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Mummelmann on 03 March 2011
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Resident_Hazard said:
Mummelmann said:
Resident_Hazard said:
Mummelmann said:


I'm not detracting from your points (nor am I agreeing for that matter) but I just wanted to ask why you clump Oblivion with FPS games, which are the targets of the OP's question? Oblivion is a WRPG and not a FPS.

I also mentioned Fallout and Borderlands.  Neither of which are strict FPS titles, but they all use some form of FPS mechanics.

Yes they do but they are both contemporary/sci-fi settings with shooter elements while Oblivion is a traditional first person RPG the likes of Ultima and other titles. They only share the perspective but the genre and setting difference is vast.

Fair enough.

Though I'll elaborate as much as I can, so you can (hopefully) see where I was coming from.

The thing I believe, is that people against first-person-shooters are largely against first-person-anything, in much the way that they're against the first two Metroid Prime games which are very much more action/adventure games than straight shooters.  Part 3 is a shooter with action/adventure elements (yes, I'm getting into semantics here).  

But, this is something I theorize, though not blindly.  I mean, many Nintendo fans are crazy against the Metroid Prime games, despite the fact that they each offer the most purely "Metroid" style gameplay in the vein of the classic Super Metroid.  They get hung up on how the game looks rather than it's overall presentation.  Many have said that Other M is more "Metroid" than the Prime games, despite the fact that it lacks the kind of atmosphere, exploration, depth, mood, and style of the Prime games and Super Metroid (as well as Zero Mission and the original games).  There are some of these guys who have a hatred for the first-person perspective regardless of the gameplay style of the games.


I have no problem agreeing with this post.

But, as you well know, it is important that we separate those who simply hate on FP style gameplay out of some form of tradition and personal qualm and those who simply dislike the general direction FPS games are headed or the fact that the market seems to be flooded by them (many of them very poorly executed).

I belong to the second group, there are still FPS games that I like but they are becoming less and less frequent. The same can be said for almost all other genres, I guess. I don't like where the industry is headed, period.