competitive FPS future?
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Re: competitive FPS future?
When is this Dan? I'd be interested in trying out something a little more structured, but we should probably play a couple games together so you can know how bad I am.scorch- wrote:Who wants to play dota2 in the TI3 open qualification tournament?
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Re: competitive FPS future?
Out of the three upcoming games you mentioned, I think Dirty Bomb has the most potential.
Shootmania has already had a lot of money thrown at it, but the casual interest just isn't there. It's fun to watch for a little bit but it gets pretty old quickly as it's such a simple game. I lost complete interest in it after scorch/DR etc stopped playing. I still have a friend that plays but I haven't watched him since the IPL 5? qualifiers from last year. Last time I talked to him about Shootmania, he was thinking of moving to some 3rd person FPS that was coming out because he said the game had no future. Maybe someone will mod it to be better/more complex in the future, but I don't have much hope for it.
2GD's game, while it will probably be good if it ever gets released, again, probably won't have much casual interest. The dueling FPS style is too hard for 12 year old CoD idiots.
Dirty Bomb - you have to remember that these guys also put out Brink a couple years ago. I hopped on the Brink train early and while it was decent, the completely awful release really hurt the game. They released the game with it not working on ATI/AMD video cards... how is that even possible? They were also extremely slow in updating the game (balance issues) and it pretty much died within the first month. While these guys have a background in "esports" FPS titles, I think they just lucked out that Wolf:ET was played competitively (kind of like CS/DoD). I thought Quake Wars was a shitty Battlefield 2142 clone and didn't enjoy it (although it had a competitive community for a while). Watching how they handled Brink does not give me a lot of faith in Dirty Bomb. However, supposedly Bethesda pushed them to release the game early and with Dirty Bomb they will be the ones publishing the game so it may be better. With Dirty Bomb, depending on how they distribute it, it has the potential to be the #1 casually played FPS (free to play, so the LoL of FPS). If a lot of people are playing it, a competitive "esport" should naturally follow (not forced like Shootmania). I'll have some free time in the summer so I may pay the $120 for the alpha access (lol) to check it out.
Shootmania has already had a lot of money thrown at it, but the casual interest just isn't there. It's fun to watch for a little bit but it gets pretty old quickly as it's such a simple game. I lost complete interest in it after scorch/DR etc stopped playing. I still have a friend that plays but I haven't watched him since the IPL 5? qualifiers from last year. Last time I talked to him about Shootmania, he was thinking of moving to some 3rd person FPS that was coming out because he said the game had no future. Maybe someone will mod it to be better/more complex in the future, but I don't have much hope for it.
2GD's game, while it will probably be good if it ever gets released, again, probably won't have much casual interest. The dueling FPS style is too hard for 12 year old CoD idiots.
Dirty Bomb - you have to remember that these guys also put out Brink a couple years ago. I hopped on the Brink train early and while it was decent, the completely awful release really hurt the game. They released the game with it not working on ATI/AMD video cards... how is that even possible? They were also extremely slow in updating the game (balance issues) and it pretty much died within the first month. While these guys have a background in "esports" FPS titles, I think they just lucked out that Wolf:ET was played competitively (kind of like CS/DoD). I thought Quake Wars was a shitty Battlefield 2142 clone and didn't enjoy it (although it had a competitive community for a while). Watching how they handled Brink does not give me a lot of faith in Dirty Bomb. However, supposedly Bethesda pushed them to release the game early and with Dirty Bomb they will be the ones publishing the game so it may be better. With Dirty Bomb, depending on how they distribute it, it has the potential to be the #1 casually played FPS (free to play, so the LoL of FPS). If a lot of people are playing it, a competitive "esport" should naturally follow (not forced like Shootmania). I'll have some free time in the summer so I may pay the $120 for the alpha access (lol) to check it out.
Re: competitive FPS future?
*bumping old thread* saw an interesting (fairly recent) interview with gabe newell with the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21677119
dunno if americans can watch it but at around 3:10 the interviewer is asking about HL3 and portal 3 etc, and gabe says "we're always looking at all of our games, even ricochet and day of defeat, to think about how we could evolve them given the changing gaming landscape" :O DAY OF DEFEAT 3: CONFIRMED
dunno if americans can watch it but at around 3:10 the interviewer is asking about HL3 and portal 3 etc, and gabe says "we're always looking at all of our games, even ricochet and day of defeat, to think about how we could evolve them given the changing gaming landscape" :O DAY OF DEFEAT 3: CONFIRMED
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Re: competitive FPS future?
An1maL wrote:... DAY OF DEFEAT 3: CONFIRMED
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Re: competitive FPS future?
We are likened to Ricochet. Dead game confirmed.
Re: competitive FPS future?
joeledmunds wrote:We are likened to Ricochet. Dead game confirmed.
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Re: competitive FPS future?
Im up for some more dotaaaaaaaaa Dan
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Re: competitive FPS future?
Also 2gd hosts a show on twitch about gaming and does casting for dota, used to be a pro quake player, hes got a pretty big following, his game will take off at first just based on his fanbase.
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Re: competitive FPS future?
very interesting thread