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Posted December 18, 2011
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Wangfou: I played XIII on the Gamecube years ago and thought it was pretty interesting. The actual shooting is fairly by-the-numbers but the art style in unique and the story is quite good for an FPS.
Actually XIII is a good suggestion. Worst thing about the game is it uses checkpoints rather than quicksave and those checkpoints are really far apart at times. When you see that "checkpoint" notification come up you will wipe sweat off your forehead.
Posted December 18, 2011
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freezinghazard: Sorry but FarCry takes the cake
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Fenixp: No, first half of Far Cry might arguably take the cake. But the second half of that game was quite horrible.
This is actually relevant to my interests, how horrible is quite horrible?

Oh, and sadly I've got nothing to suggest to the OP, haven't exactly played many old FPS games, at least not any that are on GoG.
Posted December 18, 2011
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klaymen: Chaser has a slower gameplay and some passages are downright boring (sniper mission, underwater, some parts on Mars) so you probably won't like it.

While Iron Storm's story is quite original, I did not like the scripting and omnipresent snipers. Heck, I did not even finish the game.

Painkiller is Serious Sam-ish shooter. Enter the room, kill horde of enemies, continue. While it's a brainless shooter, I quite like it.
Pain Killer is nice in that it dispenses with any pretense of being about anything other than shooting things up.

Personally, I liked Unreal more than Quake, and DN3D has an amazing source port and in the near future new indie recreation.

Serious Sam is hit or miss, if you appreciate the parody and the humor it's great, otherwise it's a complete waste of time.
Posted December 18, 2011
I really like Unreal Gold for its atmosphere and great visuals (at the time of release). It might not be the most funny/entertaining shooter, but it can surely deliver a great experience if you get "touched" by it, IMO. You can find lots of interesting add-ons and such over at unrealsp.org.
Posted December 18, 2011
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Snickersnack: I like Shogo but it's mechanics are awful. Critical hits in an FPS reward spam over accuracy. Also, whoever starts shooting first tends to win. Bot ai is pretty bad (totally unaware one minute, super sniper the next). There's no facility to rebind keys in game (really frustrating for the scoped rifle whose key '5', you have to toggle to get scope). What Shogo does have is a lot of personality. A game made by a bunch of western anime fans making the mecha fps we'd otherwise never get. It's intro is one my favorites.
Shogo has moments where it is great, and moments where it makes you want to uninstall the game and never ever return to it. If you are looking for a game that lets you play a gigantic stompy machine, then the Mechwarrior series is still the best way to go. Oh, and Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries is free these days! You can get it here
Note that Mechwarrior is more along the line of an actual mech simulator than a pure shooter.
Posted December 18, 2011
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Snickersnack: I like Shogo but it's mechanics are awful. Critical hits in an FPS reward spam over accuracy. Also, whoever starts shooting first tends to win. Bot ai is pretty bad (totally unaware one minute, super sniper the next). There's no facility to rebind keys in game (really frustrating for the scoped rifle whose key '5', you have to toggle to get scope). What Shogo does have is a lot of personality. A game made by a bunch of western anime fans making the mecha fps we'd otherwise never get. It's intro is one my favorites.
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AFnord: Shogo has moments where it is great, and moments where it makes you want to uninstall the game and never ever return to it. If you are looking for a game that lets you play a gigantic stompy machine, then the Mechwarrior series is still the best way to go. Oh, and Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries is free these days! You can get it here
Note that Mechwarrior is more along the line of an actual mech simulator than a pure shooter.
Oh yeah, speaking of Shooter sims ArmA - its like a flight sim for infantry!
Posted December 18, 2011
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Profanity: This is actually relevant to my interests, how horrible is quite horrible?
Well, it's a sudden appearance of monkeys of doom horrible, in a semi-realistic shooter, meele mutants that can easily kill you in 2 hits appear, and then it's even worse, it looks like the game had invasion of opponents from Quake. The difficulty spike is amazing and it ruins everything the game built up to that point.
Posted December 18, 2011
If you like shooter that tickle your IQ, I would recommend Sacrifice and Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Everything else I would say is your "standard shooter" of it's time. My two choices will always stand out as non-standard, either in the story, the humour, the creatures in the game, the originality and so on..
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Wangfou: I played XIII on the Gamecube years ago and thought it was pretty interesting. The actual shooting is fairly by-the-numbers but the art style in unique and the story is quite good for an FPS.
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StingingVelvet: Actually XIII is a good suggestion. Worst thing about the game is it uses checkpoints rather than quicksave and those checkpoints are really far apart at times. When you see that "checkpoint" notification come up you will wipe sweat off your forehead.
The worst thing is the non-ending.
Post edited December 18, 2011 by UK_John
Posted December 18, 2011
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hedwards: Personally, I liked Unreal more than Quake,
Interesting. I have Unreal and Unreal 2 on some retail compilation they released a while back. I have never really played them that much, but I was a super Quake and Doom fan back in the day. Guess I should fire up Unreal and have a go...
Posted December 18, 2011
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hedwards: Personally, I liked Unreal more than Quake,
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StingingVelvet: Interesting. I have Unreal and Unreal 2 on some retail compilation they released a while back. I have never really played them that much, but I was a super Quake and Doom fan back in the day. Guess I should fire up Unreal and have a go...
You should fire hexen then quake.

Edit: I played unreal 2 in my neighbors machine.. I wasn't welcome, who cares. It was boring. Unreal 1.. It has colours other than brown.
Post edited December 18, 2011 by Antimateria
Posted December 18, 2011
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StingingVelvet: Interesting. I have Unreal and Unreal 2 on some retail compilation they released a while back. I have never really played them that much, but I was a super Quake and Doom fan back in the day. Guess I should fire up Unreal and have a go...
Yea you should, it's really good. Just saying, I'm not sure if I have established that in the topic.
Posted December 18, 2011
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hedwards: Personally, I liked Unreal more than Quake,
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StingingVelvet: Interesting. I have Unreal and Unreal 2 on some retail compilation they released a while back. I have never really played them that much, but I was a super Quake and Doom fan back in the day. Guess I should fire up Unreal and have a go...
The main thing that ruined it for me the first time around was that it was really heavy on the hardware for those days. These days it still looks pretty good and is in many ways the better game. Much more color and more in the way of puzzles as well.
Posted December 18, 2011
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hedwards: The main thing that ruined it for me the first time around was that it was really heavy on the hardware for those days. These days it still looks pretty good and is in many ways the better game. Much more color and more in the way of puzzles as well.
I think the hardware requirements was why I didn't play it when it came out. I'll see about installing it tonight and messing with it, I could use a new shooter.
Posted December 18, 2011
I am surprised that Far Cry wasn't mentioned till the second page and has since been disregarded again. Perhaps it can't hold its own against Painkiller or Unreal Tournament 2004, but surely it can against some of the other shooters being mentioned, right?
Posted December 18, 2011
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Future_Suture: I am surprised that Far Cry wasn't mentioned till the second page and has since been disregarded again. Perhaps it can't hold its own against Painkiller or Unreal Tournament 2004, but surely it can against some of the other shooters being mentioned, right?
Nah it's not better than Blood :-P Really, Far Cry was basically done better as Crysis and that game alone makes it redundant.
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