With gaming currently dominated by FPS and MMO's I was wondering what you think is next for the world of gaming?

In 2009 we are seeing the release of some new RTS games which are a major reboot to an old genre, it also seems this days that everything and it's dog has an MMO to it's name, we've also already been shown some very nice RPG's already in the form of games such as Oblivion,Fable 2 and Fallout 3, Or will FPS remain top dog on the selves for the rest of our grey and brown gaming lives?

Sorry about the whole only one option no-text thing should've been more careful.

Um, wow, only one choice? someone is biased in a really stupid way.

some options would be good as well.

EDIT: Now that there's choices...FPS. The genre will never fall.

sorry mis-posted

I wanna see more games like Battlefield or Wolfenstain, but on a larger scale, and perhaps set in medieval times, being able to play as knights or swordsman and compete in huge multiplayer battles :)

Modern Genres are evolving... FPSes now generally include their own unique offerings, sometimes. otherwise they get ignored

I'm hoping more good RPG's, but I think FPS will stand strong for quite some time.

Stevato:
I wanna see more games like Battlefield or Wolfenstain, but on a larger scale, and perhaps set in medieval times, being able to play as knights or swordsman and compete in huge multiplayer battles :)

Pretty much this. With graphics being pushed constantly, it's about time to put out something that really captures the grand scale of epic battles. Draw distance and the number of units that can be on a screen at one time would be critical to this.

RebelRising:

Stevato:
I wanna see more games like Battlefield or Wolfenstain, but on a larger scale, and perhaps set in medieval times, being able to play as knights or swordsman and compete in huge multiplayer battles :)

Pretty much this. With graphics being pushed constantly, it's about time to put out something that really captures the grand scale of epic battles. Draw distance and the number of units that can be on a screen at one time would be critical to this.

I thought about something like that except in my fantasy world you could choose to play as the general in the thick of battle while pre-set army commands chosen by you are carried out by your troops, kind of like KUF:TC but without the need to swap to each platoon all the time.

I want to say RPG, but people are too consumed with their epically repetitive FPS's

I believe that there should be an MMO somewhere that is completely built off of player ideas and whatnot. Sort of a Guild Wars style thing(forces you to party up, and you adventure in the world by yourself), but updates weekly or so, and just gets bigger and better each time, because things are based on what players want.

Considering how successful the Halo trilogy was upon release (and still is) despite all the critisism it recieves on a regular basis from we, the gaming illuminatie, I don't think that the dominance of shooters is going to end any time soon.

I would like to see more arcade or Doom style shooters rather than just an endless stream of military shooters out there (a return to form would be a good thing for all of us in my humble opinion).

Crazzee:
I believe that there should be an MMO somewhere that is completely built off of player ideas and whatnot. Sort of a Guild Wars style thing(forces you to party up, and you adventure in the world by yourself), but updates weekly or so, and just gets bigger and better each time, because things are based on what players want.

So essentially what spore should be + medievel setting?

JRPGs will reign again.

Point and Click adventure games!

THEY SHALL HAVE THERE TIME AGAIN!

In the future, there will be more than 3 dominating genres.
[/wishful thinking]
If things keep following current trends, I will completely give up on gaming.

There's just too many mindless sheeple for our capitalist programmers to even think about originality.
To quote a Fairly Odd Parents cartoon episode: "In the future, everything will be sequels!!"

TaborMallory:
In the future, there will be more than 3 dominating genres.
[/wishful thinking]
If things keep following current trends, I will completely give up on gaming.

There's just too many mindless sheeple for our capitalist programmers to even think about originality.
To quote a Fairly Odd Parents cartoon episode: "In the future, everything will be sequels!!"

sheeple=awesome
Fairly Odd Parents= more awesome
bad sequels=not so much

I wouldn't mind every game being a sequel if it belonged to a series I enjoyed.

The problem isn't a lack of originality, simply a lack of quality.

Crossing my fingers for Adventure
But in all likelyhood it'll just be FPS...

Fightgarr:
Yeah, I think that at some point they are going to try and make something with battles on the scale of something like SW Battlefront or Dynasty Warriors but with no AI, all players online.
Think about 300 players on either side, clashing... the lag would be horrible.

Playstation is inventing that exact game. Its called MAG with 258 multiplayer matches.

harhol:

The problem isn't a lack of originality, simply a lack of quality.

No and yes, respectively.
Nowadays, everything is either a ripoff of another game or a sequel. While I agree partly with your idea on good sequels, many times the company is just milking a dead franchise. Take Mario/Zelda/Metroid for example. I thoroughly enjoyed the old Mario/Zelda/Metroid games, but I always lose a little respect for nintendo whenever they pull a new ripoff out of their ass...

I'm gonna say simulations.

I really hope someone brings back the old flight games, like Tie Fighter and Commanche

FPS(or any shooter for that matter)won't die because people are in love with the achivements they make killing NPC's in video games and you can get shot like a million times and never die for real!

I voted for First Person Shooter but I use that term very loosely. With newer innovations being made to the FPS genre (Mirrors Edge, Fallout 3 etc...) I think that we may now have A NEW GENRE!!! I call it the FPE (First Person Experience).

I would love to see RPG or RTS make a strong headway in 2009, but I think that MMO's and FPS are going to be on top for a while still.

Virtual Reality is probably the next step. A motion control scheme is not that far of a step from a WiiMote, and three-dimensional monitors/projectors already exist and are in the process of being popularized.

Not specifically a genre...or maybe it is, but I'm thinking the next thing will be having a FPS in which the story changes based on your spoken answers/commands via headset. Has this kind of thing been done before? I think it'd be a cool thing for a game like, say, Deus Ex 3.

"First Person" is a way of viewing an interaction with an environment,
"Puzzle" describes that interaction,
"Role Playing Game" is a description of various aspects of the game (generally outside the core game play experience),
And "Real Time Strategy" purports that a certain non-turn-based game has a high requirement for strategy.

These "genres" aren't contradictory...

"Portals" is a first person puzzle game,
"Fallout 3" is a first person roleplaying game,
"Deus ex" is pretty much a first person adventure game (and because an "adventure game" is more-or-less an alloy of "role playing game" and "puzzle game", it could be called a "first person role-playing puzzle game" or similar ugly phrase)
And unless your definition of RTS requires that the strategy be isolated from any dexterity tests, there have been a whole bunch of FPS-RTS mixes.

Further, you need to clarify what you mean by "remain top dog on the shelves". Hopefully, you don't mean to imply that most games sold are FPSs, because it's not really true: http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2008.pdf (see page 5, 6) - at worst, FPSs are /among/ the most popular games.

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But, eh, predictions?

1) First person interaction isn't going away. It is an excellent way to get the player to identify with his avatar, as well as being a natural way of interacting with the world. The last point holds especially true with the current 2-stick hardware.
1.5) Top down "classic-style" RTS games aren't going to take off on consoles unless the hardware starts supporting keyboards and mice.
2) Plot elements (role playing) are likely to become more common and effective, for two reasons. Foremost, because they make good business sense: the number of people who like a plot outnumber those who hate plots, and secondly, due to rising production costs and instructive examples in story telling, it is becoming less expensive to add something which is more than an excuse.
3) Puzzle elements will retain their current position in the market - a powerful force among "casual" gamers, and a small part of many major productions.

ansem1532:
I want to say RPG, but people are too consumed with their epically repetitive FPS's

I know. RPGs are soo much more original in their battle systems!
/Sarchasm

I just have to say it: FPSs are just about as repetetive as RPGs, they just rely on different gaming mechanics. I mean, an empty room in an RPG would likely be a lot more exciting than an empty room in a FPS, but unless there is an "Action-" prefix to the RPG, the battle system isn't really fighting, but (dare I say it) more like cooking.

Lets see, this takes longer to cook, but I have to coordinate it with the time it takes to bake this and roast that...
Should I use the last of my buttermilk in my biscuits or my dumplings? The Buttermilk gives a +3 to tastiness, so....

I want that there are more RPG's but that won't happen so I just say MMO's because you can't kill them. They respawn with a small EPX penalty.

Erana:

ansem1532:
I want to say RPG, but people are too consumed with their epically repetitive FPS's

I know. RPGs are soo much more original in their battle systems!
/Sarchasm

Actually RPG's are far more original than FPS's when it comes to the combat. Just think about it. In FPS's we are doing the same thing since the early days of the genre. At least with the RPG's you have some sort of variety!

And if you want an example: Baten Kaitos

I think as society integrates more and more with the internet then the clear favourite has to be MMOs of various genres, most likely multi-genre will begin to make their presence felt, Savage was an unsuccessful precursor to a new generation...