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portal 2 isn't really a first person shooter
I like Fallout 3.

Earthboundjeff wrote:

It is really. Your in first person and you shoot. But thats why we discuss it here! Yeah, Fallout 3 is awesome.

well you shoot portals
that's different.

anyways, i beat Fallout 3 like 8 times :>
I'm thinking of getting New Vegas, have you played it/is it good?

videogame9 wrote:

I played Banjo-Tooie. It's pretty awesome.

That's not an FPS
i think

anyway
TF2 qualifies
because HATS

videogame9 wrote:

I played Banjo-Tooie. It's pretty awesome.

Only one thing in that was an FPS. Regardless, it was fun.


Doom was a unique FPS, then people started copying id's ideas.


Half-Life 2 was pretty cool with the Gravity Gun and all.

NeilWest wrote:

Portal 2 is was one of the first FPS' not about killing people. That made it awesome, as I don't really like military shooters like Call of Duty and games like Grand Theft Auto which is basically hardcore, hardcore swearing, nudity... *shivers*

*raises eyebrow*

NeilWest wrote:

Portal 2 is was one of the first FPS' not about killing people. That made it awesome, as I don't really like military shooters like Call of Duty and games like Grand Theft Auto which is basically hardcore, hardcore swearing, nudity... *shivers*

*Portal

CatLuvah wrote:

It's a shame that realistic graphics are often wasted on first-person shooters with M rated content.

wasted? Okay, please go tell that to the hundreds of millions of fans of FPS games. You probably won't live to tell us how they acted.

soupoftomato wrote:

CatLuvah wrote:

It's a shame that realistic graphics are often wasted on first-person shooters with M rated content.

I have more of a problem with them rereleasing the same game every year than what they do with graphics.

@Freakish: Because they're all immature and can't handle criticism? Sounds right.

yeah actually most of them probably are

Freakish wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

Portal 2 is was one of the first FPS' not about killing people. That made it awesome, as I don't really like military shooters like Call of Duty and games like Grand Theft Auto which is basically hardcore, hardcore swearing, nudity... *shivers*

Believe it or not, hardcore games like Grand Theft Auto, LA Noire, etc. are fun.

I guess I'm not really that type of gamer then.

Earthboundjeff wrote:

bananaman99 wrote:

I dont' see why people are all caught up over graphics in the game. IMO an 8-bit side-scroller with good gameplay can be much better than one of the so-called "games" we have now like call of duty.

Someone hasn't played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the NES.

FPS' are just as valid a gaming genre as platformers. Most people just think of shooters like Call of Duty which I believe is forty-two flavors of boring, but someone truly unique shooters are out there that validate the genre, such as Bioshock, Portal 2, and TF2.'

On that note, Grand Theft Auto isn't even in the first person, and it barely even counts as a shooter.

Game of the Year formula:
1. Blood, lots and lots of blood.
2. Multiplayer. The campaign can be shorter than it takes to say the title of the game, but who cares? You and five billion twelve year olds can shoot each other in the face and scream racist obscenities at each other all you want!
3. Don't bother changing anything, just rerelease the same game with newer graphics and more guns! I mean really, who cares about gameplay when a game has good graphics, right?
4. DLC. Actually giving people what they pay for their money? Pfffffffft. Release part of the game and sell the rest of it for twenty bucks a pop.
5. Drain all the color out of the game. Nothing says manly like a lack of color.
6. Market it as HARDCORE! Nothing gets little kids who shouldn't even be playing more riled up than thinking it will make them HARDCORE!
7. Make it incredibly easy. Dont want anyone dieing, right? Regenerating health and easy AI FTW!
8. Only let you carry two guns at once. Simple.
9. Don't let your characters have emotion or flaws! That would be girly. EEEWW, cooties.
10. Make sure you bash down all competing games by claiming yours is revolutionary, and then never do anything new. No humor either, that's not HARDCORE enough.

I do believe I just summed up about 95 percent of the FPS games that are flooding the market nowadays.

Sigh. I miss Doom.

Portal is amazing. However, it seems that do to the surplus of FPS's, people have become brainwashed into believe that in order to be a good game, it has to be overly gritty and violent.

EDIT: Jim, is Bioshock good? I was thinking of getting it from Steam.

Remember, kiddies. This is what you cal an opinion. That means it's just what I think, so there's absolutely no reason to get your underpants in a knot if you like CoD.

Last edited by Luke121 (2012-02-18 16:03:38)

Earthboundjeff wrote:

I don't believe Call of Duty has been Game of the Year for a while. And Black Ops is frustratingly hard.
And Bioshock is amazing. Would you kindly buy it?

I'll probably download the demo first. And I didn't just mean Call of Duty, I just used it as an example of how far downhill things have gone. I actually like the original CoD.

EDIT: Before anyone points it out, I AM a little young to be playing these. But I don't play ones like Gears, where it's all just blood, or games where you NEED to kill innocent people.

Last edited by Luke121 (2012-02-18 16:09:34)

Gears is amazing, it's one of the best Third Person Shooter's ever.
Also, blood does not always a bad game make.

Last edited by Earthboundjeff (2012-02-18 16:11:26)