SW Choice for Best Shooter Series - Round 2 now CLOSED

1. Killzone

2. Halo

3. Half-Life

4. Team Fortress

5. Chronicles of Riddick

6. Rainbow Six

7. Perfect Dark

8. N/A

9. TimeSplitters

10. Far Cry

11. Crysis

12. GoldenEye 007

13. N/A

14. Unreal

15. SOCOM

16. Borderlands

1. Killzone (my experience with both titles is limited at best, but I found ARMA needlessly clunky in pretty much every way and rather unpolished)

2. Halo (whilst the original Darkness game was truly fantastic, it can hardly match up to what is one of the most iconic gaming franchises of all time)

3. Half-Life (the quality of the Call of Duty series has taken a bit of a nosedive since 4, whilst the Half-Life games are probably my favourite of all time)

4. Team Fortress (TFC was among the first, and certainly pioneering, class based team shooters, whilst TF2 is just far too much fun to not vote for, despite the quality of the BF games)

5. Chronicles of Riddick (the Resistance games have never progressed past 'alright, I guess', whilst Escape from Butcher's Bay is the best movie tie in game ever, end of)

6. Counter Strike (the Counter-Strike games are timeless classics, for a very good reason, and are still played by hundreds of thousands of people. Rainbow Six has strayed way too far from its conception to still be relevant)

7. DOOM (this one is particularly difficult, but I have to give it to Doom for, you know, pioneering the genre)

8. VOID

9. Timesplitters (not much question about it, the Timesplitters games are classics and Rage was kind of a mess on PC, depressing given id's roots, and just disappointing all round)

10. Far Cry (haven't played any of the Spec-Ops games, though The Line is meant to be fairly good. Far Cry 1 was fantastic, whilst 2 was merely decent, but they earn the vote here)

11. Crysis (GeoW is a pretty good series, for sure, but the sheer empowerment that the Nanosuit gives you and the hilarious things that you can do with it in the Crysis games, as well as the graphical fidelity of it wins out here)

12. Bioshock (very tough one, but Goldeneye 64, for all that it did to popularize FPS on consoles, has aged pretty badly and the remakes haven't been up to scratch, whilst Bioshock 1 was astonishingly good, and 2 wasn't half bad either)

13. VOID

14. Unreal (aside from 3 and arguably 2K3, the Unreal games are classics, and I truly hope we see more from that franchise soon - GET ON IT EPIC. Homefront was terrible)

15. Just Cause (I wouldn't count it as a shooter series per se, but it's far too much fun, for all its shortcoming in, well, anything writing or acting based. SOCOM used to be good in the PS2 days, but has falled by the wayside drastically)

16. Star Wars: Battlefront (basically Battlefield games, but in third person and Star Wars, which is AWESOME. Borderlands is great too, granted, so this was tough, but Battlefront edges it mostly on a nostalgia basis)

1. ARMA
2. Halo
3. Half-Life
4. Team Fortress
5. Chronicles of Riddick
6. Counterstrike
7. Doom
8. Serious Sam
9. Timesplitters
10. Far Cry
11. Gears of War
12. BioShock
13. STALKER
14. Unreal
15. SOCOM (because its competition isn't a shooter)
16. Borderlands

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This is turning out to be some serious competition between some seriously great shooter series.

It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.

cain006

1. Arma
2. The Darkness
3. Half-Life
4. N/A
5. Resistance
6. Counter-Strike
7. Doom
8. Serious Sam
9. Timesplitters
10. Farcry
11. Crysis
12. Goldeneye
13. Red Faction
14. Unreal
15. Just Cause
16. Borderland

1. ARMA
2. Halo
3. HalfLife
4. Battlefield
5. Chronicles of Riddick
6. Counter Strike
7. Doom
8. Serious Sam
9. Rage
10. Farcry
11. Crysis
12. Bioshock
13. Stalker
14. Unreal
15. VOID
16. SW Battlefront

[QUOTE="cain006"]

It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.

kuraimen

1. ARMA

2. Halo

3. HalfLife

4. Team Fortress

5. Resistance

6. Rainbow 6

7. DOOM

8. Serious Sam

9. Timesplitters

10. Farcry

11. Crysis

12. Goldeneye

13. Red Faction

14. Unreal

15. SOCOM

16. Battlefront

[QUOTE="cain006"]

It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.

kuraimen

Halo is spectacular but you're crazy if you think it's going to win a sw contest. NeonNinja

Very true, there is no way a console exclusive shooter is going to win. Halo turned the shooter genre on its head, has been nominated for Best Shooter and Game of the Year with ever iteration -even its expansions-, single handedly saved the original Xbox, but it has absolutely zero chance of winning.

Same goes for Killzone, Resistance, Perfect Dark, Gears of War, SOCOM and Goldeneye(how the fvck is Goldeneye a series?).
That list contains some serious Shooter quality, Best Shooters of the Year and Games of the Year.

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The only console exclusive shooters that have a chance are Perfect Dark and Goldeneye (because they are older games so they have the nostalgia factor)

1. Killzone
2. Halo
3. Halflife
4. Team Fortress
5. Chronicles of Riddick
6. Counter Strike
7. Doom
8. Serious Sam
9. Timesplitters
10. Farcry
11. Gears of War
12. Bioshock
13. Red Faction
14. Unreal
15. Just Cause
16. Borderlands

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]Halo is spectacular but you're crazy if you think it's going to win a sw contest. R3FURBISHED

Very true, there is no way a console exclusive shooter is going to win. Halo turned the shooter genre on its head, has been nominated for Best Shooter and Game of the Year with ever iteration -even its expansions-, single handedly saved the original Xbox, but it has absolutely zero chance of winning.

Same goes for Killzone, Resistance, Perfect Dark, Gears of War, SOCOM and Goldeneye(how the fvck is Goldeneye a series?).
That list contains some serious Shooter quality, Best Shooters of the Year and Games of the Year.

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The only console exclusive shooters that have a chance are Perfect Dark and Goldeneye (because they are older games so they have the nostalgia factor)

[QUOTE="R3FURBISHED"]

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]Halo is spectacular but you're crazy if you think it's going to win a sw contest. Zensword

Very true, there is no way a console exclusive shooter is going to win. Halo turned the shooter genre on its head, has been nominated for Best Shooter and Game of the Year with ever iteration -even its expansions-, single handedly saved the original Xbox, but it has absolutely zero chance of winning.

Same goes for Killzone, Resistance, Perfect Dark, Gears of War, SOCOM and Goldeneye(how the fvck is Goldeneye a series?).
That list contains some serious Shooter quality, Best Shooters of the Year and Games of the Year.

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The only console exclusive shooters that have a chance are Perfect Dark and Goldeneye (because they are older games so they have the nostalgia factor)

1. ARMA
2. Halo
3. Half-Life
4. Team Fortress
5. Resistance
6. Counter Strike
7. DOOM
8. Serious Sam
9. Timesplitters
10. FarCry
11. Gears of War
12. Goldeneye
13. Red Faction
14. Unreal
15. Just Cause
16. Star Wars Battlefront

So if Doom and Serious Sam win this round they'll be against each others next round huh? This should be interesting to see. Also seeing the result Homefront/Dark Forces was an awfully close fights.

[QUOTE="Zensword"][QUOTE="R3FURBISHED"]

Very true, there is no way a console exclusive shooter is going to win. Halo turned the shooter genre on its head, has been nominated for Best Shooter and Game of the Year with ever iteration -even its expansions-, single handedly saved the original Xbox, but it has absolutely zero chance of winning.

Same goes for Killzone, Resistance, Perfect Dark, Gears of War, SOCOM and Goldeneye(how the fvck is Goldeneye a series?).
That list contains some serious Shooter quality, Best Shooters of the Year and Games of the Year.

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The only console exclusive shooters that have a chance are Perfect Dark and Goldeneye (because they are older games so they have the nostalgia factor)

Nanomage

1. Killzone

2. HALO

3. Half life

4. Team Fortress

5. Chronicles of riddick

6. Rainbow Six

7. Perfect Dark

8. Sniper elite

9. TIMESPLITTERS

10. Far Cry

11. Gears of War

12. Goldeneye

13. Red Faction

14. Unreal

15. Just cause

16. STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT

[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="cain006"]

It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.

NeonNinja

Pretty much this.

SW is full of herms so it won't be halo. Plus people will vote any game over halo, even if it sucks just to show how much they hate it.

Even though it deserves the win.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"][QUOTE="kuraimen"] People here don't know what a good shooter is. That's why Halo is gonna win.GOGOGOGURT

Pretty much this.

SW is full of herms so it won't be halo. Plus people will vote any game over halo, even if it sucks just to show how much they hate it.

Even though it deserves the win.

1 Killzone

2 The Darkness

3 Halflife

4 Battlefield

5 Resistance

6 Counter Strike

7 Perfect Dark

8 N/A

9 TIMESPLITTERS

10 Far Cry

11 Gears of War

12 Goldeneye

13 Red Faction

14 Unreal

15 Just Cause

16 StarWars Battlefront

1. Killzone
2. Halo
3. Call of Duty
4. Battlefield
5. Chronicles of Riddick
6. Rainbow Six
7. Doom
8. Serious Sam
9. Timesplitters
10. Far Cry
11. Gears of War
12. Bioshock
13. Stalker
14. Unreal
15. SOCOM
16. Borderlands

I have to say the seeding is not great. Fear had no chance against Unreal.

Though the fact that Homefront beat Dark Forces makes it pretty surprising that any of the 13-year-olds voting on this even knew what Unreal was.

^ Never mind my comment before it was messed up

1-Killzone

2-Halo

3-Half Life (cod has no chance)

4-Battlefield (sorry team fortress i love you)

5-Resistance

6-Rainbow six (sorry cs i love you too)

7-Doom

8-Sniper Elite

9-Rage

10-Farcry

11-Crysis ( i hate gow)

12-Golden eye

13-Red Faction

14-unreal

15-Just cause

16-Star wars Battlefrot ( because it had an impact on me, i love borderlands so much)

I'll be a happy gamer if Half Life,Arma,Stalker or Crysis wins best shooter (I'll even settle for Geow or BF).

[QUOTE="GOGOGOGURT"]

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"] Halo is spectacular but you're crazy if you think it's going to win a sw contest. It'll be Halflife. Nanomage

Pretty much this.

SW is full of herms so it won't be halo. Plus people will vote any game over halo, even if it sucks just to show how much they hate it.

Even though it deserves the win.

Except Deus Ex is more RPG than shooter, so it shouldn't be on this list to begin with.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"][QUOTE="kuraimen"] People here don't know what a good shooter is. That's why Halo is gonna win.GOGOGOGURT

Pretty much this.

SW is full of herms so it won't be halo. Plus people will vote any game over halo, even if it sucks just to show how much they hate it.

Even though it deserves the win.

Yeah, Halo gets hated on a little too much, and it's usually hated on by people with the other systems. There are 360 owners that dislike it, but they're very much in the minority. Right now it's coasting, I mean it's faced an RPG and The Darkness. :/ It'll likely make it to the quarterfinals, but I doubt it'll go farther than that. And I think Half-Life is good, but I think Halo as a series, Crysis (not the whole series though), Quake, Vanquish and a few others are better games. But I'm just voting on each match-up for whichever game I like the most. It's all fun. But I'm dead serious in saying that Halo won't win. It's a platform exclusive and it's exclusive to the 360 of all platforms. And that's easily the most hated platform on SW, and Valve is easily one of the most loved companies on SW. The odds are against Halo, to say the least.

I think it will be a very PC-centric final four as well. I think Half-Life, Doom, STALKER (ugh, garbage game) and maybe BioShock (another garbage game) will likely make it to the final match-up. Hopefully Crysis knocks out BioShock though and my prediction goes wrong. :P

EDIT- Keep in mind, I'm not keeping track of votes so I have no idea if the games I mentioned are actually going to advance or not. Just my gut feeling with each one as I look at the list.

[QUOTE="Nanomage"][QUOTE="GOGOGOGURT"]

Pretty much this.

SW is full of herms so it won't be halo. Plus people will vote any game over halo, even if it sucks just to show how much they hate it.

Even though it deserves the win.

NeonNinja

Except Deus Ex is more RPG than shooter, so it shouldn't be on this list to begin with.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

[QUOTE="Nanomage"] If that was true then Deus Ex would´ve eliminated Halo,but it didn´t.Nanomage

Except Deus Ex is more RPG than shooter, so it shouldn't be on this list to begin with.

Halo is hated, so is Call of Duty, but it also still made it past the first round. It's not like EVERYONE hates the games, but Halo and Call of Duty (admittedly I don't like the series) tend to get the roughest treatment. And yeah, Deus Ex is on the list but in that first round there was a huge debate going on about why some non-shooters were on the list, including Deus Ex.

[QUOTE="cain006"]

It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.

kuraimen

[QUOTE="cain006"]It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.SNIPER4321

Ugh, STALKER is so boring and tedious. Yeah, it's atmospheric, but that isn't enough to entertain me. I'll take Metro over STALKER any day.

1. Killzone.
2. Halo.
3. COD.
4. Battlefield.
5. Resistance.
6. Counterstrike.
7. Perfect Dark.
8. Serious Sam.
9. Timesplitters.
10. Farcry.
11. Gears of War.
12. Golden Eye 007.
13. Red Faction.
14. Unreal.
15. Just Cause.
16. Star Wars battlefront.

[QUOTE="SNIPER4321"][QUOTE="cain006"]It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.NeonNinja

Ugh, STALKER is so boring and tedious. Yeah, it's atmospheric, but that isn't enough to entertain me. I'll take Metro over STALKER any day.

I have to say the seeding is not great. Fear had no chance against Unreal.

Though the fact that Homefront beat Dark Forces makes it pretty surprising that any of the 13-year-olds voting on this even knew what Unreal was.

Cherokee_Jack

There's a section in the OP (with a link to a pre-game thread) explaining how the title placement was arranged.

I have to say the seeding is not great. Fear had no chance against Unreal.

Though the fact that Homefront beat Dark Forces makes it pretty surprising that any of the 13-year-olds voting on this even knew what Unreal was.

Cherokee_Jack

The bigger injustices are Arma beating AVP and Red faction beating soldier of fortune...... like seriously.

[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

[QUOTE="SNIPER4321"] Stalker better than quake. by farjg4xchamp

Ugh, STALKER is so boring and tedious. Yeah, it's atmospheric, but that isn't enough to entertain me. I'll take Metro over STALKER any day.

You don't like Metro? Or do you just happen to like STALKER?

I missed the first round but here's my list:

1. Killzone

2. Halo

3. HalfLife

4. Battlefield

5. Resistance

6. Rainbow Six

7. Doom

8. Serious Sam

9. Rage

10. FarCry

11. Crysis

12. Bioshock

13. STALKER

14. Unreal

15. Just Cause

16. Borderlands

[QUOTE="cain006"]It's sad to see that Quake lost so quickly. I would've voted it number one.SNIPER4321

There's a section in the OP (with a link to a pre-game thread) explaining how the title placement was arranged.AdobeArtist

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"][QUOTE="NeonNinja"]

Ugh, STALKER is so boring and tedious. Yeah, it's atmospheric, but that isn't enough to entertain me. I'll take Metro over STALKER any day.

NeonNinja

You don't like Metro? Or do you just happen to like STALKER?

1. Killzone
2. Halo
3. Half-Life
4. Battlefield
5. Riddick
6. Rainbow Six
7. DOOM
8. VOID
9. Rage
10.Far Cry
11.Gears of War
12.Bioshock
13.STALKER
14.Unreal
15.SOCOM
16.Battlefront