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Shot in the Foot: Why First Person Shooters are Destined for a Fall

September 27, 2010 in Blog comments 7

The FPS genre is at the top of its game (pun intended). That said, it's arguable that it's reaching its peak and some New England Gamer included, can't help but wonder if signs are starting to point to the first person shooter starting down the slope of decline even as it's dominating the current generation.

That said, even as shooters are flying high with the success of all the Halos and Call of Duty’s there is an undeniable sense that the current model for the genre may be reaching a breaking point. As excited as some were when Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops were announced there were also more than a few people rolling their eyes. I have no doubt that Black Ops will entertaining game. But it’s probably not going to be anything we haven’t seen before. A brief, single player campaign and an entertaining multiplayer game, all of which will immediately be overshadowed by the promise of the game to follow. The reviewers will call it a rollercoaster ride. It will be fun in the moment, but as with real roller coasters the second you get off you’ll be looking at the next one. Why keep playing one game when another does it better?
stewie32887 via newenggamer.com »
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    Inferno07 Sep 27, 10
    I'm sorry I just can't take an article with glaring grammatical errors. That said I agree somewhat it's just another case-in-point of "You can have too much of a good thing." :/
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    Big A2 Sep 28, 10
    As long as there are homophobic teenage boys, there will always be first person shooters.
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    Zero and X Sep 28, 10
    Adventure games like Monkey Island were coming in left and right, then they died down, because of FF7, JRPGs came in left and right and that died down, there were platformers like Spyro the Dragon and Jak and Daxter, and that died down, its a pattern if I ever saw one, the same will probably happen to FPS games.
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      Tenken Sep 28, 10
      Hardly a pattern. FPS games have been in the limelight just as long as those other genres that died down, but FPS games have only continued in popularity.
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        Province Sep 28, 10
        FPS wasn't selling 15 million copies worldwide Pre Halo 3 & Call of Duty 4.
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          Tenken Oct 3, 10
          The popularity may have skyrocketed in the last few years, but they were still quite popular in the past. To say they're going through a phase is ridiculous, especially with western culture being consumed with the idea of gun play.
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    Province Sep 28, 10
    Following the success of Uncharted 2 and games like Infamous 2 & Socom 4 I can sense third person action shooters (in exempt case of infamous, kinda) could become the next trend

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