What was the best FPS game/series from the 90s?

Where's Blood?

HL>blood>doom

Half Life

When I was a child, we went to buy our first PC with my father. There was Doom II on the screens in the store. So when we'd bought the PC, Doom II was the first game I played on it. It wasn't the first PC game I played, but it was the first on our own computer.
Later I played the likes of Duke Nukem, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, Redneck Rampage and Half-Life, but Doom II will forever be my favorite FPS of that era.
p.s. Sorry for my English.

I was a tiny kid back in the early 90s, but Wolfenstein 3D and first DOOM still scares me to this day.

If there isn't Half-Life there, I would vote for Quake. All other options are similar in a way (GoldenEye is closer to Half-Life though) but Half-Life is 4 universes ahead of the others.

I played through Unreal Gold and felt unreal for two weeks after finishing.

I don't think it's fair to put these all in the same category. Half-life came out so much later than Doom, and both are dramatically different while being equally historically important. Same with Goldeneye 007, which revolutionized fps games on consoles.

I think a lot of people voting on Unreal, mistake it for Unreal Tournament. Those are two games, one heavily outclassed by every game on the list, the other while released in 1999, along with Quake 3 belong in the next era.

Vote for Doom, half life and quake are also greats in gaming history, but Doom was the first to BIG hit the scene!

They all have their different strengths and some of them are pioneers of the genre (if not much else really).

All in all, Unreal stands tall above all.

This is a hard one to vote. Why is there no "all of the above" option? :D

Half Life #1?

I can understand Doom getting in front of Duke Nukem (Hail to the King, Baby!), i could´ve even grasped Unreal getting some fame ... but HL? People really do like getting tunneled into a story it seems :E

A tremendous shooter does´nt need a great story imho, i´m perfectly fine with "aliens bad, need more ded aliens" as long as the gameplay fucking rules!!! =)

Slightly biased 14 year old me talking. The day when Duke3d AND Crusader No Remorse arrived in the same package was only surpassed by a slightly unhealthy 9 hours "oh my god it´s C&C!!!" stint.

I genuinely cannot understand anyone voting for HL, gameplay wise it was major stepback compared to games before, and just a couple of years later you had games that took some ideas from it that were far superior to it. It's one of most overrated games of all time, if not the most overrated.

Goldeneye being there is a bit questionable, but where is Blood?

I mean, if you consider multiplayer then GoldenEye 007 is the clear winner. I can't even estimate the hours that my buddies and I played that game sitting on the couch swapping controllers around in 4 player matches back in the day. If you just talk about single player the I'd go with Half-Life. (Still waiting for Episode 3 - at the moment I had heard they'd move on with episodes instead of full releases I know they wouldn't finish what they'd start.)

I played all those mentioned games, but only HL when it was released on my own PC, and i was blown away when i started it. Doom and Duke Nukem were fun, but didn't click as HL for me. As for Quake and Unreal i tried them later in 2000s while playing with friends LAN, but somehow everyone always wanted to play Counter Strike so i switched to it too and playing it for 20+ years already ¯\(ツ)/¯

This is from my generation, and I have played them all.

Nothing "fixed" the FPS genre for me more than dumping the mazes with "find the key to open door" gameplay. Half-Life changed all of that.

I remember 1 game. Rampage. How the three of us played on 1 PC. It was the best time

Unreal Tournament 99 FTW!

Oh yeah, I remember installing Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom from floppy disk, and playing Doom with friends over the old phone line. Those were the days when you didn't shop around for the best deal on some video card, instead you were scraping every cent together to try and afford that new 14.4 or 28.8 modem. Good times :D

Half Life revolutionized the FPS genre, so obviously my vote goes for it.

is there a way to hide the poll? it's big as fuck in the middle of the page. or at least put it to the side or the bottom.

Did not play GoldenEye (or does not remember :) ). I would choose between Unreal, Duke Nukem and Half Life because of great story (I voted for DN only because I think this was first game from these 3 I mentioned :) ). But all games in poll was great and I think Half-Life will win and it probably should as it added great story to the genre:).

Redneck Rampage!)

My first thought was Descent and Descent 2. Those were really well received in their day but they've more or less faded into obscurity for whatever reason.