Are arena shooters ever really going to make a meaningful comeback?

No, people will always prefer classes/characters with their abilities.

>>381556284
After quake champions becoming DOA I don't think we will see a proper arena shooter for a long time.

>>381556284
Is this an official image? It looks like a shitty gmod pose.

>>381556752
The pose itself is shit, but i don't think anyone has managed to rip BJ's model from TNO

>>381556284
Not really, only Quake Champions will succeed.

It will. Screencap this.

The others will be DOA because the devs will listen to the people that never play any of them but still ask constantly for devs to make them exactly like they were 15 years ago. Look at UT4.

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>>381556752
Nah it's from the Quake Champions BJ trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCHUJj7fEw

It's an arena shooter, it just needs to look what it sort of is, it doesn't need to a highly detailed thing like it would be in New Order, where the promo renders and indeed, his cutscene model look like a product with Bethesda money.

Doomguy when?

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>>381556995
I mean, you could argue the audience is there, the audience just isn't big enough to support and sustain a major multiplayer arena shooter project in 2017, especially a PC-only shooter.

People don't like "genre" games, they just like the game themselves. Yes, there are quite a lot of people that play multiple titles, but nobody is going to give up COD for everybody that tried to clone COD. Even after a string of mediocre releases COD still sells significantly better than most other shooters.

For all that talk about Overwatch killing TF2? TF2 playerbase didn't even take a dent.

Counter-Strike has outlived every major multiplayer trend and continues to be the most popular multiplayer FPS.

Quake? Half of it will just be the luxury of the Quake name and Bethesda support.

>>381557801
>TF2 playerbase didn't take a dent.
You obviously haven't been playing for 2+ year

>>381556284
the "pure" arena shooter has been rehashed over and over again. Halo didn't kill arena, arena was killed by it's own merits. The plain truth is that most people don't enjoy a barebones, difficult, unforgiving fps experience.

No every time a new arena shooter gets released a bunch of people will go
>but its not an exact replica!
And the cycle will begin anew

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I want a new Unreal.

>>381557801
>Counter-Strike has outlived every major multiplayer trend and continues to be the most popular multiplayer FPS.
To be fair, that game got remade every so often.
And with it's latest iteration, major multiplayer trends (aka bullshit) got added. Things like the now prevalent crates that get unlocked by keys, hats, etc.

>>381557801
TF2 doesnt seem like it lost many players, because it's already died. I, along with thousands of other players, quit playing a long time ago, when the game became a hat and trade simulator, rather than a multiplayer FPS.

>>381556284
They STILL are using the fps based netcode that requires you to have 10mb upload to even play on higher frames and at this point its beginning to look like super smash bros of """arena""" shooters.

>>381561276
Nigga look at the player stats. The game hasn't died.

>>381561398
I think they just fixed that in yesterdays update.

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Cliffy B is making a come back guys