Hyperscape got some interest but more or less killed itself with poor balancing and a playerbase that couldn't decide what they actually wanted the game to be (read: Less like an old arena shooter). Titanfall was replaced with Apex because Titanfall could never retain players beyond a hyper-loyal few, and Respawn recognized that they could have a much bigger game by moving in a different direction.ĭoom's reboot never had a very significant Multiplayer following, period. Tribes: Ascend was a very, very good game that never got the audience it could have had. On top of that, of course many, many people much prefer a more "grounded" experience in their competitive shooters, anyways.īut seriously, despite all their early popularity, there literally just isn't a market any more? How did that happen? The closest we can get now (as far as a game with actual popularity is concerned) is Team Fortress 2, which carries over the speed, very distinct weapons, focus on projectiles and big health pools, but makes a good compromise by giving players exactly what they need right off the bat and being silly enough that people can enjoy themselves by just being in-game at all. We aren't in the days where people usually started at local LAN parties where everyone was more or less equally garbage any more, either. Shooters being slower, and slowing down even more in gunfights due to ADS systems, and not focusing so much on dominating an opponent by denying them the stuff they need, makes them far more accessible in the sense that people can drop in and play semi-decently right from the start. I understand perfectly why other design decisions have essentially won the big player counts. Where did all the people who enjoyed these games go? I sort of did, I'm the sort of person who can tolerate the early helplessness because I just enjoy bouncing around too much. That's the thing I can't wrap my head around. Somehow, despite gaming being bigger than it ever has been, there is apparently no room for traditional arena shooters any more. What happened to the hundreds of thousands of people who huffed those games like crack? Many still lingered around for well over a decade, wondering when they'd finally get something they could move on to.
The thing that I can't comprehend is this. It was about the same time that shooters focused more on comparatively believable worlds, characters and stories were showing up. The developers of these games liked their shooters extremely fast, with very high TTKs, lots of power-ups to grab, lots of funky projectile weapons. Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament more or less pioneered the multiplayer-only shooter the same year, and both were pretty huge. Quake? Also massive, especially from a multiplayer perspective. Now, there's actually still a pretty sizable group of people making and playing Doom maps and mods, but competitive multiplayer? Dead as a doorstop. A lot of map packs were more or less Deathmatch only. WADs people made, most were very careful to make sure that their levels were Deathmatch-compatible, to the point of neglecting single-player content. It might be surprising now, but people actually loved Doom Deathmatch. After Wolfenstein, Doom almost became a proto-immersive sim thing, with established co-op characters, way more story, ect., and most of it got scrapped, because most of the development team thought "Eh, this isn't actually very fun." OK, hey, let's go back to the beginning and talk about Doom. r/CoOpGaming - A community for co-op gaming r/xboxone - Xbox-specific subreddit for general Xbox news and discussion r/playstation, /r/PS4 & /r/PS5 - PlayStation-specific subreddits for general PlayStation news and discussion
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