alot?

My internet connection will cancel and my dictionary will set it self on fire are I post this comment. I just wanted to know what alot means. Thank you.

duh

Of course close combat gets you the most excited.

ah. my bad...

editing...

that's not the point

of course everyone knows that already. the point is that they got to sucker some poor shlob to pay them to play Halo, gears, et al. Must be nice being a scientist...

You might wanna fix this too:

Gears of was is NOT a FPS, it is a Third Person Shooter

Poor Jon

I dunno if I could stand writing blogs for QJ, this article seems perfectly fine to me (minus the "alot" thing .. and GoW is a third person shooter =p) but people yell at you!! Pretty soon ISOHaven's gonna come down here with his WTF?!?!?!?! and .. well never mind. Kudos for posting this article =)

well...

I personaly agree that FPS in order to be successful needs close combat. It needs to make you run faster, Think faster, Shoot faster. That's why Counter Strike still is a huge sucess. It has all these ingredients. Ok graphics are not eyecandy but who cares when you have good fun ?

Hrmm.

I like to think that the close combat is more rewarding because the game focuses on ranged combat. Seriously, recall the last time you knifed a Sniper/Camper and had to restrain yourself (maybe) from yelling out, "Take that you *expletive* Sniper/Camper/Annoyance! Yes!" Everyone likes the payback/ownage.

Successful FPS?

Successful console FPS. It's a brilliant method of pulling away from reliance on the precision aiming you get from a mouse (the traditional FPS tool until a few years ago) that doesn't really exist on a joystick. Making up-close combat more effective was bred on the console. Look at PC gaming, where the melee weapon has traditionally been the "useless" weapon, to the point where Quake 2 abandoned it entirely. Perfect Dark was probably the first major title to give melee attacking real usefulness (it would allow you to knock someone out without killing them) in game. Halo extended this by removing the need to "switch" to a melee weapon to use that style of attack. Halo 2 added the "lunge attack" with the sword, leveling the playing field between someone with good aim control and someone with good movement control. Games like Gears of War (a TPS, sure, but the camera gets so close to your character it might as well be an FPS from a tactical standpoint) took the concept even further by increasing the capabilities of up-close combat with stuff like instant kills and the "meat shield" option in 2. Generally speaking, but moving the focus away from pin-point aiming and instant turn-arounds to slower, button-dexterity-oriented close-quarters combat, the games become much better and deeper gameplay experiences on a console, where you've got 8 face buttons and two joysticks but eff all in mouse-like precision. An ingenious compensatory direction. Just my two cents.