FPS enjoyers, which was the greatest era? (and why)

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Spindel said:

curl-6 said:

Sequels and reimaginings can be great, sometimes greater than their predecessors, quality has nothing to do with whether a game is a new IP or not.

True, not going to argue with that. 

But I stand by them bringing nothing new to the table and the genre being stale. Heck platformers and shoot ‘em ups have more variety than the FPS genre. 

Now I’m not saying newer games are bad, just that every time I play them I feel like I’ve played it before (and also there is a certain feel to games built on, for example, the first Unreal engine that newer games can’t mimic. 

I would argue these games and others did evolve the genre, from Titanfall 2's fantastic mobility, to Bioshock Infinite creating one of gaming's best companion characters, to Doom 2016 and Dusk fusing old school sensibilities with the new possibilities allowed by modern hardware.

I certainly wouldn't describe these games as stale personally, I'd say they brought quite a lot of freshness to the table.