What first person shooters have the best single player campaigns?

Any specific eras? Are we including mods/expansions?

My essentials would be:
Doom 1/2
Blood/Shadow Warrior
Half-Life

>>386092746
Timesplitters trilogy is way up there, if only for sheer variety.

The Darkness is some good shit.

Shame its 360/PS3 only.

Bulletstorm if you can stomach the awful writing. Had a lot of fun gunning for high scores and getting all the skill kills.

STALKER series

return to castle wolfenstein, just a couple areas aren't that great

>>386093067
No specific eras, and please include mods and expansions. Half life 1 and 2 mods especially.

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F.E.A.R.
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
Titanfall 2
Singularity
Quake
Quake II
Half-Life 2
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
The Original Halo Trilogy
DOOM (2016)
The Painkiller games
The Serious Same games

These are some of the more widely known FPS games (aside from Singularity) that have good campaigns.

>>386092746
FEAR
Doom
Titanfall 2
Halo Reach

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>>386093782
That's some good taste right there.

>>386093631
Stalker isn't really an fps. It's more like a survival game but in first person and you can shoot things.

>>386092746
Crysis 1

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>>386093406

my nigga

>>386092746
Medal of Honor, Unreal, The Darkness.

Half-life and expansions
Half-life 2 and expansions
Painkiller Black Edition (fuck all the rest including the remake)
CoD4
Doom 1,2 (and all its expansions), PSX, 64, and 2016
FEAR
Halo 1

>>386093782
>halo reach
how can someones taste be so absolutely shit,
while also being decent?

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>>386093763
Well, it's technically MP driven, but the mind boggling level of viscera and variety in the Ballistic Weapons mod for UT 2004 has to made note of, and it can be modded to work with the SP as well.

>>386092746
Titanfall 2, Haven't had legit this much fun with a stompy stomp game since Mechwarrior 3

>>386094528
Eh I honestly didn't expect to like it yet had a fucking blast

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Whats the concensus on Quake?

Got Shadow Warrior 2 recently, enjoying it a lot

>>386094819
Excellent. Anyone who says otherwise isn't old enough to be on this board.

>>386094819
Fucking great.

>TRESPASSER

>>386092746
Is that a print of a painting? I want that so goddamned bad.

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I'll be honest, playing through Farcry: Blood Dragon without even playing any Farcry I enjoyed the fucking heck out of it.

If you don't like the game already by the look of it, fair. Don't play it if that's the case. If you love the 80s and thought Kung Fury was funny, you'll probably love this.

>>386094819
Deserves to be played by anyone interested in the history of the industry, or to see where certain ideas in FPS have come from.

>>386094819
i loved it
surprisingly loved its artstyle too

>>386095004
It's pretty great. I personally like 3 and 4 a lot; 3 had a dramatically more potent story, but 4 had significantly improved gameplay flow. The ability to slap C4 on a jeep, cut the brakes, and roll it into a camp for maximum destruction, then whistle bait into the camp to call a bear to maul stragglers is a damn near perfect gameplay experience.

>>386094819
Fucking rad and doesn't deserve to have their monsters shunned by the Strogg.

>>386093067
>Doom 1/2
>Blood/Shadow Warrior

there are sooo many better sp campaigns than this, particularly better than blood

people get too blinded by nostalgia

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>>386093769
>E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
no way fa-
>rest of the list

oh anon, your taste is almost perfect

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>>386094819
way better than DOOM but nostalgiafags wont admit it

if the level design accounted for explosive jumping more than once, the game would be timeless

>>386095513
EYE is great, honestly one of the most fun PVE FPS games I've ever played and the best part is I paid a dollar for it

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>>386095513
Why do you hate E.Y.E, my brouzouf?

>>386095359
Blood is one of the finest shooters ever produced.
Give some examples that are better please.

>>386095359
No, fuck off. Those games have insane level design, enemy design, and weapon design. It's really easy to demonstrate how varied and interesting those games can be if you look at each facet from a pure gameplay perspective. If you cannot appreciate those games, the only logical conclusion is that you think they're too old. I still play these games regularly because they're that good.

>>386092746
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout 4

>>386096441
>Those games have insane level design, enemy design, and weapon design.

Good joke

>>386095359
Nah

>>386093769
>The Painkiller games
Only the first one and maybe Battle out of Hell (Great for the most part, especially the new weapons but fuck the platforming segments so fucking bad)
Other than that the Painkiller series is actually pretty shitty. I tried Overdose and dropped it after the main character said "MMMM TASTE LIKE CHICKEN" for the 20th fucking time.

Honestly, the early CoD campaigns were pretty fun rail shooters

>>386096950
They all are. Some people just jump on the hate wagon without knowing that the hate was about the multiplayer.

>>386096950
I still don't get why CoD's campaigns are so on rails. I haven't sat down and played much CoD except to occasionally play some zombies with a couple of my housemates but the level designs for those actually feel somewhat nonlinear and creative. Hell, I'd probably drop money on a CoD game if they'd make one with a campaign that revolved more around the zombie levels' design.

>>386092746
serious sam
half life 2
fear 1
star wars republic commando
medal of honor: allied assault

>>386093782
Reach

I agree with you.

>>386096610
t.cuck who has never pitchfork started all of bloods levels

The best ones are the ones built from a solid logical foundation rather than a tailored scripted "experience"
This is what separates the new doom which is bad from the old doom which is good
>>386096950
they are quality, not the same as being good
>>386097125
they got hate because its rehashed console shit + gimmick with annual releases
>>386097410
you're an idiot

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>>386092746
The bits where you could actually CLIMB OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MECH and proceed to continue fucking shit up blew my fucking mind.

>>386092746
Star wars republic commando

>>386094819
Quake 1 is great, the enemy variety really adds a lot of different challenges based on their placement, timing, and pairings. Most of the guns are useful, though I don't like that the regular nailgun is completely overshadowed when you get the SNG.

The base game is good enough, but if you pick up the Quake Injector from Quaddicted, you will never want for singleplayer maps. On top of that, people have done some amazing things with the engine, and modding the game is pretty easy.

Quake 2 is pretty good too, I know anons hate that it wasn't similar to Quake 1, but honestly, I can't think of any way they could've improved Quake 1 from what it was and kept the same universe. Q2/Q4 are both enjoyable games.

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> No mention of Hexen 2

What the shit people?

From memory:

Wolfenstein 3D/Spear of Destiny
Doom 1 (Was not a fan of Doom 2, but eh).
Heretic + Hexen
Shadow Warrior
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake series
Serious Sam
Half-Life 1 and 2 + Expansions
Star Wars: Jedi Knight series
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
System Shock 2
Deus Ex and Human Revolution
Halo games up until Reach
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
FEAR
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Bioshock
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Doom 2016

I know I included several that could be considered more of a FPS RPGs then anything else, but eh.

>>386093574
The Darkness was a flawed gem.
The Darkness 2 was just a flaw.

>>386098375
Because its shit compared to the older game.

>>386092746
Essentials
>Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Final Doom
>Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior
>Quake (Quake 2 is optional but still decent)

Other optionals
>Half Life + Opposing Force
>FEAR

Half Life 2 is not optional, it's just overrated shit. Basically an OMG DA FIZZIKZ simulator, implying that shit would be impressive forever with the shitty gimmicky puzzles. the vehicle segments were also overdrawn and straight AIDS, not to mention the unskippable in-game cinematic horse shit (HL1 is guilty of that shit too)

>>386098375
I know it wasn't a first person shooter, but was Heretic 2 any good? I remember enjoying the first Heretic.

>>386098459
>>386099045
hexen 2 is to quake what hexen is to doom

>>386098459
> Shit

I thought it was an improvement compared to Hexen, mainly because it actually gives you a sense of where to go in the form of hints throughout the game as well as a general idea of what you needed to do at the beginning of each hub. With Hexen you were usually just hunting through the levels trying to find that fucking switch or key to access another switch or key in god knows which other part of the hub. The different characters felt more unique as well.

>>386098279
>though I don't like that the regular nailgun is completely overshadowed when you get the SNG.
i don't see the problem with this. it's just to scale difficulty and weapon balance differently between the levels as you progress desu.

>>386095902
>>386095914

i didnt find the level design compelling, the story is a complete fucking mess and i hate infinitely respawning enemies

>>386093574
This excuse of "No games go away forever" is beginning to piss me off when I need to keep old as fuck hardware around in order to play games that haven't had a digital release on PC or newer consoles yet.

>>386094528
This

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>>386099113
He's talking about Heretic II the third person game, not Hexen. It's kind of confusing I know since Hexen is the direct sequel to Heretic.

I'm kind of curious myself though to be honest. I've heard of it but I've never played it or bothered looking up longplays of it.

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>>386098279
I hope in the future, id makes a Quake game that encompasses all of the games into a single player campaign. Like, you're fighting the Strogg in one world and you realize that they're fighting against another enemy. When you jump to the dimension, it's the hub world from Quake 1 remastered and remade that's all rusty and old but still has working teleporters. Then you get to fight all the old enemies from Quake 1 all HD and shit.

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>>386099312
But anon, even if you can't play the game anymore
It'll always be in your heart

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>>386096536

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>>386092746
Darkwatch

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>>386096091
Half-Life 2
FEAR
Quake
Duke Nukem

Blood has too damn many hitscan enemies, if it wasnt for that itd be much better

>No, fuck off. Those games have insane level design, enemy design, and weapon design.

i played a good deal of Blood and Doom 1, the main problem with Blood is the excessive amount of hitscan enemies, atleast in the first chapter, those are hardly entertaining to fight

Doom 1 has a decent campaign, but the weapon selection is very generic (being one of the first FPS this is understandable) and the level design while imaginative can be very tedious, looking around those giantic maps for those stupid keys is really no fun after youve killed all the enemies and theres nothing left to shoot

compare this to Quake, Quake is how FPS level design should be, the levels are just as big as Doom's but condensed into a smaller area, thanks to verticality which was possible with the new engine

the game also has these subtle hits to guide you into the correct path, for instance, the best way to know you are on track is to check how high you are, often the higher the path you walk on is, the closer you are to the exist, this also makes backtracking a complete breeze since you only have to jump down to a lower path, likewise with some rocket jumping you can finish levels in record time, finally while key hunting is still present its less prevalent than in Doom

>>386092746
Metro 2033
Maybe Last Light but they shoehorned that romance so bad.

>>386100104
this comment was also responding to >>386096441

>>386100126
They could have made Ana a friend of his in the first level, had almost the same dialogue and passed it off as banter between squaddies, but instead it had to be some tsundere 'oh thank you for s-saving my life Artyom chan, now put your dark one in my botanical garden' bullshit

>>386100104
>Blood has too damn many hitscan enemies
The only hitscan enemies I remember are the cultists which really weren't that bad. Kind of a nuisance early on when you were low on equipment but pretty easy once you started accumulating a decent amount of shotgun and tommy gun ammo or at least got the hang of using dynamite. The pig cops in Duke Nukem were a lot worse if you ask me.

>>386100013
My nigga, I almost forgot about Dark Watch. I remember it being kind of a generic Halo clone for the most part but I still had a good amount of fun with it

>>386099191
I always think of it in the context of a shorter level set. Whereas when you find the SSG, you still have use for it and the normal SG throughout the level, the SG just becomes a wasted spot in your inventory after acquiring the SNG. It doesn't have any other interesting qualities like damage to ammo efficiency or anything like that.

There's nothing actually wrong with it, it just sort of feels left out compared to everything else. I suppose one of the things it does ok is you can give the player the NG early on in a level set, and then hide SNGs behind difficult secrets, and you never run into the problem that a player is searching for a weapon to use the ammo with, he's just not getting the full effect out of it.

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>>386093574

>>386094819

I wish id / Bethesda would do a new Quake game in the same vein as they did Wolfenstein and Doom.

Unfortunately, if they did, it would be more Strogg shit like 2 and 4, and nothing like 1. Would love to have some more old-world shit with magical runes and monsters.

>>386102639
They should have a combination of both, since that's basically what the Quake universe is centered around: dimensions and stuff.

>>386102639

I wouldn't hold your breath - Quake Champions seems to give me the impression of their intentions with the Quake franchise, which is to just center it around what it became most popular for - it's online arena counterparts.

I'd love for a Quake SP game as well though. Some of the maps from Champions definitely shows they have a lot of appreciation for the elder world shit from 1.