1.April.2015

Have you ever killed the nazis? Have you ever destroyed a zombie horde with an axe? Have you ever sliced a dragon from head to talon? Every single gamer to exist has played at least one game that fits into these game types. Most gamers can tell you just how repetitive the game markets are when it comes to what games are being made and released on a regular basis. Every year the same style of games are released and it gets boring after you've played the third game like it. So why are these games still being made? Is it because it's still cool, or is it because no matter how repetitive the games get we will still play them?

The most common of the overly repetitive genre is war games. The War game genre will always be a popular area to make games due to how easy it is to rely on actual history. There isn't really any new ideas when it comes to war games. America vs Germany? Done. America vs Vietnam? Done. So many war games are inspired, if not completely based off, actual battles that the outcome of the game can be easily predicted before it is even released. The fact that these games make easy multi-player games without too much thought keeps them being pumped into the game circuit without too much hassle for the developers. The only real work they need to put in is to make America seem like the heroic, winning side in the game for it to sell.

The only way war games get more repetitive is when they add zombie soldiers. As we've seen, most game designers are big on the apocalyptic genre. There doesn't really need to be any planning for the actual game story as you spend the entirety of the game trying to survive. A great example of an apocalypse game done right with zombies is State of Decay - the game can be played for hours on end without you really doing anything other than getting a few bags of supplies and killing a few zombies. The genre sells so well because we all think it would be easy to survive the apocalypse. It helps that each developer adds their own twist to the genre - by adding something little that makes it different to the rest, it keeps you playing for hours just for this little factor.

The fantasy genre is always going to be popular. Not only is it overused when it comes to games, it is overused generally - in games, in books and in film. We see fantasy games in multiple forms as well. You can be part of a massively-multiplayer online game, or play alone marrying many villagers like in Fable. The best part about fantasy is how different it is from real life, but the games themselves are rarely different from each other - at the end of the game you as the protagonist are fulfilling the story line by being evil, or good, or somewhere inbetween to make you the best player of this fantasy realm. The fantasy concept rarely changes, and similar to the apocalypse games the developers only add little things to make them unique. Fantasy games will exist and will carry on being made for as long as dragons are awesome - that's right, the fantasy game genre will never die.

Though repetitive games can be seen as boring, there will always be games that fit the three main categories listed above. Why? These games bring you outside of your typical every-day life for your enjoyment. They may have similar plots, characters and environments, but each game tries its' hardest to be interesting to the consumer. As long as you - the gamer, the consumer, the player - are enjoying the game and its' genre, it will never change or be vastly improved.