FPS enjoyers, which was the greatest era? (and why)

[Zkuq]

Spindel said:

Zkuq said:

This does seem like the correct answer, although I've never played a ton of shooters, so I'm hardly one to judge too well. For a bit of variety, I'd like to add Operation Flashpoint, even though I'm not exactly very familiar with it.

It's pretty funny how most of the posts here so far favour the time(s) when console shooters weren't really a huge thing yet. The pre-analog stick era seems to be the most popular so far, then it's the early analog stick era. I wonder if it's just the small sample size we have here or if consoles did something detrimental to shooters. I'm guessing it's a bit of both. Another potential factor is online play, which can be fun but probably doesn't contribute well to creating classics: games with a heavy multiplayer focus seem to be less likely to become classics, but shooters are a genre that works particularly well in multiplayer.

As others have pointed out KB+M is the superior control method for FPS games. 

But a thing not mentioned is that FPS on consoles is the epitome of dumbing down games for consoles with basically all of them having aim-assist/auto-aim.

I think aim assist is probably mostly just compensation for the inferior control method rather than intentional dumbing down. That said, I do think having an analog stick is mostly an advantage for movement, but it's definitely a disadvantage for aiming. Unfortunately there are no popular options for analog movement with mouse controls, so that control scheme is probably not well supported in practice.

curl-6 said:

Possibly a hot take, but I reckon there are a ton of great console FPS, a ton of great FPS post the 2000s, and a number of really good COD games.

As the person who brought up the matter, I don't object to this at all. I don't have much experience with console shooters due to my dislike of the control method, so I can't really speak much about them. I just find it curious that it would seem that for some reason or another, most replies to this thread seem to prefer earlier shooters. As an anecdote, I like both old and new Wolfenstein games, and while the most recent games in the series have been good too, I do prefer the older ones. I think it might have something to do with the snappier controls, but it's been a while since I've played any Wolfenstein games, so I could be remembering the more recent ones incorrectly. I do know for certain that the older ones definitely had very snappy controls though.