What single player FPS campaign are you playing?

[Ack]

It's official. I'm in love with Tower of Guns.

[TEKTORO]

As you know, I just finished Riddick not too long ago, and I really liked it. A little stealth, a little platforming, and quite a bit of FPS. Good story and of course superb voice acting.

BUT, I found a good deal over the weekend on Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood (PC) at the Goodwill store, so I may take a break to do that in between these double features. I see the reviews are very good for it!

Definitely check out the fIrst Call of Juarez too!
Just like Riddick with the multiple elements and great story, you'll like this too. Not just a Western FPS gunning everything, has multiple elements making it an all around great game loving that one as of recent. Tough games that make you think!

[ExedExes]

Definitely check out the fIrst Call of Juarez too!
Just like Riddick with the multiple elements and great story, you'll like this too. Not just a Western FPS gunning everything, has multiple elements making it an all around great game loving that one as of recent. Tough games that make you think!

If I come across that it will also be a pickup.

After watching the latest Game Sack video, they played Doom with the Doomsday Engine, which gives the game slick graphical, resolution, and audio upgrades, as well as the ability to easily configure WASD & mouse play, and even aim up and down! I'm very impressed with it on Doom II so far. It also works on a few other games like Heretic and Hexen.

[MrPopo]

Definitely check out the fIrst Call of Juarez too!
Just like Riddick with the multiple elements and great story, you'll like this too. Not just a Western FPS gunning everything, has multiple elements making it an all around great game loving that one as of recent. Tough games that make you think!

If I come across that it will also be a pickup.

After watching the latest Game Sack video, they played Doom with the Doomsday Engine, which gives the game slick graphical, resolution, and audio upgrades, as well as the ability to easily configure WASD & mouse play, and even aim up and down! I'm very impressed with it on Doom II so far. It also works on a few other games like Heretic and Hexen.

I use Doomsday engine as well, though I turn off most of the upgrades. The only one I leave in place is the mouselook because it makes me feel better, even though the engine still does the appropriate vertical translation for going up and down. I've beaten Heretic and Hexen in it; Hexen was only recently fixed to work properly. The version prior had a pretty major bug that caused it to not save out all the map variables in your save file, so if you saved mid-level and reloaded you would have progress reset and you'd get stuck and need to clip out past locked doors. But that was resolved.

[TSTR]

ZDoom and GZDoom fan here

[ExedExes]

Double Feature #1 update:

Doom II

- "Dead Simple"? Yeah right! Good thing they give you a plasma rifle to deal with that stuff.

- Tricks and Traps is one of the most well designed levels in an FPS, period. Plus finding the hidden original BFG is useful.

Rise of the Triad 2013

- First "episode" complete.

[BoringSupreez]

- Tricks and Traps is one of the most well designed levels in an FPS, period. Plus finding the hidden original BFG is useful.

Absolutely agree with this. The first time I played through Doom 2, I replayed the level as soon as I beat it. I've heard several people express hate for this one though...

[Pulsar_t]

Max Payne 3 is a TPS, but it's still got the best TPS mechanics. The story, despite the silly presentation style, is bearable. It used to look incredible in 2012, but now it's just average. I'm ready for a return to MP's noir style anytime.

[sabrage]

Polishing up a now years-old FEAR campaign. I was trucking around with 10 health packs on Normal, so I kicked the difficulty to max (Extreme). The enemies are a bit spongey now, but it's not trivially easy and fighting the heavy enemies always feels exhilerating. Even still, the slow-mo mechanics make the game feel a bit easy. The AI is consistently impressive, flanking, calling to each other, throwing grenades with hideous accuracy and rushing when they hear you reload... But that doesn't stop it from occasionally getting stuck, or failing to respond to gunfire in the next room. I have a feeling that the heavily linear layout of the maps facilitates the "flanking" with some very simple scripting, but they're definitely a cut above most video game AI. The story and horror trappings, silly, only feel moreso when I miss half of the scare cues because I'm looking the wrong way and handle every real threat with a mixture of heavy military weaponry,ninja dropkicks and more painkillers than Max Payne. I hate the environmental design; more because rooms are indistinguishable from one another than because I need stimulation, and the roster of enemy types is pretty slim—you'll be shooting generic grunts with assault rifles for 90% of the game—but FEAR manages to nail the gunplay and encounter design well enough that I still find myself looking forward to the next fight. The game's custom engine still looks great too, thanks to a generation of stagnant Unreal Engine games.

[Ack]

Well, since I'm waiting for GRAW to arrive, I finally decided to get off my butt, fix Quake, and actually get it up and running in a way that I find playable(so...not the crappiest resolution it could possibly be in). Once I got it working, I played for about 45 minutes and cleared most of the first episode, up to The Gates of Cthon, the level right before the Cthon boss fight. I probably could have done that much faster, but I ended up spending my time looking for secrets and clearing the game's first secret level.

My impressions so far are that the first episode of Quake is ridiculously easy. I've only ever played a few levels previous to this, and that was years ago, but I feel like my having played through Quake II already really tempers off a lot of the challenge.