system that I can think of.

The fact that it differentiates itself from other shooters does not mean it's suddenly not a shooter. It's unique. It's even amazing. It's also a shooter. The genre is not some taboo that shouldn't be attached to it. It is what it is.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

It's hardly an inappropriate label. Metroid Prime is a first-person shooter and it succeeds by taking a massive risk for the genre and pulling it off spectacularly. Whether people believe the label is deserved or not has little to do with the fact that Metroid Prime a sci-fi FPS. And a damn good one at that.

NeonNinja

Its foundations have everything to do with previous Metroid games and virtually nothing to do with actual first-person shooters.

If Metroid Prime had been the first game ever made in which you shot a projectile weapon in first person, it wouldn't have come out much different because its ideas owe so little to the FPS lineage. Even when it had an ammo system (beyond missiles) in one of the 3 games, it handled it in its own weird way that resembles no FPS ammo system that I can think of.

The fact that it differentiates itself from other shooters does not mean it's suddenly not a shooter. It's unique. It's even amazing. It's also a shooter. The genre is not some taboo that shouldn't be attached to it. It is what it is.

I love shooters, they can be just as good as anything else. But Metroid Prime does more than differentiate itself, it has NOTHING to do with other FPS beyond the basic concept of using a projectile weapon in the first-person perspective.

When you assign a genre to a game, it needs to enable meaningful comparisons between that game and others in the genre, which is not the case when you put Metroid Prime in with Halo, Half-Life, Bioshock, etc. Doing that defeats the purpose of game genres.

[QUOTE="DraugenCP"]

I must say, this was a fun issue to contribute to, both as pretentious writer and as pedantic editor. :D

SNIPER4321

Geez, how do you even find video games enjoyable?

Saying Metroid Prime is a shooter is like saying Halo is a driving game. Sure, you drive a lot in it, but that's not the point. Willy105