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I think we need to come up with another term than first-person shooter. There may have been a time where all games in first person were games like Duke Nukem, Q
by kmfrk 14y ago
I think we need to come up with another term than first-person shooter. There may have been a time where all games in first person were games like Duke Nukem, Quake, Doom, and so on, but I think it cheapens and trivializes what can be accomplished in the medium - not genre - of first-person-based videogames.
Games like "Call of Duty", "Battlefield", "Halo", and so on definitely rot the soul of a lot of developers, but I personally think the first-person medium is one of the best way to do something immersive and interactive.
I don't think Elisabeth in Bioshock Infinite - or a game like Portal - would have been possible under any other circumstances, and to use the term "first-person shooter" for a game like B:I is to misrepresent it to people inside and outside the videogame community.