{"id":501,"date":"2012-06-02T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:14:34","slug":"give-me-co-op-or-give-me-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/give-me-co-op-or-give-me-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me co-op or give me death"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am having a really hard time getting excited for any of the new games coming out. They\u2019re all sequels or far deeper into the series. Borderlands 2<\/a> is coming out again. This time with new characters and more guns!<\/p>\n

I can hardly get excited over more piles of useless guns laying strewn around after every battle or random enemy encounter. They\u2019re littering the world like so many worms on sidewalks after a rain storm.<\/p>\n

There is a new Gears of War<\/a> game being teased for E3. I played the first one for an afternoon for a couple of hours intneding to go back and finish it. But I never did and never have touched any of the sequels since.<\/p>\n

I am sure the games are getting tweaks and changes but the play style doesn\u2019t speak to me so I don\u2019t enjoy it. Like the time I rented the Chronicles of Riddick:Assault on Dark Athena<\/a>
\n and Hitman: Blood Money<\/a>
\n from Gamefly<\/a> and then realized I cannot<\/strong> play stealth games.<\/p>\n

I am the barbarian. I crash into a room wielding axes or with guns blazing with no thought of myself or others. I am not sneaky. I am not stealthy. I won\u2019t wait for my opening to make a kill. I will barrel into the room and overwhelm with force. This is not what those games were built for and I die, a lot.<\/p>\n

There is another Halo 4<\/a>
\n game being released. I will buy it. I will play it. But I will do this more because most everyone I know on Xbox Live will be playing it too, as well as half the Xbox-owning world at least until the Next Big Thing<\/em> comes out. I enjoy the series well enough but it\u2019s changing hands with this release so there are going to be some growing pains and changes I won\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see when it hits shelves and people get their hands on it how it is received and how the new company take the reins on a beloved series that has a rich history behind it.<\/p>\n

Speaking of trading games, the Call of Duty<\/a>
\n franchise annoys me because they\u2019re split it between two game developers. This means two things.<\/p>\n