Is it really worth it to bash every popular FPS?
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I love the games, i just hate that everyone who plays these FPS online (and there has to bee multiplayer - WHY?) is a douchebag that happens to play so much that he is like a bot. i play batlefield, halo, COD etc. and its all fun!
The fact that they get repetitive and recycling every game is just fanservice..thats why there should be a game rated A - for awesome.
The fact that they get repetitive and recycling every game is just fanservice..thats why there should be a game rated A - for awesome.
Eh, people can bash it for all I care. Both Cod, Battlefield and Halo all have solid shooter mechanics, even if the communities (of cod at least, and the others, to an extent) are utter douchebags. I play cod for some quick fun. Although it does annoy me when people say all they want is just good single player and they don't care about the multiplayer. Multiplayer has become the focus now. The majority of people prefer multiplayer as it offers much more replayability. Activision doesn't give a shit what you (or anyone, really) think.
You know people would hate on something else IF THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE!
90% of the games being released are FPS. Battlefield, Bioshock, Sydicate, Call of duty, Serious Sam and Xcom
The non FPS games include Arkham Asylum and Skyrim.(Only counting multiplats here)
See the numbers?
90% of the games being released are FPS. Battlefield, Bioshock, Sydicate, Call of duty, Serious Sam and Xcom
The non FPS games include Arkham Asylum and Skyrim.(Only counting multiplats here)
See the numbers?
Small thing, but I think you might want to change the word "both" before people start thinking you can't countMrTwo said:
.OT: Well, yeah, I don't think there's much point. I get it if you don't like the direction shooters have taken, but ranting about it on the Escapist will do nothing to change it. That said, most topics on internet forums have no real "point".
If it in any way combats this dreary tide of mediocre first person shooters, then, yes. Now, I don't agree with the extreme of this, if the games honestly good, of course it should be praised. But I'm sick of shooter after shooter with thoughtless campaigns and tired mechanics. I think it's justified if developers take note.
It's been a very long time since I was impressed by a shooter.
It's been a very long time since I was impressed by a shooter.
To me FPS games are just popcorn, I can get through a couple and enjoy them just fine but there's very little real flavour to them. Of course there are exceptions, some of them are packed full of flavour like the popcorn that gets totally covered in salt or whatever you put on them, some of them are not enjoyable like the little bits at the bottom that are just corn, no pop.
Tortured metaphors aside I think they're ok, just not especially memorable for the most part. Stuff like System Shock 1/2, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2 are exceptions.
Tortured metaphors aside I think they're ok, just not especially memorable for the most part. Stuff like System Shock 1/2, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2 are exceptions.
Do we actually know for sure that they are in? Because the only reason I play COD is for the story and if there not in it I won't bother with the game.kman123 said:
OT: I to are also getting sick of all the FPS bashing. All the things that people say make FPS bad, same levels, repeating colours, nothing new over the course of each game can be taken to other genres of games. RPG are all basically fetch quests and hitting things, RTS are always just tell Pvt. Ryan to move to next base and then spawn yourself 40 tanks, Sports games just consist of moving a ball around a place(never played to many sports games) and all that matters is how the game itself is done, not what genre it belongs to.
Depends if the game deserves it. They definitely deserve bashing for making single player campaigns almost non existent. COD deserves a lot of bashing for being more of the same but more expensive every year and Battlefield 3 although a fairly good game needs the hell bashed out of it for the Batllelog system, it's just so uncessecary.
Yes it is, why not? I don't like FPS anymore.
I don't like games where you just have to kill the ordinary terrorist cliched person with the Nazi-African-Islamic-Russian-North-Korean background. Additionally I don't want to be rewarded for it. There are millions of reasons why you can bash a perfectly popular FPS so why shouldn't you do it. The last shooter I really played obsessively was DukeNukem 3d, there were other shooters people call "mediocre" which I liked but not to that degree.
I don't like games where you just have to kill the ordinary terrorist cliched person with the Nazi-African-Islamic-Russian-North-Korean background. Additionally I don't want to be rewarded for it. There are millions of reasons why you can bash a perfectly popular FPS so why shouldn't you do it. The last shooter I really played obsessively was DukeNukem 3d, there were other shooters people call "mediocre" which I liked but not to that degree.
No matter how many people thrash it, it's called a popular FPS for a reason, it'll sell like hotcakes.
This is pretty much the extent of it. You may notice that other popular games, such as World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy VII, are regarded with universal contempt on the internet. This is because the internet is full of idiotic "nonconformists" who will rabidly screech that Call of Duty is the cancer killing the medium, while at the same time implying that The Legend of Zelda is some sort of niche, underground cult piece. It's just little kids trying to look cool on the internet. That's all it's ever been.Uncle_Brainhorn said:
First-person shooters are the predominant genre of gaming at this particular point in time, but they're no different than the 2-D platformers of the early nineties, the fighting games of the mid-nineties, or the J-RPGs of the late nineties. It's just what's popular right now. It'll change at some point.
God forbid people that are allowed opinions.
With the thread you made your effectively hating on haters.
With the thread you made your effectively hating on haters.
Its not so much the game itself(BF,MW are ok games)northeast rower said:
its just the bissness practices of makeing the same game with a grapics update while makeing millions doing so
my stance
i don't mock them
but i don't buy them eater
same thing for ( Nintendo games, Dynasty warriors,Sports games, and L4D2)
if i own it already your not getting my money for the same thing I already have
Sure, if the game is bad, or if they just keep rereleasing the same game over and over again (like Halo unless you're a narrowminded fanboy), I can understand the hate. But recently, it has just been stupid. People were bashing Duke Nukem Forever because you could only hold two guns. Really, it was the worst game in existence because out of the three decent guns you could only hold two? And now Rage. Every time I see someone list all the things that are bad with it, half or more of those are "graphics". I guess we left the world where games were fun and now entered the world where we ***** about every little thing in them. Thanks for preventing games from me an accepted form of art...northeast rower said: