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Subject: What is your opinion on the FPS genre?
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"This bandicoot will be my general, he will lead my Cortex Commandos to world domination...

This time, I shall reign TRIUMPHANT!"

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Go ahead and give me your synopsis or detailed analysis as to how you feel about the FPS genre. You think it's great? Explain. You think it could be better? Do share. Think it sucks? Please tell.

I've come to see them as being generic, following the same "blueprint" if you will. The same feel, same progression, same gimmicks. Sort of.

Share/discuss.

  • 11.27.2012 4:36 PM PDT

They're losing their touch :/

  • 11.27.2012 4:37 PM PDT

Over-saturated with crap titles. The FPS Genre is pretty much what the Platformer Genre was back in the day

  • 11.27.2012 4:38 PM PDT

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  • 11.27.2012 4:38 PM PDT

Every genre has their "formula".

It's easy to see what they are. It's also easy to see what games they take those formulas from. Hint hint, the most successful games of the genre.

  • 11.27.2012 4:39 PM PDT

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  • 11.27.2012 4:39 PM PDT

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I like the feeling of being in First Person during games, so the FPS genre is one of my favorites.

  • 11.27.2012 4:40 PM PDT

It's the genre I play the most, but as of recent has been faltering greatly.

  • 11.27.2012 4:42 PM PDT

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It's fun. It's getting a bit stale though, we need something new.

  • 11.27.2012 4:43 PM PDT

Posted by: oaklandp8ntbalr
It's fun. It's getting a bit stale though, we need something new.

Yes, I agree!

  • 11.27.2012 4:45 PM PDT

I like the immersion that comes with them.

  • 11.27.2012 4:45 PM PDT

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I miss arena-based competitive shooters. I think there are too many military shooters these days. I find them to be uninspired, boring, and all too frequent. They were fun at first, but now everyone has jumped on the bandwagon and it's just frustrating.

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Arena based shooters need to make a comeback. I like fair and balanced shooters, not perk riddled crapshoots.

  • 11.27.2012 4:46 PM PDT

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-blam!- THEM! They need to start coming out with more innovative ideas than FPS after FPS. -blam!- it all. Halo is the last straw of hope I was holding on to and guess what, it was the last straw. -blam!- crappy unexciting game after another.

  • 11.27.2012 4:48 PM PDT

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Arena based shooters need to make a comeback. I like fair and balanced shooters, not perk riddled crapshoots.


So true it hurts.

  • 11.27.2012 4:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Crazy LlamaX
I like the immersion that comes with them.
Agreed, my good sir

  • 11.27.2012 4:51 PM PDT

Wake me, when you need me.

Needless to say, it's not as fun as it was back in the day. I believe 2004-2009 was really the golden era for FPS. Since then, it's been played to death by the same rehash released on the market every year. It seems that every company yearns to make their title like CoD just to attract that audience and bring in sales. When in reality, all it does it just add another craptastic FPS in the pool of mediocrity.

The FPS genre is dying for a little innovation. It's at the point where it's starving for something new.

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Posted by: ABotelho
Every genre has their "formula".

It's easy to see what they are. It's also easy to see what games they take those formulas from. Hint hint, the most successful games of the genre.

Define "success", because that can mean a lot of things.

Example, I wouldn't exactly call Call of Duty a success.

  • 11.27.2012 5:03 PM PDT


Posted by: A Citizen
2004-2009 was really the golden era for FPS.

lolno.

  • 11.27.2012 5:05 PM PDT

Mreh.

Eh, it's nothing special to me.

  • 11.27.2012 5:05 PM PDT

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Back to basics, please.

  • 11.27.2012 5:06 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

I love it. Feels like I'm right there in the action. I even played Battlefront II on FPS mode all the time.

However, like other popular genres, it's becoming homogenized today. Pretty much inevitable since devs and publishers need money. It only makes sense to copy what is most popular in hopes that it will make your game popular too. This will of course eventually just make all games within one genre basically the same.

  • 11.27.2012 5:09 PM PDT

I'm heavily embedded into gaming. Specifically fps's. As a live stream broadcaster, game tester as my job, and I primarily enjoy fps games I can definitely say they are losing their way / touch.

I was thinking of making a long article on all the ways and reasons why fps's in general are on a downward spiral where they will eventually implode on themselves.

All we can hope for is some game company somewhere brings fps games back to life and makes them feel good again. Everything is just getting dumbed down too much for casual audiences and feeling the same.

  • 11.27.2012 5:11 PM PDT
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Without The Flood, I wouldn't know what an opinion is.

My take on FPS can basically be summarized by this video.

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I think it's unfortunate that we categorize games largely from the perspective of the game's camera. It really doesn't tell you anything more than that.

For example, if I were to recommend games to someone who "Liked FPS" based on the general definition of FPS, that could be anything from Bioshock, to Portal, to Call of Duty, to the recent TES games. The blanket term "FPS" really isn't helpful.

More to the point of the OP,
I'll assume you mean multiplayer-centric games like Halo and COD. I don't think the more recent shooters like that have a terrible lot of appeal. It doesn't feel like any one shooter's got any definite edge or niche appeal over the other. Like they're all trying to have the same features so they can appeal to everyone, but in doing so there's not enough focus on making a truly unique experience.

  • 11.27.2012 5:31 PM PDT

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