What is your personal favorite FPS?

Mine is most likely Bulletstorm. I love everything about that game. I heard it may even get a remaster for PS4 and Xbox One. I don't think People Can Fly has to get EA to publish it.

How about your favorite FPS?

Probably be Crysis; I thought the gameplay was the best I've ever experienced, and still is to be honest. Games come out with better story, better guns, better whatever....but like HL2, Crysis nailed so many components while also adding a new depth of gameplay via the introduction of the nanosuit.

Playing cat-and-mouse with Korean patrols in a forest using a combination of stealth, grabbing them by the throat, then zipping away before his comrades new what happened was so much fun. I'd choke the life out of the guy then turn on strength, toss him at his friends from far off to scare and distract them, stealth back up and pick off the next unlucky bastard. Enemy AI was good enough to make the game fun, too, which was a nice surprise.

On top of that, there were so many memorable levels; there were so many fun and excellent setups, in particular the base with the gas station. You could invade guns-blazing style from the beach like a Normandy invasion, creep in from the forest by a waterfall, or blow up the gas station to kick the hornet's nest. Or a combination of all of them!

A beautiful game in every respect, and as fun as you want it to be. It got a lot of flack from the Lowest Common Denominators who played it like it was just another Call of Duty, but whatever those idiots have no imagination, and that is hardly the games fault. The game was as close to flawless as I have ever played, a masterpiece of both gameplay and technical capability.

Runner up would probably be Half-Life 2; the hype was so damn big on that game and it exceeded it. The story telling was simply beautiful, the characters all memorable (Alyx Vance, Dog, and so forth...Alyx Vance is still probably my favorite video game heroine).

For best FPS + other genre, I'd have to say Deus Ex. It's been out for over a decade and I still play it regularly. The game is simply incredible. One of my favorites, if not my favorite.

I'm not a big fan of FPS, and in such an old game style the tendency is to pick some nostalgic game.

I think the recent DOOM is one of the best FPS i've played, such a fluid game, just pure fun without any unnecessary additions.

Timesplitters: Future Perfect

For me it has to be the Halo series. Love it to bits although Halo 4 was dissapointing for me.

Metroid Prime is mine, even though it's not strictly a shooter

I only have 5 main FPS games I enjoy and played and they are:

1. Crysis
2. Destiny
3. Master Chief Collection
4. Half-Life/2
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Halo 2. Most fun I have had online with friends ever. :)

I guess it would technically have to be BioShock, even though I hardly think of those games as FPS's even though you're shooting things... in first person. I suppose it's just not that aspect of those games that make them among my favorite. But still, that's my answer.

Battlefield:Hardline,soon to be Battlefield 1.

Unreal Tournament 2004. Still play it to this day. Wicked Sick!

@mrbojangles25: agreed.

mine is definitely crysis too. i'd just invested in an gtx8800 ultra a few months before so managed to play it as close to high settings as was probably possible at the time. it's funny because for about a week leading up to its release modern warfare had taken the crown of my favourite ever fps from cod 2, narrowly ahead of far cry at the time (i don't think of hl2 as a fps for some reason) but it's reign as my favourite fps lasted about a week!

that first play through was just pure gaming magic. it really hit home just how good it was early on in the game when you descend down this huge forested hill over a river into an enemy base with fuel depot to rescue a hostage. moving in and out of stealth mode, blowing shit up like the f*cking predator, causing utter chaos, kpi scattered everywhere, climbing on top of buildings sniping tanks at close range with a missile launcher. so intense, engrossing and utterly epic. it was after that specific bit that i had to pause for a moment to take a minute and i remember thinking holy f*ck what am i playing here.

it's also a good yardstick to gauge whose opinion is worth listening to on these forums. i can understand people not enjoying it but still able to appreciate what it brought to the table. people who dismiss it as nothing but a tech demo are generally idiots

@genosectking:

1. Halo

2. Half Life 2

3. Killzone

Half-Life 2 followed by the Halos.

This. Nothing has matched Halo 2 online for me. Gears 1 and Halo 3 was great but Halo 2 multiplayer will forever be the best to me.

Quake.

i like being able to make choices and build a character, so Deus Ex and Bloodlines for me. Although honorable mention to breakdown for showing me how much more interesting a story is when you tell it in real-time rather than through cutscenes.

It would have to be Perfect Dark 64.

If only those shitty analogue sticks didn't wear out so quickly I'd still be willing to spend money on new controllers to play it...

The new D00M, and by quite a large margin.

Use to be Wolfenstein... or maybe MetroLL, or both. Now it's Doom 4 =)

For singleplayer, it's probably Painkiller simply because it cuts out all the fat and focuses on one thing: insane, fast paced action. It has some issues, but in the words of Ben Yahtzee Croshaw, "Then I remember that there's a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning." It's a great game.

For multiplayer, it's Team Fortress 2. It's just so well balanced, and when you're playing against a team of equal skill to yours, the strategic chaos is insane.

lol I feel the same way. I mean, if you don't like it for your own good reasons, so be it; we all have differences of opinion. But if you don't like it because you think it was a tech demo or all you did was walk around with armor mode on and shoot shit, then that's a good indication you are not an enthusiast gamer, but a casual.

Halo 2 or 3

shadow warrior

halo combat evolved

wolfenstein old blood

DOOM 1 & 2 with all the modern day additions (mouselook, etc). Brutal DOOM every once in a while too, I love me some extra gore.

The more time passes, the more I'm amazed at these games. They are holding up remarkably well to the burden of so many years, and are just as fun to play as when they released. There's still an active MP and map making community thriving....23 YEARS later. I mean, Christ man. If there's any game out there that stands testament to exemplary videogame design, the original DOOMs are it.

So yea, those. Next would be Halo: CE (none of the sequels come close).

DOOM 2 on the Pc.......still the best game I have ever played.

....but it barely beats Metroid Prime for me, however, Prime is truly a FPA game not a FPS.

Honorable mention go to Half-Life 2 and the original Bioshock.

Half-Life 2, I can't even count how many times I've played through it.

Every f*cking year I say to myself "I'm not going to buy that freaking game" but... I can't resist.

It's Call of Duty btw xD

and Halo Combat Evolved xD

Quake and Descent. One is a twitch based shooter, while the other one focuses on six degrees of freedom, inspiring different play styles.

Overwatch because it's the only one I own.

Half Life 2 followed by Crysis. Both of them are legendary games in different ways.

Bioshock Infinite followed by Half Life 2.