Your entry into the world of FPS?

[Deleted member 746185]

Wolfenstein 3D was one of the first games after the GTA games that I played on my 128 mb RAM desktop back in 2007 (which was still a potato computer by 2007 standards XD)

 

[Graw]

I played Doom but I didn't really appreciate it until I revisited in the 2000s, and now I still play it pretty frequently. Believe it or not I found it quite scary when it came out. Particularly the Imps.

I don't mind Doom. It's not my favourite but I still play it every once in a while. I had it installed on my phone for a bit alongside Duke3d actually. Some of the custom maps that exist for Doom today are super awesome but even the classic campaign is still good. I even enjoyed Doom 3 though it seems like a lot of people don't really care for it. I didn't really find the 2016 remake to be anything all that special. I don't like qte type shit. I find it annoying and there was a lot of that even in the demo I played.

 

[pingugaming]

the first fps i've ever saw was probably the original quake! but the one that got me into the genre is the og half-life

 

[Ne0Griever]

 

[JPZ]

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS I ever played on a friend's PC and later Doom as well.

Both were graphically very impressive at the time, but Doom had a definite wow factor in the way the world moved around the player, and the shotgun reload animation really stood out for me!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I knew them mostly from a magazine and found it scary.

Not fully horror but I always felt like Turok was a FPS with some creepiness coming of it while Goldeneye and Perfect Dark were more conventional.


I love how this game had some "Metroid Prime-esque" effect with the Primagen Keys and getting new abilities to get to them. Powerslave did that a bit before but it was the first game on a Nintendo console to have a non linear progression for a FPS.

 

[p0stalgrrl]

tf2, oh and shitty browser fps games.

 

[Onionstarz]

Doom Shareware on my sisters win 95 PC i was about 25

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

It was either Doom or another early FPS that did not appeal to me. Although Unreal Tournament (1999) was the first game of the genre I spent more than 1 hour playing, particularity against friends at high school.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

2013 i get counter strike CD from my friend from school 3rd grade me had no idea what he was about to see he heard of counter strike he doesn't know anything about it however......having played or rather watched my sibling playing house of the dead and played some police chasing shooting game but those compare to nothing that was counter strike.

I boot up the map although for my age at 8 i had some decent English counter strike is too much for me i load up assault and my pc as of 2013 struggled to run it i hear a lagging "rrrrouunnddd drraaaw" but from there i figure what maps best suited the device and smooth sailing later in 2014 i play with the pc and burn it's energy storing thing i think no FPS until 2018 where we lead by my older sibling we install CS 1.6 and i have a huge blast i remember spending nights playing with bots on siege and Italy i even recorded many videos that are still up on Facebook to this day , i would buy this chocolate called "candy bar" prepare a mug of nescafe and play like that round in round out equip SG552 , protect the hostages i loved playing terrorists ever since 2013 i enjoyed planting bombs and wrecking havoc.

Now i still have CS 1.6 and CS source on my current device today i spotted a gaming Cafe where 2 dudes or kids were playing CS 1.6 one of them shot the hostages i screamed silently "YOU DONKY YOU DON'T SHOOT THE HOSTAGES"

 

[Lena CE]

Maybe I played an FPS prior to this one, but the first one I remember was Halo:CE on Xbox. My stepdad bought an Xbox from his friend but it didn't come with any games (aside from Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball which was left in the disc tray and my parents never let me play lol). My mom took me to the store to pick out a game for it and there was a copy plastered in GOTY awards that was also sitting next to an Official Xbox Magazine issue that advertised a guide for CE on the cover. All that marketing made it seem like the best game ever so I went with that.

Took it home to play it and yea, fuck it really is one of the best games ever made! That moment you stepped out of the drop pod at the beginning of level 2 is still one of the craziest memories of my young life as a gamer. I remember just walking around and exploring that area over and over again. Trying to jump to the lower bridge (you can), staring at the waterfall for hours, trying to snipe the Banshees, choosing to run back and actually fight the patrol you're meant to avoid at the mission's start. I'd never played a game with a such a massive playspace before and the first person perspective just made me feel so small in comparison to it all.

I eventually got a lot of school friends into Halo since I was the only kid with an Xbox for a long while. Definitely blew a lot of our minds back in the day!

 

[fmsynthetic]

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS I ever played on a friend's PC and later Doom as well.

Both were graphically very impressive at the time, but Doom had a definite wow factor in the way the world moved around the player, and the shotgun reload animation really stood out for me!

I remember my dad's selling point for Wolf3D being that the guns actually sounded like guns, which is interesting because many modern games don't get this right

 

[Lena CE]

I remember my dad's selling point for Wolf3D being that the guns actually sounded like guns, which is interesting because many modern games don't get this right

Standards are higher. Few people would ever claim that Wolf 3D's sounds were ever all that accurate, but for many they were the closest any game had ever gotten by a mile. Nowadays you have way more FPS with way more stylistic intentions and levels of realism being chased. Some games want to sound as real as possible, some games have other intentions in mind.

 

[Burzuru]

turok 2 on the n64. i was like 4 years old, it was too intimating, and i couldn't make myself play past the starting area of the game

 

[Spyrone]

turok 2 on the n64. i was like 4 years old, it was too intimating, and i couldn't make myself play past the starting area of the game

I always found N64 FPS games to be rather intimidating, mainly because of the weird ass tripod controller they used for the console. Most of the FPS games for the console were really good but held back IMO by that wonky weird-ass controller. The only one I can remember really enjoying was Perfect Dark. It didn't help that by the time I got an N64 I already had an Xbox, Gamecube and a PS2 and and was used to the far more standardized control schemes and much better controller designs of that era.

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Wolfenstein 3D was one of the first games after the GTA games that I played on my 128 mb RAM desktop back in 2007 (which was still a potato computer by 2007 standards XD)

Damn, and I thought my Compaq desktop was a toaster. 128MBs of RAM- holy hell, that's stone age even back then. Even that old secondhand Presario had 512MB of RAM. Though I'm still surprised I could get it to run F.E.A.R at all, even on minimum settings.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

The shareware version of DooM that came with my Windows 95 when I was a kid.

Then my obsession with FPS got all high with Halo and Battlefield.

 

[Deleted member 264618]

it was Borderlands 2 on the xbox360, i wasted so many weeks in that game.

 

[tuesday]

I think my first shooter was either Doom or Quake. Those were the days..

 

[MegaDrive1987]

Doom on PS1, my mate had a PS1 and it was his dads game, we weren't supposed to play it but his dad was at work so obviously we played it haha. Used scare the shit out of us.

 

[Spyrone]

it was Borderlands 2 on the xbox360, i wasted so many weeks in that game.

Just weeks? I played that one and The Pre-Sequel waaay too much for years. TBH the only thing that got me to quit was Take-Two's EULA BS last Spring. It's really saddening that those bastards have the copyrights for a lot of my favorite franchises and I only have the drive space to put the, ahem, liberated copies of GTA on my PC at the moment.

 

[emotion_engine]

Call of Duty: World at War. I scoffed at FPS games as being for losers until I found that game at a Goodwill. I was shocked by how fun and intense it was; the Russian missions were really something else. I really would love to try the other CoD games, but not sure I really want to play Terrorist Shooter 2010, you know? History and Sci-fi/Fantasy stuff is more stomach-able for me.

 

[fmsynthetic]

History and Sci-fi/Fantasy stuff is more stomach-able for me.

That's why I like Heretic so much

 

[NovumVeritas]

I think my first real FPS was, Unreal Tournament '99 on PS2. Later on PC.

 

[Spyrone]

Call of Duty: World at War. I scoffed at FPS games as being for losers until I found that game at a Goodwill. I was shocked by how fun and intense it was; the Russian missions were really something else. I really would love to try the other CoD games, but not sure I really want to play Terrorist Shooter 2010, you know? History and Sci-fi/Fantasy stuff is more stomach-able for me.

Black Ops II would be a good place to start when it comes to other CoD games. IMO it's the best CoD game, and has both the cyberpunk main campaign (it has flashback levels set in Cold War too) and a lot of zombie maps have a weird magitek meets atompunk or steampunk setting. Might be able to scratch both the scifi and fantasy itch all at once. Amid Evil and Calcium Contract are also really good fantasy themed FPS games if BO2 doesn't cut it for the fantasy itch.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Medal of Honor and Final Doom, both on PS1 haha.