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Doom 12 5.69%
 
Wolfenstein 2 0.95%
 
Halo 69 32.70%
 
Killzone 26 12.32%
 
Resistance 2 0.95%
 
Quake 7 3.32%
 
Timesplitters 11 5.21%
 
Farcry 3 1.42%
 
Half Life 57 27.01%
 
Call of Duty 22 10.43%
 
Total:211
BenVTrigger on 04 January 2013

For me Halo hands down. Been my favorite franchise in gaming since Halo CE.

FPS is my favorite genre along with RPG though so theres tons of other that rank as "some of my favorite"

COD
BORDERLANDS
Killzone
Battlefield just to name a few



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GuyDuke on 04 January 2013

Without any doubt Half Life. Such well crafted gems with great story, superb controls and epic interactions with your environment. Valve is genius.



SpartenOmega117 on 05 January 2013

Halo! Namely Halo 3!!



paulrage2 on 05 January 2013

I love Killzone Universe!

In second ill go with Resistance.



MoHasanie on 05 January 2013

Of course its Halo for me. I didn't even like shooters before I played Halo, but now its my favorite genre. In fact, its the only reason I chose the 360 over the PS3. Otherwise, the PS3 looked like the slightly more attractive console.



    

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Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 on 05 January 2013

Halo.

If Metroid Prime counts then I'll go with that instead.



GameOver22 on 05 January 2013

That I've played? Bioshock....should mention I've never played Half Life though.



UltimateUnknown on 05 January 2013

Call of duty is what properly got me into FPS, and so that is the game I'll swear by.

Although I remember games like House of the dead and Virtua Cop from my childhood.



 

bouzane on 05 January 2013
SangheliZealotX said:
bouzane said:
SangheliZealotX said:
pokoko said:
SangheliZealotX said:
Halo, it invented or revolutionized so many things, way more than any of these series and more than almost every series in gaming.

Like what, for example?  A quick run-down of the major points would be nice.

Regenerating health(used in 95% of modern games in every genre)

Console online mmultiplayer 

two gun system

seperate Melee button

auto aim

modern first person control scheme

console user generated content, theater system

the survival of the Xbox brand

those are just the things it heavily influenced or created, halo is also pretty much responsible for the success of console shooters, halo wasn't the first console FPS but it was the first that could rival pc shooters. For being responsible for the rise of FPS halo is indirectly responsible for the rise of western game development(Japanese dominated before 2001 because westerners are best and making shooters and those weren't popular) it also popularized wide open environments over small corridors and it revolutionized shooter storytelling. Halo also turned gaming into a blockbuster industry, halo 3 was the first game to become the largest entertainment launch of all time, games didn't have huge hyped up launches that could beat movies before halo, halo did the same thing to games that Star Wars did to movies. There are many other ways I could talk about halos influence but I think that's enough for now. There are very few game series I can think of that have had that much influence on gaming.

Consoles had great online multiplayer long before Halo, although it did introduce match-making (unless I'm mistaken). I'm pretty sure that you're wrong about seperate (sic) Melee button, auto aiming and a modern first person control scheme. Also, I can not stand the two weapon limit. I like imagining Resistance 2 if it wasn't marred by that.

Console online multiplayer was garbage and no one use it before halo 2. And I don't see any examples for games that did those before halo? I also said popularized not jut invented(although I still think halo invented those things until i see evidence to he contrary) and it doesn't matter if you can't stand the system, action games have heavily benefited from it. Because you mentioned resistance 2 I take it you're a ps3 fan so it is expected that you would deny halos influence.

P.S. the developer of splinter cell blacklist(A GAME DEVELOPER) credited halo for auto aim so I'm pretty sure you're wrong.


The DreamCast had great multiplayer, how can so many people be ignorant of SegaNet? Also, TimeSplitters had a modern control scheme as well as auto-aim so you're wrong on both of those counts. Pretty much every FPS game had a dedicated melee button (Duke-Nukem being the earliest example I can think of) but I'll kind of let this one slide because Halo was the first to allow you to actually strike with the butt of your gun (an odd omission from other FPS games). I did a little bit of research and discovered that other FPS games not only did health regeneration as early as 1992, but they had actual health regen and not the traditional health system coupled with shields like Halo did. That being said, Halo certainly did popularize the concept for the FPS genre.

http://www.giantbomb.com/regenerating-health/92-83/

Your logic about me being a PS3 fan is asinine. For your information, I own a PC and 360, not a PS3. It's fanboyism like yours (giving the praise for other people's hard work to a developer that does not deserve it and creating straw-men to discredit others to prevent actual discussion) that poison this hobby, especially public forums. I own Halo 1-3 and guess what, people who own the games might be more knowledgeable than you about what they did and did not achieve. Additionally, you can own a 360 and the Halo games and still see and criticize their many glaring faults.

Finally, I'm pretty sure that the Splinter Cell: Blacklist developer is just another average Joe who doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground when it comes to who introduced what to video games. Just because he is a game developer doesn't mean that he has any special knowledge of the hobby.



TheTux94 on 05 January 2013
KylieDog said:
No Battlefield option....

It's wouldn't have been my choiche but I thought the same thing when I saw the option lol.