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Well yeah, that's the fanbase's fault, not the games'.

Freakish wrote:

Earthboundjeff wrote:

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

Gears is soo fun. I've mostly been doing multiplayer but I just finished campaign like 2 days ago

ikr

Luke121 wrote:

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.

Bioshock 2 was awesome, as well. I'm only to the second area though, but I heard the rest was fantastic.

It's amazing.

Can we talk about Black Ops?
(i heard it was a time-traveling whatta COD game)

After COD 4, it just became copies of itself. I was actually surprised at how much if a change Halo reach was to Halo: ODST (the third greatest failure of the halo series, behind Halo 2 and Halo Wars).

I love Rage because it's AI is so realistic. And it's graphics are just immense, same the ending was awful.

Favourite FPS series is, and always will be, Doom. I've played Doom, Doom 2, and Doom 3 (only just made it into my 'good' list).

I have to admit, Serious Sam series is great for a laugh, and AVP fps series is amazing online. AVP 3 had a great story too.

But, for FPS to continue to be in the charts, it's going to have to leave the COD mould, and become open-world, which can work, as proved by Farcry.

Moderator Note:  This was a separate topic that was merged into this one

When most people think of First-Person-Shooters they think Call of Duty or Halo. After all they are both phenomenons that have gained a massive following over time and I'm sure that the devs behind the games are very happy with themselves.
But this forum is about GOOD FPS' so I won't be talking about COD or Halo.
To make a good FPS you need exciting gameplay mechanics because shooting people in the head and swearing into a headset can get tiresome after even thirty minutes for me. That's why my favorite FPS' aren't CODs or Halos or Battlefields. My favorites are Goldeneye on the good old Nintendo 64 because it pretty much kickstarted a genre of great games, TimeSplitters 2 on GameCube because 1) it was heavily influenced by GoldenEye, even the first level is set in a dam and somehow it felt special for some reason. I also had a lot of fun with Doom (the SuperFX port on SNES), Turok also on 64 even the criminally under rated The Condoit in Wii recently.

Disscuss.

Last edited by Paddle2See (2012-02-22 14:58:04)

Liru wrote:

Well you can't really state that they're both not good, maybe in your opinion they're not good, but there's people who state otherwise.

I know, if you like them I'm not going to stop you. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.

Ahem this already has an official topic.

Last edited by Earthboundjeff (2012-02-22 08:45:16)

Earthboundjeff wrote:

Ahem this already has an official topic.

That's for a different type of first person shooters.

GLaDOS2 wrote:

I want to try Bioshock, it sounds kind of neat :L

Try it, it is great because it isn't in your average military background - it's in a underwater 50s style city! That calls for more adventure!