Black Designer Finds FPS Games “Fucking Boring”

In a recent interview with OXM, the lead designer on the critically acclaimed title Black (that EA put out a few years back), stated that he finds most of the current generation cover system based shooters “fucking boring”.

Stuart Black who now works for a new studio that was formed by the guys at Codemasters has problems with the games where your enemies who hunker down under cover tend to stay in that one place and pop their heads out of the same location over and over again. To quote him from the feature:

“There’s a lot of cover-based shooters out at the moment, But when a guy hunkers down behind something, you’ve just got to sit there and wait for him to pop his head up…[he] pops up, couple of bullets to his head, pops back down again…Fucking boring. I can’t be bothered hanging around like that.”

I guess that any publicity is good publicity for the game that the guys at Codemasters are working on…and they are working on a game, trust me on that. It just might help to let the rest of us know what the hell you’re currently working on. This is so it can be properly pimped because when it comes out and has the same features as the rest of the generic FPS games you’re hating on, we can pull a Nelson Muntz style laugh.

by Alan Smithee

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