{"id":809,"date":"2013-01-03T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2015-05-07T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:41:24","slug":"massive-market-injection-of-first-person-shooters-where-is-the-game-industry-heading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"First Person Shooters: Where is the Game Industry Heading?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember those days when third-person shooters ruled the world? What happened to those days? Did the industry forget them? Did the industry left it behind because of money? This article is written for you to get an understanding of this new phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Everywhere you see now are first-person shooters, we have Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, Far Cry 3, Heck, we also have games that are not supposed to be a first-person shooter crunching and squeezing into the first-person shooter genre, like Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.<\/p>\n

Back then every game you play has its own feel. The unique traits that makes every game, a game of its own. The reason why we all love videogaming.<\/p>\n

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Back then we had great platformers like Crash Bandicoot…<\/p>\n

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great action games like Zone of the Enders,<\/p>\n

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and great RPG and Beat’em up games like Xeno Saga,<\/p>\n

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The 128 bit consoles offered an array of excellent games from many different genres, despite it’s lack in graphic quality.<\/p>\n

That’s right, DESPITE it’s lack of graphic quality. The in-game jaggies actually brought you guys more fun than the 20x anti-aliasing they have nowadays<\/p>\n

So, what happened to those games?<\/p>\n

Ubisoft\u2019s managing director for Ubisoft Toronto, Jade Raymond said recently at the Game Developer’s Conference 2012, that the game industry is going towards an unhealthy commercialization of first-person shooters. The producer of the Assassin\u2019s Creed series lunge over the industry\u2019s favoritism over the first-person shooter genre and criticizes the abundance of the narrowed genre in the game market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know when we decided as an industry that in order to sell five million copies of a game you have to make a Michael Bay film. There are other options.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

She further explains,<\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more people come to me at Ubisoft and say, \u2018I love games. I came into this industry with so many ideas. But I can\u2019t continue to make shooters over and over again. I\u2019m not even in line with the messages.\u2019 I have that meeting a lot these days. Yeah, it\u2019s time to give our teenage medium a kick in the balls.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Jade Raymond<\/p>\n

We need to get her voice heard!<\/p>\n

To inform you guys on how this all happened,<\/strong><\/p>\n

It all started with\u00a0Resident Evil: Survivor<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s right, that damn game that started all this crap.<\/p>\n

Resident Evil: Survivor (1999) was one of Capcom’s conversion from a popular third-person game title to first-person one, it’s their beta-test.\u00a0Capcom saw the potential of the first-person shooters market due to the global hit of first-person shooters back in the late 90s with games like Half-Life and Counter-Strike hitting homes like crazy. And because Resident Evil at that time lacks in mobility and flexibility towards the controls of the characters in the Resident Evil environment, they realized that some gamers might tend to avoid the Resident Evil series because they don’t know how to control it. So they started the test-run on the Resident Evil games to see how the response would be like if Resident Evil was made into a first person shooter. Is it more scarier? Is it more daunting? Ooo, those were the questions of the guys back in 2000. The new millennia.<\/p>\n

Capcom Guy 1: Hey, it\u2019s the new millennia guys! We\u2019ve gotta start something new!<\/p>\n

Capcom Guy 2: Like what?<\/p>\n

Capcom Guy 1: Like Resident Evil in first person view!<\/p>\n

Capcom Staffs: WHOAaaaaaaaa<\/p>\n

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Another game that was not so crappy, but lead the scene for the innovation of many crappy craps is Splinter Cell…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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