I consider myself a gamer of all genres. No matter what it is no matter how good no matter how bad I will play the game.

There has been one genre that has been really nt over the past little while.

The First Person Shooter or FPS has been a really nt genre recently.

The most played games out now are gears of war and Resistance fall of man

Two of the most anticipated games (opinion) are Halo 3 and Bioshock 

Besides the recent pokemon surge First Person Shooters have been hopelessly ting the market.

While nothing can compare to the unbridled joy of someone with an actual , all the must play games are shooters.

Admittedly, first person shooters are fun.

But the lasting power of these games is questionable to me.

I mean people can admit that the story mode in halo 2 or gears of war would not be enough to justify the game's greatness. These games are great for the multiplayer.

Play your friends or play a stranger there are actual people to play.

Shooters weren't always the most revered games in the genre.

From after the amazing goldeneye and perfect dark for n64

Shooters were really not a ting genre till around the time halo came out 

But now shooters are what people play.

A few problems arise with shooters though that kind of hurt the industry

The first is overhyping...

I mean there are some people who would give up half of their lifespan to be playing a full version of halo 3

Not anything against halo but we could always end up with another killzone

Shooters are most of the really hyped games of the industry.

Overhyping taints the developers image, the genre's image and the industry's image

The second is lasting power

If the multiplayer is all that's important.

You need other people to play.

If no one else is playing that game then your fun is sucked out of the game

That also comes with people who hack the game

Or people who find some ridiculous combo that sucks the fun out of the game.

In ten years you will not be playing the first person shooter your playing now

If storyline doesn't matter in a genre where gameplay has little flexibility it's hard to call any first person shooter a classic.

So shooter's don't have that much lasting power and in the future won't really be as remembered as they are now

It almost seems like first person shooters are a fad in the gaming industry

But is it really just about the pure fun?