I need a new game.....

[{TNP}Dukie]

I'd definitely recommend Half-Life for the single player.

[The Happy Friar]

i've found the replay in HL1 boring though.  it's like a spook house... you know when it's happening.

how about serious sam 1/second encounter? 

[Daemia]

World of Warcraft.

that is not an fps or similar to q2 at all LOL

[PANTONE 7717C]

  Serious Sam games have always been my favorite LAN/Coop games, including Will Rock (replica of SSam but a good one).

Medal of Honor:Allied Assault. This game more or less started the whole wave of WW2 games. TeamDM and Objective gameplay may feel like counterstrike but the whole WW concept and obsolete weapons give it something special (IMO). The first time I played it ('02) I got the same feeling I had with Quake2, everything just felt right. Physics, weapons, aim and atmosphere. I remember being totally into historic settings and backgrounds from WW2 events because of the realistic map settings.
I've really enjoyed the game for a couple of years and helped with the design of the site and the forum of .Map. I even built a custom map for it and had a chance to learn the Q3 editor. And although newer MoH games and expansion packs followed quickly the original still has a loyal fanbase. Unfortunately at one time there were even more cheats available than for CS because EA stopped developping an anticheat and much needed patches early on, not a surprise because they smelled an upcoming franchise. Also the lack of an autodownload function killed the mood for most hobby mappers and the constant use of the Sniper rifle took some of the fun away. But just like the AWP in CS and the Railgun in Q2 there's always a favorite weapon I guess.
Medal of Honor's singleplayer is just excellent and stirring (same goes for Call of Duty) and once you start playing the singleplayer you'll be sold:)

[Whirlingdervish]

well, since nobody else would preview them, I guess I'm left with CS and variations.
If you purchase CS thru steam, you'll probably spend the whole 20 bucks and get Condition Zero and Deleted Scenes.
(It's actually a waste not to..)

If you are down for playing pub games ad naseum, and you don't mind the loss of a lot of movement freedom, CS 1.6 is actually quite fun and challenging, and there are tons of servers and players left.


CS: Condition Zero is rather like a single player version of the purely multiplayer CS.
You still play terrorists vs CT, but this time you're forced to the CT team, and you have a variety of missions to complete whilst choosing a team of bots to back you up. As you beat more missions (generally by doing 2-3 tasks and winning so many rounds) you can "purchase" better bots for your team to help offset the difficulty progression of the Terrorist bots.

This game feels distinctly like a training ground for CS players.


Condition Zero Deleted Scenes is something entirely different.

It is more like a Single player version of Counterstrike than any of the other incarnations.
Unfortunately the missions are rather disjointed and you don't get any feeling of real accomplishment because they don't follow a definite plot direction. They're just missions to beat, in a certain order (with a team or not) against ridiculous odds, whilst using stealth, navigating some maps that are very SP feeling, and trying not to die at all.

[[BTF]DeathStalker]

F.E.A.R. also has proxy mines and self sticking remote mines ala GoldenEye.

Stick remote mines to opponants back as they run past. Tons of fun there.

[ReCycled]

Great information.....thank you all. Now I have visions of too many plastic cases being scanned at the cashier of my local games store. I'll have to boil it down to 3 or so to keep a semblance of a budget.

[Robot]

well, since nobody else would preview them, I guess I'm left with CS and variations.
If you purchase CS thru steam, you'll probably spend the whole 20 bucks and get Condition Zero and Deleted Scenes.
(It's actually a waste not to..)

If you are down for playing pub games ad naseum, and you don't mind the loss of a lot of movement freedom, CS 1.6 is actually quite fun and challenging, and there are tons of servers and players left.


CS: Condition Zero is rather like a single player version of the purely multiplayer CS.
You still play terrorists vs CT, but this time you're forced to the CT team, and you have a variety of missions to complete whilst choosing a team of bots to back you up. As you beat more missions (generally by doing 2-3 tasks and winning so many rounds) you can "purchase" better bots for your team to help offset the difficulty progression of the Terrorist bots.

This game feels distinctly like a training ground for CS players.


Condition Zero Deleted Scenes is something entirely different.

It is more like a Single player version of Counterstrike than any of the other incarnations.
Unfortunately the missions are rather disjointed and you don't get any feeling of real accomplishment because they don't follow a definite plot direction. They're just missions to beat, in a certain order (with a team or not) against ridiculous odds, whilst using stealth, navigating some maps that are very SP feeling, and trying not to die at all.

I'd also recommend Counter-Strike Source if you have a fairly modern machine.

[[BTF]Sigma]

Next Gen:
1) Gears of War
2) Unreal Tournament 3
3) Call of Duty 4 : Modern Combat

Contemporary:
1) HalfLife 2 , episodes One and Two
2) Quake 4
3) F.E.A.R.

Classic:
1) Quake , new sp map packs being released these days are just friggin' jaw dropping with the Darkplaces Engine backing them up.
2) Duke 3D
3) System Shock 2

[peewee_RotA]

3) System Shock 2

I forgot about system shock.. along with Strife it was THE game that Deus Ex ripped off.

[Arm0r]

To make a serious suggestion, FPS have 2 historical common factors that make them great, one more than the other. First and most focused on today is new engine features. However new engines in todays world go obsolete quicker than a cellphones. The real test of time has always been original weaponry. Think about all the big names and what made them that way.

Duke3d, Redneck Rampage, Serious sam, Blood, Postal 2, Heretic, Hexen, Turok 2, ad. nasium. It's always about the weapons. Heck Quake 2 invented the railgun (and in effect instagib) and name a single game now that doesn't rip it off. That's one of the biggest parts of Quake2's success was the new and improved weapons while still keeping the Doom2 nostalgia alive.

So as for great weapons games that I'd actually broke down and shell out money for is Painkiller and Postal 3, whenever it comes out.

Love the Napalm Launcher on blood, I used to sit on mplayer for hours in 4 player (all u could do in mplayer) deathmatches, those were the days

[naymlis]

1) Quake , new sp map packs being released these days are just friggin' jaw dropping with the Darkplaces Engine backing them up.

link?

[Punk_FAS]

1) Quake , new sp map packs being released these days are just friggin' jaw dropping with the Darkplaces Engine backing them up.

link?

piqued my interest as well so did some googling - http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/

[naymlis]

meant the sp maps

[The Happy Friar]

STALKER's pretty good.

non-FPS I'd have to say darwinia is tops.