Post FPS games you feel are essentials.
>>332975236
I have that "/v/ recomended FPS list" image but I have over 5k images in my 4chan folder and I forgot the filename.
So I will just say FEAR.
Doom 1/2
Blood
Duke Nukem
Shadow Warrior
Serious Samuel
Fear
Quake 1/2
NOLF 1/2
RTCW
Wolfenstein TNO/TOB
STALKER trilogy
Missing a bunch, but whatever.
timesplitters
>>332975976
>I have over 5k images in my 4chan folder
Please tell me you have subfolders
>>332975236
>>332975976
>>332978534
serious sam, FEAR, and timesplitters are definitely musts
Is Quack 4 any good?
>>332975236
Halo 1-3
>>332976206
wat geime?
>>332976952
>Wolfenstein TNO/TOB
>not Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Disgusting
>>332978643
Not even a single one. 5505 unordered images. It's a fucking nightmare to find anything and I feel it's almost too late to try and organize now because it will be such a big endevour.
>>332978895
RTCW = return to castle wolfenstein
>>332979017
That's embarrassing.
Still not digging your TNO/TOB rubbish though.
>>332976952
Good list
I would certainly add Painkiller, Soldier of Fortune and Red Faction.
Possibly also Shogo MAD, Project I.G.I. and Operation Flashpoint.
>>332978818
I liked it a lot. It's what Doom 3 should be to begin with.
>>332978852
are you for real?
Maybe I'm just not used to console shooters, but how do I git gud at timesplitters?
>>332975236
Black
Call of Juarez series except The Cartel)
Urban Chaos Riot Response
Hard Reset
>>332978852
doom 2.5
>>332976952
This desu
Also Jedi Knight series
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ALSO HOLY SHIT FUCK OFF HIRO WITH YOUR RETARDED CAPTCHAS
Doom 1 2AND 3
Unreal (+ Tournament)
Quake
Half Life + Op. For.
Delta Force
Far Cry
Deus Ex (more of a RPG but im gonna include it)
Serious Sam
Painkiller
Prey
Call of Duty 1 - 4
Brothers in Arms
Soldier of Fortune
Half Life 2
Halo (only decent console fps)
Crysis
STALKER
EYE
and that's it, I was trying to avoid any multiplayer only titles like Counter Strike
>>332978924
screen shots please
>>332981332
I forgot my favorites
SWAT and Rainbow 6
goddamn
>>332981332
this guy is right
>>332981459
There are 153 folders in there, but those are threads I saved, since when you save an internet page it keeps all thumbnails in an attached folder. So minus 153 folders plus 153 offline web pages from 5505 reaction images.
Also the creation date says 2012 since I got a new PC then but the folder should be much older than that.
>>332975236
Deus EX
>>332982597
Upload that folder and I'll organize it for you, I'll also steal images out of it :^)
Doom 64
>>332980267
Practice and critical thinking skills
>>332983407
How would I upload it. Also I never saved that many rare pepe's because it was just too daunting. I'd see so many rare ones and think it's just too late to start now. I regret I didn't save more. Maybe I should start collecting more pepe's.
Also I finally found the image.
>>332978852
Fuck
>>332981332
Cut cod down to 1-2 and we can be friends
>id Software classics
Wolfenstein series
Doom series
Quake series
>3D Realms
Duke Nukem 3D
Shadow Warrior
Blood
>Classic Mulitplayer (Optional, some may be dead)
Quake 3 Arena
Unreal Tournament
>Valve Software
Half-Life series
Opposing Force
Counter-Strike (any of them)
>Eidos/Looking Glass Studios
Thief 1 and 2, Deadly Shadows optional but recommended
Deus Ex series (including Invisible War, it really is not that bad. Bad, but not THAT bad.)
System Shock series
To truly be well versed in FPS etiquette, playing a good number of these is recommended.
>>332984326
>Blood and Serious Sam not in god tier
>TF2 and Gaylo in great tier
nah
>>332984326
>Bioshock Infinite and Battlefield 3 in Shit Tier
Is this some kind of joke? Both are 8/10 at the very worst.
Some great contemporary FPSes
Killzone 2
FEAR
Shadow Warrior
CoD2
WaW
RFoM
Halo trilogy
Bioshock
Rainbow 6 siege
timesplitters 2
>there are people who refuse to play Timesplitters because it's a console FPS
Doom
Heretic
Hexen
Douk 3D
Unreal 1
Turok 1 and 2
I like WW2 FPS
>>332985020
Play some Wolfenstein.
>>332984897
Its not about refusing to play, most of the FPS fan base was concentrated on PC back when it came out so the cult following it got was not your usual FPS Fan.
Its been on my list forever I just can never finish something I have to emulate for some reason
>>332976952
>>332978895
>>332979017
>>332979403
RTCW was average at best, most certainly not an essential.
>>332975236
Unreal Tournament 2004/Quake 3. Both excellent arena shooters that do their thing exceedingly well in slightly different directions. I'm partial to UT 2k4 if only because I spent an uncomfortably large amount of time playing the Ballistic Weapons mod for it on top of the base game, and Quake 3, while great, had such a steep difficulty curve for MP that by the time I got around to playing online I was going up against people that had played nonstop for nearly 8 years.
>>332985137
>I just can never finish something I have to emulate for some reason
Same here. I usually just end up buying games I can easily emulate because I know there's a better chance I'll actually finish it. With emulation it's so easy to get overwhelmed with all the games you can play it's hard to just pick one and stick with it.
I want to say Goldeneye, but it probably hasn't aged well
>>332978818
It has one or two good sequences, but overall I would say no. The game has a bad habit of getting in the way of its actual gameplay in favor of being this weird little sci-fi thing that doesn't really go anywhere. Prey is probably a better candidate for a Raven Software game.
>>332984773
As an actual shooter Infinite is pretty fucking bad. Guns looked great, but outside of the grenade launcher and hand cannon felt like ass with non-existent impact. It's got some lovely scenery and the weapons are certainly nice to look at(though I loved the modded weapons of the original Bioshock far more), but as an actual shooter it's pretty weak.
>>332984773
>Battlefield 3 turned Battlefield into DLC crazy console trash, yeah BF2 and expansion packs but that was a precedent set by 1942 and the concept of DLC didn't really exist in the 2/2142 erra.
Bioshock is a great FPS and I should of included it on my list
>>332981332
but infinite's fundamental FPS mechanics completely remove it from being considered a good example of the genera.
>>332985763
I've only ever played the game on harder difficulties, so I enjoyed the versatility of navigating the battlefield with the skyhook and managing my resources well. I can imagine the game giving a weaker impression if none of that really mattered on lower settings and it was just mindless.
>>332976952
I feel Jedi outcast (be a fucking Jedi), halo 1 (silent cartographer, blood gulch), half life 1, counter strike (dust 2), Go back in time to play pre-crap tribes ascend (fucking skiing) are addable. Quake 2 can get axed. I don't feel like doom 2 is essential either.
Amazing =/= essential
>>332978851
laughinggirls.rar
>>332986113
I hear where you're coming from. To me, personally, weapon feel and sound design are super critical to making a good FPS, and Infinite dropped the ball on both counts. Skyhook system was good though, kinda forgot about it to be honest.
>>332986168
Doom 1, 2 and 3 are all essential because they pave the general template for FPS sequels
you either get the 1 -> 2 jump with more levels, guns but generally the same gameplay or you get 2 -> 3 that is the big reboot sequel that changes things that it then popularized
Starseige Tribes, Medal of Honor, DOOM II, Perfect Dark and Halo 3. If it's more modern, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2: Episode One, Tribes Ascend, Gears of War, and Serious Sam 3: BFE.
>>332986068
Battlefield 3 flat-out has great FPS mechanics and maps. Having tons of DLC map packs shouldn't detriment the game as it has a strong foundation, and you really can't blame them for jewing out as they were just following Call of Duty's example. It sucks all the same, but the base game is worthy of praise, and there are worse games in the series.
>>332976952
Vivisector if you want farcry with skeleton based gore.
>>332984773
>infinite
>8/10 at the very worst
Preamble:
BioShock Infinite is the cancer that is killing video games. It takes every lesson of good game design from the first System Shock forward, lights it on fire, then urinates on it out of spite. Tack on the nonsensical Burial at Sea expansions and I’m almost convinced that Ken Levine is suffering from some undiscovered type of brain tumor. In trying to cater to the “video games as art” crowd, he’s created something that fails at being a game and as art.
>Every gunfight is dull as dishwater in the game, and even on the hardest difficulty there are no tactics or strategies required.
The vigors are boring because they’re just the plasmids. I’m just shooting people because, well, that’s what you do in video games, right? And I say this as a person that likes shooters.
>the plot:
Throughout the entire segment, I was all too aware that I was playing a video game trying far too hard to be meaningful or resonant. It comes across as silly, childish, and naïve. Like a fifteen year old telling you that the government is, you know, real bad man.
>the twists
That anyone is finding the writing intelligent or thoughtful blows my mind. Last night, when I hit one of the big plot twists, I almost felt insulted that it was presented as one. Elizabeth bellowing “yeah, well, just because I want a puppy doesn’t mean I’m going to get one!” had me laughing. I mean, seriously. Who writes this shit? Haven’t we outgrown “this is great writing…for a video game” yet?
>Elizabeth
Elizabeth isn’t horrified by my ruthless slaughtering of innocent civilians; indeed, she’s actually making small talk with Booker about his life. When Daikatana tried to pull nonsense like this over a decade ago, everyone laughed Romero out of the industry.
>>332986361
hl2>doom 3 for templates
and FEAR>Doom 3 for that matter.
>>332986606
The forced campaign and general trend towards CoD style action was its death
BF2 was by no means a sim but it did have a certain feel to it that 3 throws out the window to get the CoD audience.
>>332984326
Your list is shit due to you putting Halos 2-3 on the good tier instead of the great tier with Halo: CE. Your list is even more shit because you decided to put Halo: Reach in the okay tier instead of the shit tier. And then you dare put the fucking Metroid Prime Trilogy in the list and try to call that boring, slow, auto aiming pile of trash great along with calling those games a FPS. Do yourself a favor and redo your list so it can be less shit.
>>332986862
Half Life is in a division of its own, it sets no templates because it has only known two major entries that were very different
FEAR is a interesting case in that I only played the first and ignored the sequels.
>>332975236
Do the HD versions change/add anything other than graphics?
>>332987140
Nope they're exactly the same gameplay wise. Only graphics are better.
The Counter-Strike Series
>>332987116
If we want to talk about 'generic fps templates' I'd say HL2 is a better example than Doom 3 as far as the style and exceeding.
And FEAR does horror FPS better than Doom 3, IMO.
>>332985473
>not Perfect Dark
The better game in all aspects.
>>332985473
I would replace Goldeneye with Perfect Dark and DOOM 64
DOOM 64 PC is GOAT tho
>>332986361
I agree, Doom 3 is essential.
>>332987303
I was more talking about franchise templates then single game templates
yes Half Life 2 is a great generic FPS template but as a franchise each entry has been quite different.
>>332986972
I've never played any Halo aside from CE, and I agree that Metroid Prime is overrated shit though.
That image was trying to get a general opinion from all of /v/, it's not a personal opinion list at all. I don't like Metroid but tons of other fags do so I put it up high. It's a recommendation list, so higher it is, better chances are you will like it.
>no word on Serious Sam 4's development status in recent months
>Q2 of 2016 is starting and Shadow Warrior 2 doesn't even have a release date
wake me up
>>332987414
>box clearly says Doom 64
i'm not saying its bad but it aint no mainline doom
![star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_-_jedi_outcast__jk2_jo_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tcYnQGh.jpg "star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_-_jedi_outcast__jk2_jo_[1].jpg")
jedi knight 2: jedi outcast
>cool weapons
>cool force powers
>best lightsaber combat to date
>top tier level design
my favorite fps
>>332984326
>Cryostasis
>FPS
U avin a giggle squire?
its a shitty slav horror game
>>332975236
>>332987531
m8, that's Doom 3.
It's also a direct sequel to Doom 2.
Resistance 1-3 are great
3>1>2 but they're all worth playing, 3 especially. Probably the only console FPS I've played through multiple times. Its weapon design is top-tier.
>>332984326
Please, no more. Nostalgia is a very painful thing.
>Trespasser, shit tier
Fuck that, it is the one example of a game so horribly broken that it becomes amazing. The bugs are hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWDLRx830s
>>332981332
>>332984951
>>332987652
mah niggas Unreal is GOAT
>>332987745
its a Midway spinoff
yes its good
yes its the third game to have Doom on the box
but its not Doom 3
>>332985194
he's right. rtcw was only good for the mp which W:ET improved on in every way.
>>332975236
Absolutely essential:
>Doom 1
>Quakeworld or CPMA
>Tribes
Essentials:
Doom 1, 2, 64, user made content
Quake 1, 2, user made Content
Hexen 1, 2
Heretic
Chex Quest series
Star Wars - Dark Forces 1, 2
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Strife
Blood
STALKER series, user made content
Crysis 1, warhead expansion
Half-life series, user made content
SWAT series
Unreal, Unreal 2 The Awakening, user made content
Serious Sam first encounter, second encounter, 3: BFE
E.Y.E - Divine Cybermancy
Duke Nukem
Shadow Warrior
>>332981332
>its a "i was born in 1998" episode
>>332987912
It's more Doom 3 than the "official" Doom 3.
>>332987414
Doom 64 is fucking great
Doom 64 EX is an almost perfect PC port, y'all should look it up.
>>332988070
>Unreal 2 The Awakening
Game was garbage. Easily one of the biggest disappointments in gaming for me.
>>332988117
the nigga asked for essentials
I got PC game boxes older then you
>>332984326
This smacks of a multiplayer bias. The community for some of those games is utterly dead anyways.
Hard Reset should be moved down at least one tier. I like it but it's incredibly repetitive, I wouldn't call it better than half of what's in Good tier.
Source is a better counter-strike than GO. You can split hairs over hitboxes all you want but Source's modding community blows GO's out of the water.
Is Crysis 2 even on there? I would personally put it in Great tier.
Otherwise, not a bad list.
>bought Serious Sam 2 in the sale a couple of weeks ago
>never heard of it before
>how bad can it be?
>mfw
I feel as if I've stumbled onto some unholy ancient history, buried with disgust in the sands of time
Figures Croteam took a 6-year break from releasing games afterwards
>>332988451
Forgot my .webm
>>332987526
Not exactly development related, but I think CroTeam said that they wanted it to have even more enemies on screen than SS3, although that's already a given.
![Darkest_of_Days_cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3U1Wsvd.jpg "Darkest_of_Days_cover[1].jpg")
On the other side we have the games that were interesting but never caught on or flew under the radar
if this game had better AI and more marketing it might of been a franchise today.
>>332988246
I don't think anyone expected it to be revolutionary, it was decent for it's time, but that's at best. I assumed it just used the Unreal name mostly.
![f96c81af560ea17cded583d3da4bfc28%25255B2%25255D[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/l178XJ0.jpg "f96c81af560ea17cded583d3da4bfc28%25255B2%25255D[1].jpg")
>>332989215
this is why you dont end your game on a cliffhanger when you dont know if the sequel will happen.
>>332988672
What on earth is bad about SS2? I hear it get so much hate but whenever I look at it, it looks fun, plus the art style is neat.
Is there some problem with the gameplay? I have all the SS games in my backlog but I haven't played them yet BTW.
>>332988451
Hard Reset is fantastic. Why did you pick that out of every game there.
Anyone on a Serious Sam kick might enjoy this
it generates a random dungeon with rooms full of SS style waves of crazy demons and all the guns are magic wands and staves and shit.
>>332989215
Jesus christ I fucking love that game. I wish it had a sequel so badly.
>tfw this is the closest we ever got to an open world war game
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/l5f5b46.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>>332989593
forgot pic
>>332989043
That's really nice. I'd like to see them combine what worked in TFE/TSE and SS3
Basically the classics but with better map design than "big empty rectangular rooms" and the improved gameplay of 3 (with the exception of the camera fucking up when you swing the hammer and having to reload guns) would be nice
>>332989593
>>332989716
>promised a game like Heretic or Hexen
>even has the Serpent Staff from Hexen, nearly 1for1
>plays like Serious Sam
Go damnit.
>>332989573
It is to Serious Sam what Other M is to Metroid, or DMC is to Devil May Cry
In TFE and TSE everything was perfectly thought out: the location and frequency of pickups, the number of enemy spawns from difficulty to difficulty, the secrets, the damage that each weapon did relative to enemy health, the speed of every enemy, the enemy variety per wave, all of it lent to a nice, balanced game feeling that was fast and fun.
Serious Sam 2 throws all of that in the garbage. It's piss easy in comparison to the originals, the enemies have poor AI and poor design and are slow as fuck. The game has a shitty story, shitty weapons with no punch, NPCs, poorly done vehicle sections, and more failures. Pirate it if you're curious, it's a fucking experience.
>>332975236
Halo 1-3and 5are definitely essential.
>>332990350
I'm so on the fence about Halo 5. I haven't bought an Xbone yet but if I did I would get Halo 5 for sure.
On one hand it tries something new and some of my buds from /v/ play it. On the other hand lmao >343i ADS eSports shite.
>>332990593
343i have really improved from their 4 days, I'd rather have them at the helm than what Bungie has become. ADS works nearly exactly like scoping in did in the previous games, and the esports shit is kept to one playlist. It's honestly the most fun I've had with a Halo game since Reach launched, I just wish 4 hadn't stained most people's perception of 343i and Halo in general.
>>332975236
Shadow Warrior
FEAR
Bioshock 1 + 2
Half-Life 2
>>332989043
>>332987526
I really gotta buy a bitcoin mining video card.
This card definitely won't do the trick if there's gonna be more than 100 models on screen.
>>332979403
>TNO/TOB
>rubbish
TOB is literally RTCW redone in ID Tech 6
>>332990310
Serious Sam AI is always dumb though with how it gets stuck on level geometry so frequently. The AI kind of has to be stupid considering the amount of enemies that can be on screen at once
>>332991364
Just finished the first two games. Couldn't help but notice that the AI is slightly different in TSE, enemies will strafe and try to get around you instead of lining up conveniently while you backpedal away.
>>332989716
was going to suggest this myself
Riddick even though it's more sneaking and fighting than shooting
>>332980575
>Urban Chaos
My Nigga! 10/10 Taste. Would hang out with
>>332991120
>ID Tech 6
Aka shit engine
>literally doesn't do over 60FPS
>>332975236
GET OFF MY LAND!
>>332975236
CoD Ghosts
![perfectdark1028151920-1446157314405_1280w[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sqLm4lp.jpg "perfectdark1028151920-1446157314405_1280w[1].jpg")
>absolutely essential not taking into account multiplayer
doom
quake
descent
sam
painkiller
unreal
build games duke blood shadow warrior redneck rampage (yes even redneck rampage)
stalker
crysis
dark forces/jedi knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVFS3QP5u5c
>>332993539
Butcher Bay is legitimately one of the best single player campaigns ever made.
>>332994567
True. The sequel was disappointing in everything except the combat... I hear the third one might be an MMO if it ever gets made.
>>332994526
Looks like shit
>>332984326
>original quake that high
>original Turok on shit tier
>Metroid a "fps" and in the same tier as Halo, cs:go and Crysis
More like officially shit tier taste list. Your list only proves no matter how many games you play, some people will always have shit taste.
>>332995124
Most posts in this thread are inferior games, especially on technical and graphical standpoints
Stalker games definitely, or at least SoC. Crysis, HL1 and 2, and SS TFE, TSE, and 3.
>>332993539
>>332994567
Honestly think the two games are overrated but I went in expecting stealth so that might be why. Still, didn't really strike me as a "classic" like most people hold it to be.
>>332978852
bruh
>>332995779
Good pacing, good gameplay, entertaining story and unique setting.
Graphics arent bad for the time either.
>>332976952
not FPS but Max Payne 1 and 2 are also shooter essentials
>>332990505
is this worth trying?
>>332980575
>tfw Black never got a PC release
I mean, I could just download a PS2 emulator but I don't have a gamepad to play with.
I played a bit of Black on Xbox but I remember it being kind of hard to see and trying to shoot people without headshots seemed impossible.
>>332996190
Yeah, Blood is great. I like it better than what I've played of Doom and Quake.
Also System Shock is essential too I think. Most people like 2 better but I haven't played too much of 2 yet.
>>332996336
You haven't completed either Doom or Quake?
>>332996190
Fuck yes it is.
>>332996412
Nope. Haven't beat Blood either but I got farther in it than the others. I beat the first episode of Quake I think and I don't think I really played past the first level in Doom. I like FPS but those kinds of games aren't really my favorite types.
>>332996680
>I really played past the first level in Doom
you didnt play Doom then
>>332996773
I always just feel like quitting after the first level. Can't bring myself to play past that. Maybe I'll get around to it eventually.
>easter egg in fucking homefront with only 2 levels
just re-release the whole damn game you assholes
mfw I see all great fps games but can't get a desktop not even a small tower one because my room is small and there's no room to put it.
I was wondering if I should buy aGaming Laptopor a Tower that hooks up to the tv but I don't know still
>>332997617
Most of the games mentioned will run on a toaster so you should be fine with a laptop. Though you can get really small computer cases that shouldn't take up much more room than a laptop.
I had a much longer list, but tried to keep it to just games I've played, and down to one dozen.
DOOM
Duke Nuke'em 3D
Half-Life
Perfect Dark
Jedi Knight II
Aliens versus Predator 2
Battlefield Vietnam
F.E.A.R.
Halo CE
Half-Life 2
Portal
Mount & Blade (there is FPV, it's intense)
The ForestA baker's dozen
>>332996190
That game is pretty gruesome, and it's awesome. They get the whole occult theme/feel down very well.
>>332987140
>>332987234
That's fucking bullshit.
The HD versions have a number of changes that make the game worse.
For one, using the double barrel shotgun against kleers in the original version was a great way to get rid of them. One shot at close range, and that's it for them.
Meanwhile, the HD version fucked up the kleer hitbox, so that doesn't work any more unless you are literally point blank and even then only half the time.
>>332998781
I think the HD version of one of the games removed a section with zero gravity too. Probably TSE since I don't remember anything like that when I played TFE.
DESTINY
>>332998939
They removed a bunch of the "weird stuff" since the new and "improved" engine couldn't handle it.
>>332978852
Chasm: The Rift
Used the sounds from this for Windows notifications
GoldenEye 64
Halo 2
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
Unreal games
Half-Life (all of them)
Deus Ex
I think most underrated was Red Faction. I had a fucking blast with the geomod technology with multiplayer maps.
>>332999139
I think I remember them saying it was an issue with the ragdolls. In that instance at least.
>>332996261
Unskipable cutescenes tho
>>332998091
will killing floor 2 run on toasters?
>>333001239
KF2 is shit so who cares.
