Your entry into the world of FPS?

[Dyne]

Wolfenstein 3D

There weren't a lot of computers around back then, but the ones I did come across at school or whatever always seemed to have Wolfenstein on them somehow. Almost like it was preinstalled.

 

[Mahan_Native]

for me it was Half Life 1 and Serious Sam The First Encounter
Half Life 1 was truly a blast. i was amazed by the enemy ai and the weapons, it was so good and Serious Sam The First Encounter was just pure chaos i loved it.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Doom on GBA, I love those crispy bits

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Doom on GBA, I love those crispy bits
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lol

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

The Adobe Flash port of Doom 1 that I used to boot up on my school’s crummy chromebooks via those “unblocked games” sites back in high school.

My knowledge of fps games up until then was that they were all multiplayer focused slop where children scream slurs at you through their headsets, but that game showed me how the genre can have actual level design, well implemented game mechanics and enemy variety, strategy, etc.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

OG Doom for the PC

and Wolfenstein 3D also for the PC

 

[Deleted member 660650]

My knowledge of fps games up until then was that they were all multiplayer focused slop where children scream slurs at you through their headsets, but that game showed me how the genre can have actual level design, well implemented game mechanics and enemy variety, strategy, etc.

My dearest FPS genre reduced to Valorant BS!!!! lol

 

[Deleted member 466]

Quake 3: Arena at a local internet cafe.

Played a bit of Doom on the SNES but wasn't really into it.

 

[χKai]

I used to watch my dad play DOOM, Redneck Rampage and other FPSes but I never liked them myself.

Then I got older and discovered Fallout. I first tried Fallout 3 before New Vegas came out, and I loved the grocery store level. Then I got older and tried New Vegas and that was what really got me into the game.

I forgot about it, and didn't play it again for like 10 years. Then I remembered the game and downloaded it to my laptop, and played it a whole bunch before my computer was eventually stolen.

Several years later, I got a new computer, and began to really get into the game, loading it with mods like QoL and other improvements, as well as (mostly) lore-friendly mods that fit well into the game's environment. I spent over a year modding the game every day until I had tons of mods to enhance the game into something beyond anything I'd ever played. Keep in mind when I say "modding" I don't mean "playing" the game; trying to achieve the perfect mod setup, I still haven't been able to beat Fallout New Vegas. Maybe someday.

 

[Max]

Red Faction for the Gamecube, I only played it once, I should try it again.

 

[Cu1tur3D_Gam3R]

OG Modern Warfare on the 360. This was real deal Call of Duty, not the Fortnite snorting horsedung that is modern day COD.

 

[SherionVane]

half life

 

[MasterEn]

i think house of the dead was the first time that i played a first person shooter game.

 

[Ikagura]

Probably Goldeneye and Half-Life but I was quite bad at it. I've also tried Doom SNES and Doom 64 through emulation but couldn't go far.

It was a bit later when I was finally decent (and discovered source ports for Doom) that I truly enjoyed the genre.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

Duke3D. Playing the opening of E1M1 Hollywood Holocaust is one of my earliest memories. As well as beating the E1 boss (on a relative's save - No way I got that far myself )

 

[Ephemera1_]

It was definitely these two games

 

[Rox00]

Played Halo 3 on the good old Xbox 360 as my first FPS, later on I went back to the older Halos but it was the game that got me into FPS as a whole.

 

[Lokgamer]

I was never a big fan of first-person view, but one day, by chance, I played Bioshock and from then, I stopped ignoring fps.

 

[MonkeyMondays]

GoldenEye for the N64 was my first experience, 2nd was one of the Turok games. But what really made me start liking them was the Metroid Prime series, followed by The Orange Box, mainly TF2.

 

[Carlnshake]

<3
WOLFENSTEIN FELLAS. WE ARE FUCKING DOMINATING THIS THREAD

 

[fmsynthetic]

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.

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.

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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.

6DOF is coming back now. Descent is great, awesome soundtrack.

 

[Lokgamer]

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.

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6DOF is coming back now. Descent is great, awesome soundtrack.

Well, if there're people who are scared of Resident Evil, it's no surprise that someone is scared of Doom.

 

[Bakuma1997]

A cousin of me let us have for a month his N64, the only game it had was Goldeneye007, the first one we owned was Medal Of Honor Underground, man, Me, my big bro and the first boyfriend of my sis played the heck of it in the Semana de Posada

 

[Spyrone]

Halo: Combat Evolved. I'm surprised I'm the only one who seems to have played that one first, given that it was literally the reason most people who had Xboxes bought them for, until Halo 2 came out.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Not sure... Either a shareware Descent or Heretic(around 94-96).