The Best FPS Ever . . . so far.
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In terms of straight FPS (not FPS RPGs like Deus Ex or System Shock), I'd say Counterstrike Source is my favorite FPS. It was a ton of great games packed into one and had a lot of cool mods. It's too bad shooters nowadays don't have hostage rescue missions.
Doom (1, 2 & 64), Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Painkiller, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and Call of Duty 3 & 4 are all FPS's that I deem to be fantastic. Also, Area 51, it had David Duchovny voicing the lead character!
Single Player: Marathon 2: Durandal. There still isn't another FPS that sucked me into the story like that one. The FPS mechanics are great, even going back to it now. The level design is excellent, especially compared to its contemporaries. The story was fantastic and it oozed atmosphere.
Runner up: Metroid Prime.
Multiplayer: Halo 3. They just nailed it with that one. This was right up there with Super Smash Bros. Melee as the most fun games I've ever played.
Runner up: Perfect Dark. I know it was a mess of a game, but god, it was so much fun.
Runner up: Metroid Prime.
Multiplayer: Halo 3. They just nailed it with that one. This was right up there with Super Smash Bros. Melee as the most fun games I've ever played.
Runner up: Perfect Dark. I know it was a mess of a game, but god, it was so much fun.
Couldn't pick one. Far too many series to choose from. However I shall whittle it down to a list of 5, not in any order.
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Halo: Combat Evolved
Half Life 2
Timesplitters 2
Bioshock
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Halo: Combat Evolved
Half Life 2
Timesplitters 2
Bioshock
For Multiplayer i'd say either the original Unreal Tournament (GOTY) or Battlefield Bad Company 2 which is so much better than BF3 other than the levelling system. For single player, the original Crysis was really good, until it took a turn around same-old-twist avenue and we got aliens.
I haven't played Hard Reset so I couldn't say if it qualifies, but I've never quite understood why people think of Painkiller and Serious Sam as being like Doom. Doom's levels were huge, sprawling mazes with a lot of freedom of movement, whereas PK and SS both revolve around locking you in a succession of big rooms and throwing waves of enemies at you for a while.Tanakh said:
Personally the FPS that has most reminded me of Doom in the last decade was Crysis - not an exact match by any means, but the suit powers gave me something of that one-man army feel.
It would. I did find Doom a little nerve wracking at first - particularly as I originally played the PS1 version which had a scary ambient soundtrack.TomLikesGuitar said:
Mainly though I just hope that Doom 4 is good. It's a legendary series (and it makes me happy to see so many people naming it in this thread) and I just hope Id have the courage to remember that Doomguy sprints everywhere, carries more than two guns, takes more than a couple of hits without dying and does not know the meaning of the words 'cover based shooting.' Yes, the FPS as a genre has evolved a lot, but I want to feel that it is Doom, not CoD.
I vote HL2.
And no, I'm not some guy who just jumped on the bandwagon. I used to play on a playstation 1 and 2 and there's nothing extremely notable in my mind on those. I started PC gaming late with Counter-Strike: Source and HL2 came with it. And I absolutely loved it. I love how the story pans out (or how it doesn't) and how characters have back-stories and some sense of depth. I love how the environments are welded together, with the Combine striking their way onto earth and pushing their buildings over the place of the others. I just love the depth in the universe of the game.
Now, if you want to talk FPS mechanics? HL2 has a pretty boring set of weapons nowadays. I mean it has the grav gun, but the loadout is dated, most things feel like they have no weight and it's a little lacking in that regard.
I said I played CSS, and that's one of my favourites because of the sheer amount of customisability. I made my own server game mode*... I mean, any fps that allows you to make your own maps and screw with server settings to be able to do shit like that is insane.
Then there's TF2, which would have been my fav had it not been made unreadable by flooding the game with content. (The only game I can say has been ruined by more stuff)
I've been playing BF3 lately, and although it's pretty predictable it's damn awesome too. If they'd make it so you can talk over mic through the game, scroll in chat... just make it more sociable then it would be amazing.
It's all opinion, everything has it's high and low points and so many games are bundled into the FPS genre it's really impossible to choose.
And no, I'm not some guy who just jumped on the bandwagon. I used to play on a playstation 1 and 2 and there's nothing extremely notable in my mind on those. I started PC gaming late with Counter-Strike: Source and HL2 came with it. And I absolutely loved it. I love how the story pans out (or how it doesn't) and how characters have back-stories and some sense of depth. I love how the environments are welded together, with the Combine striking their way onto earth and pushing their buildings over the place of the others. I just love the depth in the universe of the game.
Now, if you want to talk FPS mechanics? HL2 has a pretty boring set of weapons nowadays. I mean it has the grav gun, but the loadout is dated, most things feel like they have no weight and it's a little lacking in that regard.
I said I played CSS, and that's one of my favourites because of the sheer amount of customisability. I made my own server game mode*... I mean, any fps that allows you to make your own maps and screw with server settings to be able to do shit like that is insane.
Then there's TF2, which would have been my fav had it not been made unreadable by flooding the game with content. (The only game I can say has been ruined by more stuff)
I've been playing BF3 lately, and although it's pretty predictable it's damn awesome too. If they'd make it so you can talk over mic through the game, scroll in chat... just make it more sociable then it would be amazing.
It's all opinion, everything has it's high and low points and so many games are bundled into the FPS genre it's really impossible to choose.
Are you me?Kungfu_Teddybear said:
No you can't be, I only played TimeSplitters 2. Even so, I agree! And they damn well better make a PC version as well! And it better not be a shitty port!
/thread.Sixcess said:
Painkiller may be its spiritual successor, and heck I swear it even borrows some of Doom's sounds, but it's not quite there. Needs a few weapon tweaks IMO (despite having a gun that shoots SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING) and despite what Yahtzee said, there do seem to be stretches where you go without murdering any dudes...
Best single player: Half Life 2. Playing straight through that is like experiencing a film, only you're doing all the action. In the right frame of mind it's fantastically immersive, the story tells you just enough and the feel of the world is great.
Most pure fun shooter: Serious Sam 1. It's just mad, awesome, huge, fast fun and frantic. Love it.
Fondest memories: Halo CE. THE game I played on my original Xbox. Beautiful set pieces, vibrant, colourful worlds and enemies, well-crafted vehicle physics (heh) - and co-op
The memories of blitzing through Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Centre, Library (yes, that level is pretty awesome in co-op if you only use human weapons ), and Two Betrayals with my sister are awesome, and the first time you meet the flood in Guilty Spark 343 was a pretty kick-ass moment in a most unsettling level.
Currently most awesome: BF3 by FAR. I've not been able to play much, what with being off on a laptop most of the time, but the few weeks I've had with it have been phenominal. I love the suppression mechanic, I love the bullet drop, I love the sound-scape, the destructible terrain, the classes, the reasonable balance between weapons, the unlock system, the ability to use scores of vehicles, the variety of ways to play and the size of the maps. I haven't seen a game as technically accomplished, nor one that bring up such tense moments and playing cat and mouse with a tank as the building you're in gets chipped away, or slipping behind enemy lines with a squad and flanking their advance with a wall of heavy machinegun fire.
All of the above is, like, just my opinion, man.
Most pure fun shooter: Serious Sam 1. It's just mad, awesome, huge, fast fun and frantic. Love it.
Fondest memories: Halo CE. THE game I played on my original Xbox. Beautiful set pieces, vibrant, colourful worlds and enemies, well-crafted vehicle physics (heh) - and co-op
The memories of blitzing through Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Centre, Library (yes, that level is pretty awesome in co-op if you only use human weapons ), and Two Betrayals with my sister are awesome, and the first time you meet the flood in Guilty Spark 343 was a pretty kick-ass moment in a most unsettling level.Currently most awesome: BF3 by FAR. I've not been able to play much, what with being off on a laptop most of the time, but the few weeks I've had with it have been phenominal. I love the suppression mechanic, I love the bullet drop, I love the sound-scape, the destructible terrain, the classes, the reasonable balance between weapons, the unlock system, the ability to use scores of vehicles, the variety of ways to play and the size of the maps. I haven't seen a game as technically accomplished, nor one that bring up such tense moments and playing cat and mouse with a tank as the building you're in gets chipped away, or slipping behind enemy lines with a squad and flanking their advance with a wall of heavy machinegun fire.
All of the above is, like, just my opinion, man.