Is anyone else tired of the FPS genre?

[ImmortalDrifter]

Nope. They're the one genre that tends to be more about fun.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Bored of the corridor shooters like COD....although i did love the WW2 COD games, not so much the MW ones. Crysis 2 looked amazing but boring. I guess i want them to be bigger and more open. Bigger areas with a choice of how you navigate through it. Something with a feeling that your part of the warzone and army - something i thought increased computer power would enable. Except it all goes on graphics only.

But there are some good ones like Deus Ex and Bioshock that gave you great environments and ideas above the usual "shoot everything and move on". Im hoping the new Syndicate will go this route.

 

[Jegsimmons]

nope, halo and half life are my favorite games (portal is with half life) every valve game keeps me interested, and battlefield is a good shooter.

Its the ones trying to copy COD that have ruined the market....along with COD actually.

The games i listed positively above are fun because they focus on story or team work and have a multiplayer that is unlimited in bat shit insanity, halo reach has probably an infinite amount of custom games that are fun.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I've been tired of them for a decade... and they're still here. Man I know kids younger then my displease with the glut of FPS games and that's just sad.

 

[dills2]

tired of cod clones but i love other fps except human revolution which i hated for its cover mechanics

 

[Maveroid]

Of course you are tired if the only two FPS you seem to know are CoD and Battlefield.

There were the two bigshots (CoD and BF), Rage with rather interesting ideas, Resistance 3 (heavily inspired by HL2), a sucessfull shot in the oldschool direction with Hard Reset and Serious Sam 3 and finally the big failure that was Duke Nukem. On the other side I can think of way more RPGs released than those and a load of games from other genres.

Exactly right.
It is not the FPS or even 'shooter' genre (excuse me for lazily putting all games that make 'shooting guns' the focal point of the gameplay into one simple category) that is 'the problem'. It is the 'ignorance' (and, again, excuse me for my choice of words here) of the mainstream audience that has made us detest shooters, but we really shouldn't (and aren't actually).

We are all waiting for Half Life 3 and the next Bioshock even though they are nothing more than shooters (okay, maybe with some RPG elements here and there).

Sorry, I know this is sort of not on topic, but I wouldn't want you to feel bored of any kind of genre in gaming; especially since there are some great developers doing really cool stuff with those slightly overused concepts.

What you are bored of are those lazy developers that have no experience and simply say 'Modern Warfare 3 made a bunch of money, so here is our really innovative shooter 'Generic Shooter But In Space' where you can use X gun and Y armor to do awesome stuff like shoot generic enemies over and over again in really boring landscapes'. Then newer Gamers fall for that and just buy a ton of copies while great shooters like Vanquish just collect dust.

I wouldn't worry too much about that though because those mainstream Gamers actually get in touch with people that have been part of this 'scene' for more than a decade, and will feel horrible when a group of those 'experienced' Gamers talk about how "Ultima 5 was the greatest RPG ever" while the mainstream Gamer has just got his hands on Skyrim (the first RPG he ever played).

In the end, everything will be fine. I just hope the newer generation (the kids) will have just as much fun growing up with video games as I did when I just picked up games by judging their cover. Its not possible with these prices anymore, I know (even handheld gaming is expensive now), but at least lead them away from boring Multiplayer/Social games. We need a Spyro or Crash Bandicoot for the new and sad generation of young Gamers (I mean, even Ratchet and Clank is over now).

 

[Korten12]

Suprisingly, despite having played soooo many FPS's in current years, I am not sick of em.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I ain't! FPS games are my valve to release steam with, blowing shit up does that very well.

I am tired of CoD's way of doing things, but there's plenty of other stuff around. The FPS genre is pretty damn varied really.

TF2, the first team tactical hat simulator has writing?

Valve did a fantastic job of creating a whole story and mythology around TF2 with the multitude of updates which often contained awesome comics.

It is simply mind boggling to me that Call of Duty and Battlefield are as popular as they are.

It's quite simple why in the case of Battlefield. Namely this:
C4 my friend. C4 is bliss. Sweet, beautiful, delightful catharsis.

 

[ShaneGunWolf]

I don't see myself giving up FPS games anytime soon. I love the Call of Duty series and Battlefield 3 is pretty damn fun to play on the side. Halo: Reach was also a blast. However, I also love a little bit of everything else. I hold Mass Effect close to my heart. I'm also currently working on BioShock 2 to gear myself up for BioShock Infinite.

Then there's Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dungeon Defenders, Half-Life 2, MineCraft... the list goes on with me. :3

 

[Bostur]

I'm more tired of the first person perspective as a universal game environment. It's great for immersion, and shooters did wonders in this respect. It's not so great for interaction however, and when so many genres get shoehorned into a shooter environment they suffer in various way.

 

[Bostur]

Double post, sorry.

 

[loudestmute]

It seems that military FPS games now are in a similar position music games were about two years ago. There's a lot of competition on the market, which in theory should drive developers to not only make their projects "better" than their rivals, but to also do something unique to differentiate themselves. In practice, it means gamers are getting sick of the whole thing and that entire franchises could be shelved indefinitely until the market becomes suitably less competitive.

And even though Activision will stick the Call of Duty name on everything short of breakfast cereal at this point, at least we've reached the low point in this creative nadir without having to hit the "specialized controller" mark.

...Mother of God...Sharpshooter...

 

[Wolfram23]

I love [hate] that FPS = war game to so many people. FPS is an amazing genre with a multitude of rich titles. I think the genre is still in it's infancy and, sadly, is going through a rather large drug addiction stage (war shooters). Once it realizes it is ruining it's life [potential] maybe it will remember when it did BioShock, Mirror's Edge, Cryostasis, Half Life 2, and many others.

I don't mind a typical shooter now and then, been playing a lot of BF3 lately... but, I do want more FPS games to come out that are something different. Skyrim is a start, for recent releases.

 

[Savber]

I don't know.

Am I forced to play all these FPS games?

For me, I just play games I know I enjoy whether through demos, reviews, or game walkthroughs.

So no I don't get tired of "FPSes" simply because I don't play games I don't like.

Simple as that.

 

[SweetShark]

I must say that right now most of us when someone say about FPS he is talking about games like Killzone, Halo, Call of Duty: MW etc.
I really don't like this FPS, I am a old gamer and I love the "old school" ones.

Quake, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Blood, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem 3D [I hate the new one], Shadow Warrior, Painkiller, Serious Sam etc.
The old classic FPS I always love.
The new ones are so easy this make me sick...my god...

In other words, For me anyway, I am not yet done with this games as long we have still developers that want to keep the old good spirit of a classic FPS to their games.