Has anyone ever won an FPS without dying on their first try?

[Naniyue]

Has this happened for any of you? I can't seem to pull it off, even on the easiest of difficulty settings. I know my skills are average at best, but I would think that after playing umpteen FPS games from the 90's till now I would have at least made it through one.

[Graf Zahl]

Yeah, once. That was some abysmal game named Mortyr. Fortunately I only rented it from a video store. Started playing on Saturday morning and was shocked when I had completed it by late afternoon without dying even once or being challenged even once. It wouldn't have been worth the money, considering how easy it all was.

[Trance]

Halo PC, my first time through, on Easy. You kind of have to make an active effort to die on that difficulty.

[Nevander]

Halo PC, my first time through, on Easy. You kind of have to make an active effort to die on that difficulty.

Or if you get blown up by a rocket launcher Flood or splattered by a vehicle.

[T_Silverwolf]

I don't know that I'd even consider them true FPS any more, but I tend to rock modern military shooters. . . .I just plowed through the modern warfare series and only died on the training mission when I accidentally shot the npc repeatedly-- stupid cat. >_> But never during the actual campaign. Now, Unreal Tournament 2004? Quake? Quake 2? Not so much. >_>

[Ghastly]

Got through Bulletstorm without dying on the first try, but I think something was wrong.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

not that i can remember. maybe the Doom shareware, waaaaay back when i was a kid and played it on the easiest difficulty. the Barons were kinda troublesome, but there's enough secret rockets to blast them to kingdom come. other than that, i've probably had to die at least a few times.

[Matt]

"I wonder if there's anything at the bottom of this cliff"

"I wonder what this explosive does"

"Is that thing a pickup or a projectile?"

"I think this is one of those 'trick' exits"

"Oh shit I'm stuck in the geometry again"

"I distinctly recall clearing this area and it is completely safe"

"I want to go back up to a point near the last autosave, but I don't want to walk all the way back up there or go into the menu"

[smack dab in middle of firefight] "I wanna eat something, brb"

Never.

[SamVision]

MW2 on normal, not so much because it was easy, but because it was really short.

[LkMax]

Maybe if I wasn't stubborn and played every game on hard or harder difficulty.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i don't get that mindset. why would you ever play a brand-new game on the hardest difficulty from the get-go? that can only spell frustration and aggravation in the end.

[kodi]

Because it's possible to derive entertainment from challenge. Personally I don't usually get frustrated, I get hyped and determined.

[LkMax]

Because when the game feels too easy I get bored, and because games (with a few exceptions) used to be a lot harder in the nineties without all the healh regen and the arcade-y mindset of the past. Today I consider "hard" normal, and since most games allow to drop the difficulty I have that option if the game kicks my ass way too much (I rarely change though). Take Rage for example, the hardest difficulty still is a walk in the park, the only thing in Rage that really makes me Rage on Ultra Nightmare are the racing time trials (if you make a curve slightly slow you don't win).

[Caligari87]

In lieu of more nuanced gameplay, I tend to consider "ultra-hard" to be "realistic" for most modern military shooters, so I'll usually go that route for the immersion factor (heavy aversion to risky "videogame" maneuvers for example). Sometimes a game will surprise me and actually be pleasant on higher difficulties; Metro 2033 was one such. I played on "Ranger Hardcore" and it's the most brutal fun I've had in years.

On the other hand, Spec Ops: The Line was one that I should have played on "Ultra-easy" from the get go, and I ended up dropping the difficulty later anyway. The gameplay is a distant second to the story and I think it would have been better to just enjoy that aspect first. It's very much "Nintendo-hard" on the higher difficulties, and the time/frustration really detracted from the story in later parts of the game.

[kodi]

I had real trouble at two spots in SO:TL. One was right after a cutscene where you're standing on a ledge and fight some baddies (well from the perspective of the main character) in a yard, and another was a fight around a downed aircraft agains several of those heavy bomb suit dudes. Was otherwise just right at the hardest difficulty. And a great game too.

Hardest game I've played recently is Shadow Warrior which I got for free in steam a while ago, though I didn't play it at the time. I'm getting absolutely shrekt by normal enemies throwing instakill missiles, and the invisibles and ghosts are even worse. Finally figured out the sword is one of the more powerful and dependable weapons unlike the shotgun and uzi(s)..