Borderlands MMO being announced would make me weep tears of joy.

FPS titles used to be my 2nd favourite type of game after the footy ones.

Even I can't be arsed with them much anymore.

Aliens, dull landscapes, dull storylines dull dull dull....

Tribes: Ascend was the future of multiplayer FPS but everyone ignored it. Titanfall is left to pick up the pieces.

Destiny I suppose? Though for all the incredible concept art and the great initial reveal trailer I'm starting to get afraid that'l be shit judging by recent material.

Destiny should be interesting, if only for the business model, and Titanfall should be fun, which is certainly a thing one should look for in any game, although I can't see much innovation.

Has this exact thread title come up before on here or one of the previous forums, or am I just getting Deja vu?

Aye it would've. It's still the main genre around, pretty much. I'd be happy with ten years of Souls like games tbh, rather than Interchangeable Shooter 6.

Doom was just this outrageous leap that seemingly came out of nowhere, and in one stroke made everything else look ten years out of date. The fact that the entire first third of the game was given as a demo for free was also ahead of it's time. 

We'll get back into the argument of which games are FPS's and which are just first person perspective. I like the first person view playing games I'm just bored of riddling everything with bullets for hours on end. For it's faults I really enjoyed mirrors edge, portal was great and the new alien game seems to be doing something interesting.

Would the likes of Gone Home/Mirror Moon be included in this or we talking pure shooters/combat?

I thought Brink had some great ideas but it fell on it's arse.

Ultimately the vast majority of people buying FPSs (COD audience) want a digital pat on the back for killing "towel heads".

I would say the future is more of the same for the most part.
I hope more games adopt the FPS style with a different gameplay type, Fallout, Bioshock (to an extent), Mirrors Edge, Metroid Prime and Condemned have all shown that a first person view point and a gun doesn't have to equate to K/D ratios and tea bagging.

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Yossarian wrote:

RPG mechanics have ruined quite enough games already, TYVM.

Examples?

Any side-scrolling beat-em-up with a persistent levelling mechanic meaning that same-room multiplayer is ruined by either forcing player 2 to select a far less capable character than player 1 or forcing player 1 to go back to a far more basic player than they're used to and losing a lot of depth. The worst thing for me about GTAV was the skills-levelling mechanic which forced you to grind through unexciting tasks to allow a character to do things such as driving or shooting without having artificial layers of difficulty added to the controls (part of the reason I've never played GTAV online is because I can't bear to return to using a character who can't hold a gun or steering wheel steady), even Fallout 3, which could have been an excellent FPS was hobbled by its insistence on RPG mechanics which meant that the gunplay was terrible and you were forced to revert to the tedious VATS system (admittedly, that last example was an RPG before it was an FPS, but still, I hated it), any number of third person actioners with unlockable skills and abilities which I will never play through a second time because the thought of restarting from scratch with a character who can't do any of the cool things I could do at the end off the game is so unappealing.

Essentially, I agree with Knight's statement a while back that in skill-based games, which FPS's are, the only barrier to you improving should be your own skill level, not artificial restrictions that are lifted after plowing X hours into the game.

even Fallout 3, which could have been an excellent FPS was hobbled by its insistence on RPG mechanics

Fallout was an RPG with a first person viewport, bit unfair. It would have been shit as a straight up FPS.

which FPS's are

They don't all have to be. There is easily enough room for ones with RPG mechanics and ones without. I would agree those that are pure skill based should steer clear of ANY form of stat/equipment levelling. However those that aren't designed to be pure skill based (Fallout etc) are perfectly good, if not great games in their own right, if you don't like that style, don't buy it.

Re singleplayer

Perhaps the best thing about Halo was the AI, and it really hasn't improved a whole lot since then. If anything it seems to have gone downhill, which is presumably why the singleplayer campaigns are so awful these days. I suspect they no longer care about SP to be honest.

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Where next for online MP FPSes? Not exactly the same anyway. .

oops, should've done a search

...or Dead Rising 3.