Is anyone else tired of the FPS genre?
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Yes, sweetie, you're very edgy and anti-establishment because you have negative things to say about a popular entertainment product. Fight the system. No, it's not the exact same phenomenon that occurred with J-RPGs in the late nineties, or with fighting games in the middling nineties, or with platformers in the early nineties. This is totally different because... of... reasons.
Yes, sweetie, you're very edgy and anti-establishment because you have negative things to say about a popular entertainment product. Fight the system. No, it's not the exact same phenomenon that occurred with J-RPGs in the late nineties, or with fighting games in the middling nineties, or with platformers in the early nineties. This is totally different because... of... reasons.
Not at all.
Uh... yep. Nope. Still loving them. Shooters have it nailed down right now, and it's only getting better.
So no. Not at all.
Uh... yep. Nope. Still loving them. Shooters have it nailed down right now, and it's only getting better.
So no. Not at all.
I have personally been quite bored of it for some years now, but I appreciate that it may have some areas it hasn't explored yet, so I'm open to at least that idea.
As a twenty eight year old gamer, I can place my hand upon my beating heart and reply with a resounding "Hell no, dear boy."
While I am tired of Call of Duty and it's clones, the first person shooter is still usually my first port of call when selecting a game to buy. While age and curiosity has branched me out into driving and role playing games - the humble pirst person shooter will always be my first gaming love. (Barring Dragon Age's Morrigan.)
While I am tired of Call of Duty and it's clones, the first person shooter is still usually my first port of call when selecting a game to buy. While age and curiosity has branched me out into driving and role playing games - the humble pirst person shooter will always be my first gaming love. (Barring Dragon Age's Morrigan.)
Well, "FPS" is sort of just an inaccurate blanket term people like to throw around. Yes it can be applied to a lot of things, but that doesn't mean it should be. I classify games like BF3, CoDBLOPS (no not the most recent, I just find the abbreviation "codblops" funny), and their ilk as MMS. Modern Military Shooters. They set themselves apart a bit from "Classic" FPS like Doom, Serious Sam, and Painkiller in that they're basically military fantasy wank...things that are being milked dry and overall just becoming boring.
I prefer to put the "classic" style of FPS in the "action FPS" category, in that they're shooters made for faster-paced gameplay, to be fun in the most responsive and visceral way possible. Is it as realistic? Heeelll no. It isn't meant to be.
Then you have rare games like Deus Ex that are technically FPS...but to be honest are just their own category in practice. Anyway, on to the original question. I'm not tired of FPS, no, never will be as long as there are fun games made within the genre. I am however becoming tired of Modern style shooters.
I prefer to put the "classic" style of FPS in the "action FPS" category, in that they're shooters made for faster-paced gameplay, to be fun in the most responsive and visceral way possible. Is it as realistic? Heeelll no. It isn't meant to be.
Then you have rare games like Deus Ex that are technically FPS...but to be honest are just their own category in practice. Anyway, on to the original question. I'm not tired of FPS, no, never will be as long as there are fun games made within the genre. I am however becoming tired of Modern style shooters.
I'm not anti-establishment with my post and I'm sure the same holds true for the OP.Raika said:
I like j-RPGs, fighting games, platformers, and well, pretty much any genre of video game more than first persons shooters.
And did any kind of RPG ever become as popular as first person shooters are now? Really? I've played a lot of j-RPGs, pretty much all that have been released I've picked up and bought, even fairly lackluster titles such as Radiata Stories I own a copy of. But maybe that's just my dislike for first person shooters coming out that makes them seem more plentiful. Though you still have people at Konami saying things like "RPGs were never popular". I definitely think that platformers were once as popular as first person shooters are now.
If anything, I'd love to see a surge of them again. Or some other genre that isn't the first persons shooter.
Eh, its such a wide genre that I can't flat out say "bored of FPS" as a whole. However, yes - this whole "realistic brown shooter where you can only carry 2 guns and regenerate health by channeling the power of your mighty chin for a few seconds..."* is getting old. I'd also say that I'm bored of RTS since there are few that don't boil down to "who clicks fastest and builds the biggest army of tanks to steamroll from one corner to the other".
I'd actually say that CoD is one of the ones that has bored me least lately, since it does an excellent job of varying the pace. You have straight up shooty sections, slightly sneaky sniping sections and "armchair with guns" sections. Keeps things fresh.
Saying that, its been quite some time since I did a multiplayer FPS. I do seem to be done with those for now.
* No cookie for getting the reference, its not hard.
I'd actually say that CoD is one of the ones that has bored me least lately, since it does an excellent job of varying the pace. You have straight up shooty sections, slightly sneaky sniping sections and "armchair with guns" sections. Keeps things fresh.
Saying that, its been quite some time since I did a multiplayer FPS. I do seem to be done with those for now.
* No cookie for getting the reference, its not hard.
Not really tired; I just stick to good ol' Team Fortress 2.
However, I do want to see another Timesplitters game, if possible, better than TS:Future Perfect. However THAT will be hard to beat.
However, I do want to see another Timesplitters game, if possible, better than TS:Future Perfect. However THAT will be hard to beat.
Meh. I take breaks from it. Straight up shooters don't really do much for me, but if they do a little something to mix things up (Deus Ex, Bulletstorm, Borderlands, Bioshock), then I'll love the shit out of them.
First person games and shooters being two distinct entities, I'm not tired of the occasional and tactical use of weaponry (e.g. Mirror's Edge, DE:HR), but I *am* tired of the masses associating gaming with things related to the shooter culture.
Thank you so very much, last year's VGAs, for introducing us to the concept of real-life and onstage teabagging... If this is what Spike TV thinks gaming can be reduced to, then I'd say it's time we found ways to excise the stereotypical FPS game from the cultural spectrum - at least for a few years.
I'm tired of people holding up Halo or Gears of War as having done or tried new things with the first person perspective, I'm tired of devs defaulting to first person because it'll sell more, I'm generally tired of Activision, Infinity Ward and D.I.C.E. all being willing to sit on their laurels because of their acquired fanbase...
Shooter mechanics can be used inventively. The Portal series is proof of that. I'm just sick and tired of hearing that "gaming" as a term describing an activity automatically conjures up images of overly muscled white guys (and the token Latino) in Future Armour shooting up the Belligerent Aliens of the Year (TM) or Non-Specific Terrorists (TM).
Yes, I get it. The first decade of the twenty-first century was culturally marked with warfare against the Middle East. Also, I *still* get that some scriptwriters haven't gone over the Cold War yet, or else we wouldn't have things like the Modern Warfare series' frankly unimaginative plot.
I just hope we could get over these facts as a cultural force and, you know, embrace new things. The odds of that happening are pretty short, though, seeing as there's always going to be people willing to fork out sixty bucks for what'll essentially be a multiplayer map pack, for them.
Thank you so very much, last year's VGAs, for introducing us to the concept of real-life and onstage teabagging... If this is what Spike TV thinks gaming can be reduced to, then I'd say it's time we found ways to excise the stereotypical FPS game from the cultural spectrum - at least for a few years.
I'm tired of people holding up Halo or Gears of War as having done or tried new things with the first person perspective, I'm tired of devs defaulting to first person because it'll sell more, I'm generally tired of Activision, Infinity Ward and D.I.C.E. all being willing to sit on their laurels because of their acquired fanbase...
Shooter mechanics can be used inventively. The Portal series is proof of that. I'm just sick and tired of hearing that "gaming" as a term describing an activity automatically conjures up images of overly muscled white guys (and the token Latino) in Future Armour shooting up the Belligerent Aliens of the Year (TM) or Non-Specific Terrorists (TM).
Yes, I get it. The first decade of the twenty-first century was culturally marked with warfare against the Middle East. Also, I *still* get that some scriptwriters haven't gone over the Cold War yet, or else we wouldn't have things like the Modern Warfare series' frankly unimaginative plot.
I just hope we could get over these facts as a cultural force and, you know, embrace new things. The odds of that happening are pretty short, though, seeing as there's always going to be people willing to fork out sixty bucks for what'll essentially be a multiplayer map pack, for them.
I'm playing Red Orchestra 2 for the realism, and Quakelive for high-skill competition.
Waiting for Arma 3.
Battlefield 3 sucks without decent teamwork (and parts of their online system, especially unlocks for vehicles, sucks in general), and Modern Warfare 3 just plain sucks.
Don't be judging the genre by mediocre titles.
Waiting for Arma 3.
Battlefield 3 sucks without decent teamwork (and parts of their online system, especially unlocks for vehicles, sucks in general), and Modern Warfare 3 just plain sucks.
Don't be judging the genre by mediocre titles.
Nope.
What I'm tired of is the same ol' wannabe-realistic military shooters with no real tactics or freedom, just set-piece based design which can't even get that right in some cases because every enemy for two miles will shear the top of your head off & only your head because you just happen to be the one ************ with a never-ending supply of health.
I still play Crysis, mainly because it gives you OPTIONS as how to approach something instead of just herding you into the same ol' bullshit. I still play Killzone mainly because its gameplay actually works well, knows how to challenge a player, switch things up, & doesn't paint you as the solitary target & not the legions of other gunmen shooting at the Helghast & it actually manages to have bots for when online doesn't want to work or dealing with others isn't your bag.
What I'm tired of is the same ol' wannabe-realistic military shooters with no real tactics or freedom, just set-piece based design which can't even get that right in some cases because every enemy for two miles will shear the top of your head off & only your head because you just happen to be the one ************ with a never-ending supply of health.
I still play Crysis, mainly because it gives you OPTIONS as how to approach something instead of just herding you into the same ol' bullshit. I still play Killzone mainly because its gameplay actually works well, knows how to challenge a player, switch things up, & doesn't paint you as the solitary target & not the legions of other gunmen shooting at the Helghast & it actually manages to have bots for when online doesn't want to work or dealing with others isn't your bag.