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Which FPS series has the best single player campaign?

Battlefield 4 1.07%
 
BioShock 99 26.54%
 
Call of Duty 15 4.02%
 
Killzone 31 8.31%
 
Halo 80 21.45%
 
Resistance 23 6.17%
 
Other... specify! 77 20.64%
 
See results 44 11.80%
 
Total:373
Shadowfest3 on 07 March 2012

Out of all the FPS that I've played, there have only been two games that I actually finished the campaign. Those two were Halo: CE and Halo: Reach. So with that info my answer should be obvious .



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ethomaz on 07 March 2012

In order...

Half-Life
BioShock
Killzone



greenmedic88 on 07 March 2012

Half-Life series



Wyrdness on 07 March 2012

No Half Life? HL easily has the best singleplayer imo.



Mummelmann on 07 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
No-one would dare classify Mass Effect as a shooter. Rightly so.


I dare classify Mass Effect 2 as a shooter. The first one is more obfuscated in genre definition and leans more towards RPG than the sequel.

PS: All the Half-Life love is warming my heart...



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Dallinor on 07 March 2012

Half-Life by a country mile. Seriously, it's in a league of it's own.

Other decent FPS campaigns are Timesplitters 2, Halo 2, Killzone 2 and MW2.

Black and Tau Fire Warrior were also quite enjoyable.



 

TWRoO on 07 March 2012
Dallinor said:
Half-Life by a country mile. Seriously, it's in a league of it's own.

Other decent FPS campaigns are Timesplitters 2, Halo 2, Killzone 2 and MW2.

Black and Tau Fire Warrior were also quite enjoyable.

I was gonna mention TS2 but having not played the others I didn't know if it is good as a series.



Dr.Grass on 07 March 2012
TWRoO said:
Dr.Grass said:
curl-6 said:
The Metroid Prime trilogy.

 

Not an FPS. Not even close

I don't understand why it has become indoctrinated that FPS is a genre of video game in it's own right.

The 'FP' in FPS stands for 'First Person'... this has nothing to do with the genre of the game, it is a game mechanic. It's like using the difference between 2D and 3D platformers and calling them different genres. It's prefectly ok to seperate between the two because they have different gameplay mechanics, but Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. 3 are still both platformers. The 'S' for 'Shooter' is something that you do in the game, it could be argued that as the game is about shooting that Shooter is a game genre. Personally I don't see it that way for any game that has a proper story or varied gameplay, a shooter as a genre would be something more akin to asteroids or galaga where all you do in the game is shoot and move about. Alternately many games are cross-genre so it's perfectly possible for something to be both a shooter and an adventure game. Either way it cannot be argued that Metroid Prime isn't a shooter.

The genre of a game is what it's about... For me the majority of FPS games are in the vast genre called Action games. Action games encompass a wide variety of sub-genres such as shooters (in both FP and TP camera forms) fighters and platformers.

Metroid Prime series is still an FPS, but it's in the Action-Adventure genre instead of just Action.

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I haven't played it but isn't Bioshock an FPS-RPG (maybe to less of an extent than Deus-Ex, but I thought it had enough RPG elements to be different from normal Action FPS)

Also Portal is still an FPS, but it's a Puzzle-FPS

Battalion Wars is in Third Person but if it were in First Person perspective it would be a Strategy FPS.

You are conveniently ignoring the 'S' that stands for shooter.

Going by your logic one might as well put Gears of War and Skyrim in the TPC genre. They are both Third Person Combat games after all aren't they.

The nuances in gaming design make it special. You people are forgetting that.



TWRoO on 07 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
TWRoO said:
Dr.Grass said:
curl-6 said:
The Metroid Prime trilogy.

 

Not an FPS. Not even close

I don't understand why it has become indoctrinated that FPS is a genre of video game in it's own right.

The 'FP' in FPS stands for 'First Person'... this has nothing to do with the genre of the game, it is a game mechanic. It's like using the difference between 2D and 3D platformers and calling them different genres. It's prefectly ok to seperate between the two because they have different gameplay mechanics, but Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. 3 are still both platformers. The 'S' for 'Shooter' is something that you do in the game, it could be argued that as the game is about shooting that Shooter is a game genre. Personally I don't see it that way for any game that has a proper story or varied gameplay, a shooter as a genre would be something more akin to asteroids or galaga where all you do in the game is shoot and move about. Alternately many games are cross-genre so it's perfectly possible for something to be both a shooter and an adventure game. Either way it cannot be argued that Metroid Prime isn't a shooter.

The genre of a game is what it's about... For me the majority of FPS games are in the vast genre called Action games. Action games encompass a wide variety of sub-genres such as shooters (in both FP and TP camera forms) fighters and platformers.

Metroid Prime series is still an FPS, but it's in the Action-Adventure genre instead of just Action.

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I haven't played it but isn't Bioshock an FPS-RPG (maybe to less of an extent than Deus-Ex, but I thought it had enough RPG elements to be different from normal Action FPS)

Also Portal is still an FPS, but it's a Puzzle-FPS

Battalion Wars is in Third Person but if it were in First Person perspective it would be a Strategy FPS.

You are conveniently ignoring the 'S' that stands for shooter.

Going by your logic one might as well put Gears of War and Skyrim in the TPC genre. They are both Third Person Combat games after all aren't they.

The nuances in gaming design make it special. You people are forgetting that.

No I didn't. I mentioned it in the bolded section, and stated I personally don't think of 'shooters' to be a major genre on it's own, but rather something you do in the game (part of the gameplay), rather than what the game is (the genre)

I can see though why shooter can be considered a genre for the likes of CoD/Halo etc, but if Halo and CoD can be included into the shooter genre simply because they are about shooting things, then so can Metroid Prime, because it is also about shooting things. All three games are about more than just shooting, but it still forms a major part of the gameplay.

Yes the Metroid Prime series is special, there are not many action/adventure games that are played primarily from a first person perspective (though lots have a first person view incorporated, like Zelda) and even fewer that are shooters.



robzo100 on 07 March 2012

I would have to say Metroid Prime....BUT, when it comes to the most essential qualities of an FPS I think Metroid Prime does not have as much detail and depth as a series like Halo. I mean there is a lot of non-shooting in Metroid Prime and a low arsenal of weaponry, and ammo was only a factor in Metroid Prime 2.

My problem is that I happen to like a game like Metroid Prime over most FPS. So it wins simply because I think it is a better single player game than almost all FPS. That being said, the multiplayer of modern FPSs is awesome and always a blast with friends.