20th June 2007, 5:38 AM
I think it's because "shmup" is too close to "retarded". I also dislike 'shoot em up' which makes even the grandest of space battles sound like a western. It's a shooter, its a 2-D or 3-D side-scrolling, top-down, horizontal, isometric, first or third person SHOOTER.
Do we call games like Streets of Rage a 'bemup'? Why dont we call MMORPG's Mogs? Why dont we refer to third person action adventure platformers as thipeturformers (and of course thipeturcons)? Why doesn't it work? Because no one has any fucking clue what you're talking about if you call something anything with a term that retarded.
Especially shmup, It sounds like a term used to describe deformed puppies. The idea of a moniker or genre title is that it explains what the hell it is you're doing in the game in a generalized logical fashion - shmup falls so far outside that ideal that it missed the net and landed on a cheerleader.
Do we call games like Streets of Rage a 'bemup'? Why dont we call MMORPG's Mogs? Why dont we refer to third person action adventure platformers as thipeturformers (and of course thipeturcons)? Why doesn't it work? Because no one has any fucking clue what you're talking about if you call something anything with a term that retarded.
Especially shmup, It sounds like a term used to describe deformed puppies. The idea of a moniker or genre title is that it explains what the hell it is you're doing in the game in a generalized logical fashion - shmup falls so far outside that ideal that it missed the net and landed on a cheerleader.