What are your top 10 FPS of all time?

[RedDeadFred]

1. Borderlands 2 -Pretty much love everything about this game.

2. Fallout 3 -Kinda hesitant to call this a shooter. No game has ever made me embrace being a terrible person as much as this one.

3. Farcry 3 -I loved taking out camps. Each one felt like a murderous puzzle that was designed with letting you be the most awesome badass.

4. 007 Nightfire -While I did play Goldeneye, most of my nostalgia hours with Bond games goes to Nighfire. This is mostly because I liked the maps more (Skyrail is probably my favourite map of all time).
5. Bioshock Infinite -While I liked the first one a lot, I am a bigger fan of Infinite's setting. Also, the skyrails were incredibly fun.

6. Portal -Not sure if this counts either since your gun isn't designed for murder. Anyway, I liked the second one, but it felt overly long and seemed like there was too much padding.

7. Halo 3 -It had the best maps IMO. It also gave me what was quite possibly the best video game moment I've ever had:
I was playing a match on Sandtrap. My friend was driving our team's elephant and drove straight for the enemy team's elephant. The enemy team's elephant did the same thing as my friend and they met in the middle. Both teams gathered around their elephants and a chaotic battle ensued while my friend and the enemy crashed into each other. Suddenly, my friend somehow started pushing the enemy elephant upwards. Everyone stopped fighting to gaze at the spectacle. Soon, my friend had pushed the enemy elephant to a 90 degree angle. Then, it fell backwards. There was a mad dash where everyone wanted to be the one to flip the elephant. I got to it first. It launched into the air, while also flinging several people away. As it reached it's peak, it smashed into the enemy banshee that had been circling to get a good view. The banshee crashed as the elephant came careening back to Earth. Everyone just stood there for a couple of seconds before continuing on with the game.
TLDR: It's not the best game, but it provided me some truly memorable moments.

8. Modern Warfare 2 -Say what you will about the noob-tubes or the nonsensical villain, I still found this to be the most enjoyable game of the series.

9. Duke Nukem 3D -I played this game when I was waaay too young. It terrified me, but I loved it. It was my brother's game and I don't think my parents really realized what it truly was.

10. Unreal Tournament 2004 -Our school had an after school video games club on Fridays (since those were half days). Unreal and Counterstrike were the two games we played. Unreal gets the slight edge for me since I've always preferred sci-fi over modern (though it's not really fair to compare them given how different they are).

 

[Chester Rabbit]

1.Return To Castle Wolfenstien

2.Halo 2

3.Bioshock Infinite

4.Blood Dragon

5.Deus Ex (It like Bioshock Infinite barely made it on this list because I have a hard time calling either just FPS?s)

6.The Darkness

Now we?re getting into the ?I guess? category of my list. Where i can?t really think of a shooter that I would definitely call a favourite, but remember these for making some kind of an impact on me.

7.Resistance Fall of Man

8.James Bond Nightfire

9.Duke Nukem Total Meltdown

10.Doom 3

Fuck me that was harder than I thought it would be! Jeez every time I thought of a game I then realized it wasn't actually a shooter(Dishonored, Thief, Fallout,Portal) or it was a third person game. Huh, I really haven't played as many FPS's as I thought I have. Or I haven't played them nearly long enough to become particularly fond of them. (Time Splitters Future Perfect, 13, Perfect Dark)

Really I?ve played a bunch I guess, they just didn?t make much of an impact. Dark Watch, COD(but I hate military shooters but I played it with my dad when I was younger because... well I did it for him) Perfect Dark 360, Golden Eye.(That left an impact actually. I haaated that game)

 

[the_great_cessation]

I'm really not an FPS guy. With that in mind...

1) Bioshock Infinite
2) Far Cry 3
3) Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
4) Halo 2
5) Metroid Prime
6) Bioshock
7) Metro Redux (Probably)
8) Perfect Dark
9) Left 4 Dead
10) uhh....I've got nothing. Unless Dishonored counts, in which case that would be my number 2.

 

[Vigormortis]

Listing individual titles would make my list a bit difficult to limit to 10, so I'll list individual titles AND series.

In no particular order:
1: Half-Life series
2: Left 4 Dead 2
3: Portal 2
4: Team Fortress 2
5: Doom series
6: Quake series
7: Perfect Dark
8: Metroid Prime series
9: Halo series
10: Titanfall

There a so many more that could go in this list. Just thought I'd go with the ones that first popped into my head and the ones that I'm currently playing.

 

[jakel_hybrid]

I'll keep it to straight shooters rather than RPG hybrids, despite Deus Ex being my favorite game of all time.

1: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - When I finished this game my first thought was 'That is the best shooter I have played in a decade'. Mechanically amazing, visually impressive, a extremely fun globe hopping military adventure.

2: Half Life series - I can't really narrow down which particular title I prefer at this stage. Amazing pacing and level design, inventive enemies and a subtle yet engaging story.

3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast - a bright, fun and mechanically amazing original story set in the Star Wars universe. What more do you want? Amazing lightsaber combat? Done. Force powers? Done. Combo driven combat and movement? Done. Great game that i have finished more times than I can count.

4: Unreal/Unreal Tournament - Again can't split either of these titles. One was an atmospheric tale of a prisoner crash landing on an alien world, fighting his way through various locations and enemies using a huge range of imaginative weapons. The other a fast paced, ruthless multiplayer game set in the same universe. They both include the Flak Cannon as a weapon.

5: Team Fortress 2 - Bright, colourful and brimming with humour, a finely balanced multiplayer shooter with varied maps, modes and weapons. Realism need not apply.

6: F.E.A.R - Great lighting and physical movement, with some of the best AI in a shooter ever. A shooter that involved jump scares and atmospheric ambience mixed with slowmo gunfights and a gun that shoots metal spikes.

7: Halo: Combat Evolved - One of the first games to incorporated non-scripted vehicles, a grenade button and lots of weapons you then had to DECIDE from which you wanted to carry with you. Truly a jump forward in the FPS genre.

8: Crysis - Graphically beautiful obviously, but also a well designed and very open shooter. It allowed you to mix up your play styles to your own preferences with the nanosuit and approach most fights from almost any angle.

9: Far Cry 3 - An amazingly open game with very well designed combat mechanics. Shooting, aiming, moving all just FELT right. Something as simple as adding a sliding sound when you were slipping down a slope made what is usually the immersion breaking 'sliding on terrain' make you feel badass.

10: Goldeneye 64 - The classic. Lots of different levels and weapons, interacting with characters you could actually recognise from the film. Plus an amazing local multiplayer mode that was the REASON a lot of people bought an N64.

 

[Evonisia]

A Diesel- thread that shows some bias but does allow for the spread of exposure to games people like? What a wonderful incident and oh...

Any order here. FPS isn't my favorite genre, but I do have a few I enjoy.

1. Titanfall
2. Battlefield 3
3. Left 4 Dead 2
4. Primal Carnage
5. Team Fortress 2
6. Destiny

And that's all I got. I can't even think of ten FPSs I've enjoyed for extended periods of time.

only those? and only modern console FPS except great TF2??

For the record, Destiny is the only one of those shooters that is console exclusive, and there's no way in hell that Left 4 Dead 2 is more of a console shooter.

 

[Kyrian007]

I'm not really a fan of the FPS, but I guess I could throw out 10 if asked.

1. (although not really) Fallout 3 and New Vegas. To me they are not FPS. They are RPG's with a system that includes a couple of FPS elements that you don't have to use. But I had to put them here, if they count they are the best.

(now really) 1. Perfect Dark (N64) Just the best, far and away. Best kind of co-op, great deathmatch and team deathmatch and sims, and a really good singleplayer experience. Every other shooter ever has either not included one of those elements, or has just provided a token effort at it. No shooter has ever provided the value that Perfect Dark did, before or since.

2. Outlaws (pc.) Best Western Game Ever. One of the best game soundtracks ever. Shares a game engine with Dark Forces, which will be on this list later on as well.

3. BioShock. System-Shock 2 was more of an RPG, but if that counts then put it here instead. Hell, if System Shock 2 counts then put Deus Ex somewhere on this list as well.

4. Half-Life. Game changer, enough said.

5. Painkiller. Tried to breathe life into the entire fps genre, which had settled coldly into the "brownshooter" category and had begun to suck.

6. Goldeneye (N64.) An amazing classic that is still easily the best movie tie in ever made.

7. Doom. Not genesis, but near enough genesis of the entire genre.

8. Dark Forces. See, I told you. Best Star Wars Shooter. The first one was great, then they ruined the sequels by making the hero a jedi and turning it into an awkward 3rd person pre-force unleashed and just as crappy.

9. TimeSplitters 2 (any of them really.) A pale attempt to move Perfect Dark onto new consoles, but still miles ahead of the rest of the dross at the time.

10. (unless fallouts counted, then honorable mention) Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Again any of them really, but for my money 2 was the only one that had any real challenge to it.

Honorable Mention: (lest anyone think I just gave up on the whole genre after it got all brownshooty) Far Cry 3. I can't put it on the list because of the awful singleplayer story, but it was fun... serious fun.

and (uggh) Borderlands. Gahd I hate Borderlands. Terrible story, grind grind grind grind, samey-brownshooty, useless pretentions to RPG Borderlands. But it gets an honorable mention for 2 reasons. 1: it was better than Borderlands 2 and that has sweetened my disposition to it. And 2:... Split Screen Co-OP. EVERYONE ELSE seemed to abandon split-screen co-op. Massive fun with friends and booze.

So there, a top list of shooters. But to be fair, every other shooter I can even think of belongs on a "worst" list of mine... it's really a trash or treasure genre.

 

[IceForce]

Thief? Is Thief a first person shooter? You shoot arrows...

If it is, that also means Oblivion, Skyrim, etc are shooters too.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

contrary to popular belief i cant stand Halo CE and GoldenEye. i consider those 2 most overrated.
GoldenEye today play worse than avg shoooter and when it was released it was pretty bad. especially there were Quack and Half life were around.

Is that the game where you throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems?

 

[Hawki]

contrary to popular belief i cant stand Halo CE and GoldenEye. i consider those 2 most overrated.
GoldenEye today play worse than avg shoooter and when it was released it was pretty bad. especially there were Quack and Half life were around.

Is that the game where you throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems?

Maybe he's thinking of Duck Hunt.

 

[Daft Ada]

contrary to popular belief i cant stand Halo CE and GoldenEye. i consider those 2 most overrated.
GoldenEye today play worse than avg shoooter and when it was released it was pretty bad. especially there were Quack and Half life were around.

Never played Quack. What's it like?

 

[Brain Tumor]

In no particular order:

Black (Xbox)
Portal 2
Half Life 2
System Shock 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Halo: ODST
Doom
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Bioshock
Panzer Dragoon

 

[Danny Dowling]

Only really have a top 5:

1. 30 - 30 fps basically defines a very long time in gaming. right through from early on with consoles and even to now, games have been running really well on 30 fps

2. 60 - as long as it's used correctly, 60 is a nice step up from 30 fps. it's a mark of the future of gaming, particularly on consoles.

3. 25 fps - if you're going to drop from 30 during game play, this is the limit I think for those games to still run okay.

4. 80 fps - I remember some fighting game supposedly being developed called Death Cargo that was claiming 80 fps and I was interested in it, never happened though I don't think.

5. 120 fps - If you can, feck it why not for shits and gigs?

 

[DirgeNovak]

1. Timesplitters: Future Perfect
2. Half-Life 2
3. Wolfenstein: The New Order
4. Far Cry 3
5. Heretic
6. F.E.A.R.
7. Doom 2
8. Call of Duty 4
9. Bioshock
10. Painkiller

 

[HaWkE_N7]

1. Call of Duty Ghosts
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
3. Call of Duty: World at War
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
6. Medal of Honor: Warfighter
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
8. Battlefield 4
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops
10. Call of Juarez: The Cartel

All of them are amazing, the story, the characters, the game mechanics, they just get everything so right.

Really, Call of Juarez: The Cartel is the worst of the series, so bad most try to forget it ever existed. Only good CoJ games are the first two and XBLA title, CoJ: Gunslinger.
MoH: Warfighter was ok, but MoH (2010) was far better in my opinion, both online and with its campaign. CoD: MW2 is my least favourite as they didn't need to up the ante anywhere near as much as they did. It completely lost any sense of reality imo compared to CoD4 which got the balance just right; explosive action but at the same time delivering a story that was just about believable.
Favourite CoDs are CoD2, 4, WaW & Black Ops. MW3 was ok; I liked the ending how it tied everything together i.e. Makarov being the one that blew up the nuke in CoD4.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

In no particular order...

1. System Shock 2 (1999)
2. Deus Ex (2000)
3. Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
4. Half-Life (1998)
5. Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
6. Quake II (1997)
7. Perfect Dark (2000)
8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
9. Aliens vs. Predator: Gold Edition (1999)
10. Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

Looking over my choices, I'm actually taken back a little bit by how old they are (in gaming terms). It's not that I just sorta stopped playing FPS games after CoD4:MW... I still regularly play new FPS games. They just don't seem to leave the same kind of impression on me. They feel a lot more forgettable.

 

[Evonisia]

contrary to popular belief i cant stand Halo CE and GoldenEye. i consider those 2 most overrated.
GoldenEye today play worse than avg shoooter and when it was released it was pretty bad. especially there were Quack and Half life were around.

Never played Quack. What's it like?

It was awesome, but it got censored in a patch because apparently blowing up ducks with rocket launchers is immoral.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Ultimate Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Shadow Warroir(original)
Half Life
Halo 1
System Shock 2
Deus Ex
Far Cry 1
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Quake 2/Quake 1
Metroid Prime

Most other games are a cheap copy of these titles.

 

[HaWkE_N7]

My Top Ten FPSs
Counting just pure FPS, not FP games, (in no particular order) lets get my favourite CoD games out the way first.

1) CoD4: Modern Warfare
Pure brilliance, CoD4 is CoD at the top of it's game. Infinity Ward put out one of the best FPS ever with this game. Along with the great story, it had plenty of action and wtf moments but without them ever being too outlandish that they weren't believable. Unfortunately, its sequels didn't stick to this.

2) CoD: World at War
Treyarch's final WWII outing was great. It took us to areas that the CoD WWII hadn't ventured before with the American Pacific campaign. It had plenty of epic levels, especially on the Soviet campaign. Also it dared to step into darker territory which showed some of the more truer horrors of war instead of the more gung-ho attitude affixed to previous games. There was brilliant voice acting from both Gary Oldman & Kiefer Sutherland. But lets not forget its this game that introduced us to one of the best horde mode games that would become staple to Treyarch's CoDs, (Nazi) Zombies.

3) CoD: Black Ops
After Modern Warfare's OTT game came a step back to CoD of old. Black Ops blended perfectly, in my opinion, the fictional story CoD of the MW games with the original CoD games of being set in history. This blend created one of the best CoD campaigns ever, keeping the twists coming right till the end. I can't be the only one who never caught on until it was revealed that a certain character was never actually there. Everytime I play it now I can't believe I never noticed. Black Ops also gave the multiplayer a nice shot in the arm by changing things a bit and introducing the wager matches. It's a shame that MW3 came along a took all this new fresh multiplayer and substituted it for the same old multiplayer as before in MW2.

4) Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Just as good as the first game, it brought back everyones favourite gang of crazy soldiers for another outing of mayhem. Some say its not as funny as the first game. Maybe its not but DICE can be forgiven this as they give us the best Battlefield multiplayer on last gen consoles - back when the Frostbite engine actually lived up to its purpose by allowing us to blow everything up. Oh and lets not forget the great DLC of Vietnam levels.

5) Black
Black was one of the best FPS to come out on PS2/Xbox. Releasing at the end of those consoles cycles it was also an underrated title that didn't get the attention it deserved; people should really go back and play it. The destruction mechanics on it were awesome back in the day. If anything the whole look of the game was a sign of the great things to come from the next generation of consoles. I would've liked to have seen it remade for 360/PS3. It had an intriguing plot that ended on a brilliant cliffhanger. Such a shame that it's never had the follow up that it deserves. The closet we've got is the lame 'spiritual successor', Bodycount.

6) MoH: Airborne
The last great MoH game, Airborne opened the world up to you allowing you to land anywhere in on the map and approach objectives in the order you wanted. The game looked and sounded great and really did the whole aspect of fighting alongside comrades really well - even if occasionally the AI was dumb. It also gave a breath of fresh air to the WWII genre itself with the non-linear approach it took to the levels, by allowing you to play as a unit not really covered before and take part in campaigns that hadn't been featured in games before.
MoH should go back to something like this, it just didn't really fit the modern setting well. Perhaps try and find a fresh look at WW2 (probably hard though as its been done to death) or maybe Vietnam or Korea.

7) Brothers In Arms
Now I'm cheating a bit here as I'm counting all three. This series is not only a great FPS but one of the best WWII shooters out there - also one that fortunately still managed to remain strong and consistent in the face of the saturation of WWII in game. It contains the one Ace that the other FPS in lack, control of your squad (rather than it being left to the AI and you following them). The last game, Hell's Highway, (as with the other two) really got you involved in the lives of the soldiers and caring what happens to them. Whilst the Furious Four concept Gearbox was going with for the sequel looked good I'm glad they changed their minds as that just wasn't BIAs. I just wish Gearbox would hurry up and gives us the next game which should be (by following movements after Market Garden) set in the Ardennes, based around the Battle of the Bulge.

8) 007 Nightfire
Lost many hours to this game playing the multiplayer with friends, this was my Goldeneye (though likely nowhere near as good). Whilst it was the best FPS James Bond game it wasn't the best. That, in my opinion, falls to third person Everything Or Nothing. The plot was mostly good as were the levels, it's just towards the end that it started to go a bit awry.

9) Metro 2033
Awesome, atmospheric, tense FPS. Definitely underrated on its release. The game had a good plot and had you be more strategic about how you play the game by using ammo as currency. Also the choices you make depend on what ending you get. Hopefully with the re-release on XB1 & PS4 in the Redux pack it will get the attention it deserves.

10) Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm made a nice change to the usual FPS by being crazy, funny and having you kill your enemies in as outlandish a way as possible; there are some awesomely sweet execution moves you can pull off. A real shame that its not considered to have sold well enough to get the sequel that it deserves.

Honourable mentions:
Crysis; Call of Juarez series (except The Cartel); MoH: Frontline, Rising Sun & 2010 reboot; Battlefield 1943; Killzone; 007 Quantum of Solace, some don't like it, I thought it did a good job of turning the films into playable game and I had many hours of fun with friends on its multiplayer; Homefront; Star Wars: Republic Commando; Halo, only played Reach so far, not bothering with the Master Chief ones now till I get XB1, disappointed they haven't done Halo 2 for 360 as well; Perfect Dark, its a shame PDZ wasn't great; Frontlines: Fuel of War, RAGE; The Darkness; The World Is Not Enough.

 

[Skin]

1. Halo: Combat Evolved - it really is spectacular how this game not only still holds up today in many regards, but is outright still ahead in terms of design. From the sprawling large battle grounds, to the brilliantly well balanced and high skill capped multiplayer, to the popcorn flick action story that kept you interested in it, Halo:CE was a masterpiece. Halo 2 on the otherhand, was an utter abortion and the series never quite recovered and still lives on for some reason.

2. Half-Life. No, not Half-Life 2, never Half-Life 2. I recommend watching The Examined Life of Gaming's Half-Life 2 video to not only get some context into why this is such a good game, but why HL2 wasn't.

3. Swat 3. I sunk so many hours into this game. Loved having a bot only games completely filled with NPCs. A small house level with 30+ NPCs walking around, everyone shooting everyone. Also, paintball mode.

Uhhh, Timesplitters 2 I guess? Maybe the original Tribes? I don't know.