Fav shooter before 2000?

[Doom64Myfav]

What was your fav shooter or shooters before the year 2000? I'd have to go with turok1/2 first shooter I ever played and loved it a lot. I like doom, quake, sin, and others, but what was special to me about turok1/2. The connected hub and platforming, also the lifeforce system. Even today I feel like giving us coins (lifeforces), save points, connected open ended, and lives, increased the challenge and didn't encourage save spamming. If you did badly you'd lose, you couldn't just reload game again and again till you get it right. To me that was a really good system for a shooter. Why I've replayed turok1/2 many times over the years, more than any other shooter. But that's not all that was great about the turok games. Death animations, huge badass enemies, explosives, destructible environments, body targeting damage (well turok2), and some of the most over the top weapons in shooters at the time. Of course that's just my personal favorite interested to know what your favorite shooter or shooters were before 2000. I know there's gonna be a lot of dooms  on here since its a doom forum, and I can see why. I personally loved doom64 and doom1.

[Captain POLAND]

Got to be the Descent games, 1 2 and 3 (the latter came out in 1999). I also loved Dark Forces, and of course Doom 1 and 2. Duke Nukem 3D was also fun.

 

 

[Thelokk]

Doom and Descent are good, but Quake (1) will always be something special to me. The atmosphere, the mood are just *chef kiss*

[Dusty_Rhodes]

Not counting Doom, Half Life. Great action and atmosphere. Definitely one of my favorite games to replay. 

[RHhe82]

If we exclude Doom, it’s gotta be Duke Nukem 3D. Maybe Heretic or Hexen. Wolfenstein 3D could also be a contender, but after 1992-1993 it really felt outdated.

[Teo Slayer]

Classic Doom, Wolfenstein 3D+SoD, Blake Stone (both games), Heretic, Duke3D, Doom 64 and Half Life

[RaszagalPhoenix]

Shadow Warrior has to be my favorite. I find it to be very underrated.

[Gibbon]

Kingpin

[Andromeda]

The one that was released on December 10, 1993.

[Quill]

Blood and Hexen

[adamastor]

Robotron.

[BGreener]

Might be Quake 1 and 2, followed by Shadow Warrior and Blood, topped off with Perfect Dark and all the shooting (and first person view!) in Shadows of the Empire.

 

PD was a 2000’s game though, so might not count.

Edited February 14, 2022 by BGrieber

[Mr. Freeze]

3rd person: Shadows of the Empire 

 

1st person: Goldeneye 

[Astronomical]

Marathon 1 is my favorite, the atmosphere of the game is unlike anything including it's sequel.  It's sequel is good but despite the inclusion of atmospheric sounds, the cold, dark, cramped environment of the first game just meshes with me in a way that the outdoor levels of the sequels don't.  Not to say the whole trilogy isn't brilliant, because it is.

[Silhouette 03]

Blood. It does so much so well. The arsenal is great, with a lot of unconventional weapons that feel good to use. The level design is also mostly excellent ( with a few outliers such as the sewer level in episode 3) and makes good use of the Build Engine's destructible environments. The levels themselves are all varied and interesting, and are mostly always interesting to look at. Caleb is also a great character, and Stephan Weyte's raspy voiceover gives so much life to that character.

 

Also, fuck GT interactive for shipping Blood 2 early. Monolith deserved better than to be screwed over by their own publisher.   

[Doom_Dude]

Besides Doom... Quake, Quake II and Half-Life for sure.

[Jacek Bourne]

Half Life, Dooms

[Plats]

Quake

Edited February 14, 2022 by Plats

[kwc]

Asking me now in 2022, it's gotta be Blood.

If you were to go back in time and ask me right before the year 2000, I'd say "who are you, how did you get in here? Mooooooom!".

[Jello]

Hard to pick one, but it'd be between Doom 2 and Quake. I think it more depends on how much I've played one of them recently, because I tend to get a little burnt out. I love them both, but I usually reach a point where the different qualities of each stand out more the longer I've been away from them.

 

For example right now I'm on a Quake kick, and once I get done with the mission packs and some use made stuff, I'll probably go back to Doom and fall in love again.

 

Although I really do love Blood, and that'd probably be my third favorite 90's FPS. I've been replaying Blood and the mission packs, plus Death Wish with Extra Crispy, and that is just some damn good gameplay there. Extra Crispy really breathes new life into the game; although it does make it a bit too easy at times.

 

After that, I really liked Half-Life, but it keeps getting harder and harder to replay it. Most of my favorite games from that era were faster paced, and while Blood used somewhat realistic environments, they were still relatively abstract, and quite varied. Half-Life was on that cusp of realism, but still threw somewhat abstract environments/puzzles at you to the point that it seems a bit muddled at times. I'm really thinking about that giant room with all the damn conveyor belts. Still a great game in general, but it's certainly not as amazing as it was at release.

 

For consoles, Goldeneye was the best FPS on consoles, period. Turok was really good, and I still love replaying it, Turok 2 had a great arsenal, but the levels were too long and convoluted for it's own good... and the frame rate was so atrocious that I never ended up finishing it. I got Nightdive's rereleases of both, but I still haven't bothered finishing Turok 2, mainly due to the irritating levels, and lack of you know... dinosaurs. And Medal of Honor on PSX was really well done, before that series became an embarrassing cash cow like Call of Duty.

 

 

[ReaperAA]

Doom of course. But other than that, I would go with Duke3D and UT99.

[Rudolph]

Doom, Goldeneye 007, Quake II, System Shock 2, Half-Life: Opposing Force. 

 

[Murdoch]

Ah... can't remember the name... starts with d... rhymes with room....

[Dark Pulse]

The original Unreal Tournament.

 

Though I did also really like PSX Quake II, and some more oddball console shooters (PO'ed and Battle Frenzy/Bloodshot come to mind).

[Redneckerz]

19 minutes ago, Dark Pulse said:

The original Unreal Tournament.

 

Though I did also really like PSX Quake II, and some more oddball console shooters (PO'ed and Battle Frenzy/Bloodshot come to mind).

The only capable answer. And its wrong since UT99 came out in.. 99.

 

But that doesn't matter since UT99 transcends space and time and is a timeless classic.

 

PSX Quake 2 is just amazing for the hardware. I really love that one.

[Morpheus666]

Postal, Blood, SIN all great games tbh

[ApprihensivSoul]

Blood, Descent, Half Life, Quake 2, and everything in the Heretic series.

[Dark Pulse]

1 hour ago, Redneckerz said:

The only capable answer. And its wrong since UT99 came out in.. 99.

 

But that doesn't matter since UT99 transcends space and time and is a timeless classic.

Er? The topic says "Before 2000." Last I checked, 1999 was before 2000.

 

Don't tell me Prince was wrong all these years!

[kawadec]

Aside from the obvious answer of Doom 64, I also have a big soft spot for the first Turok, for a lot of the reasons already stated. Just a really good run n' gun experience with platforming that isn't too bad, some good enemy animations and music, and of course plenty of fun weapons.

 

Though I never played Descent, I did get to enjoy Forsaken growing up and have to give it a shoutout, both the PC and N64 versions (since they were indeed different, and it's cool that the Nightdive remaster merges the two).

[Redneckerz]

30 minutes ago, Dark Pulse said:

Er? The topic says "Before 2000." Last I checked, 1999 was before 2000.

 

Don't tell me Prince was wrong all these years!

Yeah you are right. I am tired.