a terrible top 10 fps list

[Cormeh]

Ehhhhhhhhh, I saw the first Halo through to the end but it certainly never grabbed as exceptional. It can be a blast on Legendary in areas but it is kind of stale. The second one I really never got into, just never enjoyed it. I actually am quite fond of the third instalment because I've had some great co-op sessions on it.

Anyhow, this is needlessly adding flames to a potential carpet bombing. With nuclear napalm.

Rise of the Triad is ****ing awesome.

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[CyberPitz]

Anyone who doesnt like Goldeneye has no friends. Anyone who abbreviates Goldeneye as GE deserves a cockslap.

If I have no friends, who will cockslap me?!

 

[Beerdude26]

Far Cry I waltzed through on the hardest setting without the need to think or put in any practise. Cheap, easily exploitable ai, and point and click gameplay. It doesn't have 1/10 of the depth that Halo's combat boasts.

So ner

My god. Halo's combat depth? What depth? "Point at thing and click until thing dies?". Wow, never saw that before :|

Halo had some, umm, "creative" design regarding the monsters and some mapping parts were cool, but apart from that it was extremely mediocre.

 

[Lucid]

Well, evidently the rest of the world disagrees with you.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing through Halo on the PC.
It was fun, very action packed... and the whole setting was fairly interesting.

But no, I don't think it deserves all the praise it gets.

 

[AiM]

Well, evidently the rest of the world disagrees with you.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing through Halo on the PC.
It was fun, very action packed... and the whole setting was fairly interesting.

But no, I don't think it deserves all the praise it gets.

The only parts that felt fun and exciting were the vehicle sections. The plot I felt was ok for a shooter, mainly because of the ending. I got really tired of seeing the same ****ing room / template again and again. It's like the dev's decided, "Hey who wants to bet I can copy and paste the exact same room on every X level and no one will notice?"

 

[Warbie]

My god. Halo's combat depth? What depth? "Point at thing and click until thing dies?". Wow, never saw that before :|

See, this is what I don't understand. What you describe is what annoys me about most fps. How they involve little more than pointing the biggest gun you have at the bad guys and pushing a button. I rate Halo highly because it's one of the few games where this isn't the case. You have prioritise your targets quickly depending on enemy type, the weapons they have, whether their shield is up, or what vehicle/s they're using or are close by. You have to make quick choices regarding weapons (this actually matters in Halo), grenades, melee and, in the case of no.3, equipment. All of this adds considerably more options to proceedings than you'll find in games like Far Cry, Fear, CoD etc (these rarely get more complicated than point gun at nearest enemy and shoot) and encounters can pan quite differently each time. Now combine all this with super tough enemies that can kill you in seconds and probably the most balanced and challenging difficulty setting in fps, and you get something far more involved than your average shooter.

Load up Halo 3, stick it on Legendary and add a few skulls, and you'll very quickly realise how wrong you are.

 

[Oreolek]

Wtf is Goldeneye?I doubt it's a good game.Even the pirates don't sell it.
DOOM I,not DOOM III! A Real Game.
Quake III,not Quake I! Without Quake,there would be no FPS.
Duke Nukem is NOT better than HL2.Oh,and it is spelled Duke Nukem 3d.Duke Nukem was a 2d arcade for DOS systems,not First-Person Shooter.
HL2.2 is BETTER than HL2
Wtf is Bioshock?Halo?
Wolfenstein is good but DOOM is better A LOT

 

[Krynn72]

You're supposed to put a space after punctuation before you write another sentence.

And goldeneye was a n64 game. And you're an idiot if you buy pirated games.

 

[Beerdude26]

Load up Halo 3, stick it on Legendary and add a few skulls, and you'll very quickly realise how wrong you are.

Oh sorry, I thought we were talking about Halo 1 gameplay. I have not yet played Halo 2 or 3, and I will make no judgements about it before I play it.

I might pick up Halo 2 after exams if you say it's really that good

 

[Warbie]

I might pick up Halo 2 after exams if you say it's really that good

No.2 is the worst imo. t lacks the balance of the first, or the meta game and equipment of the 3rd.

 

[Homless Snark]

-Move HL2 up some
-Change Doom 3 with Doom
-Add HL1
-If you have to have it there move Halo down
-Goldeneye, not #1, but should be there somewhere

 

[Sam]

I can enjoy playing Halo 3. Halo 1 and 2 I simply couldn't. Halo 1 I tried on the PC and it just felt naff, while the original xbox controller is just awful so Halo 2 was even worse.

 

[Sheepo]

The problem with a top 10 fps list is the broadness of the category. Seriously. There's been hundreds. There's classics, single player, multiplayer, both, etc.

 

[MultiVaC]

See, this is what I don't understand. What you describe is what annoys me about most fps. How they involve little more than pointing the biggest gun you have at the bad guys and pushing a button. I rate Halo highly because it's one of the few games where this isn't the case. You have prioritise your targets quickly depending on enemy type, the weapons they have, whether their shield is up, or what vehicle/s they're using or are close by. You have to make quick choices regarding weapons (this actually matters in Halo), grenades, melee and, in the case of no.3, equipment. All of this adds considerably more options to proceedings than you'll find in games like Far Cry, Fear, CoD etc (these rarely get more complicated than point gun at nearest enemy and shoot) and encounters can pan quite differently each time. Now combine all this with super tough enemies that can kill you in seconds and probably the most balanced and challenging difficulty setting in fps, and you get something far more involved than your average shooter.

Load up Halo 3, stick it on Legendary and add a few skulls, and you'll very quickly realise how wrong you are.

ANY FPS requires you to prioritize enemies and make quick decisions. In Far Cry, for example, if you don't locate and deal with snipers, rocket launcher guys, and helicopters as a priority you'll be dead pretty quickly. Do you unload on the retarded cyberdemon ripoff or take out the flanking mercs? If you let the monkey trigens get too close they'll 1 hit kill you. You can take any of the vehicles or even use stealth. FEAR has grenades and melee as well, plus other features. There are just as many options. And yeah I've played Halo 3 on legendary (I have the game, and I've played my fair share of it), it's a fun but standard shooter.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Why the hell is D3 on the list...why ISN'T Far Cry in the list (and I will argue that it should be, it was the first of the modern gen FPS'es), and why the hell isn't HL1 on the list.....where would CS be without HL1? Abso-****ing-lutely nowhere.

 

[Javert]

That list is fail.

 

[Hellrider]

LOL cod 4 is 3rd then Halo at 2nd and some shitty game at 1st place.
Yeah nice list.

 

[Warbie]

ANY FPS requires you to prioritize enemies and make quick decisions.

I agree. The difference being that there is a great deal more to consider when prioritising in Halo, you have to do it much quicker, and you can't make mistakes. It was always a little too obvious in Far Cry - target the big guy - and the pace pedestrian (Doom also required some prioritising, but it wasn't taxing either). FEAR may have grenades and melee, but they don't play nearly as significant a role. They're optional, there to look cool. I actually like this about FEAR - it's one of the few single player pc fps to celebreate gunplay above all else - but it's still one dimensional gun porn.

The great thing about Halo, particualrly no. 3, is that the learning curve is absolutely massive. You can experience pretty much all there is to games like Far Cry and FEAR in one play through, but you can finish Halo 3 on Legendary and only have just started. Add a friend into the equasion, double the enemies health/armour/aggressiveness/level, make explosions double in size and only plasma weapons able to take off shields, and it's a whole different, yet still finely balanced, experience.

 

[Asknoone]

I enjoyed Halo, and I beat it on Legendary. The combat is very good. That said, I don't think the gameplay as a whole is that interesting. It's the same thing over and over, scene after scene. So nauseatingly repetitive. The art is your typical, yawn-inducing metallic science fiction stuff. I don't find the whole learning curve or “combat evolved” to be the least bit interesting in terms of gameplay.

Halo 3 was good. Very smooth, very polished and very refined. There's more variety to it than 1 and 2 (which was bloody awful). I'd say I enjoyed 3 the most.

 

[mortiz-Redux]

Half-Life should be higher than Half-Life 2, granted, HL2 improved on a lot of things that Half-Life did but for it's time there was nothing out there like Half-Life. Half-Life should be top 3 definitely.