Comments on: Four Tabletop RPG Licenses That Should Have FPS Games – and Four Insights from Those Choices http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/07/04/four-tabletop-rpg-licenses-that-should-have-fps-games-and-four-insights-from-those-choices/ Killing Someone Else's Darlings Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:06:55 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: magicbox http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/07/04/four-tabletop-rpg-licenses-that-should-have-fps-games-and-four-insights-from-those-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-156 magicbox Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:35:34 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=290#comment-156 Hunter: The Reckoning wouldn't be bad, but the attempts that were made to turn these into shooters a) weren't FPS and b) were lame to control. These have the requisite creepy stuff to shoot, has all the modern weapons you want (but you likely need guns mostly) and you have the occasional nifty power that helps you survive. It also gives an opportunity for you to have the AI of the game use your allies, giving the appropriate amount of horror/shock when a vampire/werewolf/mage completely destroys one of them in one shot. Plus bosses galore. Every other option didn't have enough ranged stuff to make it fun since getting up-close-and-personal in FPS sucks (that's why the bash in Halo is almost an instant-kill). Hunter: The Reckoning wouldn’t be bad, but the attempts that were made to turn these into shooters a) weren’t FPS and b) were lame to control. These have the requisite creepy stuff to shoot, has all the modern weapons you want (but you likely need guns mostly) and you have the occasional nifty power that helps you survive. It also gives an opportunity for you to have the AI of the game use your allies, giving the appropriate amount of horror/shock when a vampire/werewolf/mage completely destroys one of them in one shot. Plus bosses galore.

Every other option didn’t have enough ranged stuff to make it fun since getting up-close-and-personal in FPS sucks (that’s why the bash in Halo is almost an instant-kill).

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