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enrageorange on 27 August 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
enrageorange said:

And to anyone who says action games have way more variety than FPS, it is not my fault you only think of military simulators as fps, but if you are a fan of the genre you would realize games like left 4 dead, borderlands, halo, bioshock, call of duty, portal, team fortress 2, etc. are just as different from each other as uncharted 2 is from ninja gaiden, metal gear solid, or assassins creed. The only thing all fps have in common is the view point, just like the only thing all action games have in common is their view point.

Their game play involves being in fps mode while shooting.

In action genre you can see all the variety you see in fps games + variety in gameplay as well. For eg sandbox action games like infamous and GTA 4 are different, one doesn't require you to shoot while the other does. I am sure there are first person action games as well. I think Ryse is something like that.

There are a few first person action games, but the vast majority of them are third person. Some FPS like halo are played in third person for a large portion of the game so I guess they aren't exclusively first person. Saying a fps is just being in first person mode while shooting is like saying an action game is just killing all the enemies on the screen mostly in third person mode. Both genres have a lot more to them.

Games like borderlands are heavily focused on collecting loot and leveling up. Games like Bioshock are heavily focused on exploring and using plasmids(basically magic) which I probably used more than guns in my playthrough. Around half of halo's campaign is played in third person. In portal you don't even shoot at anyone, you just solve puzzles in fp mode with a gun. Left 4 Dead isn't about defeating your enemy, its about trying to escape them and get to saftey, and melee weapons are a very important part of the game.  While you can basically sum up most of the gameplay in fps games as shooting in first person, there is actually a lot of variaty in that than most people would think.

Also I'm am sincerely sorry if it seems like I took your percentages. It just took me a while to make the charts so I didn't see your post when I clicked submit, if I had seen it I would have just used your percents and given you credit. I'm glad both our percentages are very close to each other though because I did some rounding and didn't double check but comparing numbers to yours it seems they are very accurate.

 

Also @ enditall727, the numbers are the number of games sold from each genre, divided by the total number of games sold for each console. So for example the light green for the 360 chart tells you what percent of all software sold for the 360 is action games.