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Dr.Grass on 08 March 2012
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TWRoO said:
Dr.Grass said:
TWRoO said:
Dr.Grass said:
curl-6 said:
The Metroid Prime trilogy.

 

Not an FPS. Not even close

I don't understand why it has become indoctrinated that FPS is a genre of video game in it's own right.

The 'FP' in FPS stands for 'First Person'... this has nothing to do with the genre of the game, it is a game mechanic. It's like using the difference between 2D and 3D platformers and calling them different genres. It's prefectly ok to seperate between the two because they have different gameplay mechanics, but Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. 3 are still both platformers. The 'S' for 'Shooter' is something that you do in the game, it could be argued that as the game is about shooting that Shooter is a game genre. Personally I don't see it that way for any game that has a proper story or varied gameplay, a shooter as a genre would be something more akin to asteroids or galaga where all you do in the game is shoot and move about. Alternately many games are cross-genre so it's perfectly possible for something to be both a shooter and an adventure game. Either way it cannot be argued that Metroid Prime isn't a shooter.

The genre of a game is what it's about... For me the majority of FPS games are in the vast genre called Action games. Action games encompass a wide variety of sub-genres such as shooters (in both FP and TP camera forms) fighters and platformers.

Metroid Prime series is still an FPS, but it's in the Action-Adventure genre instead of just Action.

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I haven't played it but isn't Bioshock an FPS-RPG (maybe to less of an extent than Deus-Ex, but I thought it had enough RPG elements to be different from normal Action FPS)

Also Portal is still an FPS, but it's a Puzzle-FPS

Battalion Wars is in Third Person but if it were in First Person perspective it would be a Strategy FPS.

You are conveniently ignoring the 'S' that stands for shooter.

Going by your logic one might as well put Gears of War and Skyrim in the TPC genre. They are both Third Person Combat games after all aren't they.

The nuances in gaming design make it special. You people are forgetting that.

No I didn't. I mentioned it in the bolded section, and stated I personally don't think of 'shooters' to be a major genre on it's own, but rather something you do in the game (part of the gameplay), rather than what the game is (the genre)

I can see though why shooter can be considered a genre for the likes of CoD/Halo etc, but if Halo and CoD can be included into the shooter genre simply because they are about shooting things, then so can Metroid Prime, because it is also about shooting things. All three games are about more than just shooting, but it still forms a major part of the gameplay.

Yes the Metroid Prime series is special, there are not many action/adventure games that are played primarily from a first person perspective (though lots have a first person view incorporated, like Zelda) and even fewer that are shooters.


I rest my case.