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Convince me of not buying any more shooters, please.

I should, honestly. Recently, I've decided to vary up on the genres that I play. I swore I was going to buy at least one game, preferrably the very best, on every genre, after spending 3 years playing just shooters on the PS3. And I've almost decided each genre:

Racing: Gran Turismo 5

Fighting: Street Fighter X Tekken OR an MMA game, haven't decided yet

Sports: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

Action/Adventure: The new DMC

RPG: UGH! Can't decide on a game to get here! (Will talk on a later blog post)

But THEN... There are the shooters I want to buy. To clear things up, the games currently in my collection are GTA Episodes from Liberty City, Red Dead Redemption, Uncharted 2 and LittleBigPlanet. Recently traded a lot of games in. So as you can tell, mostly shooters (don't give me that Uncharted 2 is action/adventure crap, U2 is a third person shooter, so is EFLC).

And the shooters I want to buy are:

Brink

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Resistance 2

Resistance 3...

4 GAMES.

Now the shooter thing has something to do with the varying up on the genre thing. See, the way I see it, shooters are divided into 2 genres: Tactical shooters and Shoot-From-The-Hip shooters. The first ones would be games like CoD, Killzone, Rainbow Six Vegas, ones that you have to involve strategy and the battles are almost always fought while in cover. And the latter are self explanatory: Games like BioShock, Halo, Unreal Tournament, and Resistance 1. Resistance 2, I felt, took a more tactical approach, at least in Single Player.

So I decided to buy R3, which, according to GameInformer, will have a kind of gameplay 'strayed from the modern shooter type, and will go back to its roots', which obviously means it's going back to the R1 genre. Which is fine by me, since I'm already looking into buying Brink and Black Ops for the tactical genre (which is what I prefer, but I also want some over-the-top, silly action fun in R3. Silliness doesn't hurt once in a while, does it?)

Anyway... Give me your thoughts on this. I also need to talk about how the games I've decided to buy, in other genres, are so far off to be released. I'm thinking of getting Demon's Souls instead of waiting for Project Dark, and Tekken 6 instead of waiting for SFxT (btw, I've always been a fan of the Tekken franchise). But I'll talk about those stuff in more depth later.