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.
You definitely own it to yourself to finish it! Now this comes down to personal opinion, but IMHO the campaign falls into the perfect “sweet spot” of length: ~6 hours.
I started downloading Titalfall 2 right now to continue playing it, I will try it tomorrow, are you happy you bum?
I’m only giving you a hard time, but seriously it’s downloading right now
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.
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
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.
Titanfall 2’s single player campaign is fantastic.
I’m downloading it now. I already own it but I never finished it
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.
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.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.
There are several aspects to Crysis gameplay I like, the sci-fi part of it makes me lose interest.
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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.)
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 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!
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
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….
Old, but System Shock 2, an immersive sim.
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.
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.
How old is your system? Would it not be inexpensive enough for you to build a new cheap system for a performance upgrade? What hardware do you need to have a fully functional system working again?
Right now I’m on an old laptop. As to getting my main system going again, It would be easier to just rebuild it from scratch. It was old enough that I needed an upgrade, and then I started getting random faults, but nothing that I could ever identify properly.
Windows stopped loading properly, so I switched over to Linux, which kept things going for another two years… And then that stopped working properly.
And then I ended up having to move, and now I don’t have room for a large gaming rig, which is another reason why I’m on the old laptop.
I’ve been saving up, but well… I can at least say that my bills are paid and I’m not in debt.
I’ve found that in my life, I either have money for a fancy gaming rig, or the time to play games, but never have I really had both at the same time. Sometimes I have neither.
You can live at ease with not having any debt weighing on you.
I was thinking maybe you could do a 4 core i3 13100, B660 board, 16GB DDR4, and RX 7600.
That would beat a 8700K and Radeon 580.
I actually had a nice gaming rig all priced out before my recent, surprise move.
Now I’m looking at laptops. They might lack the raw power of a full gaming rig, but the space savings are more attractive at the moment…
But that’s something for the future, I have to rebuild my savings a bit more before I start thinking about spending large chunks of it.
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
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.
