Recommend me an FPS

Trojan

Looking for a good fairly recent FPS. Something that a Radeon 6950 can handle.

Stuff I like: Quake1-3, Unreal, Deus E, UT, Far Cry 1, Crysis & variants. Borderlands 1&2. Aint played the latest.

More recently Metro 2033 & LL. Haven't played much else.

Any recommendations? Tending toward single player, fast paced, sf rather than historic.

Digital Solitude

Borderlands
BioShock

martineatworld

Cod Advanced warfare (I liked it anyway!)
Rise of the triad
Shadow warrior
Wolfenstein the new order

Links234

I'll second Wolfenstein: The New Order, easily one of the best shooters I've played in years. I also recently played Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and if you don't mind the wild west setting (I'm a sucker for Westerns) it's amazing.

And if you want to try something really left of field, check out Devil Daggers. It's absolutely insane, almost like an FPS bullet-hell.

dreamers75

MP

R6 Siege
Arma 3
Insurgency

TerrorFirmer

The HD6950 will handle pretty much any modern FPS at OK levels, certainly at levels decent enough to enjoy the title.

Fallout 4
Bioshock 1, 2, Infite
Borderlands
Dishonored
STALKER: Clear Sky
COD Advanced Warfare/Black Ops 2, 3
Shadow Warrior
Crysis 2, Crysis 3
Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Far Cry Blood Dragon
Wolfenstein New World Order/Old Blood
Bulletstorm
Quake IV
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway
Medal of Honor Warfighter

strelok

my god, why would anybody recommend stalker clear sky over the other two

stalker chernobyl or pripyat are incredible games and should be fine for your card. They are damned punishing early-game though, there's no hand holding here.

ancapailldorcha

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Half Life series yet.

Shiminay

Bulletstorm is *VERY* silly, but pretty good fun and you'll pick it up pretty cheap.

The 2 recent Wolfenstein games are really enjoyable fun too, I'd definitely recommend them.

The CODs and all that are grand if you want to play multiplayer, but their story modes aren't great.

FriendComputer

strelok wrote: »

my god, why would anybody recommend stalker clear sky over the other two

stalker chernobyl or pripyat are incredible games and should be fine for your card. They are damned punishing early-game though, there's no hand holding here.

I still have my CS disk around here... somewhere. Might even still be in one piece!

It's also worth mentioning that Chernobyl and Pripyat are somewhat rough around the edges, shall we say. Fantastic games in their own right and even given the troubled development of the first, it's clear a lot of love went into it.

There's various mods that tidy them up, as well as others that either flesh out unfinished content or expand upon what's there in a faithful way. All worth looking into.

But yes, avoid Clear Sky. It really is the middle child of the series.

ykt0di9url7bc3

Lots of great games recommended there, just a few others I can think of off the top of my head, they are not as modern but they are worth a look.

Brutal DooM (has a whole new campaign, it gives a good spin on an old classic)
Here is me playing the latest release
Its updated metal music is nice for the Ultra Violence but sometimes I load the PSX music wad for its atmosphere

Left 4 Dead series is well polished. Its singleplayer is still fun and the AI director tried to keep things interesting.

Alan Wake is a good story driven game with some nice mechanics.

Alien Isolation is a great experience and while not a shooter it does offer some great thrills.

A lot of these games were on special offer on steam and not now but you should be able to pick up cheap keys...

Turtwig

wolfenstein New order - old school type run and gun fun shooter.
Insurgency - intense multiplayer shooter with a more realistic and tactical tone. (If you want to live trust your team mates)
Spec Ops: The line. - game wise a decent shooter not exceptional. Story and setting wise it's a magnum opus of video game story telling.

Skerries

Dishonored is one of the best single player FPS games in the last few years that hasn't been mentioned so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2bQU7veCc

Dcully

Hard Reset is the game your after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZeHWH_9sUg

jumbobreakfast

If you like sci fi then dead space is great. It's not fast paced but your heart might get a bit fast paced when you play it

TerrorFirmer

Skerries wrote: »

Dishonored is one of the best single player FPS games in the last few years that hasn't been mentioned so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2bQU7veCc

Actually, it was mentioned.

I've owned that game Hard Rest for what must be years at this point and never played it. Must give it a go.

The_Valeyard

Try Black Mesa.

Dair76

Singularity - a little-played, unpolished gem.

strelok

Dair76 wrote: »

Singularity - a little-played, unpolished gem.

i'd never played a game before that was so good it just pissed me off how much better it could have been

TerrorFirmer

Dair76 wrote: »

Singularity - a little-played, unpolished gem.

Excellent suggestion, I loved that game. Very reminiscent of Bioshock 2 in terms of gameplay mechanics and how it delivers the story, deserved to do much better than it did.

Trojan

Super recommendations, really appreciate all the input from everyone. I have played Half-Life 1, 2 and 3 all the way through so no worries there. Also FEAR, that was an interesting one.

I'm going to pick up a few of the budget options to start with, Dead Space, Hard Reset and Binary Domain (€4 today) and give them a go.

Just kidding about HL3

Sonics2k

Jumping in to recommend Spec Ops: The Line.

Based on a Heart of Darkness (Apocalypse Now). Fantastic shooter and a brilliant story line to boot. Highly, highly recommend it.

Links234

Trojan wrote: »

Just kidding about HL3

Really? I was about to ask if you were John Titor?

Dair76

Dair76 wrote: »

Singularity - a little-played, unpolished gem.

And what do ya know? It's down to a fiver this week on Steam!

Links234

Dair76 wrote: »

And what do ya know? It's down to a fiver this week on Steam!

Just noticed that myself. I'd complained that it was only 25% off in previous sales, so at 75% off it's seriously tempting me.

moc moc a moc

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Quake 4 is a bit meh, but if you enjoyed Quake 2 single player you might like it

Robert ninja

Paikiller Black Edition is an FPS I can always reccomend. I can't believe things like FO4 are being reccomend before this. OP did say Quake, right?

https://www.gog.com/game/painkiller

TerrorFirmer

Necrovision is another decent one. Comes up a lot as well in €2 bundles on the likes of Bundlestars, think I paid 79c for the sequel Lost Company.

Skerries

Robert ninja wrote: »

Paikiller Black Edition is an FPS I can always reccomend. I can't believe things like FO4 are being reccomend before this. OP did say Quake, right?

https://www.gog.com/game/painkiller

which ones are decent to play as I have only played the first one and I have 6 of them?

strelok

i've tried several times to love painkiller but I just can't

Robert ninja

Skerries wrote: »

which ones are decent to play as I have only played the first one and I have 6 of them?

You mean the expansions? Just jump into any of them. I started with Black Edition on gog, then modded that, then played H&D on Steam. It's really not something you need to think about too much... it's a mindless shooter.

I reccomend playing with the music off and getting your own favourite action tunes.