What, in your honest opinion, is THE most advanced first-person game for its time? - by DentonSHODAN
ZylonBane on 19/4/2010 at 20:11
Quote Posted by Queue
For it's time, Phantasmagoria.
A fucking FMV game? You fail gaming (and punctuation) forever.
Al_B on 19/4/2010 at 20:16
I assume he wasn't being serious.
june gloom on 19/4/2010 at 20:36
It's Queue. You can never tell.
Dresden on 19/4/2010 at 22:38
Technically it's first person, as is Myst.
Jason Moyer on 19/4/2010 at 23:18
I think the fail has more to do with it being an FMV game than the perspective it's played from. In any case, as shit as that entire genre was, there were better first person FMV games.
icemann on 20/4/2010 at 04:07
Another vote for Unreal. That game blew me away more than any game before or since ever has. The music, the amazing graphics and the levels. That whole game was/is just amazing.
Of more recent games Fallout 3 was a damn well done game. Other than the random crashes the game engine was good, the combats great, graphics great. All round an excellent game (not counting mothership zeta).
gunsmoke on 20/4/2010 at 04:46
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I think the fail has more to do with it being an FMV game than the perspective it's played from. In any case, as shit as that entire genre was, there were better first person FMV games.
This. WTF, Queue.
RamNexus on 20/4/2010 at 06:29
I have fond memories of Dark Forces. It came out during the doom craze but was (IIRC) the first game with mouse look, and being in the Star Wars universe it had all the music and sound effects i loved. As i recall the addon "Mysteries of the Sith" was he first game of its type with coloured lighting, which was also impressive.
To this day i stilll bind my keys the way i first did when i played Dark Forces.
Thirith on 20/4/2010 at 07:33
Quote Posted by RamNexus
I have fond memories of Dark Forces. It came out during the doom craze but was (IIRC) the first game with mouse look, and being in the Star Wars universe it had all the music and sound effects i loved. As i recall the addon "Mysteries of the Sith" was he first game of its type with coloured lighting, which was also impressive.
To this day i stilll bind my keys the way i first did when i played Dark Forces.
I think you may be conflating
Dark Forces and its sequel,
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. The former was basically a
Doom TC of sorts, though with cool levels; the latter was definitely a post-
Quake game, with real 3D levels (and the add-on you mention).
polytourist97 on 20/4/2010 at 08:52
I'll post a solid mention for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2.
Multiple story lines & endings; morality scale; RPG mechanics (leveling force powers) mixed with FPS combat; great environmental/situational puzzle-solving ... and all in a full 3D game world with fantastic sound and music. One of the more underrated games ever in my opinion.
I think SS1 is probably just as well deserving as anything though. It's crazy to think about where other FPS games were at and how SS1 measured against them when it came along and did its thing.
