I don't hate them necessarily, but after having played them for over 20 years (since when the first ones like Wolfenstein made the scene), the overall premise hasn't changed. It's run around killing everything and there is only so much of that you can do before it starts to get really old. I prefer something along the lines of Elder Scrolls and Fallout because, while at their heart they are an FPS, there is a story, there is an open world to go explore, you are in control of what you want to do when you want to do it, etc. It's not just run through the building/street/jungle shooting at everything that moves while stuck on a linear/rail system. This also extends to multiplayer, I am just so sick to death of it. The most popular games like Battlefield and Call of Duty just keep repackaging the exact same game with maybe a few graphical tweeks, new guns, new maps, and maybe a new killstreak or something. But at their heart, it's the exact same freaking game over and over again - run around (or camp in one spot as the case may be) trying to kill everyone else, it's just been beaten to death. Why people keep flocking to them over and over again is beyond me.
What would really get me back into the swing of things regarding FPS games would be a total remake of the genre. I'm talking open world, randomly generated maps/worlds to play on so you aren't just playing the same dozen maps over and over again, truly fully destructible worlds (none of this shooting at someone behind a wall with a tank or helicopter just to see the rounds or shells magically bouncing off the walls, ground, piece of tarp, or whatever), no goofy perk systems, etc. There is so much that could be done to breathe some fresh air into the genre that I really can't believe non of the major developers have taken a stab at it. I don't even care if you have to dumb the graphics down a bit to do it, just make me something new that isn't just another Call of Duty or Battlefield frag fest. This is one of the main reasons why I'm considering going back to the PC.
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