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Pro gamer Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’Wendel has confessed that the main reason he has stepped away fromcompetition is that there just isn’t a game that appeals to him at themoment.
Wendel – perhaps the best known gamer and a 12 timesworld champion – told TechRadar that, although he is playing games forfun at the moment, he doesn’t feel that any of the current crop oftitles allows him to showcase his range of skills
“Right now I’mwaiting for the right tournament and the right game to come back andplay," Fatal1ty told TechRadar at the launch of Creative's Xfi Titanium Fatal1ty range.
“Idon’t think there are any games that are right for me, right now. Towant to jump back in competitively I need the right game and I don’tthink that game is there.
Quality “I’m not just going to play a game for the sake of playing it competitively – it has to have the right qualities.”
“Ithink there’s a lot more than twitchy [reaction and aim] skills – theyare important – but there is things like gameplans and strategy as well.
“Ifyou are a pro you put in the amount of time to build that skillset,whereas now you can pretty much pick up the controller and drop rightinto the latest games and be as good as the guy next to you prettyquickly.
“It’s great that it makes it more accessible but when itgets to professional gaming you have to have that quality that meansthat the best players are better than those below.
Quake “You take something like Quake III or Painkiller and the difference between the top three of four and the rest in the top eight is obvious – and that is rewarding.
Wendelinsists that his reticence to compete is nothing to do with a perceiveddecline in PC gaming, and he believes that the platform will bounceback even stronger in the coming months.
“The PC is very strong and it will continue to grow and get even better,” he insists.
“Thereare a couple of inventions that are going to change PC gaming coming upand I think it is going to be blowing people’s minds and make peoplewant to play.
Plays for fun “I play a lotfor fun from complex PC games to the Wii but the thing is I need a gamethat presses all my buttons – movement and aim and reaction andstrategy.”
Wendel believes that people will begin to clamour fora game that rewards practice rather than simply makes it easy to becomecompetitive.
“I think that people who play the games are going toget tired of everyone being at the same level after a while and theywill want a game that stretches them…where they can continue toprogress.”
Wendel is right - there are no decent games out there. They're so cliched or just require no skill. I call games such as BF2 "noob shooters" because you can suck at every FPS and still beat a pro. I like the classic arcade shooters such as UT where its the person with the best aim and movement who will win, not whoever sees you first. When I heard CoD5 was maybe going back to WW2, I was mad. Doing 3 was more than enough, but luckily they decided against it. I don't really buy any games anymore because I don't hear about anything decent. Every new game just seems like a clone of another with new customizable features and better detail than the previous idea. If a company is going to do a repetative idea, they ought to make it surprisingly refreshing such as GTA4.