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PullusPardus on 05 November 2009
psrock said:
WE NEED MORE FPS

RAAAAAAAAGGEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!



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Serious_frusting on 05 November 2009

I dont want it to die. I want its importance to dwindle.

I like adventure games and platformers the best and 3rd person shooters.

I wish the focus was more on them



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Killzone 2. its not a fps. it a FIRST PERSON WAR SIMULATOR!!!! ..The true PLAYSTATION 3 launch date and market dominations is SEP 1st

Barozi on 05 November 2009
PullusPardus said:
whoever says we need more FPSs need to buy these


CoD 3
CoD MW
CoD WaW
CoD MW2
Dragon Rising : Operation Flashpoint
Killzone
Halo 3
Halo ODST
Resistance
Resistance 2
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 1943
Far Cry 2
Far Cry XBLA
MAG
Borderlands
The Punisher No Mercy
Team Fortress II
Wolfenstein
Call Of Jaurez
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Timeshift
Unreal Tournament 3
Rage
Perfect Dark Zero
Shellshock 2
The Darkness
Haze

these are the CURRENT GEN GAMES

i probably haven't listed all, but if you really own all of these and still think there needs to be more then you got issues!

I own all of them (except for Punisher and the unreleased games)

and yes WEE NEED MORE FPS



deathgod33 on 05 November 2009

if there were no FPS's, online wouldn't be anywhere near as popular (on consoles) as it is



 

 

 

 

Riachu on 05 November 2009

I like FPSs but I am personally hoping the craze dies down and moves more towards action adventure games.



 

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PullusPardus on 05 November 2009
Barozi said:
PullusPardus said:
whoever says we need more FPSs need to buy these


CoD 3
CoD MW
CoD WaW
CoD MW2
Dragon Rising : Operation Flashpoint
Killzone
Halo 3
Halo ODST
Resistance
Resistance 2
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 1943
Far Cry 2
Far Cry XBLA
MAG
Borderlands
The Punisher No Mercy
Team Fortress II
Wolfenstein
Call Of Jaurez
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Timeshift
Unreal Tournament 3
Rage
Perfect Dark Zero
Shellshock 2
The Darkness
Haze

these are the CURRENT GEN GAMES

i probably haven't listed all, but if you really own all of these and still think there needs to be more then you got issues!

I own all of them (except for Punisher and the unreleased games)

and yes WEE NEED MORE FPS



deathgod33 on 05 November 2009
psrock said:
Let me see:

10 hours of intense gaming, unlimited online play
or
60 to 100 hours bore fest, crappy music, text reading .


One of the greatest posts ever made, i wish everyone on this site could realize that.



 

 

 

 

Mendicate Bias on 05 November 2009
Steroid said:
binary solo said:
crumas2 said:
I no more wish FPS/TPS games would die than I would wish that your favorite genre of console gaming would die, whatever that might be.

Fair enough?

How about you read the title of the thread and the OP again, and then make some comment on the actual subject at hand?

Fair enough?

In case you still don't get it, there is a huge difference between wishing the FPS craze would die and wishing the FPS genre would die. It's like wishing the Michael Jackson craze would die (which I really did hope for) and being accused of wishing the man himself would die (which I certainly did not want to see).

So yes, I would like to see the FPS craze die. But I don't want to see FPS disappear from gaming consoles all together. I like the occasional FPS if it has a good story to it. Pundits celebrate Halo is a breakthrough game for consoles, which it was I. But equally it can be maligned somewhat as the game that caused console game development to become skewed towards FPS. I congratulate Nintendo for not being taken over in this craze.

FPS has it's limits both practically and aesthetically. Do you thinK, for instance, Uncharted pr Uncharted 2 would have been any where near as good as a FPS? They could easily have been made as FPSs (including the platforming elements, see Mirror's Edge) but I think they would be poorer games for it.

I just hope FPS craze doesn't get replaced by another genre craze that I am even less interested in. Who's turn is it next do you think? Hack'n'Slash? It's always been around but never had its craze.

If a new console maker comes to the party what game genre will they revolutionise and bring over from the PC? The 2 genres I see as still having total dominance in PC as the only realistic platform for them are: RTS (Age of Empires, Battle for Middle Earth, Total War, etc) and classic D&D party based RPG. If Apple (for instance) brought a console with a very satisfying game in one of those 2 genres, exclusive to Apple platforms of course, then that would give the iConsole a reasonable launching pad.

I have one friend who is an exclusive PC only gamer purely because those 2 genres are his most favoured genres. I think he could easily be tempted into the iConsole if a game of the quality of BG I or II was there.

You nailed it right on the head. The first person perspective is perfect for aiming a gun but horrible for eveything else. Imagine if Assasins Creed was a first person or Zelda. In third person you have so many more movement options that can't be practically conveyed from a first person perspective, and I enjoy variety in my gameplay.

All the limitations of fps's will probably go away with the next generation of motion controls. Imagine head and eye tracking and full body motion capture. I can only see the first person genre getting bigger as it is arguable the most immersive game type although developers will probably start branching the genre out into different fields ala mirrors edge.



                                           

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PullusPardus on 05 November 2009

10 hours of shooting, shooting more shooting , a couple of tiny maps of online gameplay which include more shooting.

or

60 to 100 hours of deep gameplay, story, characters, world .......ect



Scoobes on 05 November 2009

No, I don't want the craze to die. I want them to become more original and less generic. Deus Ex came out in 2000 and I don't think there has been a FPS game as original or as ambitious since. Mirror's Edge comes close though.




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