Help Stop Faulty Generalizations.

[Mijen]

After watching several game play reviews I began to notice a growing trend.
People referring to ANY type of shooter(and in some cases games that simply feature guns) as FPS.

FPS stands for First Person Shooter.

A First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.

Using the term incorrectly makes the gaming community look bad as a whole.

So if you know someone who is using FPS incorrectly and let them know.
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[Deleted]

There are a lot of terms that are badly used.

[Vulpei]

FPS stands for frames per second though.

[flarecde]

People call tactics games RTSs all the time too. The genres are close enough that it doesn't matter a whole lot. You're aiming a gun and shooting at stuff, regardless of perspective. And lets not even get into the abuse that RPG and MMO both get... I think there's already a thread on that.