Top 10 first-person shooter cliches

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Senlis on 17 February 2009

http://pc.ign.com/articles/953/953503p1.html

I am currently playing Killer7 and thought I would see how many of these it has.

5. Incompetitent minions: I guess this one applies. But really, they aren't incompetent, they are mindless suicide bombers.

2. Deep pockets: This is another one that kinda applies. The personas have infinate ammo.

1. The Super Soldier: The personas feed off of blood and it makes them strong. Makes them really powerful.

See how many FPS cliches the FPS of your choice has.

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emilie autumn on 17 February 2009

they missed alien/nazi invasion

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Hmm, how did I know exploding barrels would be in there?

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Millennium on 17 February 2009

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy:

If your FPS is set in space, prison, Hell, or war-torn Europe, it might be generic.
If your primary enemies are the police, aliens, demons, or Nazis, it might be generic.
If your game's arsenal can be described as "a melee weapon, a pistol, a shotgun, a rapid-fire weapon, a really really accurate weapon, an explodey weapon that bounces, an explodey weapon that flies, and a BFG," it might be generic.
If your game engine's latest innovative feature involves hiding behind objects, it might be generic.
If you game contains any references whatsoever to H.P. Lovecraft, especially misused references, it might be generic.

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Mummelmann on 17 February 2009

I wrote something strikingly similar to that a couple of years back, but I had fiteen points. Was for Cracked.com but I never got around to sending it to them (lost my internet when I moved and just forgot I had it!).

Edit; just dug up my own list, some of the points are eerily similar. Then again, cliches are cliches any day of the week!

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Millennium said:
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy:

If your FPS is set in space, prison, Hell, or war-torn Europe, it might be generic.
If your primary enemies are the police, aliens, demons, or Nazis, it might be generic.
If your game's arsenal can be described as "a melee weapon, a pistol, a shotgun, a rapid-fire weapon, a really really accurate weapon, an explodey weapon that bounces, an explodey weapon that flies, and a BFG," it might be generic.
If your game engine's latest innovative feature involves hiding behind objects, it might be generic.
If you game contains any references whatsoever to H.P. Lovecraft, especially misused references, it might be generic.

Haha QFT for this. So true.

I think my biggest surprise was they only listed 10.

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misterd on 17 February 2009

Millennium said:
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy:

If your FPS is set in space, prison, Hell, or war-torn Europe, it might be generic.
If your primary enemies are the police, aliens, demons, or Nazis, it might be generic.
If your game's arsenal can be described as "a melee weapon, a pistol, a shotgun, a rapid-fire weapon, a really really accurate weapon, an explodey weapon that bounces, an explodey weapon that flies, and a BFG," it might be generic.
If your game engine's latest innovative feature involves hiding behind objects, it might be generic.
If you game contains any references whatsoever to H.P. Lovecraft, especially misused references, it might be generic.

I've never actually played a FPS which is set "in space", save the way that all of us are in space.