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What FPS plays anything remotely like DOOM? Â It's the only one of it's kind.
Of the decade I acknowledge
-Half Life 2 (non-FPS but whatever)
-Painkiller
-TimeSplitters 2/FP
-FEAR
-Crysis
-RO Ostfront
-Serious Sam 3
do PCs really have "gens"? Â I tend to simply think of "best of" lists for PC in terms of decades.
Anyway, I am sure my vote might change, and you guys might think I am crazy, but I am going to toss Red Faction: Armageddon out there. Â Incredibly fun game. Â Way underappreciated. Â Brilliant, beautiful, and honestly the most fun I've had with an action game in a long, long, long time.
I loved that game as well. My only problem with the game was a huge story plothole that could have prevented them from living underground in the first place.do PCs really have "gens"? Â I tend to simply think of "best of" lists for PC in terms of decades.
Anyway, I am sure my vote might change, and you guys might think I am crazy, but I am going to toss Red Faction: Armageddon out there. Â Incredibly fun game. Â Way underappreciated. Â Brilliant, beautiful, and honestly the most fun I've had with an action game in a long, long, long time.
mrbojangles25
I would cite Tribes: Ascend if it wasn't a "free-to-play" title.
Other than that, I personally am not enamoured with first-person shooters anymore. They have gone stale for me.
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do PCs really have "gens"? Â I tend to simply think of "best of" lists for PC in terms of decades.
mrbojangles25
Can't really think of anything in the last like, 10-15 years except the Quake games, HL2 or FEAR. I guess I'll go with Far Cry 2 as a more recent title.
Harvey Smith (lead designer on DX) does a good article which has a lot of points I agree with: http://www.witchboy.net/2013/02/07/the-genius-of-far-cry-2/ Purely in terms of single-player it offers some fantastic opportunities for emergent gameplay, in which the player is given a set of gameplay tools to bring about a situation relatively unique to his/her playthrough. The game has a nice combination of sandbox-style open-world level design and campaign progression with a simple but not too boring shooter engine.
On the whole though I'm quite unimpressed with the genre right now, not to mention the games industry....
Purely in terms of gameplay, shooters haven't really progressed at all since the original Quake. Item control, positioning, appropriate weapon use and exploitation of engine physics are concepts almost completely lost on the slower style of shooter seen in Counter-Strike and Call of Duty. There's been a bellicose focus on aesthetic and so-called 'realism' which people have come to see as the standard. I'm referring to both single-player and multi-player here. The idea that role-playing elements such as skill-points and weapon upgrades add a new dimension to a genre which has stayed the same for 20 years is a complete fallacy. Such gameplay elements are in no way pertinent to shooters themselves; that's not what shooters are about. They bring about as much value to a shooter than hats did to TF2 (this game is just one example of my above statement). Shooters are about those concepts which I mentioned above. Quake is special because of the prominence of such elements. The game's engine physics make for interesting gameplay in terms of player movement and weapon use - to be good at the game, an understanding of the physics is need to be able to traverse the map quickly and with agility, while one must understand the physical effects of the weapons - a rocket can push the receiving player into the air, or they can be pushed backwards by the shaft of a lightning gun. Item pickups such as weapons and armour require strategic timing and positioning in order for a player to control them and use the advantage they give.
Contemporary shooters severely lack such concepts. Of course, skill is involved, but only for relatively simplistic tasks such as aim reflexes and basic teamwork skills.
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2superclockedThe cover system and multiplayer was so exciting when it came out.. pity that mp soon got full of hacking russians :/
Funny, dude was asking for recent fps's, people still throwing out Half life lol.Â
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FPS has been a very disappointing genre for me in recent years. I can't believe no one mentioned Farcry 3 (unless I missed it), maybe because it is outside the box of the terribly bland and generic typical fps on rails released these days.
I mentioned FC2 in my post; in all honesty I haven't even played 3 yet.FPS has been a very disappointing genre for me in recent years. I can't believe no one mentioned Farcry 3 (maybe I missed it, not in analyze mode just yet this morning), maybe because it is outside the box of the terribly bland and generic typical fps on rails released these days.
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the fps genre is not what it used to be. I really miss fps games like Half life 2, Doom 3, Battlefield 2 and Delta Force Black Hawk Down. But there are a few good ones this gen like F.E.A.R, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Crysis, Crysis 2 and Far Cry 2. This gen was really the gen where i started to look at other genres for my gaming fix, The fps genre is so poor that i have to add a litte bit of rpg games to the mix.
tribes ascend
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Lots of different types of players play. CTF players and arena players. Here's some of the arena ladder competitionÂ
http://www.twitch.tv/jigglywigglyx/b/415438309?t=12m
zubin and me top of the ladder, only lost a single round once, never lost a map lol.
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or just playing fastpaced instead of slow paced http://www.twitch.tv/jigglywigglyx/c/2430917
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you don't see games like this very often that appeal to everyone's gamestyle and the comp scene is still alive and doing fairly well
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Well, based purely on the games I played the most I'd say:
Left 4 Dead (1&2)
Killing Floor
Portal (1&2)
Crysis (1)
STALKER: SoC (I never played Clear Sky or Call of Pripyat so I can't comment)
With honourable mentions for Planetside 2, Far Cry 3, and Bioshock Infinite because they're fairly recent additions but I'm not totally sure about their longtime quality yet.
For me, a tie between:
Crysis and Stalker - Shadow of Chernobyl.
Crysis pretty much dominated my game time for a while due to making mods and multiplayer maps. It is easily the most memorable FPS for me even above Half Life 2 because of the huge modding scene. Stalker was just an awesome game period, the atmosphere and the rpg elements completely sold me on the idea that open-world/rpg shooters were the wave of the future.
I was gonna ask this same question. As I haven't played any FPS in a few years until I recently installed RO2 and picked up Rising Storm, I have to go with this as I haven't played Ghost Recon in quite some time.do PCs really have "gens"? Â I tend to simply think of "best of" lists for PC in terms of decades.
mrbojangles25
Battlefield 3. Â I still need to play Far Cry 3, but I doubt that will change my answer. Â I am looking forward to Timesplitters Rewind and BF4.
Half-life 2 and episodes. Â Still the best, and still looks decent. Â Source engine was used heavily during this "gen."
Crysis/Warhead
Far Cry 2 and 3
Battlefield- Bad Company 2
Call of Duty 2
FEAR
for sp crysis 1 undoubtedly.
the moment i realised how special the game was was right near the start, there's an outpost right at the top of a huge hill overlooking a korean base. your goal is to rescue the hostage in the base but when you scan with the binoculars you notice a number of possible entry points and a fuel depot. so you have the option to attack from any number of pathways by land, by sea, by jeep, by boat, using any of the suit powers and your customised arsenal including sniper rifle, missile launcher, grenades etc allowing you to blow up the depot to create a distraction, stealthing in to the base, going all out rambo style or any combo of these.
because nearly everything was destructable the game allowed you to be seriously creative in how you approached a goal which made it so immersive. to me anyway
Counter strike source
Half life 2
TF2
Day of defeat source
Doom 1,2,3
Black mesa source
FEAR (only the first)
BF3 (multiplayer only)
[QUOTE="superclocked"]Rainbow Six: Vegas 2alan_carterThe cover system and multiplayer was so exciting when it came out.. pity that mp soon got full of hacking russians :/I never cheated, but everyone else did. It still wasn't fair playing against me though. I would get 50:1 kill ratios when I was sober...
[QUOTE="alan_carter"][QUOTE="superclocked"]Rainbow Six: Vegas 2superclockedThe cover system and multiplayer was so exciting when it came out.. pity that mp soon got full of hacking russians :/I never cheated, but everyone else did. It still wasn't fair playing against me though. I would get 50:1 kill ratios when I was sober... I was the complete opposite. RS:V2 was fun as hell. I play better with a few beers in me.
[QUOTE="Ricardo41"]Bulletstorm was a great game, super underrated.There is only one recent FPS that I enjoyed from start to finish. Wait for it......Bulletstorm. Short, sweet, and full of hilarious set pieces (dinosaurs, giant ferris wheels, etc.).
skrat_01
I uninstalled that game after an hour. It just gave me a headache.
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