Favorite First-Person Shooters

[JMET]

Originally posted by mattvanstone
What makes metroid prime not a first person shooter?

Because its from Nintendo duh...

[FirstBlood]

MVS, is your CS name MVS, or is it something different?

i play as FirstBlood[IMPTU], i'll check out the CY6 servers, even though they're in CA, and my ping will probably be 110-120

[Mfkzt]

Originally posted by Tyler_Durden
Metroid Prime isn't a first-person shooter, so why the hell would anyone call it one? My argument was pretty ridiculous, but then, so was his statement.

Why are you so afraid to admit that it's a first-person adventure/shooter? I don't get it. It's almost like you have something against the genre and don't want Metroid Prime lumped in with other first-person shooters.

To me, Metroid Prime is a highly stylized first-person shooter/adventure hybrid. It's just as close in spirit to Quake as it is to Zelda 64.

[FirstBlood]

I'd still call Deus Ex and System Shock 2 first person shooters. Even though they rely HEAVILY on RPG elements, all of the action takes place in first person, and you do quite a bit of shooting

[MVS]

Originally posted by FirstBlood
MVS, is your CS name MVS, or is it something different?

i play as FirstBlood[IMPTU], i'll check out the CY6 servers, even though they're in CA, and my ping will probably be 110-120

nah, the name on there is |[ik]|Kodomo

I'm usually on at between 12-6 am sometime.

If you have a local server, let me know, I can go check it out.

[usagi]

So what you're saying is in Metroid Prime you have a gun so it makes it a SHOOTER, and you in FIRST PERSON so then it must be a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. So basically what your saying is every game that consist of shooting is a shooter, since the first person aspect of the label is just a perspective. So Blasto was a third person shooter, and Earthworm Jim is a 2D shooter, and the original Metroid is also a 2D shooter. Don't you think that the first person veiw games have evovled enough that they shouldn't all be labeled shooter. Like someone said earlier you have your action, adventure, stealth, strategy and I'm sure there's even more. I just think FPS is a pretty generic label. It might of worked in the early days when they all played the same, but now they don't.

[Tyler_Durden]

Originally posted by Mfkzt
To me, Metroid Prime is a highly stylized first-person shooter/adventure hybrid.

Isn't "adventure game" a lot easier to say than "highly stylized first-person shooter/adventure hybrid"? And I'm not scared of calling Metroid Prime a first-person shooter, it just isn't one. I wouldn't call Ikaruga a platformer. It's not that I'm "afraid" to call Ikaruga a platformer, it's just that Ikaruga is a shooter. Fuck it, call it an FPS if you want to.

[Mfkzt]

Originally posted by Tyler_Durden
Isn't "adventure game" a lot easier to say than "highly stylized first-person shooter/adventure hybrid"?

Yeah, but that doesn't describe the game well enough. Prime doesn't neatly fit into a certain genre like Ikaruga or Final Fantasy.

[MechDeus]

Yay! Genre arguing!

Protip: We've done this before, and it's all quite futile in the end. Stop now, none of you will get anywhere.

Most games don't fit neatly into little genres, they simply give a rough idea of what the game plays like. You can say, "This is a platformer," and the person who hears will not think it's like Final Fantasy (unless they had no clue in the first place, like many grandparents). This is something you will all have to come to terms with.

[JMET]

Damn this is getting "nerdy"...