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| 26 May 2013 12:30 PM |
[TL;DR summary at the bottom.]
A few of you who know me may know that I absolutely despise FPS games on ROBLOX. Someone flamed me in PM yesterday and asked why, so I'm half making this thread for them and half making this thread to show the rest of you why I hate them.
First of all, let's just burrow down to the main purpose of the genre. Mindlessly shooting whoever's in your way for no apparent reason besides that you are on two different teams. Call me naive, but I really don't see how pointing a machine gun and shooting someone is fun. I enjoy tactical and stealthy games, to be perfectly honest. Unless if you can give me a good map of a ROBLOX FPS game that has awesome trapping devices and tactical elements to it (no, I don't mean snipers, they don't count), then all I see in this genre is shooting and throwing bombs. Sounds like fun to me!
Secondly, the genre is entirely overused. Okay, okay, I know that the front page isn't crowded with them right now. Yet in the past I've seen a front page with 5 different FPS games on it. That's crazy. In fact, while I'm at it, let's name all of the FPSes I can think of without looking them up. -Call of ROBLOXia (there's tons of these) -Base Wars -Base Wars: The Land -Borderline -Avert the Odds II -Paintball -Battlefield -Shi No Numa -Zombie Outbreak -Authority -WIJ Outpost Indigo -Bracket -Strobe
There's a ton more, those are the only ones I can think of. I really don't see how people can spend hours on these games each day and just go back for more. We've all seen CoD-obsessed high schoolers, but the fact that thousands of people play these games (besides Borderline) each day is just weird. There are so much better genres than FPSes. People say that "it's hard to script them" and all of that, whereas they're all identical. Sure, the guns and GUIs are different, but that's not to say they're all shoot-point-kill for more points.
Third, and finally, is probably my least important but still out there reason. ROBLOX promotes FPS games as much as they promote fedoras (I love fedoras, I'm just using them as an example). Sure, even if they didn't, people would still worship shooting games as if they were the emperors of the universe, but even so, it's just strange. We have blogs like "Borderline might be a summer blockbuster" or "This team talks about their AMAZING new FPS" or even when they feature games on their Sunday blog. I have nothing against ROBLOX, and I know that they do promote other games, but FPSes seem to be recurring within that list.
Hey, I know I'm going to get flamed for posting this. State your opinions, I respect them. I'm just using the amendment of the freedom of speech to state mine. Just because I don't like FPSes doesn't mean you can't. Oh, and before I forget...
{{TL;DL Summary: z0mg i h8 fps games}}
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| 26 May 2013 12:33 PM |
| Screw you FPSes are awesome |
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| 26 May 2013 12:33 PM |
"Hey, I know I'm going to get flamed for posting this. State your opinions, I respect them. I'm just using the amendment of the freedom of speech to state mine. Just because I don't like FPSes doesn't mean you can't."
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| 26 May 2013 12:34 PM |
Says the Ben 10 fan.
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| 26 May 2013 12:35 PM |
| Once I learn how to script, I will make an FPS adventure game that doesn't involve JUST shooting. |
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| 26 May 2013 12:37 PM |
I'd love an FPS game with tactics and stealth, they'd be so much more appealing.
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| 26 May 2013 12:39 PM |
apocalypse rising v5 coming out may 27th 2:00 PM PST dynamic lighting = stealth pvp = fps |
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| 26 May 2013 12:40 PM |
Apocalypse Rising is survival, not FPS. Sure, there's guns, but it's a ton different from all of the others.
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| 26 May 2013 12:41 PM |
I cannot comprehend how CORRECT you are. Well done, sir.
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matto323
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| 26 May 2013 12:42 PM |
you haven't played v5 yet, i have it's basically a big fps, to me at least |
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| 26 May 2013 12:42 PM |
Thank you. c:
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| 26 May 2013 12:43 PM |
@Matto: My definition of FPS is one of those shoot-kill games that's strictly devoted to it. Apocalypse Rising is borderline (no pun intended), because while there's guns it's post-apocalypse and the goal is to survive, not be on a team against another team where your goal is to kill everyone.
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| 26 May 2013 12:45 PM |
Every FPS is different, and borderline is a summer blockbuster not because it's an FPS, but because it is one of the most detailed, and well scripted places EVER, like I mean it even has HANDS, there is only one other person on roblox I've met that is doing that and it's scripton, with his grey matter FPS....Gotta admit...hand's are cool...
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matto323
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| 26 May 2013 12:46 PM |
Oh. Well, I'm a bandit, so it's an FPS for me :P. Closest there is to both an FPS and a tactical/stealth involved game. |
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| 26 May 2013 12:47 PM |
@Sgt: Borderline might have builders in EBR and good scripters, but I've seen a lot better than what they're building right now. We've seen hands before in older games, though ROBLOX updates broke the scripts.
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| 26 May 2013 12:47 PM |
Oh, Matto, I'm a survivalist. :P
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| 26 May 2013 12:50 PM |
Finally, someone smart.
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| 26 May 2013 12:52 PM |
@OP
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easypro36
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| 26 May 2013 12:54 PM |
Would you mind a fps game with like Assassin like weapons. Like you running around stabbing people.
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| 26 May 2013 12:56 PM |
It depends.
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| 26 May 2013 12:57 PM |
But it has to be stealthy like say for instance splinter cell based
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| 26 May 2013 02:48 PM |
Thank you, Awesome. c;
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| 26 May 2013 10:36 PM |
| Good details, I agree with all of this. |
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