| Finnbar said: Why does it matter, there are plenty of other good games on the market that arnt FPS. |
We all know that but it is just that FPSs are taking center stage right now
| disolitude said: I've been wondering the same about Mario games...and platformers in general. |
post of the day
the simple answer: Nieva.
I think in a couple years we'll see a bit of a return to more action/adventure gaming with more of a focus on story, puzzles and less focus on pure FPS. At the moment however FPS can be made reasonably quickly and cheaply making them ideal for the current system generation.
| damkira said: I don't think FPS games will ever decline in popularity.. they are really easy to play and have been one of the dominant game genres since the early 1990s
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I hate to blew your bubble, but saying FPS is one of the dominant genres since the early 1990s is full of shit. That genre was first made a noticeable appearance with doom and Duke Nuke'm, and it was something fresh for pc gaming. Then around 95 or 96 when 3D accelerators(add on card for pc) was first introduced, developers take advantage of it to show case the power of these card with FPS. The genre boomed when valve introduced Half Life with their free kick ass word editor tools, PC users completely hooked on to it with the introduction of mod Counter Strike map. FPS is already in a decline among PC users, but for console it is at its peak right now.
They will only be replaced when the next gen comes out and the graphics or something else allows for a differnt Genre to excel.
Kasz216 said:
Not really. Most FPS are suck right now... If those same unoriginal hacks would just move over to minigames. It really wouldn't effect many of the actual good games. If anything i'd think people who like FPS would perfer it because it would save them from buying a lot of shitty games.
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I'm sorry but I completely disagree. There are so many AA to AAA shooters coming out this year with their own identities its ridiculous: Socom, resistance, gears, Bioshock; and I'm still enjoying Halo 3 and CoD4. The only shooter I can think of this year that truly sucks is Haze. You can't just say "Most FPS are suck right now"
I've enjoyed Halo 3 for six months now and I doubt you can enjoy a stupid mini-game compilation for more than a week. There simply isn't enough depth and half of the games are flat out gimicky and over-simplified so the learning curve is friendlier towards non-gamers.
If you think FPS as a genre is going away or that people are going to stop buying them, you are sadly mistaken. It is the most casual of all the hardcore genres!
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