Quick Questions XIV: A Question Reasked (Part 1)

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Listen to whatever @Father.Torque says.

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Haha I only wish you were.

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Post-2000, if you’re looking for like traditional ā€œsingle player FPS campaignsā€, probably

HL2
FEAR
Modern Warfare 2
Far Cry 2
Metro 2033
New Doom
Both new Wolfensteins
People stan Titanfall 2 but I haven’t played it

I think that’ll give you a good spread of the different subgenres and development threads. Obviously third person shooters are closely related but they are distinct and have a whole different Best Of list if you end up wanting to explore that.

Halos I can’t tell you about, I think people liked ODST best? Or was it Reach?

Stalker is incredible and you should absolutely play it but it’s not an FPS in the same sense as these other games. It’s an FPS like Pathologic is an Elder Scrolls game. Makes more sense to talk about in the context of the small immersive sim renaissance with new Deus Ex, Dishonored, new Prey, etc

My dark horse choice for weird flawed hidden gem nobody else ever talks about is Betrayer, also an open world pseudo stealthy thing (more a take on modern Far Cry really)

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Is Serious Sam post-2000? It’s right around there. Anyway if it is add that

Devil Daggers
Doom
CHEX QUEST all in caps because it’s just very good. Especially episode 3.

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Halo 3, ODST, and Reach are great, but should be co-oped if possible.

i hate halo campaign unless it’s co op

reach is my least favorite, 3 is my most favorite, even though I haven’t finished it
but HALO NEEDS CO OP

anyway play marathon durandal its a great love story

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i like solo halo campaigns, but i love them in co-op with the skull that makes it so you can’t respawn

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but i love getting frustrated when aliens kill me over and over and then relieving frustration by killing/getting killed by my co op partner over and over

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Bad Company 1 is the best singleplayer FPS of the PS360 generation

Also, HL1 has aged just fine and you should absolutely play it. The gameplay is still great.

Thanks all of you for the response. All the suggestions have been noted, and I will most likely write in some threads about those games, in due time.
Btw, how is Call of Prypyat? Is it as essential as the first Stalker?

@disestablished: I did play the first Half Life, I really loved it. I also liked the Xen section very much. I think it is very under rated. It was good! And also quite brave.

@Father.Torque, thanks for the great list! To add to the former question, then, which are the best immersive simulators? Should I play Prey Moon-something without the original, or should I play both? Which are the best modern Deus Ex? Probably the third game?

Thanks!!

Edit… It doesn’t really have too much to do with the others, but are both Resident Evil 4 and 7 must play games at this point? :smiley:

the best modern deus ex is human revolution
director’s cut has some improvements to the flawed bosses of the original (and integrates the DLC so it takes place during the game instead of as a standalone object) but it’s not the most elegant solution. it also removes the lovely pissfilter

mankind divided is a complete mess. my brother mostly enjoyed it despite the incoherence and frequently-broken nature of it, but i found it alienating and super weird. also ā€œaug lives matterā€, lol. i’ll dive into it at some point.

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I like Prey a lot, but have no interest in the dlc.

Prey will appeal to you if you want a dungeon crawl on a space station

Thats all it is, its a lot like system shock 1

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Mankind divided is somehow almost the same game, has a ton of objective improvements to the overworld navigation portions, and manages to somehow be vastly worse than the first game.

Tron 2.0

I’m a fan of Resistance 2

Superhot

The Darkness 1 & 2

The first Ghost Recon

No One Lives Forever

SWAT 4

Portal

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um what are the differences between PokƩmon Moon and PokƩmon Ultra Moon? Any reason to get Moon?

what good indie games came out this year