Your entry into the world of FPS?

[ThunderBoy]

Which game introduced you to the FPS genre?

For me it was Doom 2.

My older brother brought it home and it blew my mind.

I knew nothing about the game or the genre.

From then on i started playing the first Doom, Wolfenstein and all the ones that came after (Heretic, Blood, DukeNukem 3D, Quake....)

 

[AncientBehemoth]

Zero Tolerance, Bloodshot, CS 1.6.

 

[fmsynthetic]

Wolf3D buddy

Nothing really clicked until the Build Engine holy trinity though

 

[PSVitaForever]

My first one has been "Killzone Mercenary" on Vita; I put hour and hours into multiplayer (apart completing the story, but without being able to get all objectives with the different weapons and armours). I have never enjoyed another title as much, apart from "Unit 13" always on Vita.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Wolfenstein 3D.

My dad, sister and I competed to see who could get the most points.

 

[nobitakun]

Doom, then a few months later, Quake. And after a few months more, Blood.

 

[Mago]

Goldeneye introduced me. Doom (1993) made me a fan.

 

[ThatOneLum]

I experienced things like Duke Nukem 3D and Doom 1/2 on my dads Win 98 machine, but the first FPS I really clicked with was probably Halo: Combat Evolved.

I didn't have a PC capable of true FPS gameplay until years later, so I had to wait for the first console FPS that didn't have insane controls (or at least, the first one I was familiar with). I never played it online but I had a complete blast playing through the storyline over-and-over again.

To this day, I remember spending weeks stuck on The Flood, because I thought you had to try and make it across a light bridge that kept glitching out on you, not realising that when you fall down, the stairs take you back up again to the other side of the bridge you were trying to reach initially.

I literally spent so many hours trying to make it across that bridge while the exit to the level was literally right next to me.

 

[qw90700]

- Zero Tolerance - (Released in 1994 but played the game around late 90s)

That day I got my pay and as usual I headed to the only place that sells video games in the town. The shop owner was so excited he seemed like he just had the greatest sex of his life time and also the woman paid her $1 million for his service or something, like his AI programming based on motion sensor, as soon as I entered the shop he flied to me and said "kid you gotta see the new game just dropped". I understood whatever the game it was it must be so extraordinary, despite I saw this guy a lot being so excited for games he found and all but this time things were "too much" lol.

He already prepared his TV and Sega Genesis, ready to play the game. Then he turned on so we watched the classic "Zero Tolerance" intro and I was already like "wow so cool" but he said "kid, that's not all".

After character selection screen he entered the game and sweet mother of Jesus, the game 3D but real 3 dimensional, not pseudo ones. I was like "WTF. How is dat possibleee!!!!" and the last time I gave such a reacton to something was reading about blackholes in the public library and trying to comprehend how gravity bends spacetime and stuff. We used to playing 2D stuff on Sega Genesis so real 3D was so much!!!!

But the game was so realistic. The game has map system as HUD so you could see enemy's location on the map as you play the game, you could select weapon and stuff (which before only saw on Contra Force), when you are out of ammo your guy can kick and punch. When you shoot people their blood splashes to the nearest wall and then slowly falls down to the floor and shit. I was like "no waaaayyy duuudeeeeee" and the guy was like "yeeeesss waaay duuuuude" and I just bought the game and flew to my home and played it all day while I was like this all the time:

I love beat 'em up games so much I even turned this game into one. I was running like ninja jumping and crouching just so I can kill people without using a gun, I was kicking and punching instead lol. I came up with my own challenge to beat the game like this but never could because the game too hard for this. They shoot you and you just slam to wall lol. Perhaps I should try it again soon lol.

--- First FPS I played on PC: Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror (Released in 2002 but played the game few years later. No internet culture yet in my country but the game was very popular around.)

Honestly the game still "advanced" than Counter Strike series ever was because you can carry multiple guns beyond knife and pistol, you can throw knife, there are really cool weapons like a machinegun that can make planes explode and the american gun can shoot bomb, and it's funny to give weapon to hostages so they help you clean terrorist lol!!!! From my eyes even latest Counter Strike is way inferior to Tactical Ops lol.

 

[Tonberry]

Probably Battlefield 1942. It was absolutely huge where I lived.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Medal of Honor for the PS1

 

[Bonkers225]

 

[Pearly]

Alien trilogy on the PlayStation, then shortly after that was goldeneye on the N64.

Never really loved FPS games in general, I loved Halo 1-3 and metroid prime. Half life 2 was brilliant as was portal, however half life 1 wasn't as amazing to me as I played goldeneye first and that pretty much did the big levels with a narrative long before half life did, for which half life is praised for moving away from the doom formula, yes if you only had a PC maybeand ignore the existence of goldeneye. I also really liked wolfenstein 2009 and the newer game, old blood and new order.

Quake and doom are the definition of mindless shooters, they can be fun, and doom especially is as important as mario in a few ways.

I was never the biggest doom or quake fan though, I never liked the maze and keys of doom or the level design of quake. I also love a good story and great music, which Halo and Metroid did amazingly well, though you've to read a lot to get the overall story of the prime games.

I've played and enjoyed the "greats". I can say they're great games despite not being an FPS fan.

I am aware metroid is a FP adventure, technically, sue me

I should also add don't ever play the online multiplayer, save maybe halo reach and 4 for a few weeks nearly 15 years ago

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Final Doom is my first one and big fan of Metroid prime series (but I haven't fully played the fps which I going back to that genre)

 

[Clippy]

Wolfenstein 3D sometime in the mid-90s. Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D fairly quickly after that.

 

[blindpr0phet]

I was a little late to FPS games, so either Left 4 Dead 2 or Half-Life 2.

 

[moon200218]

Which game introduced you to the FPS genre?

For me it was Doom 2.

My older brother brought it home and it blew my mind.

I knew nothing about the game or the genre.

From then on i started playing the first Doom, Wolfenstein and all the ones that came after (Heretic, Blood, DukeNukem 3D, Quake....)

for me it was project I.G.I on PC. I never got past the 2nd or third level at that time. I also played virtual cop 2 and house of the dead games, but those are probably not fps

 

[qw90700]

half life 1 wasn't as amazing to me as I played goldeneye first and that pretty much did the big levels with a narrative long before half life did, for which half life is praised for moving away from the doom formula

Honestly I always thought Half Life 1, a game I was so bored deleted after 2 hours of gameplay, is an overrated boring mess. Way before it was released there were way better games with way more features so playing HL1 after playing Zero Tolerance and System Shock 1 it was not special at all. And after 1 year or so they released a better FPS game "Redline" that allow you to drive cars + your car can shoot lol.

Half Life 1 is one of the first example of a "pseudo-game that force you to watch character dialogues and scripted events a lot". For people who love Netflix it may be a plus but for some gamers HL1 is a big minus. And then Half Life 2 has just graphics but still an empty game literally and figuratevely as if they wanted to develop Redline 2 but they failed miserably lol.

As for "mindless killing", this is a point of FPS genre that no one should remove this aspect of the genre because what "mindless killing fun" we can have otherwise? Perhaps to attract "non-FPS gamers" they even turned DOOM Eternal into Super Mario BS as how they mix genres of games these years by diminishing the identity of genres a lot:

When my brain is so tired of thinking about how the whole space "vibrate" as a wave due to the way quantum fields that form space are and therefore extreme quantum fields interraction in relatively small area in space generates so much energy it causes gravity that makes this "vibration" more frequent by narrowing down the oscillation of this "wave" aspect of space-time of that area and therefore space-time bended so hard the area of space that effected by gravity gets reduced and losing dimension as gravity increase therefore it causes an "illusion" of objects "goes down" and all so it makes me think if "normally" objects have 3D existence just because of the current wave-rate of spacetime or not and all I wanna play Quake 2 and enjoy me mindless killing, mate (wow dat sentence yo, Imma download 4 GB RAM to my brain for not to forget what I said just now lolol). Don't touch FPS's identity and keep platforming stay in Super Mario rubbish lolol.

"I need Quake 2 just to comprehend the whole existence and quantum by easing my mind" -- me lolol

 

[Patapolis]

for me, it was wolfenstein 3d.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

Battlezone on the atari I think? I'm not entirely sure. I didn't ever have the system, I'm a gen 1 baby but the first ever FPS I remember actually messing around with was that. Then shortly after that I'm pretty sure it was Alien: Trilogy which is a weird kind of doom clone. What actually got me in to FPS games was playing Unreal tournament 1999 gold edition around my cousins, the multiplayer was amazing back in the day! Some time later I played older games like Doom around his house too!

 

[Varyag]

As much of a massive fan of Doom that I am today, I actually didn't get to play it back in the day. Nor Quake or Unreal Tournament. Hell, I don't really remember playing much of any shooters on the PC before getting some of them on the PS2, like Black and Battlefield 2 and Killzone. But I did get to play some PC Battlefield (1942 and 2) at my friends' houses, a little bit of Duke Nukem, and a lot of Counter Strike at LAN houses.

But what really got me into shooters, was CoD Modern Warfare. Beat the whole game in one afternoon at a friend's, then later got MW2 on my own PC and played the absolute shit out of that.

 

[PhrawzT]

Wolfenstein 3D

My mom came home from work with a copied disk saying that all the engineers at her work were playing it. I would have been 11 at the time.

 

[Graw]

I'm pretty sure it was Duke Nukem 3d but I can't remember if I played Doom first or not. Either way Duke 3d left more of an impression on me.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

This was my first PC game and my first FPS. People complain about the controls, but i beat this game when i was 6-7. This game is awesome.

 

[Segadude113]

the MacPlay version of Wolfenstein 3D.