Recommend Me Some Old School FPS

[chestburster]

Clear Sky is not essential

What? Vanilla Clear Sky had the most intense gunfights against human soldiers in the whole series!

 

[Ivan]

At what cost, man! AT WHAT COST? In all seriousness, Clear Sky had some p. cool maps but come on, a boss fight with a heli? An artifact that nets you +10kg weight in the first map, a shitty story that forces you to a shitty final map. Soc and CoP, especially w/ Misery, render Clear Sky pretty redundant to me. It's not horrible, it's just not essential.

 

[CyberP]

Funny you should mention that. Since I was born in 90, I grew up with Super Nintendo>64>Cube (piece of shit died before I could play the "good" games>PS2. My first PS2 game was Red Faction 2. I enjoyed it at the time. It's just interesting looking back at the things you enjoyed and seeing how they just don't measure up to your expectations anymore. I recently bought RF1 so I'll be giving that a go.
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Tbh I rarely get that. Most celebrated old games absolutely deliver. I'm having trouble with Morrowind (even with mods) surprisingly enough. Of course the game still delivers but the sense of wonder & magic is gone. I thought I'd have a hell of a time because I only played it through twice way back when but it's failing to grab, or immerse me any more. I think I may prefer Arx Fatalis...

 

[CyberP]

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Spoiler

Forgot to mention TEKWAR. The game has pretty good ideas, but the execution is... ahem.

 

[Ivan]

I believe you're misquoting me there. I've never played Morrowing or Arx Fatalis.

 

[CyberP]

Yes, I made a mistake, but I cannot edit my posts. The mods put me in the doghouse.

 

[Essegi]

Clear Sky is not essential

What? Vanilla Clear Sky had the most intense gunfights against human soldiers in the whole series!

At what cost, man! AT WHAT COST? In all seriousness, Clear Sky had some p. cool maps but come on, a boss fight with a heli? An artifact that nets you +10kg weight in the first map, a shitty story that forces you to a shitty final map. Soc and CoP, especially w/ Misery, render Clear Sky pretty redundant to me. It's not horrible, it's just not essential.

Clear Sky is considered the worst episode, but has some truly spectacular moments. I won't call too essential for all, for me it has been. Too bad for some flaws (essentially ones Ivan said, i add that is the less modded of the 3 and too bad mighty Spartan 11:11 is dead), but it's still a good fps.

Back to IT.
Wrack: cell shaded old school title inspired from doom. Seems nice. If i am not mistaken the creator of Zandronum is a dev of this...

The Wheel of time: never had the chance to play it, but i've heard that it's good

Catacomb serie: truly old school, i've still to play it.

Paranautical Activity: "Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky." True or not (and calling roguelikes spelunky and Isaac... Meh), it's cool.

And i'm badly waiting that: Necropolis
too bad dev cancelled a video, it was cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgspKVay6k
I DO WANT THAT!!!

 

[Astral Rag]

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Wolfenstein 3D, try RoTT (the original, not the abysmal reboot) and Blake Stone.

The classic idtech1 games, I use Zandronum in conjunction with Doomseeker. Don't use Brutal Doom if you're playing Doom for the first time.

Dark Forces, Dark Forces II and Jedi Knight if you're into Star Wars

Quake with QuakeSpasm, Mission Pack 1 is definitely worth playing Mission Pack 2 not so much. Don't forget to try some of the amazing custom maps:

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/good-quake-maps.88418/

Duke 3D and Blood, check out the Bloodlauncher: http://blood.nanoaugur.net/

Outlaws

Kingpin, Sin, SoF

Unreal and UT, use http://kentie.net/

Clive Barker's Undying

Play Q3 until you're able to complete the campaign on nightmare

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

NOLF 1 and 2

FEAR is a must play. FEAR 2 is mediocre at best, FEAR3 is an abomination.

Killing Floor is one of the few recent FPS worth checking out.

Don't forget real true oldskool FPS classics like Nitemare 3d, Daikatana, Fallout 3, Catechumen, Unreal 2, Depth Dwellers, Operation Body Count and Codename Nina.

Spoiler

Mordern FPS

Crysis 1
Far Cry 3
Nu-Shadow Warrior
Quake 4

Those are all garbage, modern FPS indeed.

Since I was born in 90

Ban please

 

[Fowyr]

Add to this list Terminator: Future Shock and Cybermage. I had a shitton of fun with them.
Also first System Shock.

 

[Outlander]

Eh, just play this:

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

We should have a sticky with a nice list of fps games and additional tweaks/graphical mods. Without any discussions about the quality of tire textures and other issues.

 

[sbb]

HL1 (opposing forces), .

no love for blue shift?

 

[Euronymous]

Recommended FPS:

Modern Warfare 2
Black Ops 1
Battlefield 4
Gears of War

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Gears of War is FPP game, just like Gothic.