In no particular order other than the order I thought them up in:
Planetside 2
Tribes 2
Quake 3 Arena
Unreal Tournament (1999)
Deus Ex: HR
Team Fortress 2
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Half Life 2
Left4Dead
Tribes: Ascend
Honorable mention:
Section 8: Prejudice. Pity the game never took off, because I really did like the shooting in it.
I prefer AVP2. It's just a better designed game all around. It's really one of those sequels where everything is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by ado
I replayed AVP and realized much to my disappointment that everything awesome I remembered about it was actually from AVP 2.
Adding to my list according to Lamb's guidelines.
Old list:
Call of Duty 1
Doom
Mirror's Edge
Stalker
New additions:
Operation Flashpoint
System Shock 2
Portal
Battlefield 1942
Unreal Tournament 2003
Painkiller
In the Jedi Knight series I'm only playing for the third-person lightsaber which was fresh at the time, and more importantly, acted like a fucking lightsaber. Aside from some interesting AI, F.E.A.R is really overrated, and Deus Ex can go take a hike too. I appreciate what Deus Ex did and acknowledge that it earned it's place in history, but personally I can't stand it.
Just ten as I don't think I had even played 25 fps
not in order:
vampire bloodlines if it couNts
stalker soc
deus ex 1
deus ex 3
half life 1
half life 2
ut1
portal1
SHOGO
red orchestra
I can already see which games are going to lead.. BF 2, STALKER:Soc,HL2,Deus Ex.. :D
And then people will whine WOW PC GAMERS REALLY DO LIKE THEIR FPS GAMES :| Yes we do.
Top 10 in no particular order
Aliens vs. Predator
Quake 3 Arena
MechWarrior 2
Uprising (can be played in both but it's more immersive in first person)
Project I.G.I.
Unreal Tournament
Half-Life 2 (sorry, HL1, but, you know... Xen)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Serious Sam
Counterstrike (if they count as separate games, then pre-Source)
Half-life
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Far Cry 2
Battlefield 1942
Team Fortress Classic
Portal 2
Duke 3D
Bioshock
oh crap, how could I forget the NOLF games?
I was really surprised by how good the marine campaign was in AVP 2. The story was trash, but it made you feel scared and vulnerable in parts, especially the beginning. I wish they had made predators more scary though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ado
Portal is in? Well... okay.
In no particular order
Half-Life
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Half-Life 2
Unreal Tournament
Quake 3: Arena
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Serious Sam: TSE
Mirror's Edge (it counts, right?)
Far Cry 2
Plus:
Fallout: New Vegas
Metro 2033
STALKER: Call of Pripyat
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Portal
Quake
Dishonored
Bulletstorm
Doom
Serious Sam: TFE
Eh, I got nothing else
I always have such a hard time remembering games to put on these lists. Well, here it goes in no particular order:
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 1941-1945
Darkest Hour 44-45 (Red Orchestra mod)
Arma 2
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Call of Duty (the first one)
Mirror's Edge
Battlefield 1942
Metro 2033
Left 4 Dead 2
Portal
I agree very much, the marine campaigns where ridiculously tense and I have to admit that I was scared shitless of predators in both AvP 1 and 2. Like, the marine campaing in these games is the only instance where I periodically had to get away from my computer because of the atmosphere and go do something else just to compose myself. I really hope that Colonial Marines (which is coming out very soon!) even brushes on that feeling of helplessness, but I have a feeling that it won't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Internet
But I always prefered the Alien campaigns in these games tbh as it kind of was the best of both (marine and predator) worlds. You where vulnerable but also powerful, and zipping along walls and ceilings then pouncing on your pray out of the shadows and eating their brains is one of the joys that very few games can match even today.
10 (in random order):
MoH: Allied Assault
System Shock 2
Half-Life 2 (I like 2 more than 1)
Unreal (not Tournament!)
Alien vs Predator 2
Far Cry 3 (I LOVE it)
F.E.A.R
Stalker: CoP
Zeno Clash (if Portal counts then ZC too)
Call od Duty (first one)
Others:
The Void/Turgor/Tension (really weird and atmospheric stuff)
Metro 2033 (or some other numbers, I can't remember it)
Soldier of Fortune
Call of Duty (I like them. All.)
Half Life
Stalker (see CoD)
Serious Sam
Painkiller
No One Lives Forever (it should be in top 10 I think, but I didn't really play it except for 2-3 missions, only recently I saw some footage on YT - it's really awesome)
Postal 2
Portal 1 & 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Bioshock
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Bonus - console shooters:
Medal Of Honor (PSX ones, brilliant stuff)
Black (awesome)
In no order, other than that with which they appear on the page.
Here's ten that I enjoyed above ALL others.
SiN
Q3A
NOLF2
UT (one of the 2k ones or even the original at a pinch)
Painkiller
Borderlands (both)
MOH Allied Assault
Red Faction 1 (the SP was a bit plain but the MP was fun)
System Shock 2
Battlefield 3 (tough call if I had to pick one, 1942 was a great era but the game was a little clunky)
Deus Ex
Thief
System Shock 2
BF2142
Crysis
Cryostasis
Call of Pripyat
Quake 2
Metro 2033
FEAR
In no particular order
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
No One Lives Forever
Half Life 2
Borderlands 2
Deus Ex
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (If I'm allowed it!?)
Portal 2
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault
Thief 2
I forgot to add Star Trek Elite Force 1 and 2... Goddamn I miss good SP FPS games that are not modern military wankery... They seem so rare these days.
I was struck by how few games on my list are recent. Part of that is me needing to try Rage, Bulletstorm, and Dishonored, but another part is that most single-player shooters seem to be third-person these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by ado
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Originally Posted by ado
I think the idea of asymmetric play is gaining more ground, and that was one of the things that made the game so special. Aliens played very differently with marines. I think a problem with the predators/predator campaigns was that they played like an FPS character. Imagine a game where predators climb like Assassin's Creed / have very powerful weapons with high reload time / stealth, Aliens play much the same, and Humans play as an FPS. Suddenly that jungle or city would start looking very, very different. You could even vary it by objective, aliens have to protect the hive, predators have to kill as many as possible, and humans have to blow up the hive and the predator ship.
Who knows if the game will live up to that potential though.
Hmm The Void. I could never get far into it, was always struck by the intense feeling that I was doing it wrong.
Although it has reminded me of Pathologic which is the ultimate of honourable mentions in that I can't say how anyone would put it in their top 10 but deserves praise thrown its way for trying to be different. Again another game which I just didn't get far enough into (partially due to translation issues, partially due to me messing up and running out of either resources or reputation, depending on the character I start with.
Marathon (any, but Infinity's the best)
Wolfenstein 3D
Team Fortress 2
Half Life 2
Portal
Half Life
Doom
Deus Ex
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Quake