Your favourite First person shooter this year

BlueMak

When people keep buying something that is high priced, IT IS NOT going to be a smart, logical move to lower the price. When there is high demand and only one source of the product, there is no way in hell they will lower the price.

I have heard about the dvd/cd backup you can do with steam. My question is, can you do that, then format the drive, buy a new pc etc, then install the game and play single player game without connecting to the internet? Without telling the mighty brother that you have installed the game and want to play single player? The answer as far as I know is NO. Anyway we are going in circles here. My original reply to your message (kalx) was just because I felt offended by the "only pirates don't want steam" type of attitude. Let's end this.

Gizmo[5h1t3]

im sure the original thread was "Your favourite First person shooter this year"

didnt think that price would come into it to be honest.

if i want to play a game enuff, and the difference in price was as small as it is between the top 3 or 4....it wouldnt matter.....

after all...it the game that counts in this thread, not the price.
just cant understand how these threads always degenerate into arguments, and drift off topic.

Vehicon

HL2 baby!! Farcry was kewl too but HL2 has more spice!

Mr. D

Half-Life 2 > Far Cry > Doom 3

mwalker52

I love having pet Lion Ants. HL2 is great! Good Job Valve!

REGENERAT1ON

HL2 4 ever

mtjz33

If i can,i vote all 5 games.Sorry my ENG.

Dyre Straits

I still haven't finished HL2, but I've made it quite a ways into the game. (Alyx and I have just arrived after spending a week in the transporter.)

Based on what I've experienced so far, FAR CRY would rate slightly above HL2 for a couple of reasons:

1. FAR CRY is just so much better in the way you can go just about anywhere on the map without boundaries. There are so many ways you can complete the objective and not be confined to some linear approach.

2. FAR CRY doesn't require all the restrictions of STEAM just to be able to play it....PERIOD! Had I known beforehand the trouble I'd have with STEAM, I'd likely have waited quite some time before buying HL2. That said, I'm kind of glad I didn't wait because the game is really, really GOOD! I've enjoyed it along with the few frustrating parts, but, mostly it's been a lot of fun.

Chubby_C

I am voting for HL2, it was between that and FarCry for me, granted I didn't play D3, but I've seen a few people play and it and wasn't impressed. HL2 just grabbed my attention more.

makih

Doom3 had nice engine, farcry too, but HL2 had imo best story and I liked the first hl back then. So hl2 was my n.1 before the release.

ronnn

I am having a hard time deciding between far cry and half life 2. They are both great games. Doom 3 is another story (or lack there of).

TJ-

far cry all the way

squall Leonhart

Doom3

awesome visual at medium quality

just wait till we get cards that are really capable of ultra

EDERPOTTER

i voted half life 2 the graphics r incredible the water in the game looks just perfect but they forgot painkiller...

Shadow Lady

seems like MOH no one liked, well, i never liked MOH in the first place anyway

StuBee

short and sweet, HL2 for me

squall Leonhart

play em all and love em all

love all the games you play.. it makes it more fun that way... no im not gay..... i made a rhyme yay

hey..... (WTF)

CDsDontBurn

if this same question were to be asked 6 months from now, i bet it would be a little more evened out between all the games, simply because people would have already finished playing all the games by then.

squall Leonhart

hahahahhaa

not me... i don't get games that often

Pluvious

These polls should be swapped out every 1-2 weeks.

studbagel9

Gotta give it to HL2. Farcry was probably second this year, I found that game really difficult though on medium and hard settings. Like, impossibly hard. For the record, my all-time favorites: Deus Ex, System Shock 2

Enyan

I'm voting HL2 for the great AI, graphics and gameplay
Farcry gets my second vote... love that game too

zerodamage

wow. your loss.

Yard Waste

I loved FarCry and Hl2. I gave my vote to FRYCRY because the SP game was longer (by a big magin)-more bang for my bucks. If HL2 was cheaper it would have won here. But it was too expensive for such a short game. Too many loads for HL2 which slowed the flow. FarCry came with MP instead aof relying on CS for its MP play. And the FARCRY doesn't use STEAM.

HL 2 will win, because of the hype and the fans though.

Gaijin

Gave my vote for Far Cry as it was a superb game with great gfx, ai and environment when it came out... Also it provided more bang for the buck than HL2 which was a too short and felt more like a technology demo through out the game. Doom3 was good fun also and gets 3rd place behind HL2, and Painkiller which aint on the list gets 4th place for being the best no-brainer "if it moves, kill it" game of the year.

Zardon

You make some good points actually.

jasonbourne

i haven't finished hl2 yet but at least for me doom 3 is the best first person shooter game ever !!

Wells

hl2 hands down by far the best