Himuro
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Recently, on a random lark, I got into a genre I never really got into before: the first person shooter. I mean, I played games like Half Life 2, Modern Warfare 2, but mostly thought "meh" of the genre overall. Somehow, where I am in life, I've really fallen in love with the games and it's rekindling a love for gaming that I've long lost.
Despite the claims that the genre is in the toilet, there's a lot of variety and creativity to be found within it if you ignore the AAA fps.
Games like Split Gate which mix things like Portal and Halo into a unique package:
Or boomer shooters, a return to the fast-paced shooters of the 90's in the traditions of Doom, Quake, and Duke 3d.
Selaco is one boomer shooter coming out. It had a demo released recently and it looks fucking awesome.
One thing that the genre benefits from is:
It's popular. Unlike other multiplayer genres even "dead" games are viable. Black Ops III is years old and has a current 7 day peak of 12k players on at once on steam. Other multiplayer genres, like fighting games, are lucky to get that for years old games that aren't current. You'll get a lobby with 20 people at most, with varying pings, and most of whom are AFK. FPS players are spoiled as fuck and they don't even know it.
Because it's so popular there's so many creative outlets to portray it with their own audiences.
You've got the narrative focused romps like Bioshock, multiplayer focused games like Team Fortress, franchises that operate on a balance of the two like Halo. Want something realistic with high stakes? There's Stalker. Want to sneak? Thief. Wanna shotgun demons? Doom. Even better is how some games transpose with the first person perspective. So you get with a myriad of hybrids. Want puzzles? Portal. Want role playing? Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Want loot? Borderlands. Want to have no life? There's Rust. There's so many options and something for everyone and I've fallen head over heels for that diversity. In a time when other genres have contracted their diversity (3d fighting games are on life support, 3d platformers don't exist besides Mario, rpgs that aren't action rpgs are increasingly rare to fine), FPS just keeps churning out creativity without a beat. Even when the AAA games are flops you always have alternatives. That's a winner.
First Person Shooter might be among the most underrated genres because although it's so common, it's among the most shat upon because of its ubiquity and because of that, people look down upon or flat out, in my case, ignore many first person shooters.
Bless this genre. It fucking rocks.
Despite the claims that the genre is in the toilet, there's a lot of variety and creativity to be found within it if you ignore the AAA fps.
Games like Split Gate which mix things like Portal and Halo into a unique package:
Or boomer shooters, a return to the fast-paced shooters of the 90's in the traditions of Doom, Quake, and Duke 3d.
Selaco is one boomer shooter coming out. It had a demo released recently and it looks fucking awesome.
One thing that the genre benefits from is:
It's popular. Unlike other multiplayer genres even "dead" games are viable. Black Ops III is years old and has a current 7 day peak of 12k players on at once on steam. Other multiplayer genres, like fighting games, are lucky to get that for years old games that aren't current. You'll get a lobby with 20 people at most, with varying pings, and most of whom are AFK. FPS players are spoiled as fuck and they don't even know it.
Because it's so popular there's so many creative outlets to portray it with their own audiences.
You've got the narrative focused romps like Bioshock, multiplayer focused games like Team Fortress, franchises that operate on a balance of the two like Halo. Want something realistic with high stakes? There's Stalker. Want to sneak? Thief. Wanna shotgun demons? Doom. Even better is how some games transpose with the first person perspective. So you get with a myriad of hybrids. Want puzzles? Portal. Want role playing? Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Want loot? Borderlands. Want to have no life? There's Rust. There's so many options and something for everyone and I've fallen head over heels for that diversity. In a time when other genres have contracted their diversity (3d fighting games are on life support, 3d platformers don't exist besides Mario, rpgs that aren't action rpgs are increasingly rare to fine), FPS just keeps churning out creativity without a beat. Even when the AAA games are flops you always have alternatives. That's a winner.
First Person Shooter might be among the most underrated genres because although it's so common, it's among the most shat upon because of its ubiquity and because of that, people look down upon or flat out, in my case, ignore many first person shooters.
Bless this genre. It fucking rocks.
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