The best First person shooter i played in the 90's was....
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Blood 3D for DOS. Absolutely and without a doubt.
If you're a fan of Doom/WOLF3D, you have no excuse for not playing this game right now.
If you're a fan of Doom/WOLF3D, you have no excuse for not playing this game right now.
I LOVED GoldenEye 007. At the time it was as if you took pure awesome and formed it into a game cartridge for the N64. I would have to say that now I find things such as CoD4 much better, but of course you must remember that back then, FPS games weren't as overly done as they are now. I swear there are at least 4-5 FPS games released each year.
I'd say that, but I didn't play it until recently. Amazing game though, and still very fun to play.The Shade said:
Anyway, Goldeneye would have to be mine.
Here's my question Whistler: if I didn't play Blood 3D back then IS there a reason beyond nostalgia to play it now? The only reason I play Doom is because I used to play it all the time and it reminds me of those times. With many other FPS's to choose from with much better controls than Doom or Rise of the Triad, will I find it outdated and uninteresting just because I don't have happy memories of it? If you really believe it stands up even with the limitations of the past I will go play it right away.
Mine of course is Doom 2, but with Rise of the Triad close behind simply because I played it first. Doom 2 was a much better game, but Rise of the Triad will always be my first.
Mine of course is Doom 2, but with Rise of the Triad close behind simply because I played it first. Doom 2 was a much better game, but Rise of the Triad will always be my first.
Well, I certainly think there is a reason beyond nostalgia to go back and play it now. When I played it back then, it was positively amazing due to then-cutting-edge sprite graphics (bested only by Hexen) and visceral action.coldfrog said:
Nowadays, what makes me love it is the total uniqueness of it. Campy horror references and innovative weapons set it apart from even today's shooters (to put it blankly, I like Blood far more than I liked FEAR 2 [made by the same company, even] and Killzone 2). Not to mention the fact that Monolith were truly at their best when designing the levels of the game. Sure, "find-the-key" puzzles are all washed up by today's standards, but with the creativeness and variability of the levels, I can easily get past it.
It's up to you, but I strongly recommend that you play it. It was overlooked then, and still few people know about it.
I think I'll check it out actually. It sounds fun and if there's one thing I've seen too little of *coughHalocough* is good, interesting level design. The only company that REALLY does it extremely well for an FPS in my opinion is Valve, though COD4 did a very good job as well.Whistler777 said:
One of the things I remember particularly about the Doom games were all the secret areas... for their limitations they did a great job filling the game with all sorts of hidden stuff, I loved finding a secret wall that popped open with an enormous cache of weapons or even better, something new and bigger... But anyway. I'll give it a shot.
Perfect Dark. This is a game which I still have yet to beat, and still have fun at. The idea of the game isn't just to shoot your way out, but to think how. This lead to a lot of screw ups as well as fun. This is one of the few games I will still play on the N64 because the game had a charm that I have yet to see from a shooter after it. The fact I still get surprised on the first twist in the game if I haven't played it in a good while even though I know it is just one of the little gems in the game that keeps me smiling whenever I play it.
