Rejecting Modern FPS Design - GS Reakkts to Toxikk Trailer

Modern FPS? Old FPS???
What is all this non-sense....the whole FPS genre have made MINIMAL changes in the last decade and a half. All that were done was add some random RPG element (classes, character level, etc). It's the same crap it has always been with different skins each iteration with a different name and claiming to be a different "game."

It's strange that they hint that having no classes is a downgrade. ADDING classes was a downgrade the moment it was introduced!

I hope that they have creativity in the weapons without making them too spammy. I don't see how you can compare the likes of a shock rifle with any "aim down the sights" gun!

I've been playing Unreal Tournament and Unreal games since more than a decade and I'm still not bored nor I have lost interest in this franchise. Even nowadays, this franchise still fascinates me very much, more than any other first-person shooter.

How dare you call TF2 a collection simulator! It's a hat simulator.

Unreal Tournament is my type of shooter.

Playing a CoD in 2014 isn't oldschool ? i mean the mechanics and graphics look oldschool. Toxikk is nothing for Wanne be shooter fans that grew up with CoD or BF, its for shooter Fans who grew up with Quake 3 and UT, simple and awesome.

The reason people continue to play a game long after release is simple: It's fun. The game itself is its own reward. It's how Counter-Strike has transcended generations so gracefully.

People will stop playing a Call of Duty or a Titanfall or (less so) a modern Battlefield title if there were no reward track because there's a distinct limit to the fun to be had in those games. The formula is extremely simple. There's no depth to the map interactions or the flow and coordination of team movements; there's no depth to the shooting, involving little more than picking the "best" assault rifle and using those iron sights liberally and swiftly; it's run and gun with a reward track, and once people have had enough of the reward track, the core of the game isn't enough to keep people around.

Amazing how they struggle to classify this game.

Toxikk is pretty much for old-school PC shooter fans...plain and simple. It isn't designed for nor marketed toward console gamers who might have come up COD or BF...or still play Titanfall.

Personally, I think Toxikk will miss the mark, UT4 on the other hand?...Total Show Stopper!!!

This, along with stuff like Tribes: Ascend, is way more fun than the typical shooters we have currently. I want to see some innovation though, rather than just going back to shooter roots.

I'm pretty excited for this, think I'm going to preorder the "Godlike Package." I have more than a few friends who miss arena shooters as much as I do.

I haven't been this hype about a FPS since... well... 1999 and the relase of Q3A!

I really like old school over the top arena shooters. Fun weapons and a lot of freedom.

After the new Wolfenstein and Shadow Warrior, I'm all about FPS harkening back to the oldschool, which meant for more fun design.

Nothing cooler than purchasing something in 2014 that plays like it was made 15 years ago. Money well spent.

PC enthusiasts will love this, I guarantee it

Leveling and 1000 different type of weapons are not needed to make a good game. If anything it makes the game worse in some ways. It gives advantages to player that spend every waking hour playing the game. Now you can debate if that's fair or not and that's a fair debate. But if you want a game where thousands of people are playing then the more level the playing field I suspect the more people you will have playing , ONCE the game gets established. Would love to play this game on console. I'm very hesitant to play Multiplayer games on PC because of all the cheating that goes on. yea there is cheating on consoles, but I would say less than 1% of the players cheat where on PC that number is much higher. I would guess upwards of 10% or more. I've seen in PC games more times than I can count. I love to play games on PC, but I just won't play multiplayer shooter games. With all that said, That game looks awesome. everybody has the same starting weapons and no special abilities, no perks. just straight combat.

"Things like Team Fortress 2 when they came out were these fantastic shooters that had a really unique experience and were sort of fast paced and had a lot of that arcadeyness to them but then as soon as it turned into people wearing 16 hats and running around looking like cartoon characters it was no longer the same thing, it was more of like a collection simulator."

Has this guy even played TF2 recently? They didn't change the gameplay at all, they just added character customization. The hats have 0 impact on the gameplay. It's still an amazing game and lightyears better than most shooters coming out these days. Not to mention it's completely free and it gets free content updates all the time. There's a reason why it's still in the top 5 games played on Steam every single day almost 7 years after release. Compare that to CoD (any of them) which isn't even in the top 50 less than a year later.

Progression systems are ruining shooters. The only reason they have them nowadays is to keep the ADD kids interested. People played hundreds of hours of Quake and UT without them. Modern shooters rely on people grinding unlocks over and over and spending as much money as possible before they release their next game 12-24 months later. Buy the game, season pass, weapon skins, voice packs, unlock shortcuts etc... and then do it all again next year cause none of it carries over.

Please Gamespot, never have either of these two make another video ever again. All they did was make me lose even more faith in the games industry.

Eh, anybody describing Unreal Tournament as chaos isn't really qualified to pass judgment on skill and be introduced as someone 'who plays a lot of shooters'. He sounded like his first shooter experience was CoD MW.