History of FPS games

bigjimmyauk · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:30

i still think doom 3 was leagues ahead in the graphics department for the year it was made. There is a guy working on a Full high res pack for it looks bloody awesome

EpicCarnage · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:31

love it takes me back to my fps lovelife

Podmonkey · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:33

Some very odd inclusions and quite a few missing.
UT2k3 instead of either UT99/2k4. No unreal 1.
Bad company 2 is hardly a big leap forward...
Arma2? No op flashpoint...
No early CoD or Ghost Recon.
No Tribes, No Jedi Knight/Dark Forces, no Blood, no Mechwarrior/Heavy Gear, no Hexen, no Delta Force (voxels woot), No AvP1/2, No Shogo - all bring something new/different which made them classics.

Some nice inclusions thought that bring about some good old nostalgia (lol is there any other kind....)

Quite suprised by the lack of Halo too. I thought it was pretty meh on the single player side, very very repetative and the flood sucked but the co-op was good and it picked up where goldeneye left off with having a good shooter that works on a console and brought the genre back to the sofa loving masses in a big way.

mk17 · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:41

nice, but where is Star Raiders?

Naffa · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:54

A pretty entertaining video, but there were so many classics missed out.

domthecondom · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:25

Podmonkey said:
Bad company 2 is hardly a big leap forward...

Other then you can destroy pretty much any building?

But yes there is a lot of games missing, but then the video would be 30 minutes long

Podmonkey · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:39

domthecondom said:
Other then you can destroy pretty much any building?

But yes there is a lot of games missing, but then the video would be 30 minutes long

In that case red faction should come before. Not a great game but it had the innovation there before BC2.

To be honest what evolutionary chain is it? Graphics, innovation, story, gameplay? Quite a few changes to the timeline depending on what its actually trying to show. Ut2k3 would be on none of these though.

Orcish-Horde · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:25

Eames said:
Lets be having a battlezone remake

There has already been a remake and a sequel to that, which are both missing from that clip. Planetside is also missing, criminal!

Guest2 · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:45

Unreal 1?
I thought the Unreal engine still runs many games, pc and console. - A new unreal engine, but tech will have been passed on from the 1st, unreal script code

sbweightman · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:57

great video, but i agree - some classics are missing.

Guest2 · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:59

Deus Ex???

domthecondom · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:01

was that an FPS or more an RPG?

angela · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:03

somebody knows name of the song? )))

Podmonkey · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:19

I would put deus ex in with RPGs rather than shooter. The weps were very talent based and the shooting part was not really a priority in the game. The same for System Shock.

chaparral · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:48

Podmonkey said:
no Delta Force (voxels woot),

Love the first delta force game....Spent hours & hours playing that..

Dj_Jestar · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:53

FooAtari said:
Nice video. But any history of FPS that forgets about Deus Ex fails IMO

Deus Ex != fps.

ps3ud0 · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:37

angela said:
somebody knows name of the song? )))

Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven (Sterling Barnes Remix) - says it in YT

ps3ud0

FooAtari · 24 Jan 2011 at 12:23

Dj_Jestar said:
Deus Ex != fps.

OK, so it's also an RPG. But it is played from a first person view and a selection of weapons that most people will make use of during the game regardless of their play style. That qualifies it as an FPS. It's also an RPG, and an FPS/RPG or even an FPRPG

Dj_Jestar · 24 Jan 2011 at 12:25

FooAtari said:
OK, so it's also an RPG. But it is played from a first person view and a selection of weapons that most people will make use of during the game regardless of their play style. That qualifies it as an FPS. It's also an RPG, and an FPS/RPG or even an FPRPG

FPRPG, so not an FPS then

I've played it many times, and a fraction of that time was spent actually shooting. It's even possible to play it through without shooting at all.

OrphanBoy · 24 Jan 2011 at 14:40

Wowza, I can't believe how many of those I've played! Very cool to see how much progression there has been in the visuals over the years.
Watching the Quake 1+2 intro movies really made me remember how much of my life I wasted watching those intros writing these ports

http://quake.drunkencoders.com/index_q1.html
http://quake.drunkencoders.com/index_q2.html
/plug over