Your entry into the world of FPS?

[Sfjeov]

Playing wolf3d on internet archive

 

[MajesticSiN]

Wolfenstein 3D

 

[Deleted member 58254]

halo 3 odst was my first m rated game and first fps

 

[kuroninneko]

I remember a store called Incredible Universe. They had a version of Doom setup and coming from 8 and 16bit consoles I never seen anything like it. I miss that store it was like E3 any day. No surprise they went out of business because most of the time we went just to play games and not buy anything.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Shareware Doom!

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Halo

 

[S O D A]

Goldeneye

 

[Kamomedan]

DOOM 1 and 2. Still remember installing it from my Grandpas CD copy

 

[Jangiku]

I was late to the FPS party. It was Halo 3 for me, I had watched a friend play it at his place back in i think late 2007 to early 2008 and i was sold on the 360 from that day forward...

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I was late to the FPS party. It was Halo 3 for me, I had watched a friend play it at his place back in i think late 2007 to early 2008 and i was sold on the 360 from that day forward...

I think there's no "too late" when Halo 3 is almost 20 years old.

 

[Jangiku]

I think there's no "too late" when Halo 3 is almost 20 years old.

Yea good point, sometimes I really do forget how quickly time passes. Almost 20 years? man...

 

[Ibbie]

My first FPS has to be MW2 for the PS3.

Me and my siblings used to gather together and play multiplayer. I remember fondly when we had a microphone to hook onto voice chat and start trolling by saying something mundane or ridiculous to rile up someone. It was the funniest and greatest moment of my life. This was back when I barely knew any English and had to blindly interpret it in my head of what they were saying. I was a really stupid kid back then.

 

[lytrid]

 

[Kamomedan]

Yea good point, sometimes I really do forget how quickly time passes. Almost 20 years? man...

Don't remind me haha. I remember playing Halo 3 on a friend's 360 back when I was in 5th grade iirc. Around the same time Dead Rising 1 was out. Good times but it really does give me an Old Snake moment.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

 

[TinRattler]

Wolfenstein

 

[ShellYT]

As many others, the original Doom. The difference is, when I first played it I thought "wtf is this garbage i'm playing?" but then years later I came to be able to appreciate a few FPS games when I played Delta Force Xtreme.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

As many others, the original Doom. The difference is, when I first played it I thought "wtf is this garbage i'm playing?"

That's surprising.


But then again when I was a "wee lad" I liked Goldeneye yet when I first emulated Duke Nukem I didn't like it because the enemies were 2D.

And it's weird to say it but 2D enemies were kinda scary to me vs low poly 3D humans.

 

[ShellYT]

That's surprising.


But then again when I was a "wee lad" I liked Goldeneye yet when I first emulated Duke Nukem I didn't like it because the enemies were 2D.

And it's weird to say it but 2D enemies were kinda scary to me vs low poly 3D humans.

Yeah, I totally get it. I think in our heads the graphics appeared much more insane at the time than nowadays. Back then I thought "this game has such amazing graphics" but when you look at it many years after you're wondering if that's really the same game you played younger. For the 2D part I think that's also understandable because 3D was atrocious when it first arrived on retro consoles, pixels were much more immersive, ironically.

 

[UnrealCC]

DUKE NUKEM 3D
HAIL TO THE KING BABY

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Yeah, I totally get it. I think in our heads the graphics appeared much more insane at the time than nowadays. Back then I thought "this game has such amazing graphics" but when you look at it many years after you're wondering if that's really the same game you played younger. For the 2D part I think that's also understandable because 3D was atrocious when it first arrived on retro consoles, pixels were much more immersive, ironically.

I think what saves Goldeneye and Perfect Dark was how it wasn't just a "run and shoot" kind of FPS. Them reacting to the area you shot them in was also immersive and still is today.

Same with how Quake's "low poly-ness" added to the horror of the enemies.

 

[Kamomedan]

As many others, the original Doom. The difference is, when I first played it I thought "wtf is this garbage i'm playing?" but then years later I came to be able to appreciate a few FPS games when I played Delta Force Xtreme.

When i played DOOM as a kid I would get scared of the monsters lol. Specifically when you'd hear them in other rooms before they saw you. Its crazy how far the genre has come since then

 

[ShellYT]

When i played DOOM as a kid I would get scared of the monsters lol. Specifically when you'd hear them in other rooms before they saw you. Its crazy how far the genre has come since then

Now that you mention it, I think there was a little bit of fear as well for them, lol, on top of finding it meh, crazy combo. But you're right. Most of what we have today would be near-unthinkable back then. "NO LOADING SCREENS? NO PIXELS? NO .AVI FILES? LIVE GAME UPDATES WITHOUT DISKS? " and still, to us who came to get used to it, we find that 'just normal' or 'average'. Like 2K is not the peak of graphics, when back then we'd be lucky to even have 360p-like graphics lol.

 

[Tronky.it]

That's a good question, I don't remember exactly, but there were probably 2 of my first FPS titles: I was like 10-11 years old, and I played both Medal of Honor Frontline for the PS2 (good game, by the way), and Call of Duty 3 for the Xbox 360.

 

[Raccoonus]

Red Faction oddly enough, the original title from 2001