I want a new PC FPS.

I know, I know, I have all these craptons of games on Steam already, but for some reason I'm not fully satisfied. Killing Floor, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Serious Sam Second Encounter, Borderlands... what exactly is missing?

I want a game that has good graphics (yeah, I'm a bit of a graphics whore when it comes to PC games), has frequent and large enemy encounters (as opposed to largely spaced-out ones with a lot of walk-for-10-minutes sections), has the main protagonist as a One-Man Army, preferrably without a squad, and has a large selection of guns that all feel unique. If possible, I also want to still be able to kill things when I'm done with the main story, like in Borderlands.

For online, first of all, I want to make sure the community is widely active. If competitive, I want few or no vehicles, large amounts of players, and maps small enough that I can find someone to kill every 15 seconds or so, but large enough that I'm not spawn-killed every time. If Co-op, I want to shoot waves of enemies rather than have to get from point A to point B. I also want to be able to blow their brains out like in Killing Floor!

I actually don't want Bulletstorm. I know it sounds like just the kind of game I want, but the problem I have with that game is that in order to get a good score, you have to kill enemies using different methods every time, but I just want to shoot them and be done with it. I don't want to have to think "Oh, I shot this guy in the head already? Now I have to kick him into some spikes rather than just shoot him."

It's actually not that necessary to do that many types of skillkills in Bulletstorm...later in the game I stick to some basic yet effective moves throughout (Bullet Kick, Torpedo, whatever-the-sniper-headshot-is-called...like that...), plus the score only matters that much in Echoes mode, not Campaign, where's it's served as money...okay, it matters, but not as much as you've thought...then again, did you try Painkiller yet?

edited 8th Mar '11 10:34:43 PM by onyhow

You're asking for almost all of the elements people have been demanding in the competitive shooter scene rolled into one game. The majority of companies only focus on a handful at most.

^ I know. These are things that I'd be looking for IF they had them. Obviously I'm not gonna find a game that 100% fits my description, but I want one that's as close as possible. Maybe there ain't a way in Hell that it could happen, I don't know. But given that there's SOOO MANY goddamn FPS games out there, there must be quite a lot that fit into my idea of fun.

^^ Yeah, I've tried Painkiller. Strangely enough, I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I can't really explain why, because even I'm not sure what exactly it was that I didn't find enjoyable.

Team Fortress 2. DUH.

So... What?

You're asking for basically the perfect FPS.

While you're at it, can you ask for the cure for cancer, too? My grandma's been complaining that her lymphoma hurts.

I think you'd enjoy the older shooters like Quake, Unreal and Serious Sam.

DOOM 2 is the greatest game ever made. Play it.

And for horror and atmosphere, Doom 1 Episode 1. Yes, that's right, the part you can get for free as shareware.

For realism: ARMA 2

For a class-based team-based experience with a Mirror's Edge-like movement system: Brink (coming soon)

• Plus vehicles and deployable artillery and turrets: Enemy Territory Quake Wars

For story and stealth: Deus Ex series, with a new game coming soon.

The trick is to know how to find games outside of the Megacorporation-Paid Game Reviews-Artificial Popularity Complex.

Wait for the new Serious Sam?

There was a wonderful zDoom mod called Knee-Deep In Z Doom, which was a rebuild, from the ground up, of the first episode of Doom 1 with the idea of expanding the levels and making them more logical from a space station building point of view. Worth a try, as it's Doom, but with modern-day attention to detail in level design... while still being all that's awesome in Doom. Work that Lostalgia!

TF 2 is good. Got tons of hours on that one.

Doom 2... yus. We even got the freakin' CD. Great game, with even better fan WA Ds (Hell Revealed, anyone?)

That cancer cure you wanted? I think I ate it.

I've never played Unreal. Unreal Tournament, yes, but not Unreal. I'll have to see that.

Can't say I like stealth. Probably why I didn't like Far Cry.

I'll definitely look out for the new Serious Sam when it comes out.

edited 9th Mar '11 2:00:04 PM by MrPoly

In the meantime, get the Serious Sam HD package. Hell, the original's good, too.

Well, Duke Nukem Forever is finally coming out...

More like Duke Nukem FORNEVER, amirite?

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