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Although it’s probably too early to post another blog, possibly to the point where the VuTales community feels inundated with blogs of darkness, I shall post one nonetheless.

Many blogs posted have been about an assortment of topics. Some have been about an eclectic mixture of games from various consoles and devices. Others have been more inclined about life and its share of problems. A few have been plain BS. As for me, I prefer to stick to the roots of this site and fail at creating another blog about video games, something that this community has somewhat moved away from.

Moving on; many of you who have played first person shooters should be familiar with Halo and its styles of combat. If not, certainly Call of Duty jars your memory. Running, jumping, shooting, falling, dying, repeat. Well, here’s a video to explain the general basis of what I’m getting at:

Frankly, gameplay mechanics has seldom changed despite years away from the first Halo installment and the first Call of Duty game. While some mechanics are nice to have around, few major improvements have been made between installments, and with players loving the classics, it’s understandable why companies tread damn lightly about future games. Shields are shields, assault rifles are assault rifles, and perks are perks. It certainly doesn’t look like this while you play:

…unless you’ve been playing Mortal Kombat recently. Regardless, even with new games coming out with innovative in-game movements and attack techniques, I feel that major game companies should veer a bit away from autonomous game movement and point-and-shoot weapons. Strafe, duck, triple backflip, backstab, facepalm… it would be curious to see if fighting-style mechanics could be incorporated into a shooting game. It would certainly make the hand-to-hand combat look sexy or violent.

It’s also been nice to see that people have been getting creative with gametypes beyond death match and capture the flag. If I’m not mistaken, someone made a skee ball type game in Reach with oversized golf balls, while another converted an infection gametype into dodgeball on steroids. And then there are games that require… “hours” of time invested in them:

Good times, right? Curiously, both Call of Duty and Halo will have another installment of their series soon, with Modern Warfare 3 (WTF? any more “modern” and you’re looking at the first Halo game… or Reach, chronologically) and Halo 4 (anything beyond a trilogy usually does not bode well, hence how Bungie and Infinity Ward/Treyarch got around that with non-numberical additions to the series). Despite their ominous shortcomings and/or vagueness, I am eager to see how they will persist in an ever-exponentially expanding multiverse of gaming.

On a side note, I noticed that online first person shooters are fairly scarce compared to the likes of Runescape, Maplestory, World of Warcraft, Star Wars, etc. And those games are usually FUBAR by some noted few who decided to screw up the codes for greedy or personal reasons. Do hackers impede gaming advancements by turning the coding into molten slag and making cheap rip-offs that look exactly the same as a private server of said game?

That’ll be all, folks. Happy shooting!