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Interesting. I thought this would be a critique of modern day first person shooters.
by whunut 15y ago
Interesting. I thought this would be a critique of modern day first person shooters.
- cliftonk 15y agoModern day first person shooters provide an immersive, story-driven single player experience, but have gameplay that cannot make for a decent competitive platform.
- vl 15y agoSurely you are aware that Halo 3 with variants and COD:MW with variants are the most successful online FPSes of all time? Both were also criticized for shallow single player stories, not on par with previous versions.
- aspensmonster 15y agoWell, to be fair, COD is an RPG. If you have to farm and craft for 20 hours to get a decent weapon, you're not playing an FPS. Halo on the other hand is a different story :D
- btmorex 15y agoI wonder how you define successful. Microsoft doesn't seem to like releasing simultaneous player counts except on launch days and of course launch is almost always the highest count you'll find, but the Halo 3 launch day count (750k) I found isn't that impressive compared to run of the mill counter-strike numbers on steam (75k). Mind you, counter-strike at this point is 12 years old. I'm pretty sure that no one will be playing either of those games in 12 years.
- cliftonk 15y agoThose games do not even come close to the competitive levels of CS for team-based FPS and Quake3 for dueling. Not by a long shot.