The future looks...

[Twilight_guy]

Recently I've noticed that the gaming market seems to be leaning increasingly towards making shooter games(with the exception of Nintendo). For a long time I couldn't bring myself to buy a PS3, because I dislike shooters and a good portion of what I saw for the PS3 was shooters. Maybe that's just me, but it got me wondering how the gaming industry will progress.

1. Am I just not looking hard enough for other types of games, besides shooters?
2. What do you think of the current trend in the industry?
3. What do you predict for the future of the gaming market?

 

[scrahn]

It's called 'Gaming'.
The only interesting games on the horizon are on the PC platform. Star Craft 2, Diablo 3 and Aion. Street Fighter 4 is hitting all consoles, as far as i know -- but also PC.

1. What games are you looking for? You only announced distaste for one of many genres.
2. Make shitty games for consoles, port the good ones to PC.
3. Consoles will die.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

1. Yes.
2. Boring.
3. Money.

 

[Maet]

I'm still waiting for a second person shooter...

 

[Mr. Fister]

Is that like a shooter where the perspective is in the gun you use?

 

[Vivaldi]

I'm still waiting for a second person shooter...

Is it just me in my infinite stupidity or will that not work out to well?

ON TOPIC:

1: There are other genres of games, not that they are particularly big, but they are there.
2: Shallow games for shallow people to roleplay as a shallow character in a shallow world.
3: Everything will be online downloads, disks are gone, more cookie-cutter sequals and shallow games.

 

[Hyper-space]

its pretty sad to see the whole gaming industry having a fetish of some sort for FPS's.
the days of original games are numbered, nothing but shitty MMO's, JRPGS and generic shooters are coming out.

on a brighter note, darkfall online will soon come and rumors of a fifth elder scrolls are circling around the interwebs.

edit: omg i noticed youre name is Twilight_guy
do you read these books?

 

[lukemdizzle]

1. yes
2. allot of the resent great games have been hybrid games blending aspects of different types of games
3. continuation of previous statement (and consoles will not die)

 

[fix-the-spade]

1. Am I just not looking hard enough for other types of games, besides shooters?
2. What do you think of the current trend in the industry?
3. What do you predict for the future of the gaming market?

1. There's plenty of stuff out there that isn't an fps. Unfortunately most of it's got an EA sticker and a number attached to it's title.
2. Unfortunate, companies are unable to take significant risks because of the enormous cost of development. Also bedroom blockbusters have largely disappeared.
3. The gradual death of the game console as a home entertainment device. Two of this generation are essentially off the peg PC's anyway. So the next generation probably will be off the peg PC's. Essentially Consoles, DVD players and stereos will gradually be replaced by one "Home entertainment system", essentially a user friendly PC.
Also the spiralling cost of development and manufacture, I can see companies outsourcing their hardware design more. Much like the gamecube/Wii having Ati chips.

 

[hem dazon 90]

It's called 'Gaming'.
The only interesting games on the horizon are on the PC platform. Star Craft 2, Diablo 3 and Aion. Street Fighter 4 is hitting all consoles, as far as i know -- but also PC.

1. What games are you looking for? You only announced distaste for one of many genres.
2. Make shitty games for consoles, port the good ones to PC.
3. Consoles will die.

"cough"Prototype"cough"

 

[curlycrouton]

I'm still waiting for a second person shooter...

Technically a Third-Person shooter is a Second-Person shooter, because you're telling the character what to do in real time.

I think.

 

[Maet]

Technically a Third-Person shooter is a Second-Person shooter, because you're telling the character what to do in real time.

I think.

I wrote that as a joke, but it really does make you think.

A third person shooter would technically be a second person shooter if you had no control over their actions, that is you just watch what they do and never actually control anything... I think...

Second/Third person is rather interchangeable though.

 

[J-Man]

First person is the 'I', second person is the 'you' and third person is the 'he,' so wouldn't second person just be a text adventure?

 

[fix-the-spade]

First person is the 'I', second person is the 'you' and third person is the 'he,' so wouldn't second person just be a text adventure?

Or played through the eyes of your many victims. You killed me... You killed me again...

 

[OverlordSteve]

I'm still waiting for a second person shooter...

Me as well.

 

[Maet]

Or played through the eyes of your many victims. You killed me... You killed me again...

The victim, you, is passive, so really you/he/she/it becomes interchangeable. Second and third person depend on the pronoun, but the pronoun changes since second and third person are generally fickle and change depending on who you're directing the action act and how intensely.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I'm still waiting for a second person shooter...

Does that make any sense at all?

"The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun 'you'."

You control a player controlling a player?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Resident Evil 5 like most people. I'm also hoping that Sony will announce a price drop, but ANYWAYS....

Not much was announced for '09, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[jebussaves88]

I think its true that there has been a bump in the amount of FPS's, but that could be put down to coincidence. In the last month, the only FPS of high profile to come out to my knowledge has been Resistance 2, Left 4 Dead and Cod:WaW. We've also had LittleBigPlanet, Fable 2, Mirrors Edge, Fallout 3 (technically an FPS, but then technically not) MK vs DC and Gears Of War 2 (a 3rd Person shooter, with admittedly, a very different feel to an FPS). In the next month there are also many more titles that aren't FPS that are coming (Prince of Persia springs to mind). So whilst I'll admit there was a heavy period where an FPS came out every two weeks (from Halo 3 and Orange Box through to mid Summer with Haze and the like) there is now plenty more coming out. Was just a bit of a drought.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Valkyria Chronicles is on PS3 but it's still very shootery...

 

[The_Deleted]

I can't see the FPS going anywhere but I do feel the trend for Bald Space Marine Sims is passing. They'll just re-skin the games.
Atleast until the next HALO comes along.

Hopefully, with God of War being the huge success and LBP proving it needn't cost a fortune to take risks, the developers will start taking chances again.