Why Modern War FPS Games All Look the Same [CHART]
As we've pointed out before, the makers of modern war FPS games are fresh out of ideas. To truly get a handle on the situation while making us all billionaires, we decided to try and figure out the formula they all appear to be following. It wasn't that hard, actually.
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Now I'm not looking forward to my Sims 3: Shoot to Kill expansion pack.
ReplyCracked, your writers have too much time on their hands, or are being forced to pump out stupid articles like Chris Chase on Yahoo. STOP! You're overthinking way too much...
ReplyCall of Duty Black Ops's helicopter level didn't end with a crash.
ReplyI guess while we are on the subject, couldn't you say that about all modern warfare movies, tv shows, comics/books, art and anything else?!! DUH!!! I actually don't mind (for now) considering that there is like 100 (or more) WW2 games out there!
Reply"All weapons cannot cause instant death, but bladed weapons always kill."
Replybut you've got a way better chance of surviving getting stabbed, that something I don't get about COD and Battlefield whats the point of the knifing, it kind of takes something away at least for me
One pilot always survives the crash, one or both legs usually broken, may die soon after.
ReplyYou don't crash the Heli in Black Ops, you land it all safe and sound (since you care that its a commies chopper) then kill VC's on foot.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesOne of them crashed in the Defector.
I should know.
You jump and it crashes in Redemption
Best. Chart. Ever.
ReplyI really think there should be a game that takes place during The War of 1912, or The French and Indian War. Or maybe the Civil War.
ReplyOoh, Civil War would be fun.
Though I bet the only series to address it (if it ever gets out of bankruptcy) are the Age of people.
There is only one FPS I need, at least for online play. That is Team Fortress 2. For singlplayer, anything with a half-decent campaign is okay, but Half-Life 1 will always be king.
ReplyOkay some of these are valid points but seriously...
ReplyMost FPS games look the same because thats what guns look like. (if youre just comparing a screenshot.)
Guns look like dramatic people walking through debris? Or helicopters and other soldiers? Or the same level ending and dramatic twist in every game?
most Fps devs should stop making war games.. espeacially if they suck at em.. Make more Fps adventure games or Fps Rpgs
That scene in Medal Of Honour when Rabbit died was really sad...
ReplyPeople need to think like Portal - just do something fresh, intelligent, original, and fun. Modern Warfare has cornered the market on FPS titles, so unless the game you're making is called Battlefield, you need to stop trying to rip off Infinity Ward. And no, just because you vomited your s**tty Kill Recon Crysis Zone 4 onto a 3DTV doesn't mean anybody is going to waste their money on it.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesFYI: the girl in Portal isn't real and will never f**k you.
@privatedancer Aren't you douchebags bored of "hurrdurr geeknerd huhhduhhh were's my beer pong balls and silk sweats I need Bobby to pat my ass some more"?
I agree, but Crysis was a good game and had a good idea.
More Fps rpgs n Fps adventure games.. just stir away from "war with russians or terrorist" that crap is old n boring anyway...Hell what about Fp horror games..
This is what we want... FPF yes not FPS FPF first person fighter lol, with your aim being find key checkpoints in any order. When you get there introduce comedy, sex, good story of revenge for next scene. Then fight in a team or hunt someone down. you punch kick and bite, whack with bottles (fight drunk), be poisoned by things in a fight, forced off things and even dismembered by fighting with smashed things that you can use only once. R18 using state of the art graphics with great fPS (not like GTA but Call of duty style engine). Done - what do you all think crap huh? :)
Replyoh shut up
i got an idea, Since the world is about to end anyway why don't they do a game and have Jesus bursting from the clouds, riding his flaming chariot and destroying the whole world, game over.
Reply Hide All See All 6 Repliesidea: instead of a real war, we have paintball in my sea-based, metal, country-sized megadrome.
or just play MW2.
We should start on this now, it's genius
@cisco-red;nah, most people would find this too shocking or boring.i mean, a game in what the whole world dies at the end, even if you play as hard as you can and, you always will lose, don't matter what you do?except that you controlled Jesus, but in this scenario, you will always win regardless of what you do, since the only ones that would make a game in which you play as Jesus in the Apocalypse are Christians.(However, why do some of them have a mania of saying that Jesus in God if much probably is saying in the bible that jesus is in fact son of God, not God himself?How will i know, i only read the bible once, because i had nothing better to do.)
finally, didn't somebody said that the world would end in 2000 and 21st of May, too?
Somehow,I'm not convinced that the fans of modern war,brown,"realistic"(HA!) shooters are terribly concerned about plot.
@Saturn_Hare Just going to say, Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit are supposed to be one entity as well as being separate entities. I think St Patrick described it by saying they were like a three leaved clover. Ie, each leaf is part of the same plant yet separate.
I'm not Christian but I was raised by very religious Irish Catholics.
Kirk Cameron already made it, but the video crashed every time Jesus went after Muhammed.
For a fun idea - include a helicopter sim that is moderately realistic. Those things are incredibly, incredibly difficult to fly.
ReplyIn the Operation Flashpoint series there are really realistic helicopter sims. Also, someone made a few for Garry's Mod.
Has anyone seen the cover of Behind Enemy Lines 3: Columbia? If not, google it now.
Replywell, tbh, thers no choppers.
just the stars n stripes.
there is an exploding chopper on the top right
f**k YOU CALL OF DUTY STOP KILLING ME!
Replylol true story!
ReplyCall of Duty is running out of good ideas. Since futuristic shooters almost aways bore the s**t out of me, maybe they should do... a WW1 shooter! It'd be lots of fun- go to this part of the trench, gas mask on, gas mask off, now wait a few hours for the Germans to charge, then slaughter them, then you charge, then you get slaughtered, and then game over!
Reply Hide All See All 8 RepliesI was thinking they should do a Revolutionary War game where your character is like one of the first people to use guirella(however the heck you spell that) style warfare or something like that
I would like to see something with really open ended game play.
i actually like battlefield 2142, it's actually set in the FUTURE, not these games, they're all contemporary warfare. Titan warfare was awesome, you should check it out =)
@dougie777;there is a flash game called Warfare 1917 that already does this.but, instead of soldier, you control when a new unit goes to the trench.
maybe they should do a WWI Shooter.but taking place in some other front than the western.something like controlling the germans in the East African campaign.nobody remembers this.however, it would flop exactly because of that (today, who gives importance to the World war I at all?).
Easter egg where you piss on a cloth and you dont have to use a gasmask.
They should make a game like Mass Effect but set in present/WW2 times. Have one hundred different endings that can happen depending on how well you play and implement a moral choice system (maybe choosing whether or not to torture terrorism suspects for vital information?)
They should make a Call of Duty game when you play as dinosaurs and you fight enemy dinosaurs and eat them.