Best 1st person shooter and RTS game

Currently, my favorite realtime simulation game would be "Need For Speed - Porsche Unleashed" because the graphics, physics, and sound integration are totally awesome; especially on MY sound system!

As for first person shooter - I'd play:
1) Unreal Tournament - GOTYE
2) Quake III Team Arena (req: #3)
3) Quake III Arena
4) Aliens vs. Predator
5) Shadow Warrior
6) Dark Forces
7) Duke Nuke'Em
8) Doom II
9) Doom
10) Wolfenstein 3D

What's wrong with listing a few classics? Anyway, keep your eyes open for a game called "Red Faction". It should appear as soon as this Autumn in local stores. The game boasts a new 'on-the-fly' geometric manipulation engine which allows players to blast their way through walls, floors, and ceilings!

Lycia,
If you had UT skills then you would love it, I hit most of the people I aim at, I've tried tons of games but nothing competes with the rush of UT. Practice enough and you'll agree, I used to like the stadegy games until UT. Practice about 100 hours become top scorer almost every game and you'll be hooked like a crack whore.

Single player
1.Hidden and Dangerous
2.Delta force

Multiplayer
Q3 fast machine
Duke nukem slow machine

Wife plays all of the AOE versions religiously, sons play nothing but Ultima Online.

The best FPS is Counterstrike. Can't get enough of it.
Played Day of Defeat, but the guys look like "stick men".

MW4 doesn't qualify as a FPS really. It's more of a strategy/pound em to death over time with big guns game. Civ2 multiplayer is great over weeks or months but doesn't qualify as a RTS. GP500 doesn't qualify as a FPS either, much as I wish it would. Why don't they mount guns on motorcycles?

Some of the best games are pretty old now. How long has Unreal Tournament been around?
Personally, I've found some of the better mods still go the distance. Halflife Firearms is one of the better ones...similar to other team oriented games. Unreal Tournament doesn't really cut it as a team game compared to Firearms or Day of Defeat. If only there were more like that. If you're after just a good FPS then anything else kicks a$$ graphics/gameplay wise. I still love a good team battle though.

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FPS: Counterstrike followed closely by RB6

RTS: I hate those games so take your pick

Quake 1 2 3 Half life and mods
Warcraft 2 mecwarrior 3 4

Wow, missed some of the great one's here people!!

FPS:
1. Deus Ex
2. The Thief series
3. Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic(been mentioned :))
4. Half-life and single player mods (They Hunger scared the socks off my daughter :D)
5. Unreal Tournament (no deathmatch, deathmatch is BORRRRIIINNGGG!! Down with Quake III!)
6. Mech Warroir 4 (The best of the series, 3 was good also)

RTS: not a big list for me here...
1. Mech Commander (2 looks to be awesome!)
2. C&C Red Alert

FPS: Doom2

RTS: Dune2, then Dune2000, Civilization2, The Sims

Halflife-CounterSrike is my favorite. I still play it like it just came out. What does that tell ya.

Hell Lag, I still play the single-player Half-Life like it just came out!

Oh and I forgot about Dune2000...doh!

Jedi Knight is the only FPS I play.

Where else can you block (most of) your opponents laser shots at you and then move in to slice off an appendage?? :)

Or "force pull" their weapon so they are sitting there with their fists looking scared while you are swinging your saber away?

This is the one FPS game I've seen where having the biggest gun doesn't give an immediate advantage.

Of course, I'm biased... LOL

FPS #1 Tribes2 #2 Undying
RTS #1 Ultima Online #2 Ultima Online
#3 Ultima Online... well you get the idea :p

My Votes:

RTS: 1. Mechcommander (no building stuff durring a mission rocks) 2. Warcraft II (hey gota give props)

FPS single player 1. Half-Life (WOW thats imersive) 2. Deus-Ex (could have beat out Half-Life if the AI was better)

FPS multi-Player 1. Quake3: Team Arena (what else do you need?)

My 2 bits

I should also make honorable mention to
Baldurs Gate2, Serious Sam, Quake3 Arena, Unreal Tournament

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Originally posted by Lycia:
Quake,a nd all its sequals, UT, and other games like it are boring as hell, especially multiplayer. Here is an example of a session:

Spawn, run around, firing madly, die. Respawn, firing madly, kill someone, run around, pick up crap loads of armour and ammo some one thoughtfully left lying about, kill some one. Run around, firing madly, die.

YAWN!

Rainbow Six/Rogue Spear/Urban Operations/Covert Ops. is infinately more fun and more involved. Real weapons. Skill is needed in order to play this game. No running around hyped up like some steroid fiend shooting everything that moves. 1 shot, 1 kill most of the time.

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I have to agree with Lycia on this one. One shot, one kill. More realistic. Although, there is nothing like using that rocket launcher in quake3, and it does take skill to use that rail gun.

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Skill? I thought it had alot to do with a low ping...

Baulders Gate was OK, it was too time consuming and near impossable at times. But over all it wasn't too bad.
Fallout was much better in my opinion :D

If I hadn't deleted Quake 1 in a fit of modem rage one day, I'd still be playing now. Hmmmm, now that I have my new DSL connection... anyone know where I can d/l original quake??

FPS Choices:

1. Half Life (including MODs, add-ons and spinoffs)
2. Quake 2 and 3

And at the risk of being weird...

3. Descent 3
It *IS* more than an flight sim and
requires a well develloped sense of
orientation - MOTION SICKNESS!)

4. Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force
(Simplistic and linear storyline, but
who wouldn't enjoy blowing away the
Borg with quality graphic rendering?)

No interest in RTS yet... :rolleyes:

I see Half-Life still popping up here a good bit. Anyone checked out the "They Hunger" mod (single player)? Half life with Zombies in a rural setting. Like a first-person Resident Evil. Very cool.

FPS, oh well, Quake 1 and 2 started it for me with the reaper bots then multiplayer over a LAN. Then me and my brother laughing ourselves silly with Half-Life (skeleton skin), then Unreal, then UT, which is the best and most configuarable game I have played. I looked foward to Q3 but it was sad in comparison, and you're knackered with bad ping as everything moves too fast, some good skins tho.

Now sadly unable to play these cos of medical reasons my most favourite multiplayer is Moblie 1 Rally Championship. It rocks above any Colin McRae nonsense.

The other game RTS or not is Shogun Total War. I love it.

Unreal Tourney with Infiltration total conversion.

150mb DL, :eek:, but well worth it

FPS: 1. Descent: took major skill to figure out where to go and where you were.
2. Haven't played many new ones except Jedi Knight for the same reasons WebJedi_Master said.

TBS: 1. Warcraft II
2. Total Annihalation
3. Fallout Tactics: if you don't like the real-time fighting, you can switch to turn-base fighting.

FPS:
For the mindless run and gun sessions, UT and Q3 are good, but gotta have fast machines for good frame rates. Half Life is nice for older machines. Still looks good and plays fast.

RTS:
I like the older stuff. Civilization 2, Age of Empires, Railroad Tycoon, even Masters of Magic (anyone know where I can get that?). Baldur's Gate is kind of a neat series, but sure takes a long time, and BG2 kept crashing, so I gave up on it about a quarter way into it.

Counter Strike has a little more realism than most FPS games and the things they've done with bandwidth are great. The only problems is cheating. People cheat like hell... And that really hurts the whole environment.

Well for First person is
Half Life then Quake then Unreal. Never got into Duke as I got into quake and unreal.
RTS is ofcourse Command and Conquer
Another good one that I liked is Mechwarrior 4. Mech 3 didn't do as good as the first ones or MW4 and I love to play online with MW4.
:eek: :D :rolleyes:

Soldier Of Fortune. Most realistic, Feels like your actually living it.

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Originally posted by 'Cobra':
I see Half-Life still popping up here a good bit. Anyone checked out the "They Hunger" mod (single player)? Half life with Zombies in a rural setting. Like a first-person Resident Evil. Very cool.

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They Hunger 3 just came out. It's the final release and has all 3 episodes. God, this game is like playing through Dawn of the Dead. Do yourself a favor, DL it, turn out the lights, turn up the volume ,and strap on a diaper. I go back and blast zombies now.

Well I have to say that Tribes 2 is my favorite FPS game right now. The graphics are nicer, the new vehicles are cool, and I especially like the new inventory system (no more "Hurry up with that station!").

Starcraft still remains my favorite RTS game.

FPS- Tribes2(best game I've played yet), Unreal Tournament, R6
RTS- Red Alert2, StarCraft

and gotta put this one in, the ultimate turn based strategy that I play over and over even after playing Tribes 2 and Red Alert 2 is Masters Of Orion 2 :D :D :D

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Originally posted by jaeger:
They Hunger 3 just came out. It's the final release and has all 3 episodes. God, this game is like playing through Dawn of the Dead. Do yourself a favor, DL it, turn out the lights, turn up the volume ,and strap on a diaper. I go back and blast zombies now.

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COOL!!!

I'll have to check it out.
And heck Cobra, although I LOVE the resevil series I think They Hunger ( which I think you did make a good analogy) is better than resevil's own FPS.

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Originally posted by Budster64:
COOL!!!

I'll have to check it out.
And heck Cobra, although I LOVE the resevil series I think They Hunger ( which I think you did make a good analogy) is better than resevil's own FPS.

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Cool, I didn't know that TH3 was out. RE's FPS was a joke, and I don't even consider it to be part of the RE series.

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Originally posted by Budster64:
You have just described a perfect Sunday afternoon.

:D :D :D

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Perfect sunday ? I think PERFECT EVERYDAY
And my favs are UNREAL TOURNAMENT> IT SMOKES EVERYTHING ELSES OUT THERE ALSO CHECKOUT UNREAL2.COM it shows whats to come. I also played alot of warcraft2
p.s. TRIBES 2 SUCKS what a waste of a good fifty .X

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Originally posted by Elbatcho:
Duke Nukem was my favorite for a while
Rainbow Six is sweet but I hate that it take's so long to play
I want to try unreal, never played it, never had time.
I liked Quake but it started getting old and I found myself getting lost a lot

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Unreal Tournament is the only one of the fairly new ones that I have tried. I am like you, not enough time. but someone convinced me to try Unreal Tournament, and I am addicted to the game.

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Originally posted by TechStar:
Lycia,
If you had UT skills then you would love it, I hit most of the people I aim at, I've tried tons of games but nothing competes with the rush of UT. Practice enough and you'll agree, I used to like the stadegy games until UT. Practice about 100 hours become top scorer almost every game and you'll be hooked like a crack whore.

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I have to agree I hated FPS for a long itme cause I never invested the time to deal with the learning curve. But once I got to where i could actually get a few frags and not get smoked everytime I spawned I got hooked like the crack whore above. As for getting killed all the time. People who know how to play kill a hell of a lot more than they get killed. So as a person said before most poeple who hate FPS especially UT is because they cant play it. X

My personal favorite is Tribes and second would have to be quake2.

A co-worker of mine recently brought his Delta Force (the original) CD in to work. If I had that game at home, I'd never sleep again!

My vote goes towards UT and Starcraft, both for their play. Quake 3 looks cool, but I hate how the game plays.

I like RedAlert 2, Westwood C&C, Starcraft, WarCraft, CounterStrike, Unreal, Quake 3. :D

I would have to vote for Duke Nukem 3D - that game was a lot of fun. I just love the Duke quotes like "Hail to the king, baby" or "Nobody steals our chicks - and lives" Ya it's kinda cheesy compared to the latest and greatest, but so what...