IMHO Titanfall 2 has one of the best campaigns for a SP FPS.
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I completely agree. Titanfall 2 is one of my favorite single player FPS games.
I have it, I started it for maybe an hour, I have no idea how the rest of it is.
There's nothing stopping me from downloading it again and continuing the campaign.
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One of my favorite game series is the Crysis series. I absolutely love the story, the music, and the visuals. It scores super high on the sci-fi list for me. Crysis 3 is my favorite one of the bunch. I'm still eagerly waiting for any further news on Crysis 4.
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The newer Wolfenstein games (new order and new colossus) are both great. Totally crazy alternate history plus you get to shoot nazis. I really hope they end up making a third one.
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Halflife was revolutionary when it was released. I've recently been playing through Black Mesa, which is a remake in the Source engine, with some parts changed or extended, and it;s absolutely excellent
Before that, Doom and Doom][ were the best FPSs. The 2016 remake does somehow manage to recapture some of the magic but the originals will always hold a special place in my heard
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It's hard to beat the classic Half Life 2.
While it's outshined by a lot of more modern FPS games, it's still one of the most beautiful and fleshed out videogames in history.
I always find myself going back to Borderlands 2. It’s just very nostalgic to me at this point and I find a lot of replay value out of it.
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Dishonored, all parts. It's just a great story, well written characters and absolutely fun to play. One of the very few games I never felt bored, annoyed or frustrated of.
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Prey is pretty great, really enjoyed that.
I played through Prey again recently and it holds up incredibly well. It's like a more polished Dishonored imo. Your story choices had more impact, the abilities feel smoother, and lots of really funny moments and character interactions.
Great shooter campaign!
Easy to forget as it's difficult to get it in... prime condition for PC, but Metroid: Prime is my favorite.
Starts off like any game should - cool dramatic overview of your character and then immediate control. Shooting got better on the wii and enhanced to perfection with PC mods!
In a weird way, it's like a more chill Doom.
... Morph ball doesn't count as third-person, does it? :)
I am hugely into the 2D Metroid games and bought the new Metroid Prime remake on switch and I just could not get into it.
I played it for about half an hour and then died, and there were no save points along the way anywhere, so I'm forced to restart a game I didn't enjoy from scratch knowing I need to last even longer than that in my next playthrough before I can just save the game.
I really want to like it but my god this game is asking a lot
That's a shame. What do you think you're struggling with in Prime? Do you play a lot of FPS games?
I recognize that losing 30 minutes of progress is frustrating, but generally when the game is exciting it drags you back in regardless so I'm curious what was missing from your perspective to give it that spark especially as a Metroid fan.
I do play FPS games, but not on controller. Beyond that I can't really say - there was nothing that grabbed me in 30 minutes of playtime, and every other metroid game had at least something interesting at the beginning with some intrigue. With Prime, it seemed like the Interesting Thing were the mechanics themselves, which, on their own, didn't do it for me.
Interesting!
It gets a lot better once you're on the planet. Great atmosphere while exploring alien ruins, expected metroid-style exploration. Multiple save-points lol!
The space station doesn't do the mechanics justice, but I'm also going to add I don't imagine they'll ever blow you away especially if you've been exposed to a lot of FPS games. But I do think you'd have a good time down there. It spawned a trilogy for a reason!
Also if you hadn't and do go back, try using the pointer controls. The ability to actually aim with your joycon adds convenience and immersion. :) and maybe one of the other options would click with you.
- Dusk
- Amid Evil
- Prodeus
- Half Life 1
There's more but these were the first that came to mind.
Prodeus is such a trip, I think the first playthrough of that map where you navigate down with a boss behind glass and into the arena full of blue imps was absolute boomer shooter nirvana
And everything feels so beefy. Just thinking about that SSG makes me want to start another playthrough.
My only critique is that they shouldn't have added reloading. The rest of the game is just so fast paced that it feels weird to stop and reload.
Halo 3 ODST. Uses Halo 3's engine, so it has the same incredible physics as it, with great vibes to it as well.
Bioshock
Old, but System Shock 2, an immersive sim.
OuterWilds. It’s a masterpiece.
Because it’s progression system/locks is about what you know (you, the flesh and blood person playing it) it’s really hard to explain why it’s so good without spoiling some aspect of the game
Outer Wilds is indeed a masterpiece. It's not really what I would call a "shooter", though, so it might not be what OP's after, it's more like Myst and so on. But it is absolutely excellent.
Wow. I completely missed the title….
Gotta be Cyberpunk 2077 right now, for me at least. The stories are engaging, the choices you make will actually affect the game, there's so much combat variation that you can replay the game a million times and have a different style every single time, and to top it all off the eye candy is the best I've seen in any game so far.
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- Halo 2
- Halo 3
- Halo reach
- Half life 2 and all episodes
- Portal 2
- Prey 2006 (yes you read that correctly)
- CoD4
- Titanfall 2
- Perfect dark
- UT2k4
I love FPS's, they're obviously my favorite genre.
I think my favourite fps campaign is Modern Warfare 2 (2009). I also liked the campaign in the other Call of Duty games (at least the games that came before Ghost, Ghost was the last game played)
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Just started playing Trepang2 and so far it's really cool. It's a retro game, but aiming at the early 2000's games like FEAR instead of old raycasting games. It's a lot of fun so far, though i've only finished the first "real" mission, plus a side mission. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/?snr=1_5_9__205
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anamoly is free and a great single player fps with a great vibe to it. Doesn't quite fit your criteria though as I wouldn't say there is much of a campaign. Very interesting dynamic world and AI system though.
Edit. Highly recommend the GAMMA version. Get installation files @ their discord.
Titanfall 2
Old school Half Life is still my favorite for immersive story telling. I really wish Valve had finished it.
Cod 4 is probably the absolute best FPS as a general shooter.
Titanfall is the closest thing since Cod 4 since it’s the same dev team, just more limited since they were a startup with limited funding.
Receiver and Receiver 2 are both wonderfully strange first person shooters. They're slower paced games, with more tactics and running away than most fps games.
Receiver 2 looks very interesting. How do you find it to be playing with a floating gun?
I could see you being interested in Unrecord.
My main gaming computer died before Receiver 2 came out, but I still play the hell out of the first game. (on minimum settings...) It mostly plays like a first person shooter, but you start with a random gun, and then have to load and reload it with various button presses.
The limited ammo and somewhat deadly enemies turn it into more of a stealth game with massive skill requirements for shooting accuracy.
The world is empty except for turrets and flying gun drones, which somehow makes it rather creepy.
Overall, it's a great game, and I wish I had the time and money to rebuild my main rig so that I could play the sequel.
How old is your system? Would it not be inexpensive enough for you to build a new cheap system for a performance upgrade? What hardware do you need to have a fully functional system working again?
Right now I'm on an old laptop. As to getting my main system going again, It would be easier to just rebuild it from scratch. It was old enough that I needed an upgrade, and then I started getting random faults, but nothing that I could ever identify properly.
Windows stopped loading properly, so I switched over to Linux, which kept things going for another two years... And then that stopped working properly.
And then I ended up having to move, and now I don't have room for a large gaming rig, which is another reason why I'm on the old laptop.
I've been saving up, but well... I can at least say that my bills are paid and I'm not in debt.
I've found that in my life, I either have money for a fancy gaming rig, or the time to play games, but never have I really had both at the same time. Sometimes I have neither.
You can live at ease with not having any debt weighing on you.
I was thinking maybe you could do a 4 core i3 13100, B660 board, 16GB DDR4, and RX 7600.
That would beat a 8700K and Radeon 580.
I actually had a nice gaming rig all priced out before my recent, surprise move.
Now I'm looking at laptops. They might lack the raw power of a full gaming rig, but the space savings are more attractive at the moment...
But that's something for the future, I have to rebuild my savings a bit more before I start thinking about spending large chunks of it.
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