Developer: Current FPS Games Are "Boring"

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I too think the author was referring to the "rail", or linear style of gameplay that you see in so many different [console] shooters these days. The "push this button to gain cover", and every fight plays out mostly the same.

I much prefer the more wide-open gameplay that's Crysis & Far Cry.

As for Tribes & Planetside: Those were fun games. Tempting as it is to fire-up Planetside again, I think instead I might try and hunt-down my Tribes 2 disk. I hope it still works on Win7x64.

 
[citation][nom]dreamphantom_1977[/nom]Tea bagging - nothing would be more real than an enemy that teabag u after the kill. Plus that would motivate you to keep playing so you can teabag him back.[/citation]
You had me till there. That's the dumebst thing I've heard. I don't want the AI acting like a little 13 year old who got a lucky head shot. If I wanted that, I would play CS.
 
I'm not for 1st person shooters. I think they really are boring!
The excitement only is there when playing in a team, but nothing that you can't get from playing a nice game of WORMS ARMAGEDDON in a team!

I never liked 1st person shooter, if anything 3rd person I find more thrilling especially when playing ONI or a Star Wars game where you can do some combo's like on the old streetfighter or Killer Instinct games!
 
MW = Great shooter, MW2 = fail(made their money on how good #1 was), and counter-strike series is best shooter to ever be made, simple and involves skill to be good, not luck or stupid killstreak stuff
 
I think that MW (PC online) Counterstrike, Battlefield, Tribes,Team fortress and Left for dead are all great games online, I really dont find them borring and they have steeplearning curves that make them never boring unlike Modern warfare 2 which is just run shoot kill,repeat,repeat,repeat untill you get a nuke, the best thing I want in a real life (not scifi,fantasy game) is accouscy refering to people contries and weapons, NO GUNS CALLED THE INTERVENTION or studid made up laguages and bad sterotypes
 
[citation][nom]d_kuhn[/nom]What he should have said is "Console FPS games suck". Press button-go to cover, press button-stand up, move joystick to roughly the vicinity of what you want to shoot, press button-headshot! Yipee I ROCK![/citation]

Well, I play PC and console games and I find it much easier to get headshots with a mouse. I'm guessing you've not played much on consoles and are just a loudmouth fanboy.
 
My favourite FPS series has always been Timesplitters. I suppose it could be classed as sci-fi for the time traveling stuff that goes on but it was more of a comedy show than anything else. Unfortunately, all 3 games are on PS2 and are getting old.

Available weapons ranged from high-tech plasma guns to flare guns and crossbows. Playable characters included battle hardened soldiers, a giant humanoid duck, cyborgs, aliens, undead creatures, cirus actors, robots, and of course monkeys. You could design your own levels, and even build your own missions in a similar style to the main story mode levels. There were several different multiplayer modes to choose from, such as flame tag, capture the bag, deathmatch, assualt and the dreaded virus... *shudders*

Bring Timesplitters to the current gen consoles and I will be very happy.
 
My favourite FPS series has always been Timesplitters. I suppose it could be classed as sci-fi for the time traveling stuff that goes on but it was more of a comedy show than anything else. Unfortunately, all 3 games are on PS2 and are getting old.

Available weapons ranged from high-tech plasma guns to flare guns and crossbows. Playable characters included battle hardened soldiers, a giant humanoid duck, cyborgs, aliens, undead creatures, cirus actors, robots, and of course monkeys. You could design your own levels, and even build your own missions in a similar style to the main story mode levels. There were several different multiplayer modes to choose from, such as flame tag, capture the bag, deathmatch, assualt and the dreaded virus... *shudders*

Bring Timesplitters to the current gen consoles/PC and I will be very happy.
 
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