Best FPS Ever

As the other members have suggested, BF3 and even BFBC are two of my favourite first person shooter games ever. Although, I'm not a big fan of the MoW series, I would recommend them to others as most of my friends are big fans of the franchise.

I want to take the time to point out how very sad this thread has made me. Clearly no one has put clear thought into their responses in the lifetime of this thread. And its relativly old at that considering it was posted before dead island came out.

First I want to point out the misleading title: "Best FPS". What was really requested was popular FPS games and poorly at that, in order for anyone to really point you in a good direction we would have to know what you are gaming on.

Also we cant forgive the erroneous use of terms. Shooters and FPS's are not the same thing. Suggesting Dead Space is ok in a shooter thread (or specifically 3rd person horror) and bioshock is ok in the first person shooter as an RPG/FPS.

Now, if we are looking for an opinion poll on what is worth playing almost any entry is acceptable. But since this thread specifically asks for the best FPS I expected a little more consideration for the classics. If I was to assemble a list of the most influential FPS games of all time vs a list of the most successful we would see drastic differences in titles.
Anyways my list of the Best FPS's (aka gun wielding action games) I would have to do something like this:

Im also listing games that are directly related, aka would not exist without:

unreal - 10 fps games ont he first engine including Duke Nukem, roughly 55 fps games on the 2nd engine, and unreal engine 3 currently runs some of the best games in the industry.
Halflife - CS, DOD, CSS, DODS, HLB, HL2, Portal1&2, L4D1&2
Halo series
Goldeneye - Perfect Dark
Battlefield series
COD series

Those are all the really landmark games I can think of at the moment, as far as shaping the FPS content that we see today goes. But as far as games I would absolutely recommend that are FPS games? without knowing your preferences or platforms thats rather hard.

After careful consideration I have decided that portal is the best FPS ever made and I am perfectly willing to defend that standpoint.

Half life 2 is probably the most fun and with a sea of mods you'll never be bored!

Well, i would say Fallout 3

Gotta stick to my roots and say Call of Duty 1, even though I've been less-than impressed with their latest developments. It was a close one between that, and Battlefield 2.

Battlefield bad company 2, HALO 3, or any mainstream FPS games.
For some reason any other FPS game that isn't COD, Battlefield, or Halo just doesn't appeal to people...

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Originally Posted by Echo

Battlefield bad company 2, HALO 3, or any mainstream FPS games.
For some reason any other FPS game that isn't COD, Battlefield, or Halo just doesn't appeal to people...

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Hmm. Not sure if serious...

What about Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Portal(if you count them as FPS).. And that's just Valve. Bioshock, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Crysis, Goldeneye?

Change 'people' to 'Xbox Kids' and you've got a more accurate generalization :P

There you go.
Can't believed I forgot about those.

Plus the doom games and castle wolfenstein. Plus I really liked red faction.

I'm pretty sure i've said it in this topic, but I'll bring it up again: Goldeneye is the best shooter ever. The only way it could have been better is if you had the ability to add computer opponents in multiplayer