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> PUBG and Fortnite are both wildly popular mobile games. I see people playing them on the bus all the time. Incidentally, neither of these are an FPS. Both us
by AlexandrB 7y ago
> PUBG and Fortnite are both wildly popular mobile games. I see people playing them on the bus all the time.
Incidentally, neither of these are an FPS. Both using (or favouring, in the case of PUBG) third person, over-the-shoulder play.
However video game “genres” are kind of a mess. FPS is too broad of a label to be useful. Both CoD and Portal are “FPS” but feature wildly different pace, tone, and requirements on the player. Another example: there’s a type of “FPS” that is almost extinct because it’s only really playable on PC: the arena shooter or twitch shooter (e.g. Unreal Tournament, Quake 3). These are simply not playable on console/mobile because the speed and precision of inputs required to play them is beyond the inputs available.
All of this is to say that the type of “FPS” you might get on mobile won’t represent the full range of FPS experiences you can get on PC or console.
- vijaybritto 7y agoThere is FPS in PUBG. It can be toggled between first and third party on demand. The public has welcomed it in a massive way. This sort of accessible gaming which adapts big titles to smaller form factors will win!
- bgeeek 7y agoI don't know. I think people associate FPS with the shooty part and the kill,kill,kill mentality, which, while you do this in Portal, it's not the same. It's more of a puzzler/platformer.
- justincredible 7y agoJust because you have a gun that shoots portals, in first person, doesn't make Portal an FPS. I intentionally worded this to make my argument weaker.