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[coopolon]

I loathe aiming with dual analog sticks. It makes me hate games. But in recent years I've also really grown to prefer playing console style experiences (ie not handheld games, so vast majority of shooters) on the couch. For awhile I did the keyboard and mouse in my lap thing, but it is really awkward and annoying, wireless mice/keyboard suck, etc.

So I've basically given up on any game that requires even a moderate amount of aiming. I'm playing a lot of rpg's these days...

I hope steam controller fixes my issues although I have my doubts.

 

[Llyranor]

I barely touch shooters at all nowadays. Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm is the only one I have remote interest in, nowadays, and I haven't even touched that in months.

 

[Coxswain]

In theory, they're one of my absolute favourite genres. In practice, I play about one a year, and usually walk away feeling like I've been cheated out of my money and my time. I give any shooter two tests: First, I move and shoot at the same time. If the bullets don't go in the direction I aimed them, then it's a shit game and I stop playing immediately. Second is playing through and seeing whether the game tries to justify long, unskippable cutscenes by letting me walk and/or move the camera around during the cutscene. If it does that more than twice in one hour, I take the game out and bin it.

Unfortunately, the last time I played a shooter that didn't fail one or both of these tests was Serious Sam 3, all the way back in 2011. Edit: Actually, technically Tribes: Ascend didn't release officially until 2012, and that was the only multiplayer shooter I've liked since 2007, but I still spent most of my time with that game in 2011, around the same time that SS3 came out.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Don't see how anyone could write the entire genre off just because of COD or other military shooters. There's so much diversity in the FPS genre alone and if you bring in TPS that could count just about everything nowadays.

Yup, the sad thing is, even though we live in the "Age of the FPS", there's actually far less diversity in the genre than there was even 6-7 years ago. I'd do unspeakable things for another SWAT game.

 

[GenericJoe]

Very few shooters managed to hold my interest, but it wasn't until I played Dead Space that I realized why. Because the enemies in shooters are usually humanoid with the head being the weak point, it unfortunately tends to boil the gameplay in all shooters down to: "Point gun at enemy head. Pull trigger. Repeat. A lot." No matter how varied the setting or mechanics of the individual game, the actual gameplay all ends up feeling the same. Dead Space manages to avoid headshot=win and is a much better game for it.

Now that I'm overly aware of this, I have a hard time keeping my interest in any shootout, even in games that aren't solely based around shooting, like GTA V.

Note that I'm only referring to the single player mode in shooters. I'm sure multiplayer requires you to mix it up more but I have no interest in online play.

 

[nabe_shogun]

For me they're games I've become less and less interested as time goes on. Back in the 90's and early 2000's I played them all the time on PC. These days I rarely ever play them.

I do play third person shooters a little more though, as for recent games, dead space 1 and 2 I really enjoyed. And I still play all the first person shooters that valve makes. Also I really enjoyed Deus Ex:HR. But others not so much. I recently borrowed Bioshock Infinite from a friend and didn't even bother finishing it because I just got bored with it half way through.

The only shooters I'm really interested in these days are of the vertical or horizontally scrolling type.

 

[coopolon]

I loathe aiming with dual analog sticks. It makes me hate games. But in recent years I've also really grown to prefer playing console style experiences (ie not handheld games, so vast majority of shooters) on the couch. For awhile I did the keyboard and mouse in my lap thing, but it is really awkward and annoying, wireless mice/keyboard suck, etc.

So I've basically given up on any game that requires even a moderate amount of aiming. I'm playing a lot of rpg's these days...

I hope steam controller fixes my issues although I have my doubts.

Having said this, I do love me some Ratchet and Clank. Not sure why they don't bother me, obviously fine aiming is not a necessity but there is still a lot of aiming in those games. Maybe insomniac just makes it feel alright with a controller.

 

[Irobot82]

Battlefield 4 is the first shooter I've played in any large amount of time in YEARS. I mostly don't enjoy them but I've got some friends that I play with and it's a ton of fun. I mostly play single player RPG's like Skyrim and Dragon Age etc. At my age, having three kids and a full time job, my time has become more precious so I set my self a minimum $1/hr price point for games. Basically if I don't think I can get what I pay in hours I don't buy the game. I don't much care for MP so shooter were never on my list.

 

[Data Elemental]

I usually don't play FPS. On rare occasions, I get dragged into playing a bit of Q3A with friends though.

 

[GetemMa]

I still play multiplayer shooters.

I rarely play single player shooters. I just prefer competing against other people.

I really liked the Bioshock series and Metro Last Light but I find 95% of single player shooters extremely boring.

I really couldn't stand Killzone Shadowfall. I played it for 2 long hours and I haven't touched it since and I doubt I ever will again. Time to get that $40 trade in credit at Gamestop.

 

[Luigison]

Out side of RE4 and Portal I don't.

 

[Madouu]

When I was younger I used to spend all of my free time playing CS 1.6, attending tournaments and even preparing strats during classes with friends.

Nowadays, any shooter I pick up bores me after a bit.

 

[Skelter]

It is though, you have a portal gun that shoots portals. Just because you don't carry an AK to shoot people doesn't mean you're not playing a FPS.

Oh come on. It's first person and you're solving puzzles. Because you use a "portal gun" makes it a shooter?

Anyway I mostly play rpgs. Some strategies and adventure games. Shooters? I think the last the one I played that I enjoyed was TF2 before the Mann Co. update.

 

[Jindrael]

I think this year I only played TLOU and Bioshock:Infinte.

I don't dislike shooter but there aren't really that many that interest me, I never was a fan of modern military shooters and that severly limits the choice.

I was heavily invested in UT2k4, played in clans, had a lot of servers I would frequently visit and made lots of friends in it.
That was probably my best time with a shooter and also the longest.
Other shooter never got to this stage and couldn't capture my interest for even a quarter of the time I spent in UT.

My passion nowadays lies with platforming games of all kinds (mostly the really challenging ones e.g. Dustforce, SMB even IWBTG) and of course RPGs be it japanese or western.
I still play shooter when they really interest me but those are mostly singleplayer experiences.

 

[Miguel81]

I loathe shooters, unless they have horror and/or adventure aspects.