hehe I remeber loading doom2 on every computer I could get my hads on in highschool, even though that was just a few years ago, it was fun as hell.laughingman42
Indeed. Doom set off the FPS genre in both the mainstream and the "offstream." Wolfenstein and some others may have built the foundation but it was Doom that built the entire building that the FPS genre calls home. Without Doom, there never would have been Half Life, Halo, Goldeneye, etc, etc.
Wolfenstein 3D for pretty much inventing the genre and Doom for popularising it, but next is Half-Life for taking the early FPS formulas and ratcheting it up several notches. Halo IMO didn't do a whole lot of original things, just took a lot of FPS elements and did them really well.
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To be fair, I love Deus Ex, but I think it's more of a First-Person-Action-RPG, personally.
Glad lots of people are saying Half Life.. I am sure EA will give the PS3 people.. a great game when they are done porting it ROFLMAO!!! The Fast Food of Gaming!!!NitaraPwnzU
Considerng how weak HL2 looks on 360 (gameplay -wise, altough visualy it also doesn't hold a candle to fakefaktory mod) I don't think you should be bashing PS3 version.
Doom, without question... Of course it isn't even included on your list :|AfterShafter
The correct answer is Doom and Quake. It has to be both of them. Those two games together helped shape online gaming as a whole, period, not just shooters. Generally-speaking, Quake took what Doom did, made it 3D, and brought it to the Internet. And when it comes to just shooters, well, their influence is vast and overwhelming, at least as far as multiplayer is concerned. Half-Life moreso for the single-player, story-driven type shooters we started seeing afterwards.
[QUOTE="Tylendal"]What about Turok for the N64. As far as I know, it was the first game to use the duel analog scheme (or at least analog and d-pad).Tylendal
It used the C buttons, actually (or was that just in the sequal?).
Anyway, I'd say that Wolfenstein3D in the most important - it took the FPRPG genre, simplified it, and added guns...and we've been playing them ever since.
But the C-Buttons are (in function) a D-pad. So it did introduce duel-analog control, did it not?
Yeah, I agreed with you. I'm just saying that it wasn't the D-pad. :D
Doom, Quake... competitive multiplayer FPS, tournaments, online gaming, graphics cards... PC gaming was changed forever, gaming as a whole - changed forever.
Deus Ex... nothing has ever lived up to it, and its influence has gone out the window in the console world.
Halo fanboys - you owe the fact a system like Xbox LIVE exists for multiplayer FPS gaming to early PC shooters - had these not come along, there would not be a Halo.
[QUOTE="AfterShafter"]Doom, without question... Of course it isn't even included on your list :|Zeliard9
The correct answer is Doom and Quake. It has to be both of them. Those two games together helped shape online gaming as a whole, period, not just shooters. Generally-speaking, Quake took what Doom did, made it 3D, and brought it to the Internet. And when it comes to just shooters, well, their influence is vast and overwhelming, at least as far as multiplayer is concerned. Half-Life moreso for the single-player, story-driven type shooters we started seeing afterwards.
Doom - Started it all (yes wolfenstein was 1st, but doom made the genre)
Goldeneye - the most important console fps, it brought the genre to consoles
Half-Life - proved and fps can have an amazing story, among many other things
Unreal Tournament - the king of online fps multiplayer (counter-strike didnt come until 2 years later)
The 4 most important fps's ever. Halo has no place on this list
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I agree with all of those. Except i'd include CS too for its realism, popularity and the accuracy of the damage system. imo it's something that revamped the fps genre.
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