Ixiterra said:
/me sighs
im pausing because i doubt you're prepared to actually reason or be respectful. sorry, but dont get me wrong... whatever makes you think it's cool or sounds smart to talk like this is beyond me.
but i do think "stats" and "facts" are fuckin relevant to the discussion.
even within tribes1 and tribes2, we might actually find lots of people playing stuff beyond base CTF *gasp* which is worth noting.
anyways, you certainly CAN break games into different styles, types, genres. each way you break it down will offer strengths and weaknesses.
any empirical "map" offers strengths and weaknesses... and no map is perfect, but a map which makes important, useful correlations to reality is a viable tool.
abstraction aside... if 99/100 gamers are playing games and gametypes filled with objectives and such, that's worth noting. it doesnt mean it's some "law" but it's worth noting.
flames aside... a couple of years ago there were 3 primary FPS online: quake, tribes and ut.
tribes and ut have had sequals (quake had its own already, and we'll see about the next). they were each characterized by splash damage, dramatic player movements and CTF (with varying degrees of DM). they are to this day held up independently by their die hard fans as the epitome of "skill based" games (usually simply due to the physics and timing required to lead projectiles while dueling).
that "old school" stype of gameplay has been on the way out for a few years now - but the story aint over yet.
i strongly argued on the UT forums that UT2k4 CTF's biggest hope lay in Onslaught. in other words, folks weren't "coming back" to another ut game just to play CTF but they might come back to play onslaught. if they come back in mass to that and lots of mods... then CTF would have a fair shot again. ONLY if...
im not sure that's the exactly same for tribes vengeance, but there's definately a parallel whether you want to see it or not.