IMHO Titanfall 2 has one of the best campaigns for a SP FPS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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….
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Hard to beat DUSK :)
CULTIC is damn good too.
Cultic looks alright, I have a hard time with the low end graphics, but that's my personal preferance.
Personally, the worse a game looks the more I like it. Cruelty Squad looks awesome.
There's something about crude graphics that appeals to you, alright, I get that.
The fancy graphics today is very uneccassary for quality gameplay, but I also can't play 90's games anymore due to the pixelation.
I wish id Software would do a full 1 for 1 remake of the original Doom and sell for $20. No changes, nothing added or removed, keep all of the same measurements and dimensions of every area, every room, identical colours, same game functionalities, but in a new game engine with 4K textures.
I wonder if that would wreck it or be an instant success.
There's been a million fan made upscales and they all look terrible, in a bad way, but you seem like the sort of person who would like them.
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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
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Old, but System Shock 2, an immersive sim.
Halo 3 ODST. Uses Halo 3's engine, so it has the same incredible physics as it, with great vibes to it as well.
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.
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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.
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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Metal: Hellsinger has an interesting take. Wasn't for me but I can see the appeal. Similar to Doom (2016)
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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.
Halo Reach
I have not played Halo since I played the first one for a couple of hours in co-op
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