Are there too many FPS games in recent history?

[Rorschach II]

I don't really know about you guys, but personally I think that the FPS genre has been milked until the very last drop.

The good FPS games like COD, Killzone 2, Halo 3, Far Cry etc. are all really great and shall hopefully remain as Jewels in the gaming indusrty.

But I don't want to have to sit through all the crap which is/was Area 51, Mirror's Edge (arguably Good/Bad depending on taste), Legendary and so on.

They should really bring out more original Titles that focus more on different Genres (Kudos for Tom Clancy's HAWX which brought back the flying genre) rather than another shooter that lets me shoot Giant Puppies that can eat my enemies faces off.

Please comment saying your opinion on the situation.

 

[oliveira8]

The good FPS games like COD, Killzone 2, Halo 3, Far Cry etc. are all really great and shall hopefully remain as Jewels in the gaming indusrty.

None of those FPS's hold a candle to the Half Life series or the orginal Quakes or Doom 1 & 2.

Also aint this the wrong section?

 

[teisjm]

FPS-games and other genres as well are like movies and music.

For every good game/film/song there's shitloads of crap you have to avoid.

Just enjoy the fact that the radio isn't playing crappy games when you're at a bar

 

[Sprogus]

I like to think of the entire industry as a game of minesweep, with the number of mines out numbering the number of clear squares.

 

[Flap Jack452]

WW2 FPS's have certainly been milked to death, though I've noticed that game developers have let is rest lately (Save Cod:WaW). I enjoy FPS's and if the developers can find a way to make the experience unique and fresh, I'm all for that.

 

[Joeshie]

Saying there are too many FPS games in this recent history is like saying there were too many platformers in the NES/SNES days.

So...maybe...

 

[51gunner]

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is crap. Sometimes, we just have to suck up that sad statistic to enjoy the 10%. (Which games fall under which percentage is a personal taste, but we can all agree that with more volume the 10% gets bigger.)

 

[Deschamps]

Developers will keep releasing the same games until people stop them. The problem is with the consumers. Or, as some might call them, the lemmings who buy the games.

 

[Captain Spectacular]

The whole FPS genre in general is a very simple idea. You have a gun, you shoot things. But the games that make it great (the half-life series, COD4, Bioshock, ect.) are those who take this idea and make it something much more complex. The idea is still there but it is presented in a much deeper way. Companies that release generic shoots (area 51, haze, turok, blah blah blah) simply think "oh these are just idiot gamers who want to just kill things, how can we go wrong?". That partially explains the flood of FPS games out in the current market. They are easy to make but so few make them shine.

 

[Osherai]

I agree with AnAutisticDog (Lol) Area-51 was alright, but MoH/(early)CoD/BiA games are all the same games copy and pasted in my opinion, Blacksite along with every other plain/nothing new to offer game was rubbish, and Halo went from Good to Fugly then bad. Halo 3 was ok to play through once and then perhaps an hour or two's binge online but other than that I haven't bothered with it since.

I hate to say it but I do think they should stop for a while because they're just gonna be a mixture of bad, shit and good and if all the good ideas are used up too soon then its just raping the resource of gaming.

But there are some games which in my opinion demand sequals not only for the story line but gameplay as well: Star Wars Republic Commando, Black and Psi-Ops (simply cos TK'ing someone into mid air and shooting their helpless body was nothing but fun incarnate =D)

 

[HDID]

The good FPS games like COD, Killzone 2, Halo 3, Far Cry etc. are all really great and shall hopefully remain as Jewels in the gaming indusrty.

But I don't want to have to sit through all the crap which is/was Area 51, Mirror's Edge (arguably Good/Bad depending on taste), Legendary and so on.

Halo 3 is a jewel of the gaming industry but Mirror's Edge is crap? Now, I know opinions can't be wrong, but you have a terrible taste in games.

The Halo series is part of whats wrong with gaming. It attracts a terrible fanbase of 13 year olds who can't stop swearing and frat boys who take every chance they get to talk about keggers the night before. It's a short and piss easy game, with a single player mode lasting no more than 6 hours the first time through. And now they're just milking the series with Halo Wars and the ODST game, and you can bet there'll be more. Though the ODST game might actually be good, considering you won't have magically regenerating health/shields that take away any negative consequences for acting like a moron when you can just hide behind a wall for 7 seconds and be ready to go again.

In fact, regenerating health is a problem in games today too. Now, regenerating health itself is fine, but the fact that most devs are making it so you're able to go from 1% of your health to 100% in less than 10 seconds is a major problem in making games too damn easy. I was just playing the Vampire: The Masquerade the other day and they get regenerating health right. Sure, sucking blood gets you a bit too much health back too quickly in my mind, but without sucking blood, you'll have to wait several minutes if you really want to just wait and get your health back. The fact that you have to actually wait for health to be regenerated makes players less likely to run into a room full of baddies like the morons most players are, and actually plan out the best way to clear a room while taking minimal damage.

As for whether or not there should be more or less FPS games, I'd say less. But I'd say there should be less games made period. Most games that come out, on Wii for example, are shovelware pieces of shit that publishers target to parents as safe to play for children so that the parents can go off and not actually do any parenting, instead leaving the Wii to be a nice electronic baby sitter.

 

[Softnum]

At least part of the reason there are so many FPSes is that it's really damn easy to make an FPS. It used to be every game studio would make an FPS as it's first game. If you make an game engine, your tech demo is an FPS.

 

[Calobi]

I don't think there are too many FPS's (FPSes? FPSs?), so much are there aren't enough of other types of games. I figure that the people who like FPS's are way more numerous than those that like, and really clamour after, things like RTS's (CURSE THE USE OF S TO END ACRONYMS!). Plus, they're pretty easy to make on most systems, which isn't true for other genres that require more control than 'Aim/Move/Shoot/Jump/Action'.

Which is a shame. I really like variety.

 

[Plauged1]

As long as it keeps changing and gets better stories,( fps games do lack a good story )it will be around for a while. I would not say it is getting milked at the moment, though. For good fps games that break the mold, try Bioshock and rent Mirros Edge. Left 4 Dead is not that bad of game either. (For online purposes, at least.)

 

[akIceman]

I don't think there are too many FPS's (FPSes? FPSs?), so much are there aren't enough of other types of games. I figure that the people who like FPS's are way more numerous than those that like, and really clamour after, things like RTS's (CURSE THE USE OF S TO END ACRONYMS!). Plus, they're pretty easy to make on most systems, which isn't true for other genres that require more control than 'Aim/Move/Shoot/Jump/Action'.

Which is a shame. I really like variety.

FPS-s? FPSs'? mmmmm need an English major to solve this one...or an engineer.

 

[Lerxst]

I don't think there are too many FPS's (FPSes? FPSs?), so much are there aren't enough of other types of games. I figure that the people who like FPS's are way more numerous than those that like, and really clamour after, things like RTS's (CURSE THE USE OF S TO END ACRONYMS!). Plus, they're pretty easy to make on most systems, which isn't true for other genres that require more control than 'Aim/Move/Shoot/Jump/Action'.

Which is a shame. I really like variety.

And all of us who like 3d isometric views, raise your hands! *listens for the crickets*

 

[Zersy]

I don't really know about you guys, but personally I think that the FPS genre has been milked until the very last drop.

The good FPS games like COD, Killzone 2, Halo 3, Far Cry etc. are all really great and shall hopefully remain as Jewels in the gaming indusrty.

But I don't want to have to sit through all the crap which is/was Area 51, Mirror's Edge (arguably Good/Bad depending on taste), Legendary and so on.

They should really bring out more original Titles that focus more on different Genres (Kudos for Tom Clancy's HAWX which brought back the flying genre) rather than another shooter that lets me shoot Giant Puppies that can eat my enemies faces off.

Please comment saying your opinion on the situation.

First of all Welcome to The Escapist !
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and now about the thread

I do agree that FPS are starting to get overcrowded, but we are already starting to get out of the habit of creating ones that are generic

so in time (not very long)
we will start to release awesome and unqiue games again