What were your first FPS games?

The Last Stand said:
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.
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You might as well at this point considering the entire lightgun genre is (sadly) dead. And yeah, that orange gun was great, I got a pair with Time Crisis 3.

I'd really love to get a Time Crisis arcade machine. Any one of them.
 
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Wolfenstein 3D was my first FPS. I basically missed out on Doom because the computer I had wasn't capable of playing it, and by the time we got a new computer, Quake had superseded Doom. I played that and Quake 2 online even though we only had dialup since we lived in a backwater town. No cable internet, and only one DSL provider in town that cost $200/month. My parents wouldn't buy me Half-Life because it was too gory, so I spent an entire month downloading it from some warez site. Then shortly after Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament came out, we moved to a bigger city and got DSL. Oh, and there was this one Macintosh at my school that had Marathon on it. Good times.

Edit: Can't forget Descent. Used to play the hell out of that on Kali. I also recall playing it on Engage Games, and the version there had some special levels and ships that didn't exist in the base game.
 
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I didn't really get into FPS until the very late 90s with Half-Life et al. Before that I was more into RTS/RPGs/casual stuff, and I only recall playing demos of obscure stuff like Alien Breed 3d (which terrified me as a kid) or lightgun shooters at the local arcades. It was much later (probably in University) that I actually went back and started playing Wolf/Doom/Duke etc. I think Duke holds up the best from that era (before Blood and the early 00s) due to many of the levels feeling like real, lived-in environments (akin to what Half-Life was later praised for compared to Quake), and the best fanmade levels are the ones that go all in on that strength.
 
Wolf3D, played quite a lot of that but I didn't actually think it was very good, it was the novelty of playing an FPS.
Then Doom but I didn't really like Doom either for some reason and with Strife I figured out why: I want more than just shooting. Strife, System Shock, Deus Ex, that's my kind of FPS, not just because of the RPG mechanics but because they were more than just hunting keycards to progress.
Then Quake 1 and online-multiplayer arrived and I was suddenly into just shooting. With human opponents there is a level of mindgames that can be played and that doesn't work against AI.
 
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Didn't play FPSses when I was a kid because the thought of something being able to sneak up behind me scared the shit outta me. When I became older however, I totally got into them.

I wanted GMOD after watching all the machinimas and got my mother to buy it and a bunch of other valve games from steam. Ended up being some of my favourites of all time. I remember after playing around for a year or two I discovered Half Life 2 and holy shit did it still hold up in 2011. I got all my friends to play it and even completed ravenholm for one of them via save swapping.

Then I got into Counter Strike Source and TF2. I got into Doom because of all the terry wads and aquarius199.

I remember liking Brendon Chung's Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving even though they had literally no gameplay. I waited fucking ages for him to make a game in that style with real gameplay and it was pretty good (Quadrilateral Cowboy, released around 2016).

I found Postal 2 on GOG circa 2013 or so and fucking loved the hell out of it. Still one of the best games of all time, still secrets to find.
When they released an expansion pack in 2015 I went apeshit because it was so fucking good and left the series on a way sweeter note than the ho-hum half life wannabe "Apocalypse Weekend". Still one of my favourite games of all time and proof you can make a game with PS2 graphics and it only enhances the experience.

Speaking of PS2 graphics (Which I absolutely love). I played killer7 in 2017 and it fucking blew my mind. I loved every second of it and when I knew it was ending I had this deep sadness within me because I knew it would be a long time before I played something so "right" again.
 
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Doom back in 96 or 97. A teacher in middle school had a demo of it on a CD demo disc for some reason. I remember I didn't know how to play it and ended up playing the Catz demo instead. I mostly learned how to play FPS from the Orange Box on the Xbox 360 back in 2009 . I thought FPS were mostly war games and never got into them until I played the Orange Box.
 
Book Thievery said:
Man, all your guys' first FPS are all so predictable. "Quake," "Doom," "Half-Life," etc. Here was my first FPS:

Think Spaghetti-Western Duke Nukem 3D with hand-animated cutscenes and an epic soundtrack by Clint Bajakian.
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That looks like Redneck Rampage but with cowboys. It runs on the Build engine, right? I've never heard of that game.
 
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Pissmaster said:
That looks like Redneck Rampage but with cowboys. It runs on the Build engine, right? I've never heard of that game.
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It's a Wild West shooter developed by LucasArts. The engine is really similar to Build, but it's actually their own engine, Jedi, which they originally created for their other shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces. I recommend to check out both of them.
 
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Pissmaster said:
That looks like Redneck Rampage but with cowboys. It runs on the Build engine, right? I've never heard of that game.
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@GaddafyTheLooneyDuck is correct in terms of what engine it runs on. I, too, highly recommend it. If you want, you can get it off GOG if you don't wanna shell out for the CDs.

Speaking of which, while the installer doesn't work for the CDs, the game runs just fine on Windows 7 if you have the original discs and can get an installation somehow.
 
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Book Thievery said:
@GaddafyTheLooneyDuck is correct in terms of what engine it runs on. I, too, highly recommend it. If you want, you can get it off GOG if you don't wanna shell out for the CDs.

Speaking of which, while the installer doesn't work for the CDs, the game runs just fine on Windows 7 if you have the original discs and can get an installation somehow.
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It's available on Steam too if anything.
 
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Like pretty much everyone else here it was Doom and GoldenEye for me. Though I guess there were those old Zombie shooting arcade cabinets but I don't remember the name or which I played first.
 
GaddafyTheLooneyDuck said:
It's a Wild West shooter developed by LucasArts. The engine is really similar to Build, but it's actually their own engine, Jedi, which they originally created for their other shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces. I recommend to check out both of them.
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Outlaws was so odd, a big studio releases a (good) game that visually looks like something a Czech developer slapped together in 3 months for Activisions budget label, or something found on a 237 games-in-one shareware CD. It's a good game with good ideas but it looked like shit even at the time.
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My opinion might be clouded by playing Outlaws at the same time as another way more stylish desert themed shooter released a couple of months earlier: Interstate 76. They were both featured on the same PC Gamer demo-disc iirc. They had another thing in common, they both ran on old engines from other games(MechWarrior 2 and Dark Forces).
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The shareware version of Doom, after that Wolfenstein 3D that I copied off my friend. Haven't played any other FPS games till I got a windows pc years later, and didn't play the full version of Doom till even later on.
My first actual 3D FPS was probably Quake 2.
 
It would have to be Medal of Honor: Frontline for the GameCube. Before that, I'd stuck with Nintendo first party games and a few games for PlayStation (Ape Escape being my main PS game back in the day).

I rarely played any FPS games after that. However, one day in 2004, my life changed when my older brother brought home Halo 2 and (eventually) let me play Co-Op with him. Been a Halo fan ever since. Yes, even during the dark times of Halo 4 and Halo 5.
 
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I never really played video games at all as a kid, so my first FPS was HL2, which I played some time in high school (at which point it was by no means a recent release).
 
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