Are story-based first-person shooter campaigns becoming a thing of the past in AAA games? #FPS #GameCampaigns #GamingCommunity
Have you explored classic first-person shooters like No One Lives Forever? #ClassicGames #FPS #RetroGaming
What are your thoughts on the evolution of first-person shooter campaigns in the gaming industry? #GamingEvolution #FPSCampaigns #GamerOpinions
Ah, the good old days of actually having a single-player story to follow in a shooter game. It’s like they expect us to just keep shooting endlessly without any purpose or plot now. Good times, good times.
I’ve never had any desire for endless PvP, but man did I love the old PVE FPS campaigns. Medal of Honor? Goldeneye? The first Halo? Crysis? Loved them all.
In contrast, I haven’t played a Call of Duty, or whatever, since the original Modern Warfare and Battlefield: Bad Company games.
I would like to see a revival of that starting with a Duke Nukem reboot.
can’t say ive played much
but i can enjoy first person RPGs like cyberpunk2077 and Deus EX
Yeah. Me too, the demand just isn’t quite there anymore I suspect. Or if it is there, the people who want it aren’t speaking with their money and just buying the PVP stuff.
But you can find great single player experiences, with first person shooter elements pretty easily. But obviously they’re not quite your classic call of duty or call of Juarez, or whatever else.
wolfenstein 1-2 games were good.
There’s heaps. You’re just not looking in the right place. Boomer Shooters are bringing the single player FPS campaigns back in a big way. Cultic was awesome. Trepang 2 looks fantastic. Games like Turbo Overkill are bringing that Duke Nukem feel back. Titanfall 2 has an amazing singe player campaign. Doom and Doom Eternal obviously. Prodeus is sick. Nightdive just remastered Quake 2 and System Shock. Black Mesa is incredible.
These are just the ones I’ve played and have had my eye on. There are many more in this space. AAA studious probably won’t bring FPS campaigns back but there’s some incredible games being made in the indie space that will absolutely scratch that nostalgia itch.
For me, Cultic wasn’t just a callback to the old shooters I used to love, it was better than the games I remember inspiring it.
You know they still make those, yeah?
I loved just being in Rainbow 6 Vegas 1 & 2, going through the campaign or playing terrorist hunts. Wish they’d never branched out into the kind of game that is Siege, or wish at least that it had PvE too
Ah COD Black OPs 1 and 2 were great… 3 was ok, I felt ripped off with 4.
Prey is so criminally underrated. I thought I was gonna die saying Half Life 2 is my favorite game of all time but Prey took the crown. Still thinking about the Arkane Austin shutdown 🙁
Jump in on the boomer shooter thing. Lots of new single player fps games being made in that style. Dusk, Prodeus, Project Warlock just to name a few popular ones.
You know what I miss? The old ghost recon and rainbow six games. Those were the best and now they’re just multiplayer live service bs
Remember Counter Strike Condition Zero?
I prefer third person but yeah, from Half-Life to Medal of Honor, most games focused on single player until CS mod for the former got popular.
If you’re into weird games cruelty squad is a fun, zany first person story based single player game
I was really hoping Starfield would scratch that itch. Last one I enjoyed was the Outer Worlds
We still have them, but they are few and far between these days. The FPS campaigns pale in comparison to those 10-20 years ago. It’s sort of depressing when you think about it.
Halo infinite really made me miss good writing in Halo games. Halo CE, 2 & 3 were peak fps storytelling imo.
Check out cyberpunk if you haven’t played it already
BO1 campaign is goat’d
The death of non-military level-based single player FPS is so sad!
Metro series is fantastic!
Yes! I agree its really sad to see how this genre of game almost completely dissapear after being the most popular genre in the past. My suspsion is they dont want to spend the time and resources anymore that it takes to create a half life or medal of honour game etc.
NOLF is so good. I play through again every few years. “You look like you need a monkey!”
Titanfall fucking 2, it goes so hard.
They need to get their shit together and announce the third game, Apex can go and get fucked
Bioshock Infinite is the best FPS story shooter I’ve played story wise. Not because the gameplay loop is unique, but because Elizabeth is actually a useful companion unlike other escort FPS shooters.
Immortals of Aveum not terrible.