FPS are dead

Why can't we just have shooters with developed and atmospheric campaigns that just aim to be immersive and aren't trying to be memes anymore?

Too expensive to make because they have to compete with the cod campaign, and that shit costs half a billion to make. No point in making something that will get relentlessly compared to cod all the time.
That's why smaller devs settled for more niche subgenres like boomer shooters or more experimental stuff where expectations aren't that high. Shitty graphics on purpose also allow them to avoid some criticisms because if your graphics are goofy, then no one is gonna take the game too seriously.
I'm old, like, almost 40, but I enjoy extraction cancer a lot.

Why can't we just have shooters with developed and atmospheric campaigns that just aim to be immersive

What are some shootans like that?

Half Life clones are prohibitively expensive for most indies to handle due to the voice acting alone, let alone everything else. It's never gonna happen.

GaaS, MTX, Battlepasses and all manners of other ingame purchases are much more lucrative than releasing a full game for a fixed price.
There's a reason why everyone wants to be the next fortnite, it's because Epic Games is printing money out of thin air thanks to fortnite

unironically nostalgic for brown and bloom corridor shooters

lmfao

Brown and Bloom shooters are better than 95% of contemporary releases

how did it come down to this

I refunded that game because it felt so braindead easy. Weren't enough targets. Really liked the progression stuff they setup and the design of the game but I want to magdump hordes.
might ponder it now if they improved the difficulty.

Metro games

They were always fun games but contrarian hipster snobs got everyone to hate them. Now we don't have any generic white male alpha shooter games to pass the time.
They're a staple, you don't evolve past it. It's like pizza. Sure you could add a little color but nothing more is needed.

FEAR1, Half Life games, Prey 2006, Unreal 1, early Call of Juarez games, Far Cry 1, Halo1-3,

Now we don't have any generic white male alpha shooter games to pass the time.

Literally billions of them released during the 7th gen. Some of them even on thr 6th. There's no shortage of these generic shooter games to pass the time with, you are just addicted to FOMO.

because you're a faggot that grew up when FPS games temporarily stopped being designed like they were in the 90s/early 00s and now that the next gen realized actually the old games were better after all you're being left by the wayside of time & cant cope.
its similar to how when the n64 came out everyone suddenly decided 2D platformers are dogshit and then actually 10 years later everyone woke up and realized 25 FPS 3D platformers are fucking bad and went back to making 2D sidescrollers

might ponder it now if they improved the difficulty.

Yeah, Hazard 5+ difficulty can rip your anus. Especially if you play mission with two warnings.

So what's the ETA on this? Probably the only multiplayer shooter I'm looking forward to.

Literally billions of them released

Same crap people say about zombie stuff. The problem is that a tiny percentage of the ones made are made with any quality.
I enjoyed Trepang2 and was wondering for the last 10+ years why people weren't still making games like that.

Oh nice this is actually going to be made?
wait is that Slorgs doing the voice over for the trailer

reannouncement

what the fug

They're not all Half-life/CoD-tier polished games but a lot of them are genuinely passable games, if all you're looking for is "a generic shooter to pass the time with".

Aye I think it was put on hold cause the studio closed or some shit but the main dude is still determined and is gathering a team to make it a reality and it looks like they're making decent progress.

I've played most of them and have gone out of my way to try to find more. It's not fomo I'd just like some new stuff.
And no I don't just want generic shooters, it should have nice aesthetics too. A game like Haze doesn't pass because it's fuck ugly. And has a poorly conceived setting. Sci-fi slop is a part of the problem. If you can't write a good setting just rehash Max Payne. Normal guy getting revenge on classic goons. A game like Killzone 2 I can't play on my computer at high framerate with proper mouse support. So it hardly counts anymore.

If you have any suggestions i'm interested

I've played most of them and have gone out of my way to try to find more. It's not fomo I'd just like some new stuff.

Can you actually name them? Because if you can then fair enough.

Have you tried Trepang2?

Peopel keep recommending Trepang2 because it's the only actual FPS released in years, the state of the genre is this sad

You want me to start listing every single player fps campaign I've played? Why for your amusement?

If you can then fair enough

Ooooh I'll get a fair enough out of it. I'll get right on that

What exactly killed this genre?

The consumers who stopped playing $60 for single player only FPS campaigns and provide corporations with data which proves that majority of FPS buyers do so for the multiplayer.

people are planning on playing on the planetside 1 pserver this weekend for its anniversary

You want me to start listing every single player fps campaign I've played? Why for your amusement?

I mean too many people talk shit about no games to play on here and then you ask them what they played and it's only the most marketed and talked about stuff.
Besides I wouldn't mind a few recs to play myself either.

The cinematic experience corridor shooters were the beginning of boomer accountants who look down on gaming and gamers trying to ruin videogames. The industry was obsessed with making gaming "grow up" by "streamlining" any sense of complexity or challenge out of games and getting rid of any elements that were too "gamey, such as boss fights. This is also when they started deliberately making the women less hot. They wanted gaming to be Hollywood instead of gaming. If you look at the growing dismissive hostility towards gamers during this time, you'll understand that it's the proto-woke era of gaming.

It doesn't deserve nostalgia. Thank fuck for Minecraft and Souls showcasing how stupid 00s-style videogame executives are. Now we just need based devs to finish making a joke out of their """grown up""" character designs and our victory over these clowns will be complete.

The cinematic experience corridor shooters were the beginning of boomer accountants who look down on gaming and gamers trying to ruin videogames. The industry was obsessed with making gaming "grow up" by "streamlining" any sense of complexity or challenge out of games and getting rid of any elements that were too "gamey, such as boss fights. This is also when they started deliberately making the women less hot. They wanted gaming to be Hollywood instead of gaming. If you look at the growing dismissive hostility towards gamers during this time, you'll understand that it's the proto-woke era of gaming.

You're basically saying that Half-Life 1 and Goldeneye are also proto-woke.

dumbest take on Anon Babble so far this day

Oh I'm not a no-games fag I feel like I have so many games to play. Just feel like it's a concept that got wrongfully stomped out because of the cheap bandwagoning.

So you want like obscure FPS games from 7th gen-ish or like an exhaustive list?
Boiling Point: Road to hell. Clive Barkers Jericho maybe. Body Count. Darkest of Days.

You know I actually might just start compiling a list for posterity and I'll post what I have so far if the thread doesn't die. feel free to throw in any overlooked ones you think i might have missed

Goldeneye still had a lot of "gamey" elements, like all of the puzzles and secret areas that you had to go through in the higher difficulties. I would agree that it helped push things in a bad direction, but I don't think that the devs had any thoughts of making videogames less gamey.

You're probably too young to remember. Before the "modern audience", there was the "wider audience". Everything had to be made for retards and they fantasized about grandma playing.

I mean, I agree with you in principle. I too think there's too many underserved niches in gaming compared to film or TV or literature and whatever. It's just nice to know I'm talking to someone who's genuinely into games and not just a whining baiter.

Clive Barkers Jericho

Funnily enough I know that one, I remember playing it with my cousin all the way back in the day.

As for the list, I suppose it'd be better to have a comprehensive one that everyone can reference every time someone's looking for recs.

Clive Barkers Jericho

That shit was rad

FEAR is, and always was, pure dogshit, Max Payne is better in every way imaginable

thread is about FPS tho. Did bullet time slow down your brain?

not just a whining baiter.

no I totally get it that's like every other poster. I've recently gotten into lists and you've given me a new one to work on. Been building a bunch for movies. Current one is "movies that take place over the course of one night"

Kinda have a headache at the moment but i'm gonna get to it once this advil kicks in

hell yeah

hell yeah

that quote about your dyke team mate finally having a man inside her when you possess her

They don't make them like this anymore

It's a good FEAR clone imo
Just without the TECHNOLOGY factor i suppose. There's another game I'm trying to remember. Hold on give me a second.

SHIT

Now i remember. You might like Vladik Brutal for a modern FPS game. It's kind of like a janky Half Like 2 i suppose but with more gore. It's fun.