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"Skyrim is a FPS"

Addict of Fiction writes:
"“Skyrim is an FPS”
First off please read all of us, this isn’t my opinion so don’t troll us, or if you do sign up first."

"I was walking along the Develop Conference and I heard someone say “Skyrim is pretty much an FPS, if you play a ranger. “"

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byrnezy5289d ago

On that theory Tekken is a racer :)

ironfist925289d ago

Heck, I'd still buy it if it was

dark-hollow5289d ago

It is an fps!

Its in first person perspective and you shoot fireballs and lightning :p

calibann5289d ago

Skyrim is not a first person shooter. Skyrim is an RPG. Yes there are elements that you could describe as ''FPS'' but that doesn't mean the whole game falls under that category. You have to look at the game as a whole and decide what category suits it best. Since you have a choice to play it as, for example, an FPS or as a 3rd person hack n slash, it should be reffered to as an RPG.

AtomicGerbil5289d ago

In that case then, Dragon age is a TPS, GT5 is a RTS and BF3 is a flight sim.

sikbeta5289d ago

Oh you... screwed the comment I was going to make :P

Cablephish5289d ago

FPS = First-Person Spellcaster

OR

First-Person Swordwielder

Kakihara5289d ago

In my case..

First person sneaker.

First person stop now and then to pan around my character in third person checking out how goddamn cool he lookser.

First person shit self when ice troll appearser.

360ICE5289d ago

It's not a shooter just because you can shoot things. I'd say exploration is way more central than shooting in Skyrim. AND there's a third person mode and lots of swordfighting and close quarter combat to be had just to make sure that this is not an FPS. To be sure you won't find the word first person shooter anywhere on the wiki page. (i know that on its own proves nothing)

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Matt06115289d ago

What about his everywhere?

xstreetsweeperx5289d ago

He writes a lot of places. That is what I initially intended this to be

Godmars2905289d ago

I've always thought of anything with a first person perspective and a ranged attack component as a FPS.

The only games that are are Myst and Mirror's Edge even though the latter has guns. Many TPS like Uncharted, Gears and inFaamous are in the same category as FPS as far as I'm concerned despite that two of them have platformer elements.

bozebo5289d ago (Edited 5289d ago )

"Many TPS like Uncharted, Gears and inFaamous are in the same category as FPS as far as I'm concerned"
this ^

Though infamous is rather different.

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kesvalk5289d ago

nope, skyrim is a genre mixer, like pretty much every game this generation.

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gigoran8159d ago

they can't get a 14 year old game to run smoothly?

jjb1981158d ago

That's ridiculous, lol. I'm waiting for the guy that says its too cpu-intensive for the Switch 2. This game is old af and has been released like 17 times.

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