IF fps genre crashes, hardcore gaming is done.

I guess it could be kind of cool to see it happen...in my lifetime.

complimentary/secondary genre or not the core of the genere is there in both cases (Metroid, Portal) "gun in hand shoot stuff" even if you don't have to kill something like in Portal case, off course right now COD is huge but COD doesn't represent all FPS, maybe someday COD won't sell anymore but the FPS genere will live throught Portal, Borderlands, Brink and other games that bring something fresh to FPS and I can't say that about the music genere which is dead.

FPS are always evolving thats why they will never die.

@Oniyide, I really appreciate the constructive feedback.  I mean this thread in general has given me a lot of time to think this whole topic over.  I'll have to let it stir a bit more but I think some excellent points are being brought up.  I try to be as knowleadgable as I can about a variety games, but unfortunately I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be (that's half to blame on money, and half to blame on having more hobbies than I used to).  That's not to say I haven't heard of all the titles you've mentioned though.  It may very well be a simple matter, like you said, of having the recent CoD wave blur my vision.

I feel like I don't know the potential of the music genre for the very fact that it was unnaturally burnt out by businessmen.  If it naturally evolves, like FPS did, then maybe we would have more creative offshoots.  The problem is it is hard to visualize what those offshoots could possibly have been since they are "outside of the box" as they say.  But on that point I mention Wii Music, which yes I did hate like hell as well as many other hopefuls who tried it.  But even though it sucked it at least showed there was something outside the box.

But I do agree on the instinctive notion that there is something "fishy" about music being a natural theme for a video game...in that they are like two seperate art forms all on there own (best I can put it).

If FPS genre crashes, I see a few selected survivors remaining and the others sink as users, saturated, wouldn't buy anymore shovelware, rip-offs and uninspired clones and sequels, but only a few selected genre leaders, that wouldn't be anymore the even now trite, despite still best-selling, blockbusters like CoD, but outsiders like Quake was when it arrived. Former blockbusters would also be crushed, in a smaller market, by their marketing and production costs out of control, while their attitude to take away content and selling it as a separated extra would make them look even less appealing than the few good ones still providing editors and dedicated servers and allowing user mods, conversions, custom maps and other ways to extend their lives. What would take advantage of FPS demise is really unpredictable, something fast paced and not too deep, anyway.

This is definitely true.

People sometimes do shoot things while watching porn.

Sounds very much like the shooter genres of old that have been mentioned, both the 2d and 3d ones.  But thinking about it more I suspect that this will happen further down the road than I originally thought.  I don't think the most popular FPSs' will die down as fast as the music games did.

I think we will see a shift back to the old style shooters by next generation, so that's years from now.  With the direction that technology is heading (wiimote, move, kinect), I think the motion controls work better with things that require less complex strategy and faster, more accessible, "kill,kill,kill."

Read my counter thread,to see what I think. 

Since when is COD hardcore

@robzo100  no prob, as for the music genre yeah they really screwed the pooch on that one, greed will get ya everytime. and as much as i like GH and even DJ Hero, it was going to happen. Maybe we'll get back to simplier music games. rumor has it that there is a new Parappa the Rapper in the works, i hope this is true

Ah Parappa the Rapper the one and only music game I have ever enjoyed.