Poll: Best FPS Series Ever

[Eclectic Dreck]

It's hard for me to say really. Doom was my first FPS series and it holds a special place. Half-Life is certainly a better series, all things considered.

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

It's hard for me to say really. Doom was my first FPS series and it holds a special place. Half-Life is certainly a better series, all things considered.

Doom was my first, too. From a purely nostalgic standpoint, I voted for that.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Either Half-Life or No One Lives Forever. I love those two franchises.

NOLF was such a great series. I played the first one but not the second. Was it better than the first?

no Metroid Prime on the list? it's legendary

You're damn right it's legendary, but unfortunately the prime series was FPA (first person adventure) so it doesn't count.

I think you should put an other option, because I almost couldn't vote on account of there being no Timesplitters in that list, but I will go for Duke Nukem.

 

[[Gavo]]

Half-Life, I guess.

But the Metroid FPS's are really good, too.

 

[SwiftFlux]

no Metroid Prime on the list? it's legendary

I never considered the Metroid series as FPS.

1. The first four were side scrollers.
2. Way too many puzzles

 

[EnderWigginDA]

Wolfenstein for me. RTCW, W:ET.

 

[sheic99]

CSS or does that belong under Half-life

 

[KaZZaP]

A console ago I would of said rainbow six, but that franchise has been going down hill and COD2 + COD4 rocked my socks off.

 

[Sacman]

Any others i havent thought of please suggest

yeah u forgot other.
u can't have a poll without other.

 

[joystickjunki3]

If Quake was there, I'd choose that.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Good to see my boy Half Life in the lead. Although I am amiss to see the lack of counter strike up there and URT.

 

[Mr Scott]

There is no best FPS franchise there can only be one supreme FPS, and it is called 'Goldeneye: 007.' 'Nuff said.

 

[Groovewood]

I'm going to give the nod to Half-Life, mainly because of all the things it spawned; all the mods, as well as being the first game to really showcase "whoa realistic like physics."

Although this poll is very open. Best with regards to what? Most innovative? Most enduring? Best multiplayer? There are many ways to evaluate an FPS as to what makes it best. For my own criteria, I'd probably put Halo as number 2, just because I've gotten so much mileage out of that game playing with friends, even though it's hardly as inventive or revolutionary as some claim.

 

[Castrate the Heathen]

I don't play very many FPSs, but the whole Orange Box was pretty much the best 20$ I've spent.

I say Doom, the first and one of the best.

wasn't wolfinstyne the first? no matter doom was still awesome for the time

Maze War. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chDIySXK2Q]

 

[Waldo90]

Halo definitely, but im surprised gears of war wasn't on the list

That is because gears is a TPS not FPS

 

[mark_n_b]

These threads don't last long on the boards. Usually with the locking mod adding a message along the lines of "I'm sure you meant favorite FPS, not best."

 

[Frybird]

While the other nominees are good, every Series except Half-Life failed me at one point or another.

Half-Life (1, the expansions, 2, the Episodes) however is always fun, and if it stops being fun for some reason, you just get some mods and make it fun again (i recommend "Synergy", an excellent mod where you can break the single player campaign with other people from all over the world. Pure Madness!)

 

[DoW Lowen]

The original perfect dark, not perfect dark zero.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Lot of Half Life love here...wish the frame rate for Orange Box on my XBox didnt make my stomach turn... Every time i try to play i get a horrible headache followed by dizziness and nausea...pisses me off...

 

[MorganL4]

Halo definitely, but im surprised gears of war wasn't on the list

Gears isnt fps its third person