Poll: Have FPS exhausted your interest?

[EzraPound]

What I mean is: have you gotten to the point - as many on The Escapist have indicated they have - of instinctively avoiding FPS titles (because they all feature World War II clichés; a floating gun; aliens) on the grounds that they're unlikely to be even remotely innovative?

This isn't a question regarding whether you dislike FPS - everybody would like to see another one analagous in quality to Metroid Prime or Half-Life 2 - but rather whether the genre in general terms has begun to earn your distrust as a gamer.

 

[Kollega]

Please elaborate. Yes,i'm kinda tired of "brown-n-grey" FPSes about WW2 and SPEES MEHRENES,but would like to see something like Bioshock again. Or even better - a *gasp* COLORFUL FPS!

 

[Evil Tim]

Because they've been so different in the past decade, with only a handful of exceptions - Deux Ex, Metroid Prime, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic, Bioshock, etc.

I think you meant to say 'similar' rather than 'different.' But no. Also, Half-Life 2 was hardly 'different,' it was largely just the previous game's scripting-heavy corridor crawling with a lot of engine gimmicks tacked on.

 

[Proteus214]

I guess they would if you play them constantly, but I usually break them up with a lot of RPGs and other indie games so I welcome a really good FPS now and again.

 

[Wakefield]

I will never tire of fps. What I will tire of is, space marines, brown and grey and most of all WORLD WAR 2 games.

 

[TPiddy]

Please elaborate. Yes,i'm kinda tired of "brown-n-grey" FPSes about WW2 and SPEES MEHRENES,but would like to see something like Bioshock again. Or even better - a *gasp* COLORFUL FPS!

You want a colorful FPS, pick up Borderlands... it's great!

 

[dududf]

No.

TF2 HL, HL2, Portal, BF2, CoD:MW1, Fallout 3,L4D, soon to be L4D2, RF:G UT '04, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of chernobyl, and my soon to be fully pirated, Wolfenstein shall continue my love of FPS.


Don't get me wrong though I adore my TPS, and RTS. =)

 

[traceur_]

Yes considering every single one is exactly the same: Disembodied gun, bang bang, germans, russians, zombies, aliens, generic cannon fodder go dead.

Watching my friend play the demo of left for dead 2 has savagely raped and beaten any trace of interest I might have had, left for dead 2 is every single FPS cliche rolled into one, and that was only in one bloody level. I've never said this about a game before, but left for dead 2 is absolutely shit.

 

[EzraPound]

Because they've been so different in the past decade, with only a handful of exceptions - Deux Ex, Metroid Prime, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic, Bioshock, etc.

I think you meant to say 'similar' rather than 'different.' But no. Also, Half-Life 2 was hardly 'different,' it was largely just the previous game's scripting-heavy corridor crawling with a lot of engine gimmicks tacked on.

I'd say its incorporation of a then-remarkable physics engine (plus consequent perks like the Gravity Gun) and its better-than-normal-for-an-FPS storytelling are enough to qualify it as 'different', in relative terms.

 

[Sgt Doom]

I'm not all that bothered about innovation as long as it's capable of keeping my attention until the end.

 

[EzraPound]

I'm not all that bothered about innovation as long as it's capable of keeping my attention until the end.

Well, the point of innovation is to provide new stimulus so people are likely to want to complete the game.

 

[Utarefson]

[...]Or even better - a *gasp* COLORFUL FPS!

Go play Halr Borderlands.Or Section 8.Or... i think you get it now

On topic:
Seriously, there are enough good shooters out there with their individual style and feel, you just have to look around for a bit.

 

[Evil Tim]

I'd say its incorporation of a then-remarkable physics engine (plus consequent perks like the Gravity Gun) and its better-than-normal-for-an-FPS storytelling are enough to qualify it as 'different', in relative terms.

Far Cry and Trespasser both beat it to the physics system [hell, Valve even said outright that a major influence of HL2's physics gimmicks was Trespasser] and Deus Ex had an actual interactive story rather than just locking you in a room with nothing to do while people spout exposition that doesn't involve your hole-in-the-script self. You won't find much in HL2 that isn't derivative; even the gravity gun, as Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil tried to show, is something that can be found in the development stages of just about any engine with a physics system to test object interactions quickly. All Valve did was not take it out of the game when they'd finished with it as other developers had.

 

[Marowit]

No.

L4D2 demo is so much fun...and the real game isn't even out yet.

Army FPS...yes...they're just becoming cliche unfortunately...sure they have some fun aspects, but it's definitely getting somewhat played out.

I am though, looking forward to a really good FP-espionage game...or shadowrun (RPG not like the 360 version).

So the genre isn't worn out by any means, but it's easier to make money off of ARMY THE GAME!!!
Instead of a well developed (as in time intensive) game.

 

[Simalacrum]

Sort of.

I certainly avoid getting too many shooters. I usually only have 2 or 3 at any one time, and if a new one comes out that I REALLY want, then I'll trade in one of the other titles for it.

Then again, this goes for any genre of game I have... (I like variety) still, I'm stricter to this rule when it comes to FPS's.

edit: also, if I am to get a sequel of a game I already have, I won't keep th old version, however much I liked it.

e.g., I traded in CoD4 for MW2.

 

[Daedalus1942]

What I mean is: have you gotten to the point - as many on The Escapist have indicated they have - of instinctively avoiding FPS titles (because they all feature World War II clichés; a floating gun; aliens) on the grounds that they're unlikely to be even remotely innovative?

This isn't a question regarding whether you dislike FPS - everybody would like to see another one analagous in quality to Metroid Prime or Half-Life 2 - but rather whether the genre in general terms has begun to earn your distrust as a gamer.

Anyone who is tired of FPS's should play Penumbra, you'll never look at a first person game the same way, i guarantee it.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Please elaborate. Yes,i'm kinda tired of "brown-n-grey" FPSes about WW2 and SPEES MEHRENES,but would like to see something like Bioshock again. Or even better - a *gasp* COLORFUL FPS!

Borderlands is fairly colourful (at least rather the guns are).
And... and... and you get to play a level in the snow, and alien ruins... and...

 

[latenightapplepie]

Tired of the typical FPS? Probably. Tired of all FPS games? No way. I have immensely enjoyed Borderlands and Bioshock, both shooters that play from the first person perspective, but both heading in a dramatically different direction than the conventional FPS. I certainly think I have time for those kinds of games.

 

[veloper]

Yes, any FPS will have to do something outstanding beyond just fancy gfx to even warrant attention.
Same for RTS games.

I'm a bit less picky about turn-based stratey, builder games like Tropico, or WRPGs because there's fewer of these types of game.

 

[MGlBlaze]

I'm tired of the greyish-brown FPSes, but I'm not tired of ALL FPSes. Besides, I play different games too, so that helps. I'm all for a good RPG every now and then, as well as anything else interesting that comes out to break it up a bit.

If you played nothing but FPSes, though, I could see how all of them would get a bit tiring.