tigerswiftly wrote:

Moto: This thread is about the direction the FPS genre is taking/going to take. That Halo 3 still maintains a solid -ish population, despite the popularisation of the COD model and also having had a sequel (itself 2 years old), is noteworthy. That game, and that style, is evidently still popular. I guess.

This basically. Halo 3 is still my go to game. It annoys me greatly that 343 don't support public stat tracking for it, even though they are still taking the details.

I mean, look at that list. There is a ton of COD, and some COD like. The COD is above that though. So why try and beat it at it's own game? Halo 3 is showing than an aging game is still carving out a successful niche. Halo 4, if it had the confidence in it's core game could have regained the population that deserted Reach.

Long term, I don't believe that the players who like how COD plays will stick with Halo, and unless changes are made, the Halo players will be playing 3, and certain modes on Reach.

That list makes me wonder if there's space for anything new at all now.

My guess is the two teams that created COD and Halo will have a good crack at it.

It's next Christmas I think. So, we assume at least one next gen console, possibly two.

Mod74 wrote:

It's next Christmas I think. So, we assume at least one next gen console, possibly two.

Yeah screams next gen. New IP from one of the biggest studios has to be on a new console surely, the console units it will shift will mean MS and Sony will be keen.

Ah, so a bit of both then.

There's a Minecraft style Halo thing in the indie games section isn't there? Anyone play it?

Maybe some bedroom fiddler will create the next big thing? It seems more likely that they'd concentrate on the core gameplay and map design etc. leaving shite like levelling up to unlock pieces of armour or other baubles for the bigger developers to waste everyone's time on.

Liveinadive wrote:

It strikes me that this thread has developed into trying to solve a problem that largely doesn't exist (in terms of what the vast majority of the gaming community want to play).

A valid point. And well spotted, but I figure my motives are semi transperent.

Only having one game in town is a problem, IMO.

It's speculation to guess why people are playing or not playing stuff, but a large part of it seems to be: Everyone else is playing it. So much flows from that. You could have the best netcode in the world, but if no one is playing, the game will be forced to make bad matches and the game will suffer through either uneven skill or bad connections. That, to me, is more than half the battle.

That's a tangent. To get back to the quote above, lets assume that everything being a CoD alike is a problem: What other ways of doing things are there? And what would we like to see?

There's fatigue with the series from us in here, but I'd guess there's a gazillion juniors coming through the ranks that will make the drop offs unnoticeable.

Bungie's effort will be interesting. almost certainly confirmed as an MMOFPS, so it'll have unlocks and what not, and customisation out the wazoo, that's for sure, the question is going to be how the gameplay is structured around that.

Mod74 wrote:

I'm guessing "epic space battle". It'll probably be like Dust 514 except made by a developer that knows how to make FPS games.

Yeah, that's pretty much the consensus guess. The most recent speculation article I read said it felt like halo, but it was kinda cool in that you could run into other groups of players. No idea how it's structured though, open world, open world until a battle ensues, who the fuck knows.

If it ever got made, which I doubt, they'd dark and gritty it.

There were a web page a few years back asking what system fans would like the next splitters on, why they couldnt do multi~platform i dont know but it aint showed uo for any.
Think splitters is dead really for shame.

We all know the future of modern fps's now then...Right?
Bad company 1!

daviedigi wrote:

TThink splitters is dead really for shame.

I know, I know, sob

Never forget though right? Never forget...

It had that silly factor that is missing now.

I would like to see a Ratchet and Clank with MP too.

Why did goldeneye work in mp?

I love Ratchet & Clank and don't want multiplayer shoehorned in.

Get Crytek to make a new Timesplitters.