What happened to single player first person shooters?

[AceGrace]

What is a boomer shooter?

[Isaac]

2 hours ago, mushashi said:

I'm still waiting for the Indie Arcade Racer renaissance FFS and Hell will likely experience extreme Climate Change before then and those games had quite small teams when they were Arcade games too.

 

There are loads of decent indie arcade racers being made. 

 

Want a brand new F Zero game?

 

 

[Ry]

2022 FPS I have played and enjoyed:

 

High on Life

Metal: Hellsinger

Modern Warfare 2

Tiny Tinas Wonderland (recommend muting the voice acting)

Shadow Warrior 3

Prodeus

 

 

 

[thesnwmn]

9 minutes ago, AceGrace said:

What is a boomer shooter?

 

Think old school shooters from the 90s. Doom, Quake. There's been a huge surge in these simpler shooters.

[Isaac]

10 minutes ago, AceGrace said:

What is a boomer shooter?

 

We have a whole thread on them:

 

 

 

But as an example, this:

 

 

[Fierce Poodle]

Just play the new version of Goldeneye and forget that shit.

[Kayin Amoh]

Modern Warfare 2's campaign was surprisingly good, even as someone who didn't click with any of them previously.

 

Well, aside from Infinite Warfare's which, along with some promising playthrough footage, convinced me to give MW2's a chance. 

 

And look. Prodeus. I don't know if you're talking AAA shooters, but GODDAMN PRODEUS. It's very awesome.

[dreamylittledream]

3 hours ago, Ry said:

2022 FPS I have played and enjoyed:

 

High on Life

Metal: Hellsinger

Modern Warfare 2

Tiny Tinas Wonderland (recommend muting the voice acting)

Shadow Warrior 3

Prodeus

 

 

 

All good games but only High on Life and Shadow Warrior 3 are story based FPS and both firmly triple B games rather than what @Timmo was describing.

 

Metal Hellsinger is a rhythm game masquerading as a shooter. Prodeus is fab but very much a boomer shooter. MW2 is Call of Duty and Tiny Tina is a looter shooter.

 

High budget story based FPS’s remain very thin on the ground these days

[mushashi]

4 hours ago, teddymeow said:

It's be great if Insomniac had another crack at the Resistance franshice or Guerilla went back to Killzone.

 

It is curious that Sony once sought to chase Microsoft in catering to FPS fans, then completely abandoned the genre. The people have voted with their wallets on this one as Open-World 3rd person games sell way better than those FPS games ever did at their peak for Sony.

 

 

  

43 minutes ago, dreamylittledream said:

High budget story based FPS’s remain very thin on the ground these days

 

It's interesting to note that Google Stadia Microsoft have had to help fund most of the recent examples in the genre too, despite all these games being technically independently made, which just shows how commercially unattractive the genre is these days if it requires a reach-around from a platform holder to make commercial sense.

 

High on Life started at Stadia before being funded by Microsoft.

CrossFireX by Remedy was funded partially by Microsoft.

Stalker 2 is funded in large part by Microsoft.

Atomic Heart is funded in part by Microsoft.

 

 

 

[Uncle Nasty]

On 28/01/2023 at 18:45, Ry said:

2022 FPS I have played and enjoyed:

 

High on Life

Metal: Hellsinger

Modern Warfare 2

Tiny Tinas Wonderland (recommend muting the voice acting)

Shadow Warrior 3

Prodeus

 

 

 

 

These aren't the same as the kind of shooters being discussed in the OP though. @Timmois talking about the era when games like Black, Urban Chaos, Project Snowblind and Painkiller were coming out on an almost monthly basis. On the original Xbox we were completely spoiled with quality single player shooters, very different picture to today where most shooters are either online/gimmicky/trying to be smart in some way.

 

I miss those games too. Online/Open Worlds/Season Passes have fucked the single player experience it seems. Even Halo is in the toilet now.

 

 

 

 

[Stanley]

I am playing through Half-Life 2 again and it’s still the best the genre has to offer, and when you think about it it’s actually a very short lived phase the story driven FPS, started with Half-Life and petered out around a decade later. There has been the odd exception since but it hasn’t thrived since the glory days of Half-Life and Halo, and it definitely hasn’t being as innovative, unless you include immersive sims such as Dishonored
 

I would argue that those types of narrative story driven games are now mainly third person ones - so Control, Uncharted, The Last Of Us, Returnal, Red Dead, Gears, Resident Evil, etc. ironically though RE is now a first person series although that’s more to do with VR. 

[Floyd]

I really enjoyed the last Metro. I really like those games. I did prefer last light but in terms of good FPS and good story, these are some good recent ones. 

 

If you haven't tried them, it's certainly worth it.

[Uncle Nasty]

The Metro games are decent enough first person survival/horror/adventures, I wouldn't call them strictly shooters, though.

 

I was going to suggest Borderlands 3 but it's not really a pure shooter considering its RPG/Looter/co-op elements. I love the game and think it's a masterpiece, but somehow wouldn't include it with the likes of Halo or Half Life in terms of genre.

[footle]

Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is the nearest current example: different themes or quirks per level (be that either defend the area, various forms of stealth, rain destruction down from on high, dodge the moving scenery and so on), high production values. It’s just that most people play multiplayer.

But if you decide, for no reason, that it doesn’t count so be it.

 

Black, Urban Chaos, et al. Whisper: they weren’t particularly good, and don’t stand up to what you’d expect today.

[Gabe]

I tried playing Black last year via Game Pass and it was a painful experience. It looked awful, which I can live with, but the controls were so stiff and I just couldn't get on with it so gave up after only about 30 minutes or so.

[SeanR]

5 hours ago, Gabe said:

I tried playing Black last year via Game Pass and it was a painful experience. It looked awful, which I can live with, but the controls were so stiff and I just couldn't get on with it so gave up after only about 30 minutes or so.

30 minutes? That’s very nearly a checkpoint!

 

im kidding, there are no checkpoints…

[Meers]

On 28/01/2023 at 19:42, Isaac said:

 

There are loads of decent indie arcade racers being made. 

 

Want a brand new F Zero game?

 

 

 

Holy shit, I need this! 😍

[Uncle Nasty]

3 hours ago, Meers said:

 

Holy shit, I need this! 😍

 

This shares some Wipeout DNA too, not sure if we've had a thread on it.

 

 

[thesnwmn]

You wanted an arcade racer? Well here's not an arcade racer!

 

(although obviously the style makes it look like one)

[Meers]

I'm an avid PC sim racing fan nowadays, but I still love my share of F-Zero and Mario Kart 'likes'.