Hello. The past few months Ive been almost exclusively playing fantasy and survival games, so much so that I need a break from them.
Looking for single player FPS recommendations with controller support from the last decade. A good story is preferred.
Games Ive played:
- Warframe (dont ask. The lore is okay-ish. I stayed for friends).
- Titanfall 2. (PEAK)
- Apex Legends (Briefly. The sweatiness and timed lore turned me off).
- Doom 2016 (Dropped this, sadly. Gunplay and parkour was AWESOME, but the whole devil worship thing really turned me off. Edit: The devil Worshippers themselves turned me off. You do not worship devils ingame. More details in comments).
- Dying Light 1. (Okay Story. Awesome fighting. Never played 2 because of the whole controversy with the
story director. EDIT: Story writer, not director) - The Metro Series. 1, 2 and Exodus. (Slightly weak lore. Still alot of fun).
Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: regarding Dying Light:
https://screenrant.com/dying-light-2-developer-techland-loses-another-writer/
https://screenrant.com/dying-light-2-developers-frustration-bad-management/
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Currently gonna try:
- The Half Life Series.
- Halo
- Wolfenstein: New Order.
If you want an unorthodox suggestion, Metal:Hellsinger is a rhythm-FPS that’s not like GOTY material, but it’s a lot of fun. Great for turning your brain off and just going vibe mode while you shoot a bunch of demons.
Devil worship? In DOOM? I remember interacting with lots of demons but I definitely wasn’t worshipping them.
One of the main level designers for original Doom “Sandy of Cthulu” was a pretty serious mormon christian.
“I have no problems with the demons in the game. They’re just cartoons. And, anyway, they’re the bad guys.”
Wolfenstein: The New Order
I played a LOT of singleplayer FPS and this is one of the best in the genre. Great gunplay, fantastic soundtrack, good story.
I’ll second this one, everything about it is top of the line to me. I was glued to this game all the way through, which is rare for me to do with an FPS. I even teared up a little at the end lol.
Note that The Old Blood may not be your cup of tea
The bioshock games (1, 2 and infinity) are all really good fps games with a good story and the best part of it, is really easy to buy all of them for dirty cheap on steam when they are on sale
The Half-Life series
- Black Mesa instead of Half-Life. It’s an extremely faithful remake that’s absolute joy and I would play it instead of the original now that it exists. Not only the graphics are updated, but also the last chapter of the original game which got rushed to meet deadlines is masterfully completed in Black Mesa
- Half-Life 2 and it’s subsequent episodes
Am currently playing Black Mesa after having only completed the original in Sven Co-op. It’s nice!
Halo
This should be the top answer for anyone asking for FPS recommendations.
Also there’s no need to justify playing Warframe. It’s fun as hell. Also, you do realize in DOOM that you’re killing the demons and devil worshippers, right? And what controversy with the director for DL2? I played both Dying Light games but the first one is way better anyway.
Specifically, the Halo Master Chief Collection is one of the best values in gaming at full price before any sales you might find, and it released on steam in 2015 so i’m counting it.
I mean you can’t beat
56 full games, plus all the multiplayer for each game, for the price of one.I keep forgetting Halo 4 is included in there.
I appreciate 343 including 4 a lot honestly. From the COD quicktime events and the stereotypical Marvel villain intro, to every other fight being a DMR shootout with the shield bots, it’s the Force Awakens of Halo: all the iconography, none of the substance. If it wasn’t included I would have wondered about 343 Halo and why it has a controversial rep. Being able to jump straight in after playing the rest of Halo blind was a great way to see it for myself lol.
I will say it’s probably one of the most beautiful Xbox 360 games
Oh yeah, graphics are great. If it had the level design quality and tone of the rest of the series I’d be a big fan
Yeah, wtf, asking for story yet missing the point in Doom which has the simplest story of them all: demons are bad and you need to kill them to save humanity.
I can’t really help with the topic since I don’t care for story in my shooty-shooty boom booms and prefer to get into action as soon as possible and keep at it, but I guess the Far Cry series has some story in it. Maybe skip the first one since controller support might be iffy. Also Crysis, don’t know about the latter ones but first one is great until a certain point after which it’s okay.
I should have been clearer. Simple story (aka Doom) is more than okay. (I specially loved its beginning. Fuck why Im shooting. I just want to shoot).
Its just the whole atmosphere of the cult that creeped me out wayyy too much. Then came the holo where you someone is being live sacrificed while the crazy head scientist looked on, and I just had to drop it then. Couldnt play anymore.
Tldr: The atmosphere of the cult was a bit too much for me to handle.
And the line for Metro about taking points off for weak lore rubs me the wrong way. Like I’m not necessarily a fan of the Metro series, but I understand why others are.
Like damn, I didn’t realize the recommendations had to be cinematic masterpieces too.
My bad. That point Was a bit too harsh.
Half Life 2 is excellent.
FEAR 2 is good and scary enough for me.
Cyberpunk 2077
Trepang2
Black Mesa is a remake of HL1 and very good
Maybe the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise? OG and call of pripyat might be kind of old and thus have too much jank, but 2 just came out, and it promised to bring a similar vibe, and I LOVED that vibe.
There’s also some boomer shooters that combine the Doom FPS style with a bit of roguelike, like : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229490/ULTRAKILL/
Far Cry 5. you blaspheme your way across montana, killing and pillaging, to a kick-ass soundtrack.
Probably the best of the Far Cry’s, which to me otherwise mostly feel like the same game.
3, 4, 5 are the same game, but Far Cry Primal stands out, with smilodon ride on trippy shamanic juice, very enjoyable.
Portal 1&2, for a change of pace.
Borderlands?
Helldivers 2
It’s primarily 3rd person but then again so is Warframe.
Tangent: maybe we should classify FPS by more vectors, such as progression of gunplay (Doom 2016 is a masterpiece there, Titanfall 2 a failure), strength of story (most military-themed FPS are cringe-fests in terms of story), Lore/Tech (Bioshock’s Steampunk theme always turned me off, for example), suspense (Prey excels there, COD bores) … and many more.
This way, we might actually find decent FPS that each of us enjoy based on our tastes. <3
Prey (2017) was so fucking good and cool and innovative that I can’t even be mad that it completely overshadows Prey (2006) which was also a really cool and innovative game from my memory of the time, although i haven’t replayed it recently to see if it holds up.
Prey is not an FPS, it’s an immersive sim. Yes there is shooting in Prey, but not nearly to the level an actual FPS has it.
Half life 2 was really good.
If you enjoy Titanfall 2 you might like Call of Duty Black Ops 3. I still havent found a game that handles so well and feels so smooth. It got a lot of flak at the time (2014) because everyone was tired of future shoooters, but imo it has the best fps mechanics not only in cod, but in any fps game. The story is also really good; I wont spoil but it does get kinda philosophical and has plenty of twists and turns.
As others have said, the Half Life series is probably the best fps objectively. I started with 2 and then played 1, so while they do go in order, it isn’t required. HL1 is a bit clunky but still great.
Also James Bond 007 games are criminally underrated. Everyone knows about Goldeneye for the N64, but some of my favorites are Nightfire, From Russia with Love, Everything or Nothing, and Goldeneye Reloaded. A lot of the Steam pages were taken down for them though, and are only really playable on console, but definitely worth it if you are able to play
