I'd have to go with the original Quake. I played the shit out of this game when I was 8, and still love playing it. It has such an awesome atmosphere to it, and killing chainsaw wielding ogres with nails just doesn't get old.
Poll: Best FPS ever?
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Too many ways to qualify 'best.'
Most influential? Probably Doom or Wolfenstein
Most fun? Depends entirely on your perception
Best story? Depends entirely on how you like your stories to be told, as well as whether you actually like the story being told
Replay value? there are some people who hate online multiplayer (myself included), and some people who would never replay a single player campaign ever (not myself included)
So in lieu of any way to reasn=onably assert any sort of dominance I would say that for me the only two First Person Shooters which keep me coming back to them again and again are the Halo series in its entirety and Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. They aren't even the best FPSs I've played, but for fun, replay value even in single player, story and even influential, if you count the ways Halo changed the industry (for better or worse don't argue) then actually I'd say Halo kind of comes out on top for me.
Most influential? Probably Doom or Wolfenstein
Most fun? Depends entirely on your perception
Best story? Depends entirely on how you like your stories to be told, as well as whether you actually like the story being told
Replay value? there are some people who hate online multiplayer (myself included), and some people who would never replay a single player campaign ever (not myself included)
So in lieu of any way to reasn=onably assert any sort of dominance I would say that for me the only two First Person Shooters which keep me coming back to them again and again are the Halo series in its entirety and Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. They aren't even the best FPSs I've played, but for fun, replay value even in single player, story and even influential, if you count the ways Halo changed the industry (for better or worse don't argue) then actually I'd say Halo kind of comes out on top for me.
Blood.
Oh god that game is awesomely creepy.
basically, duke nukem 3d as a horror game.
and yes, it worked!
EDIT: oh and BTW, game changer should not count AT ALL when it comes to this poll.
prime example? Quake. Oh my god that game is fucking awful, I appreciate the innovation, but does hold up?
NO.
NO IT DOES NOT. ITS DOOM, WITHOUT THE COLOR, MUSIC, OR CREATIVITY.
Oh god that game is awesomely creepy.
basically, duke nukem 3d as a horror game.
and yes, it worked!
EDIT: oh and BTW, game changer should not count AT ALL when it comes to this poll.
prime example? Quake. Oh my god that game is fucking awful, I appreciate the innovation, but does hold up?
NO.
NO IT DOES NOT. ITS DOOM, WITHOUT THE COLOR, MUSIC, OR CREATIVITY.
Half Life 2.
Fucking groundbreaking game for it's time, and it still looks damn good to this day.
Counter Strike Source coming in second.
Fucking groundbreaking game for it's time, and it still looks damn good to this day.
Counter Strike Source coming in second.
People have actually voted for bioshock? Really...what the fuck people, has nobody here heard of system shock?!
I'm torn, it would have to be one of dues ex, crysis, half life, counterstrike (I actually hated it but it's impossible to deny it's significance), call of duty (1 with UO expansion or 2, everything since has been tripe), wolfenstein 3d, painkiller, dystopia[footnote]Yes, it's a mod...but it's fucking amazing[/footnote] or unreal tournament (I count the series as a single entity). Oh, and of course halo would be up there (have we moved passed hating halo yet or do I need to spell out what made that game techincally great), and I feel dirty for not mentioning stalker.
Dear god all the kids saying bioshock and half life 2, I must be old I remember half life and system shock:S
I'm torn, it would have to be one of dues ex, crysis, half life, counterstrike (I actually hated it but it's impossible to deny it's significance), call of duty (1 with UO expansion or 2, everything since has been tripe), wolfenstein 3d, painkiller, dystopia[footnote]Yes, it's a mod...but it's fucking amazing[/footnote] or unreal tournament (I count the series as a single entity). Oh, and of course halo would be up there (have we moved passed hating halo yet or do I need to spell out what made that game techincally great), and I feel dirty for not mentioning stalker.
Wait....I'm used of being the only person to have appreciated crysis, what is this witchcraft :SWoodsey said:
Dear god all the kids saying bioshock and half life 2, I must be old I remember half life and system shock:S
Pretty pissweak on my part to have not thought of tribes :S That game was unbelievably good, especially for it's time.arragonder said:
Am I the only person who was slightly insulted by the poll by not having (IMO) the best FPS ever: Counter Strike?
I've played CS: Source and it was a huge improvement to the previous CS for graphics and all around game play.
So yeah, #1 FPS ever created is Counter Strike and the best expansion, which wasn't really an expansion; Counter Strike: Source.
That is my opinion. aka I'm a PC gamer more than a platform base player.
I've played CS: Source and it was a huge improvement to the previous CS for graphics and all around game play.
So yeah, #1 FPS ever created is Counter Strike and the best expansion, which wasn't really an expansion; Counter Strike: Source.
That is my opinion. aka I'm a PC gamer more than a platform base player.
Like the OP said, there's various subgenres...
Some of my favorites include...
Arena FPSs: Q3A, UT
Narrative FPSs: Farcry, Crysis, Prey
Experimental FPSs: Metroid Prime, Mirror's Edge, The Ball
Tactical FPSs: ArmA II, Operation Flashpoint, Rainbow 6
FPS/RPG: System Shock II, Deus Ex
MMOFPS: Global Agenda, Tribes 2, Planetside
"Classic" FPS: Duke 3D, Doom: The Plutonia Experiment
Team-Based FPS: TF2, Battlefield 1942, UT2K4 (assault mode, mods, etc)
I have played many more and I'm not exactly how to characterize certain things (Shattered Steel/Shogo are FPSs, but they're also Mech games, sorta? Same with Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri...)
If I had to pick just ONE, I would probably go with Deus Ex because it's so much different as opposed to any other FPS I've ever played. That said, I also like Deus Ex: Invisible War, I loved Goldeneye 007/Perfect Dark (I thought Perfect Dark was better tbh, loved them both though), and it's tough not having return to castle wolfenstein on here, or enemy territory for that matter, or even wolf 3D, but really, I like too many FPS games to just have one favorite or "Best ever."
Again, if you want to go to "best ever" in innovation, I'd probably go to Duke 3D. The interactivity was staggering, the build engine was incredible, destructible walls, moving subways, elevators, a shit ton of types of doors (doom only had one kind of door), you could jump, you could duck, you could fly, you had an inventory (Yes I know Heretic and Hexen had that first), you had 10 weapons, many of which were unique and interesting and interactive (Freeze someone then kick them into shattered pieces, shrink someone then step on them), etc...
And Tier Drops is just SUCH AN UNBELIEVABLE map, when it comes to use of the engine and multiplayer flow, I just don't even know what to say. I love Duke3D. But whatever. Halflife 2 is probably the best "Narrative Experience" but if you had to play 3 games on that list, they should be Deus Ex, Metroid Prime, and System Shock 2. (Yes, I liked Bioshock, but it was basically SS2 made easier and simpler but prettier. Would have preferred a SS3.)
But yeah, they were the first games to have inventory systems I think, and you'd think with the popularity of WoW and shit, that there would be more "Fantasy" themed FPS games. I would kill to see a remake of Hexen with new effects. Their sprites are beautiful, drawn so well that they still stand up today, but it would just be incredible to see it in the Unreal 3 engine or Cryengine 3 or something.
Some of my favorites include...
Arena FPSs: Q3A, UT
Narrative FPSs: Farcry, Crysis, Prey
Experimental FPSs: Metroid Prime, Mirror's Edge, The Ball
Tactical FPSs: ArmA II, Operation Flashpoint, Rainbow 6
FPS/RPG: System Shock II, Deus Ex
MMOFPS: Global Agenda, Tribes 2, Planetside
"Classic" FPS: Duke 3D, Doom: The Plutonia Experiment
Team-Based FPS: TF2, Battlefield 1942, UT2K4 (assault mode, mods, etc)
I have played many more and I'm not exactly how to characterize certain things (Shattered Steel/Shogo are FPSs, but they're also Mech games, sorta? Same with Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri...)
If I had to pick just ONE, I would probably go with Deus Ex because it's so much different as opposed to any other FPS I've ever played. That said, I also like Deus Ex: Invisible War, I loved Goldeneye 007/Perfect Dark (I thought Perfect Dark was better tbh, loved them both though), and it's tough not having return to castle wolfenstein on here, or enemy territory for that matter, or even wolf 3D, but really, I like too many FPS games to just have one favorite or "Best ever."
Again, if you want to go to "best ever" in innovation, I'd probably go to Duke 3D. The interactivity was staggering, the build engine was incredible, destructible walls, moving subways, elevators, a shit ton of types of doors (doom only had one kind of door), you could jump, you could duck, you could fly, you had an inventory (Yes I know Heretic and Hexen had that first), you had 10 weapons, many of which were unique and interesting and interactive (Freeze someone then kick them into shattered pieces, shrink someone then step on them), etc...
And Tier Drops is just SUCH AN UNBELIEVABLE map, when it comes to use of the engine and multiplayer flow, I just don't even know what to say. I love Duke3D. But whatever. Halflife 2 is probably the best "Narrative Experience" but if you had to play 3 games on that list, they should be Deus Ex, Metroid Prime, and System Shock 2. (Yes, I liked Bioshock, but it was basically SS2 made easier and simpler but prettier. Would have preferred a SS3.)
Some of the greatest and most innovative FPS games I've ever played. Hexen even had a class-based system, and I've been through the game with all 3 classes a couple times. Working through on a Cleric again, but haven't touched it in a few days.Hop-along Nussbaum said:
But yeah, they were the first games to have inventory systems I think, and you'd think with the popularity of WoW and shit, that there would be more "Fantasy" themed FPS games. I would kill to see a remake of Hexen with new effects. Their sprites are beautiful, drawn so well that they still stand up today, but it would just be incredible to see it in the Unreal 3 engine or Cryengine 3 or something.
Arma 2 series, because its whatever the fuck I want it to be with mods. Who doesn't like mowing down goats with miniguns with Battlestar Vipers.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion - That's why I'm claiming Unreal Tournament as the best ever with several close runners up, such as Halo 3 and CoD 4 & TF2.
But what I want answered is - why are people putting MW2 as the best FPS ever, when I can factually prove it is one of the worst games ever made (opinion
)?
(Including freeware, demos and interactive videos)
The hype was fantanstic, the first few days were great... but then it dawned on me that the campaign just sucked, mainly the part where it didn't quite tie in with itself, let alone MW1.
So, I tried spec ops with a buddy. It was average; no pros, no cons. I enjoyed what little it was.
Now for the thing we were all waiting for, the multiplayer.
Firing up online, I kicked ass with the M16's 1 shots... then decided it was overpowered, unfair and gamebreaking. Using the FAL instead; I managed to continue playing with only a bit of raging: M16's, super-explosive noob tubes, commando knife's like the user is fucking superman kinda' bollocked up what could've been a great game. Somehow, the gametypes also flopped: S&D - killed by starting tubes. Demolition - good concept, failed in general (how can scoring 4/6 bombs in a game make you lose?). FFA - boosting whores. TDM - shit spawns, op weapons vs. useless weapons, glitched lobbies, broken maps, stupidly broken hit detection.
This game hold now holds a title for killing most of my brain cells from pure, blind rage.
I tried sniping at one point, it went pretty well. I picked off the 12 year old campers and charged around the map wielding a 6 ft sniper at my hip like Mr T and a minigun. But that got boring pretty quickly. So I started using the riot shield with equipment. It can be truely touching when the only unity online os from a final kill cam on me, where my attacker shoots me through the bullet proof cevlar or knifes me without any contact 3 ft away and everybody in the lobby responds with a 'what the fuck?'.
All problems fall into one sentence. The game was just a complete catastrophe.
TL;DR (shortcut)
Where Halo aspires to balanced gameplay and CoD 4 uses it as a guideline, MW2 was anything but. Actually, it was next to nothing. It was about as lively as a cremated corpse in an incinerator, where the only thing resembling something it should have been, is that charred hand poking out of the mound of well-done body.
Bottom Line: The game was a sequal to a god, but was as much of a god as a hangover turd, in your pants.
But what I want answered is - why are people putting MW2 as the best FPS ever, when I can factually prove it is one of the worst games ever made (opinion
)?(Including freeware, demos and interactive videos)
The hype was fantanstic, the first few days were great... but then it dawned on me that the campaign just sucked, mainly the part where it didn't quite tie in with itself, let alone MW1.
So, I tried spec ops with a buddy. It was average; no pros, no cons. I enjoyed what little it was.
Now for the thing we were all waiting for, the multiplayer.
Firing up online, I kicked ass with the M16's 1 shots... then decided it was overpowered, unfair and gamebreaking. Using the FAL instead; I managed to continue playing with only a bit of raging: M16's, super-explosive noob tubes, commando knife's like the user is fucking superman kinda' bollocked up what could've been a great game. Somehow, the gametypes also flopped: S&D - killed by starting tubes. Demolition - good concept, failed in general (how can scoring 4/6 bombs in a game make you lose?). FFA - boosting whores. TDM - shit spawns, op weapons vs. useless weapons, glitched lobbies, broken maps, stupidly broken hit detection.
This game hold now holds a title for killing most of my brain cells from pure, blind rage.
I tried sniping at one point, it went pretty well. I picked off the 12 year old campers and charged around the map wielding a 6 ft sniper at my hip like Mr T and a minigun. But that got boring pretty quickly. So I started using the riot shield with equipment. It can be truely touching when the only unity online os from a final kill cam on me, where my attacker shoots me through the bullet proof cevlar or knifes me without any contact 3 ft away and everybody in the lobby responds with a 'what the fuck?'.
All problems fall into one sentence. The game was just a complete catastrophe.
TL;DR (shortcut)
Where Halo aspires to balanced gameplay and CoD 4 uses it as a guideline, MW2 was anything but. Actually, it was next to nothing. It was about as lively as a cremated corpse in an incinerator, where the only thing resembling something it should have been, is that charred hand poking out of the mound of well-done body.
Bottom Line: The game was a sequal to a god, but was as much of a god as a hangover turd, in your pants.
My favourite FPS of all time, probably forever, has to be the original Unreal Game (plus the expansion). My parents dug it out of a bargain bin somewhere... and I love it. Even if I've never been able to get through the final boss without cheating like a mother...
Second favourite will be Prey. I just like it, even if most people think it's terrible.
I don't play too many FPSs though, so many seem focused on earthly wars, and I like exploring alien planets/ships (see: Unreal and Prey, lol).
... if anyone can message me some good FPS (for PC, please, I hate FPS on consoles) that fit my taste that would be nice... I miss me some FPS-ing action...
Second favourite will be Prey. I just like it, even if most people think it's terrible.
I don't play too many FPSs though, so many seem focused on earthly wars, and I like exploring alien planets/ships (see: Unreal and Prey, lol).
... if anyone can message me some good FPS (for PC, please, I hate FPS on consoles) that fit my taste that would be nice... I miss me some FPS-ing action...