pdenton on 28/3/2011 at 03:48
Metro 2033 100% recommended from me as well.
Hitman: Blood Money...easily my favorite in the series and the most complete feeling of the games. Beat it a few weeks ago and still stands up.
Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a lengthy, challenging FPS/RPG. It's definitely challenging but also one of the most immersive first person games I've ever played.
Singularity, to me at least, was very underrated. Its story is pure camp and it certainly isn't the most original game on the market, but it's pretty lengthy and simply FUN to play.
june gloom on 28/3/2011 at 04:52
CoC is good until you get to the truck escape sequence. At that point it turns into a fucking stupid waste of time. I have to this day never gotten past it because I die over and over and fucking over and suddenly my HD is a few hundred megs lighter.
catbarf on 28/3/2011 at 04:58
Quote Posted by dethtoll
CoC is good until you get to the truck escape sequence. At that point it turns into a fucking stupid waste of time. I have to this day never gotten past it because I die over and over and fucking over and suddenly my HD is a few hundred megs lighter.
As much as I wanted to like the game I have to agree. I think once it gives you a weapon at all is the turning point- the combat is so clunky, and you're forced into it. The investigation and horror at the beginning is excellent, but then it turns into a fairly generic shooter with some fishmen.
Melan on 28/3/2011 at 07:24
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Despite Melan specifically saying repeatedly he wasn't interested, hahahaha.
Just the usual forum entropy. As time goes on, all threads converge towards general discussion tangentially related to the initial topic; then, finally, user conflicts or cat pictures :cool:
The on-topic suggestions have been appreciated, though. Played Portal yesterday afternoon, and was suitably impressed. Studios should make more stuff like this.
june gloom on 28/3/2011 at 08:24
What, you mean 3-hour long tutorial sections with no actual game afterward?
negativeliberty on 28/3/2011 at 08:57
System Shock, Thief & Deus Ex series (/captainobvious. Not pure fps of course.)
No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 (also retro-futuristic guns and gadgetry, truly great games, don't know where people got the idea that 2 isn't as good as 1)
VTM: Bloodlines (more rpg than fps of course)
Hitman series (well, start with Hitman 2. Not exactly first person, but Max Payne isn't either. Also.. not exactly a shooter but close enough)
Portal (not really a shooter but the portal gun qualifies as futuristic :p)
Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series
Operation Flashpoint
Stalker series (start vanilla)
BioShock (have yet to finish it though)
Far Cry, Crysis (I got bored with the latter, but it's apparently not bad)
Mafia (okay this maybe violates too many requirements but it's a great SP game, also Tommyguns and prohibition running, in case you haven't played it)
Doom, Quake, Unreal series
And some goofier oldies: DN3D, Marathon, Shadow Warrior, Blood.
Melan on 28/3/2011 at 09:07
Quote Posted by dethtoll
What, you mean 3-hour long tutorial sections with no actual game afterward?
I guess, although it is waaaaay outside what I was asking for in this thread. I'll have to look into user-created levels; there are probably a zillion of them already.
gunsmoke on 28/3/2011 at 09:36
Yeah, I have to second recommend Monolith's earlier contributions. NOLF, SHOGO: MAD, Condemned, hell even Contract Jack was good, it just got shit on because it wasn't NOLF with a man, and instead did its own thing.
Ahris on 28/3/2011 at 09:43
I thought i'd add 'Hellgate: London' to the list. It plays like an FPS among other things. :) I had a lot of fun with it anyways, reminded me a bit of Painkiller actually.
