Unreal Tournament
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - SoC
Natural Selection
Portal
Duke Nukem 3D
Thief
Half-Life
F.E.A.R.
Serious Sam
Battlefield 1942
Unreal Tournament
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - SoC
Natural Selection
Portal
Duke Nukem 3D
Thief
Half-Life
F.E.A.R.
Serious Sam
Battlefield 1942
can we name mods? and what about over-the shoulder shoot 'em ups? (Such as Splinter Cell)
Edited first post to clarify games to be included, reasoning if you need it is thus (but I have to admit it's largely that I can't be arsed with quibbling, things will probably even out OK!):
I'm of the mind that if the first person aspect is important enough then it should be included, many games are hybrids and they can happily crop up in several categories. If you don't think the FPS element of game is large enough then don't include it and feel free to mention that but be aware that others may not agree with you. I notice further down someone's put Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, which I wont be including in my list as I see it more as a third person action game with a FPS prologue until you get the lightsaber, but if they enjoyed the FPS bits of it enough then stick it in and get it counted!
@ Drake
No Max Payne! Sorry! The series is bloody brilliant though and I'm sure it will do grand if anyone sees fit to do an "action" or "third person game" or "all the shooters ever" list.
Yes, mods are grand.Originally Posted by Wheelz
No to over the shoulder though, that's still third person.
Hmm, OK time for my list. To be honest I've not played that many recent shooters (should probably get around to it!) and so my list no doubt looks rather dated and quite similar to how it would have looked years ago!
Deus Ex
Half Life
Half Life 2
Unreal Tournament 2k4
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Swat 4
System Shock 2
Portal
Serious Sam
Clive Barker's Undying
Obviously it's,
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
In bizarre land though it might look like
Left4Dead
Portal
Deus Ex
Unreal Tournament 2k3
Half Life
Red Faction
Thief
Let me see..
STALKER:Shadow Of Chernobyl
Half Life 2
Deus Ex
OGR (Ghost Recon 1)
Rainbow Six:Raven Shield
Battlefield 2
SWAT 4
Crysis
Hidden and Dangerous 2
OFP
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... I take the lives of a few to protect the lives of many. I commit acts of war to preserve the greater peace. I take no joy in killing, but make no mistake; I'll do what needs to be done. Because it's my job. It's my duty. My name is Sam Fisher, and I am a Splinter Cell.
hmmmm, let's try:
1. Half-Life 2
2. Portal
3. Mirrors Edge
4. Battlefield Bad Company 2
5. Deus Ex: HR
6. Serious Sam 2 (yes, I actually liked Serious Sam 2).
7. Dark Messiah of M&M (it's First-person, and I shoot bowsss?)
8. FarCry
9. PainKiller
10. Battlefield 2
Honourable Mentions:
Unreal Tournament (1), because the game modes were great, as was the actual shooty bang.
Halo: CE, while it didn't change much in the pc space, it pretty much defined the console shooters role.
Dystopia (HL2 mod), because the gameplay was brilliant, and the levels/setting rather atmospheric
Shattered Horizon, Because holy ballllzzzz it's pretty.
Day of Defeat, because it was the first game I ever found myself immersed in
Team Fortress Classic, because fake-death, cool grenades, and turrets.
SourceForts (HL2 mod), because when it first came out building the fort you got to defend for capture the flag was really fun. Not long after the game sort of a devolved into building box's around the flag, and trying to build ramps up to the skybox.
Also Also:
Every other Serious Sam game
MineCraft?
Action Halflife.
Last edited by Wheelz; 23-01-2013 at 10:44 PM. Reason: UT
I'm sure I've left a couple of good ones out but I had trouble thinking of ten.
Half Life
Half Life 2
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: HR
Tribes: Ascend
No One Lives Forever
No One Lives Forever 2
Spec Ops: The Line (just remembered this is 3rd person. If it doesn't count then put The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay in its place)
Quake
Halo
In no particular order:
Doom
Doom 2
Wolfenstien 3d
Rise of the Triad
Duke Nukem 3D
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Bioshock
Left 4 Dead 2
Someone mentioned Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. I don't think that really counts as an FPS. I mean, you can technically go first person and shoot a gun, but it's hardly a wise idea. Most of the guns in that game suck or at least are far lacking in power when compared to abilities, most melee weapons, or even just clawing your opponent to death in most cases.
Even the game itself has more in common with third person RPGs like KoToR, Mass Effect or Dragon Age then it does any standard issue FPS.
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Metro 2033
Unreal Tournament 2004
Portal
Jedi Knight 2 (the shooter bits were surprisingly decent outside of lightsaber combat)
Alien Versus Predator 2
Bioshock
Far Cry 2
Red Faction
Deus Ex
Stalker CoP
I changed it to remove RF: Guerilla and Battlefront II because they're 3rd person games.
Last edited by Internet; 25-01-2013 at 09:16 PM.
Planetside
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Half-Life
Counter Strike
Monkey Island
Dayz
Star Wars Galaxies Pre CU
World of Warcraft Vanilla
EverQuest
Black and White
GTA:SA MTA
TrackMania
Minecraft
System Shock 2
Max Payne
Portal 2
Team Fortress 2
Mount and Blade
Red Orchesta 2
Civ
Saints Row 3
Raven Shield
RTCW
America's Army
Company of Heroes
I could go on and on.
Crysis
Dark Forces 2 (aka Jedi Knight 1)
Duke Nukem 3d
Rainbow Six 1
Half Life
Left 4 Dead 2
Doom
Call Of Duty 2
Quake 3
No One Lives Forever
Thief 2, Mirrors Edge, Fallout: NV, and Deus Ex would be on the list if this was just first person games, but I don't consider them "shooters."
Last edited by Juan Carlo; 24-01-2013 at 04:09 AM.
Medal of Hono(u)r: Allied Assault
Call of Duty 1
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
Arma 2
Far Cry 2
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 1941-1945 (incl. Darkest Hour mod)
Portal
Battlefield 2
I'm gonna restrict myself to one game per franchise, otherwise my top 10 list would be made mostly of Valve games. I'll also try to do this in order of preference... Anyway:
Half-Life
Portal
Doom
Unreal Tournament
Team Fortress 2
No One Lives Forever 2 (yes, I prefer it to 1)
Thief
Call of Duty 2 (ditto)
Left 4 Dead 2 (ditto)
Serious Sam
More games that deserve a mention:
Aliens vs Predator '99 (brutal but very underrated)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Crysis
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (people forget how awesome this game was/is - you could argue that it started the ww2 FPS craze, just like cod4 started the MW craze)
FEAR
Quake 3
SWAT 4
Bioshock
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Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Rise Of The Triad
Duke Nukem 3D
Half Life
Quake 3
Counter-Strike
Battlefield 1942
Serious Sam
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SoC
The others:
SiN
Planetside
Medal of Honor: Allied Assualt
Shadow Warrior
Halo
Bioshock
Team Fortress 2
Crysis
I have nothing but fond memories of countless hours of Quake 3 CTF, Battlefield 1942, and Counter-Strike. No idea how I fit those into the time between thousands of hours of Everquest.
Hooray, someone else who prefers AvP 2 to AvP. This would be in my honourable mentions as while the Marine campaign was absolutely brilliant and the Alien campaign fairly good fun (particularly the early vulnerable stages) the Predator section was just a bit by numbers.
Other honourable mentions for me would be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Unreal Tournament, Halo (went downhill in the final third unfortunately), Metro, Ghost Recon and Bioshock.
1. Team Fortress Classic
2. Counter Strike
3. Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
4. Far Cry
5. Half Life 2
6. Crysis
7. Stalker: SOC
8. Thief 2
9. Battlefield 2
Can I vote for Far Cry twice because noone else will nominate it? No? Okay then.
10. System Shock 2
Games wot were agonised over: SWAT 3/4, Deus Ex, UT2k3/4, Dark Forces 2, NOLF, Crysis, Descent.
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I like AvP 2 quite a bit, I even think it may be a better game overall... But lets be honest, it's nowhere near as tense or scary as the original, which IMO is probably the scariest game ever made (big part of that is the archaic presentation and the unforgiving AI and save system).
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