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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
Jay520 on 07 March 2012

^^The fuck?



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AdventWolf on 07 March 2012
ishiki said:
AdventWolf said:
ishiki said:

Deus Ex and it's not really close for me, unless you disqualify it because they're heavily RPG's.

Bioshock, though, I didn't find it particularly strong in gameplay. It had good gameplay, and had some neat powers. But it wasn't near as polished as half-life 2, or even call of duty. Nor the role playing elements of deus ex. But still, it's story and atmosphere more than made up for it.

Half life 2, I find a bit dated mechanically (except that it uses health packs instead auto regen hooray!). its still great no doubt. But it used to be one of my top 10 games, and it's fallen quite a bit after subsequent playthroughs (which all my top games go through).


How dare you compare Call of Duty to Bioshock, Call of Duty is nothing in comparison. IMO



I don't like call of duty that much, it's an okay game. But I sort of mistated, it's shooting mechanics are  quite a bit more polished than bioshock imo. Bioshock, is kinda clunky, but so is deus ex (the original) and it's my favorite game.

I rate CoD like a 6 and Bioshock a 9 so don't worry.

I agree, CoD shooting controls are very comfortable. I have found myself playing other fps games and found it so awkward and wished it was as smooth as CoD.



Stinky on 07 March 2012

While I enjoyed most of those games, I think that the Halo campaigns have a lot of replay value.



Jay520 on 07 March 2012
trasharmdsister12 said:
Jay520 said:
^^The fuck?

The Awesome Doesn't Stop x 12



After thirty minutes of confusion, I finally see that this is actually an expansion of TADS12. Well played.

Anyway, how long did it take you to right that post?

JOKA_ on 07 March 2012

How can it NOT be Bioshock, it actually fucks with your head



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Alby_da_Wolf on 08 March 2012
lestatdark said:
The lack of Half-Life on this list is disturbing...


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Dr.Grass on 08 March 2012
TWRoO said:
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.


I rest my case.



TWRoO on 08 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
TWRoO said:
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.


I rest my case.

And I re-iterate mine... again.

1st red text: I don't like describing most FPS as being in the shooter genre because they are more than traditional shooters, they are action games where you fire weapons.

Middle paragraph: Explanation of how FPS can still be called shooters, an explanation which does not exclude Metroid from the same categorisation.

Last red text: Given that you used the start of the same sentence to try disprove me I wonder how you missed the end of the sentence where I again describe Metroid Prime as a shooter (then again i am a little confused as to how the parts you bolded help with your case)



cr00mz on 08 March 2012

Is fallout 3 a shooter? Part of the gameplay is shooting, but the game is more than just shooting.



TWRoO on 08 March 2012
cr00mz said:
Is fallout 3 a shooter? Part of the gameplay is shooting, but the game is more than just shooting.

See this is my problem with 'shooter' as a genre except for games that are just about shooting (more often referred to as SHMUPS I believe) I mean I wouldn't class Disaster: Day of Crisis as a shooter but it has shooting elements too. I mean going much further and you could start claiming "mover" as a genre of games, so every game where you move a character is a "mover"

As for your question, I guess it's your call, I would say if you have access to a projectile weapon for most of the game, and are able to use it in most situations you could class it as a shooter if you want.