A good FPS

[Rawne1980]

I was just poking at the ignorance of someone who has the preconceived notion that all FPS games involve the military and are bland. Why the hell are you offended?

No, but we are under the notion that ALL FPS games are in the First person. Thus why they are called First Person Shooters.

AP and ME being Third Person Shooters.

But nevermind, ME and AP are shooters, and pretty good ones so I doubt it really matters.

On Topic....

A good FPS?

I think all of them are pretty much covered by now...

Metro 2033.
Stalker.
Resistance.

Those are 3 of my all time favourites, especially Stalker.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Metro 2033: It's in the THQ bundle right now and it is a dark look at life after Armageddon, where the powerful pre-war bullets are the main currency making a firefights more interesting.

Fallout: New Vegas: A lighter version of post-apocalypse, this deals with factions trying to rebuild with you stuck in the middle. Will you side with the New California Republic, Caesar's Legion, or forge your own path?

Sanctum: A tower defence FPS? where you you create a obstacle course then defend it with sniper rifles and freeze guns?

Team Fortress 2: If COD is one end of the FPS spectrum, them TF2 is the crazy one that jumped off the other end. With 9 unique classes, full dev support for 5 years and counting and Free to Play...

 

[Bocaj2000]

I was just poking at the ignorance of someone who has the preconceived notion that all FPS games involve the military and are bland. Why the hell are you offended?

No, but we are under the notion that ALL FPS games are in the First person. Thus why they are called First Person Shooters.

AP and ME being Third Person Shooters.

But nevermind, ME and AP are shooters, and pretty good ones so I doubt it really matters.

On Topic....

A good FPS?

I think all of them are pretty much covered by now...

Metro 2033.
Stalker.
Resistance.

Those are 3 of my all time favourites, especially Stalker.

I agree. I bent the rules to include two games that I really like.

Also, if you like Stalker, this might interest you:
http://europe.stalker-online.so/

 

[Rawne1980]

Also, if you like Stalker, this might interest you:
http://europe.stalker-online.so/

I did not know about that, i'm going to have to give that a go.

Thanks for bringing that up, been looking for a Stalker'ish' online shooter for a while. All i'd been able to find so far is Fallen Earth (not to keen on it) and DayZ which is okay as far as a "survival" game goes but not quite the same feel as Stalker.

 

[Mark Benedict]

Team Fortress 2 has already been mentioned, but is worth mentioning again. It's my go-to anti-CoD/clone. It has unlocks and customization, but no item is strictly better than the item it replaces. It is also visually clean with rapidly identifiable silhouettes, as opposed to CoD/clones. Its multiplayer community is also quite active with updates coming 4-6 times a year. And it's free.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy plays something like the original Deus Ex. I can't outright call it good, as it takes an investment of not insignificant amounts of time and energy to figure it out. I picked it up for $2.50 during a Steam winter sale. If that's a small enough investment to risk on something you might not like, I definitely suggest giving it a try.

 

[The White Hunter]

on any console

If you want a great shooter on PS3 that isn't a gunwank game (halfway eliminated Killzone 2 and definately Killzone 3 right off the bat) then I can not recommend Resistance 3 enough.

You also said single player, so I'll focus on it's campaign:

-Excellent story with good characters, it's not predictable and keeps you guessing. The set pieces are well placed and paced and don't absorb the game, there's plenty of depth to the plot and it really sucks you in.

-It has a great aesthetic style and good graphics without any of the obnoxious over-lighting bloom that's starting to plague shooters. (Something I hate, I detest bloom it burns my eyes).

-The gameplay is fun and engaging, there are many weapons and you can carry all of them at once, limited health keeps things tense and exciting and the game is well balanced for it. Every gun has it's own secondary fire mode and you can carry up to 4 kinds of grenade (5 if special edition, wouldn't bother just for extra grenade type, they're rare and not too great). All the weaponry and explosives are fun to use and have unique properties. You have and SMG, a shotgun, a rifle, then more interesting things like X-ray rifles that increase in damage the more you shoot through stuff, the cryogun for freezing and a massive air blast to shatter, fire explosive shotgun secondary fire, the gun that gives everyone in the room ebola, the lightning gun that has a gravity well for secondary, etc. The enemies are challenging and interesting, with a variety of types and functions. I particularly am fond of the Grimm's.

-Environments are fairly open and offer freedom and choice in combat almost all the time, when you're forced into a tight corridor it usually is a very tight corridor which leaves you quite vulnerable and ramps up the tension, it has some great horror elements at points.

-Lots of collectibles to grab, cheats (yes, real cheats, that change the game, such as changing the health system, infinite ammo, giving enemies more powerful weapons, etc) to unlock and some interesting trophies to be done.

-Full campaign co-op both on and offline.

Absolutely a brilliant game and if you want a stellar fps on the PS3 it's probably my favourite on the system.
(Multiplayer is pretty fun too, as is the horde mode DLC)

Oh and: Portal. Portal 2.

 

[Mark Benedict]

And I know you said "FPS", as in "First-Person Shooter", so do at least listen to what I have to say about this third-person shooter. It's a military shooter, but it isn't bland. It's Spec Ops: The Line. And I'd love to tell you why this game is so special, but I can't, as that would spoil everything. Of course, if you're already aware about why this game has been taking the industry by storm and has gotten so many people to completely re-think military shooters in general, then you already know, and I'm just reinforcing that you or anyone else reading this should give this title in a long-dormant series a go.

I was going to mention this as an excellent game to play, but "FPS" does indeed mean first-person. Spec Ops: The Line was not only an excellent game, but it changed my opinion of the perspective altogether. It is a special game. Extra Credits did 2 episodes on the game, one spoiler free and one spoiler-tastic. Both are very much worth the watch, but don't watch the spoiler one until you finish the game.

 

[Guffe]

Go for the Metroid Series.
Bloody awesome those are!!!

 

[StashAugustine]

FEAR. It's what a tactical military shooter would look like if the main character had superpowers and the terrorist were clones being mindcontrolled by a cannibal trying to find a ghost.
Metro 2033 has kinda iffy gameplay, but very good atmosphere.
I didn't like Painkiller, but it's a good example of a 'pure' FPS. (I personally prefer more depth, but it's up to you.)

Deus Ex (and HR) and Fallout: New Vegas are more RPG than FPS, but they're worth a mention.

 

[Calcium]

My suggestion goes for Shadowrun. It's got massive flaws but some really interesting mechanics. Solely cross-platform multiplayer, where PC gamers and xbox live gamers play in the same matches.

At the start of each match you select your race, Human, Elf, Troll, Dwarf - each of which has different HP, Speed, Strength, Magic and racial ability. The team which wins the match is the team who wins 6 rounds first. At the start of each round you can use cash earned from kills, teamwork, etc to buy perks and weapons. Perks include two categories: magic and technology. You don't lose perks when you die, but you can lose your weapons, so it's better to invest in perks early until you have the build you want... It's a first person shooter, honest.

Anyway, some key magic includes things such as teleporting through walls/floors/ceilings, being able to plant a tree which heals anyone (friend or foe) underneath it, and ressurecting team mates by reducing your total magic, though if the person whom ressurected you dies then you'll bleed out, losing health constantly until someone else ressurects you or you find a tree of life to attempt to hold out under.

Key tech includes a glider that acts as you'd expect, but also lets you glide-up pretty high. Enhanced vision that lets you see enemies through walls in a radius of 70m (But other players with the perk can see whenever you use it, and you can't see enemies with the 'smoke' perk), and Wired Reflexes which lets you passively move faster, block bullets with a katana, and gives the ability to sacrifice health for a burst of speed.

Oh, and it encourages communication in a very nice way. By tapping the d-pad you send a message to your team about what you're looking at. You're looking at 2 enemies in the lobby? Press the d-pad and your team hears a message saying "Two enemies, Lobby" with a little marker for where the action is. You need help taking down a dwarf (you scrub)? Tap in a different direction and your teammates get "Need backup, One Dwarf, Helipad". Same idea applies to if you see an enemy running with the artifact (flag), or if you want your team to fortify a position you just tap and tell them to move to where you're looking.

...

But unfortunately the player population is VERY small now. So much fun, but sadly not active at all.

Edit: Someone beat me to suggesting Shadowrun? What is this madness!?

 

[deathzero021]

If you want some old-school stuff, try Doom, Doom 2, pretty much any of the Serious Sam games or Painkiller - get the Black edition, not the Hell and Damnation though. The Half-Life games also, obviously.

I'm with this guy.

Doom and Serious Sam are big recommendations for me. HL not so much. I might also suggest Hexen/heretic if you are into dark fantasy. More modern stuff like Rage is decent too. Or you could play some horror-based stuff like Left 4 Dead.

 

[Bocaj2000]

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You are wrong. The FP in FPS stands for First Person Shooter. And it actually defines this subgenre of the Shooter genre. It is the reason we have the 3rdPS - Third Person Shooter. It literally describes the perspective you play in.

First Person allows you a different kind of emotional connection and investment to the main character (or the Player Character) than the third person perspective because, unlike in 3rdPS you see everything through the eyes of the PC. Alpha Protocol would be very different if I would be all the time in the head of the PC, especially the dialogue scenes would have a lot of impact depending when done right and I actually see it as quite different from Deus Ex: HR - but maybe it is just my hardon for stealth games that even slight difference on the emphasis on certain gameplay and design choices have a greater impact on me in this genre.

I can also call a plate a hat because I can wear both on my head or eat out of it... It still doesn't change that my terminology is wrong - a plate is a plate and a hat is a hat.

I know what the FPS means to gamers. I simply prefer to call them "fast paced shooters" due to my own stubbornness and disappointment that being in the first person is actually mandatory for a subgenre label despite tone, atmostphere, story, pace, setting, etc. It would be like having first person mystery and third person mystery as two separate subgenres of books; that would be stupid. I stated in several posts before yours that I bent the "rules" to assign games that the OP might like based on what he has been saying.

Secondly, I was refrencing Deus Ex: the Conspiracy. Alpha Protocol's mechanics are heavily influenced by it- more so that DE:HR is in my opinion.

Thirdly, I know the purpose of perspective as a writer, painter, film maker, and game designer. To generalize, the purpose of a first person camera in games is to make the player roleplay the protagonist directly. Third person is for a narrative meant for a protagonist that is a less mailable character that has his own motivations and backstory. Granted the purpose is often ignored, but that is still the theory behind it. With that said third person shooters usually give more gameplay options that would be a lot harder to accomplish in the first person such as sticky-cover.

Lastly, your plate-hat statement is both fallacious and ignorant to what language is. The term "FPS" is a symbol. Symbols have no meaning. It is not the thing; it represents the thing. The word "plate" means nothing until it is interpreted through a person's conceptual filters to assign meaning via social and personal contexts. If I wear a round and flat disk on my head and assign it the symbol of "pirate hat," then it is. Maybe it is only to me, but it still is.

I seperate shooters into two categories:
-FPS: Fast paced shooters (Unreal Tournament)
-SDS: Story driven shooters (Mass Effect)

I usually combine both into the term FPS when giving suggestions to avoid confusion, but around me and my friends I assign these terms. I want to bring the interactive medium to the same calibur as movies are compared to books. I'm not going to do that by referring to games based on which perspective I'm in. Also, I don't care what you do when it comes to this topic. I don't care what you do to categorize your games. Why do you care about mine?

 

[Bocaj2000]

Also, if you like Stalker, this might interest you:
http://europe.stalker-online.so/

I did not know about that, i'm going to have to give that a go.

Thanks for bringing that up, been looking for a Stalker'ish' online shooter for a while. All i'd been able to find so far is Fallen Earth (not to keen on it) and DayZ which is okay as far as a "survival" game goes but not quite the same feel as Stalker.

No problem. Found out about it not too long ago. I haven't gotten the chance to play it yet (finals are creeping up). Tell me how it goes^^

 

[Nomanslander]

As of now my expectations of a good FPS is a title that has unmatched controls and fluidity. A variety of of approaches in gameplay. Well scripted in-game story elements. At least some level of open ended level design (no corridor shooters). A blend of RPG elements such as customizing a character and guns. And a level of challenge and difficultly to keep me playing.

And as for a title that has shown this: 0

Yeah...

I mean... there's a lot of titles out there that have come close to that standard, but they've all fallen short to some degree.

For example:

-Bulletstorm had a horrible story and was through and through a corridor shooter from start to finish (I also have some issues with the controls).

-Crysis had open ended level design and fluid gameplay, but lacked difficulty and everything else (plus, the game came off a bit bland to me).

The only game that right now seems to have all the elements I'm looking for in a modern FPS is Far Cry 3, and I guess I'll find out whether or not it's met my expectations when it's released here in the states.

 

[Amakusa]

hmmm if this game still exists, I would say Aliens vs predator, the one released in late 90's by rebellion. I had good memories of that game when it was out. Multiplayer was fun and playing each of the factions was good too. It was fun playing as a predator doing discus and impaling people heads on the wall with the spear gun hehe.