Fans of first person shooters: how often do you play them? Do you keep up with the newer games? What's your history with them? This thread is for those who actually like them; not for other forum members to express their distaste for them, so please just don't.

I've a long-standing fondness for Battlefield Bad Company 2, and I'm very good at the game.

I don't play Battlefield 3/4, though not for lack of trying. Supposedly they're better than their predecessors, but I always felt like I was just working. It's not that I was a bad player; on the contrary I'm quite skilled in FPS games, but I never got the same thrill out of playing it as I did BFBC2.

I used to play Call of Duty. I liked it for a while, but eventually got bored of it. In Battlefield you actually need strategy, and strong teamwork; that is not the case in CoD. But please do not reply solely to argue with me on that point, otherwise you'll ultimately turn this into a cancerous versus thread.

Edit: Corrected wording.

Like any game, it depends on it's ability to seem fresh and challenging. Once a game becomes too easy or stale, I'm done with it. CoD for example used to be an everyday affair for me but I dont like where they took the game. Battlefield has not enticed me since BC2.

It really depends on the content and if it's multiplater the community.

As for strategy and teamwork, nothing has topped MAG for me.

I do enjoy a good FPS. Pretty much the LAN party staple.

Been playing since Goldeneye on the 64. I'd say my most played online FPS is Halo 3.

But yeah, I've played quite a few and I do enjoy them, but it's hard to get excited for any of them these days. Battlefront is the only one that really has my interest right now.

I rather like FPS games, as long they are in some interesting setting (no WW2 or present day military) and have a good single player campaign.

Some of my favorites are Shogo, No One Lives Forever 1&2 and the first FEAR; all developed by Monolith which I considered to be the master of the genre, not Id Software, Valve or Bungie. But unfortunately, after they were bought by Warner Bros, Monolith stopped doing FPS games with interesting settings, and are now making LOTR games like the recent Shadow of Mordor.

It's quite rare I play FPS games online, but L4D2 have proven itself to be rather enjoyable together with other people.

Oh yeah, SWAT4 is enjoyable too, despite having pretty much zero story. Just a bunch of missions.

I am a champion at battlefield 3. I'll join a game, join the losing side and single handedly bring them to victory. If my team starts winning by too much then I'll switch teams and try to take back the match on the other side.

I'm no good with vehicles besides motor bikes and Jeeps (and I use planes for quick travel and dropping them onto bases as I jump out), I'm no good with a sniper either. It's all about the assault and engineer for me, run and gun Rambo stuff.

And of course I gotta play hardcoe mode, no regenerating health (except with Med packs), team kill so enemies don't just throw grenades and if I see a team mate camping a spawn for free kills or doing a glitch or just doing something stupid I'll kill them.

I also hate guys that spend their entire time in tanks. I'll even switch to a rocket and hunt those guys down as my main mission, and I like dropping landmine everywhere to piss the tank guys off. The cheapest is throwing 3 mines down just infront of a tank spawn, makes me laugh when I get 2 or 3 kills when I'm across the map.

I don't really play any other shooters though and they aren't my favourite video game genre, played a lot of battlefield 1943 for the ps3 until I got battlefield 3. I sometimes play cod at my friends house, but they are truly terrible Fps games, way too cheap and cheesy, and way too easy as well. Even big lmg don't have like any recoil in those games.

I wanna try bf4 but I heard it wasn't as good as the third one.

It's been awhile since I played bf3, talking about it makes me wanna jump back onto that [censored]. I think I know we hat I'm doing after work today.

I started with the old Doom and Quake games, and the mighty Deus Ex.
I still prefer the sci-fi genre for FPS, like Halo, Borderlands or BioShock. etc. The Metroid Prime trilogy are some of my favourite FPS games ever!

I tend to avoid the "realistic" war genre, but I'll borrow them from a friend and play the main campaign once and then never go back to it. Decent games but nothing to hold my interest.
Even with FPS games that I do like I tend to avoid the online play, and since most war FPS games are designed around online multiplayer instead of the actual campaign, they have no lasting appeal for me.

Yes! I loved the first No One Lives Forever. It had some of the best dialogue I've ever heard in a video game. I still vividly remember sneaking past two henchmen at one point. I stopped to listen to a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2PxxbJydBU It was absolutely hilarious.

The atmosphere, the music, the characters, all of it was great. It's still one of my favorite games.

I don't play fps that often, but I played Half-Life 2 recently and really enjoyed it. F.E.A.R is also a really good fps game, its just so much fun battling with the enemy as they actually use basic tactics against you and aren't just the usual waves of enemies that mindlessly charge towards your position, as is the norm in many modern fps. Also, playing the campaign in any Halo game co-op with a friend or brother is really good fun and is often very tough on Legendary with multiple skulls on.

Can't say I keep up with the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield, I usually look out for an fps that stands out and catches my eye, and if there are none, I just look for an older fps that I haven't yet played.

oh man i miss shogo. i'm disappointed that never became a series. towards the end shogo had some awesome multiplayer servers, where you'd have footsoldier players fight other players in mechs, and the dynamic just worked well.

i played nearly all the fps games from Doom in the 90's right up until Crysis and the first Modern Warfare, but now i skip the COD's and Battlefield's on release and only buy them now and then when they are on sale, and even then i don't finish them, although i enjoyed Wolfenstein a lot last year and i'm a fan of the Bioshock series.

First FPS was Halo CE, and that got me hooked on the FPS genre. Some favorites being Halo of course, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Bioshock. Recently, I've been playing the Metro games and those have been pretty great as well. But I just realized that in the last five months I've been playing not but FPS games, so as of right now I'm taking a break from them to play some RPGs.

Despite FPS games being heavily associated with online play these days, I think I've always enjoyed them more as a single player experience. But even then, Halo 3 was also my most played online FPS, if not for just the custom games alone. And a good online FPS doesn't always have to be a competitive experience either. There are cooperative games like Killing Floor that I've put tons of hours into, and I consider KF one of the best coop experiences I've ever had.

As for Battlefield, I think I've enjoyed almost every installment of it, including BF3 and BF4. I didn't put as much time into BF3 as I wanted but I made up for it with BF4. Besides its launch, I don't see why it gets so much flak. I got it rather late so I didn't experience its bad launch, but besides that, it plays just as good as BF3 for me. Never had many technical issues with it either. However, I think I am going to skip out on Hardline. Doesn't feel like Battlefield at all, which tends to happen when you take out everything good about Battlefield.

Well, It depends. The only game I've been playing is LoL and Oblivion. You know, back to college and sometimes I play LoL with friends and whenever I can spare a few times, Oblivion. But when I had free time I did spend many hours in FPS. I like them, but just can't get through the campaing mode.

Hmm. I played a lot of FPS back in the day, but not much in the modern era (all the "team/arena/deathmatch/MP/online" junk).

Started with the really old stuff - Doom shareware, Wolf 3D, Pathways Into Darkness & the Marathon series, stuff like that. Played various Dooms & Quakes, System Shock 1, Unreal Tournament (with bots), Duke 3D. The original Medal of Honor & Call of Duty, before the "WW2 Shooter" became a thing. All the Half-Lifes, Bioshock, Prey, Dark Forces. Eventually got Crysis cheap on Steam (pretty, buggy).

Not as much in the modern era - played a bit of Deus Ex:HR (until the first boss fight nuked my low-combat build), Rage, the Borderlands games, the first STALKER, Hard Reset. Tried Serious Sam 3, but it didn't click for me. Got a Metro game free on PS+, but didn't get far - can't really FPS with a controller. Do the Dead Island games count? None of the Far Cries, no Battlefield, no CoD, no ARMA...

I suppose I need to get the new Wolfenstein sometime, considering how often I champion the idea of single-player FPS's. Just a bit concerned about gross/gore/violence.