Electronic Wireless Show Ep 46 - What are the best shooters?

Let's talk about the shooters we love in particular, following our recent list of the top 50 first-person shooters. Matt loves the backstabbing spy of Team Fortress 2. John adores Dark Forces and immersive sims like Prey. And Brendan has been playing Unreal Gold, which celebrates its 20th birthday this week. Also, we’ve got another patch notes quiz, this time focusing on shooters. Which “Turkey was too powerful”? Listen to find out. Links: Our top 50 FPS games: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/ Doom is the best shooter and definitely not chosen more or less at random: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/51/ Quake is proper good too though: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/48/ Alec loves Transformers: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/18/the-inevitable-failure-of-transformers-games/ “Kieron” is one of the ancient RPS myths that John sometimes tells us about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Gillen Team Fortress 2 is only number 40 tsk tsk: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/12/ Dark Forces is pretty good you know: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/5/ It’s no Devil Daggers though: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/21/best-fps-2018/47/ City of Heroes wasn’t a shooter, get out: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/04/city-of-heroes-a-farewell-to-superarms/ Unreal Gold is free whaaat: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/22/unreal-free-for-20th-birthday/ Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is a game of nope nope nope nope: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/09/wot-i-think-amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/ Ion Maiden is a good old-but-new shooter: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/03/05/ion-maiden-review/ The game John couldn’t remember is Boiling Point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Point:_Road_to_Hell Boiling Point’s patch notes are classics: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/12/18/fixed-size-of-the-moon/ Have you played… Hexen? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/02/hexen-retrospective/ System Shock 2’s controls are willy-nilly, but it does have a “standard FPS” setting Brendan is too stupid to find: https://www.reddit.com/r/SystemShock2/comments/43t3bd/system_shock_2_controls_help/ Half-life on PlayStation 2 had a lock-on mechanic: http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(PlayStation_2_port)#Differences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices