Valid logic, and I suppose the three games fall into the "maybe, maybe not" classification. I suppose it all depends on how our dear Bling Cat chooses to experiment in the wild and wacky world of PC first-person shooters.L.B. Jeffries said:
How To Get Into PC Shooters?
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If you don't care 'bout graphics, why not try the good ol' Quake 2? It's as simple as run & gun gets, has all the basic techniques (in fact, it invented most of them...), is guaranteed to run on each and every PC that you may have, and is still fun after all these years. Afterwards, continue to HL and HL².
Crysis maybe not so much... it has the (sucky) vehicle section and the NPC's have unlimited range and accuracy... And you need an insane over-the-top computer for it.x434343 said:
You're better off starting with classics like Half Life (the first game - not HL2) Quake 2 etc. It's gonna ease you into the genre especially since those two are pure shooters with a lot of atmosphere wonderful game-play and design and don't have anything more difficult like the RPG or questing elements they are attempting to put into some shooters today.Bling Cat said:
Then you can move on to games like Star Wars: Jedi Outcast which is a first person shooter but with the jedi abilities like push pull choke lightning etc and the swordfighting as an interesting game-play element.
All of the above are pretty intense games with a lot of game-play hours imaginative and creative level design plot and setting. So with everything else on the side it's gonna give you a good standard to judge the current state of the gaming industry.
From then on you're ready to play whatever new-age flashy graphics pathetic excise for a game you new age consolers like
PP: JK I'm not a fan of the newer games God of War Halo 3 etc.
I'd suggest giving something like Quake 2 a go. It's old, it's cheap, and it was my gateway into gaming (when I was about five. I mean, quake at five? It's no wonder I'm desensitized.) The fighting is simple, and very mobile. You have to keep on the move, so it's good training for getting used to the controls.
I dunno which is superior. Quake at 5 or Carmageddon 2 at 7 in my caseSinging Gremlin said:
. I love them both.
How to get into PC shooters:
1.) Get some pants on and grab your wallet.
2.) Walk to your local game store.
3.) Walk back home because they don't have what you need.
4.) Go sit in front of your soon to be gaming leetbox.
5.) Open your internet browser, if its not Internet Explorer skip step 6.
6.) Stab yourself in the hand with a fork then go to firefox.com and download and install Firefox.
7.) Go to steampowered.com
8.) Click the More About Steam button.
9.) Click the Free Download button, and install it when it's done.
10.) Register a username and password.
11.) With steam open, click the store tab and locate Counter Strike.
12.) Purchase said game.
13.) Play said game.
Congratulations, you are now a PC gamer worth his salt.
1.) Get some pants on and grab your wallet.
2.) Walk to your local game store.
3.) Walk back home because they don't have what you need.
4.) Go sit in front of your soon to be gaming leetbox.
5.) Open your internet browser, if its not Internet Explorer skip step 6.
6.) Stab yourself in the hand with a fork then go to firefox.com and download and install Firefox.
7.) Go to steampowered.com
8.) Click the More About Steam button.
9.) Click the Free Download button, and install it when it's done.
10.) Register a username and password.
11.) With steam open, click the store tab and locate Counter Strike.
12.) Purchase said game.
13.) Play said game.
Congratulations, you are now a PC gamer worth his salt.
I started with Half Life, Quake, Unreal Tournament and Medal of Honor way back when. What got me into the FPS scene most, however, was Counter Strike. As much as I love the story of Half Life, gameplay of Quake and UT, and the online play of Medal of Honor I'm still playing CS today (well, CS: Source, but it's practically the same thing but easier) 7-8ish years later.
Play Half Life, one of the Call of Duty games, and buy the Orange Box and you will be have a good general knowledge of FPS's but play CS and you will become an addict.
Play Half Life, one of the Call of Duty games, and buy the Orange Box and you will be have a good general knowledge of FPS's but play CS and you will become an addict.
The best thing about PC games is the mods. You can download mods and cheats to a lot of games that make them even better, sometimes even funny. The Xbox360 is starting to get mods but it's still way behind what you can do on PC's. Also, if you are into making stuff yourself, you can actually make your own maps, customize characters and generally mess around with games a lot more with the PC than you can with consoles.
Unreal Tournament is the ultimate FPS for the PC, I think. Get UT 2003 or UTIII and you'll see how much fun it is. It's fast paced and colorful like a lot of console games are. You can also get lots of mods for UT2003 that are pretty cool. UT2003 plays well on most computers too, so you don't need the latest super gaming rig to play it with smooth frame-rates.
Unreal Tournament is the ultimate FPS for the PC, I think. Get UT 2003 or UTIII and you'll see how much fun it is. It's fast paced and colorful like a lot of console games are. You can also get lots of mods for UT2003 that are pretty cool. UT2003 plays well on most computers too, so you don't need the latest super gaming rig to play it with smooth frame-rates.
For a first PC "game" then any of these suggestions are great but for a "training game" go with Halo or 2 for PC familiar ideas/nuances leading the only difference being the controls.
Turn the post processing on Low and get the patches, and you'll wonder why everyone says "CRYSIS NEEDS SUPER COMPUTER OH NOES!"Predictable-joke said:
I'd say your best bet for getting used to the controls is Unreal Tournament. Once you've got the hang of using the mouse and keyboard (and once you do you'll realise how rubbish gamepads are for shooters), you can move onto some of the slightly more complex stuff like Thief 2, System Shock 2 Deus Ex, Bioshock...
I'm so jealous that you can go and play all these games for the first time.
I'm so jealous that you can go and play all these games for the first time.
You could go for something ultra-simple like Doom 3 or Quake 4, but I would steer clear of Counter-Strike at first, there are a lot of cheaters and it makes the game very frustrating to play.