What is the best FPS franchise?

As in consistently good? i.e.. it didn't get messed up by a modernization, reinvention or third party developer

Halflife.

Metroid Prime.

I will have to go with Battlefield, that series I was obsessed with sincentives BF2.

Half life single player and certain hl mod became the best multiplayer fps ever.

shadow warrior and far cry

what???

BEST FPS franchises:

HALF LIFE AND STALKER

Half-life because without it, there wouldn't be CS and TF. haha

borderlands and deus ex

Is not an FPS. It's an Adventure Exploration Platforming game that's in first person perspective rather than traditional side scrolling or 3rd person 3D.

@AdobeArtist: Yeah, i always forget Metroid Prime dont count, its a different FPS. More like a first person action-adventure shooter. Same with our poor Zelda, hes no RPG. Hes action-adventure RPG. They evolved long ago, im still shocked so many others havnt.

not sure about that, TF was a Quake mod to begin with

That's what I thought, but eh, I was introduced to the game as a goldsrc mod.

Half Life franchise as a whole has maintained its high standard all these years. Every Half Life game (including expansions and episodes) is something special.

Its modding scene has also given us some of the greatest multiplayer franchises of all time, like Counter Strike and Day of Defeat. Half Life's engine also popularized Team Fortress, which is another popular MP franchise now.

Not too sure since every major and/or pivotal shooter franchise had their fair share of stinkers.

It sure as shit isn't fucking Half-Life though. I love how that's the majority pick when the actual shooting mechanics for HL1 and 2 are painfully weak. I'm willing to give HL1 a bit of a pass due to age, but HL2's mechanics were shitty right off the bat and were paired with some wildly inconsistent pacing. Those games deserve points for presentation, but in no way does that transition into strong gameplay.

Half-Life's greatest achievement is that it paved the way for Counter-Strike.

By the way OP, Doom didn't invent the genre. Wolfenstein brah. Given how much time you devote towards this genre, I figured you'd know that much.

@jagoff: Half-life has no stinkers, you will bow to your King. For the 3 Kings will never be stopped, many have tried, many have failed.

battlefield if we are voting on total average quality between all entries in a series. unreal if we are voting for the series with the single best title

and some of the options in that list have no place. stalker, halo, borderlands.....LOL

but doom was more revolutionary. why did FPS back in 90s called Doom clones and not woflesntien clones?

That's besides the point. Doom may have put the genre on the map, but Wolfenstein is the reason why Doom exists. If you initially said it revolutionized the genre, then there'd be no harm, no foul. But you specifically said "invented", and in that case you're simply incorrect.

One Stalker SoC is so much better than all battlefields game combine.

None of those. I think Timesplitters is the best FPS franchise of all time and it doesn't have any stinkers in the franchise . How can it not make it onto this poll?

only better than bf4(barely), which doesnt mean shit.

@FreedomFreeLife said:

@sukraj said:

shadow warrior and far cry

what???

BEST FPS franchises:

HALF LIFE AND STALKER

Certainly the best chase in a game. Incredible stuff.

Halo

bad company games suck, battlefield 3 suck, battlefield 4 suck

battlefield 2 was good game and last good BF game.

Nothing beats Halo 2 multiplayer. Loved the physics in that game.

Agree with our man Ghost - after Battlefield 2 it became a unlockathon XP based puggy machine - it looks nice - it has nice destruction but the core is Call Of Duty garbage designed to sell microtransactions and multiple tiered versions.

Halflife started amazing and still is. Hipsters try to attack it but always fail.

An incredible game of our times.

Quake, Unreal and Counter Strike.

Half life doesnot exist anymore. series is dead. there will never be another Half life game.

Doom started amazing and still is. so is Deus Ex

Any of those games you've listed are superb except for Halo, I can't believe how many Lems there are...

Hey Low! for me.

Wolfenstein has been the most consistently good for me.

I also love Half Life, Day of Defeat, Red Orchestra and Left 4 Dead.

well there is only one good wolfenstien game imo. thats RTCW. was not familiar with wolf 3d, wolf 2009 suck and so did new order.

Half Life

Metro and Stalker are tied for second

Deus Ex

Honorable mentions goes to Doom, Quake, and Unreal Tournament.

But Halflife is winning.

Went for Battlefield as it's the highest quality AAA series on the list. (With all the patches that is)

Can't call Half Life the best franchise when they haven't released a game in ten years. Nostalgia kicks in, and hypothetically the following sequels could have been garbage or the best games ever who knows.

I haven't played the new Doom, I'm sure it's really fun but I have a bias towards Military shooters.

Why is Metro on the list when CS isn't?

Wolf 3D: Good
RTCW: Amazing
Enemy Territory: Amazing
Wolf 2009: Good
The New Order: Great
The Old Blood: Great

Consistently great series I might add

Halo

It's a FPS, it just happens to show you can make a FPS and not make it a game for idiots, and can have elements beyond just basic ass shooting. But it's a shooter, it's high points are point at thing and shoot.

One of the many reasons the Prime games should be called a FPS, the number one should be that it gives us a thing to point at when we go "hey the FPS doesn't need to be the same fucking thing, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over"

my eyes hurts reading this.

Deus Ex is best of example of FPS not same thing over and over again. basically FPS RPG mix with stealth elements.

And I fucking love it for that, System Shock 2 as well. But like both games, I don't understand why we go out of our way to listen to Nintendo's bullshit, and act like that game isn't a FPS. Deus Ex and System Shock 2 would be even shittier FPS games than Metroid Prime, if judged on their shooting. The shooting in System Shock is just there to be there on some level. They are rpgs first and foremost, as a result you level into your combat options, which could be guns blazing, or straight up working around it the entire game. And it's fucking great.

In contrast, the thing most System Shock fans dislike about Bioshock, is that it's a straight up FPS, where the build options aren't there, thus you're stuck with that janky shooting.

**** Half Life 2 has action/adventure elements, between all the shitty puzzles you solve and straight up nothing you do at times (these aspects are meant to pace the experience).

Ergo point: Metroid Prime 1 and 2 are totally FPS games, the third one it's not even arguable, because the thing that makes it disappointing is that it's a straight up FPS, the fact that they have more straights than "go forward, shoot dudes" is actually amazing, and more instances in this genre should have been that way. Instead of the dime a dozen FPS we got. Be it Doom clones or Modern Warfare clones.

I'll take System Shock games over Half Life all day.

But yea, those seem to be the 2 big series on that list without any weak entries.

Battlefield, it's the only FPS franchise were I've consistently enjoyed every entry.

Methinks Halo or Battlefield are the most consistent and relevant franchises.

How can we even consider Half-Life as they haven't had a main entry since 2004?

Metroid Prime and Doom are my favorites overall.

that and bioshock for me. Halo is up there as well

Half-Life for SP and Battlefield for MP. Since I value MP more for FPS, I voted BF.

"Stealth elements"? You're fuking shoehorned into using non lethal stealth. You get more XP for it to augment your character. If a game is going to be a "play it your way" adventure, don't penalize the player for doing exactly that.

There are a lot of FPS's out there that I've found to be quite fun and unique throughout the years. Oddwrld: Stranger's Wrath and Pariah are among my favorites..

Really sad that Tribes didn't make it onto the poll.

For me it's DOOM, Quake, Halo, Tribes.

**** Half-Life.

I dunno, Halo probably got a few too many games, but they've all been atleast decent.

Half-Life is a dead franchise, but a great one.