So I've been thinking recently more about the gaming I use to do when I was younger and what things may have influenced my current gaming likes and dislikes.
In this thread, please post your first ever FPS (First Person Shooter) game. It doesn't have to be one you owned, but the very first one you played. Also, please list your favorite FPS game and why.
Please make sure to state your reasoning, no lists. This should be a fairly interesting thread as the forum has members of various ages. Please no bashing the genre, or any games users choose.
I'll start.
First FPS GAME
Doom, which was released in 1993. I didn't own the game at the time, but my best friend did. I was 13 years old and most of my gaming was on the Sega Genesis, and NES. I didn't even own a computer of my own yet.
I had heard of Wolfenstein 3D but never played it until after my experience with DOOM. So DOOM was truly my first experience in the FPS genre. I remember visiting my friend just about every other week, staying up late and playing our way through the game. The game invoked some weird emotions, even though I was 13, the music, enemies, and atmosphere the game gave off created some scary moments. I suppose playing all through the night added to that feeling.
As my friend and I would switch back and forth from playing, we'd spend time flipping through the game manual and reading about all of the enemies and getting some big laughs at the descriptions.
I still remember reading this very line under this enemy: The Imp - " Where Did These Brown Bstrds Come From" ( i know, I am missing a letter)
Growing up, it was just my sister, my dad and I. My parents split when I was younger so we never really had a lot of money to spend on games or a computer. Eventually, when I turned 14 I got my first computer. It was a Mac Performa 600 which came out in 1992, so we got a fairly good deal on it.
I was able to purchase Doom 2 around the holidays of 1994 as my grandma got it as a gift for me. It hardly ran on my low end MAC, took almost an hour perhaps a bit more to install and I often thought it froze my computer. Playing the game... umm well let's just say I had to scale the screen size down to a business card size view on my monitor for playable framerate.
It didn't bother me though, I was hooked and played that game several times a day.
My favorite FPS game:
Delta Force 2 by Novalogic. I had played a demo of Delta Force off a free CD ROM full of demo's from a gaming mag back in 1999. By then, I was 19 and had a bit better computer and was starting to really get into some sports and RTS games.
I enjoyed the open world of Delta Force 2 and that it was set in modern day. I mostly played the single player campaign but soon realized the real meat of Delta Force games came in online multiplayer. At the time, up to 32 players could be in a server and I thought that was amazing. Most of the game modes I played online were Capture the Flag and Attack and Defend only later getting into King of the Hill and Team King of The Hill.
What really grabbed me with Delta Force 2 was the free roam, open world, battle anywhere you want style. The guns were balanced and I loved either being a Gunner or Sniper. As a Sniper you could camp all map, well away from the enemy and pick off people left and right... but it took skill!
The maps were varied and I really have a lot of memories playing in certain servers. My favorite was called RAW MEAT. Can't forget to mention the many public servers with maps that users made in mission editor.
Got to love a voxel engine!
Here is a video of a custom map in DF2 multiplayer.
