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I miss the freshness of that era of FPS too. The last 16 years has just been military gorefest in some form or another mostly outside of repetitive boring Halo games and the 2 newer Doom games, which are ok for newer fps, but they're instantly forgettable next to the originals.Very interesting points. To me this classic fps are special because they give you the feeling to be one man army. Just blasting through the hords of enemies was great fun back then and is still great fun now. These games are simple and it is just about skills and reflexes. There were also quite interactive for their time with destructable environments or even quite beliable NPCS like in Half Life for exampel. Well the guards and scientists had some problems of course but they still worked quit well compared to horrible AI of Natalia in Goldeneye 64 one year before Half Life came out.
It also can be quite fun to play a modern shooter with rpg elements sometimes. I like the Metro games somehow.
But nothing beats Half Life, the Old Medal of Honor Games, Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3d.
After enjoying many great 2d titles like Doom,Duke Nukem, Hexen 1, Blood and the original Shadow Warrior I loved when Quake 2 came out and changed the game with graphics, soundtrack with actual music rather than midi files and the fast pace action, then Half-Life came out and gave this genre a story driven complex style which instantly became my favorite fps at that time. Even though I don't play any of them anymore all of these fps games still hold up today for me personally in a way that most other retro games don't.
Goldeneye 64 was amazing for its time and it was a multi-player experience during a time when multi-player could be enjoyed at home. I also recommend Turok 1 and 2 for N64 they were great and aged well. They're actually available on Switch and Xbox One I believe. Turok 3 is ok if you can get it cheap, skip all ps2/ps3 Turoks.
Since I don't like RPG titles I can't comment on Metro, but I can suggest S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl and even more so Boiling Point both on PC for rpg-ish FPS games that I thought were good.
Another overhyped modern fps franchise that was garbage worse than Crysis was FEAR. Forgot about that, very disappointing. Another one that I thought was ok for a newer franchise was the Bioshock games, specifically Infinite. Not worth going out of the way to play, but they were fresh for the newer gens in a world of Battlefield Halo and CoD.
I pretty much liked all of the fps back then to some degree or another but ny favorite FPS games of the pre-2005 era would be: Half-Life, Quake 2, Doom 2, Blood, Shadow Warrior original, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life 2, Goldeneye 64, Hexen 1, Turok 1, Turok 2, No One Lives Forever, Far Cry 1. I'd recommend any and all of those. For 2005 and newer I don't really love any fps so far, but I'd probably have to say the only ones that stand out truly are Far Cry 3, Far Cry 5, Far Cry Primal and 6 looks good too. 4 and New Dawn are ok too, FC 2 is the only one I didn't like at all.
For 2D I'd highly recommend playing Hexen 1, Blood and Shadow Warrior from the 1990s(much better than the remakes) if you haven't already, they're great and on par with Doom 2 and Duke Nukem 3D. Another two that are really good as well in 3D is No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 and SiN. SiN was highly underrated.