Best "First-person Shooter" game to Date?

Halo 2 is probably the best to date, but I think Call of Duty 3 might come out on top in the end.
 
Descent 1 (I have played over 130 levels on that thing!)
Descent 3 ( an awesome game that simply didn't get enough press)
Unreal Tournament - the crowning achievment of FPS's. Witness how many years people have played and are still playing capture the flag. It's one of those games that got amost everything right.
 
HL2 is pimpin
FEAR is pimpin
Tribes 2 I had great fun with (not that great tho, but one of the most fun games for me of all time)


but my fav of all time would be Allied Assault (i think that was the name)
when i stormed the beach at normandy, that was when i decided pc gaming was my new hobby. so immersive


best of all time tho is HL2, but not my personal fav
 
For all-around fun, ingenuity, and replayability: Rise of the Triad. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't as popular as its contemporaries, but man that game was a blast.
 
the game that started it for me was Mechwarrior 2, but i dont know if u could count that as a FPS. HL1 and HL2 i would have to say are the best FPS ever made.
 
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division this game is pretty good however was forgotten and unknown due to half life 1 coming out so close to it and taking away the respect it deserved. this title was the precursor to F.E.A.R. and used the precursor to the F,E,A,R, engine.
 
modern fps just aren't as good as the oldies

return to castle wolfenstein and soldier of fortune 2 rocked.
 
It'd be a three-way tie with Doom, Goldeneye 007, and Battlefield 1942.
 
Chubz said:
It'd be a three-way tie with Doom, Goldeneye 007, and Battlefield 1942.
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yea good ol' G007 and for that matter Perfect Dark. Joanna made british accents sexy again lol. Come to think of it the N64 had loads of kick ass games. Turok games were good FPS too ah the cerebral bore. Delicious.
 
Well don't we need to set up some criteria?

A unanimous consensus won't be achieved, and few games are awesome all-around. What about debating the games that have the best:

Story.
Graphics.
AI.
Multiplayer.
Replay value.
Music.
Guns.
Realism.
Controls/interface.
Uniqueness.

What else?
 
GJSNeptune said:
Well don't we need to set up some criteria?

A unanimous consensus won't be achieved, and few games are awesome all-around. What about debating the games that have the best:

Story.
Graphics.
AI.
Multiplayer.
Replay value.
Music.
Guns.
Realism.
Controls/interface.
Uniqueness.

What else?
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we can't reach a consensus really.
 
I just love the whole sneaking thing. Thief series were (and still are) the most fun for me. Played Far Cry with as much sneaking as I could, NOLF series were awesome for letting me play it that way some places too. Deus Ex as stealthy as I could. While they are not FPS, Hitman and Splinter Cell were awesome for the same reasons.

Anyway, I played everything from Wolf3D to FEAR, most fun were probably the countless hours and days in QW on TF servers and LANs, doubt I can enjoy any new game like that ever again. Quake Arena 1 and 3 were also responsible for a lot of hours in front of the monitor too. I also liked SIN, although it was much better when I replayed it with all the latest patches years later. Sometimes a game was so atmospheric that I couldn't stop playing it. Finishing Elite Forces in 6 hours and 20 minutes seems so silly now, but I just loved it, wanted more. :) Not the ending, what is it about endings that they are just turn a lot of fun games into crap? Like Kingpin, that game was hilarious and it was enjoyable up to the last level. HL2, I didn't sleep for 2 days till I reached the end and I was somewhat disappointed.

Well, this was quite the fun run down memory lane, what it comes down to it for me, that I miss the old gaming community the most, Quakeholio times, sigh.
 
Wolf 3d, the original has to be the best, since it started the genre, it had the most creativity. Everything else is just "evolution"...
 
AndyZaft said:
I just love the whole sneaking thing. Thief series were (and still are) the most fun for me. Played Far Cry with as much sneaking as I could, NOLF series were awesome for letting me play it that way some places too. Deus Ex as stealthy as I could. While they are not FPS, Hitman and Splinter Cell were awesome for the same reasons.

Anyway, I played everything from Wolf3D to FEAR, most fun were probably the countless hours and days in QW on TF servers and LANs, doubt I can enjoy any new game like that ever again. Quake Arena 1 and 3 were also responsible for a lot of hours in front of the monitor too. I also liked SIN, although it was much better when I replayed it with all the latest patches years later. Sometimes a game was so atmospheric that I couldn't stop playing it. Finishing Elite Forces in 6 hours and 20 minutes seems so silly now, but I just loved it, wanted more. :) Not the ending, what is it about endings that they are just turn a lot of fun games into crap? Like Kingpin, that game was hilarious and it was enjoyable up to the last level. HL2, I didn't sleep for 2 days till I reached the end and I was somewhat disappointed.

Well, this was quite the fun run down memory lane, what it comes down to it for me, that I miss the old gaming community the most, Quakeholio times, sigh.
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its the concept of the ending itself that sucks. seriously. wouldnt u rather the game continue for another sixty hours instead of end? plus its impossible for an ending to be enthralling as the journey to get there. basically in videogames, typically the ending is so anticlimactic it leaves you wanting more, which is a good strategy on the part for the developers. lol
 
GJSNeptune said:
See also: F.E.A.R.
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haha yea. a climactic ending may work but in my experience an anti climactic ending makes me want to play a games sequel more so than a climactic one. however with movies or a story based game (lets face it most fps arent story based nearly as much as a movie) a climactic ending in a movie will more likely make you see the sequel than an anticlimactic one. same applies to FPS, if u play the fps namely for the story the climactic ending would make you wanna play the sequel more to find out what happens, however if you play fps for the reason i do, as most of you are in my boat for sure, the anticlimactic ending would make you want the sequel even more to satisfy your fix as the anticlimactic ending really left you hungry lol
 
If you mean at the time that the game was created I have to go with Half-life. I thought it was the most immersive and incredible singleplayer experience that beat everything else even for several years to come. Even now we have games with alot better graphics and more advanced gameplay, sure, but still the original half-life still had the best overall singleplayer experience.
 
hek1 said:
If you mean at the time that the game was created I have to go with Half-life. I thought it was the most immersive and incredible singleplayer experience that beat everything else even for several years to come. Even now we have games with alot better graphics and more advanced gameplay, sure, but still the original half-life still had the best overall singleplayer experience.
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time to choose, mr freeman
 
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