The FPS Overshadowing?

Recommended Videos

EternalFacepalm

Senior Member
Feb 1, 2011
809
0
21
The FPS-genre is the one the publishers throw their moneybags at, because it's an automatic moneymachine.
Yet the games I've played recently haven't had a high budget at all: Minecraft (Yeah, it made lots of money, but it's still different, and the game started out tiny), Mount & Blade, Cave Story, Lugaru, Shadowgrounds... All amazing games. Do they achieve media attention? No. Are they bad games? No.
 

Twilight_guy

Sight, Sound, and Mind
Nov 24, 2008
7,131
0
0
Depends on the system you're looking at but, yeah in the past at least 5 to ten years there has been a glut of FPSs. Still, I don't care since there are still plenty of other games even though most tend to be FPSs or TPSs
 

nukethetuna

New member
Nov 8, 2010
542
0
0
Because they know that anyone who has friends will have to buy the newest shooter when all their friends do so they can keep playing together.

Boosts sales and everyone who played the last one/was looking to get it now has to know about the new one!
 

flyingwithsharks

New member
Nov 6, 2010
84
0
0
Outright Villainy said:
Socom's a bit of an odd choice, isn't it? There hasn't been one of those in years, or I haven't heard of one in years at any rate.

Also, off the top of my head:
Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Grand theft auto 4 and Red dead redemption, The yearly sports titles that sell millions, Almost every big Wii game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim, Dragon Age, Demon's souls, Devil May cry, Street Fighter, The Witcher, Amnesia the dark descent, Super Meat boy etc etc. And these are all pretty new games. There's loads more. Sure FPS games may be the most popular, but saying that other genres don't get loads of attention is ridiculous.

Also, how is Portal an Fps? There's no shooting. At all. It's just in the first person perspective. FPS games don't have claim on that you know. Or is Oblivion an Fps too by your logic?
Metroid Prime is an FPS, Fallout and Oblivion can kinda be FPS, and Portal does contain shooting; it's just not shooting bullets.
 

Hero in a half shell

It's not easy being green
Dec 30, 2009
4,286
0
0
The FPS's are the big sales hitters, and as such they get a lot of media coverage and marketing, but if you just look at the games coming out, the other genres are doing fine, releasing great AAA games. Look at RTS's: the Total War series, it's doing great, The Command and Conquer series enjoyed a very successful run for well over a decade, and came to the end of its story.
RPG's: Skyrim is coming in November, Fable is a strong franchise, as is Fallout, and Bioware have made their company successful almost exclusively through great RPGs.
Speaking of Bioware, they are in charge of the new Star Wars MMO, which has had the majority of their resources poured into it.
Sports games are trundling out sequels with a new player list and slightly better controls for a few decades now, and that juggernaut shows no signs of slowing.
Even 3rd Person Stealth games are fine: Splinter Cell has been going for about a decade, AssCreed has really taken off, and there is a new Thief Game.

Heck, you could say that FPS's are getting diluted to become more like RPGs, with the idea of including "RPG elements:" Upgradable guns and armour, Halo Reach had customisable character skins, as will Brink (In a big way) And CODs multiplayer is based on an MMO style leveling system, kill 5 men: get a perk. Get 1000 points: level up - You can now use uzis.

Just because developers realised they can quickly squat out an FPS with a 5 hour rushed campaign and a multiplayer mode ripping off the previous successful title, with a few minor changes, and rake in on the current fad, doesn't mean that other genres are stagnating.
 

NinjaDeathSlap

Leaf on the wind
Feb 20, 2011
4,474
0
0
Well the 2 games that really stand out as being hotly anticipated above all others by the gaming community atm are Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim, and look at what's been the biggest online sucess story lately... Minecraft. You're assumptions need rethinking.

I think everyone is in agreement (even I as a shooter fan myself) that the more variety the better, but I honestly don't see the need to worry. There are big companies like Bethesda who specialize in non-fps games and that won't change. There are companies like Valve that are dedicated to innovation in all it's forms. Then there's the likes of Ubisoft, who make just about anything. FPS's are indeed becoming more common because they are popular and people are getting better and better at making them, but there will always be variety.
 

Outright Villainy

New member
Jan 19, 2010
4,334
0
0
TheDstryr9 said:
Outright Villainy said:
Socom's a bit of an odd choice, isn't it? There hasn't been one of those in years, or I haven't heard of one in years at any rate.

Also, off the top of my head:
Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Grand theft auto 4 and Red dead redemption, The yearly sports titles that sell millions, Almost every big Wii game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim, Dragon Age, Demon's souls, Devil May cry, Street Fighter, The Witcher, Amnesia the dark descent, Super Meat boy etc etc. And these are all pretty new games. There's loads more. Sure FPS games may be the most popular, but saying that other genres don't get loads of attention is ridiculous.

Also, how is Portal an Fps? There's no shooting. At all. It's just in the first person perspective. FPS games don't have claim on that you know. Or is Oblivion an Fps too by your logic?
Metroid Prime is an FPS, Fallout and Oblivion can kinda be FPS, and Portal does contain shooting; it's just not shooting bullets.
Metroid other M isn't an Fps. Oblivion, really? I would categorically state, err, no. Fallout has Fps elements, but much more so it's just a first person rpg. I ignored free aiming altogether. For Portal, changing the shooting to something completely different kinda negates that point utterly. That's like saying mario is a first person game, only the camera is a bit back from his head.
 

flyingwithsharks

New member
Nov 6, 2010
84
0
0
Outright Villainy said:
TheDstryr9 said:
Outright Villainy said:
Socom's a bit of an odd choice, isn't it? There hasn't been one of those in years, or I haven't heard of one in years at any rate.

Also, off the top of my head:
Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Grand theft auto 4 and Red dead redemption, The yearly sports titles that sell millions, Almost every big Wii game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim, Dragon Age, Demon's souls, Devil May cry, Street Fighter, The Witcher, Amnesia the dark descent, Super Meat boy etc etc. And these are all pretty new games. There's loads more. Sure FPS games may be the most popular, but saying that other genres don't get loads of attention is ridiculous.

Also, how is Portal an Fps? There's no shooting. At all. It's just in the first person perspective. FPS games don't have claim on that you know. Or is Oblivion an Fps too by your logic?
Metroid Prime is an FPS, Fallout and Oblivion can kinda be FPS, and Portal does contain shooting; it's just not shooting bullets.
Metroid other M isn't an Fps. Oblivion, really? I would categorically state, err, no. Fallout has Fps elements, but much more so it's just a first person rpg. I ignored free aiming altogether. For Portal, changing the shooting to something completely different kinda negates that point utterly. That's like saying mario is a first person game, only the camera is a bit back from his head.
I didn't say Other M, I said Prime. You say you didn't play Fallout or Oblivion like FPS, but I found myself shooting everything in first person during combat, so I guess that is more about how you play it.

I think of FPS games as any game in which you shoot guns from a first person perspective (The acronym standing for First Person Shooter), so I think of Portal as one. You don't and I'm not going to argue with you about it.
 

Outright Villainy

New member
Jan 19, 2010
4,334
0
0
Horny Ico said:
Outright Villainy said:
TheDstryr9 said:
Outright Villainy said:
Socom's a bit of an odd choice, isn't it? There hasn't been one of those in years, or I haven't heard of one in years at any rate.

Also, off the top of my head:
Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Grand theft auto 4 and Red dead redemption, The yearly sports titles that sell millions, Almost every big Wii game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim, Dragon Age, Demon's souls, Devil May cry, Street Fighter, The Witcher, Amnesia the dark descent, Super Meat boy etc etc. And these are all pretty new games. There's loads more. Sure FPS games may be the most popular, but saying that other genres don't get loads of attention is ridiculous.

Also, how is Portal an Fps? There's no shooting. At all. It's just in the first person perspective. FPS games don't have claim on that you know. Or is Oblivion an Fps too by your logic?
Metroid Prime is an FPS, Fallout and Oblivion can kinda be FPS, and Portal does contain shooting; it's just not shooting bullets.
Metroid other M isn't an Fps. Oblivion, really? I would categorically state, err, no. Fallout has Fps elements, but much more so it's just a first person rpg. I ignored free aiming altogether. For Portal, changing the shooting to something completely different kinda negates that point utterly. That's like saying mario is a first person game, only the camera is a bit back from his head.
Let me get this straight: You can't tell the difference between "Prime" and "Other M"? Really? They both have an e, an r, and an m. That's it.


Oh yeah, look at that identical first person perspective.

Oh wait.

TheDstryr9 said:
I didn't say Other M, I said Prime.
You bringing up Prime seemed purely for the intention of correcting my list. I corrected that by showing you I meant the more recent metroid game which wasn't an fps.
 

Outright Villainy

New member
Jan 19, 2010
4,334
0
0
Horny Ico said:
Which obviously means you should have specified the one that everybody hates and Nintnedo even disowned. Because otherwise, when talking specifically about new Metroids, we're going to think of the Prime Trilogy.
So because a game is bad, it doesn't exist? And it's somehow assumed to be less new than the prime games? I'm sorry, but your logic makes no sense.

Unless this is some poor attempt at humour or something.
 

UnkeptBiscuit

New member
Jun 25, 2009
363
0
0
Skopintsev said:
Well I'll definately say I'm not interested in Brink... Any game trailer that show 10, yes, TEN action rolls/somersaults and it's not included in the gameplay is false advertising.
It is in the gameplay. They have the whole SMART system that allows for that. The game becomes a cross between TF2 and Mirror's Edge.