Why did tactical shooters die?

I'm surprised at the RSV2 hate on here. I really liked both of the Vegas games. I liked classic Rainbow, too. Like Ravenshield.

My friend, I feel deeply this kind of comment gives great disservice to gamers. It's also just not true. Even casual gamers can spend hundreds of hours in Worlds Of Warcrafts or civilizations.

This attitude on display (that gamers are dumb and should be treated as such ) is most likely the attitude Ubisoft adopted when they "reinvented" Tom Clancy games to be Gears Of Wars with terrorismisms (not a tactical shooter btw, nothing tactical here). Or Ghost Recon: Futuristic People . Or them new Splinter Cells (which are all shite).

It's like you're not even trying

@uninspiredcup: Dude, the gaming community are fucking ass holes. Why do you think feedbackula exists? I sometimes hate calling myself a gamer because of all the losers/asshats associated with this hobby.

My friend, Mechanically, that's exactly what Vegas is.

not your friend

casual gamers only play one or two games.

The sudden explosive popularity of CoD 4 on PC.

There are probably people who watch the sales numbers. They'll continue the games that sell well and ax those that don't. If you like a game, support it. There's no better way of supporting a game than forking your money over.

I would guess these kind of games didn't sell that well.

Dunno, Insurgency looks awesome though, need to give it a go.

shadow fall is tactical

FPS games dead. COD killed them. Move on people and stop supporting noop games.

Socom 4 <3. Thank god that game came out. It gives me my tactical fix when I need one.

Because of god damn consoles. Yesterday i laughed when i tried that new Thief game, since it's completely on-rails and has cutscene/cinematic after cinematic every 60 seconds..

Last good Tactical FPS i know (before Takedown: Red Sabre) is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.

"rather than take my own opinion, which could be bias (it isn't)"

and yet you put consoles in your poll... twice. Yeah noooo possible bias there :|

Because of Call Of Duty. It's all Call Of Duty fault.

Glad it's dead. Didn't take long, either.

It died because less and less people played them.

The games got samey very quick. There are only so many tactics you can use; the few ones that keep you alive, or everything else that will kill you instantly. Very little room for improvising or experimenting.