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Azzanation said:

Just wanted to point out that thought the years of gaming, FPS games have become more popular and is one of the most popular genres in gaming today. Each year that passes by iv notice a trend, one that shouldnt get ignored. Thats the reviews. FPS games get handled so strickly in reviews that its almosty a garentee that they will be critisized regardless of the quilty of the game. Look at the list below as an example.

Metacritic  (Based off platform with most reviews)

Titanfall - 86

Far Cry 4 - 85

Fallout 4 - 85

Halo 5 - 84 

Call of Duty BO3 - 81

Battlefield 4 - 81

Dying Light - 75

Killzone SF - 73

Battlefront - 72

Thief - 70

I have missed afew games this generation, feel free to add them to my list.

If you havent notice that regardless on how good these games are, they have all been critisized for something and there scores have been heavly downgraded. This day and age i will say that the FPS market of games is one of the hardest judged genres out there. Reviewers have such a high standard when reveiwing them that we will no longer see FPS games reach  90s meta anymore. The days of Halo CE 97, Half Life 96 and Portal 95 one of the best reviewed games in gaming history are only history.

Would we see this genre back to where it use to be on the review cards? Or every year these games are just getting lower and lower.

To play the devils advocate, do you perhaps think FPS games just haven't been all that good lately? Not that any of those scores are actually bad, but I haven't played a FPS I thought deserved a 90+ in a long, long time now.



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Pretty much what has been said before.

Modern shooters are a dime a dozen and do VERY little to differentiate between other titles, past, present and future.
So much so, that I regard FPS games as one of the easiest game genres to create these days.



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AbbathTheGrim said:

We need more original ideas for First Person games, like a game where you kill stuff by giving them the middle finger or something:


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"Through" the roof.



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spemanig said:
I've played most of those games, and those scores don't sound unreasonable at all. None are remarkable or exceptional. If anything, more genres should be judged this harshly. Especially third person sandbox/open world games.


do you have any idea how much harder technically it is to make an open world sandbox shooter game than a linear small map FPS game? comparing something like Call of Duty and Fallout is absolutely absurd because Call of Duty takes like 1/10 the programming and work to develop



It's funny because Black Ops 3 is a way better game than any other CoD but only gets an 81 meta. Just goes to show that meta means nothing.



mountaindewslave said:

do you have any idea how much harder technically it is to make an open world sandbox shooter game than a linear small map FPS game? comparing something like Call of Duty and Fallout is absolutely absurd because Call of Duty takes like 1/10 the programming and work to develop


It's not my job to care how hard it is to make a good game. It's their job to make a good game. No one is arguing that it isn't difficult. These guys knew what they were getting into the moment they started making these types of games.



I use to be a huge Halo freak. Then 343 happened and, sadly, that died. I still love Halo 1-Reach, but Halo 4 and Halo 5 can suck my balls lol.

For me now, the best new FPS is Titanfall, then COD. Honestly, only Titanfall feels fresh though. It'll probably be the only new FPS of this generation that brings anything new to the table.



........ Destiny?!