Poll: Is age of unique online FPSs over?

[YuheJi]

The last unqiue online FPS i saw was TF2.

I hope you realise TF2 is essentially a remake of Team Fortress Classic, which dates all the way back to Quake. Speaking of which, Quake would be about the time Shooters stopped diverging from one another. There would be another spike of Unique play around the Battlefield 1942 point but that's about it really.

The two games are vastly different though. A lot of the old TFC players still refuse to play TF2, because of the many gameplay changes that occurred.

 

[Uncompetative]

Hi, As i said in my last post I'm new to FPS genre, but from what i've seen there are actually not that many intuitive online FPSs out now. The last unqiue online FPS i saw was TF2.... I mean now I see only two types of online FPS:

1)MMOFPS-Most of these are made with unreal engine and are very not fun and stupid. Aside from shitty HUD and wierd aim system in all of them, they all look very generic. I played the "new game" beta Section 8. Oh look a desert, lasers,class system, zoom in aim system... *voice slowly fades away* I found a new FPS called global agenda and signed up for beta. Hopefully it's the one that stands above the crowd...

2)FPS with blood, violence and grey graphics- Today I was searching a lot today on online FPSs to find the one i like and found graphics to be almost all the same be it GTA 4 or gears of war.... They all have 1) extensive use of blood and violence without any tactical sense and 2) grey graphics that I could barely make out anything in screenshots in gears of war 2 or just plain boring. Wierd thing is I found these games to have the highest scores of them all while those realistic tactic shooters got the (70%)'s... Anyway, I don't know if the graphics and violence try to convey the message that "war is bad" and "that's how bad the war is shown in colour." I don't know maybe it leaves a mark on other people, but for me, those graphics got me bored and uninterested in the game anymore. I learned from TF2, that graphics should be bright in order to understand what's going on and where you have to go...

Anyway now I want your opinion on this... Do YOU think that online shooters are losing art style and uniqueness?

You may need to investigate ARMA II:




I'm just hoping that this game is a 1/10th as good as this when it comes to the 360...

In case you were wondering, my general point about ARMA II is that unlike most FPSes it is closer to a Simulation and empowers the player tactically through the use of optional sophisticated controls, so that they survive through stealth rather than give them a recharging shield, or health packs. You may spend an evening putting your sniper into an unobserved position to be able to take out single enemy, rather than the usual Gears of War in-your-face high body count with the usual, puerile, gouts of blood that come with it...

 

[redsoxfantom]

I dont't think so. Maybe for this generation of consoles, but when the next generation comes out with motion controls for everyone, I think we'll see a ton of new FPS's and maybe a few completely new genres