The Next Setting For The Shooter Genre

Reciently I've been reading more and more articles in which the authors express that they're getting tired of modern military shooters. It seems to me that game companies are churning out modern military shooters and creating a situation similar to that of a few years ago when the market was saturated with World War 2 game and people were sick of them.

This leaves me wondering what direction the genre will take next in terms of setting? World War 2 and the modern era have been exhausted and all other historical wars I can think of have been tried and flopped, take Vietnam shooters for example. And it seems to me that the sci-fi/space marine shooter is close to being tapped out (I've heard grumblings here and there to that effect). So where else is there for shooters to go?

The one idea I've had is for a fantasy FPS combining fantasy elements such as dwarves, magic, dragons and whatnot with a 20th century sort of world and technology.

But I would like to hear from you lot. What ideas do you have for where the shooter genre could go and where do you think it is headed?

I dunno what it's called so here's a video for an example. @1:35+



Make a game like that. You have to keep marching and just stand and shoot. No running or dodging. Just walk and get hit by a bullet.

They have made a few FPS like that. The History Channel made a Civil War game like that. There was also musket shooting in Darkest of Days and Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.

However Line Infantry style warfare doesn't really lend itself well to shooters a it take a while to reload a musket and so you would just be standing there reloading and firing over and over, I'd think it would get monotonous.

It works really well in Strategy games like Empire: Total War but the only way I can see an FPS with muskets working is if you coupled it with a lot of melee combat. Like first you fire your musket a few times and then charge the enemy with a bayonet or a sword and start hacking away (which historically is usually what happened).

Imagine what Time Splitters would look like as a 2012 game. But since that's never gonna happen, I'm hoping for more post-apocalyptic settings.

Mechs, giant robots fucking eachother up, add some gunDAMNs and knightmares too, that shit's cray

Aren't there already a lot of games like that?

exactly what swaggerjack said. and as far as i can tell compared to the two you mentioned (WW2 & modern military shooters) mecha video games are very very few. sadly :(.

The next Call of Duty is going to feature mechs. Prominently.

Unmanned mechs, sure, but where CoD goes, others will follow, and that's kind of exciting. Maybe EA will be all like "HEY, PEOPLE LIKE THE FUTURE" and will make a sequel to Battlefield 2142!

I REALLY don't like cod as far as modern warfare is concerned. but what you said is true "where CoD goes, others will follow". and to be honest i'm not to excited about it.

Eh, I don't like CoD or the games that attempt to ape it, but watching people frantically try to pull off future warfare, in the midst of Black Ops 2's impending success, will at least make for a change of pace.

How about steam/cyber punk themes?

Sprinkle in some philosophy and you'll have a total ori....Oh.

eh....

I would actually want to see an FPS that takes place during the steam-age. The weaponry would be sick.

Wow yeah that would awesome! There would be gatling guns everywhere!

Nerf Guns.. seriously.
Because Everyone likes nerfing.

Well there is Hawken

I just had another thought about this. I was reading an article on The Escapist that was asking that if we ever stopped making games about killing Nazis then what group could we put in their place that would feel as guilt free to shoot in the face.

Link: What Ethnic Group Will Replace Nazis?

What about the Ku Klux Klan? You play as an ordinary guy who wanders into a town in the middle of nowhere thats populated by bloodthirsty Klansmen, and in order to survive you have to shoot your way out. Killing the KKK might not have the resonance with people outside of America as killing Nazis, but maybe if you had some backstory on what the Klan are they could get into it as well.

An ordinary black guy.

I imagine they'll take to depicting big civil wars and uprisings. The only trouble there is not alienating your market in that country. Africa would be perfect, but controversy would be rife.

How would it be controversial to kill Klansmen?

I think their making something like it. It's called dishonored.