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What are people's favourite first person single player campaigns, no third person games??
IMHO Titanfall 2 has one of the best campaigns for a SP FPS.
I completely agree. Titanfall 2 is one of my favorite single player FPS games.
I have it, I started it for maybe an hour, I have no idea how the rest of it is.
There's nothing stopping me from downloading it again and continuing the campaign.
The newer Wolfenstein games (new order and new colossus) are both great. Totally crazy alternate history plus you get to shoot nazis. I really hope they end up making a third one.
I have the New Order and Old Blood combo on GOG. I played a cracked version Colossus and got bored with it. I missed somethibg 4 or 6 levels back and got stuck, I couldn't continue on, so I gave up and quit playing.
Strongly agreed. The setting is very neat, too. The whole idea is 60s style pop sci fi... Except the villains are in charge.
Personally I'd suggest avoiding Old Blood. It's inferior in basically every way (story, setting, gameplay). Feels nothing like the two you mentioned.
Really? I agree that Old Blood wasn’t as good as the main games but I definitely enjoyed it as an add-on to New Order. I suppose it does go a bit off the rails with the Zombie stuff lol
Dishonored, all parts. It's just a great story, well written characters and absolutely fun to play. One of the very few games I never felt bored, annoyed or frustrated of.
I enjoyed Dishonored so much I went for the clean hands achievement to make myself feel like a real stealth professional. Second one I went all chaos. The abilities are so fun to chain together in the game.
Is the bulk of the gameplay done with a sword?
No you got some more tools and weapons, including a crossbow and a pistol.
Another for Dishonored! The aesthetic and everything about the games are just fantastic
It's hard to beat the classic Half Life 2.
While it's outshined by a lot of more modern FPS games, it's still one of the most beautiful and fleshed out videogames in history.Titanfall 2's single player campaign is fantastic.
I'm downloading it now. I already own it but I never finished it
its genuinely one of the best fps out there. it kinda has no right to be so good
One of my favorite game series is the Crysis series. I absolutely love the story, the music, and the visuals. It scores super high on the sci-fi list for me. Crysis 3 is my favorite one of the bunch. I'm still eagerly waiting for any further news on Crysis 4.
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There are several aspects to Crysis gameplay I like, the sci-fi part of it makes me lose interest.
Gotta be Cyberpunk 2077 right now, for me at least. The stories are engaging, the choices you make will actually affect the game, there's so much combat variation that you can replay the game a million times and have a different style every single time, and to top it all off the eye candy is the best I've seen in any game so far.
Why do I only see people talking about the graphics but either never mention gameplay or say it's too mundane or dull and not worth the hours to get through it?
I see it a lot used as a benchmark but no or very little mention of replay value.
Personally, I adored the gameplay. I put maybe 60 hours in and still had the energy to start a second playthrough (though never got far in it). That's rare for me with such long games. Usually by the time I finish the game, I'm like "yup, I've had enough". The story is fantastic and the gameplay is super open. Can go in guns a blazing (with all sorts of weapons, including "smart guns" with target seeking bullets), be stealthy, slow time and get up close and personal, keep your distance and use hacks that can even spread from enemy to enemy, and more. The romantic interests are great and also feel realistic. The plot is dark and doesn't shy away from what I envision a dystopian sci-fi reality being like.
And yeah, it is a beautiful world, too. I found it highly immersive because of that.
It's not perfect. Civilian, police, and driving AI is by far its weakest point. The world feels vibrant and interesting, but don't expect much from civilian interactions, drivers are basically on rails, and police teleport to you. But those issues were fairly minor to me. I'd give it a 9/10. Obligatory mention that I played on PC. I've heard older consoles were buggy, but I didn't see much for bugs on PC.
(Typing this up made me wanna play it again, but I gotta wait for the DLC.)
i think its because the gameplay is the weakest point. tho cdpr has been constantly trying to make it better
ive beaten it like 3 times at this point so its not like its bad but the world they built, broken as it may be (but they are fixing it), is just so slick and great to just exist in.
gameplay is still real fun, but you still around for Silverhand and all the other side quests imo
Halflife was revolutionary when it was released. I've recently been playing through Black Mesa, which is a remake in the Source engine, with some parts changed or extended, and it;s absolutely excellent
Before that, Doom and Doom][ were the best FPSs. The 2016 remake does somehow manage to recapture some of the magic but the originals will always hold a special place in my heard
I agree on Doom and Doom 2. Sheer fun! I will say though that Doom 2016 didn't capture the original magic for me personally - it just felt too... formulaic?
Also, far too much emphasis on platforming.
Doom 2016 is certainly not the same, but it does keep the same feeling of fast and frenetic hyperviolence that you need to be right in the middle of, with minimal reliance on plot
I tried one of the Half Life games for about an hour, and the sci-fi aspect killed my interest with different creatures. I didn't care about what happened in the story.
I played a good amount of Doom reboot but I never finished it. It's a decent game. I can't get into being on Mars fighting random creatures, but that's only my thing, I don't have any criticisms. I heard the second one is excellent but I have not bothered with it.
If you dislike sci fi then yeah, sci fi games are not gonna do it for you!
OuterWilds. It’s a masterpiece.
Because it’s progression system/locks is about what you know (you, the flesh and blood person playing it) it’s really hard to explain why it’s so good without spoiling some aspect of the game
Outer Wilds is indeed a masterpiece. It's not really what I would call a "shooter", though, so it might not be what OP's after, it's more like Myst and so on. But it is absolutely excellent.
Wow. I completely missed the title….
Oh damn I didn't even consider this!
Outer Wilds is probably my choice too
I'm assuming you're looking for emphasis on shooters, so I'm excluding games like Fallout, which are heavily RPG.
All the Metro games are fantastic. Not too long, interesting setting, and fun gameplay.
Far Cry is probably my favourite, specifically Far Cry 5 but really all except the first one (New Dawn is super RPGy and 6 is a fair bit, too). Some of its games get a bit more RPG heavy, but 5 and earlier are more heavily shooters in open world sandboxes. Despite that, some of them have really great character driven stories. The villains are always the highlight in this series.
You are correct aboutemphasis on shooters. I can't get into sci-fi and RPG for me feel like a way to fill time without actual new gameplay happening.
I really don't like walking around tying to find random items, in my opinion it's too much of nothing
I have the Metro games, I've played each for several hours but never finished any of them.
I'm interested in Far Cry 6 but I've also seen strong criticisms of the gameplay so I don't know if it's worth buying.
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is definitely one of my favourites.
I'm watching game play of it, it seems to be a bit different. Does it have lower end hardware requirements, based on how the graphics looks?
It's a pretty old Source Engine game. Can run on a potato PC.
From Steam:
OS: Windows® 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP
Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
Hard Disk Space: At least 6 GB of free space
Video Card: : DirectX 9 compatible video card with Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
DirectX®: 9.0c
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Additional: Internet Connection required for multiplayer
EYE is on a pretty solid sale on GOG right now. I might pick that up.
Old, but System Shock 2, an immersive sim.
Old school Half Life is still my favorite for immersive story telling. I really wish Valve had finished it.
Cod 4 is probably the absolute best FPS as a general shooter.
Titanfall is the closest thing since Cod 4 since it’s the same dev team, just more limited since they were a startup with limited funding.
For single player campaigns, what comes to mind immediately are the classic CoD Modern Warfare 1 and 2 campaigns. Maybe 3 as well if you want to finish the story, but it was weaker than the other two. I've played the campaign of the new MW 2019 but while it was cool, I don't feel like it was much to write home about and I barely remember the characters now.
Other than that, I MUST recommend the STALKER games, Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat are masterpieces of slav jank, and super iconic for a reason. Immerse yourself in the depressive atmosphere of a hostile and dying Zone, where everything is trying to kill you. The many mods and standalone games based on them are also amazing, shoutouts to Anomaly. And the sequel should be coming out soon.
Other than that... My favorite single player FPS experiences are boomer shootets, of which there are many. The classics Doom and Quake, and their modern versions, are all great. Blood, Dusk, Hexen, Amid Evil, Ultrakill, Prodeus, Boltgun. So many good games.
- Dusk
- Amid Evil
- Prodeus
- Half Life 1
There's more but these were the first that came to mind.
Prodeus is such a trip, I think the first playthrough of that map where you navigate down with a boss behind glass and into the arena full of blue imps was absolute boomer shooter nirvana
And everything feels so beefy. Just thinking about that SSG makes me want to start another playthrough.
My only critique is that they shouldn't have added reloading. The rest of the game is just so fast paced that it feels weird to stop and reload.
Halo 3 ODST. Uses Halo 3's engine, so it has the same incredible physics as it, with great vibes to it as well.
Receiver and Receiver 2 are both wonderfully strange first person shooters. They're slower paced games, with more tactics and running away than most fps games.
Receiver 2 looks very interesting. How do you find it to be playing with a floating gun?
I could see you being interested in Unrecord.
My main gaming computer died before Receiver 2 came out, but I still play the hell out of the first game. (on minimum settings...) It mostly plays like a first person shooter, but you start with a random gun, and then have to load and reload it with various button presses.
The limited ammo and somewhat deadly enemies turn it into more of a stealth game with massive skill requirements for shooting accuracy.
The world is empty except for turrets and flying gun drones, which somehow makes it rather creepy.
Overall, it's a great game, and I wish I had the time and money to rebuild my main rig so that I could play the sequel.
I always find myself going back to Borderlands 2. It’s just very nostalgic to me at this point and I find a lot of replay value out of it.
I got each of the Boarderlands games from the free Epic giveways but I have never played thfough them. I will try them
I think my favourite fps campaign is Modern Warfare 2 (2009). I also liked the campaign in the other Call of Duty games (at least the games that came before Ghost, Ghost was the last game played)
I have the Modern Warfare games including reboots. Call Of Duty 2 was for sure the best one.
Doom Eternal is one of the best I have ever played. Outer Worlds is great if you are a Fallout style game fan, and Destiny 2 kept me occupied for hours.
Doom Eternal is absolute perfection. If you like VERY fast-paced shooters with aggressive music, it doesn't get any better than Doom.
I would like to try Doom Eternal if it's ever released on GOG. I bought the Wolfenstein reboots on GOG.
Easy to forget as it's difficult to get it in... prime condition for PC, but Metroid: Prime is my favorite.
Starts off like any game should - cool dramatic overview of your character and then immediate control. Shooting got better on the wii and enhanced to perfection with PC mods!
In a weird way, it's like a more chill Doom.
... Morph ball doesn't count as third-person, does it? :)
I am hugely into the 2D Metroid games and bought the new Metroid Prime remake on switch and I just could not get into it.
I played it for about half an hour and then died, and there were no save points along the way anywhere, so I'm forced to restart a game I didn't enjoy from scratch knowing I need to last even longer than that in my next playthrough before I can just save the game.
I really want to like it but my god this game is asking a lot
That's a shame. What do you think you're struggling with in Prime? Do you play a lot of FPS games?
I recognize that losing 30 minutes of progress is frustrating, but generally when the game is exciting it drags you back in regardless so I'm curious what was missing from your perspective to give it that spark especially as a Metroid fan.
Bioshock
Metal: Hellsinger has an interesting take. Wasn't for me but I can see the appeal. Similar to Doom (2016)
Metal Hdllsinger has a very good concent. I prefer a different style of metal, the game seems to favour commercial metal, the bigger names. It sounds like a lot of metalcore, hardcore, and melodic works.
I probably wouldn't think so if I tried to go back and play them now, but going by my memories, Half Life 2 and Deus Ex. More for the epic stories than the gameplay tho.
Prey is pretty great, really enjoyed that.
I played through Prey again recently and it holds up incredibly well. It's like a more polished Dishonored imo. Your story choices had more impact, the abilities feel smoother, and lots of really funny moments and character interactions.
Great shooter campaign!
Metroid Prime
That's on PC?
That's the next thing Lemmy needs, an on-screen reminder about what community you're looking at
Titanfall 2
Halo Reach
I have not played Halo since I played the first one for a couple of hours in co-op
- The original Crysis is great
- RE:7 and Village are great
- Fallout New Vegas is the only Fallout game I enjoyed, but I enjoyed it a lot
- Also this definitely doesn't count but imma throw it out anyways: Pathologic 2
I like Generation Zero. Its a bit more unconventional as a "story shooter" since the story isnt a linear campaign like most other shooters. The game receives constant updates and sometimes that includes story missions. They werent always in the game but were added later.
Its basically a game like DayZ or maybe Tarkov but without PvP and with keep inventory turned on. Takes place in a fictional 80s Sweden that was overrun by military robots. Its built in the game engine of a hunting game (phenomenal graphics for vegetation), and that means even on lower difficulty the enemies are a challenge (enemies also have heat vision and xray vision). Its a great game if you just want to jump in, play around a little (with or without friends) then dip out.
No One Lives Forever and its sequel are quite good, with an unforgettable 1960s spy aesthetic.
I actually quite liked the campaign of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. It gets a lot of hate online but I thought it was pretty fun.
There is of course Marathon by Bungie. No, not the new imposter that will soil the great name of Marathon. I mean the original Doom-like. It's open source now and has some great ports and improvements made to it over the years.
SWAT4, Ready or Not, and Zero Hour are all playable alone and really fill that very slow, tactical shooter gameplay nicely.
Medal of Honor: Frontline is one of the best WWII shooter campaigns IMO. Even to this day it still is quite good.
System Shock 1, though I am biased towards it. I was one of the Human Corpse tier backers from the Kickstarter campaign. Boy was that a mess. Still haven't receieved any of the physical goods I was supposed to, but I guess we will see how long NightDive will take to deliver on that. I mean, the game was already like 4 years late.
Probably Dishonored for me. I played through Dishonored 2 a few times.
I love the whole aesthetic and vibe of the game world
- Halo 2
- Halo 3
- Halo reach
- Half life 2 and all episodes
- Portal 2
- Prey 2006 (yes you read that correctly)
- CoD4
- Titanfall 2
- Perfect dark
- UT2k4
I love FPS's, they're obviously my favorite genre.
DOOM Eternal
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anamoly is free and a great single player fps with a great vibe to it. Doesn't quite fit your criteria though as I wouldn't say there is much of a campaign. Very interesting dynamic world and AI system though.
Edit. Highly recommend the GAMMA version. Get installation files @ their discord.
Just started playing Trepang2 and so far it's really cool. It's a retro game, but aiming at the early 2000's games like FEAR instead of old raycasting games. It's a lot of fun so far, though i've only finished the first "real" mission, plus a side mission. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/?snr=1_5_9__205
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The hacking and other abilities really add to the game play, and the story is quite interesting.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
I own it and finished a few times but I still play it.