Your entry into the world of FPS?

[Pseudo64]

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.