Please take some time to think before you bash a review. These benchmarks are all things we can realate to and know the startup times on our machines for. They are in relative terms to something we know quite well.
GTA doesn't get that kind of treatment. Every cookie-cutter clone of it, all of which are urban-themed games (funny, that) recieves such critisism and rightly so. All share basically the same view, objectives, storyline, etc etc...
The GTA series shows inovation in the genre, whilst almost all others are just loose copies of said series, sans inovation that Rockstar seems to be quite good at.
I don't see how you can argue your point. Fantasy-themed games spread across many game genres (FPS, RTS, MMO, etc), and are all sufficiently different from one another in terms of how the game plays, how the characters look, or how the story goes. Racing... same deal. They don't get branded 'glut' since they don't all have the same feel to them as other similar games, unlike the regurgitated crap that urban-themed games are.
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Please take some time to think before you bash a review. These benchmarks are all things we can realate to and know the startup times on our machines for. They are in relative terms to something we know quite well.
The GTA series shows inovation in the genre, whilst almost all others are just loose copies of said series, sans inovation that Rockstar seems to be quite good at.
I don't see how you can argue your point. Fantasy-themed games spread across many game genres (FPS, RTS, MMO, etc), and are all sufficiently different from one another in terms of how the game plays, how the characters look, or how the story goes. Racing... same deal. They don't get branded 'glut' since they don't all have the same feel to them as other similar games, unlike the regurgitated crap that urban-themed games are.
So yes, genre dead.