Soldier of Fortune II Double Helix was my first introduction to FPS games.
It had an open source code, people made what was called “RealMod” where players who’s professions were around guns and medical went through and programmed in vital points of the body (IE if you got shot directly on top of the foot, you’d bleed out, lung shots would insta drop you, etc), and even went as far as programming in realistic recoil and spread, real gun audio from each of the weapons.
It was truly an amazing introduction to FPS, that no other FPS to me has matched at all.
Aside OW2 not being FPS. Which can surprise some folks. OW2 is a team based action game. Neither hero neither shooter anymore, which some moment in the past was both shooter and hero, but not FPS.
If you consider Duckhunt as FPS, would be it. Otherwise was Wolfstein 3D.
So long ago dont remember which was my 1st, but the few were tribes, tribes 2, quake, decent, doom, heritic, unreal tournament.
OW was the only one I invested more than 10 hours into. But I have played a bit of Borderlands 2 prior.
Considering Blizzard’s long history and OW being their first fps it is only natural that it would attract lots of boomers.
But for whatever reason they have shifted direction to zoomers for OW2.
007 Goldeneye. Yep, I am officially not as cool as all the Baby Doomers.
Duke nukem 3D. Followed by Quake 1.
Probably Doom or Duke Nukem on the PC like 25 years ago. My cousin brought it to me house and installed it on the computer for me to play. After that it was probably Golden Eye on the N64.
Doom on pc when i was like 4 or 5. On ms-dos at that, shocked i even played it tbh…
UT a bit but we only had dial up in our area when dsl/cable/etc were coming out.
The one I really enjoyed was the original Red Faction. Fully destructible environments and custom maps were really fun. Although they did nerf the destruction a bit later on, it was still fun. I loved using a rocket launcher to build a tunnel to the enemy base to take their flags.
Golden Eye 007 on the N64.
Medal of honor: frontline
I remember someone having that one but I honestly couldn’t pass the airport dialogue.
i probably didn’t know English yet or it was in Japanese altogether.
Modern Warfare 2007
Unreal Tournament 1999
Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 was my first FPS
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II back in 1997.
I picked it up after watching my cousin play it a few times as I was only really into a select few types of games at that point.
It didn’t exactly sell me on the genre at the time, but it prepped me for the next time I tried one.
I can’t remember if it was Turok, MDK, or Chex Quest. But I didn’t care much for the genre as a kid until I played Halo when I was 13.
It was more of a first-person point-and-click adventure game, but I remember having fun with Shadowgate on NES. It blew my mind as a kid… I’d never played anything like it.