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did we ever figure out why FPS games became the overwhelmingly dominant genre in vidya in the late 2000s?
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>>722520854
shooting faggots and making them seethe is fun.
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kill yourself cris
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They were fun and content was not catering to microtransaction tard players.
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>>722520854
The US military started investing in games
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when every game was a FPS gaming was not woke and it was based and fun
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>>722520854
FPS were dominant because there was a dominant mindset that games were little more than "bing bing wahoo", the games with story were usually treated as nerd shit. WRPGs and point and click just did not appeal to the same crowd that wanted to sit in a lobby and frag, and that was a LOT of people.
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>>722521482
ding ding ding
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>its another americans ruin everything episode
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>>722520854
Toxotransmosis moment
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>the aim community
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>>722520854
Halo and CoD finally figured how to make the genre normie-friendly on consoles, which were just discovering online gaming.



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