Whatever happened to the Run 'n Gun?

I have a lot of thought in my head that I have been meaning to put on paper; or in this case a text box. So today I will write down the oldest one and after this long hiatus I have left my 1-2 readers with I will return tomorrow with the next one and hopefully continue on a regular basis so these long pauses won't pile up.


So today, a video game issue. What has happened in the video game industry is a pile, no, a MOUNTAIN of first person shooter games. FPS has been a mainstay in this business since Doom and Wolfenstein 3D came in and changed everything. What people don't seem to remember is that those games, like a lot of games, were not realistic. Movies have to be based on reality, a realistic world, or a world that the movies sets up for viewers to accept. To accept these worlds they must be based on a set of unwritten rules on what is to be expected. If you break these rules people tend to get upset, if you don't everything turns out fine generally (unless your film bores us to death because you are a pretentious twat).

Games are not burdened by these rules. The new Call of Duty game has Nazi Zombies for Pete's sake. When you change things like the aforementioned CoD game you become recognizable in a world burdened by this new rush in the game industry to be realistic. there is nothing wrong with realism but it seems that nowadays almost every FPS game is super realistic and if you make one misstep in this endeavor to be real you will be hung on a cross for sacrilege and we will throw ninja star into your belly (Medal of Honor series I am talking about you). Whatever happened to the Run 'n Gun? Sure a challenging war game can be fun but when was the last time you were able to just relax and have some fun? Why can I no longer run around with ridiculous amounts of health firing away at AI soldiers that are pants on head retarded? Yes I am talking about Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, true successors to the pioneers of FPS. Wolfenstein has werewolf Nazis! This is not realistic and it was praised for it. People still talk about Doom. Perfect Dark kicked ass. People still play Goldeneye, a game over a decade old. When was the last time you saw someone rush off to play Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault? I want health bars and color again, not every game to copy and paste the same war environments form WWII in gun metal gray color schemes with timed healing and me dying every 30sec because its realistic. Now who wants to play some Goldeneye and Perfect Dark?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
The movie kicks ass too!