Best 1st Person Shooters for PC

[Zarathustra]

I'll soon be upgrading to a new graphics card, and I want to play some of the new 1st person shooters out there. Call of Duty Modern Warfare looks fun. Also, Quake 4 and Enemy Territories. What do you guys suggest?

[Loredoctor]

I'll soon be upgrading to a new graphics card, and I want to play some of the new 1st person shooters out there. Call of Duty Modern Warfare looks fun. Also, Quake 4 and Enemy Territories. What do you guys suggest?

STALKER, but you can have a free copy of that (as I was given one with my video card). COD MW is apparently AMAZING.

[balon!]

Any of the Unreal Tournaments. Those are damn fun.

[emotional leper]

Left 4 Dead when it comes out.

[Montresor]

Left 4 Dead when it comes out.

There's nothing quite like being overrun by zombies, so I may even have a go at that one.

STALKER is my favourite 1st Person Shooter for the moment.

[Nav]

Call of Duty 4 certainly won't disappoint, I finished the single player campaign the other day. It isn't the longest campaign I've ever played, but it may well be the best.

[Worm of Despite]

Can't go without mentioning Half-Life 2 and its expansions, Episode 1 and 2.

[Ur Dead]

The phantom Duke Nuken forever!

[JazFusion]

Games that won't disappoint:

CoD 4

Bioshock

The Orange Box (Contents: Half-Life 2 with Episodes 1 & 2, plus Portal and Team Fortress 2. Buy it, if just for Portal.)

Gears of War (It's a 3rd person shooter, but a great game nonetheless. Plus, with the PC version there's an extra chapter. Something we 360 players are peeved about.)

[balon!]

The phantom Duke Nuken forever!

HAHAHA.

Oh man. Duke Nukem. I had forgoten about him. Those games kick ass.

[The Dreaming]

1 word.

BIOSHOCK

[aTOMiC]

I know it's old school but I loved Duke Nukem. I created a few custom maps for the game including a re creation of the office where dANdeLION and I worked back in the 90's.
Duke was the first game I played in deathmatch. When I connected, via modem, to a friend's PC for the first time I was absolutely blown away. We had a blast that first night. We both had dedicated internet lines so we were blasting each other and talking on the phone just laughing our heads off. Man that was fun. You always remember your first time.

[Loredoctor]

You always remember your first time.

Well said. I will never forget my first game of Doom on multiplay . . . wow.

[Holsety]

The phantom Duke Nuken forever!

HAHAHA.

Oh man. Duke Nukem. I had forgoten about him. Those games kick ass.

Esp the one that never got released.

If we're going back to doom and duke nukem...it probably counts as an RPG, but I would push deus ex: invisible war.

[JazFusion]

You always remember your first time.

Well said. I will never forget my first game of Doom on multiplay . . . wow.

I always love to boast this, but my dad played John Romero on Dwango back in the day. What makes it even better is that my dad played as Ur-Vile.

[Zarathustra]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I loved Doom, and I still play the hell out of Quake III Arena online. I love the fast action, physics/movement. I really feel I can control my movement in that game better than any other; and according to the die-hard fans of Q3A who have played a lot more newer games than I have, nothing has come close to beating it in these aspects--not even Quake 4.

However, I don't think 90s games are really going to let my new card shine, so I'm primarily looking for new games suggestions. Not that I don't appreciate the stroll down memory lane . . . nor am I suggesting you guys can't take my thread in any direction you please.

I've spent enough on this little project for now: $40 game (Call of Duty 4), $250 card (8800 gt oc), $80 psu (Antec Truepower Trio 550 W). I got them all at a good deal, but I probably won't be buying any new games for a while. When I do, I intend on trying Bioshock and Crysis. My 15-yr-old has the Orange Box already, but he lost his product key, so I can't load it on my machine. Is that info stored in the registry? Can't we look it up?

[I'm Murrin]

The Orange Box requires Steam--if it's been installed before, just install Steam and use the same username/pass, and you'll be able to download it from the Steam servers (it's tied into the user account that it's first installed on, so there's no need for a key after the first time).

[Zarathustra]

Thanks, Murrin!

[Nav]

Gears of War (It's a 3rd person shooter, but a great game nonetheless. Plus, with the PC version there's an extra chapter. Something we 360 players are peeved about.)

Can you say "Downloadable Content"?

I'm sure Epic and/or Microsoft are just itching to make us part with more money for something the PC gamers get for free, even though their games are cheaper than ours in the first place.

Where does the extra chapter fit in I wonder? The story on the 360 seems pretty tight, I'm not sure where there they could put another section.

I've started playing through Gears on hardcore difficulty now and I'm definitely second Jaz's recommendation. It sparked a whole new way of playing shooters and the way the movement and cover are incorporated make it surprisingly immersive for a 3rd person game.

[The Dreaming]

The phantom Duke Nuken forever!

HAHAHA.

Oh man. Duke Nukem. I had forgoten about him. Those games kick ass.

Esp the one that never got released.

If we're going back to doom and duke nukem...it probably counts as an RPG, but I would push deus ex: invisible war.

For people who played (and loved) the first one, Invisible war was a pretty big disappointment. But speaking of Ion Storm, did anyone else play their Thief game? It actually was a worthy successor to the original. (STILL the best stealth action games ever made, Sam Fisher be damned)