Going back to broad strokes genres, this week’s topic concerns the FPS (First Person Shooter), a staple of the overall gaming scene.
A First Person Shooter is the type of game where you play from a first person perspective (big shocker) and focuses around shooting (bigger shocker there), whether that’s other players or NPC enemies. It’s nice for a genre to be so plainly self-descriptive! FPS games also involve the navigation of a 3D environment, and often times incorporate standard concepts that are ubiquitous at this point like ammo management and loadouts of different weapons. This genre was heavily shaped by Doom (the original, released in early 90s), to the point where before the name FPS fully took hold, one term often used was “Doom clones”. Nowadays there are many subgenres and styles paired with the FPS - class-based shooters, “boomer shooters”, milsim and/or tactical shooters, twitch shooters, and others.
Here are some questions and subtopics that I encourage people to discuss:
What are some of your favorite subgenres or styles of FPS, and your favorite games from them?
Do you enjoy secondary concepts often associated with FPS games like ammo management and loadout adjustment?
What genres do you like to see crossed over with an FPS?
Do you prefer multiplayer or singleplayer FPS games? For multiplayer, Co-op or PvP?
What are some of your favorite weapons from FPS titles? What’s been memorable?
Also feel free to bring up anything you like related to the topic! If you have suggestions for future discussion topics, leave them in the suggestion thread.
I always struggled with FPS games as they made me a bit nauseous and I would get lost easily. Typically I preferred 3rd person such as Gears of War, Uncharted, Witcher, etc. although I do have gob tons of hours in Destiny 2 and Skyrim so obviously managed to make it work.
What do you think it is about it that makes you nauseous? I notice that I get sick when I’m playing first person games with a low field of view and opening it up really helps, as does a higher refresh rate monitor. Have you tried either of those?
That is really good advice. I don’t seem to have as much problems with newer games so refresh rates probably did help. I will have to pay attention next time I play an FPS to change the FOV.
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I always struggled with FPS games as they made me a bit nauseous and I would get lost easily. Typically I preferred 3rd person such as Gears of War, Uncharted, Witcher, etc. although I do have gob tons of hours in Destiny 2 and Skyrim so obviously managed to make it work.
What do you think it is about it that makes you nauseous? I notice that I get sick when I’m playing first person games with a low field of view and opening it up really helps, as does a higher refresh rate monitor. Have you tried either of those?
That is really good advice. I don’t seem to have as much problems with newer games so refresh rates probably did help. I will have to pay attention next time I play an FPS to change the FOV.