I hope you're refering to Alien and Predator films, not alien vs predator films
I did feel bad about shooting all those animals for upgrades.
It's returning....Oh! Descent! Good point @Thaurin! That countdown to escape each level was awesome.
System Shock, to me, took the genre in a different direction - and it was SO right for me that I could just never get back to pure shooting and love it.
I know what you're saying here. Half-Life was sort of that for me waaay back in the day, as it had some interesting elements I hadn't seen in shooters until that point (the scripted "cutscenes", etc..) Goldeneye, too, as you had actual missions, exploration with things to search for and find in the level, optional objectives, etc..
Looks like I really need to play System Shock soon. Never played that one.
Cool, thanks. I think I'll try System Shock 2 sometime. That one seems to have some RPG elements and the like, might be more my thing.
You haven't played SS2?!?!?!?
That's like saying you've never played a PB game.
SS2 has aged much better, especially if you add a few visual mods.
In terms of gameplay, SS2 is superior. But in terms of contextual innovation and, in my opinion, open-ended level design - SS is much better.
I also think the story is better in SS - but SS2 has a more cinematic presentation of the narrative, so…
Hmm in the last years, fpshooters bored me almost always, dont know what happened, prior to lets say 2011-2012 use to play every fps that came out, now only rpgs excite me. Anyway i guess stalker games are on top for me although they are not pure fps, return to castle wolfenstein is definitely there and from the old days, i'd say hexen, that game crept me out when i was a kid. In the last years, borderlands series and metro 20xx games, dont remember anything else that kept me stuck to the pc, might forgot something…..