Most people who play First Person Shooters, we can assume pretty accurately are Males ranging from 12-34 years of age. A reason why they play first person shooters so much, is because they have an inablity to do things in real life.

"Oh yea, I can pull off a headshot in 1.5 seconds...."

"I shoot at a rate of 3 shots a second in Call of Duty"

You can do all that, but you can't talk to girls or boys (I don't know how you guys roll...) or socialize with people in general. It makes you feel strong with the rankings and achievements...when they literally don't mean anything. Most guys have some form of frustration they deal with everyday, whether emotional (fanboy) or sexual, who knows. So excelling in an immersive FIRST PERSON (emphasis on FIRST PERSON) environment is supposed to make up for it.

That could be ONE REASON why the FPS genre has been successful all these years. The player is tricked into thinking they are accomplishing something, which they may not get the satisfaction of achieving in real life. I'm not saying people don't play FPS because they are fun(why do we play any game then?), but it is something to think about. Men haven't really changed (if you can even call some gamer's men these days, in which they whine like babies) in 10 years, so the needs provided by FPSs haven't changed too much alongside them.

Well this is completely inaccurate, offensive, and clearly biased. I was hoping it would get better in the closing paragraph, but it simply got worse.

Did you just get dumped by your boyfriend?

fuck this thread! I don't have any emotional problems!

Um… I don’t play allot of FPS as one can see in my game selection and I never care about how many headshots I do but it is cool when you do allot of them in a row but nothing to brag about. But I find this not to be so cool of you to say. I mean sure you can think it but allot of “guys” will be offended by this.

I would have thought after 2,000 posts you'd have given up if you get this sort of reception to them.

Anyway, I'd say you'd have more credibility (and greater accuracy) if you replaced FPS's with Sports games.

o yes i play first person shooting games to show off to others.....

I couldn't have said it better myself.

everything you said is right...matter fact I only use big guns so I can give the perception to girls that I have a big...ah you know!!

 Are you being sarcastic?