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danasider on 17 August 2013
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pokoko said:
danasider said:
I like the immersion allowed in FPS that really, imho can't be touched by other genres.

On a side note, seeing the poll, that 72 % choose TPS over 16 % of FPS fans is rather surprising. Especially when you look at all the heavy hitters. Yes, Uncharted and Gears did well, but CoD, Halo, Battlefield, Even Skyrim (if you count the magic projectiles as shooting hehe) sold gangbusters.

Guess the VG community preferences aren't aligned with the mainstream.

I'm not very surprised by the poll results, to be honest.  VGC is at least half Nintendo fans, after all.

We also have a good number of people who have a grudge against the FPS genre, as ridiculous as that sounds.

 

TL;DR The FPS genre is hated for all the wrong reasons.  It can be fairly varied, but the online community (here and other places) generalize every FPS to be CoD (which isn't a bad game for what it is, IMHO) even though there are many experiences to be had in the genre.

Yeah, I guess I shouldn't been too surprised with the poll results, having seen FPS get so much hate in other threads.  I like both FPS and TPS, but like I said before I don't see immersion get much better than when the screen is your eyes so to speak (really want to get oculus rift when it comes out and a decent gaming pc set up).

As for this FPS "grudge", I do see it and think it is kind of misdirected.  Just because a lot of people on these boards hate the redundancy of one series (CoD), they generalize all FPS as being and doing the same things.  Franchises like Planetside and Battlefield bring massively scaled firefights that necessitate strategy and/or teamwork to accompish things.  And for sheer fun factors, fast paced shooter deathmatches like in CoD or Killzone are still really fun to me.  They're kind of like fighting game matches, sweet and short, not loads too deep but easy to get into and out of and simply entertaining.  Just because they're not as deep as the more strategic competitive shooters, doesn't mean that they aren't entertaining.  It's the same thing as saying Mario Kart sucks, because it's not as deep or realistic as Gran Turismo (really like both series btw, so this is not a flamebait).  That's not the point of Mario Kart, the point is to be entertaining and accessible!

And then their is the FPA, a variant of FPS introduced with Metroid Prime.  The immersion is even greater, because exploration is put at the helm even though you still have to shoot and kill stuff to get through to the next area and/or boss.  Even though I get that some might not consider FPA as FPS, because they think FPS is just a mindless shooter in the first person view, I'd consider Metroid Prime to be a FPS just like I'd consider The Last of Us or Uncharted to be a TPS.  Yes they are both action/adventure games, and both have exploration (more so in TLOU than Uncharted) but necessitate the player shooting something eventually to get to the next boss (again, even less so in TLOU).  Same with Prime.