Doom Eternal is one of the best I have ever played. Outer Worlds is great if you are a Fallout style game fan, and Destiny 2 kept me occupied for hours.
I'm assuming you're looking for emphasis on shooters, so I'm excluding games like Fallout, which are heavily RPG.
All the Metro games are fantastic. Not too long, interesting setting, and fun gameplay.
Far Cry is probably my favourite, specifically Far Cry 5 but really all except the first one (New Dawn is super RPGy and 6 is a fair bit, too). Some of its games get a bit more RPG heavy, but 5 and earlier are more heavily shooters in open world sandboxes. Despite that, some of them have really great character driven stories. The villains are always the highlight in this series.
It's hard to beat the classic Half Life 2.
While it's outshined by a lot of more modern FPS games, it's still one of the most beautiful and fleshed out videogames in history.
There's something about crude graphics that appeals to you, alright, I get that.
The fancy graphics today is very uneccassary for quality gameplay, but I also can't play 90's games anymore due to the pixelation.
I wish id Software would do a full 1 for 1 remake of the original Doom and sell for $20. No changes, nothing added or removed, keep all of the same measurements and dimensions of every area, every room, identical colours, same game functionalities, but in a new game engine with 4K textures.
I wonder if that would wreck it or be an instant success.
Just started playing Trepang2 and so far it’s really cool. It’s a retro game, but aiming at the early 2000’s games like FEAR instead of old raycasting games. It’s a lot of fun so far, though i’ve only finished the first “real” mission, plus a side mission. store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/?snr=1_5_9__20…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anamoly is free and a great single player fps with a great vibe to it. Doesn’t quite fit your criteria though as I wouldn’t say there is much of a campaign. Very interesting dynamic world and AI system though.
Edit. Highly recommend the GAMMA version. Get installation files @ their discord.
Prodeus is such a trip, I think the first playthrough of that map where you navigate down with a boss behind glass and into the arena full of blue imps was absolute boomer shooter nirvana
Easy to forget as it's difficult to get it in... prime condition for PC, but Metroid: Prime is my favorite.
Starts off like any game should - cool dramatic overview of your character and then immediate control. Shooting got better on the wii and enhanced to perfection with PC mods!
In a weird way, it's like a more chill Doom.
... Morph ball doesn't count as third-person, does it? :)
I am hugely into the 2D Metroid games and bought the new Metroid Prime remake on switch and I just could not get into it.
I played it for about half an hour and then died, and there were no save points along the way anywhere, so I'm forced to restart a game I didn't enjoy from scratch knowing I need to last even longer than that in my next playthrough before I can just save the game.
I really want to like it but my god this game is asking a lot
That’s a shame. What do you think you’re struggling with in Prime? Do you play a lot of FPS games?
I recognize that losing 30 minutes of progress is frustrating, but generally when the game is exciting it drags you back in regardless so I’m curious what was missing from your perspective to give it that spark especially as a Metroid fan.
I do play FPS games, but not on controller. Beyond that I can’t really say - there was nothing that grabbed me in 30 minutes of playtime, and every other metroid game had at least something interesting at the beginning with some intrigue. With Prime, it seemed like the Interesting Thing were the mechanics themselves, which, on their own, didn’t do it for me.
It gets a lot better once you’re on the planet. Great atmosphere while exploring alien ruins, expected metroid-style exploration. Multiple save-points lol!
The space station doesn’t do the mechanics justice, but I’m also going to add I don’t imagine they’ll ever blow you away especially if you’ve been exposed to a lot of FPS games. But I do think you’d have a good time down there. It spawned a trilogy for a reason!
Also if you hadn’t and do go back, try using the pointer controls. The ability to actually aim with your joycon adds convenience and immersion. :) and maybe one of the other options would click with you.
I played through Prey again recently and it holds up incredibly well. It's like a more polished Dishonored imo. Your story choices had more impact, the abilities feel smoother, and lots of really funny moments and character interactions.
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