[Closed] PC fps games - which?

Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light. Cheap on STEAM at the mo.

don't want to be lured back into online multiplayer gaming any time soon!.

Feel your pain. I don't dare plug my ps3 into the modem.

Ta, I'd gotten down to Metro: last light redux, Wolfenstein: new order.

Will looky on steam.

Far Cry 4 would be a good place to start if you liked Far Cry 3.

STALKER series!

Assume you've played the Bioshock games?

Borderlands, without question. Borderlands 2 is totally awesome but then you'll need to get involved with futuristic weapons.

GTA V? That is simply the best game that's ever been invented.

I can't get it to run with the mod pack, but the original Stalker was kinda magnificent and the Complete mod should bring it up to date graphically and tweaks the gameplay, the horrible inventory etc. Slower paced than most fpses these days but all the better for it. The shooting's excellent and unforgiving and it's all in one of the best game locations I can think of.

Borderlands is ace but it's very run-and-gun

[i]I can't get it to run with the mod pack, but the original Stalker was kinda magnificent[/i]

This is very true. A completely unique gaming experience at the time, maybe even now. Very clever and a wonderful setting. Quite a raw game. Should have built on that.

Call of Pripyat is the best of the three for my money, with Clear Sky being a slight misstep.

The stalker series was what made me actually go to Chernobyl and Pripyat for a 2 day tour 8)

When I bought Farcyr3, it was a toss up between that and call of pipryat.

Farcry was good, but I stopped playing after finishing the story with loads of the map unfinished.. seemed a bit long winded to get about.

Never played bioshock

Bioshock. Meh, some folk love it, I found it boring as sin and gave up about 20 minutes in.

Metro 2033 looks fantastic, I still haven't got around to it yet but with my growing boredom with PS2 it looks like it'll be getting some playtime soon.

Deus Ex should tick the boxes, if you've never played it you really should, there's a graphics update mod for it as well that makes it look better than Minecraft+ 😛 Not too futuristic.

Fancy a challenge and got a good pic? ARMA 3 🙂

BioShock Infinite, Fallout 3, Crysis 1.

I dig them all.

Fallout 3 is excellent, but I think if I had to choose between that and Fallout New Vegas, I think I'd go for New Vegas.

Fallout 3 is excellent, but I think if I had to choose between that and Fallout New Vegas, I think I'd go for New Vegas.

Personally, I'd disagree. I enjoyed Fallout 3 much more than NV, but that's just my opinion. They are both great, but I'm not sure they really fit the OP's brief... Similarly, Skyrim is worth a look if you're after more of an RPG.

Love Borderlands 2. Have got so much play out of it. I dip in and out of gaming, but have just kept coming back to it.

Metro: Last Light was OK. Too many cutscenes and very linear gameplay.

First Bioshock game was fun. The last one (Infinite) was pish. Same enemies over and over, gimmicky slidy around transport thing and levelling rubbish. Crap.

I really didn't like farcry 3, everyone loses their shit over it but to me it was just piles of meh.

Operation Flashpoint for realism.

I like the look of that Arma3.

I think I need a new graphics card though, anyone know if an AMD R9 285 would be any good? PC currently has an I5 processor which should be OK but I'm a bit out of the loop with graphics cards these days.

[b]Borderlands 2[/b], the best game my Son has by a country Mile

It's a little old now, but Deus Ex Human Revolution is fantastic.

Brilliant story, fabulous atmospheric music, open ended story, utterly brilliant.

Nothing in the last few years has come close.

Fallout NV was a buggy POS compared to Fallout.

The Arma and previous Operation Flashpoint games are excellent, but can be decidedly frustrating when you get shot from miles away by someone you had no chance at seeing.

Fallout NV was a buggy POS compared to Fallout.

I came to both a bit late - by that time I think that New Vegas had been patched to a better degree than 3. I do so hope that they pull their fingers out and complete Fallout 4 soon.

@spursn17:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Comparison of cards - if you can afford an R9 285, see if you can get something higher up the list that you could afford.

Worth bearing in mind is some cards have much higher PSU Requirements, so that may force your hand smomewhat [NB and most of this power comes from the 12V Rail - check the 12V amperage your PSU can deliver. ]

What card do you have now, and what slot is it in? Can you overclock your CPU or would you need another cooler?

Cheers GFS.

It's a pci-e slot old Radeon 5 series, had it so long that it no longer appears on the AMD support page 😀

I'll have a look at that link later. I want to stick with an AMD card rather than Nvidia as I dual boot my PC with a Linux os as well and I've read that there's better driver support.

No worries mate. Best of luck and feel free to ask my opinion on anything else.

You should be able to just jump to a new card if you're on PCIE.

Also, Dead Space 1. If you have a strong stomach!

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Has the meaning of FPS changed recently?

Thanks all, metro redux steam code on eBay for 11quid. Might be worth a punt.

Dunno, but surely there's a spread of definitions from Quake 3 Arena simplicity through to Fallout 3's decision and story based shooting, even if the over the shoulder view is different. Basically it's gun-based combat.

I also think it's worth considering less strict boundaries, as things move on, and games evolve.

Oh, and why can't we suggest stuff we think is good, OP doesn't have to buy shit we suggest.

Or were you not talking to me?

I really enjoyed bioshock but I didn't think the combat was that good really, the story and location carried it a bit too much.

Love Borderlands 2. Have got so much play out of it. I dip in and out of gaming, but have just kept coming back to it.

Just finished that on the Xbox. Was a lot of fun, nice 2-player co-op with my OH.

On to Diablo now. (-:

I liked Black from PS2/Xbox days. Works on pc via emulator.

Great sound.

Just finished that on the Xbox. Was a lot of fun, nice 2-player co-op with my OH.

Aye, Borderlands 2 is the only game I played all the way through, twice.

Zero FTW.

Out of interest, what level were you at when you finished the first run through?

Think we were both mid-30s.

Not sure. I would imagine it would be around there. Had played lots of the side missions, just remember the final boss level was fairly easy.

It just gets better as you find a few legendaries that really work for your character.

try serious sam 1,2 also (great fun/relentless shooting)

also painkiller is good fun too (also relentless)

try also quake (first one) with darkplaces engine.it's the bloody daddy (with doom 😉

also hexen for a more fantasy based fps.

there's loads of old pc fps that are still great fun.

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Abandonware 🙂

Thanks to whoever recommended Metro 2033.
Lost 2 days to the game and have just got the novel on Kindle. Love it, the station Artyom lives at was my local one twenty years ago.
STW, always comes up trumps!

I'm surprised no mentions of Specs ops the line (OK it's third person) But it's got a good story line, it's a modern military shooter, great playability and looks good too. £20 on Steam at the moment but I'm pretty sure I got it for a tenner a while ago, so it'll probably come round in an offer of sorts at some point in the near future.

Do we use a mouse these days or an xbox controller and a big tv?

Spec Ops is brilliant, it makes you do awful things and then guilt trips you after.

Oh christ, Spec Ops: the line. that one dives straight down the rabbithole.

As above, not an FPS, but a game that takes familiar "america **** yeah!" be the hero fantasy tropes and tears them up in your face in the most savage way imaginable.

The gameplay is solid but unremarkable, the narrative is something else.

Xbox controller for fps?

Like riding a technical trail while wearing boxing gloves and scuba flippers.

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Yup, keyboard and mouse all the way for FPS, for beat-em ups, for 3rd person (Dark Souls, Metal Gear, Assasins Creed etc) though, controller is king.

I like using an XBox controller. My shoulder and hand are gimped up enough from using a mouse at work all day.