After 'Call of Duty', What Will Be The Next Big Thing?

Matt Pettit of VelocityGamer.com tries his best to look into the future of gaming to see what will come after the 'Call of Duty' franchise has run its course. What will be the next big thing? Click the link and find out for yourself!

[Rainstorm81]

Whatever it is i just hope its not a FPS..... I loved the days where GTA dominated sales and was actually deserving of the achievment.

In this more simplified age of gaming, if the learning curve isnt simple enough for most, its popularity wains.

I long for the days when the current casual group of gsmers ignored gaming.....in those days the devs didnt cater to them

[BitbyDeath]

Well said.
Luckily we still have devs like Quantic Dream who have flat out said they don't care about making money just good games. We need more like them.

[Hufandpuf]

But uually it's hard for people that focus solely on selling a quality product. If the genre is too niche for the market, there chances of continuing development for other games become slim.
Time = money.
if Time ≠ money, you better call it a day.

[WrAiTh Sp3cTr3]

I guess people like you are THAT worried about gaming. If you know your gaming history, it'd tell you about how people making games didn't do it for monetary gain, they actually gave it away to friends and vice versa. I remember playing Dr. jay vs Larry Bird on floppy disc in school and never knew games would soon have a price tag to them. Although that was my introduction to gaming it wasn't long until I noticed software having a price tag attached to it later on. What I'm trying to say is, the worst case scenario for gaming is that people will go back to making games for the love of it and not the financial gain. Gaming isn't going anywhere, and the only problem, is people getting into it for the love of money instead of the love of creating something and sharing it with the world.

[GraveLord]

The funny thing is that many of these devs are casual gamers themselves. They are so busy making games that they have little time to actually sit down a play a "hardcore" game like Skryrim or Dark Souls.

There's nothing wrong with being a casual gamer. Not all gamer are unemployed males living in their parents basements........

[Zichu]

As much as I have enjoyed playing alot of the FPS games this gen, they are starting to become quite stale. I find myself playing more RPG's and single player games. I do hope that there will be more focus on a variety of genres soon.

[Rainstorm81]

Thats the genre that needs more attention from devs..... This generation's RPG selection has been paltry, even though there has been some good ones, its not nearly comparable to last gen.

Even the original Xbox had wide variety of exclusive RPGs....with this gen focus being FPS because of the success of games like Halo and COD, RPG releases havent been getting the focus

[Game4life]

FPS"S are overpopulated. Fighting games already had their time in the hot spot but they appear to be making a solid comeback as of recent. Been seeing alot of fighters (more then there used to be the past couple of years) recently. Rpgs do need more attention I agree. It's one of the genre's along with Adventure games (noone seems to make alot of them anymore due to everyone wanting some of the COD pie)But more or less both of the genres could use some more of them. RPG"s , well JRPG's are a dying breed as of late (this genreation)It's oe of the few types of games that i go and look for everytime i go to the store,but alas they never have anything I don't

[scrambles]

tetris

[josephayal]

Def Street Fighter 5 with ultra Blanka and Evil Dan

[Der_Kommandant]

Another recycled Call of Duty!

[TheFirstClassic]

Miss when more platformers came out more like in the n64 and psone days. Games like Banjo Kazooie, mario 64, crash, spyro, rayman, and others will remain as my favourite gaming memories, and my earliest.

[eak3]

I've always been a fan of the FPS genre, from the original Castle Wolfenstien, then to perhaps the greatest fps ever imo, Doom for the original Playstation, moving along to Half Life.Counterstrike, and the original Goldeneye. Tinkered with games like Unreal, Quake and Pain, but COD 4 ModernWarfare was truly an amazing and revolutionary game and definitely revitalized the FPS market. The next big thing? Who knows I'd like to see Doom back on top, love that universe.

[ginsunuva]

Atlus's "Souls" series. It will be sooo huge even grandmas will be playing them.

[snowman2149]

Respawn and Bungie's new IPs obviously.

[BattleTorn]

Aw, that's what I came to say....

[BattleTorn]

By activison signing Bungie for a 10-year contract, does that mean they secretly thought Halo was the best FPS?

Either that, or Bungie was the best FPS-developer, or launch-title-developer.

Halo does have quite a strong following for a exclusive.

I can only imagine that mixing that with multiplatform publishers, Activision, it will be outstanding.

[49erguy]

There is nothing like a damn good lengthy SP experience. I hope games become even more of a story-telling medium because this gen made new strides in characterization/character development. I've never liked any main character as much as I do Nathan Drake (except Big Boss) and have never been closer to anyone than my crew in Mass Effect. Games like these are the reason why I am a gamer. Any devs can slap together an FPS, and I can't wait for this to run its course and be done with.

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

Hopefully it's not just call of duty but most of theses shooters. I really can't take much more. Once they're out hopefully JRPG go back to being king.