What is your favourite FPS campaign?

you are bringing that into this?

Jesus you are reaching lower than I expected.

prime is in the first person and you shoot. i mean really.

My vote goes to Doom (2016).

There is no reaching with your awfulness at video games, that's the gift that keeps on giving lol

I admit I'm awful at video games, but f*ck you for actually saying out loud

*Know

You unironically like Dynasty Warriors

Half Life 2 still has some of the best story in the FPS genre. The original Halo trilogy is just a well rounded campaign, particularly the intrigue of the first game as you discover the true nature of the Halo ring. Then there's Titanfall 2 which while short, has such a polished mission structure, combined with the parkour jet jumping mechanics, has such a fluid flow driving the player forward, with good mission variety using the mechanics.

Half-Life/Black Mesa

Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon

Doom 2016

I really enjoyed BioShock the first time I played it, not so sure I would put it up here now though

If Metroid Prime series counts, then I'd actually say I prefer Echoes - it's more challenging

The first Far Cry

Scum

****

I think Halo Combat Evolved has been my favorite throughout the years. I can play it now and enjoy it as much as I did when I first played it in 2004 when I got my first Xbox.

Alien Vs Predator 2 (Alien campaign was my favorite).

on pc

DOOM(original)

Quake II

Painkiller

FEAR

on consoles

black

killzone 2

resistance 2

Very much agree with this. Saying that Metroid Prime is a first person shooter shows only a superficial assessment of the game based on visuals alone. Being in the first person viewpoint and even being armed with a gun (arm cannon in this case) by itself doesn't make it an FPS. Or does everybody here think that Portal is an FPS?

While there is shooting in the games, the core experience is really defined by the exploration, platforming, and puzzle solving. So MP is a first person adventure game, essentially being a 3D adaptation of the classic side scrolling games Samus originates from. We're talking an FPA that has shooting mechanics, in similar fashion, GTA is an open world sandbox action game that has driving mechanics, but that doesn't place it in the racing genre. To even classify GTA as a TPS is doing so from a very limited perspective, one that does a disservice to the series by ignoring the variety and full range of its gameplay experience; driving, exploring the city, mission freedom, NPC interaction, goals that are more directed towards stealth or intimidation through non-combat means.

When it comes to the mechanics of the FPS genre, the core experience isn't just that the primary interaction is the gunplay, but how the mechanics define the players engagement, that is to say player aiming and reflex skill is a crucial component in what makes the fps (and even most tps) games what they are. The fact that MP avoids this altogether with lock on targeting isn't a metric for designating it a poor shooter game (just making it easy for the unskilled player), but an identifying trait to the actual purpose of the mechanics, how it's really implemented to complement the intended design (and experience) of Metroid Prime. That implementation shows how it's a tool to facilitate the platforming, exploration, and puzzle solving. Eliminating enemies is secondary to that, most often they're an obstacle to the traversal and world puzzles, not the goal in themselves. When it comes to the bosses, they're a more extensive puzzle for how to be defeated using the right tool to exploit their weakness and combat patterns, not merely a large health bar to be taken down with your ammunition.

Mechanics alone are only a simplistic way to define a game, until you take the implementation and context into account. Again, just look at Portal.

@khoofia_pika: I wouldn't call it lengthy Only game ive completed this year. OK not completed both choices but the first play threw took me about 10hours which is good for me. I tend not to finish games but did enjoy this even with the bugs. (PC)

1. F.E.A.R.
2. Star Wars: Dark Forces
3. Metroid Prime

In absolute terms, 10 hours is like decent, average length. But by modern day shooter standards, 10 hours is pretty lengthy.

This is not the time to bring that up

Black

I must have liked it more then I thought. :D

half life 2 and halo ce

• Doom 2
• Half-Life 2
• Jedi Outcast

FarCry

Resistance

Crysis

CoD: MW2

Goldeneye

GTA V

Thief and Thief 2.

What are you people on?

The lone definition of what a first person shooter is, is a game that is played from the first person perspective that comprises of combat involving the player shooting some sort of projectile based weapon.

Cool. Portal doesn't fit that, because Portal doesn't have any combat. Over the course of 2 games, like maybe one sequence could be argued as a combat sequence, otherwise it is start to finish a puzzle game. So the portal comparison sucks.

Second of all reflex challenge in theory can and should be a part of a FPS, but this just in, it's not really a part of Doom's shooting, like classic Doom has fucking auto-aim to compensate for vertical aiming. It's more a game of positioning than it is anything else just played at a high speed for circle strafing. All the depth, skill, n strategy comes from bullet management, your arsenal, and navigating its mazes. Even the dodging is simple all things considered. It's pretty simple as far as base reflex skill, and yet it's still a timeless masterpiece of game design.

In Metroid Prime, even if it's an action/adventure game, this just in, it has an action part, said action part is first person shooting. And it's pretty important part of the game, you don't explore or puzzle Metroid Prime to death, or Meta Ridley, or the Metroids, or the Omega Pirate, or the pirates. You explore to find energy tanks which give you more hp to work with in combat, and find missiles n beams that help you in combat as well as exploring, ditto morph ball bombs n power bombs. Even the X-ray visor/Thermal Visor are used in combat. And Metroid Prime isn't the only fps that has similarities to an action adventure game.

Half Life 2 isn't strictly action, large stretches of its pacing revolve around action/adventure tropes like extended puzzle sequences.

The lock on combat? So does that make Metroid Prime 3 a FPS then? Because the lock on is just there for a more casual player at that point, you're so much better off with the core mechanics. Does Prime Trilogy become more of a FPS, because now you have wiimote controls? Because if you haven't grasped that part yet, that's a fucking silly ass thing to focus on.

So hate to break it to you by definition of the genre, it fits. Not some made up nonsense you all want to go with, because we have to humor the most ambiguous no genre ever: the action/adventure.

If you want to argue Metroid Prime is shallow, be my guest, I'm not against the mems method of just saying the game isn't good. But the notion that it isn't a FPS is ridiculous.

Join the rest of us on Planet Earth pls.

Metroid Prime is an FPS.

Right, Metroid Prime isn't a FPS, **** chaz.

@mems_1224: No One Lives Forever! thumbs up sir!

Halo CE. This gen DOOM.

Modern: Doom 2016

Although Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 are my favorite FPS games by far, their SP campaigns both suck, sort of. Their Reset Outpost mode is the the only thing that matters to me.

Oooh good one :o

I think I would go with (in order):

Half-Life 1 (Yeah you can go play with HL2 somewhere else)

Duke Nukem 3D

S.T.A.L.K.E.R (but I might argue that it is more the game world, despite I did like the story).

Sin

No one Lives forever 1+2

F.E.A.R

Singularity

Halo CE

Quake 2

The Wolfenstein games

Bioshock collection

System Shock 2

If you don't mind a third person shooter instead, Max Payne series.

Oddworld Stranger's Wrath

Hidden and Dangerous 2

No One Lives Forever 2

Or

Star Trek Elite Force

They dont make them like that anymore

Great games...but not really FPS

F**k yes

but there are better games than those 2 today.

Never defined what FPS stands for, could be first person stealth.

@ghosts4ever: in your subjective opinion... also we are talking about just singleplayer fps campaigns not all games

For me singleplayer campaigns are far weaker (and shorter) today and many are just unsatisfying, predictable experiences tacked onto multiplayer games also the title of the thread is "what is your favourite" not "what is ghosts4evers favourite" ..........

im talking about there are much better SP FPS games today than NOLF 2. it was not even best monolith game.

Doom blow it out of water. both metro games are also better and third game is coming out. Prey is better too. and is long engaging game.

Halo 5, there isn't a close 2nd.

Top three:

1. Metroid Prime (unless you'd call it an "FPA" or something)
2. DOOM II
3. Half-Life 2 with Episode 1&2.

What a silly hipster answer. Yeah, we get it. It's "in" to be totally old school. Doesn't change the fact that there's absolutely nothing remarkable about Doom's campaign. Find keys, kill enemies, derp... Nobody cares about the campaign itself.

@ghosts4ever: in your opinion... is there something you're not getting?

Its not a discussion, onve again the title is "your favourire" im not interested in what you think is better or not.

I gained more fun, suspense, excitement and enjoyment of these singleplayer campaigns than I have with most others hence the reason I listed them as MY choices for the question of the thread, they are not subject to your approval

And imo Prey was average at best and not that memorable to me

Also the nee Metro isnt even out and nobody has plaued it so why even mention it??????

and i respect your opinion. was just telling why i think theres better games than nolf today.

Fallout New Vegas or Stalker Series

@ghosts4ever: and I didnt ask your opinion and I dont agree, shall we keep beating this dead horse?