Favorite shooter after 2000?

[Faceman2000]

Halo 3 is my favorite for its multiplayer, and then Doom: Eternal next for sure.

[hybridial]

Hedon, Severed Steel, Dusk, Amid Evil, and based on what I've played of it, Dread Templar all compete. 

 

I guess otherwise it'd be the Metroid Prime games. 

Edited March 23, 2022 by hybridial

[CoolerDoomeR]

Dead Space 1,2 and 3 and Stalker shadow of chernobyl.

[BGreener]

  On 3/23/2022 at 3:43 PM, Kinsie said:

Team Fortress 2 consumed my soul for years at a stretch. I love it to bits and can never play it again.

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That mirrors me with quite a few of these 2000s shooters. Bad Company 2, TF2, Left for Dead 2, Why So Many 2’s, Eternal is Technically A 2 - tons of shooters where I spent some to several hours playing them and don’t have much interest returning to them.

 

Doom 3 and FEAR may’ve been the most influential for me at the time. Recently I’ve been having lots of fun with two shooters: Deep Rock Galactic for my favorite take on the “left 4 dead” style coop shooter, and Insurgency 1 for fun gun mechanics and a coop mode mirroring R6 Vegas’ terrorist hunt.

 

A lot of those recent indies were fun for the most part. Things like Dusk and Amid Evil were fun, Ion Fury and Cruelty Squad were my favorites. Things like Citadel were fun but weird.

[hybridial]

  On 3/23/2022 at 4:23 PM, BGrieber said:

tons of shooters where I spent some to several hours playing them and don’t have much interest returning to them.

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Well ah, that really was the way of the design approach of the period. The market changed.

 

Now we're seeing a splinter and in the indy scene there's been a revival of approaches that place a bit more on instant gratification and replayability. We are also seeing more development at the grassroots level in general which is great. 

 

I'll just say I am glad that this has happened. 

[SilverMiner]

Stalker SOC with mods those restore cut maps and plot

[CittyKat112]

While it's not a full-blown FPS, I'm gonna say Deus Ex was the best ''shooter'' game after 00s for me. I beat the vanilla game like ten times and played a shitload of mods for it (I highly recommend checking out GMDX, The Nameless Mod, 2027 and Nihilum while I'm at it). I'd probably place Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis on a second place, played it for like a year and a half and I also had a big folder with lots of mods and custom maps/campaigns for it. I'd probably put F.E.A.R. on the third place, it had cool graphics and awesome AI. Horror aspect of the game sucked ass though. Good times...

I'd mention most of the other good shooters I've played, but I think I wouldn't be able to properly rate some of them because of nostalgia. I also realized some of them never really were all that great upon replaying them.

Anyway, here's some honorable mentions in no particular order:

Quake 4

Quake 3: Arena

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Unreal

Soldier of Fortune

No One Lives Forever

Halo 3: ODST

Halo Reach

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Prey

CoD series (MW 1-2, Black Ops 1, World at War)

Far Cry 1, 2 and 3

Bioshock 1

Bioshock Infinite

Fallout 3 and New Vegas

Aliens Versus Predator 1 and 2 

Armed Assault

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Cry of Fear

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Homefront

Edited March 23, 2022 by CittyKat112
Added some more games I've played to the list after seeing they were mentioned in the thread. My memory sucks...

[ZeMystic]

Alright, small list:

- The Entire Halo Franchise, because I grew up on it. Banger soundtrack.

- Call of Duty Black Ops II/III because I really enjoyed the Zombies game mode.

- Titanfall 2. best single player campaign ever!!1! of all time!!1!

- Half Life 2 including it's episodes. They're super fun and I enjoy the puzzles and story it has.

 

[mrthejoshmon]

It's Halo Reach.

 

There's no competition, I'm literally still playing it to this day thanks to that fancy PC version MCC now has.

[deleted-account]

1. Doom Eternal
2. F.E.A.R
3. Halo 3
4. Doom 3
5. Halo Reach
6. Half Life 2
7. Squad

[BluePineapple72]

The COD: Black Ops games, mainly for the zombies mode. You won't be able to change my mind, but the wunderweapons in those games are some of the best fictional guns in gaming period.

 

Aside from the 2 Doom reboot games, I'd say my favorite overall shooter would have to be Wolfenstein The New Order. Absolutely adore the story and tone of that game. Super immersive world. Love everything about it.

[BGreener]

  On 3/23/2022 at 4:38 PM, hybridial said:

 

Well ah, that really was the way of the design approach of the period. The market changed.

 

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The direction I’m most interested in - less linear and more interesting level progression and design - still doesn’t seem that popular, but that’s fine. I’ve come to terms with it at this point, and I can get that still through the endless stream of quality Doom wads/mods/paks.

What I find funny is that Rekkr and Hedon were both good about this, and Supplice and Age of Hell might also be good about it. Them Doombros really know how to make interesting levels!

 

I’m also really looking forward to Peripeteia, even though it’s less of a strict “shooter”.

[ax34]

Stalker series +mods, Half-life series +mods, Doom (classic) engine games and TCs.

Edited March 23, 2022 by ax34

[AvgUser]

I love black ops 3 zombies mode, very good maps, gameplay and lots of mods to play.

Edited March 23, 2022 by AvrgUser

[Gregor]

Call of Duty: Warzone (OG Verdansk)

[Endless]

• Left 4 Dead 2
• Metro 2033
• FEAR
• Battlefield Bad Company 2
• Call of Duty 1 and Modern Warfare
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Counter Strike Source
• Half Life 2
• Serious Sam The Second Encounter
• Resistance
• Far Cry 2

[The_SloVinator]

Serious Sam franchise minus two games.

[smeghammer]

I'd have to say Ion Fury. Old skool but new. I like it.

[A.Gamma]

For single player, I'll go with the Bioshock franchise. 1 and 2 for their stellar atmosphere, and Infinite for it's stellar gunplay. 

 

Multiplayer, I enjoyed Overwatch, Paladins, and right now I play Apex Legends like there's no tomorrow. Doom feels slow after a couple of hours on Apex.

[Jacek Bourne]

Halo Trilogy.

[DooMAD]

Really thought more people would have said Borderlands / Borderlands 2 / etc.  Probably gets my top spot.

 

Honourable mention to Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, since I play that on occasion and it hasn't been mentioned yet (oddly enough, I've never actually tried the first Rainbow 6: Vegas, though).

 

And, even though it's rarely played as the first-person shooter it technically is, because everyone just wants to run around with the lightsaber and force powers in third-person, Jedi Outcast/Academy.

Edited March 23, 2022 by DooMAD

[Jerememes]

Honestly, I'd pick Terraria.

[Breadbunbun]

Prey (2006)

Its my favorite game of all time, and will forever be my favorite game of all time.

[Mr. LBN]

  On 3/23/2022 at 3:43 PM, Kinsie said:

Team Fortress 2 consumed my soul for years at a stretch. I love it to bits and can never play it again.

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Why can you never play it again?

This sounds like me after I was forced to retire from that game during a competitive season.

[Kinsie]

  On 3/24/2022 at 1:25 AM, Mr. LBN said:

Why can you never play it again?

This sounds like me after I was forced to retire from that game during a competitive season.

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A long stretch of playing and modding it way too much that ultimately burned me out on it super hard. Every now and then, like once every year or so, I can get like a day or two out of it...

[Nevander]

  On 3/23/2022 at 1:41 AM, OniriA said:

Painkiller (2004)

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This is mine probably. Good fun. Metal AF.

[kwc]

Not including anything within the last 10-or-so years...

 

Tribes Ascend (RIP)

Half Life 2 & episodes

Pre-hat TF2

Left 4 Dead

Source mods like Battlegrounds 2, Insurgency, Pirates Vikings and Knights, Goldeneye Source, No More Room in Hell, The Hidden

 

It's funny that most of these are multiplayer, I guess tastes change

[amackert]

Post-2000, the original Painkiller is the one I have gone back to the most. Still fire it up multiple times a year.

 

DOOM 3 was there for a little while too (not so much now, but I did play it a lot in the first five years or so after its release).

 

DOOM 2016 more so in recent times.

 

Unreal Tournament 2K3, 2K4 and Unreal Tournament III when it came to my multiplayer shooters.

Edited March 24, 2022 by amackert

[ImproversGaming]

I have not had much variety but:

Half-life 2

Division 2

 

The latter is an incredible experience for me, who has traditionally been more of a retro gamer, running Dos on a raspberry pi. The Division 2 is so real and immersive, with so features and modes of play. Still shocks me that despite how great it is, it still lacks something. I gave it up to focus more on a game that is over 25 years old, which keeps reeling me in...

[Scrabbs]

L4d2 or COD WaW