Question of the Day, September 4, 2010

[mexicola]

Doom of course, not the 1st one but 1st hugely popular fps which influenced pretty much all of them that came afterwards.

 

[crudus]

I am going with Wolfenstein. Nobody really thinks about it since Doom seems to overshadow it.

 

[Michael826]

I'm with a few people on this one regarding Half-life. It's a great game, no question, but i'd say it's level of influence (remembering influence isn't necessarily a positive thing) is no where near as prominant as Halo (Which i don't particularly enjoy, but understand it's significance), Golden eye, Doom or Quake. Also, why isn't Wolfenstein on the list?

Although, I'm not much of an FPS connoisseur, so I could be wrong.

 

[Stuntcrab]

People voted for Halo? Children no doubt.

Boom you win the "Brainy" Badge

Enjoy it

 

[Twilight_guy]

Doom. Everything I've ever heard tells me that doom is what inspired things the most. I've heard lots of people say Doom, some of them quiet smart, so I'm going with Doom.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Quake surely?
Quite frankly, I get the impression that most people will either vote Doom because they haven't actually played the old FPS games and don't want to look ignorant or they've voted Halo which... I guess there's a case for if you wanted to go down the console route. But even then you would have to say GoldenEye really. As glitchy as it was.

But the thing about Doom is it's shit, in my opinion anyway. There was nothing particularly fun about playing it for me. Not to mention nothing like how these games now appear. Quake was the first game to feel how a current FPS feels. Not to mention what it did for multiplayer. Hell, when I was at college we still played Quake LAN on the computers. It was awesome. Me and my friend vs. whoever showed up. We always won, although I have to admitt she could wipe the floor with me.

I am going with Wolfenstein. Nobody really thinks about it since Doom seems to overshadow it.

That's because first != best.

I'm with a few people on this one regarding Half-life. It's a great game, no question, but i'd say it's level of influence (remembering influence isn't necessarily a positive thing) is no where near as prominant as Halo (Which i don't particularly enjoy, but understand it's significance), Golden eye, Doom or Quake. Also, why isn't Wolfenstein on the list?

Although, I'm not much of an FPS connoisseur, so I could be wrong.

This site is a breeding ground for Valve fanboys. I mean, Half Life is my favourite video game series of all time (probably) but it wasn't game changing, so to speak. Same with Halo. What Halo did was take the idea of a console FPS like Perfect Dark (my go to example) and put it on the next generation. I still think they didn't set out to make an amazing or deep game, it looks like what they tried to do was make a really polished but totally generic first person shooter. Something that people would definately buy, wouldn't be too hard to make and would show off how much better Xbox graphics were than PS2. Halo 2 did the same thing only with Xbox Live. Halo 3 did it with the 360.

I'm going to stop editing quotes in now, I promise.

 

[Skorpyo]

Doom made it popular, Goldeneye brought it to consoles, Half-life made it what we know and love today, and Halo set it all in concrete.

So, 4 games, all equally important.

 

[thom_cat_]

I feel that Doom made it popular, Quake made multiplayer, half-life made it story based and set the foundations, Goldeneye was a major step along the way. Halo just solidified it in console gaming.
The rest of us PC guys generally avoided halo, that's why we don't see it as a major part of the genre. There were bigger and better things before it.
I tend to think CS was an offshoot from Half-life.

 

[Drexlor]

Doom invented the FPS genre.

 

[darth gditch]

Ai ya, too many choices, lack of parameters.

Doom, for shooters as a whole.

Half-Life for shooters with a story.

Halo for modern FPS derivatives.

 

[Miumaru]

This poll is pointless. 2 + 2 = 4, Mammals have hair, and Doom is the most influential shooter. Its just fact.

 

[duchaked]

I've never seen so many ignorant people poo poo halo in my whole life.
You guys do realise that if it wasn't for that series, console based shooters with an emphasis on multiplayer wouldn't exist as they do now right?
Regenerating health, only being able to hold two guns/4(ish) grenades, proper use of vehicles, condensed game pad controls, balanced online multiplayer.
Halo brought these things to the console properly first. This series gets too much needless hate.

I honestly don't understand the intense and heated animosity so many people feel for it...it's kinda scary

no need to rain on someone else's parade, show some dignity and respect!

 

[Flamingpenguin]

I would say Gears of War. That cover system is popping up damn near everywhere now. Plus the game was just damn fun imo.

 

[Azure Sky]

A wonderful demonstration of ad hominem fallacies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem].

I think my point of you being a hypocrite truly came to fruition when you said "that sure is a lot of huff and puff to justify your existence", and then replied to every other line of my post. You're being deliberately inconsistent in a very shoddy attempt to evade everything that you can't refute. While I'm plainly stating my case in no uncertain terms, you're trying to dance around everything I say by replying with "I know you are, but what am I?"

It brings to mind the saying "never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"; I'm going to heed the wisdom in that phrase, and stop replying, because you've shown that your idea of legitimate debate is to perpetually respond with a shallow "NO U", even when it's obvious that you're brazenly contradicting yourself.

*Yawn* Here I was thinking I was going to wake up to wall of text, how disappointing.
I will agree though, pointless argument is pointless.

I wonder if the other members hold you in the same light that you see yourself in?

[Edit, More awake]
You sure like trying to insult people, don't you.

 

[Azure Sky]

Doublepost, I know, this and that are two separate things' =3

I was afraid that someone may take offense to me saying half life did nothing but what I should have said it that it didnt do anything that remained a constant in fps games. stories can be in a fps or they can be nonexistent. The fps genre doesnt need story to survive. regenerative health and multiplayer and staples in the genre. But the most important fact is that story should not be compared to gameplay. Thats like comparing a driver to the race course. To get a winner, they have to mash, but you cant compare them because their not the same thing.

Well, story did leave it's mark, even the first Halo had a brilliant story.

Might I say I'm quite impressed with the way you present yourself on gaming forums, I don't often see this. Clearly a person looking at it from both sides.

Meh, I still probably came off as an ass though.

That or I fail at reading sarcasm in the morning. XD

 

[Nouw]

Doom set out the FPS 'Template'

So I chose Doom.

 

[blankedboy]

Doom first, then Quake.

If you voted Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Half-life of Unreal Tournament, you're dead wrong. Objectively. All of those games use heavily modified Quake engines.

Halo didn't, though... it's one of the few FPSes that doesn't.

 

[runnernda]

I feel like this thread was done before. Anyway, I voted GoldenEye. I know Doom came out first, but I think GoldenEye redefined the genre and had the most influence on how it is today.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Halo brought forth the stream of quasi-realistic shooters, and there have only been about a billion of those, so I'll go with that one.