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Ten Steps to Making a Successful First Person Shooter

old-wizard.com: "With the release of "Left 4 Dead" for the Xbox 360, First Person Shooter (FPS) fans have come crawling out of their closets in as great of numbers as the zombies that attack you in these games. What is the appeal in the first person shooter that makes these gamers keep coming back for more? In this list we will go through the ten steps needed to make a FPS that make some gamers call the next FPS that comes out "amazing" with sheepish predictability. The steps are fairly simple and are used in most, if not all the FPS that have been released since Doom 1. Once the awareness of the predictability becomes more conscious, then maybe gamers will expect more out of these types of games."

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Stoneroses63005654d ago

Number 1, not all FPS games have zombies or aliens. Some have Nazis!

Killjoy30005654d ago (Edited 5654d ago )

According to Microsoft ad Bunjie's flawed logic, have a man in green armor with a bucket helmet on the cover!! Lol, ValvE's Half Life hero was some nerd and glasses and he easily pwns that failure.

will115654d ago

this is not a good article.. these suggestions suck

PS3 FTW5654d ago

Step 1: Don't make the final boss a race track (Halo 3)

Marquis_de_Sade5654d ago

'Bunjie' (perhaps you meant Bungie?) obviously failed badly with the Halo franchise, it's not as if the franchise has sold over 20 million and the latest iteration, Halo 3 logs over 600,000 unique users a day even though it launched over a year ago. Oh wait..... Fair enough, you prefer the PS3 over the 360, but lets not start spouting tripe like this, okay?

Killjoy30005653d ago (Edited 5653d ago )

I'm not talking sales figures, bud. I guess since you're Mr. Bigman NPD, you own a Wii and play Wii play for hours a day!! Also, GTA4 is the best game ever!! Have fun in your world, playing Halo, GTA4, and Wii. And FYI, I don't hate Xbox 360, but I do hate Halo. It's a disgrace that such a mediocre game can be the big c0ck of the industry.

Masta_fro5653d ago

just do whatever Killzone 2 did...

then advertize the hell out of it.

Marquis_de_Sade5653d ago

I personally don't care about sales, but claiming MS and Bungie failed with Halo is rubbish, the franchise has produced one of the defining games of this decade (Halo CE) and 2 great sequels with excellent online play, arguably the best on last generation and current, thus far at least. You may not enjoy Halo, but the number of people playing online daily show a lot of people who certainly do.

Killjoy30005653d ago

I'm highly aware of the refining the series did for console multiplayer. And yes, I used the phrase "Refinining." The originators are obviously Goldeneye and the soon-to-follow Perfect Dark. I'm not saying the series is a fail, but the actual character.

Look out!! It's Mr. Testosterone in green armor with big guns!!

Pathetic.

Solid Snake, Kratos, and Nathan Drake are all perfect examples for awesome, original, and iconic characters.

(IMO)

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Mr PS35654d ago

Don't make them for the 360

Step 2
Use killzone 2 as the Benchmark

RKRigney5654d ago

Nazis are my favorite type of people. TO SLAUGHTER.

Son of Odin5654d ago

Enjoyed this article. A couple of things though. I like killing zombies. Also, don't think graffiti is as common as the author thinks.

Volvobug5654d ago

There's graffiti in any FPS in an urban area.

miniduf15654d ago

Graffiti makes sense in urban area, almost every urban area has it. Overall not the best article.

Timesplitter145654d ago

Yeah I don't see the problem with killing zombies and aliens. In fact, I think they're much better enemies

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Volvobug5654d ago

Ha! Yeah Nazis are missing. I hate those guys.

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Welcome The Way Of The Exploding Fist and Zippy Bug to Antstream Arcade

Got an Antstream Arcade subscription kicking around? Put it to good use with the latest additions to the largest library of retro titles.

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Ghost of Tsushima is being review bombed on Steam due to PSN controversy

Ghost of Tsushima is being negatively reviewed on Steam due to its forced PSN requirements similar to Helldivers 2.

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_SilverHawk_23h ago

I don't know why sony would want people to sign into their service as if sony ownS the game.

gold_drake22h ago

not sure if sarcasm or not, but they do own the ip tho. ha.

thorstein21h ago

They're review bombing because PSN is required to play multiplayer.

Unlike some sites have claimed, it's not a launcher, it's just an overlay.

It's a bizarre thing to review bomb over since anyone can play it the single player game without it.

It's a single player game. The MP is bonus material.

StormSnooper48m ago

I know it’s not like every other company requires people to sign into their account. S:

gold_drake22h ago

sigh.
just make it an option, not a requirement.

StormSnooper46m ago

Yes just because all other companies require you to log in doesn’t mean PlayStation should be allowed to do the same.

gold_drake33m ago

thats a weird thing to say. if all the others require you to do it, why should they not be allowed to?

how about we dont make it a requirement, period?

OWCY17m ago(Edited 17m ago)

You keep saying this. But research first maybe. Most company's have wide reach so they are pretty much everywhere, psn has like a 62 country reach, so it's alienate all the other countries that doesn't have psn access...

Christopher22h ago

Sony made the mistake of requiring a login for their service like EA, Take2, Microsoft, Rockstar, and more and by being named Sony.

I'd be more supportive of this drive to push back against secondary logins if people were actually criticizing the biggest offenders out there. But this is just controversy for Sony, not for the plethora of other companies.

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H913h ago

Why can't you just recognize this as a step forward, why because it's Sony everyone need to prove their loyalty to the cause first before they attack them, Sony always needs to come last for you

Christopher1h ago

Because they immediately stopped at Sony. I wholeheartedly support the movement, but gamers aren't moving forward with it. And that's why I'm rolling my eyes at gamers who think they're fighting the good fight. They're not. Just pounding chests and letting the worse offenders get away.

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Sonic188122h ago

Hey Sony, At this point either make it an option or don't release your games on PC

blackblades5m ago

I mean they review bomb all they want it still the #1 selling game at the moment on steam. Its best for Sony to stick it out and let the login normalize it. If those pc user really wanted to play there games like they said they did at one point. They'll comply with the login and stop being a B* about it and stop using the Sony hack 20 years ago as an excuse to not want a psn account.

CrashMania18h ago

Is it? Currently only just over 2000 reviews at 83% positive.

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XDefiant PC Specs Revealed & Preload Available Now

Today, Ubisoft officially announced the PC specs for XDefiant. In addition, all players can now preload the game starting TODAY!

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