# Need a new FPS Recommendation **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196 "2011-10-10T16:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/1 "2011-10-10T16:50:36Z")
I have been aching for a “good” or even “great” FPS lately. This past summer, I got Crysis and loved it, then got Crysis 2 and hated the console saving system. Hated. It. I have seen a few more come out, recently. What do you recommend? I yearn for the golden days of my youth with DOOM, Quake, Unreal. Great shooter with a great story and invironment. Needs to be on the PC, also. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/2 "2011-10-10T16:52:16Z")
If you can wait two weeks Battlefield 3 comes out. I don’t know if the beta is still open, I haven’t checked today, but from what I’ve played it’s friggin sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/3 "2011-10-10T16:55:04Z")
I have never played any of the battlefield games or any of the other brands in that genre. Is it something you can play solo, or is group/online play a must? I always thought that was all about squad combat and that sort of things, is it a straight up FPS? If so, I am down for that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/4 "2011-10-10T19:01:39Z")
You can play solo. They have a single player campaign, although the bulk is online. You can get into a squad while in the battle, but that just gives you someone to spawn on. You don’t actually need to communicate/work with the squad. And it’s straight FPS. You’re one of four classes (assault/medic, engineer [they fix vehicles], support [they give ammo], or recon [snipers].) You can also drive/fly tanks, jets, jeeps, APCs, helicopters. It’s really quite fun. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/5 "2011-10-10T19:23:18Z")
Gonna have to check it out. Been meaning to try others, but it seems like one comes out right after another. Wasn’t Black Ops just out last year? Anyway, thanks for the rec. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/6 "2011-10-10T19:31:05Z")
> [@Inthewater](#): > > Gonna have to check it out. Been meaning to try others, but it seems like one comes out right after another. > > Wasn’t Black Ops just out last year? > > Anyway, thanks for the rec. Yep. And this year is Modern Warfare 3. I tried the Battlefield 2 beta, and it’s super campy. It’s not even the full game, with all the other stuff, which I prefer to not have in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/7 "2011-10-10T19:35:03Z")
> [@Inthewater](#): > > Wasn’t Black Ops just out last year? Yep, and _Modern Warfare 3_ comes out next month. _COD_ games come out about once a year. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/8 "2011-10-10T19:36:57Z")
So, what I am looking for is a good/great single player FPS for the PC. Any ideas? 🙂 Should I just load up HL2 again or play Quake 4 (yuck). I can’t get my old original Quake to install/play on my new PC with my limited skills. Anything around that plays like Unreal Tournament these days? I miss those days. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/9 "2011-10-10T19:38:36Z")
Ahh, COD is different that MW3. See, I don’t even know what is what. Just wanna shoot some stuff and run around in a cool environment, maybe have a fragfest or two with live people. Seems like there should be something like that around, but I just can’t ever seem to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/10 "2011-10-10T20:01:06Z")
_Call of Duty_ was the name of the very first game. Since then they’ve had several games under the _COD_ name, they include 2, 3, _World At War_, and _Modern Warfare_, _Modern Warfare 2_, and _Black Ops_. There are some characters that carry over within the series, and the _MW_ games are actual sequels, but you can play each game without knowing anything about the previous one and be just fine. _Black Ops_ will still be supported for a long time, and it has a pretty good campaign, albeit interrupted with long cutscenes that you wish you could skip if you replay any of it. Put it on the easiest setting and you can run and gun all you want through a bunch of different scenarios, or play it on the harder levels if you want a hell of a challenge. Still, the trend with FPS games has been to put in a token campaign and optimize it for multiplayer. If you’re not already pretty good at FPS multiplayer those kids will take your heart right out of it. Getting demolished endlessly and repeatedly by “elite” gamers takes a while to get over, at least as long as it takes for you to get better. So if that’s not your thing you might want to stick to the older games. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/11 "2011-10-10T20:15:43Z")
That’s sad. FPS used to be fun, even if you were getting spanked. Anyway, thanks for the tips. As an adult with a real life to attend to rather than 20-30 hrs per week gaming, I am quite used to being “pwned” by the elite gamers who do have this time. I take no shame in it, but it does get boring. At least in a FPS, it’s based somewhat on skill and not on how many hours you can grind for gear, as in an MMO. I’ll have to see about grabbing a copy when it comes out. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/12 "2011-10-10T20:29:19Z")
How do you feel about third person shooters? Can i recommend _Space Marine_. Run around in the Warhammer 40K universe as a 8’ tall power armoured wrecking machine. Take on Orks mobs 50 strong at once with a variety of entertaining weapons. Campaign runs about 9-10 hours and i enjoyed every minute of it. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/13 "2011-10-10T20:34:57Z")
> [@Inthewater](#): > > I have been aching for a “good” or even “great” FPS lately. This past summer, I got Crysis and loved it, then got Crysis 2 and hated the console saving system. Hated. It. > > I have seen a few more come out, recently. > > What do you recommend? I yearn for the golden days of my youth with DOOM, Quake, Unreal. You’re pretty much screwed. Those sorts of games don’t go over well with the console crowd, so they’ve dried up. Everything now is an on-rails, lead you by the nose, automatically regenerating health, corridor based copy of call of duty. You may like the [serious sam](http://store.steampowered.com/app/41070/) games (the linked was just the latest and most expensive one - there are older, cheaper ones) which are basically doom-like in their game play but more farcical. I can’t recommend them because I haven’t played them, but I know they’re of the same sort of doom style. UT3 was the last of the q3/UT type games and barely anyone plays it. There’s quake live - basically a web browser free version of Q3 - but I don’t know how it turned out. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/14 "2011-10-10T20:36:41Z")
I was looking at that, I have loved that game world for a long time, but some of the reviews mentioned it was really simplified down. and it seems really short, I guess if I can get it for a decent price, I could be down. Just can’t find anything like the old single player games, these days. Hoping for a HL3/4 someday that is as awesome. Maybe Crysis3 will go back to the save system from the first game and be less railroadish. : / I will check our Space Marine, though. Thanks for the tip. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/15 "2011-10-10T20:38:26Z")
Yeah, I hear ya, Beef. Just not good. These new style FPS games are just so boring. There used to be 10 ways to get through a lvl now you hit invisible walls when you try to go off course. Lame-o. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/16 "2011-10-10T20:39:24Z")
Metro 2033 is on sale on Steam for $5 today. It’s a very atmospheric, story-based FPS game (no multiplayer, I believe). Definitely worth a shot at that price. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/17 "2011-10-10T20:39:26Z")
I had thought of checking out Serious Sam, never played any of them, either. Anyone here that has? ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/18 "2011-10-10T20:41:51Z")
Thanks cckerberos, I will definitely check that out. That looks like it could be a winner, at that price, I can afford to be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/19 "2011-10-10T20:43:02Z")
Metro 2033 is definitely a good game and worth the $5, but it’s not at all the sort of thing he’s looking for. It’s a corridor based (at least it has good reason, in this case), slow paced, resource-strapped atmospheric sort of game with a horror element - which is pretty much the opposite of an old school run around shoot em up. It is one of the few games that fit that style though that actually manages to be good. I recommend it generally to anyone if you have a decent computer. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196/20 "2011-10-10T20:46:02Z")
Seconding Serious Sam, though I haven’t played it. Everything I’ve heard about it suggests it’s what you’re looking for in the Doom/Quake variety. Borderlands is good, solid old-fashioned FPSing, though the story is weak and there are RPG elements tacked on (leveling, skill trees, gear), but if you’re willing to deal with those it can be enjoyable. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fps-recommendation/599196.md?page=2)