Which shooter to play if you’ve missed the last few years of PC gaming?

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I’ve been out of the PC gaming scene for a while and am wondering what I missed. I prefer single player campaigns to multiplayer gaming, but do like having the ability to play multiplayer

The last shooters I played on PC were Rage, Doom and Battlefield 4.

All three game have sequels but I played a lot of Battlefield 5 on PS4, so I think I’m done with that one. Are Rage 2 and Doom Eternal worth playing for the single player campaign?

If you had to pick one shooter only to play in 2020, what would it be?
 
Best single player shooter of all time, (in my opinion based on 30 years of gaming)

Wolfenstein New Order.

My review - and I still feel this way years later. Unfortunately the two or three sequels have not been as good.

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Taco would say Splinter Cell. And metal gear.
Also deus ex mankind divided has great story. And quantum break. Metro 2033 and sequels are awesome!
I’ll have to look into all of them. I played Metal Gear and Splinter Cell back in the PS2 days, but haven’t given much though to either series since.

Dues Ex is in my Steam library apparently, so I think I’ll check that one out first.
 
I played this on PS4 and had fun. I beat the game and then never was really motivated to replay it. I might pick it up when it’s cheap on Steam.

Also back on your original question, Rage 2 and Doom eternal or imo pretty weak in regards to their previous entries, I would only recommend either when on a realy heavy discount.

Previously mentioned Quantum break is pretty good, I also had good fun with the division 2, destiny 2 is also decent, story is a bit meh, but the gunplay is good, but these last 2 are more looter shooters, not sure you are into those given what you said about BL3
 
I’ve been out of the PC gaming scene for a while and am wondering what I missed. I prefer single player campaigns to multiplayer gaming, but do like having the ability to play multiplayer

The last shooters I played on PC were Rage, Doom and Battlefield 4.

All three game have sequels but I played a lot of Battlefield 5 on PS4, so I think I’m done with that one. Are Rage 2 and Doom Eternal worth playing for the single player campaign?

If you had to pick one shooter only to play in 2020, what would it be?

I mean honestly, you've already played the best shooter in the decade (Doom 2016) so hard to really recommend anything nearly as good.
 
Best single player shooter of all time, (in my opinion based on 30 years of gaming)

Wolfenstein New Order.

My review - and I still feel this way years later. Unfortunately the two or three sequels have not been as good.
New order is pretty good, but best of all time? That's a bit out there. The sequels are outright atrocious though.
 
Best single player shooter of all time, (in my opinion based on 30 years of gaming)

Wolfenstein New Order.

My review - and I still feel this way years later. Unfortunately the two or three sequels have not been as good.

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Yeah, the Wolfenstein games are the best recent FPS games I've played as well. Don't think I'd say best of all time though. I played through New Order, Old Blood, and W2 New Colossus for the first time back to back earlier this year and it was a nice ride. I know many didn't care much for W2 NC, but I thought it was great and really enjoyed it as much as New Order, if not more so due to much better IQ and performance because the previous games were locked to 60 Hz without breaking the game. Old Blood was a bit samey as NO and didn't add much to the game play, but def still worth playing IMO. I haven't played Youngblood yet since the story and characters seem much weaker in the reviews I've seen and I haven't seen it drop below $20 on Steam yet somehow.

Otherwise, Black Mesa was a helluva remake on HL1. They put a lot of love into that game and added a LOT of much-needed content to the Xen levels. I'd def recommend that, esp. for how cheap it is.
 
New order is pretty good, but best of all time? That's a bit out there. The sequels are outright atrocious though.
It’s an FPS with an actually great story line that connects. How often does that happen? The last FPS with a decent story was the original Half-Life and it didn’t connect like New Order (to me). I loved the characters in N.O. I loved playing in the alternate world of N.O. (It was terrifying, and creative, and set my imagination spinning), I loved the patriotism of the ending in N.O. The ending credits song and the last scene actually made me emotional. That’s so entirely rare with a game, it’s almost one of a kind.
My brother has pointed me towards two games that were incredible that I’d have missed both otherwise as I didn’t expect much from them based on other experiences in their genres. This, and Witcher 3. I’d say they both ended up as my favorite two games. I get that every one likes something different, but someone above said Doom 2016 was the best shooter of all time. The comparison between N.O. and Doom 2016 is almost like two different genres. Yes, Doom gives you absolutely perfectly dialed in movement/control/mechanics for a FPS, but the game bordered on boring (to me). No story, no connection, repetitive fights (monsters appear in same order on every engagement). It’s more like a tech demo. Doom was absolutely soulless compared to N.O. I had no investment in the character or the story. Personally speaking, the best games make the story world and characters intriguing. To each his own.
 
It’s an FPS with an actually great story line that connects. How often does that happen? The last FPS with a decent story was the original Half-Life and it didn’t connect like New Order (to me). I loved the characters in N.O. I loved playing in the alternate world of N.O. (It was terrifying, and creative, and set my imagination spinning), I loved the patriotism of the ending in N.O. The ending credits song and the last scene actually made me emotional. That’s so entirely rare with a game, it’s almost one of a kind.
My brother has pointed me towards two games that were incredible that I’d have missed both otherwise as I didn’t expect much from them based on other experiences in their genres. This, and Witcher 3. I’d say they both ended up as my favorite two games. I get that every one likes something different, but someone above said Doom 2016 was the best shooter of all time. The comparison between N.O. and Doom 2016 is almost like two different genres. Yes, Doom gives you absolutely perfectly dialed in movement/control/mechanics for a FPS, but the game bordered on boring (to me). No story, no connection, repetitive fights (monsters appear in same order on every engagement). It’s more like a tech demo. Doom was absolutely soulless compared to N.O. I had no investment in the character or the story. Personally speaking, the best games make the story world and characters intriguing. To each his own.
I've had two major issues with New Order, the first that it gave very bad or insufficient audiovisual feedback about what is going on. In half-life, which is probably the best fps out there, you hear and feel and see perfectly when you are being hit and when you hit the enemy. In NO it was anyone's guess. You shot at enemies and kind of hoped that what you are doing was effective. But there was never any meaningful feedback until eventually the enemy died.This was especially the case with boss enemies and mechanical ones. So that made the gameplay flat for me. As for the player being hit most of the time I only noticed that when I saw the health rapidly draining on the HUD.

The other issue was with the narrative, the writing was mostly good, except for some very tasteless and offensive politically correct humour. But it already fell into the trap of presenting Nazis as inept and stupid. Which invalidates the entire concept of how they won the war in the first place, and how do they have all that technology yes they stole it from the jews, who had all kinds of superhuman technology just hidden away, lol, which makes me roll my eyes even more than at the nazis ineptitude, because why would you just hoard and hide away all that technology instead of using it for good? And of course it takes any tension out of the game, as I'm not going to fear or dread comical caricatures.
 
Why do you talk in the 3rd person in every single one of your comments?

Because UltraTaco is too Ultra to speak in first person!

(I have no idea, but it's fun)


On topic, I second Wolfenstein New Order.

Revisiting older shooters though might be worth it.
Have you played F.E.A.R. or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Maybe REdneck Rampage is more your style?

The Far Cry games are fun, well, except 5. Part 5 to me, is the least fun in the series.
I'd list the order of fun this way:
Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal, Far Cry 3, Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Far Cry 5.
 
I tried Rage 2 during a trial of Xbox game pass and the game would not load due to technical issues. YMMV.

Another vote for Black Mesa, the remake of Half-Life using the source engine. If you have a high refresh rate monitor suggest locking the framerate to 60 as later levels are not optimized that well. The developers put a ton of work into this remake, and this really shows in Xen where the levels were completely redesigned.
 
I found Wolfenstein: New Order to be just okay. It's a shooter on rails. It's not difficult. Instead it's about resource collection.

Borderland (I've only played the original) is damn good.

I don't play many single-player fps though. I'm obsessed with Escape from Tarkov though. It's damn difficult, but super fun.
 
Best single player shooter of all time, (in my opinion based on 30 years of gaming)

Wolfenstein New Order.

My review - and I still feel this way years later. Unfortunately the two or three sequels have not been as good.

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My God this looks good and I have never heard of it. Tempting, must resist...Seriously though, I think I'm going to buy it.
 
My God this looks good and I have never heard of it. Tempting, must resist...Seriously though, I think I'm going to buy it.
Just do it. If you like a good story driven FPS (almost an oxymoron) ...This is the one.
 
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The Stalker / Crysis series + Doom 3 / '16 + Far Cry 1 definitely
 
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I consider Doom Eternal the great FPS reset. It's the new starting point for FPS going forward. So, that would be my recommendation. However, it might taint the well for previous games.

Another would be Half Life: Alyx. But, the price to entry is high...but the experience is second to none.
 
I ended up picking up Doom Eternal back during the Steam Halloween sale and have been enjoying it. My 2080 was able to play the game at Ultra settings and the graphics were impressive

I’ll probably pick up a Wolfenstein bundle at some point when I can get a deal on it.

I’m intrigued by the new Metro but I think I’ll wait until I get a new video card for that one. I’m upgrading to a 3440x1440p Ultrawide monitor. I don’t think a 2080 will be able to keep up at that resolution with the graphic settings maxed.
 
I just recently played through the Titanfall 2 campaign. It's on the sorter side but worth a play through.
 
This deserves more respect than this thread has shown it. This is not the Prey game that came out 5-10 years ago (although that was fun), but the more recent one. I actually really enjoyed this game, especially if you play both forks: Playthrough as not having any of the black alien crap in you, or play as having all of that shit in you.

great game, really loved it. I remember the first time that Nightmare creature showed up i shit my pants. Then later i was like bitch stfu and stfd.
 
This deserves more respect than this thread has shown it. This is not the Prey game that came out 5-10 years ago (although that was fun), but the more recent one. I actually really enjoyed this game, especially if you play both forks: Playthrough as not having any of the black alien crap in you, or play as having all of that shit in you.

great game, really loved it. I remember the first time that Nightmare creature showed up i shit my pants. Then later i was like bitch stfu and stfd.
I bought the game and started it up for 10 minutes. Didn't enjoy it, so I just stopped playing it. Thought it was going to be one of those boring games. I'll try it again just from you're experience. I take it you liked the game. I liked Prey from 2005 and this was totally different from what I was expecting.
 
Yeah I think I went back to it later too, def didn't regret it. Another thing I liked about it was the voice actor who plays your brother - Benedict Wong. He was incredible as Kublia Kong in the Marco Polo show on netflix, so everytime he talks thats what I think of. As for DLC, there is one, and the whole purpose is that you have to escape this moon. But the twist is that you have 5 lives to do it, and 5 different people you play as to get them off the moon too. Each run you do gets harder. If you fail even once, aka you die, that person can't leave. So its basically like one big puzzle, which person with their special abilities do you use first.

Spoiler, for the DLC runs:
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Hunt Showdown if you want to hate yourself and feel totally inadequate.


hunt :showdown is about all ive played since march.

so infuriating and rewarding at the same time.

also suggest black mesa. an amazing update to one of the best games of all time.(imo)
 
Escape from Tarkov is a good up-and-commervala Hunt Showdown.

Destiny 2 is where it is for me.
 
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