Comments on: How the Success of the FPS Genre is Ruining Gaming

By: kapy

kapy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:13:59 +0000

How about you blame Stephen King because poetry or essays are not selling as well as his books?

By: EdEN

EdEN — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:03:59 +0000

An FPS here and there is always good, but yeah I can feel there are waaaaay too many of those right now and it seems it’s the only type of project that gets approved for release…

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:32:26 +0000

As a gamer since the Atari console……..

…. Gosh I miss pixels and 8 bit music…

By: TheRealMaxPower

TheRealMaxPower — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:11:33 +0000

I don’t have a problem finding great games of any genre. Granted I could care less about most RPGs (Oblivion was AWESOME). Action, Horror, Racing, Sports, etc are all better genres now.

Developers are putting a lot of effort into Sound which makes a huge difference for immersion. Graphics are to the point I have no complaints. The multiple paths/endings is also a nice addition as single player games are interesting enough to do a second play through.

Many games cross multiple genres anymore. RPGs are a part of every genre now. The true RPGs are going to FPS because it is more fun than a turn based game. I hate turn based games and I am glad they are moving it away from that.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:07:13 +0000

I agree with Darrin that gaming has never been better but completely disagree with the RPG’s being better. Sure as a whole gaming is better.

There have been 2 AAA RPG’s this gen and one of them sold like crap. Lost Odyssey and FFXIII. Then we have Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4, The Last Remnant which were all horrible in so many ways.

Sure Valkyria Chronicles, Dragons Age were good games…but not great games.

If RPG’s were given the effort that many FPS games were today, then we might see a potential RPG to be excited about other then FFXIII.

Even reading reviews, FFXIII is a shell of its former self.