How many people here have first-person shooters as their favorite genre?

[Joust Williams]

"Would be even better if someone could design a controller for the **********consoles*****************"

[JM]

If you don't mind, I'm gonna derail the thread for a moment with a question you folks can answer for me.

Can someone outline the pros/cons of the PS2 rev of Deus Ex? I can't seem to find a copy of the PC game anywhere in town, while EB has the PS2 rev for $12.99. Should I go for it or wait until I can find it on the PC?

Thanks

JM

[Frogacuda]

Originally posted by diffusionx
Bwahhaa, you fools, there WAS such a controller for the PC, the SpaceOrb 360. While it didnt make a huge impact, people to this day swear by it. From what I hear, it's excellent if you take the time to warm up to it.

Here's a pic:

The space orb is totally different than what they were talking about, but a cool console, and the only truly 3d contoller ever.

[NeoZeedeater]

JM, are you serious? Deus Ex is available everywhere that has PC games.

The only advantage of the PS2 version from what I hear is that the characters have a higher polygon count. They also reworked the interface to be controller-friendly. And they had to break up the levels a bit so there's more loading. Personally, I would try and get the PC version if you can. It won't be any more expensive and you'll get proper mouse/keyboard control.

[Gohron]

I wouldn't really consider any genres my favorite but I've definately played some great FPS (Deus Ex, BF1942 (Desert Combat), Half-Life (Firearms), and Unreal Tournament to name a few). I don't care for RTS games much...I suck at them:P Realistically though, I probaly play way more FPS then anything else with RPGs most likely being my second.

[MechDeus]

Hmm... Spaceorb, you say? Looks interesting, I wonder if any are still floating around for sale.

Originally posted by BoBVila
"Would be even better if someone could design a controller for the **********consoles*****************"

You could look into reverse-engineering the XBox USB port and slap a gamepad adapter on the other end. That would be damned cool, and could properly identify what that extra black wire in XBox pads is.

[Eightbitbreaks]

Originally posted by Gohron
Half-Life (Firearms)

Woohoo!! Firearms!!

Vampire Slayer is still my favorite Half-Life mod though.

[Viper]

I'm not really an FPS fan, but I do enjoy playing the odd FPS occasionally. I do most of my gaming on my own, so I appreciate an FPS with a good single player mode more than one geared towards death matching. Half-Life, Goldeneye 007, Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor: Underground are probably my personal favourite games in the genre.

[JM]

Thanks Neo.

JM

[JM]

Hey, I don't know if you guys have seen this or not, but since there is so much System Shock 2 love here, check this out.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aube...ck_rebirth.htm
This willmake the ingame character models look much nicer, when it is complete.

Here is a screen shot.


I just thought Neo & Xs would be interested.

JM

[NeoZeedeater]

I will keep an eye on that but the new one looks odd, like they took some elf head and slapped it on.

[Eightbitbreaks]

I got around to playing SS2 last night...

Wow... great fucking game. Scary as hell too. I love it.

[JM]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
I will keep an eye on that but the new one looks odd, like they took some elf head and slapped it on.

Yeah, that guy looks kinda strange, but the chick hybrid looks damn good.

JM

[magnifiedplaid]

The only FPS I have liked are:

-GoldenEye
-007: Nightfire
-Perfect Dark
-Time Splitters
-Time Splitters 2 (for the multiplayer, I thought the single player was better in part 1)
-AND METROID PRIME

Besides those games I have absolutely loathed every other FPS I have played.

[Shin Johnpv]

I dont know if id call it my fav genre but its up there

all though i havent like most here it seems played the more recent PC FPS'

not saying ALL of them but a good deal of them felt like too much just more of the same so i really havent played PC FPS since Half Life

hell i really havent played much PC games in general since half Life

[Drewbacca]

Gohron: Ugh, I hate desert combat in Battlefeild. I would much rather play the game in the normal pretenses. I don't find anything alluring about it.

Maybe that's because I can't figure out the helicopters, though. I can stay up there for a long while and then all of a sudden it just flips over and I bail out, and then all my passengers die.