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Favorite Shooters?

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So what are your favorite shooters? Why? Got any ideas?

My personal preference is the ARMA series. I enjoy the realism and large scale of things. Plus the sandbox aspect. I also like the fact that you can't just run and gun. You have to be patient and methodical. And when you hit hard, that means well coordinated fire...not running and gunning.

Anyone else?
 
I was a big fan of Doom. Nothing better than a floating hand blowing stuff up!
 
Halo has been a favorite series of mine for some time now.
 
I've played a little Sniper Elite and that's a pretty decent game.
 
Lutherf said:
I was a big fan of Doom. Nothing better than a floating hand blowing stuff up!
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Doom was the best - and IMO the most influential - computer game, period. Even though Wolfenstein was first, Doom really popularized the FPS genre and showed what it was capable of. That, and it introduced both multiplayer FPS gaming and user-generated FPS submissions.

And for those who (like myself) played Doom when it was the first and only real FPS, I still remember the chill I got down my spine when I heard that spooky-as-hell clomp-clomp of a cyberdaemon.... It was like, this is a freaking game! Why am I scared of something in a game? But I was still scared of that thing....
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Doom was the best - and IMO the most influential - computer game, period. Even though Wolfenstein was first, Doom really popularized the FPS genre and showed what it was capable of. That, and it introduced both multiplayer FPS gaming and user-generated FPS submissions.

And for those who (like myself) played Doom when it was the first and only real FPS, I still remember the chill I got down my spine when I heard that spooky-as-hell clomp-clomp of a cyberdaemon.... It was like, this is a freaking game! Why am I scared of something in a game? But I was still scared of that thing....
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It was just such a simple concept. Wander around and shoot stuff. Add in a little "find the hidden door" and some cool sound effects and it was like digital crack. The only other game that was that clean and that addictive was Diablo.
 
stonewall50 said:
So what are your favorite shooters? Why? Got any ideas?

My personal preference is the ARMA series. I enjoy the realism and large scale of things. Plus the sandbox aspect. I also like the fact that you can't just run and gun. You have to be patient and methodical. And when you hit hard, that means well coordinated fire...not running and gunning.

Anyone else?
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Doom, Duke Nukem...yeah, I loved them both. But my current favorite is the Call of Duty series. There's not much I enjoy more than me (a 52 year-old retired Navy man) having the best KDR in a deathmatch, showing up all these teenagers and twenty-somethings who supposedly have much faster reflexes than us middle-aged men. My wife calls my PS4 a 'toy', and I simply reply that it's not a toy, but that it's a "personal hand-eye coordination enhancement module" (yes, I do speak government-ese). For some reason she doesn't buy that particular line.

So there's a lot of people out there who think that it's a bit shameful for a middle-aged man to be a gamer...but seeing as how PayPal-and-SpaceX founder Elon Musk is a gamer, too (we both like the Civilization series), I'd say I'm in pretty good company.
 
Lutherf said:
It was just such a simple concept. Wander around and shoot stuff. Add in a little "find the hidden door" and some cool sound effects and it was like digital crack. The only other game that was that clean and that addictive was Diablo.
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One thing I liked about Diablo is that it included levels. I wonder how many gamers today realize the debt that modern gaming owes to Gary Gygax (who invented Dungeons and Dragons) for the original concept of levels (with increased abilities/weapons/etc.) in a game.

I liked Diablo a great deal, and Diablo II almost as much (cow level? Really?)...but Diablo III became tiresome. Another great one was Starcraft - it was even better than Diablo IMO.

I also loved the last two in the standalone Elder Scrolls series - Oblivion and Skyrim - those were fabulous games, too. I haven't tried the online MMO of Skyrim yet, but the standalone finally got old. But it was still a great, great FPS. Right now I'm still playing Civ V, which still provides a challenge after so many games.
 
stonewall50 said:
So what are your favorite shooters? Why? Got any ideas?

My personal preference is the ARMA series. I enjoy the realism and large scale of things. Plus the sandbox aspect. I also like the fact that you can't just run and gun. You have to be patient and methodical. And when you hit hard, that means well coordinated fire...not running and gunning.

Anyone else?
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-COD4 on the PC was one of the best competitive shooters of all time.
-CS:GO is pretty badass. If you like competitive gaming, it has a casual 5v5 match making service where it matches you with other players "similar in skill level" (it's not always perfect) and if anyone bails on the match or trolls it, that person gets temp banned from playing. Results in some fun, quick, competitive matches.

Those are really my favorite two, because they allowed for user modification and competitive gaming. Regarding casual gaming... they're pretty much all the same. All the CODs, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six... etc. Battlefield is fun, but it's best if you're playing with people you know.
 
Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, and of course Duke Nukem - mainly because they didn't take themselves seriously. Just a lot of killing monsters, blowing stuff up, and finding a few secrets - all with a sense of humor.
 
Half Life 1 and 2 and Counterstrike, probably, easily the best of the genre
Wolfensteen, Doom, Quake created the genre and made it popular
Unreal for making it look so much better
Serious Sam, for taking it to it's limit of shooting and blowing **** up
 
Glen Contrarian said:
One thing I liked about Diablo is that it included levels. I wonder how many gamers today realize the debt that modern gaming owes to Gary Gygax (who invented Dungeons and Dragons) for the original concept of levels (with increased abilities/weapons/etc.) in a game.

I liked Diablo a great deal, and Diablo II almost as much (cow level? Really?)...but Diablo III became tiresome. Another great one was Starcraft - it was even better than Diablo IMO.

I also loved the last two in the standalone Elder Scrolls series - Oblivion and Skyrim - those were fabulous games, too. I haven't tried the online MMO of Skyrim yet, but the standalone finally got old. But it was still a great, great FPS. Right now I'm still playing Civ V, which still provides a challenge after so many games.
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Diablo III did get repetetive though they have tweaked it a little (I still play occasionally). I am currently playing Elder Scrolls Online with some regularity and it's a great game but no longer as populated as it used to be.
 
Redress said:
Half Life 1 and 2 and Counterstrike, probably, easily the best of the genre
Wolfensteen, Doom, Quake created the genre and made it popular
Unreal for making it look so much better
Serious Sam, for taking it to it's limit of shooting and blowing **** up
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Oh, yeah - I forgot about Quake - the first true 3D game. With a soundtrack by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

But what I think that Doom had - where there were sometimes masses of monsters that one had to kill, rather than just one-to-four monsters - is something I wish I'd see in today's FPS games. There was this one level in Doom II where you'd face something like thirty pink monsters and half that many imps, with a couple cacodaemons to boot...all at the same time. I miss that.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Oh, yeah - I forgot about Quake - the first true 3D game. With a soundtrack by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

But what I think that Doom had - where there were sometimes masses of monsters that one had to kill, rather than just one-to-four monsters - is something I wish I'd see in today's FPS games. There was this one level in Doom II where you'd face something like thirty pink monsters and half that many imps, with a couple cacodaemons to boot...all at the same time. I miss that.
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That's true. Quake 3, I think, had that rail gun map that was insane, too.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Oh, yeah - I forgot about Quake - the first true 3D game. With a soundtrack by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

But what I think that Doom had - where there were sometimes masses of monsters that one had to kill, rather than just one-to-four monsters - is something I wish I'd see in today's FPS games. There was this one level in Doom II where you'd face something like thirty pink monsters and half that many imps, with a couple cacodaemons to boot...all at the same time. I miss that.
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Have you played any of the Serious Sam games? You can get them cheap on Steam and they have that, in spades.
 
World of Tanks
 
Redress said:
Have you played any of the Serious Sam games? You can get them cheap on Steam and they have that, in spades.
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No I haven't - but I probably won't do that since right now, whenever I get the chance I play - I mean, enhance my hand-eye coordination - on COD Advanced Warfare. But that's not often since my financial adviser (some would call her my wife) tends to keep me pretty busy....
 
I guess I should have looked at the forum first, I thought it was more along these lines:

 
I liked the original Rainbow 6

I really liked Americas army

and Sniper Elite was pretty cool as well.

as for COD, BF, MoH, Halo, and the likes..... way too arcadish for me.... bouncing around like a bunny and running around without a care ..whist accurately headshotting everyone around you as you get peppered by 7 or 8 bullets that have little averse effect on your health( accompanied by magic healing powers, if the bullets somehow manage to wound you) .. yeah, none for me thanks.
here ya go.. equip these armored gloves that will somehow protect you against grenades... and here are some upgraded bootlaces that make your rifle 17 times more powerful... oh, and if you shoot 5 guys before you temporarily die, God will bestow on you a pack of dogs that will mercilessly slaughter your enemies... or a squad operated machine gun, with incredibly advanced friend-or-foe targeting will appear and you can singelhandedly place it wherever you want, despite the fact that it weighs more than 3 men
yo also have close air support, but those pilots will do absolutely nothing but presumably hover above the battleground until you get a kill streak
" sorry guys, I can't engage until one of you kills 9 guys in a row without dying...why don't you try sniping them with your 9mm sidearm at 200 yards" said no pilot ever.

have problems killing? meh, no worries... just engage your rocket powered jump jets and fly into your very own mechwarrior and rain death on all that oppose you....
 
My fave? Downtown Freddy Brown...

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Thrilla said:
I liked the original Rainbow 6
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The original R6 was also one of the best original competitive first person shooter games. One of my favorite games to date that I played vs people online.
 
Redress said:
One of these days I really have to try that.
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It's not easy at all if you do it right, it's complex. I'm not that good, but I've talked to people and there is a lot to it. Training tank crews, build better tanks..etc
 
whysoserious said:
The original R6 was also one of the best original competitive first person shooter games. One of my favorite games to date that I played vs people online.
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I agreed.... lots o fun

I was -=DOB=- BigNasty back in those days.....the original DOB clan (dirty old bastards)
 
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