Favorite First-Person Shooter

[Ham Ham]

Call of Duty and Soldier of Fortune series.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Half-life isn't really a shooter, since you mostly spend the game picking up things and throwing them.

/Joke

TBH, that was my one complaint about the game. You were almost forced to use the gravity gun to kill enemies. And the demo was total crap.

 

[Dr00d]

Half-life isn't really a shooter, since you mostly spend the game picking up things and throwing them.

And the other half you spend getting from point A-B in some sort of vehicle. Seriously it seemed that was the hole game for a while, bugged me. -.-

 

[brad.dude03]

And what is any other FPS? Clearing rooms, on to the next one, clear more rooms, out door level, expansive space, get lost, clear more rooms, next level.

 

[Dr00d]

Halo seems to break that up nicely with vehicular combat, although it's still almost the same as clearing rooms, just clearing valleys instead. Some nice epic battles in wide spaces in 3.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I like chaotic FPS scenes, they just rule. Dozens of soldiers running at eachother , explosions everywhere, blood, screams etc. You get the picture probally.

 

[brad.dude03]

Halo seems to break that up nicely with vehicular combat, although it's still almost the same as clearing rooms, just clearing valleys instead. Some nice epic battles in wide spaces in 3.

Halo is still a pretty general FPS, but this a good thing, because they do it so well that its almost perfect, thus outrageously fun to play. I think anyone would rather play a perfect standard FPS over a creative FPS with a bunch of problems.

 

[Dr00d]

I think anyone would rather play a perfect standard FPS over a creative FPS with a bunch of problems.

FEAR. =P15characterlimit

 

[TheDivineBoss]

FEAR. =P15characterlimit

Do you mean FEAR is a good standard FPS or a FPS with many problems? o.0

FEAR rules!

 

[Dr00d]

Creative... but not perfect.

 

[brad.dude03]

No, FEAR was pretty standard, you went in, cleared out rooms, fighting against an army of cloned supersoldiers, you have slowmotion, whoopy. It was well made, the graphics were great at the time, but its not really that creative. A game that is creative but has a lot of problems would be something like Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, or Dead Rising.

 

[Cham[p]ion]

CoD4 cannot be denied greatness because of its multiplayer, and that rediculous Chernobyl level. Killzone is definitely underrated though. The environments make me speechless.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

CoD4 cannot be denied greatness because of its multiplayer, and that rediculous Chernobyl level. Killzone is definitely underrated though. The environments make me speechless.

They tried to bury it in the grounds because it was European. To make it even closer; Dutch.

 

[brad.dude03]

Yep, because everyone hates the Dutch.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Why why why are we printed as evil in the Austin Powers movie..

 

[brad.dude03]

Because it's hilarious

I like Dutch Waffles though...

BUT REGARDLESS, THIS IS A TOPIC ABOUT FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS, AND SHALL REMAIN AS SUCH!

NO MORE OFF-TOPICERY.

Deus Ex is total win FPS/RPG hybrid.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I wonder how Pacman would look in a FPS...

/still remained on-Topic]

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Why why why are we printed as evil in the Austin Powers movie..

Acceptable targets tend to be countries that either no one hates (like canadians) or everyone hates (like english and americans for the french and french for the english and americans).

No, FEAR was pretty standard, you went in, cleared out rooms, fighting against an army of cloned supersoldiers, you have slowmotion, whoopy. It was well made, the graphics were great at the time, but its not really that creative. A game that is creative but has a lot of problems would be something like Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, or Dead Rising.

But you gotta admit, as far as horror games go, that one was win.

 

[brad.dude03]

FEAR was most definetly win. Just like Halo was most definetly win. As I said, a game can be amazing without it having to go outside the box. FEAR does it, Halo does it, tons of games do it.

Hell, look at Serious Sam. Serious Sam is some of the most fun you can ever have playing LAN, and its just over-the-top bad-guy killing, wave after wave. It has next to nothing for a story, but its amazingly fun to play, so it totally wins.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

As far as shooter games go, Portal definitely takes the cake (pun intended).

However, it's more about solving puzzles than going ninja on bad guys. The most violence you can cause is tipping over turrets and burning Glados's morality core.

 

[Doron]

even though Portal isnt "really" an FPS, it rocked the cake.

Made me have headaches every once in a while but it was worth it.

 

[brad.dude03]

Portal is still technically a puzzle-based FPS. It uses a FPS engine and a FPS camera setup, and is an FPS in every way except that instead of shooting baddies and saving the world you shoot Portals and and solve puzzles ^^

 

[BlackArmsShadow]

Where's Halo?

 

[brad.dude03]

Halo was great, I played and modded it for 2 years, all of my friends played LAN's and we did co-op on the consoles too. It was amazing fun.

But for me (and all of my friends) Halo is not as fun as it once was.

 

[HappyTauren]

CS:S,UT3,CoD4 <3

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Where's Halo?

If we put Halo in it, almost every one voted for it 'cept for some of us

 

[brad.dude03]

You and Sansui are the only two who wouldn't

Well I wouldn't either. I love the Halo series, it IS one of my favourites, but there are FPS's that I like better now, Halo shows its age too much.

 

[<Offspring>]

I wouldn't vote for halo, it's fun but i prefer Modern Warfare (and WWII).

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Republic Commando.

There, I mentionned the one game not even the creators care enough about to make a sequel. But it was a pretty damn good squad FPS.

Ghost Recon (GRAW at least) was pretty damn cool too.

 

[SantaBla]

I don't know why everyone likes Halo that much... I played Halo 3 on the Xbox 360... To me it was just an average FPS.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's not for everyone. As for the it being a regular FPS, it's a standard FPS because it IS the standard for FPS'... Kinda. Before Halo, there weren't really any ground rules for console FPS'.

 

[brad.dude03]

Actually, Goldeneye really set the ground rules for console FPS games. It all just went from there.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

In any case the multiplayer is awesome.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Unreal 2: The Awakening. I have EVERY SINGLE Unreal computer game ever. Unreal, Return to Na Pali, Unreal Tournament, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 2K4, Unreal Tournament III. My favorite was Unreal 2, since it was a GREAT sci-fi single-player game. Unreal Tournament III goes right behind it (despite the superior graphics), then comes good old 99'.

 

[brad.dude03]

My first Unreal experience was Ut2K4 on PC. Needless to say it was win. I then got The Awakening for one of my consoles (Xbox or Dreamcast, can't remember which) and fell in love with both the single-player experience and the Impact Hammer.

Needless to say, when UTIII rolled around, it was a match made in heaven. I got the best of both: 2K4 style gameplay, and impact hammer <3.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Unreal Tournament numero uno is my favorite, as I have said before. It's just fun, the old-style graphics. I run around in my Ghost skin and headshot everything... and when I saw the cover of Unreal 2: The Awakening, I just NEEDED to get it. I saw pictures of it, and it had vehicles (which I don't think it does), cool characters, and awesome sci-fi weapons that really rocked socks. Unreal Tournament III IS fun, but like it's title, it reaches 3rd place. It's WAY fun to play, with AWESOME graphics (which I run at highest quality), and it's the same awesome old-school gameplay I'm used to. But sadly, the original remains UNDEFEATED.

Edit: I'm happy my dad exchanged my Playstation 2 with a Dreamcast. When I got the demo disk that had the trial for Sonic Adventure, I couldn't wait to get it. And then my dad walks in the house with it. I loved Sonic ever since... sadly, the movers stole my cord, so I can't play ANY of my old Dreamcast games when I moved to New York. /sigh

 

[BlackArmsShadow]

Gears of War II will be the best game EVER. Will blow all these other games out of the water... With a Hammer of Dawn.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

It's not about games that didn't come out yet... and if you didn't play it, how could you tell?

 

[brad.dude03]

Because the first Gears of War was excellent. And yeah, it'll beat out Halo 3 in the FPS category, but hell, as soon as HL2: Episode 3 comes out, well, everything else just dies in comparison.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Will it still run on the out-dated Source engine?

 

[brad.dude03]

Outdated? Bitch please! They keep updating the Source engine and the graphics are AMAZING. Look at EP2 for example. Stunning graphics.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Well, that's new! You know, I don't really pay attention to too many things. I never knew that they actually UPDATE THE ENGINE! Thanks for telling me!

 

[BlackArmsShadow]

You're talking like you don't care about Gears of War! Seeing as you're such a huge Unreal Tournament fan you should know it has the same development team and physics engine as the Unreal games.

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

Actually, I don't know about the developers, but I DID know it runs on the Unreal3 engine. I don't own Gears of War, but I've played it. It's a GREAT game (I especially like the cover system), but I like Unreal better.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

What I'm worried about is how they'll make Gears of War 2 better than the original. What can they possibly add to make it more badass?

 

[BlackArmsShadow]

Here's an answer: More Violence?

 

[I)eadnerzhul]

There's more than enough blood and gore to go round'!

 

[TheDivineBoss]

There's more than enough blood and gore to go round'!

We don't like another Manhunt D:

 

[brad.dude03]

Or another terrible Killzone game.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Killzone is the only good game which dares to stand against Halo, face the truth D: