What was your first FPS?

[OverdriveOtaku]

***This thread is posted on behalf of Puweyxil, via the Adopt-a-User Thread***

If you're a FPS fan you most likely remember the first one you played. What was it?! Feel free to share the name of that title as well as anything else about the experience. Did it give you motion sickness? Did it sell you on the genre or put you off of it? Did you need longer than usual to get used to the controls? Talk about your first FPS here!

Mine was Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Prior to playing it I was well aware of the genre, but it was something that I'd only really ever seen on PCs. I actually wasn't even interested in the game when I first heard about it, but when it released the reviews were very positive all around so I decided to pick it up. Those controls and that perspective were foreign to me so it took several hours for me to really settle in. I was sold almost immediately though, and I've always felt the game was a great introduction to the genre. The game had a heavy atmosphere, and it was creepy at times. It also had that fantastic, translucent overlaid map that you could adjust the brightness of.

 

[Deleted member 249]

Wolfenstein 3D, and it's still one of my favorite FPSs ever

 

[Deleted member 1839]

Actually wait it was the first Halo.

 

[Deleted member 1067]

Doom

Nothing bad from it like motion sickness, just a love of the genre and game forever :)

 

[Deleted member 13798]

Wolfenstein 3D, 1992.

Who would have thought it would still be one of the best FPS series today.

Technically I played Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold around that same time, but Wolf is the one I remember first.

 

[Avis]

Halo 3

I remember being completely baffled by the control scheme and camera when visiting a friends house. Took months to get used to it.

 

[srhltmr]

Wolfenstein 3D

 

[BrokenFiction]

Doom

 

[BigDes]

Doom or Heretic

I forget which one I played first, but it was one of those two.

 

[BasilZero]

Quake 1 on PC.

I remember playing it on my first PC back in 1998/1999 - good times.

It was a demo though. Didnt get to play it fully until...well earlier this year :P.


Excluding that, I guess my first FPS would be Left 4 Dead 2 which I first got to experience back in 2011 when I started to get into PC gaming.

 

[cheeseholidays]

Wolfenstein 3D on the Mac. I'm not sure why my dad would let like a 6 year old play that...

 

[Rainy]

Goldeneye!

 

[MinerArcaniner]

Simpsons Doom off of a bootleg CD from the flea market, LOL.

 

[verygooster]

Definitely Doom. My mom went to community college when I was a kid and sometimes brought me and I vaguely remember one of the computer administrators or someone set the game up for me. I was always fascinated by the Doom guy's face in the HUD lol.

 

[ColdSun]

Wolf3D, Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen. The good ol days.

 

[GaijinDensetsu]

DOOM.

I even had some level editing software that I messed around with back then. It was pretty fun. Just making a functional staircase was crazy because you had to draw like a dozen rooms that were of slightly varying height.

I'd say it sold me on the genre, haha. It's still one of the best games in the genre.

 

[Deleted member 19813]

Doom.

 

[Deleted member 2474]

Duke Nukem 3D, I think.

 

[Argot]

Pretty sure it was Goldeneye at a friend's house when I was, like, 7. I was absolutely garbage at it

 

[yap]

Goldeneye

 

[Deleted member 6949]

Wolfenstein 3d

 

[AgentStrange]

It's either Doom or Dark Forces.

 

[Fart Master]

Halo

 

[Ryuhza]

Wolfenstein 3D, and it's still one of my favorite FPSs ever

Click to shrink...

Same.

I think it was Wolfenstein, then Duke Nukem 3D, then DOOM for me.

 

[Deleted member 6436]

I probably played this game more than anything else in my entire life. What I would give for a remake.

 

[cephei]

goldeneye 64

 

[javiergame4]

GoldenEye N64

 

[strange]

Doom

 

[GunFlame]

Wolfenstein 3D. Didn't play much, it was on a computer my buddy had.

 

[Kamek]

Does Catacomb 3D count? Had it for Windows 3.1 back in the day.

 

[Jack Frost]

Goldeneye.

 

[Aesthet1c]

Wolfenstein 3D, such a good game.

 

[BuBu Jenkins]

Game was so good back in the day and had an amazing soundtrack

 

[Dancinsolo]

Wolf 3D

 

[Nintendo]

Counter-Strike the mod.

 

[Okinau]

Operation Body Count on PC. It used the same engine as Wolfenstein. It's cheesy but I loved it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Body_Count

 

[ninecubed]

Wolf 3D!
Honorable mention to Doom and Heretic

 

[Valkyr1983]

Wolfenstein 3D or Blake Stone Aliens of Gold

It didn't become my favorite genre until Doom, then cemented with Quake

I had no internet growing up, so I remember I would use library and school computers to download shareware games, compress to a multi disk zip file across like 12-13 floppy disks and bring home

I also got these awesome quake 1 bots and used to download quake 1 maps to play them on, to this day I never experienced quake 1 online

 

[texhnolyze]

I think it was Duke Nukem 3D, but I played it way later like in 99 or so.

 

[shepcommandr]

Wolf 3D.
Think it came on a Shareware disk I bought at a convenience store. Remember most of the disk being absolute garbage. Wolf was great though, even though I did even play the full release until 10+ years later.

 

[antitrop]

Wolfenstein 3D, not quite at its release, but probably somewhere around 1994-1995. I played it at my cousin's house and I would use the space bar to shoot and he would use the arrow keys to navigate the levels.

It's that nostalgia that helped me appreciate Wolfenstein: The New Order as much as I did. It was fucking crazy to see a franchise come that far.

 

[kittens]

Jurassic Park on SNES. The perspective switched to first person when you went into buildings, and when it first happened I literally had no idea what I was looking at. I had never heard of or imagined first person perspective in games, and I was baffled when I couldn't find my character on the screen. Then I pushed forward, saw the pixels shift and shake, and slowly realized what I was seeing. Then I saw a raptor in the distance and my mind was thoroughly blown.

The first full FPS game I played was Goldeneye. Then Perfect Dark, Medal of Honor, Halo, and many many more since.

 

[TheOmegaSpartan]

Turok 2 or Goldeneye on the N64. I can't remember which I played first but it was probably Turok.

 

[Ximonz]

was actually CS1.3, what a great time.

 

[Dabi3]

Goldeneye 007, such a wonderful game.

 

[Syril]

Descent. The controls were based on flight games so the Y-axis was inverted by default, which is likely why that's still my preference in FPS games today.

 

[crookedaxis]

Doom and Quake

 

[DerbyCityDerek]

Star Wars: Dark Forces

It is heartbreaking that the first two of those games have so many problems on modern systems.

 

[Deleted member 9486]

Doom.

Outside of the old corridor style ones, Goldeneye.

 

[Gareth]

The original Quake on my Uncle's work PC.