FPS'd out.

I can't be the only one that is really beginning to get tired of the genre, and looks at what's on the release list this year and sighs.

FEAR 2 should be good. It's a straight up corridor shooter with fun weapons.

I haven't played one since I finally got Bioshock back in the summer. Killzone 2 looks good. Other than that, I have no plans to play any others.

Killzone 2 and Halo Recon this year and I don't forsee anything else on the horizon. I don't even play FPS much (really Halo and Resistance) but I'm a little tired of these games as well.

I don't think I'll burn out on them because I only play a few FPS series. I've been playing for more than 10 years and still have lots of fun with them. I do play lots of different thing,esp 8-16 bit games , so I think I strike a balance there.

BEGINNING? I've been FPS'ed out for a long time, however I made an exception for Call of Duty 4 and World at War.

ESPECIALLY WWII FPSs. How many times are you to going to tell the same story? I know I'm going to get Call of Duty 5 when it comes up (cuz of the multiplayer) but at least it's not going to be set in WWII.

I'm liking Mirror's Edge! And Left4Dead is super rad! Oh oh and Fallout 3 too! So I guess I'm not FPS'd out.

Maybe you need to stick with good games?

I only play maybe 2 or 3 per year, so nah.

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Originally Posted by FX

How many times are you to going to tell the same story? I know I'm going to get Call of Duty 5 when it comes up (cuz of the multiplayer) but at least it's not going to be set in WWII.

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And modern warfare isn't played out as well as a setting ? Besides FPS's like Undying and Bioshock, I'm not playing these games for narrative, I'm playing them to shoot other people in multiplayer. I only play the single player part of the game whenever none of my friends are online or I'm just burned out in general. If I hear that a single player part of a FPS has some great set-pieces, then I may play through just to see them, but in general, multiplayer is my drug of choice.

The last FPS I gave a shit about was Decent.

I used to be as anti-FPS as I am anti-proprietary handheld, because I was highly bothered by how people could decry fighting games or RPGs or shooters as all being the same game over and over again with one breath and praise 50 flavors of Quake with the next. I don't care that much about it now. The FPSes which retain a fanbase today tend to have a good reason to do so.

That being said - for years to come I'll likely not buy any FPS and won't play any on my own independent free time in that same period. This means I'm great kill fodder in group or party settings, so everyone else gets to have a good time at my expense. Hooray.