Funnily enough I've played all of these and then some including Perfect Dark, CS1.6 to CZ/Source and all the quakes, red factions not to forget classics such as wolfenstein and DOOMzer0kevin said:
Shooter Veterans Who are Still CoD or Halo fans?
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Halo has been my favorite because it doesn't have repetitive rank-grinding (okay, so technically Reach does, but I don't thin about how many credits per game I bring in) and it differentiates between hardcore shooter fans and social shooter fans, something I don't see in Call of Duty.
I've played almost every game on your list, plus tons more. I've been playing FPS games since super nintendo.
CoD, to me, is subpar at best. MW and MW2 had cool campaigns, but the multiplayer only holds any remote interest because of the skinner boxing, and after I got to level 50 in CoD 4 and realized I wasn't even having fun with the game they haven't been able to lull me into the the same false sense of accomplishment.
Halo, on the other hand I love. It's just an armslength behind Team Fortress 2 as my favorite competitive multiplayer FPS of all time. The campaigns after the first 2 games are kind of shit, I'm not going to debate that, but I love the multiplayer. Your character is very mobile and relatively fun to control by FPS standards, and almost every single weapon and vehicle has a completely different function. Plus unlike most modern shooters, your character can sponge a decent amount of bullets, so all the different elements and factors that counterbalance each other really come into play. For example, the plasma pistol is the weakest gun in the game, but it's one of the few weapons that will give you a fighting chance against a tank.
Also it's got forge and custom games, which can result in shit tons of fun with user created content. I can search bungie.net for 10 minutes for high rated levels and gametypes and keep my friends and myself entertained for hours. Though I will say, I only really enjoy it with friends or in big team games. The stuff that's like "play this small level using only the mid-long range percision weapon" isn't a very good use of the game's resources, frankly. So if you've just been playing "slayer pro" on matchmaking, you're not getting the same multiplayer experience that I like the game for.
CoD, to me, is subpar at best. MW and MW2 had cool campaigns, but the multiplayer only holds any remote interest because of the skinner boxing, and after I got to level 50 in CoD 4 and realized I wasn't even having fun with the game they haven't been able to lull me into the the same false sense of accomplishment.
Halo, on the other hand I love. It's just an armslength behind Team Fortress 2 as my favorite competitive multiplayer FPS of all time. The campaigns after the first 2 games are kind of shit, I'm not going to debate that, but I love the multiplayer. Your character is very mobile and relatively fun to control by FPS standards, and almost every single weapon and vehicle has a completely different function. Plus unlike most modern shooters, your character can sponge a decent amount of bullets, so all the different elements and factors that counterbalance each other really come into play. For example, the plasma pistol is the weakest gun in the game, but it's one of the few weapons that will give you a fighting chance against a tank.
Also it's got forge and custom games, which can result in shit tons of fun with user created content. I can search bungie.net for 10 minutes for high rated levels and gametypes and keep my friends and myself entertained for hours. Though I will say, I only really enjoy it with friends or in big team games. The stuff that's like "play this small level using only the mid-long range percision weapon" isn't a very good use of the game's resources, frankly. So if you've just been playing "slayer pro" on matchmaking, you're not getting the same multiplayer experience that I like the game for.
I've been gaming gaming for a long time now, and while I'm sick of CoD, I really enjoy Halo. Halo 3's multiplayer was broken as shit, but Reach's is actually really enjoyable. I love that it's not afraid to have fun; Griffball and Rocket Hog are absolutely fantastic game mods. I love Team Swat, and I love invasion.
Really looking forward to Battlefield 3 though.
Really looking forward to Battlefield 3 though.
I've played easily around 30 or so shooters, and several Halo and CoD titles are in the upper tiers of my favorites.
CoD4, MW2, CoD2, Halo Reach, Halo CE all crack my top 10 or so
I love Bioshock, Gears, System Shock, Half Life, and I know those games are all quality as well.
CoD4, MW2, CoD2, Halo Reach, Halo CE all crack my top 10 or so
I love Bioshock, Gears, System Shock, Half Life, and I know those games are all quality as well.
Well I grew up with Halo and CoD. I remember playing Halo 1 way back in the 5th grade.
And say what you want about them, but Bungie, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch all know how to make functional and fun gameplay.
And say what you want about them, but Bungie, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch all know how to make functional and fun gameplay.
I have been a fan of the CoD series since the first one. I loved the single players of 1, 2, and 4 is my favorite by far(and that's really saying something). The CoD4 multiplayer was also very fun and I still play it. WaW, MW2, and Blops have okay single player. Multiplayer on WaW was boring, MW2 multiplayers sucked, and Blops multiplayer is decent, but it's no CoD4. The last three CoD games are decent. Certainly not of the caliber of previous iterations though.
Been playing shooters for a while, and online since the original Counterstrike 10 years ago. With that said, shooters have never been my primary genre (that's RPG's). I don't like the trend CoD is following (I did have fun with 4, some with WaW, and tried hard with MW2 before tossing it aside), and i've never played a Halo game. I can't really bring myself to care much for shooters anymore. They can be fun, but... I have other, better games to play. :3
I've been playing shooters for over 14 years now. CoD 4 was the last great multiplayer CoD imho. I played a lot of CoD 2. Halo, I've played some, but I've always been a PC gamer, so by the time Halo came out on PC I was on to bigger and better things.
These days I play Quake 3 / Quake Live for the most part. I've been a Q3 player for about 10 years now.
One of my killstreaks from a few months back:
These days I play Quake 3 / Quake Live for the most part. I've been a Q3 player for about 10 years now.
One of my killstreaks from a few months back:
Pathways Into Darkness
Abuse
Marathon
Marathon 2: Blood Tides of Lh'owan
Marathon: Infinity
Wolfenstein 3D
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom 1
Doom 2: Hell on Earth
Ultimate Doom (Yeah, they're basically the same game, and I hated all three of them.. sue me.)
Doom 3 (Actually fun.)
Quake 1 (N64)
Quake 2 (N64)
Quake 4
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST
Halo Reach
Halo Wars
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: MW 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Black Ops. (Oh god, just typing CoD that many times in a row makes me disgusted in myself.)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Star Wars: Battle Front
Battle Field 2 / Special Forces
Battle Field 2142
MAG
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
System Shock 2 (Haven't played the first one, unfortunately.)
Bio Shock
Bio Shock 2
Team Fortress 2
Hell Gate: London
Fall Out 3
Fall Out: New Vegas
Socom: U.S. Navy Seals
Border Lands
Left for Dead
Left for Dead 2
Counter Strike
Half Life
Half Life 2
Unreal Tournament 2001
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox version)
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Medal of Honor (new one)
Mirror's Edge (Someone else listed it; although I don't really consider it an FPS or TPS..)
Aliens vs Predator 2
Aliens vs Predator (New one)
Kill Zone
Kill Zone 2
James Bond 007: Golden Eye
James Bond 007: Nightfire
America's Army
Killing Floor
Dino Crisis 3 (IIIIN SPAAAAACCEEEE!)
F.E.A.R
Demo of F.E.A.R 2
Day of Defeat: Source
Duck Hunt (haha, someone above reminded me of this game. Oh god..)
Shell-Shock: 'Nam 67
Resident Evil 1
Resident evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident evil: Code Veronica X
Resident evil: Gun Survivor (at least two of them..)
Resident evil: 4
Resident evil: 5
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Super Metroid (Feel free to discount this one.. more of a side-scroller shooter.)
InFamous
Starfox 64
Splinter Cell 1 (Xbox)
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Cold Fear
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Duke Nukem 64
Portal
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Time Crisis
...Blah, Blah.
Abuse
Marathon
Marathon 2: Blood Tides of Lh'owan
Marathon: Infinity
Wolfenstein 3D
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom 1
Doom 2: Hell on Earth
Ultimate Doom (Yeah, they're basically the same game, and I hated all three of them.. sue me.)
Doom 3 (Actually fun.)
Quake 1 (N64)
Quake 2 (N64)
Quake 4
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST
Halo Reach
Halo Wars
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: MW 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Black Ops. (Oh god, just typing CoD that many times in a row makes me disgusted in myself.)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Star Wars: Battle Front
Battle Field 2 / Special Forces
Battle Field 2142
MAG
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
System Shock 2 (Haven't played the first one, unfortunately.)
Bio Shock
Bio Shock 2
Team Fortress 2
Hell Gate: London
Fall Out 3
Fall Out: New Vegas
Socom: U.S. Navy Seals
Border Lands
Left for Dead
Left for Dead 2
Counter Strike
Half Life
Half Life 2
Unreal Tournament 2001
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox version)
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Medal of Honor (new one)
Mirror's Edge (Someone else listed it; although I don't really consider it an FPS or TPS..)
Aliens vs Predator 2
Aliens vs Predator (New one)
Kill Zone
Kill Zone 2
James Bond 007: Golden Eye
James Bond 007: Nightfire
America's Army
Killing Floor
Dino Crisis 3 (IIIIN SPAAAAACCEEEE!)
F.E.A.R
Demo of F.E.A.R 2
Day of Defeat: Source
Duck Hunt (haha, someone above reminded me of this game. Oh god..)
Shell-Shock: 'Nam 67
Resident Evil 1
Resident evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident evil: Code Veronica X
Resident evil: Gun Survivor (at least two of them..)
Resident evil: 4
Resident evil: 5
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Super Metroid (Feel free to discount this one.. more of a side-scroller shooter.)
InFamous
Starfox 64
Splinter Cell 1 (Xbox)
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Cold Fear
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Duke Nukem 64
Portal
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Time Crisis
...Blah, Blah.
You know, looking at that list made up of only some of the *FPS* I've played, let alone all the other genres, makes me slightly sad. I have to admit. How much time have I wasted that could have been better spent doing.. damn near anything else? Oh well.
As to the original question: I hate CoD with a passion. Same crappy rehash after rehash ever since MW. I don't really think of WaW as a rehash, but I just hate that game for some other reason - not even sure why.
As for Halo, I love bungie. And while I disagree with some of their choices, I will always love Bungie. Thus, I approve of Halo; and I doubly approve of Bungie for letting Halo go. As far as I can tell, they could have easily stayed with that game and milked it for all it's worth. Instead they let go and moved on; let 343 or whatever milk it. Bungie will no doubt bring out something else amazing. I can't think of a single game in their past I did not LOVE. Myth (I still have the Total Codex case in my room, within seeing distance at the moment - whether the CD works or not is.. entirely unknown.) was amazing and fun, and Pathways Into Darkness / Marathon are my favorite games EVER. Period.
If you're looking for realistic then I reckon you should give operation flashpoint a look. It is about as realistic as you could possibly get. it really is a stick-your-head-out-of-the-grass-and-you'll-lose-it kind of affair. It's not multiplayer and it's so methodical and downright difficult that it feels more like a strategy game than an FPS. I didn't find it terribly fun but if you enjoy more realistic shooting games then you might enjoy it.SteewpidZombie said:
Personally I'll stick with Fallout or Halo thanks.
Yeah I don't even count most of those games as proper shooters, Red Dead Redemption, Gears of War and Fallout? No wonder you don't like CoD or Halo. You even have uncharted and bioshock on there. Most ppl play CoD for the multiplayer, bioshock doesn't even have multiplayer.
If you had a list of proper, highly competitive FPS games up there like CoD and Halo then your post might make sense, but if I go by your post I might as well put up a list of sonic the hedgehog games and then ask why people like CoD.
If you had a list of proper, highly competitive FPS games up there like CoD and Halo then your post might make sense, but if I go by your post I might as well put up a list of sonic the hedgehog games and then ask why people like CoD.