First Person Shooters suck.

[Fox]

I really have to disagree with you entirely, Xero. I mean, my favorite current FPS is Halo 3, and I know that it's one of the least "diverse" of them all, but I still love playing it. Every game is different because you're playing different people, different maps, different weapons that you pick up, different applied skill levels. I mean, I get a great feeling after finding an invisible and a shotgun and going on a 4-person killing spree. It doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes I can make it happen. And that's what keeps it interesting: the mastering of the game and finding better and better people to play against.

Maybe you just have no attention span, like most of the population.

And if you're going to complain about FPS, which is definitely the most popular format out today, then atleast suggest an alternative or some way to make it to your liking. There's nothing worse than a complainer without ideas.

[.44 Magdalene]

Originally Posted by Fox Every game is different because you're playing different people, different maps, different weapons that you pick up, different applied skill levels. I mean, I get a great feeling after finding an invisible and a shotgun and going on a 4-person killing spree. It doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes I can make it happen. And that's what keeps it interesting: the mastering of the game and finding better and better people to play against. Maybe you just have no attention span, like most of the population.

That describes almost every halfway decent multiplayer game ever made. That describes fighting games. That describes Buzz Quiz TV, for God's sake. That describes tabletop roleplaying. You can't argue that FPSs are particularly good because OMG IT'S A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE EACH TIME--that's everything ever in the history of games that aren't just total balls. It doesn't mean every FPS isn't almost exactly the same, because they're all still roughly the same, and with almost identical experiences between them. Yes, you get a different feeling each time you play--but the feeling you described specifically is one that you can pick up from any number of games. I can name maybe ten games off the top of my head where I can random a map, grab weapons in odd places and kill people I've never met before.

Some people are just fucking tired of it. It's a different game each time only in the sense that you do different things with different people each time--fuck, Monoply's a little different each time I play it. I get different rolls and buy different places and play with different people. That doesn't make Marvel Monoply less stale than Monoply Gold Edition. Halo is still Doom is still Starseige is still Quake is still Unreal is still etc. Just because YOU CAN PLAY THEM ONLINE WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE doesn't mean they're not all the same ass game.

Halo is particularly funny because it's the WoW of First Person Shooters. It took the best aspects of alot of FPSs, a few features that the genre should have had decades ago, and put it on a console--something not too many FPSs were doing at the time, thus making it more accessable than traditional FPSs. It's still the same damn game as every other FPS, just honed down to a fine sheen, polished and talked up to folks that wouldn't normally buy a PC and play Unreal Tournament.