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Finally, my disgust with the first person shooter genre, especially as it relates to the Xbox 360, is being echoed in the blogosphere, even on Destructoid as Twisted Imp lays it out, briefly.

So let me amplify–I am sick unto death of first person shooters. I’m tired of crawling around warehouses and through planetary cores, doing nothing but pulling my trigger every time something unpleasant wanders into my frame of vision. I’m tired of collecting progressively larger weapons, and I’m sick of the latest BFG. I’m tired of games that are little more than a collection of quests with all the forward thinking of the end of my barrel.

Oh, sure, there are some notable exceptions–BioShock, for one. Relatively wide open spaces and a convincing storyline give me a reason to blast Big Daddies. Even better, half the weapons seem to be homemade, and that’s reason to pay attention. Also, my personal favorite game, Oblivion, is just a medieval FPS, but packed with story and things to do in wide open spaces make the FPS engine go down a whole lot smoother. If I were doing the swords-and-sorcery thing in the United Aerospace Corporation offices, I’d feel a lot less jolly about it, that’s for sure.

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