On "Great FPS Lists," This Game is Never mentioned... Why?

Whenever people talk about the greatest First-Person Shooters of all time, you get the obvious candidates:

Half-Life

Doom

Quake

Halo

Some people occasionally mention:

Deus Ex

System Shock 2

And some less-known ones. But there's one game that it always overlooked.

STAR WARS: Dark Forces. This was one of the first FPS games to use a linear storyline and cutscenes to advance a plot, and it introduced one of the best protagonists in Star Wars, or even one of the best in gaming. Of course, he, too, is overlooked.

Granted, he didn't have a lightsaber in this game. But Dark Forces was a very influential game that, according to Gamespot "Rises above the 'me-too' status and becomes a great game in its own right." And if nothing else, it paved the way for this:

Another game that never gets mentioned. And that led the way for this, which I particularly liked:

As for Jedi Outcast, I challenge you to find a game that has better swordfighting, aside from this:

This series is so often overlooked, and I fail to see why. >_>

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Baird-06

i dont see why everybody liked halflife i hated that game i thought it SUCKED.

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PannicAtack

Yeah seriously. I played so many Lucas Arts games when I was lot younger on the PC and a lot of them are never remembered here. :( 

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PannicAtack

Agreed.

Force Unleashed should be good though :D 

AVP

Serious Sam

Soldier of Fortune 2

Turok 

• Doom I/II
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Quake I/II/III
• Unreal
• Starseige: Tribes
• Half Life 1/2
• Thief: The Dark Project and The Metal Age
• System Shock and System Shock 2
• Deus Ex
• Call of Duty
• Day of Defeat
• Counter Strike
• Star Wars Dark Forces, Jedi Outcast and Republic Commando
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

Operation Flashpoint is rarely mentioned either.

Without OPF, the battlefield series and all its copies would never exist. 

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Baird-06

Yeah seriously. I played so many Lucas Arts games when I was lot younger on the PC and a lot of them are never remembered here. :( 

Guess you have never seen my list:

• Star Wars  Republic Commando

foxhound_fox

This has to be the greatest FPS IMO 

Its "Star wars" Nobody likes thatgameofthering

 em speak for yourself, ok?:P 

starwars games in general are great.

The ones you listed, republic commando, KOTOR, BAttlefront, etc. 

Can those games run on Windows XP or do I need a crappier computer?Stabby2486

Odd how this forum disregards almost everything made by Lucasarts. The only one that ever gets mentioned is Kotor. >_>

AVP2 is an incredibly underlooked FPS. DA_B0MB

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PannicAtack

Yeah seriously. I played so many Lucas Arts games when I was lot younger on the PC and a lot of them are never remembered here. :(

I played all of the Monkey Island games, The Dig, Star Wars Rebellion, Outlaws, Yoda Stories, Indiana Jones, Dark Forces, Full Throttle, a few other random Star Wars games and I still havn't gotten around to playing Grim Fandango. :P 

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Baird-06

Yeah seriously. I played so many Lucas Arts games when I was lot younger on the PC and a lot of them are never remembered here. :(

I played all of the Monkey Island games, The Dig, Star Wars Rebellion, Outlaws, Yoda Stories, Indiana Jones, Dark Forces, Full Throttle, a few other random Star Wars games and I still havn't gotten around to playing Grim Fandango. :P 

How Goldeneye 007 or Perfect Dark didn't get a mention yet in this thread confuses and infuriates me!

I have no opinion on the Star Wars games, though.

My dad played The Dig. And he couldn't stand it. >_>PannicAtack

Heh, it was alright. I thought it was a pretty good Adventure game. Although, I was rather young at the time and had to take the cheap way out and had to use a strategy guide to get through some of it. :P

starwars games in general are great.

The ones you listed, republic commando, KOTOR, BAttlefront, etc.

Educated_Gamer

Gamespot gave a really bad score to "Obi-Wan." It was the first action game I played on Xbox and I really liked it. It was worth getting along with the system.

In fact, I'm now going to get Jedi Academy for PC. 

One FPS EVERYONE over looks

How Goldeneye 007 or Perfect Dark didn't get a mention yet in this thread confuses and infuriates me!TDLlama

I kinda think your love of StarWars games is getting in the way of the big picture. I mean you can't just say how come no one mentions these 5 Starwars games I like in greatest games of all time lists and expect people to take you seriously.
Lazy_Boy88

Anyone who has any knowledge about FPS history or likes FPS should take him seriously.. Those are excelent games in all regards.. Except Jedi Academy :)

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Baird-06

Yeah seriously. I played so many Lucas Arts games when I was lot younger on the PC and a lot of them are never remembered here. :(

I played all of the Monkey Island games, The Dig, Star Wars Rebellion, Outlaws, Yoda Stories, Indiana Jones, Dark Forces, Full Throttle, a few other random Star Wars games and I still havn't gotten around to playing Grim Fandango. :P

I was so disappointed when they cancelled the new Full Throttle... 

Guess you have never seen my list:

• Doom I/II
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Quake I/II/III
• Unreal
• Starseige: Tribes
• Half Life 1/2
• Thief: The Dark Project and The Metal Age
• System Shock and System Shock 2
• Deus Ex
• Call of Duty
• Day of Defeat
• Counter Strike
• Star Wars Dark Forces, Jedi Outcast and Republic Commando
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

foxhound_fox

Guess none of u guys have ever heard of a little game i like to call Golden Eye. U should play it sometime.

Guess none of u guys have ever heard of a little game i like to call Golden Eye. U should play it sometime. Acemaster27

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Baird-06

And as far as Dark Forces goes, if I remember correctly, this was the first FPS I ever played. But, being as young as I was, I didn't realize how great the game really was at the time. I just loved it because it was Star Wars :P. It would be fun to go back and play it again now.