If you ask a long time veteran of the FPS genre: "What are their favorite first-person shooters?"

They would say most or all of the following games listed here:

• System Shock & System Shock 2
• Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3
• Half-Life & Half-Life 2
• Far Cry
• Painkiller
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
• Team Fortress Classic & Team Fortress 2
• Starsiege Tribes & Tribes 2
• Perfect Dark
• GoldenEye 007
• TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2, and TimeSplitter Future Perfect
• Red Faction
• Black
• Deus Ex
• Duke Nukem 3D
• F.E.A.R.
• Outlaws
• No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
• Battlefield 1942 & Battlefield 2
• Crysis & Crysis Warhead
• Quake, Quake II, & Quake II
• Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, & Unreal Tournament 2004
• Unreal
• Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2
• Descent
• Ghost Recon
• Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six, Six Rogue Spear, & Rainbow Six Raven Shield
• Serious Sam
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault
• Marathon, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity
• Turok & Turok 2
• Wolfenstein 3D & Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Brothers in Arms
• Prey
• Battlezone
• Call of Duty & Call of Duty 2

All of those gamesr are high quality first-person shooters for gamers with high standards.

Ask a Halo fan what their favorite First-Person shooters are and these are the following games they'll mention::

• Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, & Halo 3 ODST
• BioShock A.K.A. System Shock 2's mentally handicapped cousin
• Deus Ex Invisible War
• Project Snowblind
• Call of Duty 4, World at War, & Modern Warfare 2
• Rainbow Six Vegas & Rainbow Six Vegas 2
• Gears of War & Gears of War 2
• Resistance Fall of Men & Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Pariah
• Section 8
• XIII
• Fallout 3
• F.E.A.R. 2
• The Conduit
• GoldenEye Rogue Agent
• Red Steel
• Red Faction 2
• Turok (2008)
• Haze 
• TimeShift

All of those are mediocre first-person shooters for gamers with low standards, some are overrated by the corrupt mainstream gaming media.

Call me a troll, hater, or an elitist but you cannot deny the cold hard truth and reality. 95% of passionate gamers and veteran FPS players are not Halo fans, fact of life.

What is a "true" FPS gamer?

Certainly not Halo fans.

You know what, games are meant to be fun.
That's all I'm gonna say.

Since when Gears of War was a FPS game?

ROFL @ this thread

thats a very scientific study you've got there. I will take this very seriously. (Yawn)

It amazes me the amount of hate Halo seems to garner.

Btw, Fallout 3 is not a FPS, nice try though.

So gamers that play FPS's, are not FPS gamers?
Huh.

I''m sorry but this just doesn't make sense at all.

I like some games from both lists you said. I don't know what you're trying to prove here, I guess make yourself look like some veteran FPS gamer from back in the day.

Just because someone likes Halo, but not counterstrike doesn't make them any less of a FPS fan.

A lot of things wrong with this post
1st up when was Fallout 3, or the gears of war series a first person shooter.
Gears is a third person shooter theres a huge differance buddy.
If you can't distinguish a first person shooter from a third person shooter than you Sir are not a real shooter fan.