Where have all the shooters gone?

[Crzwaco]

But was this not the trent with RPG for a while there they where dwindeling and then boom we get.
Wasteland 2
Divinity original sin.
Witcher
All the enhanced Editions.
Not sure if dark souls 2 counts.

Anyone remember the Medal of honour series?
But yeah the other day I was looking for a fps and seeing nothing that intrest me I am sticking to Killing floor 2.

[beans100]

I hope you got paid for the OP, Hammer, as it's good. Haven't seen anything like this, for a while. Also the replies is great.

[PsychoFish]

Does anyone ever pay attention to the political/militaristic back stories of most shooters?? They are all boring as heck, even Bad Company 2 which is the greatest fps ever created had a hohum forgettable story. It's saving grace though was outstanding character development and gameplay.

The stories are so generic. I'll sum them all up : You are a soldier and you have been put in a bad situation. You have to fight your way though the scenario.

The rest of the story is just padding.

[HavocXphere]

Are those AAA shooters only?

Are you sure there were 50 shooters released in 2005 and only 9 in 2015? Seems rather unlikely to me.

That said the overall trend sounds plausible.

One point I'd add is economics: Making a AAA shooter costs more than a movie and is a multi-year risky commitment. Not many shops have the appetite for that. Better to smash a "indie" game out in 2 months and pump it full of microtransactions.

I really miss the COD4 / BFBC2 days though. That was epic.

Another thing that really put me off the later games is that they felt straight up sluggish. CoD4 with some tweaking was razorsharp. BFBC2...less so but still there. CS and unreals too. But get to the later CoDs & BFs...do what you like it's still a tiny bit sluggish even with good framerates.

[DieGrootHammer]

Are those AAA shooters only?

Are you sure there were 50 shooters released in 2005 and only 9 in 2015? Seems rather unlikely to me.

That said the overall trend sounds plausible.

One point I'd add is economics: Making a AAA shooter costs more than a movie and is a multi-year risky commitment. Not many shops have the appetite for that. Better to smash a "indie" game out in 2 months and pump it full of microtransactions.

I really miss the COD4 / BFBC2 days though. That was epic.

Another thing that really put me off the later games is that they felt straight up sluggish. CoD4 with some tweaking was razorsharp. BFBC2...less so but still there. CS and unreals too. But get to the later CoDs & BFs...do what you like it's still a tiny bit sluggish even with good framerates.

Yes, the numbers I took was from lists of all AAA title or bigger more well know FPS shooters for the year. There are obviously a huge amount of indie games released every month, and a lot of them will be FPS shooters. But the point of this investigation was the fact that big budget AAA style FPS shooters are on the decline. I was busy with lists of my own for 2017, and noticed that there was a shockingly low amount of these games that came out this year.