Shooters That You Want to be Brought Back

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Operation Wolf. Ya know, the old arcade title from the Eighties/Nineties.

I enjoyed the hell out of that when it was around and spent a lot of money just killing huge amounts of terrorists and drug smugglers.

A gritty PSN or Xbox Live reboot would be fun to see.

Good Call Of Duty.

Hey, the COD games aren't bad, per se, just un-original and in need of some new ideas. Basically it needs more Black Ops 2 and less Ghosts.

I want to see another Timesplitters.

I'd like more Heretic/Hexen medieval fantasy-type shooters.

Tried that, and nope. The controls are still as wonky as ever. The only thing that changed is that the music now sounds like crap.

That's weird—I just went back and tried it myself, and it seems to work well for me, strafing and mouse-look included.

Did you check the options menus? It's been some time since I set up Heretic, so I don't recall what options I set, but I do seem to recall that Z Doom provides an impressive array of options to set, including control-related options.

Otherwise, are you using a reasonably recent version of Z Doom?

Right. I was just too lazy to look for options and stuff

Now that I have changed the controls, it's amazing. I can play Heretic with the controls of TF2! It's a dream come true!

Thanks a bunch

STALKER series!

Definitely want another Timesplitters. Timesplitters 2 is still the best shooter I've ever played.

Most of the ones I'd like to see have already been mentioned...Quake, Unreal (though I'd prefer a new single-player one), Heretic/Hexen, Blood, Half-Life, Shogo, Painkiller (an actual completely new one instead of a partial sequel/partial remake like Hell & Damnation was)...

One semi-obscure one I'd like brought back is Chasm: The Rift. It was somewhere in between Doom and Quake in terms of technology - 3D modeled enemies and items rather than sprites, but no true 3D level geometry (floors above floors) - and the level design was sometimes frustrating, but it had neat Puzzle Bosses and you could shoot enemies' limbs off.

Oh, and Blake Stone. Love to see a new one of those.

EDIT: Just had the best idea for a new Shogo: the mecha bits are done in FPS style like the original game, while the on-foot sequences are done as a Visual Novel with branching story paths.

edited 13th Apr '14 6:02:11 AM by MasterInferno

@Midnight Rambler: It's my pleasure—I'm glad that you got it working! Enjoy it—I seem to recall that Heretic with modern controls is a lot of fun. ^_^

We need a new Dark Forces Saga game. Those games were basically awesome.

I knew we got a new entry only two years ago, but I would like to see Twisted Metal become a regular Play Station franchise again. It's just so unique.