The future of fps's

After watching some MAG demos, I've been thinking about where fps's will go, and I've come to this conclusion (more dream);

At some point fps's will stop making "maps" and individual "servers", and simply make one massive world rather like mmorpgs. There will be a continuous war, and you can constantly sign in and play it. Since it'll be a full world all maps will be fluid, there would be varied environments, but assuming 100,000+ players could hypothetically be on at one time, the world would literally need to be a world. In other words most of it won't be populated, which lets players who'd rather be covert truly sneak in unpopulated areas to sneak up. Things like vehicles would be available in every town, and you could purchase the right to use them with virtual money (or in other words xp gained from kills).

So yeah, I think maps will go away, and every single player will be online simultaneously in one world. Possibly in the next 10 years if exponential growth continues. Thoughts?

That sounds like a cool idea, but I think it's going to be dust2/office/badwater, wasd, 'q' last weapon, left trigger plasma grenades for a while.

Interesting thinking, though playing fast and adventures as it's in FPS, doesn't mix well with lot of players because of bandwidth charistics. But probably some day this wouldn't be an issue any more. Maybe it's more like a hype atm, but I think the next big improvement will be in controllers, motion, thought (emotiv has recently started licencing its APIs) or something. Maybe not really for the hardcore FPSs, but for more casual players. Think for a second wouldn't be cool to just get low, throw, aim and stuff .. remember the last time you play some FPS, pressing two buttons and in the middle of the action you are thinking where's that darn button to look a bit on the right ans so on :)TranPrime

Yeah I've also thought about this.

I always wanted one server per map (huuge maps) .It'd be sort of like BF2: capture flags and areas, unlock new weapons, use big and different vehicles and have a ranking system.

You'd choose MEC, China or USMC, and you'd permanetly be that. Then you'd log in and choose a map. You could use your char in all of the maps. If the other team would win a whole map, the winning team would get lots of points to unlock new stuff.

It's interesting, but I'd definitely hate it if it were like that, MMOs should stay MMOs and FPS games, FPSs. The world would add more replay value to the game and more players would make it more intense but it would also get new things, bad things, like extreme boredom when you're not really doing anything, just running, content, you can only have so much firearms, confusion, uneven world (I don't really know how to say it in a few words, but anyway, a world that wouldn't be as appealing in most places, just a few, the rest would be empty pointless space).

I for one never want to see this happen, sure MMOFPS games, they are obviously there and you can see by how successful they are, how much people enjoy them (not much apparently), but FPS games should stay just like they are now, the basic "rules", and the rest should continue to evolve with time. Imo limited maps that are built extremely well and have great attention to detail, with a limited number of players (could be even 500, but still a limited number), hosted as personal or official servers, is the best way to go and it should never change.

For the last week I've been playing Zelda Twilight Princess and I absolutely love it.

My problem with controller peripherals, particularly shooters, is it feels too arcadey. bowling, fishing, baseball, sword fighting, ect with a wiimote or whatever is fun. Shooting with a gun sized - shaped controller feels like I'm at the funfair. I think everyone will prefer the mouse and keyboard for years to come.

What will be a welcomed technological feat is when we can stick a wire in the back of our heads and download our brains into a virtual world ala Ghost in the Shell - Matrix.

Also, apostrophes aren't used to show plurality, so in the future you should be typing "FPSs." That's a major pet peeve of mine.DGFreak

what i want is an fps with customizable weapons. not just scopes or lasers or suppressors, but something along the lines of fine-tunable stats in mmos, or talent trees. i'm thinking of sliders to adjust weapon rate-of-fire, damage, accuracy, range, movement speed, reload rate, stuff like that.Kh1ndjal

Isn't SOCOM like that? Not that I've played it, but I hear you can customize your weapons a bunch of different ways.

Man!sorry to disappoint you but you have to wait a LONG time for this:(

What I'm hoping for is a Deus-Ex type game, but with the option to travel around a VERY LARGE map with virtually no restrictions (or load times). Along with the character and equipment customization.

Problem is that Deus Ex 3 looks to be the series's equivalent of a Dodo. Y'know, regenerating health and all. :|

Man!sorry to disappoint you but you have to wait a LONG time for this:(

xxxBlackDogxxx

After watching some MAG demos, I've been thinking about where fps's will go, and I've come to this conclusion (more dream);

At some point fps's will stop making "maps" and individual "servers", and simply make one massive world rather like mmorpgs. There will be a continuous war, and you can constantly sign in and play it. Since it'll be a full world all maps will be fluid, there would be varied environments, but assuming 100,000+ players could hypothetically be on at one time, the world would literally need to be a world. In other words most of it won't be populated, which lets players who'd rather be covert truly sneak in unpopulated areas to sneak up. Things like vehicles would be available in every town, and you could purchase the right to use them with virtual money (or in other words xp gained from kills).

So yeah, I think maps will go away, and every single player will be online simultaneously in one world. Possibly in the next 10 years if exponential growth continues. Thoughts?

p00zer

You basically just described Planetside. It's a few years old now but I know people who still play it. I played it for a good year, but haven't in a long while.

After watching some MAG demos, I've been thinking about where fps's will go, and I've come to this conclusion (more dream);

At some point fps's will stop making "maps" and individual "servers", and simply make one massive world rather like mmorpgs. There will be a continuous war, and you can constantly sign in and play it. Since it'll be a full world all maps will be fluid, there would be varied environments, but assuming 100,000+ players could hypothetically be on at one time, the world would literally need to be a world. In other words most of it won't be populated, which lets players who'd rather be covert truly sneak in unpopulated areas to sneak up. Things like vehicles would be available in every town, and you could purchase the right to use them with virtual money (or in other words xp gained from kills).

So yeah, I think maps will go away, and every single player will be online simultaneously in one world. Possibly in the next 10 years if exponential growth continues. Thoughts?

p00zer

It's been done before on a smaller scale with middling results. The player-owned-server model seems to be the best way to go. Also, apostrophes aren't used to show plurality, so in the future you should be typing "FPSs." That's a major pet peeve of mine.DGFreak

Also, apostrophes aren't used to show plurality, so in the future you should be typing "FPSs." That's a major pet peeve of mine.DGFreak