Tell Us Dammit

74 responses to “Tell Us Dammit”

1. 

   thistler

   November 10, 2010 at 10:38 am

   I don’t play many modern shooters but really enjoyed the first bioshock and I liked the way M.A.G felt. Old games? I know it’s boring… I loved Goldeneye so much. 4 player death matches using my Amiga monitor as a screen are some of my fondest memories. It might’ve added a few mm to the thickness of my glasses, but totally worth it.

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   1. 

      FatShady

      November 10, 2010 at 10:45 am

      Mee too.

      I have actually never seen MW2, COD, black ops, or halo reach/odst at all. Never even watched anyone else play them. Just don’t interest me.

      Funnily, I loved borderlands, bioshock (1+2) and also really enjoyed Operation flashpoint DR. I just think that I am looking for either a really interesting mechanic (borderlands elemental weapons and levelling, solid co-op (borderlands again), immersive levels (bioshock entire world!) or a super realistic military sim (op flash). I despise competitive multiplayer for shooters so will not go near any of the above mentioned.

      I have nothing against the genre, just that the idea of spawn, die/die/die/kill/die/die/die rematch on a different map is just horrible. I appreciate that you get better and level etc… but even to start off, i would much rather make a boy of meat and smash him into spinning blades hundreds of times than respawning in a shooter… Just me?

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      1. 

         CyK

         November 10, 2010 at 11:47 am

         You should really try them out then, you never know what you’re missing out on really. After all the hype and the fanboyism they are all pretty good games. They’re all getting old so you should be able to pick them up cheap.

         Just remember that the multiplayer is optional and a lot of fun can still be had with the single players.

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2. 

   Qumulys

   November 10, 2010 at 10:39 am

   Geeeze, I say this as I’m installing black-ops having been of fps since MW1. But I would say the most influential for me would be Rise of the Triad! Why? Well, it was the first game I managed to get talking to a friend of mine via dial-up modems. Yes, back then we had to dial the phone number and take abuse and backlashings from family members who kept missing calls… memories…. But I remember thinking how freaking damn cool this was! Not only that, I think it was an awesome fun game as well 😀

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   1. 

      welbot

      November 10, 2010 at 10:48 am

      I loved Rise of the Triad. I still remember playing it and listening to Red Hot Chilli Peppers at the same time. For some reason, they just went together really well :0

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   2. 

      Strange

      November 10, 2010 at 11:00 am

      I loved Rise of the Triad! After a friend introduced me to Quake, Duke Nukem and Doom I was looking for similar experiences and found RotT.
      Can’t for the life of me play FPS’s on a PC now though, I lost my keyboard/mouse control skills somewhere along the line.

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   3. 

      DerangedStoat

      November 10, 2010 at 11:00 am

      Yes! I freaking loved RoTT as a kid, with it’s ridiculous weapons it was a heap of fun.

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      1. 

         wepoo

         November 10, 2010 at 12:31 pm

         ROTT and a all powerful serial cable. Loved it.

         Unreal Tournament got me hooked on FPS games though. Played that while recovering from a busted knee then went on to Wolfenstein.

         All but missed out on Golden Eye / Perfect dark 4 player sessions. Never could afford a N64. Lame.

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3. 

   welbot

   November 10, 2010 at 10:39 am

   I would have to say probably Doom and Doom 2. I wasted sooooo many hours on those. Then Heretic. That was such an ace game! I also loved Blood and shadow warrior. I mean.. there’s so many I loved and wasted many hours on. Even the likes of Kens Labyrinth and Blake Stone, but I think Doom was the first one to really make an impact.

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   1. 

      Ollie

      November 10, 2010 at 11:50 am

      Kens Labrinth!!! I played that on my old computer (worse than 386 but cant remember the model) at about 2 FPS…. And finished it.

      Those days I was FAR more deicated to gaming! I would play anything that ran, no matter how terribly.

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   2. 

      Palstran

      November 10, 2010 at 11:58 am

      Heretic and Hexen were awesome. I don’t even think i had the whole game. Just played the shareware over and over.

      I just looked at the screens and it is a bit like bioshock with the hands for elemental attacks.

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4. 

   Gobbo

   November 10, 2010 at 10:48 am

   Most influential? Hrmm… probably quake and bringing ‘full’ 3D to the masses, rather than 3d+2d (eg Duke in the picture).

   Overall, BF1942/BF2 – it ran great on most PCs, played awesomely both on LANs, Online (and to a certain extent, offline with bots), had great online player tracking, squad-based action, etc.

   Charlie Pike, RIP.

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   1. 

      Matt

      November 10, 2010 at 5:49 pm

      That picture isn’t Duke, it’s Wolfenstein.

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5. 

   MILDLY IRATE VIDEO GAME GUY

   November 10, 2010 at 10:49 am

   Favourite one is the Half-Life mod “USS Darkstar”.

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6. 

   Marathon

   November 10, 2010 at 10:56 am

   My Kotaku user name.

   ‘Marathon’ by Bungie in 1994. Nothing like getting lost in corridors and running low on ammo. Even playing it today, it still feels just as awesome. But no jump button makes some parts very difficult. 😛

   It’s also Freeware for all PC’s and Mac’s and works on modern OS.

   Most influential? Have to say Half Life and the CoD franchise. One for showing detailed worlds FPS’s can deliver, the other for the cinematic linear straight line gameplay that most FPS are these days. Black Ops looks great but to much of the same for me to pay full day 1 retail. Maybe in the sales.

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   1. 

      AmbroseIV

      November 10, 2010 at 11:12 am

      Agree with the first part, there’s something magical about Marathon.

      As for most influential… how do you single something out? Doom, Quake, Halflife (amongst many others) had a big influence early on, until the blockbuster era of CoD. Goldeneye & Halo are two standouts on consoles, but there are just too many to list.

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7. 

   MrTaco

   November 10, 2010 at 10:56 am

   The first one I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D at a friend’s place. The game absolutely terrified me 😛 The next one that comes to mind after that is that one section of the SNES Toy Story game… I don’t think there was much after that til GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, still two of my favourites to this day. I didn’t end up playing Doom (and Doom 2) til just last year or so, but they were fantastic. Even managed to pick up Doom 3 for a song ($2.50 from Dick Smith!), but it was kinda disappointing. Didn’t really feel like Doom. Other than that, not much comes to mind really. Halo’s always been great fun to play multiplayer at a mate’s place and I loved both the Red Steel games… OH! Timesplitters! I thought 2 was pretty awesome, but then I got 3… so good, so hilarious. Ok now I think that’s it 😛

   As an aside, is the new facebook crap below the comments section causing havoc for anyone else? I’ve had to add a whole bunch of new filters to AdBlock to stop it from reloading every single kotaku tab I have open and slowing my PC to a crawl. And even then it seems to keep breaking itself.

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8. 

   Blake

   November 10, 2010 at 10:57 am

   Favorite would have to be Quake 3 I still play Quake Live, it delivers such satisfaction even when being schooled.

   Most influential though is a tough one. For competitive play I would suggest Quake, it physics and the speed at which Quake World was picked up contributed substantially to the competitive scene and spawned Team Fortress. If you speak to anyone that played during the glory days they will happily tell you how amazing it was, how skillful the best players were and how sad they are that nothing like it exists today.

   Other then that, I hold both Halo and Half-Life as equals in what they did for their respective launch platforms ( console and PC ). Half-Life truly set a bench mark for the genre on PC something to this day I don’t think has been met since. Halo on the other hand showed us that FPS does indeed have a place on consoles and needs to be respected, instead of being treated as the read headed step child of the genre, while at the same time creating an IP with instantly recognizable and adored characters, providing inspiration for some of the greatest cosplay costumes I have ever seen.

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9. 

   Ray

   November 10, 2010 at 11:01 am

   Doom 2 is probably one of the most influential. Double barrel shotgun y’all.

   I have very fond memories of Quake III Arena. Mastering that rail gun was something I swore to do (but never did).

   Alos, I know it’s all the rage to hate on Call Of Duty at the moment but Infinity Ward made incredible games. MW2 was the first game in a long time that made me hang on for a rollercoaster ride ahhh-holy-shit-my-face white knuckle experience from start to finish.

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10. 

    The Cracks

    November 10, 2010 at 11:04 am

    While I adore the Halo franchise (which I believe has been incredibly influential in the FPS genre), my most cherished FPS would have to be Goldeneye 64. Anyone who hasn’t played Goldeneye cannot call themselves an FPS fan. It’s the game that has most directly influenced the genre in the history of FPS games.
    And the ‘spiritual successor’, Perfect Dark, was pretty damn awesome too. From memory, it was given ~100% rating from the leading Australian Nintendo magazine at the time…

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    1. 

       The Cracks

       November 10, 2010 at 11:31 am

       Also, just found this article elsewhere:
       http://www.brobible.com/story/the-top-12-first-person-shooters-that-changed-the-game
       ‘Top 12 FPS that changed the game’

       Goldeneye 64 places at #1.

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11. 

    Bryn Power

    November 10, 2010 at 11:07 am

    I have been playing FPS games since I was three; back then I would sit on my father’s lap and press CTRL (fire back in the old days)when he tell me (read; scream). So I will always have a soft sport for Doom, Quake I & II and especially Duke Nukem 3D. But my favourite? At the risk of sounding cliché I would have to say Half Life 2. That game is still my all time favourite of all time- its is nigh-perfect. As to what FPS game I believe is most influential I would have to say Doom (in the 90’s) and Halo (in the 00’s). Both layed the ground work more all modern FPS (even though many of their ideologies are conflicting).

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12. 

    706-2

    November 10, 2010 at 11:10 am

    My favourite is Perfect Dark on 64, I doubt I have to explain that one much. It was really just an expansion upon what was done in Goldeneye though I played Perfect Dark first so preferred it. I am disappointed that the objective style missions are never used in games these days, it’s more just run down this corridor gunning and maybe stop to read this computer for a moment. Also the way the difficult was raised by adding more objectives and more obstacles.

    Not to mention the most customisable multiplayer I’ve seen. Not until we started to see full map editors in FPS in the last few years was there anything that could rival this game for customisation, it was years ahead of its time.

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13. 

    Bish

    November 10, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Duke 3D had strippers! It was so thrilling because it was such a naughty thing that your parents didn’t know about, despite me being too young/naive/stupid to realise exactly why it was a naughty thing.

    And who can forget IDDQD? 17 years later, and those 5 letters are still etched in my brain.

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    1. 

       Woodze

       November 10, 2010 at 11:40 am

       haha Yeah! Ye Olde cheat codes! I actually saw someone wearing the t-shirt of that a little while ago..

       My longest remembered cheats would be M + I + L and M + L + S for Wolfenstein 3D…

       those were the days…

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       1. 

          Blake

          November 10, 2010 at 1:22 pm

          Slightly off topic but my ‘i will never forget’ cheat code was Sonic on the Mega Drive(Genesis)…

          Up, Down, Left, Right, A+Start

          At the title screen 😀

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             welbot

             November 10, 2010 at 1:51 pm

             hehe so many cheat codes i can still remember.. for example idspispopd and snes street figther 2 down r up l y b x a.. dunno why i still remember crazy things like this, but I just do!

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                Mark Serrels

                November 10, 2010 at 1:54 pm

                That code was a bitch to input. Took me ages to get it.

14. 

    Chuloopa

    November 10, 2010 at 11:28 am

    Man i hate these questions – it’s like being asked to pick your favorite child… haha

    I’m not much of a fan of the COD thing – the thing that mainly turns me off it is the blind fanboyism that surrounds it. When a game has a fanbase that can be described as fanatical, i normally give it a wide birth until the hype has dyed down and i can play in peace without somone squaking at me “holy shit dude! How fethin awesome was it when the guy was all like *rattatattatat* and the muslim was all like ‘i keel you!’ and i was all like ‘nah brah’ and stabbed him in the face until his legs came off!”

    *ahem*

    My very first FPS was Wolfenstein 3d – and man that shiz was the diz! Awesome game!
    After that, Quake became a massive part of my life and we always went to the computer lab at lunchtime to play networked death matches.
    Also got addicted to quake wars for quite a while – i don’t care what you all say, that game was awesome!

    Also, anther one that doesn’t get the respect it deserves is Prey – ma i loved prey. It made me dizzy as all hell, but prey was rad!

    Best FPS of all time, for me, goes to the halflife series – the only FPS i have never at some point gone “man this is getting kinda repetitive and boring”. Those games are masterpieces.

    Also i’d like to give props to the following for being great as well: TF2, Portal, Doom, Black, Killzone, Duke Nukem 3D, Time Splitters, Serious Sam, Fear Multiplayer, The Star wars battlefront Series, and some more which escape my mind at the moment but i’ll think of later..

    And a big “Boo” to:
    Halo 1 and Halo ODST – the only 2 halo games i have played and were booooring!
    Fear Singleplayer – you weren’t as great as everyone seemed to thing you were. In fact you bored the crap outta me…
    EDEN – I hate you.. i hate you so so bad… You were one of the worst games i have ever played.. EVER!

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    1. 

       The Cracks

       November 10, 2010 at 11:43 am

       Prey was pretty awesome. Well, the singleplayer was. The multiplayer netcoding was horrendous, and caused the game to be almost unplayable for me due to the lag.

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          Chuloopa

          November 10, 2010 at 11:59 am

          See, i never tried the Multiplayer – it lagged a bit in single on my laptop, so never bothered 🙂

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15. 

    Woodze

    November 10, 2010 at 11:31 am

    To this day the FPS game that I have spent the most time playing, and more so multi-player, still remains Blood for PC.

    It wasn’t particularly great but it was back when we had two computers and our first home network going. So the Co-op mode was played endlessly, especially the final levels of each episode.

    Actually what makes it stand out in my memory was that you could have a CD playing, and it randomly chose tracks. Being young we only really had the CD’s our parents had, the funniest one we tried was Queens Greatest Hits… Nothing like blasting enemies to Queen belting out ‘Fat bottomed Girls’.

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16. 

    CyK

    November 10, 2010 at 11:33 am

    Doom II for sure. Fond memories of GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Quake 3A, Half Life 1 & 2, Operation Flashpoint, Portal, TF2, COD4, Bioshock, L4D1 & 2.

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    1. 

       CyK

       November 10, 2010 at 11:36 am

       Forgot Mirrors Edge, CS (1.4), BFBC2, Morrowind, Dues Ex, Thief, and Hexen! I’m just a big fan of FPS.

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          The Cracks

          November 10, 2010 at 11:46 am

          Wait, what? Morrowind as an FPS?!?
          Sure, you could play in first person, and sure, you could shoot bows/crossbows, but Morrowind was most certainly *not* an FPS. It was an action RPG.

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          1. 

             CyK

             November 10, 2010 at 12:19 pm

             You’re probably right there. I could probably cross out Mirrors Edge in that respect as well because it was more of a first person platformer.

             Oh and mattroe reminded me of BF2.

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17. 

    mattroe

    November 10, 2010 at 11:45 am

    In terms of which one I like the most, it’s a very tough call between TF2, BF2, and the Halo series.

    I would think of Doom and Halo as the most influential.

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18. 

    Lozenge

    November 10, 2010 at 11:49 am

    Quake for sure, such strong atmosphere throughout that game.

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19. 

    Shane

    November 10, 2010 at 11:50 am

    I remember playing Doom II on the servers at High School. I was still resistant to using a mouse, so controlled my character using just arrow keys (sacrificing strafing), and I still managed to be competitive.

    Wow, those were the days.

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20. 

    Andrew Hobbs

    November 10, 2010 at 11:54 am

    Probably Battlefield 2. I’ve dumped hundreds of hours into that game, and even now I fire it up every now and then for a round or two.

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21. 

    David Ferris

    November 10, 2010 at 11:57 am

    Portal. It wasn’t really an FPS as such – you weren’t shooting enemies. It was entirely composed of the kind of puzzle segments which should be in every FPS game, but the segments NEVER STOPPED. Glorious.

    The problem with most shooters is that there isn’t much thinking involved: run, duck when bullet moves at you, run more, shoot bullets. There isn’t as much of a tactical element. The only FPS which really encourages this kind of thing is Team Fortress 2. I know I know, there’s Counter Strike and Halo, but in those games it isn’t tactics so much as “HAY EVERYONE SHOOT PPL KTHXBAI”. In TF2, you need to coordinate with other people and actually plan ahead. It encourages cooperative play with so many support weapons: if you don’t work as a team, you’re dead.

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22. 

    Strange

    November 10, 2010 at 11:57 am

    I’m not at all a fan of the old FPS anymore but games like Bioshock use their atmosphere and story to make me love them. Still haven’t got around to playing any HalfLife. Think this may mean I have to hand in my gamer’s card or something.

    Back in the olden days before I discovered console gaming Quake was my world. I’d sit up at the computer all night playing it. I also loved Heretic and Hexen.

    I think the FPS that was the most influential would have to be Goldeneye. No contest.

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23. 

    GooberMan

    November 10, 2010 at 11:57 am

    The first “FPS” I saw running was Wolfenstein on a PC at my dad’s workplace. The first one I played was those FPS sections in Jurassic Park on the Amiga. And then we got a PC and Doom in short order and there was no going back really. I’d tried making my own games on the Amiga with SEUCK, but Doom was the first one I modified.

    Did anyone ever run ROTT with the /DOPEFISH command line parameter? We had a ROTT special from some magazine back in the day that had printouts of all the levels and cheats such as that.

    Half Life was a revelation on its release. It completely overshadowed SiN, which I think ended up being released after. The second half of SiN was actually amazing. Pity there was that whole part in between the bank robbery and the island.

    As for the modern FPS, there needs to be more games like The Darkness and Farcry 2 (two of the most immersive games I’ve ever played), and less like Bioshock (very pretty, but panifully slow) and Modern Warfare 2 (did Michael Bay make that game?).

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24. 

    HotDamn!

    November 10, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    Favourite of all time: a tie, COD: MW1/COD:MW2
    Most influential: COD: MW2

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    1. 

       HotDamn!

       November 10, 2010 at 12:55 pm

       @least I made myself laugh…

       On a serious note: Bioshock and Half Life 2 blew my socks off and continue to do so. Atmosphere, ambience in spades.
       Back in the day Golden Eye (seeing something like this on a console was awe-inspiring) and Quake certainly made an impression. For some reason I still recall XIII as being cool too.

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25. 

    HaggisMcHaggis

    November 10, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    Catacomb 3-D, heretic, doom, wolfenstein, Rise of the triad, duke 3d, and chaos warrior are all of my favourites. I couldn’t pick between them 😀

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    1. 

       James Mac

       November 10, 2010 at 12:30 pm

       Are you related to Spicy McHaggis?

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       1. 

          Mark Serrels

          November 10, 2010 at 12:41 pm

          No foolin’? I’m from North Kiltown!

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          1. 

             AmbroseIV

             November 10, 2010 at 2:56 pm

             I laughed, I cried and I received funny looks but a good time was had by all.

             Unexpected/10.

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             Chuloopa

             November 10, 2010 at 3:40 pm

             *wipes tear from eye*
             *starts a slow clap*

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             1. 

                FatShady

                November 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm

                Mike gave you a slowclap last week and now you give one back… Is this like that movie where the dude was always trying to get a slow clap going only to stuff it up…. Not another teen movie!!!!! (I just remembered the name)

                Does this mean that Mike has successfuly brought slowclaps to Kotaku with him??? Time will tell…

                Slowclap anyone???

26. 

    kkagari

    November 10, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Unreal tournament 2003! all the goodness of UT, with slicker controls and graphics, without the vehicle junk of the later UTs. best fps ever!

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27. 

    mick

    November 10, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Wolfstein 3D got me hooked to FPS back in the day – still a fav.

    Duke Nukem 3D was the next best game to play on PC, the humour, levels was awesome!

    GoldenEye 64 for multiplayer madness – most addicitive game, plus all my mates loved it.

    Does anyone remember MDK on PC, an old game now but had some wicked sniper action

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    1. 

       Jimu_Hsien

       November 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm

       I remember it, funny factoid Bioware made the sequel on PS2.

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28. 

    SASmusashi

    November 10, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Deus Ex of course!

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       Shane

       November 10, 2010 at 12:35 pm

       + 1

       Just a shame it didn’t inspire more clones. I love the open environments, branching narrative paths, and multiple endings. FPS need more of this.

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29. 

    Vince Usher

    November 10, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Doom and ummmmmmmm Doom.

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30. 

    Palstran

    November 10, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    After reading all the comments about peoples fav fps I realized when i stop liking them.

    I played wolfenstein like everyone and that was revolutionary then doom and Heretic and i think Hexen was my favourite at that time.

    Then all the wwII games started coming out. I tried a few. Got some demos with pc gamer. They just resonated in a very negative way with me. I think the whole playing out history in a violence is fun way just unsettles me. I am happy to blow the head off people in other games. Thats fine. But the fact that it is a real war I just felt it shouldn’t be fun. So i stopped playing them and started playing final fantasy and soul reaver and never looked back.

    Recently thou playing Bioshock was awesome and I finished borderlands but by myself so i think i missed out a bit there.

    The merging of genres has brought me back to FPS games but I still can’t get into war games. even the fictional ones now.

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    1. 

       James Mac

       November 10, 2010 at 1:07 pm

       What bothers me is collectors that include medals, dog tags and unit patches.

       Those are some of the many things that mark actual soldiers… gamers are not even close.
       Don’t get me wrong, I love my games… but I wouldn’t compare finishing the recent Medal of Honour to doing a tour in Afghanistan.

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31. 

    James Mac

    November 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    Dark Forces.

    Back in the good old days, when Kyle Katarn was still a badass.

    I’m probably going to get flack for saying this but the most influential would probably be Halo.
    Their sticky reticle software got copied mercilessly across console fps’s, which is what microsoft wanted.

    Also, call me crazy, but I don’t think any fps has ever done melee well. It’s part of the reason I’m not as excited about bulletstorm. It’s just like, suddenly, there’s this leg appearing off screen… maybe the view needs to be wider, and show parts of the body whilst your playing.
    My peripheral vision can see my shoulders and legs when I walk, so maybe that’s why it seems odd.

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       The Cracks

       November 10, 2010 at 1:38 pm

       ‘Back in the good old days, when Kyle Katarn was still a badass.’

       He still is a badass… And he made it onto the Jedi High Council…

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          James Mac

          November 10, 2010 at 1:59 pm

          I played Jedi Academy, and Outcast… he’s turned into a nerf herder.

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32. 

    Mark Duval

    November 10, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Has no one mentioned Deus Ex yet? Such a brilliant game. It was a great FPS with a fantastic storyline and fleshed out characters. That graphics look a tad dated these days but they’re still passable, and the atmospheric soundtrack of the game is gorgeous. I love the conspiracy theory story of the game where you travel around the world as the plot unravels like a puzzle. It really made you feel part of something bigger than yourself.

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    1. 

       Jimu_Hsien

       November 10, 2010 at 4:30 pm

       I thought that game was supposed to have defied genre classification? Next you’ll be telling me Fallout 3 is strictly an RPG.

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33. 

    Brendan Ingle

    November 10, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    The topic picture made me want to play Wolfenstein 3D again…

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34. 

    oggob

    November 10, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Alot of people don’t like it, but I really like Killzone and the style they use. It’s not a complete run and gun game. The fact that it’s slower and heavier than most others is why I like it.

    TimeSplitters was brilliant game that didn’t take itself seriously, but at it’s core the mechanics were close to perfection. TS2 was the best, then TS:FP and the original was still good but still abit rough.

    I’ll throw in Fallout 3 & NV also now, basically I haven’t left FPS camera so it counts, despite the age in the engine the game also works as a FPS.

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35. 

    Karl

    November 10, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    The first time I saw DOOM I would of been 9 years old. My dad bought the shareware version which contained the first episode. He let us play it but most of the time I prefered to watch him play. I remember him getting up to the last level and being unable to kill the two Hell Knights as he had used up all his rockets earlier on.

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36. 

    Jack Wilkinson

    November 10, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    My fav would have to be Battlefield 2142, that was an amazing shooter. T

    he basic storyline of an Ice age and 2 factions fighting for the equator to survive sounded plausable and not far-fetched.

    and the battle walkers, the gunship, and the PAC’s nametko Tank were simply brilliant combat vehicles and created some memorable firefights.

    All the guns mechanics were awesomse, just like bf2, but just that little better. Items such as the squad leader beacon and squad mechanics were pefrect.

    All the maps were great and the titan gamemode was teh shiz. (terribly laggy if on a low end pc)

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37. 

    Jimu_Hsien

    November 10, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Has to be GoldenEye for the fav. Played it the most.

    Most influential, prolly Doom I guess.

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38. 

    Justin Robson

    November 10, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Doom. How could it possibly be any other game…?

    Followed closely by Duke Nukem 3D, both of which I played from a very early age… I turned out fine though!

    *serial killer grin*

    As for more modern shooters, how can you go past Halo? It changed everything. Then CoD4 has to be my favourite online shooter by far… so many good FPS games though.

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39. 

    Clint

    November 10, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    My favorite shooter is still “Joint Operations” from Novalogic. Up to 150 players in one game. Huge Maps with lots of vehicles that you could “aquire” from your enemy. Great “coop” maps where you play against computer bots.

    My first multiplayer game was pong, so yeah, I’ve been playing a while. I loved the original Doom and all of the Quake games. I loved the original Half Life. I played almost all of the “Delta Force” games.

    I still to this day Play Joint Operations with my two kids and my friend Mark, every night (except the last week or so because of serer updates). But at least I can play with my kids on LAN, which most of the new games don’t have anymore, a major mistake.

    If you have to be online to play, it’s not something I will spend money on. I want a real cd/dvd and the ability to play the game no matter where I am or weather or not I have internet access.

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    Marcus DeGiglio

    November 10, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    My favourite fps: a tie between “MW2” for the cinema-quality campaign, and “Borderlands” for its rpg elements, great art style and humour.

    The most influential fps would have to be “Halo: CE”. It’s thanks to Halo that many fps’ now have a 2-gun-inventory and regen health. This includes Duke Nukem, which is very disappointing.

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    Escape

    November 10, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    I’d like to nominate Descent 2. I fired this baby up the other day. At first I was struck by how hard it seemed to play, but once I got back into the rhythm a bit, tweaked the controls, and installed the excellent openGL patch – it really started to shine again.

    The fast pace, the harrowing vertigo, the excitement – it’s all still there. There hasn’t been a game like it since.

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       Blake

       November 11, 2010 at 7:24 am

       Oh my. I completely forgot about Descent. The audio in that game was some of the best to come out of the mid 90’s, it was incredibly immersive (possibly due to trapping you inside a mine…).

       I would like to make mention of Soldier of Fortune, I haven’t seen anyone else mention it. I try to remember why I enjoyed it so much (I only finish games that are enjoyable) and I can’t come up with a reason.

       I’d like to think it was more then just the five-bajillion hit boxes each person had and the ability to damage each individually then having the enemy AI react based on which body part was damaged.

       Whatever the reason, it was just such a satisfying game to play.

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