10 Reasons It Totally Sucked To Be A Gamer In 2012

6. FPS€™s, Rebooting and Zombies

I believe one part of this year€™s problem started way back in 2007 with the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Infinity Ward broke away from plodding through Poland circa 1940 and switched it for a modern take on war. The story wasn€™t that incredible, but the multiplayer really stepped up the quality that gamers would come to expect not only from the sequel, but from every other developer. This is why for the last few years we€™ve had this trend of FPS€™s following us around like a bad smell. Since COD created so many (now) gaming clichés in the FPS market, playing though one holds no surprises. Yeah, have the €˜almost death scene€™ but I€™ll be okay and yeah I€™ll act flabbergasted because my teammate who€™s basically wearing a Villain€™s t-shirt suddenly betrays me; Jesus bloody Christ. The FPS trend has stuck around like a bag of meat for far too long and only now can we finally smell the putrid stink and throw it in the bin. Zombies are another trend that has stood the test of time with releases like Dead Island, Zombie U, The Walking Dead etc. all gradually groaning onto our shelves. If nothing else they€™re boring as all hell. It€™s always ninety-nine present of the human population has been infected with a natural disease or a some clumsy bastard in the science department dropped a virus and those left are fighting to survive. Culminating with one or two dieing and everyone else gets away scot-free. This genre has gone on for far too long and we as a gaming community should see that 2012 is the last year and blow its brains out. Lastly (because of CS:GO) rebooting a franchise still counts as unoriginal because the developers aren€™t being creative. They€™re basically just updating the graphics, which is also why the Metal Gear HD collection isn€™t a new game. God knows why people argue that it is.