Anyone else wish the FPS craze would die?

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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.