Top 5 Favorite FPS's

[bardiya27]

We decided to do a follow-up video to our top 10 favorite video game themes since that school project got more views than expected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aiwiU0IEsw&feature=channel_page

Again we are not saying this is a definite list, just our favorites (we are expecting some haterade for omitting Halo), as you can see my friend is more of a PC gamer than me anyways here's the list if you don't want to sit through the vid:

My top 5:
5. Bioshock (Xbox 360)
4. Goldeneye (Nintendo 64)
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)
2. Half Life 2, The Orange Box - (Xbox 360)
1. Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64)

Alex's Top 5:
5. Goldeneye (Nintendo 64)
4. Doom 2 (PC)
3. Call of Duty (PC)
2. Half Life 2, The Orange Box (Xbox 360)
1. Starsiege Tribes (PC)

I really would put Metroid Prime in there, but I consider it more of a adventure game than a shooter. Still confused about where that game falls.

[hankmecrankme]

1. Halo
2. Halo 2
3. Halo 3
4. Halo 3 ODST
5. Haze

Just kidding. Here' s my current list.

1. FEAR
2. UT2K4
3. Quake 3
4. Doom II
5. Crysis Warhead

[SNAKE EYES EX]

Half Life 2
Halo 3
Halo
Crysis
Bioshock

[Chambered]

5. Halo
4. Day of Defeat
3. Battle Field 2
2. Team Fortress 2
1. Starsiege Tribes. No doubt. No comparison. Greatest FPS I've ever played. Still play it, too.

[bardiya27]

1. Halo
2. Halo 2
3. Halo 3
4. Halo 3 ODST
5. Haze

Just kidding. Here' s my current list.

1. FEAR
2. UT2K4
3. Quake 3
4. Doom II
5. Crysis Warhead



LMAO @ Halo ODST

I'm not a real hardcore FPS fan, so I have yet to play Crysis but I've heard really good things about it.

[bardiya27]

5. Halo
4. Day of Defeat
3. Battle Field 2
2. Team Fortress 2
1. Starsiege Tribes. No doubt. No comparison. Greatest FPS I've ever played. Still play it, too.

That's my friends favorite game, haha, he pretty much says the same exact thing in the top 10 video.

I think it's a definite cult classic.

[Maklershed]

Bioshock, CoD4, Halo 2, Half Life 2, and Portal

[ananag112]

Wolfenstein 3D
Half Life 2
Half Life
Call of Duty 4
Halo

[itachiitachi]

Half-life
Half-life 2
quake
deus-ex
System shock 2

[QiG]

In no particular order:

Bioshock
Duke Nukem 3D
Quakeworld (Original TF)
Goldeneye
.....

Either Far Cry 2 or Doom/Wolf3D to round out the list. I'm not big on FPS but there are definitely some that have a special place for me.

[dmaul1114]

Bioshock
Half-life 2
Halo series (1st one still the best)
Call of Duty 4
Metroid Prime 3

[sleepy180]

WTF not 1 mention of counterstrike by anyone?

1. Counterstrike
2. Battlefield 2
3. Random tom clancy game
4. Quake II
5. Duke Nuken 3D

[bardockkun]

Perfect Dark (though I'll admit, the controls fail at the test of time, but all the options for multiplayer and things like counter-op are still awesome and can still be fun with friends)
Half-Life (and the expansions)
Half-Life 2 (and all or what's been done of the episodes)
Left4Dead
Bioshock

[The Mana Knight]

Kind of tough for me to decide, but I'll say:

1. Resistance 2 (Yes, I just really love the game and the most time I ever put into an FPS)
2. Halo
3. Call of Duty 4
4. BioShock
5. Halo 3

Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox version) comes very close to making the list too. Killzone 2 will probably be #1 when it comes out.

[Short Round]

Killzone 2 will probably be #1 when it comes out.


Really, really, really? Were you even in the beta?



Also:
1) Halo Series
2) Half-Life 2 and subsequent episodes
3) Call of Duty 2, 4, and WaW
4) Bioshock
5) Resistance

[zewone]

1. Half-Life 2
2. Halo 2
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Deus Ex
5. Halo

[BigD63]

1.Half Life 2
2.Bioshock
3.Goldeneye
4.Left 4 dead
5.Teamfortress 2

Just to put it out there, I have already subscribed to your videos. Keep em coming.

[Rei no Otaku]

1. Bioshock
2. Half-Life 2
3. Star Wars Republic Commando
4. The Darkness
5. Resistance

[Calamityuponthee]

1. Counter-Strike
2. Half-Life 2
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Goldeneye
5. Unreal Tournament

Halo 3, Bioshock, Wolfenstein 3D all were close, but didn't quite make it.

[bls5555]

Im not a FPS fan at all so my number 1 is Condemned. It's the only one I could make it through on the 360 so far. Probably because it was less a FPS than most. I really did enjoy that game though.

[Dr Mario Kart]

Duke Nukem 3D
Half Life
Half Life 2
Deus Ex
Shadow Warrior (Do you want to wash Wang or watch Wang wash Wang?)

[Mr. Pink]

In no apparent order.

Bioshock
Half Life
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Duke Nukem 3D
Team Fortress 2 (considering the fact the game is online only, hopefully it'll still count)

[bardiya27]

What do you guys think about the whole argument we had over Duck Hunt and arcade games like The Lost World and Time Crisis?

A main reason I even mentioned those games is because of the nostalgia factor, I really think I would still play Duck Hunt if I had a working NES with a Zapper everynow and then. It's a perfect pick up and play game.

Same thing with those arcade games like The Lost World and Time Crisis 2, anytime I go to Golfland or the movie theaters I pour quarters into those light gun shooting games.

I know those games are really classified as "light gun games" but I think they fall in the FPS family.

[BigD63]

I know those games are really classified as "light gun games" but I think they fall in the FPS family.

I don't think that there is any kind of official game genre rules. It's your list, so whatever you want.

[bardiya27]

I don't think that there is any kind of official game genre rules. It's your list, so whatever you want.

Yea I know, I'm just wondering what would most people call them. It's still a game played in the first person... and it's a shooter.

Speaking of Arcade shooters, I'm surprised a game like Police 911 hasn't gotten a Wii port with the balance board or anything.

[DarthPuma]

1. Halo 2
It certainly isn't the best game ever, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a great game, but I sunk so many fucking hours into it back in the day it has to be my number one.

2. Half Life 2
3. Team Fortress 2
4. Call of Duty 4 (and it's reskinning, WaW)
5. Halo: CE

[bardiya27]

1. Halo 2
It certainly isn't the best game ever, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a great game, but I sunk so many fucking hours into it back in the day it has to be my number one.

2. Half Life 2
3. Team Fortress 2
4. Call of Duty 4 (and it's reskinning, WaW)
5. Halo: CE

I completely agree with your reason for Halo 2, I know from a story point of view Perfect Dark is not any better than Half Life or Call of Duty 4 but I just sank so many hours and days into that game that it does not even matter.

[Thomas96]

I'm not going to list anything right now, but I HOPE that Killzone 2 will be worthy of being in the top 5 of my list.

well here;s a priliminary list -

1. Goldeneye (N64)
2. Call of Duty 4 Moden Warfare
3. Halo 2
4. Resistance 2
5. Killzone 2 (maybe)

[Paco]

Hmm. Tough one.

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Duke Nukem 3d
3. Quake
4. Blood
5. Goldeneye

[eswat]

1. Deus Ex
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Quake II
4. System Shock 2
5. Call of Duty 4

[kill3r7]

In no particular order...
-Halo Series
-Half-Life Series (primarily counter-strike)
-UT
-Goldeneye
-Call of Duty 4

[Monsta Mack]

1. Halo
2. CS
3. Unreal Tournament
4. Bioshock
5. Half Life 1 (havent beat 2 yet)

[boblentil]

Perfect Dark
Deus Ex
Half-Life 2
Half-Life
Killer7

[Chase]

Now this is my kind of survey. ;) I assume this covers all games that play in a first-person shooter perspective.

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. Fallout 3
3. Call of Duty 2
4. FEAR
5. Battlefield: Bad Company

In a Top 10 scenario, Half-Life 2, GRAW 2, Condemned 2, and Left 4 Dead would be in there.

[odintal]

1.System Shock 2
2.Duke Nukem 3d
3.Half Life 2
4.Rise of the Triad
5.Team Fortress 2

[ChiefsFan21]

CounterStrike Source
COD4
Team Fortress2
Left 4 Dead
Day of Defeat Source

[bardiya27]

1.System Shock 2
2.Duke Nukem 3d
3.Half Life 2
4.Rise of the Triad
5.Team Fortress 2

System Shock is one of those game I have yet to play but know willprobably sneak in my Top 5 once I do. I've heard lots of good things about it.

[darthbudge]

1. Half-Life 2
2. Deus Ex
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Bioshock

[DrFoo]

System Shock is one of those game I have yet to play but know willprobably sneak in my Top 5 once I do. I've heard lots of good things about it.
Yeah System Shock is great. One of the scariest games I've ever played. Anyways my list:

1. Half-Life 2 and episodes
2. Deus Ex
3. Team Fortress 2
4. Battlefield 2
5. Counter-strike (first FPS I really got into so I sort of have to put it in here)

I also really like the lack of Halo 2/3 here. Everyone at my college seems to think they are the two best games of all time, but I've always thought they played like shit. Then again, so do almost all console shooters. I did always like the first one and I would probably put it in sixth or seventh place in my list.

[Chase]

Just for the sake of discussion, to those who listed GoldenEye 64, have you recently revisited it? If so, do you really think it holds up against more modern titles?

[odintal]

System Shock is one of those game I have yet to play but know willprobably sneak in my Top 5 once I do. I've heard lots of good things about it.

if you like bioshock, you'll love system shock 2.

it's like bioshock with the graphics turned to 5 and everything else turned past 11 and up to God.

[Chmizzles]

1. Bioshock
2. Jet Force Gemini (N64)
3. Resistance (haven't played Resistance 2 yet)
4. CoD 2
5. Gears of War (Haven't played Gears 2 yet)

With the exception of JFG which is just fucking awesome i really look for story in my fps's. Bioshock is obvious, but i understand a lot of people are thinking wtf when i mention story and GoW (maybe even Resistance). Theres just something about those similar plotlines that i enjoy.

[odintal]

aren't JFG and Gears Third Person Shooters?

[dmaul1114]

Yep. That's why I didn't list Gears 1 & 2, otherwise they'd top my list.

[bardockkun]

Just for the sake of discussion, to those who listed GoldenEye 64, have you recently revisited it? If so, do you really think it holds up against more modern titles?
No.

It's laggy and hideous compared to games of now (I count Perfect Dark in this as well), but can't deny that when the time it came out nothing compared to it. Though it can still be fun if you get abunch of friends who also have fond memories of it and go back to revisit it and re-learn the ways of the c-button and analog stick for movement and looking around...

[MaskedPlague]

my five in no particular order:
Halo 2
Quake
COD4
Half Life 2
Far Cry 2

[bardiya27]

No.

It's laggy and hideous compared to games of now (I count Perfect Dark in this as well), but can't deny that when the time it came out nothing compared to it. Though it can still be fun if you get abunch of friends who also have fond memories of it and go back to revisit it and re-learn the ways of the c-button and analog stick for movement and looking around...

Hmm I think the games has aged better than most first person shooters. For example, I often see myself running through Goldeneye and Perfect Dark's single player campaign, just because the complete package is very satisfactory, from the music to the story and the gameplay. I'll admit that nostalgia has a lot to do with it, especially in multiplayer where you run through maps that you are familiar with (Facility) or guns you are familiar with (Laptop gun!).

Ultimately I just looked at what games I spent the most time on and had the most fun with.

[onikage]

1. Perfect Dark
2. TimeSplitters 2
3. Goldeneye
4. Halo
5. Doom 64

And to those wondering, yes, I still am able to enjoy the N64 shooters as much as ever.

[Puffa469]

Quake 3 Arena
Team Fortress Classic
Counterstrike
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare


As you can see, I'm all about the multiplayer. I can't stand single player, story mode FPS's.

[mjainerin]

is there a site that shows you what shooters have 4 player split screen

[bardiya27]

is there a site that shows you what shooters have 4 player split screen

What kind of game you are looking for? Just any generations? The best one in recent memory is COD 4.

[jpuma1]

wow, i love how most of these lists have games only in the current gen. no respect for the classics, i tell ya

in no particular order
1. Goldeneye
2. Bioshock
3. Quake II
4. Doom II
5. Half Life 2

[cheezisgoooood]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Half-Life 2
Battlefield 1942
Bioshock
Metroid Prime

[kainzero]

quake 2
-deathmatch was great. it's probably still great.

half life
-i only played multiplayer and it was fun, i liked the weapon balance. it used to be packed... and then counterstrike came out.

goldeneye
-the only single player campaign i really liked. probably the last single player campaign i played through.

halo 3
-my intro to high level multiplayer. i got pretty decent. wish i could say the same about my team. joking, of course. partially.

i don't have a fifth. maybe doom1, shareware edition.

[bardiya27]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Half-Life 2
Battlefield 1942
Bioshock
Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime easily makes my Top 5 as far as first-person games. I just kept going back on forth on wheter it's a shooter or an adventure game.

I actually believed Nintendo's FIRST-PERSON ADVENTURE bullshit... lol

[gamer4432]

In no particular order:

Unreal Tournament (PC) - my first foray into online gaming (though I don't do much of it these days), and though if you look at it today and say the later versions are far superior, it just was all around fun. I tried getting back into the UT frenzy with UTIII on PS3, but the franchise is just too fast paced for me these days.

Halo (Xbox) - out of the three, easily the best of the bunch. The other two traded single player quality for multiplayer, while this one had both an enjoyable SP experience as well as some of the best multiplayer of its time. An overall great experience. It's unfortunate this level of quality may never be seen in a Halo FPS again.

Zero Tolerance (Genesis) - what got me into first person games. Me and my brother would play this game for days and just see how far we could get. You could backtrack to any completed level to find any extra ammo and/or health you may need. A wide variety of enemies and some excellent boss fights.

Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) - one of the first Xbox Live titles I owned (alongside the fantastic Crimson Skies), and really was the title to play on Xbox Live for me until Ghost Recon 2. This was before Halo 2 hit, this was when Xbox Live had a somewhat mature crowd, where you can enter into a room of randoms and not having to worry about muting the other 10-15 players. Late night sessions online playing terrorist hunt and team games was what made this game so fun. Tried reliving the fun with R6V on 360 but the online crowd these days is total garbage. Friends only it seems.

Red Faction 2 (PS2) - it may not be the most distinguished series out there, but this game had some of the best multiplayer to boot. Whether it was with human friends or bots, I would play day long sessions just trying to outlast the competition. The single player portion lacked a quality story but was enjoyable to play every now and then to get away from the MP addiction. It's unfortunate THQ has completely ruined all hopes for this franchise to return to its origins with Red Faction Guerrilla.


Notables:
- Call of Duty 4 (360/PS3) - had everything going for it. An intense single player campaign, a large scale multiplayer system, and just some fantastic gameplay. Unfortunately it was too short for its own good. This day in age when someone shells out $60 for a game, they should expect at least a 12 hour campaign. This game is beatable in less than 7 hours.

- Medal of Honor (PS1) - what started it all for the MoH series. One of the three quality console games in the franchise (other two: Airborne and Frontline), and for its time it was one of the better shooting experiences on the PS. I hope for a PSN release.

- The Orange Box (360/PS3) - I was never big on Half Life. I wanted to be. It by all means bled high quality, and Valve has done a magnificent job raising the stakes for themselves time and time again. But the story just wasn't my kind of thing. However The Orange Box was probably the best $60 I ever spent on a 360/PS3 game. Now with it being <$20, it's a no brainer to pick up for any FPS fan just for Portal alone.

[bardiya27]

Red Faction is very underrated! One of the first games that employed destructible environment (didin't feel like a gimmick either)

[Eviltude]

Quick question, is Haze that bad? I want to like it because it is PS3 exclusive, but all I've heard is shit about it. What's so horrible about it?

Sorry to derail the thread ahead of time. No disrespect, yo.

EDIT:

To keep with the thread, my top 5 if I can even think of 5.

1. DOOM (PS1) I remember playing this for days on end when I was younger and some of the creatures scared the shit out of me.

2. Halo 2 A very solid game, regardless of the rep that comes with Halo.

3. Red Faction As others have said, super solid FPS.

4. BLACK Greatest PS2 FPS, hands down.

5. Resistance: Fall of Man This is only on the list because I honestly can't think of another FPS that I enjoyed to the fullest. I really didn't even like the game that much.

[crystalklear64]

1. Crysis
2. Half-Life 2
3. System Shock 2
4. Battlefield 1942
5. Team Fortress 2

[Salamando3000]

1) Bioshock
2) Unreal Tournament 2003
3) Quake
4) Team Fortress 2
5) Painkiller

[zewone]

Anyone who said Resistance 2 is suspect.

I just finished the first couple of levels and man, talk about a step back. I liked the first Resistance, it was an above average game. The second one is doo doo, that I'd put on the level of Haze or Blacksite Area 51.

Oh wait, it's just TMK and Thomas. Carry on.

[diddy310]

Zero Tolerance (Genesis) - what got me into first person games. Me and my brother would play this game for days and just see how far we could get. You could backtrack to any completed level to find any extra ammo and/or health you may need. A wide variety of enemies and some excellent boss fights.


Completely agree there, always sucked when you would be left with only the demolitions or medic, always wanted to be the tank or the asian woman with the best weapons.


Red Faction: Great weapon selection, and the geomod made multiplayer matches more interesting than they would've been otherwise. Plus a great single player campaign.

Duke Nukem 3D: played this for years between all the expansions and over Kali, good memories here, even though I was terrible at it.

Goldeneye: Even the single player missions had near infinite replay value, to test out all the cheat switches or go for better times. Probably added up to weeks of total playing time. (Cougar Magnum!)

Half Life/Team Fortress Classic/Counter Strike - easily the best part of my high school years, playing these three in C++, Java , web design, & AP programming, for an hour every day.


Honorable Mentions:
Disruptor (PSX)
Lo Wang Shadow Warrior (PC)
Quake (PC)
Final Doom (PSX)
Turok Rage Wars (N64) - fun multiplayer w/ awesome capture the flag/monkey game
The World Is Not Enough - not quite Goldeneye, but still fun

[Rodimus]

1. Half-Life 2
2. Portal
3. Bioshock
4. Metroid Prime 3
5. Mirror's Edge

I'm not particullary a fan of FPS. Most of the games on my list aren't traditional FPS and some may not even consider them part of the genre.

[Fuzi0n]

1. Counter-Strike 1.6 (just pre source, though source if fun just not top 5)
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Half-Life 2
4. Unreal Tournament Series
5. Quake Series/Call of Duty 4/Battlefield 2 (can't seem to pick just one)

[Mr. Anderson]

Portal
Half-Life 2
Fallout 3 (I'm counting it)
Bioshock
Halo 2

[cheezisgoooood]

Metroid Prime easily makes my Top 5 as far as first-person games. I just kept going back on forth on wheter it's a shooter or an adventure game.

I actually believed Nintendo's FIRST-PERSON ADVENTURE bullshit... lol
To be honest I actually hesitated too because of that, but meh I think Bioshock is just as much a first person adventure game as Metroid Prime is, so why not?

[Shrapnellistic]

1. Half-Life 2
2. Portal
3. Bioshock
4. Metroid Prime 3
5. Mirror's Edge

I'm not particullary a fan of FPS. Most of the games on my list aren't traditional FPS and some may not even consider them part of the genre.
Yeah... Portal and Mirror's Edge are practically the definitions of an FPA (first-person adventure). Portal being chock full of puzzles and the firearms in ME are really temporary power-ups.

[Xevious]

Duke Nukem 3D
Undying (an underrated Clive Barker game)
Far Cry
Halo 1
Star Trek Elite Force

Controversial Honorable Mention: Kingpin: Life of Crime

[Lexian]

Unreal Tournament
COD: WAW (never spent this much time on a FPS)
Rainbow Six
Pain Killer
Counterstrike

[Rei no Otaku]

Anyone who said Resistance 2 is suspect.

I just finished the first couple of levels and man, talk about a step back. I liked the first Resistance, it was an above average game. The second one is doo doo, that I'd put on the level of Haze or Blacksite Area 51.

Oh wait, it's just TMK and Thomas. Carry on.
So true. What the fuck happened Insomniac?

[depascal22]

1. Goldeneye
2. Bioshock
3. Halo
4. Call of Duty 4
5. Medal of Honor

[VipFREAK]

1. Rainbow six vegas 1&2
2. Socom: Confrontation
3. F.E.A.R.
4. Gears of War
5. MGS4

Gotta give props to Rise of the Triads.

Can't believe I never played Rainbow Six 3, it looks pretty awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjAcoEMEJ-Y

[depascal22]

Since when did Gears and Metal Gear become First Person Shooters?

[rickonker]

1. Elite Force
2. Rainbow Six 3 (xbox)

I'll add the rest later

[Hostile]

5. Goldeneye 007 -- Only here for nostalgia. I can never go back to it but I remember loving the multiplayer.
4. Counter-Strike: Source -- This is only here because I need to waste space. I don't really care much for most FPS games. I own the game but I haven't played it much since I bought it after I bought TF2.
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare -- The first single-player I actually really enjoyed (it still wouldn't be my ideal) and multiplayer is very fun too.
2. Team Fortress 2 -- I'm still playing this with nearly 600 hours logged but I'll wait a little to move this up.
1. Counter-Strike -- If I logged that much into TF2 and I played Counter-Strike for a couple of years, I have a minimum of 1000 hours logged.

I have tried Halo, Half-Life, Resistance, etc. I didn't give a **** (that's not to say they're horrible games). I also don't count Portal or games that aren't in FIRST-PERSON.

[docvinh]

1.Doom 2
2.Unreal Championship
3.Halo
4.Halo 2
5.Goldeneye

I mainly loved all of these games for the multiplayer aspect.

[tehweezner]

I won't rank them, but:

Doom
Crysis + Warhead
Counter-Strike/Source
Chronicles of Riddick: EFBB
Call of Duty + United Offensive

HL, HL2, FEAR, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal Tournament, UT2k4, Far Cry, Halo, Quake III Arena and several others could be interchanged for those five.

[Thongsy]

Call of Duty, it was like reliving the best parts of Band of Brothers and Enemy at the Gates in video game form.