Best FPS ever?

noel · Post by **noel** » February 21, 2003, 9:24 pm

I'm curious what everyone thinks the best FPS is. I mostly want to know this because I love the genre and I don't want to miss a game that's worth playing. Post your faves. Multiplayer or Single, as long as they're good.

1. Counterstrike - If people aren't cheating, this can be one of the most fun games ever.
2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein - If they hadn't put all the paranormal bullshit in this game, this would be my number one.
3. Half-Life - You had to love the enemy UI in this game.
4. Unreal Tournament 2003 - The graphics are simply incredible.
5. Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

Honorable Mention to:
Wolfenstein 3d - The beginning of a Genre
Doom - The next step
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

Biffin · Post by **Biffin** » February 21, 2003, 9:26 pm

1.Deus Ex
2.Battlefield 1942
3.Quake 1 (still have memories of playing DM for countless hours on this)
4. No One Lives Forever 2
5.Half-Life

Adela · Post by **Adela** » February 21, 2003, 9:26 pm

single - Deus Ex, Half-Life
multi - Tribes 1, Counter-Strike

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » February 21, 2003, 9:26 pm

Trying to brush up on your FPS skills, Aran?

/tease

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » February 21, 2003, 9:27 pm

Medal of Honor
Battlefield 1942

Colal · Post by **Colal** » February 21, 2003, 9:31 pm

quake1

noel · Post by **noel** » February 21, 2003, 9:33 pm

Name the time, name the place, Lina.

A few words of commentary:
For whatever reason, I could never get in to Deus Ex. I tried it several times.

I liked Medal of Honor a lot, but I thought the movement and graphics were superior in RtCW. I also hated the ending and the last several missions.

When I purchased Tribes 2, getting the approrpriate patches, and the game itself was just too annoying for me to pursue playing. I do regret not playing it.

No One Lives Forever 1 and 2 were both spectacular, spectacular games with the best stories I've seen. I'm not sure why, but I just didn't feel they belonged on this list.

I'd also like to give a shout out to the game Thief - The Dark Project. I never played the sequel, but the original was a blast to play.

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » February 21, 2003, 9:37 pm

Aranuil wrote:Name the time, name the place, Lina.

Bring it on!!

What's the winner get?

noel · Post by **noel** » February 21, 2003, 9:39 pm

Kaelina wrote:
Aranuil wrote:Name the time, name the place, Lina.
Bring it on!!

What's the winner get?

Sunserae?

Brotha · Post by **Brotha** » February 21, 2003, 9:41 pm

Singe player- Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Multiplayer- hands down, Team Fortess Classic

cid · Post by **cid** » February 21, 2003, 9:42 pm

CS hands down

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » February 21, 2003, 9:45 pm

Aranuil wrote:Sunserae?

Sorry, I'll need more incentive than that. She's under my desk ATM!

cid · Post by **cid** » February 21, 2003, 9:47 pm

Kaelina wrote:
Aranuil wrote:Sunserae?
Sorry, I'll need more incentive than that. She's under my desk ATM!

(unfunf) One more for your star!!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » February 21, 2003, 9:48 pm

Battlefield 1942

Half Life

Mechwarrior (may not be a traditional FPS, but it's the shiznit anyway)

Medal of Honor

Return to Castle Wolfenstien

Unreal Tournament 2003

Ureal Tournament

Jedi Knight 2

Rainbow 6

Pretty much in that order, although I've played a hell of OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS more FPS than what I listed! Let's do RTS games next

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » February 21, 2003, 9:48 pm

Tribes was awesome, loved playing that with all my RL friends. Was Tribes 2 any good btw?

Half-Life had the best single player game of any FPS ive played. UT was really fun for quick online games, could get boring fairly quick

...and my comp cant run anything after those games =p

Post by **Xouqoa** » February 21, 2003, 9:51 pm

Quake I think is my all time favorite, mostly because it's the one that made every other game come into creation. BF1942 is great also, as is Half-Life/CS .. I just never got into CS a whole lot for some reason. UT2003 is fun too. =)

noel · Post by **noel** » February 21, 2003, 10:03 pm

Xouqoa wrote:Quake I think is my all time favorite, mostly because it's the one that made every other game come into creation.

Wolfenstein 3D has that honor, sir.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » February 21, 2003, 10:09 pm

Unreal Tournment is the only one i have played and still play so i guess that for me im addicted

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » February 21, 2003, 10:11 pm

Unreal Tournament 2003 is a lot better than UT, if you haven't played it yet Taly. =)

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » February 21, 2003, 10:13 pm

Recent ones I have played.

Battlefield 1942
America's Army

America's Army is free, and quite a bit of fun. go to http://www.americasarmy.com to find download the client.

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » February 21, 2003, 10:31 pm

Rainbow 6 is tops on my list. Used to run a clan for that, really made people cry. Though I gave it up after seeing some guy in a match camp for over an hour in the same spot. The other guy ended up going to make dinner and came back and ate it and the guy camping never moved at all. It was pretty funny.

I also love playing AA, but mainly because it's free, and you can really drive people nuts if you tell them you're an Iraqi soldier using this game for training, heh.

Cracc · Post by **Cracc** » February 21, 2003, 10:38 pm

Anyone remember Shogo?

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » February 21, 2003, 10:42 pm

Quake 1 got me hooked (Threewave CTF) & Counterstrike did it all over again.

Two games that have never been deleted off my computer... up until recently.

Tuldian · Post by **Tuldian** » February 21, 2003, 10:46 pm

SYSTEM SHOCK 2

Vezot · Post by **Vezot** » February 21, 2003, 10:47 pm

Counter-Strike (without h4x)
Tribes 2
eventually Planteside?

Brittney · Post by **Brittney** » February 21, 2003, 10:56 pm

How can you make a best fps thread and not even mention Quake 2 or 3?!?!

Multi Player:
Quake 2 & 3
CS
Battlefield 1942
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D

Single Player:
Half Life
Doom 1 & 2
Jedi Outcast (after the light saber)
Jedi Knight 2
Max Payne (If you can count that as a FPS)

Seran · Post by **Seran** » February 21, 2003, 11:23 pm

Deus Ex for single player. Tribes/Tribes 2 for multiplayer.

Ramseis · Post by **Ramseis** » February 22, 2003, 12:33 am

Firearms

Neziroth · Post by **Neziroth** » February 22, 2003, 12:42 am

Catacombs 3d came before wolfenstein 3d

Single Player:
Deus Ex... started a bit slow but it got me hooked in no time
Jedi Outcast - Really fun trying to use nothing but your lightsaber (once you get it)
Half-life - Almost my number 2, but it didnt have a lightsaber!
Outlaws (anyone remember this?)

Multiplayer:
Rainbow 6 / Eagle Watch
Jedi Knight - Dark forces II
Doom, Cooperative

Drawing a blank, I'm sure I'll be editing this...

miir · Post by **miir** » February 22, 2003, 2:19 am

Cracc wrote:Anyone remember Shogo?

Yep.

Loved that game.
Reinstalled it a few months ago and played through it again.

Eventhough it was buggy as hell at release, Sin kicked ass.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 22, 2003, 2:56 am

Quake 2 or Doom 2.

they blew everything else away when they came out.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » February 22, 2003, 4:00 am

Kaelina wrote:Unreal Tournament 2003 is a lot better than UT, if you haven't played it yet Taly. =)

Actually several of my clan members said it was worse, the graphics were bad and i guess the insta gib which i play was not as good (fall down for death no actual graphics no bullet holes things of that nature) so i never bought it..Although i have a friend burning me a copy so im gonna give it a shot anyway

Echols · Post by **Echols** » February 22, 2003, 4:52 am

Single player: Half-Life or No One Lives Forever 2. Both of those kept me up until 5 or 6 in the morning because I just couldn't stop playing them.

Multiplayer: Quake 3 Arena, because, in my opinion, no other game takes the amount of pure reflex, knowledge of the game, and constant awareness of your surroundings that Q3 does. I'm always blown away whenever I watch demos of the top players like zero4 etc..., their reflexes, reaction time and aim are just godly and it results in matchups that I really haven't seen in other games. That's what's kept it fun for me for so long.

Doom2 would be a close second based purely on how crazy it was. 4-way games on doom2 map 1 were more chaotic than many 20+ player matches in games these days. Spawn, get a rocket in the face, die. Spawn, turn a corner, rocket in the face again, die. Spawn, die to a BFG. Spawn, die to the cone radius blast of the same BFG shot. I always get nostalgic when I think of doom2. Going over to my friend's place where he had 4 computers set up and playing until 6 or 7am, then his father, who was as into doom as we were, would drive us all home. Or staying up all night during highschool playing on the montreal DWANGO server. Ahhhhh, good times... I can't believe that was over 8 years ago.

Echols/Morrow

Denadeb · Post by **Denadeb** » February 22, 2003, 5:22 am

Tribes
UT 2003

Those 2 are my favorites.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 22, 2003, 5:23 am

haha DWANGO kicked ass.

8 player dukematches!

Traz-KOE · Post by **Traz-KOE** » February 22, 2003, 5:51 am

Wolfenstien 3D
The Doom series
Hexxen
Heretic

Fun times...

Brittney · Post by **Brittney** » February 22, 2003, 5:52 am

Unreal 1, Unreal Tourney, Unreal 2 Tourney all suck donkey dick the size of which has rarely been seen by human eyes.

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » February 22, 2003, 5:54 am

System Shock 2 (the only game that has EVER scared me)
Deus Ex
The original Tribes.

Syndaen Crystalthorn · February 22, 2003, 9:18 am

Battlefield 1942
Soldier of Fortune II
Tribes I/II
Counterstrike
Medal of Honor

Sajko · Post by **Sajko** » February 22, 2003, 9:47 am

Brittney wrote:How can you make a best fps thread and not even mention Quake 2 or 3?!?!

Because Quake2 and 3 sucks? ^^ Well, 3 is decent, 2 is just gay =(.

Counter-strike is the most fun multiplayer FPS as long as you DON'T play on public servers. Get some friends together and play 5on5 =)

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » February 22, 2003, 10:53 am

This only about PC games?

Ive played Splinter Cell with a friewnd who has the Xbox....Its a pretty fucking sweet game for consoles...no multiplayer that i know of, but it really is a great single player game.

Narmgarf · Post by **Narmgarf** » February 22, 2003, 12:24 pm

Quake 2
UT2003
Duke Nuken 3d
Heretic...there's something special about turning your opponent into a chicken before killing them

Possibly my favorite of all time though was the Aliens add-on for Doom (or was it doom 2?)

Narmgarf

Draaxx · Post by **Draaxx** » February 22, 2003, 12:52 pm

CS - for sure for #1
Jedi Knight 2 - was fun but it got too easy to rape
UT - insta gib, turbo mode, low gravity, liandri core - the most intense game settings ever

basically any half life mod i enjoy if it was done well

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » February 22, 2003, 12:58 pm

This list is just my favorties:

1. Quake I
2. Quake II
3. Unreal Tourney
4. Team Fortress

all multiplayer (

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 22, 2003, 2:39 pm

Doom 2
Half-Life
Rainbow 6 (about to be replaced by Ravenshield)
Quake

Best ever: Goldeneye for N64. Nothing, I mean nothing could touch this game.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » February 22, 2003, 2:50 pm

Most FPS make me queasy after playing for 15 minutes. Of the games that I have played:

Mechwarrior series
Doom 1&2
Quake 3

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » February 22, 2003, 3:04 pm

Wolf3D, for starting the whole thing!

Anyone remember Marathon?

Mechwarrior 2, 3, 4...
Heavy Gear
Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series
Doom.

Goldeneye on N64

and...Counterstrike!

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » February 22, 2003, 4:55 pm

im partial to the realism in rogue spear and it's other branches...

Post by **Xouqoa** » February 22, 2003, 5:08 pm

Aranuil wrote:
Xouqoa wrote:Quake I think is my all time favorite, mostly because it's the one that made every other game come into creation.
Wolfenstein 3D has that honor, sir.

Okay, well I meant it started the multi-player side of things.

Innkubbus · Post by **Innkubbus** » February 22, 2003, 6:03 pm

1. Day of Defeat
2. Day of Defeat
3. Day of Defeat
4. Day of Defeat
5. Battlefield 1942

DoD > all games ever

P.S. If I kept track right, DoD has won more awards than any other mod for half-life or any other game for that matter. Most fun game EVER!