Best PC FPS games of the last few years

Anything in the battlefield series

Zaphid_sl said:

Brutal Doom

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It has headshots in classic Doom 2.

If that doesn't tell you to try it, I dunno what to say.

I didn't like Max Payne 3 either, it felt way too quicktime-y and they forced a pretty boring story down your throat in ways that made it felt less like a game and more like a art movie or something - weird video cutscenes that were unskippable, QTEs, dopey dialogue, etc.

Titanfall was one of the better MP FPS' i have enjoyed, the pacing is super fast and it looks pretty on PC. The game is sorta dead MP wise on the PC, but I still enjoy jumping into a quick game every now and then. The ground game is great, good weapon variety and the parkour stuff really works great. All the Titan mechanics are just a big bonus, and its really fun to run around in a giant Titan. Its frankly hard to play stuff like Battlefield or Destiny after Titanfall, everything else feels slow. Not nearly as fast as Quake/Doom tho.

If third person counts Mass Effect 3 MP was sweet as balls

Borderlands 2, so good with friends played that game more than all the other FPS combined.

Borderlands 2 was probably the most enjoyable/longest lasting FPS of the last 5 years for me

Fadaar_sl said:

Borderlands 2 was probably the most enjoyable/longest lasting FPS of the last 5 years for me

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Same. Steam says I have 210 hours played in that. Can probably subtract a good amount to AFK, but as FPS experiences go (co-op) I can't think of a more enjoyable game in the past years. Like Hatorade mentioned, I have probably played that as long as most other FPS games combined in the past 5 years (as I rarely ever do multiplayer, just the single player (co-op if available)). Most FPS games are 4-8 hour experiences for me, as the single player part of them tends to be very short these days.

bixxby_sl said:

If third person counts Mass Effect 3 MP was sweet as balls

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I played the hell out of ME3 multiplayer I am not sure what about it was so satisfying but it really scratched my shooter itch pretty well.

Droigan_sl said:

Same. Steam says I have 210 hours played in that. Can probably subtract a good amount to AFK, but as FPS experiences go (co-op) I can't think of a more enjoyable game in the past years. Like Hatorade mentioned, I have probably played that as long as most other FPS games combined in the past 5 years (as I rarely ever do multiplayer, just the single player (co-op if available)). Most FPS games are 4-8 hour experiences for me, as the single player part of them tends to be very short these days.

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Mine only says 81 hours, but I know it's off by at least 100 hours. When I was deployed in 2012 I spent many many many hours playing BL2 with Steam in offline mode, which doesn't count toward your played time. Probably closer to 200.

bixxby_sl said:

If third person counts Mass Effect 3 MP was sweet as balls

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I also second the Mass Effect trilogy. Except for the ending of 3 the series is awesome and at least 100 hours of play.

I'd have to agree with Borderlands 2 for a campaign style FPS. If you're looking at a team FPS I'm surprised nobody had mentioned Team Fortress 2.

Max Payne 3 took a series about doing slow motion bullettime dives through the air like a motherfucking John Woo movie and turned it into slow motion hiding behind things and popping up to headshot from cover over and over and over and over. It took a steaming shit on the established gameplay. And the editing of the billions of cutscenes were migraine-inducing.

Team Fortress 2 forever.

F.E.A.R. series (yes, I'm going back a little longer than 3-4 years) was incredibly fun in my opinion. Although they did get less and less spooky the further into the series you go (3 is the least jump-scary one, it has co-op though, so /shrug). Still had fun with all three of them though.

And having played all the Max Paynes and Wolfensteins (except the newest Wolfenstein), I enjoyed them all, to each his own.

The Serious Sam and Painkiller games are both worth the pennies-on-the-dollar prices you'll pay for them nowadays.