I have dabbled over the years with FPS (first person shooter) games. A few weeks here and a few there, but when lockdown was announced, I thought, what the hell am I going to do with my time… there’s only so much time I can dedicate to simming! I installed Sniper Elite 4, effectively it is what it says on the can. A role playing game with a story, of sorts. Very enjoyable. However, I had never tried the multiplayer side of things. When I did, I was hooked! Incredibly engaging and can be extremely sociable. Making online ‘friends’ and going into battle with a team that you chat and interact with is great fun. At 72 I guess I’m a big kid at heart, but I don’t mind. It keeps me engaged and my brain active. The game has now progressed from SE4 through SE5 to the present iteration, Sniper Elite Resistance. I was just wondering if anyone here plays this game?

Love all the Fallout games from Fallout 3, 4, New Vegas and somewhat 76.  I hope some day that Fallout 5 is at least as good as Fallout 4.  Also loved playing Skyrim.  It's a shame Bethesda seems more interested in taking our money rather than putting out new quality games.

I'm not much for multiplayer games, I stink at them!

I used to play quite some Tactical shooters, R63, ArmA, insurgency, SWAT4, RoN.

But when pursuing realism, I ended up in VR, mouse just doesn't control the gun well...

Now I'm mainly shooting sosigs...

5 hours ago, tdflightsim said:

I'm not much for multiplayer games, I stink at them!

You don't have to be good. It's like volleyball. It can accommodate people at all skill levels. The community spirit can be great (once you get past any trash talk).

Hook

I've just built a new PC, except for the PSU, and the first game I installed was BF6. Pretty good. I still think BF4 was the best but when ive finished setting it up I'll get a better idea.

COD is good these days, too, and the battle royale mode very entertaining.

Star Citizen has progressed from good to great and is now verging on "Awsome!". Added to which is the upcoming release of Squadron 42 with an opening battle sequence of more than an hour (depending on how good you get). It also runs amazingly well on my Nvidia 3060 using Vulkan. As an original backer I have seen every glitch, crash, high and low point throughout it's development and I'm fairly confident in saying not only is it the most expensive game ever made but it will (probably) be (up until now) the best game ever made!

I started playing FPS games with Castle Wolfenstein, progressing to Doom and then Quake. Playing Quake head-to-head against my 15 year old son is some of my fondest memories.

I played several others over the years, with the last one I spent any time with was Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault where I was a GameSpy helper for the game. We did a lot of free for all and team play. I bought Arma 3 but have seldom played it.

I was heavily involved in Steel Beasts, the modern tank sim. Not exactly a first person shooter but you had a first person perspective as a tank commander, gunner or driver and could have all three people in one tank working together. It's used for real world training, so you can imagine it's as realistic as they could make it. My major contribution was a four part artillery tutorial where you learned to call and adjust artillery fire in various ways, something I learned in NCO Academy in the Army. Along with being a tanker, of course. 🙂 

Apart from flight simming and sailboat simming (Vehicle Simulator) I haven't been much interested in computer gaming in years. I'm glad to see the FPS genre still going strong.

Hook

 

I used to play FPS gams and had a blast playing Duke Nukem and Unreal Tournament over the LAN at work. I also enjoyed Far Cry, but that was as much the tropical setting, I think. I've moved away from FPS's since, preferring open-world RPGs along the lines of Fallout 3/4 and Skyrim. 

I've gone to open world games 2. Haven't snipered since Sniper-Ghost Warrior, or Sniper Elite N*z* Zombie Army. 74 and still FPS ing

Edited February 25Feb 25 by Penzoil3

9 hours ago, SierraHotel BSc said:

Star Citizen has progressed from good to great and is now verging on "Awsome!". Added to which is the upcoming release of Squadron 42 with an opening battle sequence of more than an hour (depending on how good you get). It also runs amazingly well on my Nvidia 3060 using Vulkan. As an original backer I have seen every glitch, crash, high and low point throughout it's development and I'm fairly confident in saying not only is it the most expensive game ever made but it will (probably) be (up until now) the best game ever made!

Hmm...I have a very nice ship on Star Citizen but I was so tired of the bugs and such I haven't flown it in ages. Will need to check it out.
 

I started playing FPS games with Doom Shareware in 1993, and progressed to some classics like Terminator : Future Shock in 1995 (great atmosphere, and the game that introduced MouseLook), Quake 2 and UnReal in 1997, Half Life in 1998, and then the incomparable Deus Ex in 2000 (my favourite first person game of all time). I have played a few since then (Far Cry/Far Cry 2/Stalker/Half Life 2 being the most memorable), but I have not played an FPS for some time now. I have just become incredibly fussy over the years, and now I want perfection!

There is one upcoming game that I am hoping will be the atmospheric experience that I wanted Trespasser to be (way back in 1998), and it is called The Lost Wild. It has been in development for quite a long time now, and progress updates are very rare. Time will tell if it turns out to be the holy grail of first person games for me.....

Edited February 25Feb 25 by Christopher Low

Correction:  The Fallout games and Skyrim are more open world RPGs vs FPS games.

My favorite FPS game was DOOM 3.  I tried the new DOOM game but it wasn't as good IMO.

Also played Battlefield 4 and the Call of Duty games.

If you want games that are a little bit FPS/action and little bit story/quests/puzzle-solving/open world I recommend Half-life, the Elder Scrolls franchise, and Fallout.

Dave

 

7 hours ago, dave2013 said:

Also played Battlefield 4 and the Call of Duty games.

 

BF4 is my all time  favourite. Especially hardcore mode.

I still enjoy FPS games.  My big problem is that I can't spend very much time playing with a mouse anymore.  I can sit at my PC and fly all day, but I get 20 minutes of FPS gaming before my wrist starts to hurt.  I just can't get the ergonomics to work.  I use a trackball for any non gaming.  I'm stuck using a controller which I struggle with.  

I do enjoy Battlefield 6 on Playstation with crossplay off.  

I did finish and enjoy the Sniper Elite games.  I played 4, 5 and Resistance.  Definitely fun, although a little repetitive at times.