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Name a better FPS than the original Call of Duty

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Day of Defeat (not source garbage) is hands down the best competitive game ever made. Despite the age of the hl engine, it is STILL the most fun, balanced, frenetic WWII FPS game ever made. The dev team even nerfed half of what made the 1.x betas GREAT, and it's STILL the best game out there. Of course now the only people left playing it are generally excellent to godlike, so getting your feet wet will be insanely frustrating.

If you own any hl game, dod is free on Steam.
 
dud said:
So what, in your humble opinion rival CoD for fun, simplicity and playability in a LAN/on-line environment?
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I'll vote for the original Unreal Tournament (UT99). It still has unrivaled game play and in its heyday there were thousands of populated servers 24/7. It also had abundant clan activity and probably over 10,000 freely-available custom maps and mods were produced.

People still play UT99 to this day, including 5v5 capture the flag clan-like matches called PUGs that are organized on IRC.
 
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Q3A, BF2, UT2k4. That's pretty much the list of games I played in the last decade. I bought COD1 when it came out, I liked it because it used the same engine as Q3A but didn't play it nearly as much.
 
In my mind, CoD4 and BF2 are the greatest multiplayer first person shooters I've ever played. BC2 is really good as well. Believe it or not, I loved Crysis as a single player game and have played through it a few times already.
 
A lot of people mention either UT'99 or UT2k4. I would be curious about the age demographics here and if there is a clear split around gamers 30 years old.
 
JoshGuru7 said:
A lot of people mention either UT'99 or UT2k4. I would be curious about the age demographics here and if there is a clear split around gamers 30 years old.
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I'm a couple years away from 30 and I bought and played UT'99. Then Q3A came out and it took away most of the time I had available to play video games...

I picked up UT2k4 because a friend wanted me to play and Onslaught became my game of choice, unlike CTF in Q3A.
 
I never liked the idea of unlocking weapons. The only advantage to playing more should be the practice. Q3A (NOT LIVE GARBAGE) is a better game than UT anything, but there are no objectives unless you play CTF, which I was bored with by Q2 (Loki's Minions and Threewave). dod is better than any game listed. It combines the deadliness of the weapons like in cs and the awesomeness of not waiting for the round to end to respawn. It doesn't reward camping style of gameplay which makes cs so annoying, and it has clear fun objectives, and leaves just enough "athleticsm" so that good gamers can dominate a game.
 
I owned every UT, all the BF's, and a few of the CoD's. Also quakes. And numerous random games like HL2, CS:S, TF2, LFD2, etc. Easily my favorite genre. I've actually enjoyed some console FPS games more than PC ones.
 
Return to Castle Wolfnenstein: Enemy Territory. I believe that this game came out around the same time as CoD. It has a lot more weapons. It was one of the first FPS games to have ranks gained through exp point in multiplayer. The maps each has a different objective to complete; there is no real straight up deathmatch.
 
I am thinking the OP did not get the response he was looking for.

As for me:

Mission based:
Far Cry
Crysis
Serious Sam 1st and 2nd
Duke 3D
Red Faction
Some of the MoH's, like Pacific Assault
Half Life 1
Half Life 2

Online:
BF1942
Counter Strike and CS Source

Crap, forget it. Too tired to go on.
 
simonizor said:
Return to Castle Wolfnenstein: Enemy Territory. I believe that this game came out around the same time as CoD. It has a lot more weapons. It was one of the first FPS games to have ranks gained through exp point in multiplayer. The maps each has a different objective to complete; there is no real straight up deathmatch.
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This. Really elaborate design, lots of teamwork necessary, a team of average players working together efficiently could bring down the team with a bunch of individual rambos that weren't watching the objectives.

I preferred RTCW for the popular and very intense OLTL mode teamplay, but ET was still fantastic, and free!

Shame about the new one.
 
shortylickens said:
I am thinking the OP did not get the response he was looking for.

As for me:

Mission based:
Far Cry
Crysis
Serious Sam 1st and 2nd
Duke 3D
Red Faction
Some of the MoH's, like Pacific Assault
Half Life 1
Half Life 2

Online:
BF1942
Counter Strike and CS Source

Crap, forget it. Too tired to go on.
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Well most people are comparing multiplayer only games to CoD1. CoD1's singleplayer is one of the best in any FPS ever. It's multiplayer was only ok but it's singleplayer made it one of the best FPS's ever.
 
Chriscross3234 said:
I thoroughly enjoyed the original CoD and the second CoD as well (and thoroughly despise the Modern Warefare's of CoD). MoH was the first to have the WWII theme with 'that' type of gamplay, but it didn't feel right and didn't have classic maps such as Brecourt, Carentan, and Bocage. With all that said, the very first FPS to hook me in to FPS, and even PC gaming, was UT 99. UT99 will be the king of FPS for me, followed very closely by TF2.
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+ 1. Verry well worded.
 
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