Just wanted to point out that thought the years of gaming, FPS games have become more popular and is one of the most popular genres in gaming today. Each year that passes by iv notice a trend, one that shouldnt get ignored. Thats the reviews. FPS games get handled so strickly in reviews that its almosty a garentee that they will be critisized regardless of the quilty of the game. Look at the list below as an example.

Metacritic  (Based off platform with most reviews)

Titanfall - 86

Far Cry 4 - 85

Fallout 4 - 85

Halo 5 - 84 

Call of Duty BO3 - 81

Battlefield 4 - 81

Dying Light - 75

Killzone SF - 73

Battlefront - 72

Thief - 70

I have missed afew games this generation, feel free to add them to my list.

If you havent notice that regardless on how good these games are, they have all been critisized for something and there scores have been heavly downgraded. This day and age i will say that the FPS market of games is one of the hardest judged genres out there. Reviewers have such a high standard when reveiwing them that we will no longer see FPS games reach  90s meta anymore. The days of Halo CE 97, Half Life 96 and Portal 95 one of the best reviewed games in gaming history are only history.

Would we see this genre back to where it use to be on the review cards? Or every year these games are just getting lower and lower.

It's pretty funny. Shooters these days do stuff that would have exploded our brains not that long ago, but standards are so high that it's not even that big of a deal anymore. Each new Call of Duty has a ridiculously cinematic and grand spectacle of a campaign, but we complain that they're too samey and "too much like a movie". It's funny how times change. It's pretty good to be a gamer when such amazing stuff is so common.

It's probably because the FPS genre is way over-saturated at the moment, so none of the games feel truly unique to reviewers since there are so many coming out nowadays.

Regarding a game as a critical flop if its average review scores are less than 90% is laughable.
The problem is not the games, it is with the reviewers.
The game sales will have the last laugh and prove the critics wrong.

But 99% of reviewers regard 7 and up or even 6 and up as positive scores. The consumers are the ones who have the of anything under 85 being average and anything under 75 being complete garbage.  

Zeitgeist

It's time for Half-Life 3.

I've played most of those games, and those scores don't sound unreasonable at all. None are remarkable or exceptional. If anything, more genres should be judged this harshly. Especially third person sandbox/open world games.

The world is not ready for Half-Life 3.

HALF LIFE 3 WILL NEVER HAPPEN