It's hard to come up with new ideas when almost every single genre you could possibly think of has been done to death. But that still doesn't mean new ideas won't come about and this gen certainly showed it.

- 2D games were redefined to a whole new level this generation without a doubt.

- A new addicitive genre of games was basically created with the release of Dota if I'm not mistaken.

- Basic games such as Minecraft spawned a ton of new ideas for developers with it's winning formula of addictive yet simple gameplay.

- An RPG like element for FPS's was spawned and made popular by both the COD and Battlefield series.

- Motion gaming with the release of the Wii, and then the Move + Kinet is an obvious one.

- Touch screens and pad gaming, again this one ties in with 2D games and motion gaming.

- Certain online features have either been created or became extremely popular and standardised this generation. E.g Online Co-op games such as L4D, Killing Floor or Borderlands. Although granted this has been around for a while, especially for PC gaming.

These are just certain additions from the top of my head, and I forgot to mention that the puzzle genre of games will always contain originally, e.g the Portal series. Gaming doesn't lack originality, but with so many releases it's hard not to find duplicates which give the impression that so many games are 'the same'.

[QUOTE="Faber_Fighter"]Some of the ones where I live in Australia ARE poisonous though. Redback and whitetail spiders which infest most houses in my area won't kill you but supposedly are one of the most painful bites in the world, and can cause serious rotting of the skin and leave scars from the tissue damage.sonofsmeagle

I don't know who Rick Perry is, but people here really need to get a grip and actually read the article.

Firstly, he was hardly 'defending' them, he was all up for the marines being punished for their actions, just not to such an extent. It's obvious that what they did was beyond stupid, but as someone else in this thread here said, to file criminal charges on them just to restore a country's military image is just as horrible.

Besides, how was this in any way a criminal act? And don't tell me there will be violent consequences between the two forces as a direct result of these images, this hardly compares to thousands of other images and footages of marines seriously abusing their power in the war.

[QUOTE="Faber_Fighter"][QUOTE="Pug-Nasty"]

BF 3 has shortcomings as well. Deal with it.

Pug-Nasty

Which game is "vastly different" on PC from its console counterparts? MW 3 has dedicated servers on PC, but still sports the same laggy netcode so it won't help. BF3 has a larger player count for conquest, which is hardly a vast difference.

I guess the console version is different in that you don't have to use battleog for anything, which is nice because that site is not well laid out.