Is anyone else tired of the FPS genre?

[RedDeadFred]

Tired of the general gameplay/multiplayer yes but I really enjoy the first person perspective the most in gaming. I find that my immersion in these types of games is greater than others and immersion is probably the biggest selling point in a game for me.

 

[RatRace123]

Yeah, I'm sick of it.
I suppose one could argue that the FPS is hardly the only genre that's been overexposed and full of crappy clones and knockoffs. Actually, I'm positive one could, because I still remember the 90s and early 2000s, when it was platformers.

I preferred that though, mainly because I didn't suck at platformers and they weren't full of obnoxious jerks teabagging my corpse.
That's just me and my reasoning though.

 

[nsqared]

Yup. that's why i'm addicted to skyrim, red dead redemption, and minecraft.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Uhm, actually i'd like if there would be more games going into the direction of Hellgate: London
That game was one helluva concept, sadly really really wasted.

But those TPS/FPS games with lotz of story/development is what i'm lookin' forward too.
The gritty&grey FPS's are only for LANS and Mp for me. BF3 is pretty awesome but i stopped buying "standart Fps" along time ago.
The only thing i'd get in an instant would be HL3 (or Episode 3), just because.. well it's god damn Half-Life.

 

[fangface]

I got burned out on the genre months ago. I haven't played an FPS since.

 

[s0p0g]

of most of today's FPSeseseseses? eeyup.

but of FPS in general? no way, i mean, the genre has absolutely timeless gems; Doom, Quake series, UT classic, GoldenEye,...

even though you may have played the single player a hundred times, it just won't get old. and i do not believe i have to start on multiplayer, because there's not much (in MP gaming) that's better than filling a small map with the gibs of your friends at a LANparty while you're blowing each others' asses to nirvana and back ^^

also the fps-rates of the games mentioned above on today's machines are quite ridiculous ^^

 

[RagTagBand]

Nope. I've been playing FPS's since Doom and I am not tired in the slightest.

Every generation see's a popular formula mimicked till death (anyone remember when FPS's were pretty much Doom-clones?) and then something new comes along, rinse repeat. Anyone who is under the impression that FPS progression has ground to a halt for the first time ever is either an idiot or a overly opinionated fetus.


We're at the tail end of the mimicking stage, something new will come along sooner or later and i'll be waiting to play it.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I don't know, I recently enjoyed Flashpoint: Red river, and Rage! They were both fun... And New Vegas was good too! Boderlands was great in multiplayer, and Deus Ex I haven't played yet, but hear it was awesome! (It's on my 'To-Do' list!)

 

[Olivia Faraday]

I'm way more tired of people who are tired of the FPS genre.

I don't like FPSes, I don't play them, I hate the gameplay. The only thing that could be even vaguely considering an FPS that I've ever liked, old gen or new gen, is Uncharted. I don't like CoD, I don't like Unreal, I don't like BF, I don't like Doom. I don't even like Mass Effect because it's too shooter for me to enjoy it. And I'm talking Mass Effect ONE.

But I'm not tired of the FPS genre. Because I don't play the FPS genre. I understand that there's an audience for it, and that's fine. Those people deserve games that they enjoy and I'm glad they're getting them. There are plenty of other genres out there full of games that aren't FPSes. Why should I get upset that there are also a lot of FPSes? FPSes don't bother me. They're not a factor in my life. I don't like them, I don't play them. Bam, done.

People whining about FPSes, however? Man, that's starting to be a REAL factor in my life. Everywhere you go you hear someone talking about CoD like it's literally Satan and anyone who enjoys it, literally Satan's minions. BF outsold some other game that you personally like better? That's a sign of how shitty our industry is! Bioware saying that they tried to see if they could make RPGs appealing to the CoD crowd? Whoa, blacklisted FOREVER!

I have never played an FPS I liked. I don't even like SHOOTING. If you have to be able to tell between two different kinds of gun and the guns don't shoot lasers, I'm not interested. If there are names of guns that include numbers and letters, you just 100% lost my interest permanently.

And I still don't fucking care that the shooter genre is huge at the moment. It's not threatening me, and I'm not better than anybody else because I don't like them.

 

[Nyaoku]

It's always itemA moves and you shoot it while avoiding itemB. The colors change but its still just aim, shoot, move to next area, repeat. I like that they've began using vehicles to mix it up but they need more games with stuff like >4ppl co-op.

 

[Lunar Templar]

yes, and i was tired of it a LONG time ago.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

No. I AM tired of the current "modern combat" setting though.

A think the fps genre needs to look back at halo/other older titles, and realize that color, variety, music, community content, and a large fictional backstory helps a lot.

That said, I REALLY like battlefield, and I can't say I don't have fun in Cod,

 

[DustyDrB]

I think you're not trying hard enough to find new games.

I played about a dozen new games last year:
-Only one could possibly be called a FPS (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), and even then you'd add some kind of other descriptor (RPG, Tactical, Stealth, etc).

-Only one of those games I didn't like (Two Worlds II) and I wouldn't even say it's a bad game.

-The genres ranged from RPG to Point-and-click Adventure to Action Adventure to Puzzle (one Puzzle/Survival Horror...whatever you call Catherine) to Platformer (3D and 2D) to JRPG to Fighting Game to Action (which is different from action adventure. It's confusing, I know) to Rhythm.

-Only two games I played even used the first person perspective extensively (Human Revolution and Skyrim, the latter of which I played in 3rd person most of the time).

That's just this year, and there are tons of games I didn't play, most of which I'm pretty sure aren't First Person Shooters. I'm calling "FPS oversaturation" a myth. If you're talking about sales, there is one FPS that sells astronomically well. The rest seem to do as well as the better games from other genres. Call of Duty is an anomaly. Its sales are not the baseline for a good-selling game. It's an outlier and it's unrealistic to expect anything else to sell that well (maybe World of Warcraft, but I don't know how MMO sales work).

I'm pretty damn sure that First Person Shooters aren't even close to the majority of games released lately. So there. And again, this is coming from a guy who doesn't even play games in the genre (OK, I play TF2. But the only other games I play that can even tangentially be called an FPS are Metroid Prime and Deus Ex), so I have no reason to defend FPS games. You're just not looking hard enough. Which is weird, because you don't have to look very hard at all.

 

[Vykrel]

Not to rain on your parade but you have videos showing a variety of shooters and about half of them are sequels or continuations of a series. In your opening statement you want to disagree that shooters are just clones and then go to show that all the "new" ones coming out are just remakes and sequels of ones that were released prior. Kind of killing your own argument. You even said that Halo 4 and Borderlands 2 are original... Halo has what, 7 games in the franchise now? Borderlands will have 2 plus a slew of DLC expansions... How can they be original?

sequels do not automatically mean that they are unoriginal. my point is that these games are very different from other games not in the same series.

and so what if Halo is 7 games into the franchise? there was nothing like Halo before it existed, and nothing has come close to being like it since. it is its own thing, and no other game i listed offers the same things that Halo does, just like how Halo doesnt offer things that the other games have.

 

[Mariakko]

If I played on-line I would probably not be sick of them.

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

who could ever tire of a genre where the same damn game is made every year?

 

[KefkaCultist]

I'm tired of the Call of Duty franchise, but not FPS games in general. I still like Team Fortress 2, Halo, and Borderlands.

 

[SourWhisky]

Have not bought an FPS in years, don't intend to every single one I have played has the same problems. The bland settings; I'm tired of apocalyptic desert wastelands and godamned desert warfare DESERTS ARE BORING. And the bloody weapons, oh the weapons... are so boring hpow hard is it copy the doom shotgun really, I want a loud double barrel tube of death that I shove in the face of enemies/soon to be gore puddles clacking with every reload, sure it's not realistic, sure shotguns have more range blah blah it's fun. How fun is the same combat shotgun you get in every fps that shoots rapid fire and sounds crap.