The Best FPS Ever . . . so far.

[thom_cat_]

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.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

That's easy. Timesplitters: Future Perfect. It has an incredibly fun multiplayer and singleplayer, co-op, incredibly fun (and some very challenging) challenge modes and leagues, a large variety of weapons and characters and great humour.

If Crytek UK do decide to do Timesplitters 4 and they make it like Call of Duty I destroy them and devour their souls! Or just go into a corner with some cookie dough ice cream and cry manly tears.

Are you me?

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!

 

[karloss01]

Timesplitters: Future Perfect. seven years on and i still play it.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Portal is the best FPS.

An yes it is an FPS, you shoot Portals, in first person.

 

[distortedreality]

That looks like surfing on acid. Very cool.

 

[evilneko]

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.

/thread.

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...

 

[Wicky_42]

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.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Goldeneye.


Oh fine, CoD4 was pretty good and the Halo Series.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

There are good FPSs, there are great FPSs then there's Halo... God of FPSs!

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Timesplitters 2/Future Perfect

The games are pure, condensed fun. Out of the two I'd pick Timesplitters 2, but that's personal preference. Both are the best ever in my eyes.

I completely agree with this opinion.

TimeSplitters as a series are simply the most fun shooters (possibly even the most all-round fun games in general) I've ever played.

Personally, I prefer 2 as well, but Future Perfect is still pretty bloody incredible. Both are easily in my top 10 games ever.

 

[Drizzitdude]

Single: Bioshock
Multiplayer: Halo 2

 

[Artemicion]

The very first level has you blowing up a museum, getting an RPG-7, and then blowing up a bell tower.

Awesome.

 

[DarklordKyo]

Pokemon Snap, lol (what?, it's technically an FPS)

 

[Alduin Silas]

Serious Sam, the original. A simple "go in there, **** things up, solve the odd puzzle." SO much fun.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

Single player only:
Just replayed Killzone 2&3. They are awesome in terms of weighty gameplay/weapons and presentation. While i love the third for the varied great looking setpieces and overall action i favor the second for the more detailed indoor levelsets with more particle and lightning effects and it´s physics. The warehouse fight at the beginnig is a good example: breakable glass, empty canisters go flying when shot same goes for tyres and other small stuff. Glass bottles don`t just break when you run against them, they fall and roll around.

I just love this series since the first Killzone.
Just try to close your ears when the characters start talking (especially Killzone 2). A bleeper for all this unatural swearing would make these games hysterical.


The Call of Juarez series is nice to. It`s not the best fps ever made but it`s one of the best if you`re tired of most gamesettings like modern war, ww2, sience fiction stuff (yes, even The Cartel which i liked despite most bad review scores)).

When it comes to FPS it`s hard to look back at the ones released around 2000-2005 or earlier. While i have positive memories of the old stuff i just can`t get back into it. Maybe i`m an bigger graphics whore than i thought i`be.

 

[Tanakh]

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.

Ahhh... so because doom maps are a series of a lot small rooms connecter and Painkiller/Serious Sam take place in a few big ones they are totally different? Add the freedom of movement (wtf does that mean?) and the one-man army feel and i think you are talking grounded on nostalgia.

Things that are similar:

- weapons mechanics
- health mechanics
- enemy AI behaviour
- gamplay during engagements
- fast pace FPS
- lack of cover (in the modern sense of the word)

things that ain't:

- level design (not sure however how much of Doom level desing was forced due technological limitations)

 

[paislyabmj]

UT2004 is the best multiplayer fps ever made in my humble opinion(if you don't love flak cannons you have no soul).
singleplayer is a lot harder to determine but my vote goes for deus ex(action RPG doesn't count yada yada ya,it is first person and loosely based around shooting end of).

 

[templar1138a]

F.E.A.R. The combat was exhilarating and it had a well-constructed story. And it genuinely scared me. I can't think of any other shooter that tapped into my actual adrenaline.

 

[Sixcess]

Add the freedom of movement (wtf does that mean?

It means this

Spoiler: FPS Level Design Then and Now

It means moving constantly through the level, and being able to pick your path through that level, not stopping every two minutes to circle strafe waves of enemies in a big room (replace the word cutscene in the righthand image with the words 'waves of mobs' and that's PK and SS) and it's something that's almost extinct in modern FPSs.

 

[RJ 17]

The greatest FPS is, without question, AvP2 for the PC.

Best single player campaigns (the marine campaign, especially).

Best multiplayer format.

Best subject matter.



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