What were your first FPS games?

[Pissmaster]

I want to say Goldeneye or Turok but it could of been Duck Hunt...that's a FPS right?

Duck Hunt is literally a shooter you play in the first person because you are controlling the gun and playing it from the perspective of your own eyes, as opposed to directly controlling a character in-game and playing from their eyes, which I guess would make a traditional FPS literally a second person shooter, and Duck Hunt a literal first person shooter, but games like Duck Hunt tend to be classified as a lightgun game, since you don't control the character's feet.

But if Duck Hunt counts, then mine would definitely be Duck Hunt.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It was Thanksgiving 1997, at the family get together at my aunt and uncle's house a cousin of mine had brought his N64 along with Goldeneye, DOOM 64 and Star Wars: Shadow of The Empire.

I think Goldeneye was the first one I tried but it was too complicated for me (I had just turned eight), I did much better with DOOM 64, so I would consider that the first FPS I really played, albeit still only briefly.

Shadow of The Empire was also a little too complex for me, but all these games were in the fact the very first 3D games I had ever played.

As for the first FPS I actually played start to finish that would be Medal of Honor: Underground on the PS1, followed shortly by the original Medal of Honor.

 

[Crustyguy]

Halo 3. It blew my mind the first time I played it back around 2012 (kinda late to get into it, I know), because I grew up knowing only lego star wars and bing bing wahoo and thought everything else was shit for some reason. Halo, in particular, I had a weird distrust for, probably because some other kid liked Halo in the 4th grade and thought Mario/Nintendo was dumb. Now that I think about it, I could have ended up like moviebob if it weren't for Halo.

My uncle invited me and my brother to play it on his xbox. We just played the first level and the beginning of the second, we sucked at it and died over and over, but it was really fun. I think for some reason I thought it would be really dark, edgy, and brown-colored, with clunky, slow gameplay, but I guess you could say it subverted my expectations because it wasn't that at all. I think I got an xbox with Halo 3 for christmas that year, pretty fucking good christmas.

 

[fag0t]

my first fps was rise of the triad shareware edition

Carnivore

I really enjoyed these I didn't ever play ice age though

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

metroid prime. I rented it once and fell in love. before that I had this dumb hangup about not being able to see my character, but playing mp I realized how immersive first person could be. especially with the effects on your visor from rain and steam and shit that was impressive as hell back then. after that I was up for any good FPS experience.

 

[Linako 2.0]

the Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt demo for the DS
my first proper fps was this FPS game of ytp characters made by Walrusguy that's now lost to the ages and my first proper FPS videogame was Battlefield 1942

 

[Silver Chariot]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Then TF2.

God I miss those days.

 

[Sigma]

I don't remember specifically but it was either GoldenEye at a friends house or metroid prime at mine. The first computer FPS I played a lot was TF2 though.

 

[Kotaro]

The OG Ghost Recon game. Played it when I was a kid and have been hooked on FPS games ever since.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Jurassic Park on SNES.

Shit was creepy when you're five.

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

The Marathon Trilogy, I've only met one other person IRL who's played them but they were amazing games

 

[XYZpdq]

wolf3d back when it was the bleeding edge
somewhere buried god-knows-where I have a pirate copy of the registered v1.1 with GOOBERS still active
I actually paid for the full registered version of Doom

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the earliest I remmember, probely played something before that tho.

Same here, my first FPS was Return to Castle Wolfenstein, then i played Serious Sam both first and second encounter a bit later

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Metroid Prime. I used to be one of those idiots who thought that with a small group of exceptions like the Prime Trilogy FPS games like COD and Halo were ruining the industry (looking back i think part of it stemmed from a sort of subconcious jealousy at those who owned Sony and Microsoft Consoles as well as PCs). Then I played Jedi Outcast, then Timesplitters 2, Then Deus Ex. Then Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein The New Order. Next thing I know I’m buying an of XBOX with the First 2 Halos and later Republic Commando, Jedi Academy, Riddick, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Moral of the story Kids: don’t make sweeping judgements on genres/mediums. Especially not without experience

in other words much like @Crustyguy I was so close to becoming a Moviebob. So thank you Raven Software for creating Jedi Outcast.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

The Marathon Trilogy, I've only met one other person IRL who's played them but they were amazing games

I really want to play them since I dig early Halo. I think one was released on the 360 but I admittedly found it overwhelming at the time and even then it might of been part 2 so I was already flying blind.

Guess I can always get to it with steam now a days.

 

[GaddafyTheLooneyDuck]

I really want to play them since I dig early Halo. I think one was released on the 360 but I admittedly found it overwhelming at the time and even then it might of been part 2 so I was already flying blind.

Guess I can always get to it with steam now a days.

No idea if all 3 games will ever appear on Steam, but they can be downloaded for free and played via their own open source Aleph One. Link.

 

[Stormy Daniel's Lawyer]

I got into FPS games kinda late in life. Long story short, my friend had installed Steam, and he turned me onto Counter Strike..I played the game for 12 hours straight. I installed it on my computer and played the game for hours at a time. I miss playing, but I have so many other irons in the fire these days..

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

I really want to play them since I dig early Halo. I think one was released on the 360 but I admittedly found it overwhelming at the time and even then it might of been part 2 so I was already flying blind.

Guess I can always get to it with steam now a days.

The puzzle element can be very overwhelming and the game intentionally doesn't do a good job of explaining how to play (so it's totally possible you started with the first one), that's part of the challenge I guess. I was a persistent little kid with plenty of time on my hands, I don't know if I would have gotten through them if I played them for the first time as an adult with responsibilities and a fucked by the internet attention span.

The plot isn't spoonfed to the player like most modern games, but if you've got the patience to piece it together the storyline is really good.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

 

[The Last Stand]

as opposed to directly controlling a character in-game and playing from their eyes, which I guess would make a traditional FPS literally a second person shooter, and Duck Hunt a literal first person shooter, but games like Duck Hunt tend to be classified as a lightgun game, since you don't control the character's feet.

Do railgun shooters count as FPS? If so, then technically Time Crisis 2 on the PS2. I've played those games in the arcades, but had a copy of Time Crisis 2 with the orange gun.

I guess they would be "first person shooters" since you are shooting in the first person perspective, but you can't control character movement.