Is there an FPS that every FPS fan has played?

[CaitSeith]

No, it's not déjà vu. The past question I made was for videogames in general. Then I realized the scope of the question was too big. So I decided to reduce it to a genre. Again, same rules: It isn't about an FPS that everybody likes. But an FPS that every single person who has made of FPS one of their favorite genres has tried. Does any game come even close to that? How close is the most played FPS of all time?

 

[Evonisia]

Call me boring but I imagine "Doom" is the most played, though it wouldn't surprise me if "Halo: Combat Evolved" and "Call of Duty 4" have been played at least on a comparative scale.

I mean, yeah, there's a few hugely popular FPS games that have had longevity I could name - but my money would be on one of them for most played.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Probably either Halo: Combat Evolved or Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

If not those specific games, then certainly the franchises.

10 years ago, I think Doom would have been the obvious and correct answer. But time marches on.

 

[tippy2k2]

I actually think your first thread (a game every single person has played) is much more likely than this one.

For one, FPS games generally do not age well. Even the very very very best show signs of aging as the genre is a pretty fluid one.

For another, many of those games have not been ported to all systems. Half Life and Counter Strike are primarily PC. Halo is nothing but console. The ones that are ported all over are usually old classics (like the original Doom) and there are people who just won't play it (see point #1). Tetris, which seemed to have gotten the consensus "best chance award" in your last thread has been on anything that can run a game, giving it a huge advantage over even the most popular FPS.

That said, I think my vote would also have to go to the original Doom as well. It's really the only one I can think of that has been ported all over the place (I can play Doom in a web browser or on my phone and if a high school student scoffed at the "oldness" of the game, being able to play in class instead of listening is a convincing argument to get them to play it) and is iconic enough that people who are not FPS fans would recognize it.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I've been an FPS fan since I started video gaming. I never played a CoD game in my life, so I don't know how well that applies. I really can't imagine anything in the genre being played by more people than Doom. It's almost universally credited with inventing the genre as it has existed for the last 2 decades, so anyone looking for an FPS to play will go there eventually.

 

[Lufia Erim]

Golden eye 007. Everyone i have ever talked to have played that game at one point or another of their lives.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Halo is nothing but console.

Halo: CE and Halo 2 were on PC. And I imagine many schools had the same 'problem' mine did - Some little bastard installed the multiplayer onto all the computer lab PCs.

 

[tippy2k2]

Halo is nothing but console.

Halo: CE and Halo 2 were on PC. And I imagine many schools had the same 'problem' mine did - Some little bastard installed the multiplayer onto all the computer lab PCs.

Oh yeah....I forgot that that happened like....fifty years after Halo was released on the Xbox

Eh...I suppose you're technically correct but I can't imagine it was that big a factor on the PC. Maybe I'm wrong but I would think that the PC players would have looked down on a game like Halo.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I imagine some iteration of Call of Duty, Counter Strike or Doom (I haven't played Halo, so that's that).

 

[Saelune]

Well, high-played games would be DOOM, Halo 2 and 3, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops 2, and Counter-Strike.

I encountered a lot of people in later Halos who never played 1, a lot of people praise CoD4, even though its shit, but I think MW2 was probably way more populated, as well as Black Ops 2. And seems most PC shooter fans have atleast tried Counter-Strike at some point. And DOOM is DOOM and everyone should play it, period.

 

[Ambient_Malice]

No, put simply. The FPS audience is too large, and individual FPS games never sell enough copies to reach the entire audience.

 

[MysticSlayer]

None. The FPS genre and audience is way too diverse for a single game to appeal to everyone.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Either CounterStrike, CoD 4, or maybe even Halo. Ranked from most to least. If you meant series, then I would say still relatively the same.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

well, I have multiple friends who are huge FPS guys (all they play is BF and COD 24/7) and they've never touched doom, They did play quake and unreal tournament, since those were like the STD's of high school computer labs, but besides that, I feel like we have a ton of old people on here if you keep suggesting doom...

I'd be tempted to say COD, but that's due to being on every platform just about in some way, counter strike is PC only so you're only going to get that crowd..

 

[sXeth]

Golden eye 007. Everyone i have ever talked to have played that game at one point or another of their lives.

Oddly enough, despite being smack in the right age for it. I never touched it because James Bond was never my thing. Perfect Dark came out before peers managed to badger me into it, which was essentially the upgraded version, and made it even less interesting to go back for it.


I'd go on the limb and say anyone whos taken FPS on as a favorite genre, has probably visited Doom or Wolfenstein 3d at least for a cursory glance, and they run on every damn thing.

Call of Duty is probably the more modern ranking possibility. I've been roped into playing a couple of them, though didn't find much to my taste.

 

[FPLOON]

Uh... Half-life? TimeSplitters? Metroid Prime??

Other than that, if it's multiplatformed, then "everyone" has played it in some way, shape or form...

 

[FalloutJack]

No, put simply. The FPS audience is too large, and individual FPS games never sell enough copies to reach the entire audience.

Doom was originally circulated in Shareware, so it's probably the most-likely answer. And yeah, playing the freely-circulated demo counts. That and further Doom games since the initial doom should also count.

OT: DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

 

[Hawki]

Doubt it. I mean, if you want to confine it to a single generation (age or tech), then maybe, but as a spectrum as a whole? Nah. Lots of people play CoD, or Halo, or Doom, but everyone? Nah.

It also doesn't help that I'm not sure if "FPS fan" is a useful term. One might say a person is an "RPG fan," but accounting for WRPGs, JRPGs, CRPGs, SRPGs, etc., then yeah, go figure.

 

[fenrizz]

No.
No matter the game there is always someone that has not played it.