"The Future of Shooters is RPGs" says... CliffyB

june gloom on 9/7/2009 at 04:42

It's true. There aren't a lot of FPS games that I'm interested in these days.

Actually there just aren't a lot of new games, period, that I'm interested in. I buy Valve games because I'm a shameless fanboy, but aside from that meh.

Aja on 9/7/2009 at 04:53

Despite his choice of words, I don't think it's even the RPG elements of Bioshock that Bleszinski is really talking about, but rather its overall tone and atmosphere. He was surprised that a game which so openly promoted intelligence and literary influence as selling points (whether or not that influence was gratifyingly utilized is another issue) managed to become so popular.

Although Gears is pretty openly dumb, and it probably sold even more copies, eh?

Koki on 9/7/2009 at 05:11

Quote Posted by Ostriig

In between this and (http://kotaku.com/5308701/bioware-sees-a-future-of-games-without-combat-as-the-new-shit) BioWare stating that games substituting story for combat may be one of the new big things in the near future, we're looking at interesting, or otherwise simply curious, times ahead of us.

Or we're simply seeing people talking out of their ass.

CliffyB makes "more like two shitloads" TPP games. And he's gracing us with insights about RPG elements in the FPS genre. But that's CliffyB, he's like a kid, says the darnest things.

Bioware talking about story is just so laughable it's very, very unfunny. But I suspect it's simply a part of their campaign on Origins, since it's supposed to be oh so "story-driven". Bullshit, but better than more Manson.

Taffer36 on 9/7/2009 at 06:29

Quote Posted by Koki

CliffyB makes "more like two shitloads" TPP games. And he's gracing us with insights about RPG elements in the FPS genre.

I like how you instantly assume that RPG elements = more intelligent.

june gloom on 9/7/2009 at 06:51

You don't know ~~Koki~~ sarcasm very well.

Koki on 9/7/2009 at 06:53

That's very nice, I never did that though. I was just pointing out he works in a completely different genre.

Taffer36 on 9/7/2009 at 06:59

My bad, then. I just assumed because of how you juxtaposed "more like two shitloads" with "RPG elements" that you were implying that one was mindless while the other was, well, the opposite of "two shitloads" (aka intelligent).

Aja on 9/7/2009 at 07:11

um, it's "ten" shitloads...

Koki on 9/7/2009 at 07:26

oh my.

Xenith on 9/7/2009 at 07:52

At the end of the day, after putting points into accuracy, strength and constitution, you still want to play a simple pick-up-the-gun-and-shoot-the-bad-guys fps, aka Serious Sam, Painkiller, Half-life, Halo, Unreal Tournament, etc. Or you take on something that gives you more versatility (read "has awez0me powers") like Timeshift, Crysis, Bioshock, etc.

And right now I'm still a bit pissed off of what Hellgate Lodon could have been if they would have just figured out how to balance that gameplay and make it fun for everyone and actually try and make a bit more than a Diablo evolved wannabe. It could have been so good.