any good FPS left or coming soon

[Vad3r]

An old time gamer here, looking for what has a good following, and decent FPS.

I've pretty much been quake mostly all my gaming life.

Quake1, to quake2, to quake3 (many mods between them), to Enemy Territory.

I bought the Orange box when it came out, TF2 was great fun when it was new. To crazy for me now. Quake Wars ET came with the last video card it bought years ago, and i kinda felt lost in that one. Perhaps didn't give it enough of a chance, my brother still luvs it. It just didn't click for me.

I bought L4D and 2 (VS mode), great fun again. Still like it, only to many quit unless all goes perfect now.

The last 2 years, pretty much just QuakeLive.

I find one game, and stick to it, of course if it's good.

So, i plan a new rig in the coming weeks. Nothing to expensive, but should at least play anything current and in the near future. Is there a game you would recommend that is out now, or coming shorty. Even if it's a year or 2 old, and still has large numbers playing, i'll try it.
You can't sleep one night, get up at 4am, and still loads of servers filled with players. That game

Well, given the games i've mentioned, maybe someone points me to something that i'll find fun again.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Sadly, arena-style FPS has died. ID Software failed to produce legitimate successor to Quake III Arena and Epic Games probably killed their Unreal Tournament franchise when they botched UT3.

There's nothing out there that compares to the thrill of UT99 Capture-the-Flag, especially organized 5v5 matches.

 

[slugg]

Honestly, the first game to really grab my attention since Team Fortress Classic and Quake 3 has been Tribes: Ascend. For the quick, twitchy gameplay, that is. I'm a huge fan of class based CTF, so the new Tribes is a ton of fun.

For the same kind of gameplay, I've found myself playing good old TFC again. Fortress Forever, a HL2/Source mod, is another really good game, but hardly anyone ever plays.

New games? Man, they seem to all be the same crap over and over again. Bigger maps, more vehicles, more objectives, more crap in your HUD, more health regeneration, more sniping, more microtransactions, less skill, less replay value, less fun... etc. Every game is a rehash of Battlefield 1942.

Now if you want something completely different, Antichamber has been the first game in a long time to really WOW me. It's as if Portal and Myst had a baby and M. C. Escher drew its world.

 

[Childs]

I've read Crysis 3 multiplayer is like a throwback to arena style DM because of the speed and jumping. There is also Shootmania.

 

[pontifex]

Call of Duty games would probably be the closest thing to old arena style shooters.

if he hasn't played any of them then he can't bitch and moan that they are all the same games.

 

[WiseUp216]

You would definitely like Serious Sam 3. It is old school and fun.

 

[slugg]

Call of Duty games would probably be the closest thing to old arena style shooters.

if he hasn't played any of them then he can't bitch and moan that they are all the same games.

You must be joking.

 

[Dankk]

Shootmania just came out on Steam the other day.

Also check out Natural Selection, it's not very "twitchy" but it's one of the finest teamwork-based FPS games available.

 

[busydude]

Metro: Last Light is set to release in May this year.

 

[jimrawr]

Yeah nothing really that is deathmatch style like Quake.. Id recommend trying Crysis 3..

There are a lot of us old school gamers waiting for a new DM game, but alas none arrive.

Quake 1 DM3 4v4 FTW.

Quake 1 DM6 1v1 FTW

BTW you can still find quake1 games nightly if thats your thing..
http://quakeone.com/

 

[Vad3r]

Serious Sam, i tried the first or second one years ago, I liked it. Sure i'll give SS3 a go, but online play is more what I am after.

Not sounding like there is much out there for me today. All these fast video cards out today.

Is call of duty fun to play online ?. I'll try it if it has a solid following.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Hmm, I haven't been PC gaming long than a few years, but I admit, I love playing Openarena (Quake 3 clone) when friends or family want to. Runs well enough on a 2003 Athlon XP PC with a Unichrome IGP. Heck, I got more hours out of Openarena than Battlefield 3.

 

[biostud]

Chivalry

 

[jimrawr]

Serious Sam, i tried the first or second one years ago, I liked it. Sure i'll give SS3 a go, but online play is more what I am after.

Not sounding like there is much out there for me today. All these fast video cards out today.

Is call of duty fun to play online ?. I'll try it if it has a solid following.

No one plays SS3 online, forget that game.

 

[raildogg]

Just got a new graphics card and cannot find a good game to play. Tried Planetside 2 and didn't like the huge maps. I like smaller enviroment in multiplayer setups so that is one reason I still play Return to Castle Wolfenstein multiplayer. The interactions with other players are very personal and that just adds to the game. It is such a crisp game when it comes to shooters.

I looked at Serious Sam, etc. but I'm not sure about them either. I played the first one for a few minutes. I guess I need to try Max Payne 2 and 3.

Thanks for the thread.

 

[blackwhiskers]

+1 for tribes:ascend.

even though it does have regen, it also has twitch aiming, spinfusors (really funky rocket launchers) and movement mechanics that involve mobility and rocket-jumping (weeel, technically, it's disk jumping in tribes), not endless covers.

I haven't played the older tribes, but I have extensively played q3 and ut2k3-ut2k4, and tribes has the funkiest arena style ctf out of them all. the game recently got a big update, too.

 

[CPA]

No one plays SS3 online, forget that game.

You can easily find a co-op game, but yeah, no one really plays versus.

 

[slugg]

+1 for tribes:ascend.

even though it does have regen, it also has twitch aiming, spinfusors (really funky rocket launchers) and movement mechanics that involve mobility and rocket-jumping (weeel, technically, it's disk jumping in tribes), not endless covers.

I haven't played the older tribes, but I have extensively played q3 and ut2k3-ut2k4, and tribes has the funkiest arena style ctf out of them all. the game recently got a big update, too.

This. Also, the fact that the game is completely fake means it never fails at realism. The movement mechanics are unlike any other game, yet it still feels very cool and crisp.

The balance is good, too. It isn't a situational, rock-paper-scissors balance. By that I mean that one class doesn't have an inherent dominance over the other. The player with more skill wins, not the player with more luck (why I hate TF2). 2 vs 1 scenarios are often won by the lone soldier, so long as he is a badass at the game.

Graphics are good, sound effects are cool, the style is funky... Overall, I think its a fantastic game.

 

[pontifex]

You must be joking.

what popular game is closer?

or are you just crying like a bitch because i said Call of Duty?

 

[JamesV]

Every game is a rehash of Battlefield 1942.

What the hell are you smoking? I wish every game was a rehash of BF 1942, because then there would be shooters on the market with depth and competition without unlocks and levels. There is NOTHING on the market like BF 1942; even BF 3 is so far removed from 1942 it shouldn't be allowed to use the name Battlefield.

If anything, every shooter is like CoD these days; mindless unlocking and levelling deathmatch, regardless of the game type.

 

[slugg]

What the hell are you smoking? I wish every game was a rehash of BF 1942, because then there would be shooters on the market with depth and competition without unlocks and levels. There is NOTHING on the market like BF 1942; even BF 3 is so far removed from 1942 it shouldn't be allowed to use the name Battlefield.

If anything, every shooter is like CoD these days; mindless unlocking and levelling deathmatch, regardless of the game type.

Hm. You're right. Perhaps I should have said a "poor rehash of BF 1942." The original Battlefield game was, to the best of my knowledge, the first "war" FPS with massive maps. It was great when it was new. Then came the pretenders: bigger, more this, more that. Unlocks, paid DLC, and downright repetition of the same game minus new graphics and sounds really killed the genre for me.

So I meant to hold Battlefield 1942 in high regard, but I see now how it sounded like. A few generations down the road, a copy of a copy of a copy of Battlefield 1942 is a crappy game.

 

[chalmers]

what popular game is closer?

or are you just crying like a bitch because i said Call of Duty?

You're an angry dude.

 

[Dankk]

what popular game is closer?

or are you just crying like a bitch because i said Call of Duty?

Not many PC games are as popular as Call of Duty, but I can think of a few titles that are far closer to traditional arena-style FPS than CoD. Shootmania, Nexuiz, Quakelive, Painkiller, and Warsow to name a few.

Saying that CoD is "the closest thing to old arena style shooters" is pretty silly.

 

[motsm]

I had a lot of fun with Quake Live, but that won't be anything new to a Quake 3 vet, although that didn't bother me while I was playing. Tribes Ascend is the last multiplayer shooter I played, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's very traditional in the sense that player skill and strategy really matter, so there's a much larger skill ceiling than in the hit scan insta regen games of today. I can't speak to the population of the servers however, as I haven't played either for a while.

If you want to try a single player only shooter, Hard Reset is a recent one that was made as a throwback to the Quake generation. I think it does it's ancestors justice.

 

[pontifex]

Not many PC games are as popular as Call of Duty, but I can think of a few titles that are far closer to traditional arena-style FPS than CoD. Shootmania, Nexuiz, Quakelive, Painkiller, and Warsow to name a few.

Saying that CoD is "the closest thing to old arena style shooters" is pretty silly.

I don't know anyone who plays any of those games you listed. I can't imagine that there's even a noticeable fraction of people who play those games compared to the old Quakes and Unreals.

i don't get how CoD isn't like those games? You run around in circles on the map shooting people. the only thing different is it's modern day weapons and there's no health/weapon/item pickups.