It seems like there are not enough good first person shooters.

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I wait a while when I buy games, for a reasonable sale price. I do that for two reasons.

1. I don't use the multiplayer aspect of games.
2. Sometimes I do not like games, even though they review well.

That means I have not yet bought Far Cry 5, or Assassin's Creed Origins.

However I find I am left struggling for something to want to play. I generally prefer first person over third person, but some games work better in third person. (Like probably Dark Souls games.) ... I do not buy consoles, so that rules out quite a few good titles.

I recently bought three games, of which two were third person. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and Shadow Warrior 2. ............. I hate all of them. Unfortunately I also paid more that I normally would, and risked buying them.

Over all though, so many games are third person. Good single player shooter games seem quite rare these days. Like I recently played Enemy Front in a bundle for about £0.50. A game which I think gets badly reviewed, although it is very expensive on Steam. It was such a relief to be back in first person, that it make a reasonably good game, feel excellent.

There's always replayability. However the games I have which I would replay, like The Evil Within 2, I only played recently.

Either I am just in a slump, or good single first person shooter games are getting rare. I have started to look through this thread for ideas. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2245942/favourite-video-game-playing.html

P.S. I am not into C.O.D. games.
 
Actually, I mean that I like other first person games too, like The Elder Scrolls. I am not limited to shooters.

Just saying how it always seems like first person shooters are in short supply. Good ones even rarer.

Neither am I even limited to first person. I loved The Witcher 3. Many third person game are excellent. ... Just I seem to be saturated in third person right now.
 


I have only missed Dying Light, Duke 3D, and Portal from those.

I have looked at buying Dying Light very closely recently. However I found Dead Island got boring, and hard to get about. Although some players who like me, found Dead Island boring, then liked Dying Light. Some hope there.

I never played any DN, except a demo, and kept getting stuck in the scenery in one place. Portal not for me because I am not into puzzle games.



 
I think really what I am also saying is there is a lack of single player FPS, and that really should be the title.

Many games have turned multiplayer or multiplayer only.

I don't mind if games have both single and multi-player options. It just means waiting for sale to represent the single player component of the game price.
 
Dying Light puts a solid emphasis on single player even though it can be played as coop or vs's. Single player campaign is really good and if you're into Walking dead, even better.
 
I just picked up Hitman GOTY over the weekend, I have almost played every hitman game it's a very good variation on FPS - highly recommend if you have not tried any yet.

If you have Steam the first level of the game is free to play so worth checking out for sure.

Also picked up Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag, the Pirate motif and the ship sea battles and travel make it my favorite in the series so far (I also don't have the latest ones either since I also only buy the older titles on sale)
 
I haven't played a good competitive fps game since CS 1.0-1.6 and I haven't played a good single player fps game since the STALKER series. If you're open to a game that is amazing in terms of tons of weapons to use and tactical team based play in single player, then I would highly suggest Call of Chernobyl. The modding scene has essentially reached a zenith with this mod and people add to it daily. Note that crashes and instability are still problems with this mod. It also requires the original install of Call of Pripyat.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl



 
I have been looking at the Stalker series, just recently. ... I had been put off by someone suggesting that it is set after a true and real nuclear environmental disaster. Thus the fact that it's real, being in bad taste. ... However that might not specifically be true. I read that Stalker is set after a second and fictitious nuclear leakage.

I think I have missed out on three good games.
 
By the way I spotted a thread asking for a personal FPS game list of preference, on Tom's, by Toms staff. (I added my best FPS games.)

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3732672/community-picks-fps-games.html


I noticed the Best FPS Thread, after posting this thread. This thread came about because I am sometimes stuck for something that I really want to play. Additionally I sometimes feel like gaming is going in a direction away from what I like playing.
 


They play very similar to old counter-strike. And you can literally tweak and change anything you want which is why these games are so good. I often raise weapon damage on everything because I like skill based combat, not bullet sponge endless fights. I would highly suggest playing the modded versions, because the vanilla ones are kind of simple. And these games are the real deal, they aren't that watered down metro garbage.

And gaming in general has been going in a bad direction for the last decade. That direction is more money for less effort of course. Just look at all these terrible battle royale games. They make millions a month on these games so there is no desire to make something actually good when they can poop this stuff out and kids wreck their parents credit cards for cosmetics. Sad days truly. And if you thought it couldn't get any worse. Now mobile is becoming the new cash cow. Yes! Auto combat, zero effort games are now the future! There are threads of people spending in the realm of $60,000+ on these mobile games too. It's unbelievable.
 
I heard one developer's argument about the shift to open world. They said, why spend forever rendering carefully detailed linear worlds, when people will speed run it?

However, just because some folk speed run, doesn't mean we all do. I shoot as many of the bad guys as possible, because it's my duty, haha.


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Yeah the Battle Royale's though, when the arenas are full of cheaters. What's the point?

Games like Star Wars Battlefornt for example though. No single player campaign in the reboot.

Stuff like C.O.D. A six hour campaign, and just multiplayer maps with cheaters. Make your own games is what they are saying.
 
It actually seesm this year and next year, that there are quite a lot of new FPS Shooters coming. Now nearly one year on from making this thread.