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What are the best First Person Shooters ever made?

Decades:

70s: What is the best game to come out of the 70s?

80s: What is the best game to come out of the 80s?

90s: What is the best game to come out of the 90s?

00s: What is the best game to come out of the 00s?

10s: What is the best game to come out of the 10s?

We have finally entered a different paradigm. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [RTS, Turn based RPG, Action RPG, Board Game, Arcade Game, third person shooter, MMO, Action, Civ Clone (yell at me if this isn't the right name for the genre), 2D Platformer, 3D Platformer, Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Point and click, Indie, Text dungeon, Stealth, Rhythm, horror, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Bullet Hell, Racing, Tower Defense, Sports, Idle, Trivia, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.

I finally decided to give these threads a tag. It might be easier for people to search for in the future. I also expect to bring this over to the other comms in the near future.

This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.

Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.

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Half-Life 2 is still the greatest game to ever grace this Earth. Pure bliss.

Original Quake. It's the reason why modern gaming exists as it does.
Without Q1 there'd be no Team Fortress, Half-Life, Valve/Steam, etc...

Titanfall 2 for best feel and gameplay. Deus Ex for best plot.

In terms of cultural impact alone, it has to be the Halo series. 20 years ago now they revolutionized the fps genre. Their controller layout became the standard across all consoles. Their 2 weapon max carry limit, actual plot, wide open spaces, and community support were huge steps forward for the genre as well. Halo 2 was one of the first games to take advantage of Xbox live, and it really pioneered the console matchmaking scene. Not to mention that halo 2 was the best-selling entertainment OF ALL TIME. IT MADE MORE MONEY THAN TITANIC JAMES CAMERON WAS IN SHAMBLES.

Superhot is probably the most fun of any singleplayer fps I've played

Half life 2, Halo 3, and my spicy take is the original COD modern warfare

Halo 1 and 2 are my favorite shooters ever. AI and gameplay FAR beyond anything else at the time including Half-Life 2 which IMO is overrated. That's not even considering the multiplayer.
Wolfenstein: The New Order deserves a mention as well for putting single player shooters back on the map. Incredible game not afraid to push the envelope.
- I second Halo 1, it has a certain sandboxy element to it rather than the more linear style most other shooters have. I still enjoy replaying it after 20 years. Halo 1 pc and Ce are pretty much free now, too, and Ce has modding support.
  
  Played thru halo 1 and 2 on legendary in the master chief collection a few months ago and it was just as fun if not more fun than the first time in the 2000s. Amazing games to this day fun all the way through.

My popular opinion is Team Fortress 2 (for multiplayer. if we're talking singeplayer yeah probably hl2). I find most of the shooters more in the vein of Call of Duty & Battlefield to be all kinda samey. I like Halo a lot, but the slow movement combined with the slow time to kill force me to agonizingly wait until I die after making a tiny mistake, or to just lose a battle rifle aim duel with little feedback on what's happening, which ends up making me very frustrated. TF2, despite its age, bloat, and frequently shit community, has a very solid core gameplay using hit-or-miss weapons and almost every time I die I actually understand why it happened (even if it was just wrong place at the wrong time). I highly recommend Lazypurple's video on the subject if you want more elaboration. If you are interested in the game but are put off by the valve matchmaking servers you should try the creators.tf servers or youtuber Uncle Dane's 'Danetopia' servers, that get rid of the random elements of TF2 and don't seem to have nazis in them (if you have more server recommendations please drop them!).
The actual reason why I like TF2 is because I can beat people to death with a sign that has the shut the fuck up terf meme on it.
- TF2. Good call. I always somehow forget it when thinking of shooters even though I've probably put more time into than anything else.

I'm biased, but I'm gonna say the Timesplitters series is up there.

Timesplitters. Also a few of the wolfenstien games are top notch.
- Timesplitters Future Perfect was so much fun man, I think I still have a memory card full of custom maps somewhere

Probably Half-Life 2 or Halo 3 for me. Granted, Half-Life 1 and Halo 1 and 2 are incredible as well. Very much game changing.
I suppose there should be two categories here, campaign and multiplayer. My answers would be similar though if you consider CS an extension of half life.
- Online would have been a good choice to split this up, unfortunately it's too late now. Do you think any of the other genres need to be split up while I have your attention?
  
  I think it's kind of two parts of one conversation, so not splitting it up is cool.
  RPGs are an interesting one since the subcategories can be fairly different (turn-based, action, MMO). I feel like it still makes sense to do it all in one thread though.

Team Fortress 2 is , in my opinion, the closest you can get to a perfect 10/10 game.

Bioshock has to be up there. Its so good just all the way through. Even the original version looks fantastic, the atmosphere and story are top notch and the gameplay... man thats some good gameplay. Every weapon and plasmid can be worked into a style you like, and everything, even the starting melee weapon, can be useful and relevant for the entire game. Just.... its so good.
- I still have an old copy of Bioshock hanging out in my room that I never finished. I liked it more than almost any other shooter when I was younger though.

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the only shooters I can stand playing so them I guess.

Personally, I would have never gotten into consoles (over playing things on a pc) if it hadn't been for Halo CE. Thankfully now I have abandoned consoles with zero regrets, but Halo was so incredible it completely changed my point of view at the time after sitting down with it a single time.
Other favorites: Quake II, Unreal, Half-Life 1/Opposing Force, Counter Strike 1.5. I think that Destiny has the "best feeling" shooting mechanics (at least on console) of any modern FPS, but it also turned out to be the biggest disappointment in terms of management/company/being ruined by capitalism/constantly taking advantage of fans.

Black Mesa, obligatory for Half-Life fans. They managed to remake the first Half-Life ~~through faith, and not by works~~ by preserving the spirit and not the letter. The result is an exceptionally modern game, with highly dynamic shoot-outs, while feeling like Half-Life at all times.

Enemy Territory

Counterstrike has been the best team based FPS since the 90s. Still the best imo. Everyone has the same tools, it's all strategy and skill

STALKER Call of Pripyat. It's one of those games that still has an active modding community 10+ years after its release.

For some faster singleplayer shooter games Turok 1 & 2 are some of my all time favorites. Robots, Dinosaurs, zombies, aliens, and some of the coolest guns

Battlefield 2. 32 vs 32 chaos. Extremely easy to mod. Not to mention the Project Reality mod which eventually became the game "Squad".
Still playing to this day.

I've still never played anything as fun or intense as 5v5 Zdaemon CTF. CTF as a game-mode died with the arena shooters like Quake and Unreal Tournament. Without the lightning fast movement, instant respawn and twitch shooter mechanics, CTF turns into drudgery. Halo 2 was fantastic in its own right, but it marked the beginning of CTF feeling like a half baked GTA fetch quest thrown in as filler to consume time. Slowly walking back and forth across the map, hoping you don't get sniped. It became a chore just to get the flag, let alone hunt down the scumbag who took yours. The high stakes seek and destroy aura was completely ruined. Now most games don't even have a CTF mode because it simply isn't fun with modern FPS mechanics.
Unfortunately, no one plays Zdaemon CTF anymore.

In terms of multiplayer I really like Battlefield 1. It's the only Battlefield game I've played but it's just neat to have vehicles and so many different weapons and tools, and the animations and actions are very fluid and don't block/cancel eachother. A lot more interesting than just shooting someone at the other end of a hallway. A lot of FPS games also have bad controls that for example don't let you aim down sights from a sprinting stance.
Side note, it's really nice to see how many games these days have a lot more fluid movement in the form of sliding and ledge grabbing. It's a really noticeable feature that is pretty recent in FPS games. Borderlands 3 has much better movement than 2 although still lacking compared to other games.

Gone home!
- That's more of an adventure game isn't it?

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