Slashdot Mirror
Picking The Top Ten FPS Titles Of All-Time
Thanks to GameSpot for its 'TenSpot' feature selecting picks for the top ten first-person shooter (FPS) games of all-time. The article argues: "So what makes a first-person shooter good? Is it a cohesive story and a well-designed campaign? A creative multiplayer mode? How about a devastating arsenal of weapons? Or fiendishly clever AI enemies? The games in this list exhibit one or more of these qualities and have all affected the way shooters are made in a tangible and lasting way." It goes on to identify top titles such as Duke Nukem 3D ("...good-natured attitude... great level design, and solid engine"), Battlefield 1942 ("...an excellent game made better by retail expansion packs"), and, naturally, Doom ("one of the true classics of computer gaming.")
I can't put much stock in an article that talks about the top 10 FPS and doesn't even MENTION Marathon or Maration 2: Durandal. It wasn't even on their list of alternative games to vote on...
Not me, but I am really tired of whiners. It seems these days they come out with every story.
Here on slashdot, we hear mostly from site like gamespot, gamespy, whatevergamething.com. And most, if not all, of their interview/article are dull beyond expression (at least beyond polite expression).
So if there is ONE gamer around who know of one or more good related news/article video game site, where i can find original and personnal material to think and get informed from, i would gladly thank him. (i know at least one in my language, but none in english, that's why I ask).
Most of these also leave out the truly excellent FPS Decent. Decent and Decent 2 were revolutionary for their time, creating an experience so original (and nauseating) as to never have been duplicated since. Sure, it's a ship. But it's in first person, it shoots, and it moves just like every other FPS character except that it also goes up and down and can rotate along its 3rd axis. I didn't even know I had a 6th finger until I played that game.
Imagine trying to explain to people that you need a PC because the Mac keyboard won't let you strafe down-backwards-left while rotating up-right and firing.
Decent was legendary at it's time, but because there have been few or no clones of it, it has faded into history. It deserves more recognition than this.
The ______ Agenda
sorry but as far as large gaming community goes nobody cares about them.
they may be the ultimate underdogs but that wouldn't change the fact that they just don't make the cut.
I myself am more intrested in what constitutes as fps since all the greater games have had deeper aspects than just shooting away(ultima underworld for one, system shock for another - they had advanced engines and a game that kicked some serious ass too. deus ex 1 as a more recent example).
well.. my list:
1. ultima underworld 1&2
2. system shock (1)
4. wolfenstein 3d
5. doom I & II
6. duke nukem 3d
7. deus ex
8. half-life
9. gunman chronicles
10. vietcong
+maybe dozens of games.. but anyways, first person is more of a view to the game rather than just a game type at all. this is like choosing the best isometric game of all time or best top down 2d game or whatever.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
That was truly one of the best first person shooters I ever played - incredibily atmospheric, and for the time had some very nice graphics.
For those of you who didnt play it (no excuse at all), its rather closely linked to the whole Star Wars (it was called that in '77, and so thats what im calling it) - not to mention the fun of running around Imperial Instalations being chased by Stormtoopers shouting "Stop, Rebel Scum!"
For a game released in early 1995, there wasnt much to touch it (apart from Doom) - you could Jump AND Crouch - pretty much a full year before Duke Nukem 3D.
I guess it's tough to squeeze everything into a top ten list, but it would have been nice to have seen nods to the Thief, System Shock, and No One Lives Forever series.
DecafJedi
my weblog: apropos of something
Why is Operation Flashpoint and its sequels always missing in such lists? Strong tactical element, highly nonlinear gameplay, great mixture between all-out action and stealth, great replay value - I still am playing this game.
This comment does not exist.
Decent and Decent 2 were revolutionary for their time, creating an experience so original (and nauseating)
Yes, nauseating. Almost all succesful FPS games of today are constrained to 2 dimensions of play. Sure you can jump, and fly in some games, but for the most part they are simplified to 2d.
Decent was an attempt at marrying legacy flight sims(falcon, wing commander, etc) and games like Wolfenstein. It was very confusing, and quite frankly it didn't work.
Imagine trying to explain to people that you need a PC because the Mac keyboard won't let you strafe down-backwards-left while rotating up-right and firing.
You still can't explain it to people...much less enjoy doing it in a game.
Counter-strike, TFC, Doom, Tribes, Everquest, all of these are popular because they appeal to our nature. Plane contsrained first person perspective is natural and engrossing. If we were a species of fish, or birds instead of homo-sapiens...maybe decent would be more popular(and thus more copied) than it was. But we are for the most part 2-demensional beings, and we like our games that way too.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
No, Halo was already in development for the Mac and PC when Microsoft bought Bungie out and turned it into an Xbox exclusive. Hypothetically, it's possible that it may have been released earlier than it was, as a better game, for multiple platforms.
But it was slowed down by the transition to Xbox, and all subsequent ports are tied down to using the Xbox version as a baseline. Halo saved the Xbox's ass, and that's the only thing that came of Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie. Gamers were not necessarily served a better or worse deal (that is, if you ignore every single Mac/Windows gamer that had been anticipating this game as a computer-first game).
There is some conjure about the subject.
Actually, it's only free if you ignore the tax money spent on it.
;)
That stuff comes from somewhere, ya know