The Best FPS Ever . . . so far.

[skywolfblue]

Multiplayer: UT2004. Screw modern military FPS's, give me the good 'ol days with unique guns, super-fast movement and insane dodging moves, and an even balance between vehicles and ground troops.

Singleplayer: Half Life 2. Self Explanatory.

 

[octafish]

For multiplayer I have to go with Battlefield 2142, Titan Mode is the absolute best, plus the balance is really good.

For single player...

You look like you need a monkey.
Excuse me?
I have a very fine monkey for you. Only twenty dollars, American.
Sorry, I don't want a monkey.
What do you mean?
I don't want a monkey!
Why not?
Because I don't like monkeys, now get that filthy beast away from me!
Are you insulting my monkey?
I'm sure it's a perfectly excellent monkey, but I don't want it. Now please leave, I'm very busy.
Ten dollars.
No! I wouldn't want the dreadful thing even if it were free!
Free? You want my children to starve?
If they're hungry, I suggest you feed them the monkey.
This is a valuable monkey! My wife would kill me if she knew I was offering it to you so cheap.
You don't seem to understand, I DON'T WANT A MONKEY!
Infidel.

The one the only No One Lives Forever.

 

[Darknacht]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, its awesome until you get a gun after that it is just good.

 

[Signa]

For multiplayer I have to go with Battlefield 2142, Titan Mode is the absolute best, plus the balance is really good.

For single player...

You look like you need a monkey.
Excuse me?
I have a very fine monkey for you. Only twenty dollars, American.
Sorry, I don't want a monkey.
What do you mean?
I don't want a monkey!
Why not?
Because I don't like monkeys, now get that filthy beast away from me!
Are you insulting my monkey?
I'm sure it's a perfectly excellent monkey, but I don't want it. Now please leave, I'm very busy.
Ten dollars.
No! I wouldn't want the dreadful thing even if it were free!
Free? You want my children to starve?
If they're hungry, I suggest you feed them the monkey.
This is a valuable monkey! My wife would kill me if she knew I was offering it to you so cheap.
You don't seem to understand, I DON'T WANT A MONKEY!
Infidel.

The one the only No One Lives Forever.

Oh god, how could I forget NOLF! I recognized that conversation by the second line. That series actually depressed me, because by the time I finished NOLF 2, I knew there weren't any more coming. Ever.

 

[Bryce323]

My list, in the order given my current mood:

1) Counterstrike
2) Planetside
3) BF2
4) COD:MW1
5) BF:BC

I heard Valve was doing a reboot of CounterStrike... I really hope they don't turn it into a COD game.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Half life 2 is as good as any FPS will ever be at it's core. And a very close runner up would be the severely overlooked metro 2033.

 

[chadachada123]

I'm gonna have to say that Goldeneye is up there for most time wasted, same with Halo 1 and 2. Best times with friends, bar-none.

Otherwise? It's hard for me to say. None of my friends play FPS games anymore, so I have little with which to gauge how good an FPS game is; I can only see the faults in one.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

This is easy. Doom for the PC is the best FPS ever made. We hit perfection a lot time ago and everything afterward has just been degrees of how good it is in comparison to Doom.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

System Shock 2, if we're being loose on what the OP accepts as FPS. I have never played a game that has offered such concentrated atmosphere and tension. The game oozes personality despite it's limitations and flaws. Something about the way things are animated make me feel like I'm in a nightmare. It's sluggishness is actually apart of the game. That's what I call making do with what you got.

Also, one of the only games I've ever experienced claustrophobia. I don't even feel claustrophobia in my day to day life.

TF2 if being strict on FPS mechanics. Maybe l4d2. I've had hundreds of hours of joy out of them.

I don't play FPSs for singleplayer experiences very often and they are rarely too remarkable even back in the golden age of PC gaming. Games like STALKER, Half-Life, Doom, Quake, Fear and so on (you name it, i've likely played it) are all great in their own way, but not as close to my heart as SS2.

 

[loc978]

I say UT'99 and its million mods, but it just happened to cater to what I look for in an FPS.

 

[Nazulu]

It's either Half-Life 2 or Metroid Prime for me. I didn't find their story's special at all like a lot of you did, but the design in those games made me drool.

 

[endtherapture]

Not even joking. Every FPS should strive to be like Crysis.

 

[dyre]

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.

 

[John the Gamer]

SLAVES OF ARMOK II: DWARF FORTRESS

Oh wait...FIRST person...

Operation Flashpoint then.

 

[WaReloaded]

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!

 

[TheGreatAndPowerfulZOG]

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.

 

[Andy Shandy]

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

 

[Griever]

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.

 

[LetalisK]

I'll throw my hat in for CoD4. Both singleplayer and multiplayer.

 

[Sixcess]

Doom/Doom II. Even after nearly 20 years no other FPS delivers the kind of fast paced run and gun action that Doom does to perfection, and given the way the genre has evolved it's doubtful any ever will.

Painkiller, Hard Reset and Serious Sam do off the top of my head.

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.

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.

I dunno about you, but Doom 1 scared the crap out of me when I was little. It's a big part of why I liked it. I agree that "survival" horror was a step in the wrong direction, but a legit horror-action (a la. Dead Space 1) would be sweet for Doom 4.

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.

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.