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Subject: Are Fps's ruining the console gaming market?

Butt ugly ape” remarked Sergeant Johnson always making fun out of the situation even though he had been hit by a spiker round in the arm. He mustered up the strength to continue and the team moved on. The Arbiter informed him that the next room held The Prophet of Truth and this was the final room before extraction. Jun proposed that he takes a shot from a distance the prophet and they all head back to the ship bay for extraction. The team agreed on this and breached the last door…

Even though my favorite game (Halo) is a FPS, I still can't get over how maybe if you named the top five games right now, maybe four of them would be shooters. If thats not true, then for sure the top 2. I believe if this pattern continues, there will be no creativity left in the industry to even poop out a platform game. Well, maybe nintendo, but not Sony or Microsoft. What are your opinions flood?

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  • 12.03.2012 6:09 AM PDT
Subject: Are Fps's ruining the gaming market?

Leave multiplayer out of RPGs and concentrate on the story.

  • 12.03.2012 6:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: cgauthier7304
I still can't get over how maybe if you named the top five games right now, maybe four of them would be shooters.


Dishonored
Walking Dead
Journey
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
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Well that was easy.

  • 12.03.2012 6:12 AM PDT
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Absolutely not. FPSs are but one genre, and like any media certain genres rise in popularity in waves, but there are others and those others will ride the wave in due time. Since you're an avid FPS fan of course your top-rated games would be FPSs, but ask someone who doesn't like FPSs so much and he'll give you a totally different response (perhaps one with no mention of a FPS at all!). There's a lot of FPSs on the market, yes, but there's also a lot of other games that fall into different categories as well!

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  • 12.03.2012 6:12 AM PDT

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Call of duty is ruining the gaming market, lol.

  • 12.03.2012 6:13 AM PDT
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Nah. RPGs, racing games, adventure games of all sorts, and strategy still sell widely. As well as many other genres.

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  • 12.03.2012 6:15 AM PDT
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I would say the console market.

  • 12.03.2012 6:15 AM PDT

Butt ugly ape” remarked Sergeant Johnson always making fun out of the situation even though he had been hit by a spiker round in the arm. He mustered up the strength to continue and the team moved on. The Arbiter informed him that the next room held The Prophet of Truth and this was the final room before extraction. Jun proposed that he takes a shot from a distance the prophet and they all head back to the ship bay for extraction. The team agreed on this and breached the last door…

ok

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  • 12.03.2012 6:21 AM PDT

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70's - Pacman Clones
80's - Platformers
90's - Vertical Shooters
00's - First Person Shooters

Am I missing anything? Point is, no. Not any more so than other trends did in the past.

  • 12.03.2012 6:27 AM PDT

Here is what people fail to realize... The video game market (like any other market) is determined by us, the consumers.

Why are there so many FPSs on the market? Because people keep playing them.

Why are there so many trashy shows on TV? Because people keep watching them.

Why are there so many tabloid magazines on the shelves? Because people keep buying them.

  • 12.03.2012 6:29 AM PDT

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Spring 1997 - 6 January 2012

Over the past few years certain franchises have brought in billions of pounds into the market.

  • 12.03.2012 6:30 AM PDT

If you are talking about strictly conoles, then yes, but if you mean PC as well, no. PC has games like DOTA 2,dawn of war, and tons of other non-FPS games. The FPS games that are popular on the PC actually take some amount of skill; Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2 for example.

  • 12.03.2012 6:33 AM PDT
Subject: Are Fps's ruining the console gaming market?


Posted by: cgauthier7304
Even though my favorite game (Halo) is a FPS, I still can't get over how maybe if you named the top five games right now, maybe four of them would be shooters.


Depends what you mean by "top 5". Top 5 competitive? Top 5 played? Top 5 by population?

Go to Twitch TV and tell me how many shooters are in the top 5 there. Not many.

  • 12.03.2012 6:54 AM PDT

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Unless a catastrophe on the scale of the 80's Gaming Crash happens, the market is nowhere near "ruined".

The FPS genre is one of the most casual genres. That's why so many people are into shooters, it has broad appeal. Other genres haven't suffered because of this, but rather FPS's are the entry point into console gaming, and thus more people are shooter fans.

The only negative repercution of this is that so many publisher/investors want to make shooters (namely CoD clones) to cash in on the military shooter genre, instead of investing into more risky/original games. But you can still find originality if you look in the right places.

  • 12.03.2012 7:09 AM PDT