Is anyone else #$@%ing tired of guns?

BUT NO, YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT.

REMEMBER HOW REAL SHIT GOT?

I'M NOT EVEN EXCITED ABOUT PORTAL 2 ANYMORE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BIG A DEAL THIS.

I never was excited for portal 2.

I don't play a lot of shooters so no, not yet tired of guns.

" I don't play a lot of shooters so no, not yet tired of guns. "

Demon's Souls 2 should have guns 
 
 

Would you be happier if portal 2 had a portal making sword?

Shogun 2 Total War is out next month, try Bows instead. 
 
The polite answer would be, perhaps you need to try some different genres.

Try avoiding the Modern Borefares and Boredomlands (GOTY LOLOL, GREAT TASTE JEFF!)

" Would you be happier if portal 2 had a portal making sword? "

Maybe you should stop fucking guns? I don't think that they are make for that.
 
But yeah, kind of. I don't think we should have less games with guns though, just more without them.

What is your point?

...Does Bulletstorm have guns in it? If so, then I'm not quite tired of guns just yet.

I agree that first person games and those stories can get stale from time to time, 
shooting stuff is always fun  though

I'm still diggin' ze firearms.

I'll show you a fucking-gun.
*zip*

What if we just replaced them all with radios? Giant, bullet launching radios.

I don't a lot of shooters but that's because they're all the same and that's all the market is producing it seems.
 
I was so fucking happy with games like Monster Hunter, Metroid Other M or Dragon Age.
The last shooter I really, like really fucking really really, enjoyed was Borderlands.
 
I used to play lots of games no matter the genre, but all the shooters feel the same to me, or too bland/cloned to even bother with other titles then the top dogs.

There are plenty of games that aren't Call of Duty. Also, how exactly are the "best" games of the past years shooters? According to who?

I can see the OP's point. Most of the big blockbusters have been shooters since CoD4 exploded onto the world. Maybe that's because that game was so insanely popular it got a shitload of peeps to start loving shooters, I know it started my shooter addiction, something that even N64 Goldeneye failed to do.
 
I'm getting shooter fatigue now too, and have started going back and doing a lot more single players as of late. Which makes me wonder if the FPS Genre is so popular currently because of their online multiplayer components, and how they excel in that area compared to other genres of games. Few are hardly as easy to pick up and play with friends for hours of brainless fun as a shooter.

Crossbows ftw.

What guns are there in portal? The portal gun - the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device? That's a bit of a stretch of the definition of a gun =/
 
Anyway, I believe a similar thread was made a while back about non-violent games. There have been plenty of good games released recently that don't involve guns...now ease up on the caps lock and play Amnesia.

"But how will I shoot things without guns?! "

Portal Gun, Gravity Gun and Crossbows that shoot crazy shit are still cool with me. I would like devs to experiment with guns that don't fire bullets or lazers.

" There are plenty of games that aren't Call of Duty. Also, how exactly are the "best" games of the past years shooters? According to who? "

This is my weapon 
this is my gun 
One is for shooting 
One is for fun

Tired of guns? The sleekest way to kill someone? You're insane I say! INSANE!

" @ComradeKritstov said:

" There are plenty of games that aren't Call of Duty. Also, how exactly are the "best" games of the past years shooters? According to who? "

TO WHOOOOOMMM "

I disagree, I think more games need guns. 

So is your real problem the guns, or the way stories are told around them? Because you should really check out Deadly Premonition, Red Dead Redemption, and Mass Effect if you want to see gun stories told in a totally new way. 
 
If you're legitimately sick of the guns (something about the aiming, maybe?), go with Super Meat Boy, Amnesia, Pac-Man CEDX, God of War III, or LIMBO. There, a big stack of games that came out LAST YEAR with no guns. There's other experiences out there, you need to just stop buying generic stuff.

If you like the first-person perspective, but don't like guns anymore, maybe try Amnesia? If you like Survival Horror games, that is :)

" If you like the first-person perspective, but don't like guns anymore, maybe try Amnesia? If you like Survival Horror games, that is :) "

Braid isn't even that old so it's not like exciting non-gun games are a thing of the past.

" @BigLemon said:

" @ComradeKritstov said:

" There are plenty of games that aren't Call of Duty. Also, how exactly are the "best" games of the past years shooters? According to who? "

TO WHOOOOOMMM "

  

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Guns can be fun in moderation, I stick to my RPGs most of the time, but when I feel like just shooting things, I load up a shooter and shoot things, when I feel like commanding an army against another one, I load up an RTS, ect.
Just get more variety in your game diet and you should be fine.

I wouldn't say I'm sick of guns but I definitely am of third person shooters (and first person, to a lesser degree) but I simply don't play them.

" What guns are there in portal? The portal gun - the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device? That's a bit of a stretch of the definition of a gun =/

1. shoot everthing that moves
2. go to next area
3. repeat at 1)

Deadpool and I love guns.

Why should games get rid of guns? They're still a good thing, and there are plenty of games that don't have guns. You may wish to try those out. And what's that? Mainsteream developers aren't experimenting?
 

Man I thought this was gonna be about how melee combat should take a bigger role in first person games and I was gonna be all like "hell yeah son those Riddick games were boss! I'd love a good first person fistfighter!"
 
But then it turned out to be another one of those "hurr sequels r dum" posts.
 
I mean listen to yourself:
 

 The problem is gaming is a two way street. Unlike every other creative medium games don't have to express something to be valid. That isn't to say the movies and books and shit don't serve completely utilitarian purposes sometimes, but we don't call those creative endeavors they are simply products. But games are different, they don't have to communicate anything to the player to still be grouped into that category. The venn diagram is three dimensional at that point, it has a bunch of prongs and fractals and shit.

" Try avoiding the Modern Borefares and Boredomlands (GOTY LOLOL, GREAT TASTE JEFF!) "

I mean it's not like movies or books are any different than video games anyway.
 
Think about the books you see in supermarkets and shit. Books by James Patterson and Dean Koontz. It's the exact same fucking thing every time. And they're bestsellers.
 
Think about what movies made the most money recently - Transformers 2, a gigantic rolling pile of awful jokes, shakycam, and CGI robots which is a cinematic shitstorm the likes of which haven't been seen in some time, and Avatar, a movie so creatively, artistically, and intellectually bankrupt I can't even muster up the energy to make fun of it anymore.
 
And let's not even get into music.

based purely on the pictures chose by the OP i'm gonna agree with anything he comes up with.

I'm so glad I made this thread.

Would anybody else like to have an RPG similar in gameplay to Morrowind or Oblivion, but realistic? Without magic or elves and shit, just with multiple weapon types, and multiple fighting styles.  
 
Because I would. Just have it set in an interesting time period and it would work. Like ancient Rome.

a little bit. i am currently playing a crapload of forza motorsport 3. i am trying to beat all of the races.

I love "fantasy" guns.  Guns in fantasy settings.  Fucking awesome. 
 
You see that Charr over there?  His axe HAS A GUN ON IT.  Fucking METAL

Shooters do get a little boring, that's why it's always good to play more than one genre.