Best FPS ever!~

[MonsOlympus]

Okay so I asked this on IRC just a few minutes ago, if you had to chose 1 first person shooter for the best ever award what game would it be?

I went with Terminator: Future Shock at this point in time.

Mod content shouldnt be counted towards this, only official content. It doesnt have to be single player or story driven!

Edit:

Tally
Unreal Tournament (Epic Games) = 7 votes

Deus Ex (Ion Storm) = 4 votes
Half Life (Valve Corporation) = 4 votes

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward) = 3 votes
Doom (iD Software) = 3 votes
Unreal (Epic Games) = 3 votes

Duke Nukem 3D (3D Realms) = 2 votes
Quake (iD Software) = 2 votes
System Shock 2 (Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios) = 2 votes

Terminator: Future Shock (Bethesda Softworks) = 1 vote
Wolfenstein 3D (iD Software) = 1 vote
Daikatana (Ion Storm) = 1 vote
Requiem: Avenging Angel (Cyclone Studios) = 1 vote
Bioshock (2K_Boston/2K_Australia) = 1 vote
Perfect Dark (Rare) = 1 vote
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (GSC Game World) = 1 vote
Chex Quest (Digital Café) = 1 vote
Halo: Combat Evolved (Bungie Studios) = 1 vote
Battlefield 2 (Digital Illusions CE) = 1 vote
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Troika Games) = 1 vote
F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon (Monolith Productions) = 1 vote
Half-Life² (Valve Corporation) = 1 vote
Call of Duty (Infinity Ward) = 1 vote
Unreal Tournament 2004 (Epic Games, Digital Extremes) = 1 vote

Okay this is what I got so far, there are a few votes for UT and for other games but I think some of those are breaking the rules. If you want to repost with a single game answer or clarification I will add those to the list.

Please no editing of posts for changing votes please, just stick with your answer for the duration of this tally hey :cool:

[Arcturus]

Doom

[Underscore]

Doom

I'll Doom you! :mad:

My vote: Hover! It had capture the flag before those FPSes that were actually FPSes

[Touki]

My opinion of best game ever would be System Shock 2

The game had:

Good singleplayer story.
It was creepy, and recieved reward for good horror.
It had nice action.
There was the tinkering part, where you had to learn to hack security, repair jammed weapons or even modify them, wich gave the rpg part a good boost and made the game pretty awsome.
The music was just awsome, it provided a great deal to the whole gaming experience, the feeling you want when playing game.

The only thing it didnt have that came later with a patch, was the multiplayer co-op and there was no versus gameplay, like dm, tdm etc, but still it was a great game.

[SleepyHe4d]

Deus Ex.

/thread

Jk, it pisses me off when people do that... sometimes ;)

[Mister_Prophet]

I'd say UT on the grounds that it's the only shooter I still aggressively play even a decade after its debut (as opposed to passively playing Perfect Dark, Doom2, and other shooters). Since I still play all the Unreal SP packs through my UT as well, I guess I include Unreal in this selection

But if you asked me "scariest", "most action packed", "best narrative" and questions like that I'd give you all different answers.

[UBerserker]

Same as Prophet. Although I add "same as SleepyHe4d" as well.

[Sirius]

Daikatana

[MonsOlympus]

Can we try to select 1 please, I realize its tricky but no one is going to hold you to this choice. Just say which ever you think is the best right now.

There has actually been some discussion of which games should or shouldnt be included. For eg someone mentioned while deus ex is an awesome game it might not be the best at doing the shooter portion, it is however a shooter but it might not contain much of those elements depending on how you play.

So we have 2 votes for UT and 1 for dues ex?

[toniglandyl]

single player : F.E.A.R.with HL2 : EP2 as very close second. (finishing F.E.A.R. at 3AM was really great)

multiplayer : UT2k4. it's that game that made me discover the whole community. (even though I've seen a bit with UT and UT2k3, but never got involved)

[Nines]

There are too many good ones to name the best ever. However, my favourite of the moment is CoD4.

[UBerserker]

So we have 2 votes for UT and 1 for dues ex?

Yeah, I go with Totally Unreal.

[MonsOlympus]

Ofcoarse there are many, we are discussing whether or not descent is an FPS or not. Is it more space combat or vehicle shooter rather than what we've come to know as FPS, is witchaven an FPS because its a majority melee combat in FP.

Like I said no one is going to call you out on your choice on this, its just to get a general list together so if you see a game you think deserves to be on this list and isnt added, add it by all means. Chosing games already on the list is fine as well as long as their FPSness isnt disputable.

People are obviously going to make different choices based on if they like MP or SP more but thats up to you to list just 1 you think deserves the best FPS game ever award :cool:

[scott84]

Unreal Tournament

I wasted more hours on that game than I have with all others combined.
The time it took to map a level was a lot faster, and even though its relatively basic, it was cutting edge at the time. So the wealth of custom levels were insane. So many great custom ctf servers to play at like ZP!spoonfire/mathias , chudzilla's, Stealthdp's>UnrealPlayground, CTCR's, etc

[MonsOlympus]

I did say custom content is not to be counted only official content so if youre selection is based mostly on that you might want to reconsider.

[B]

Isn't the answer going to be biased, since you're asking on a UT forum?

Half Life gets my vote

[MonsOlympus]

Yeah it could certainly be biased but I think the tally is rather fair, thanks for adding halflife btw, thats one I would have liked to add myself :p

I do believe people can be alittle objective when it comes to this, I do perhaps realize not all the answers will be serious (such is buf) but Im adding those up anyways, just a wasted vote I guess but you never know... Hover or daikatana might win :lol:

[ShakeZula]

you know vbulletin has a wonderful polling facility

...ut99

[MonsOlympus]

Yeah but Im not sure how long the list of games which get voted will be, Im willing to let every game get on the list by being voted up once :)

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Requiem: Avenging Angel

Good game works great on ye ole Voodoo 2
Havent been able to find it recently though

May have to order it

[Nereid]

Quake.

:)

edit: To clarify: Quake 1/QuakeWorld.

[KaL976]

Battlezone

what?

[ShakeZula]

007 tomorrow never dies

[gregori]

Doom

[Trynant]

Bioshock

Again, this is ignoring things like custom content.

I really wanted to say S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but I haven't played nearly enough of that game to judge.

[Kantham]

What really got me into the FPS genre, is definitively GoldenEye 64 back in 97'. Then Perfect dark which was essentially better. so my vote goes for PD64. But looking back at it from nowadays, just makes me want to tune out.

[MonsOlympus]

Yups, I believe counting the custom content would be alittle unfair since we are talking about the games as the developers wanted them to be played. Official expansions are okay to count for something like Quake for eg or Unreal, keep away from bundles though we are voting on single titles so while you can include expansions in your descision please dont count the whole series :)

Battlezone Im not sure on though, this could be disputable as a FPS game its listed as both Combat Simulation and Vehicular Combat, so like descent this might not be considered FPS. I did ask about games like House of the Dead or Time Crisis but I think the general consensus is these arnt considered FPS games.

[|*BILLY$CLINT*|]

COD4 or TF2 they are both so good!

[TossMonkey]

This is an impossible question to answer. How can you possibly hope to choose one that is better than the rest?

I'll tell you what though, I have only enjoyed Halo 3 on my xbox 360. All the FPS games are just dreadful to play when you do not have a keyboard and mouse.

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

Another one of these stupid questions? I'm with TossMonkey; asking something like this is useless.

But for the sake of not being any more of a dick, I'll thrown in my standard-issue response when people ask "What is the greatest _________ game?"

It's Deus Ex. All categories.
If Mass Effect were first-person I'd choose it to keep things current.

:notworthy:

[dub]

This is an impossible question to answer. How can you possibly hope to choose one that is better than the rest?

Well just the one you enjoyed the most.

For me, I would have to have two categories, multi player and single player.
Multiplayer UT 2004 would win hands down for the sheer amount of time I spent with that game and the amount of adrenalin and fun that game brought to me over the years.
But I don't think I really ever played it single player and if I was forced to play it single player it probably wouldn't even make my top ten of favourite FPS'.

And then the opposite for Singleplayer FPS' where the ones I really liked playing in SP, I never played much in MP. CoD4, HL2, FarCry, Crysis, RtCW, MoH, BiA, SoF, Raven shield, Delta Force... argh.
Probably have to go with HL2 for SP fun.

[IronMan(Erie)]

Unreal Tournament :eek:

[Rambowjo]

Call of Duty 4 :B

[sid]

I used to absolutely adore Half Life 2 but then STALKER came in and Ill be honest its got some issues but the atmosphere is so undeniably awesome that I have fallen in love with the whole concept behind the game and it has easily become the best FPS I have ever played.

[Iron Archer]

Call of Duty 4, over.

[MonsOlympus]

Yeah I know its not easy but I am kinda asking for a current answer, I know peoples choices might change in the future and by all means reserve your right not to vote if you like :)

Also are we up to 3 votes for cod4? Someone did mention it was their favourite atm so I dunno if I should take that as a third. As it stands I think UT is in the lead :o

[Dark Pulse]

As much as I love UT, it would have to be Doom. Without Doom, we would have no Quake, and without Quake, Internet Deathmatch would've taken an entirely different tack.

I'm also quite sure Sirius is joking, and if he isn't, I'd like whatever combination of drugs he took to make Daikatana look even remotely good.

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Ehem Wolfenstein3D

[gregori]

Wolf3D didn't make the concept take of as well as Doom did. Doom was a quantum leap over Wolf3D.

Whilst Wolf3D had some of the right elements, I think all current FPS's truely owed their existence to Doom. Doom has all the fundamental parts of FPS, that in many was haven't changed to this day (apart from Quake having true 3D, rooms over rooms etc etc)


I suppose it hold a special place for me because Doom and Heretic where the first FPS's I played. Nothing has topped the experience of playing those for first time (Although UT and Half Life came pretty close)

[Vitamin-Carrot]

yeah i spose but without wolf3d you wouldnt have doom

tbh we could continue to track the origins all the way back to the old odyssey console original version of Pong which was then in turn stolen by Atari

[MonsOlympus]

Either way vitamin-carrot has voted so unless someone else votes for Wolf3d its not on the list :p

I do agree wolf3d did kinda lead the way but doom is what started the multiplayer and really pushed the way for quake to come through which was a huge leap forward. Quake is one of my favourite FPS' but I didnt chose it because I liked alot of custom content and I enjoyed modding for it so sticking to my own rules I ended up with what I did :)

[gregori]

We could,

But I think because Doom made FPS popular and fun - it really deserves the credit. It might not be the first, but It did if best.

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Either way vitamin-carrot has voted so unless someone else votes for Wolf3d its not on the list :p

I do agree wolf3d did kinda lead the way but doom is what started the multiplayer and really pushed the way for quake to come through which was a huge leap forward. Quake is one of my favourite FPS' but I didnt chose it because I liked alot of custom content and I enjoyed modding for it so sticking to my own rules I ended up with what I did :)

but i also voted for requiem avenging angel

[MonsOlympus]

You can only vote once mate, so the first answer is in ;)

[Haarg]

Chex Quest

[Sir_Brizz]

My gut reaction is to say Unreal simply because it was the first game that truly made me go "WOW! You can do that in a game???" on several occasions. Particularly with the early EAX stuff.

If you;re looking for something in the last few years, then Bioshock. I'm not sure I've played an FPS that has done such a fine job of narrative and storytelling.

[Defeat]

My vote goes for Halo 1 for PC mainly because I loved it's story line the most. Runner up would probably be Far Cry.

[FaT CaM]

Battlezone

what?

I loved battlezone 2 personally. I'd like to see another game like it.

[dragonfliet]

Hmm. I have to go with Battlefield 2

While it's a massively flawed game, nothing else has really given me the pure joy of relatively large scale battles in organized squads with ordered objectives. It's a game that was immensely enjoyable on pubs and absolutely wonderful in clan matches when people REALLY cooperated and used mics.

~Jason

[Plutonia_Experi]

My favourite games of all time are Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, and Unreal Tournament.
Most played so far: Unreal Tournament 2004

As it didn't take a single vote, I'll go for Duke Nukem 3D.
Its humor, its style, its character it's still unbeatable.

[leilei]

Quake

[Thrallala]

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say Wolfenstein 3d

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

I will go with the original Unreal.

[hal]

I think some people are confusing 'Best FPS ever!' with 'First FPS ever!"

My vote goes for Unreal Tournament.

It's tough to pick one though because there are some really really fine singleplayer games that I can't vote for. In the end I just went with the game that I've hands-down spent the most time playing.

[DeeperShade]

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines.

[BobTheBeheader]

Half-Life (1)

But there are so many other great games that I want to vote for too. :(

[NeoNite]

Single player: Doom 2

Multi player: Unreal Tournament

But this isn't easy. I mean, there are so many fps I really, really like and enjoy to play. Same (almost) could be said for doom/unreal/quake/quake2/quake3 arena/half life/kingpin etc.

[Majik]

I think I'll go with my favourite single player FPS, which is F.E.A.R., otherwise it'd be Unreal Tournament.

It's kinda weird now that I think about it, but even though I've played a ton of FPS games, there isn't really that many I'd consider favourites of mine. For example, I've never truly understood the hype surrounding Valve's games. They are solid games, but I've never considered any of them to be great. Same goes for a lot of other AAA titles like FarCry or CoD4.

I don't know, maybe I'm just feeling a bit jaded when it comes to FPS games and is expecting a bit more.

[Kantham]

I think some people are confusing 'Best FPS ever!' with 'First FPS ever!"

Haha. It's the feeling they gave us. Nothing can replace it, unless they'd come up with a really big remake that's definitively worth the bucks. My vote still stands.

CoD4 is a good game, but it's a game that makes me flip out too much.
The first Unreal Tournament is also a good pick.

[Rambowjo]

I voted CoD4 because it has the best SP I've ever played and is among some of the best MP.

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

Yeah I know its not easy but I am kinda asking for a current answer,

Then you'll have to scratch Deus Ex and make my vote Mass Effect.

[evilmrfrank]

Gearbox made halo combat evolved not bungie :P

[Soggy_Popcorn]

I'm with Kantham. Though CoD4 is pretty enjoyable, and its singleplayer is spectacular, its balance is just frustratingly hideous.

For pure balanced fun, UT99. For pants-crappingly cool singleplayer, the Half-Life series. (Deus Ex was before my time, but from what I hear, it might have beaten Half-Life...I just don't know.)

[leilei]

Gearbox made halo combat evolved not bungie :P

...

Porting isn't making

I guess Gearbox "made" Crazy Taxi too! :rolleyes:

[Nereid]

Nerf Arena Blaster

[Lizard Of Oz]

Half-Life²

Honorable Mention: No One Lives Forever 2.

[pine]

System Shock 2.

[Twisted Metal]

For me, it's extremely close between Half-Life and UT. I'm gonna give the edge to Half-Life though, because it has spawned some of the best multiplayer mods out there. Team Fortress Classic is the game that got me into internet gaming in the first place. I would argue that those were the best times I've ever had in a multiplayer game.

UT is extremely close though. Specifically UT instagib. I know that many of you despise it, but I'm an instagibber at heart, and some of my best gaming memories form around a small instagib community that I was once part of.

I wish I could go back in time and relive those days, because now that I'm older games don't impress me nearly as much. Everything is just "meh" these days. But that's what happens when you're a gamer. You eventually see it all and do it all and the novelty wears off.

Back to Half-Life, it has also spawned the most popular online FPS in the world, to this day! God damn Counter Strike. Say what you will about it (I'm personally not a fan either), but you can't deny that it has been an epic success in online gaming.

Then you have Day of Defeat. An amazing WWII FPS at the time, probably the best. And some of the [countless] community mods were great as well, "Firearms" coming to mind.

And let's not forget the single player! As awesome as the UT bots were at the time, you just couldn't top the story and event driven world of Half-Life. It's success has given rise to one of the best sequels this world has seen, a little gem known as Half-Life 2.

So to conclude, Half-Life and UT are the best FPS's ever. With a slight, and I mean SLIGHT edge to Half-Life. Perhaps if UT had come out before Half-Life my decision would be different.

[ne_skaju]

Dont know, what to choose, there are many games that are good. (HL, U, UT, DX, SS2, Rune etc)

Half-Life 1 (not counter-strike) - its has good storyline and atmosphere, original weapons and interesting levels (both SP and MP)

[[VaLkyR]Assassin]

Deus Ex gets my vote.

[[VaLkyR]Anubis]

Unreal :)

[MonsOlympus]

Then you'll have to scratch Deus Ex and make my vote Mass Effect.

Is Mass Effect First Person? I didnt think it was so I went with Deus ex.

Gearbox made halo combat evolved not bungie :P

Yeah its not really platform specific so Im going with the original developers only.

@Twisted Metal: I took that as a vote for Half-life based on official addon content, be careful using the word mod though as thats not meant to affect peoples descisions. So you can count TFC I guess since its part of official content like op4 or blueshift but counter-strike is going to be considered its own product as with day of defeat :cool:

Its a tricky one though because Halflife as of steam gets alot more officially than it did at release.

Updated anyways, let me know if your counts dont match mine or if I missed anything :)

[MrSmiles]

CoD4 takes the cake at the present point in time.
We'll see come August 29th.

[dotnetbeast]

You cant really have a "Best FPS ever" unless it takes away all of your time like WoW and settles your real life problems.

[Kantham]

Though CoD4 is pretty enjoyable, and its singleplayer is spectacular, its balance is just frustratingly hideous.


Exactly. I can pretty much decide to go claymore and P90 only, with last stand just to piss people off.

[Rambowjo]

I think the balance in CoD4 is pretty good. I mean, all weapons have their pros and cons. The only weapon that I can't quite figure out is MP5 and that bursting weapon. Colt, or whatever.

[Benfica]

Does Portal count ? :D

[MonsOlympus]

I dunno hey we did discuss portal but I think that comes under first person puzzle adventure type game, although it does have shooting I dunno if it would be considered a shooter as such :cool:

[Azura]

For pure balanced fun, UT99.

The balance is overhyped. Every time I enter a public server I often come accross beginners who use only flak. They use it because they know they have more than a fighting chance when it comes to a close encounter.

[N1ghtmare]

Duke nukem 3d man... that game owns

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

The balance is overhyped. Every time I enter a public server I often come accross beginners who use only flak. They use it because they know they have more than a fighting chance when it comes to a close encounter.

Flak takes decades to truly master.

[_Zd_3s_]

UT99 for me. I've never really been a story-mode FPS-player. Never finished HL, HL2, Duke Nukem, Unreal, Deus Ex, Gears of War. Basically they have never been able to capture my attention for the entire game. And with UT99, that was never a problem. It's also the only game where I really spent a lot of time playing multiplayer online. All in all, UT was a great gaming experience for me.

[Azura]

UT99 for me. I've never really been a story-mode FPS-player. Never finished HL, HL2, Duke Nukem, Unreal, Deus Ex, Gears of War. Basically they have never been able to capture my attention for the entire game. And with UT99, that was never a problem. It's also the only game where I really spent a lot of time playing multiplayer online. All in all, UT was a great gaming experience for me.

Summary: You're my first, you're my last, you're my everything.

[MonsOlympus]

Summary: You're my first, you're my last, you're my everything.

*Plays his bonesaw like a violin*

[Plumb_Drumb]

call of duty is the best fps of all.

[MrSmiles]

It's hard to pick one fps to be the "best".
You have to look at so many aspects of the game. Everyone likes different styles of game play.
my list (short)
ww2: cod/2
realistic fast paced: cod4 mp
realistic tactical: raven shield
realistic sci-fi: Shadow of Chernobyl
unrealistic face paced: ut2004
old school: quake 2

This would be easier if you narrowed the question down to best fps done in some particular style since everyone has a different taste in game style. Leaving the question open ended will lead to a gigantic list.

[Touki]

Well thats the point, is it not? to see what kind of taste people has or whats their opinion is.

No need to narrow it down, its an overall survey, to see whoch game that would be picked the most and seen as the potential of being best FPS ever (i think i made sense, not sure).

[Vers Vlees]

Well I'm torn between Half life and Unreal Tournament. I love both games and their mods. Well if I had to choose between those two it would be Unreal Tournament. I had good times playing LAN with the bots. IIRC it was one of the few (or was it the only one apart from Unreal?) shooter at the time who had this feature out of the box.

Its kinda wierd you dont count mod content. One of the main reasons Half life became so big was of the great mods. Like Counterstrike which started out as a mod for Half life. Since it went retail back in 2001 CS became so big that you encountered people who did not even know that it was a mod of Half life.
Not to mention that Half life engine runs on any crappy PC.


(btw my vote goes to UT99)

[Firefly]

tough one this.

My short list is:
UT99
Crysis
FEAR
Postal 2 (that's still funny after all this time)

UT99. It's given me the most fun.

Close one tho'

[MonsOlympus]

Its kinda wierd you dont count mod content. One of the main reasons Half life became so big was of the great mods. Like Counterstrike which started out as a mod for Half life. Since it went retail back in 2001 CS became so big that you encountered people who did not even know that it was a mod of Half life.
Not to mention that Half life engine runs on any crappy PC.


(btw my vote goes to UT99)

Yups I'll add it up there but first alittle reasoning behind not choosing mod content. Lets say CS for eg, its not longer a mod its a retail product and I think to count that under the halflife banner like gamespy does for playercounts especially for best FPS ever would be unfair, especially considering CS really is its own game even if it does share some similarities and an engine with halflife.

Some games obviously have more mods then others so I dont think its overly fair to count the communities input, sure a big community can make a game better as far as MP goes etc. Theres also something to the community support for a game which goes towards how much people enjoy that game as well.

So I believe the original game will always stand on its own mod content or not and yeah makes it more fair :cool:

[Plutonia_Experi]

Dont know, what to choose, there are many games that are good. (HL, U, UT, DX, SS2, Rune etc)

Half-Life 1 (not counter-strike) - its has good storyline and atmosphere, original weapons and interesting levels (both SP and MP)

Yes, like a crowbar a lot more powerful than handgrenades and SMG :)

[Hyrage]

Deus Ex for the win.