Take a look at todays games. Not much variety is there? Back when I was younger there were lot's of variety. Now it seems like all developers are making First person shooters. I don't understand why, they have so many options. So why so many shooters? To me it seems like the same experience over and over its like having the same thing for dinner every day.
Developers need to change it up, just think back in the PS2 era, how many different games they were. You had Action, RPG'S, Action RPG's, Strategy, Strategy RPG'S, Platformers, Fighting games, as well as first person shooters. Sure you have some today but no ware near the amounts that we had back then, now all the big name games are shooters. I think it's the gamers faults. I would like to really know what happen? Did people suddenly just lose interest in variety? This is one of the reasons why my main gaming system is the Nintendo Wii because to me it has the right amount of everything. when you look at whats on the other two system you get a crap load of first person shooters.
I miss the old days, I only wish things will go back to the way they used to be. Developers need to fix this major problem, gamers want variety, different games need to be made, not just the first person shooter gamers. Gamers like me want to have a different experience with every game. What does the future hold? More variety? Or will the reign of the First Person Shooter last forever? Only time will tell.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
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Indeed there are a lot of shooters (mainly first-person shooters) out these days that don't seem to offer that much of a difference from one another (apart from the odd one) but it's not like every second game that is released is a FPS.
There still are plenty of games in each genre, albeit in certain genres tastes / developing has changed (things like JRPGs), it's just that FPSs tend to get a little more notice mainly because of multiplayer and how much longevity a good FPS multiplayer can have.
There are still a lot of developers making different games, arguably unique games, these days but companies know what sells and are sometimes reluctant to go into the unknown and try something different because everyone knows the damage one flop can make (an example of that would ironically be Haze by Free Radical). Right now FPSs are getting a fair bit of attention, admittedly too much but personally I think this trend is going to die down soon. A lot of the moanings and groanings over the CoD series are starting to increase and I think even the people that buy the games annualy are beginning to get sick of them. This year and (the past year too) a lot of more different games are getting the attention they deserve (Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, Mass Effect, The Last Guardian, Sly 4 hopefully, Limbo, LittleBigPlanet, and lots more) and maybe this'll be the time when devs will want to bring the originality back into gaming again that it once shined with.
It's all about money and multi-player. FPS's that support multi-player will always be mainstream.