Mr eel
First Person Games Are Boring
OK, not all of them, but the vast majority are. Most are essentially the same as the last with some different graphics. Even the better FPS like Half-Life aren’t really all that much different from their competition.
I wouldn’t feel a need to point this out if not for the overwhelming amount of FPS on the market. They suck up budgets, they cram into gaming magazines, they dominate a large chunk of the industry and they are static, un-changing. Dull.
I’m not the only one with some gripes about FPS. This article on game pro picks on some of the common tropes in FPS games, with suggestions of how they could be improved.
Unfortunately they aren’t really thinking about it too deeply. For example “The protagonist is not a one-armed ghost”. So… if we fix that problem it’ll be a revolution in FPS games? How about “Weapons should never become obsolete”. Not even getting close to interesting. OK, one more “Environments should be interactive–no, really”. Maybe, that would certainly open up some more possibilities. Some of the physics puzzles in Half-Life are suggestive. But making a game more realistic doesn’t make it a better game.
Here’s one; how about making a FPS without guns?
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