Why Halo 5 and Doom are good signs for the future

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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With the continued support of Halo 5 , and the announcement of doom multiplayer, I have a good feeling about videogames. We are getting closer to a varied landscape in console fps. The revival of the Arena shooter. Be honest for the past 3-4 years we’ve had little variation in the genre. Many franchises tanked, Halo 4 was Halo with modern fps organs (why I didn’t care for it), and Battlefield had also experienced alot of bugs, and struggling launches. This left the console FPS to be held by Call of Duty. What did FPS players get in the time of this great turmoil. Ghosts and AW, TWO GAMES THAT WERE ABSOLUTE YOINK. Now what am I getting to here? The genre was garbage for 3 years, with no variation and no sign of change, bc COD had grasped for the low hanging fruit. But then Halo 5 came out. People realized hmm this doesn’t suck, and wanted more. May I point out the HWC finals got 98k viewers, so it proves the game is still relevant. Now onto Doom, it gets me excited because this is another AAA Arena shooter. I find these types of games add so much depth to the genre. Maybe we can hit that golden age of diversity with console games like last gen.

TLDR With the return of good Arena shooters, how do you think the landscape of videogames will change?

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Halo 5? Good sign for Future? Hopefully not

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Watch, people will come in here and debate the semantics of Arena Shooters, even though the sub-genre is fairly broad and can evolve like any other. (like platformers)

But yeah, I like the emphasis returned on equal starts, map control, static weapon placements, and mechanics based less on luck and randomness. Reach was not one by the latter technicality due to only having one changeable armor ability at a time, which made things inconsistent. (which I find a core pillar, hence; Equal Starts)

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Traditional arena shooters are still dead, the ones that do exist are compromises with more modern genres.
Mainstream gaming is dead, not expecting things to improve.

Will be interesting to see how Doom holds up but I’m not expecting much.