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

An older FPS that I thought was really good is Red Faction.

I barely shoot in Dark Forces.  I mean, once you get your lightsaber, you forget that it's an FPS.NobuoMusicMaker

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. >_>

PannicAtack

Jedi Academy is one of my all-time favorites. 

People forget about these games too, they were actually pretty good. Now a couple of these are not really FPS games, but are still important to the first person genre.  

Marathon is somewhat under-appreciated, as well. >_>PannicAtack

Hint: Many games being mentioned are PC heavy titles in a land full of mostly console gamers...

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Guess you have never seen my list:

• Star Wars Republic Commando

wklzip

This has to be the greatest FPS IMO

Maybe not the greatest, but I really loved that game as well! (IMO the squad stuff really added to the gameplay experience, and the story wasn't bad either) 

I somewhat agree with the TC, the Jedi Knight series is indeed awesome, but I don't really care that much whether or not it makes the 'great FPS' lists. You will always miss some games on those kind of lists, no matter how elaborate they are.