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The best shooters of all time
Before we knew what to name them, we called them “Doom clones.” id Software’s seminal work sparked a phenomenon when it began to circulate as shareware 20 years ago, and since then shooters have propagated through mods, experimentation, LAN parties, co-op, eSports, and big-budget masterpieces. Guns and enemies are their bread and butter, but we don’t think of our favorite shooters as outlets for simulated violence. We celebrate the way they test our minds and mouse reflexes, the personal stories they generate, the captivating worlds they’ve founded, and the social spaces they provide for lighthearted bonding or hardcore competition.
Our Criteria
Whenever we sit down to make ourselves feel important by ranking games, our first step is settling on what the heck “best” means. In this case, we’re mostly concerned with identifying which shooters are fun now, today, MMXII anno domini. Games—3D games especially—age. They’re products of the technology they were built on, and sanctifying Starsiege: Tribes over its modern successor Tribes: Ascend, for example, doesn’t help us help you figure out what games to play.
We value that more than the historical significance of a game, and doing so helps us build a list that recommends what’s great today rather than publishing a popularity contest. But we don’t ignore a game’s impact completely—innovation and influence just has a lesser weight under our criteria.
We’re also laser-focused on the things that make a shooter a shooter. We consider Fallout: New Vegas, System Shock 2, and Deus Ex to be must-play experiences, but do we celebrate them because they’re great shooters, or because they’re excellent story-driven games that happen to feature guns? Drawing these kinds of lines helps us provide a better service to you, we hope.
Source:
http://www.pcgamer.com/gallery/the-best-shooters-of-all-time/
*Now my opinion*
I think they have a bunch of these in the wrong ranks but what is TPU's opinion?
Before we knew what to name them, we called them “Doom clones.” id Software’s seminal work sparked a phenomenon when it began to circulate as shareware 20 years ago, and since then shooters have propagated through mods, experimentation, LAN parties, co-op, eSports, and big-budget masterpieces. Guns and enemies are their bread and butter, but we don’t think of our favorite shooters as outlets for simulated violence. We celebrate the way they test our minds and mouse reflexes, the personal stories they generate, the captivating worlds they’ve founded, and the social spaces they provide for lighthearted bonding or hardcore competition.
Our Criteria
Whenever we sit down to make ourselves feel important by ranking games, our first step is settling on what the heck “best” means. In this case, we’re mostly concerned with identifying which shooters are fun now, today, MMXII anno domini. Games—3D games especially—age. They’re products of the technology they were built on, and sanctifying Starsiege: Tribes over its modern successor Tribes: Ascend, for example, doesn’t help us help you figure out what games to play.
We value that more than the historical significance of a game, and doing so helps us build a list that recommends what’s great today rather than publishing a popularity contest. But we don’t ignore a game’s impact completely—innovation and influence just has a lesser weight under our criteria.
We’re also laser-focused on the things that make a shooter a shooter. We consider Fallout: New Vegas, System Shock 2, and Deus Ex to be must-play experiences, but do we celebrate them because they’re great shooters, or because they’re excellent story-driven games that happen to feature guns? Drawing these kinds of lines helps us provide a better service to you, we hope.
Source:
http://www.pcgamer.com/gallery/the-best-shooters-of-all-time/
*Now my opinion*
I think they have a bunch of these in the wrong ranks but what is TPU's opinion?
