Podcast: What are the best shooters?
Listen to these gunshots
Wait, didn’t we already answer this question? Never mind, the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, is not content with our list of the top 50 first-person shooters. Well, they're mostly fine with it (lists are stupid) but they still want to hash out this ageless question the old-fashioned way. By interrogating each other over the internet.
Matt hasn’t played Doom or even Quake and that’s sad, but he loves the backstabbing spy of slapstick multiplayer briefcase stealer Team Fortress 2. John adores Star Wars: Dark Forces but also likes a good immersive sim, like Prey. And Brendan loves Halo: Combat Evolved and has also been playing Unreal, which celebrates its 20th birthday this week.
Also, we’ve got another patch notes quiz, this time focusing on the patch notes of shooters. What game had an entry in its patch notes reading: “Turkey was too powerful”? Listen to find out.
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Our top 50 first-person shooter games
Doom is the best shooter and definitely not chosen more or less at random
Quake is proper good too though
“Kieron” is one of the ancient RPS myths that John sometimes tells us about
Team Fortress 2 is only number 40, tsk tsk
Dark Forces is pretty good you know
City of Heroes wasn’t a shooter, get out
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is a game of nope nope nope nope
Ion Maiden is a good old-but-new shooter
The game John couldn’t remember is Boiling Point