Attention fans of First Person Melee Combat, let's make a (new) list

[Isundir Edelhert]

A list of First Person Melee Combat games.
To qualify for the list a game must be intended to be played in First Person with Melee Weaponry, games were First Person Melee is possible but not intended/optimal are listed under honorable mentions.



Games with good First Person Melee combat,
I've now re-arranged the list to be somewhat in order of best to worst:

- Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

- Dying Light
(Gods give us Hellraid!)

- Zenoclash series

- Condemned series

- Shadow Warrior (2013)

- Dead Island series

- Kingdom Come: Deliverance

- Dishonored series

- The Elder Scrolls series

- Fallout series (from 3 and onwards)



Multiplayer:

- Vermintide franchise

- Age of Chivalry

- Chivalry Medieval Warfare



Honorable mentions (First Person Melee possible but not as well fleshed out or satisfying to use):
- Mount & Blade and spin-offs
- Gothic 3
- Thief 1/2
- System Shock 1/2
- Might and Magic Franchise
- Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
- Postal 2
- Arx Fatalis (use Arx Libertatis)
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
(Highly recommended to use 'Wrath of Cronos' and 'Bolognese' mods!)

[filozof]

I also think KC:D has much better combat than this game

[Heresy]

Risen is 3rd person. This list makes me realise how few games there are in this niche genre.

[StickyFingazFo20]

severance and die by the sword

[Traitone]

The Chronicles of Riddick, pretty nice combat, you can use A, D, S, W for different attacks.

[dorkenstein]

Elderborn

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Is that the mod I'm supposed to use for Arx Fatalis to bring it up to snuff? I tried just other day and it was just too old and clumsy.

Mount and blade is best most rewarding combat. None of the other games you listed even have directional block, parry, feint etc etc etc. Bro it not even close lmao you'd know if you were good.

[SilverSet]

The only games that are simular to DM are Arx Fatalis, Dishonored and I would also count Fallen Aces. Though they are still quite different.
Ironically, even Thief I - II had some melee combat depth, still not really viable.

[Heresy]

Автор сообщения: SilverSet

The only games that are simular to DM are Arx Fatalis, Dishonored and I would also count Fallen Aces. Though they are still quite different.
Ironically, even Thief I - II had some melee combat depth, still not really viable.

Check out Trepang2, its a homage to fear but its amazing and has kick. But its a shooter rather than melee.

[SilverSet]

Автор сообщения: Heresy

Check out Trepang2, its a homage to fear but its amazing and has kick. But its a shooter rather than melee.

See, the issue with this thread and with threads alike is that everyone thinks differently about the gameplay of Dark Messiah. Sure, Trepang2 has a kick mechanic, what else though? I'm not saying that game is bad, but as you said, it's a shooter, meaning there probably won't be many melee interactions, which is a #1 thing people remember DM for.

Furthermore, lack of physics-based magic system or tight level design with systems and mechanics that all work together don't make up for the Dark Messiah-like experience either.
There might be some of those things, but they probably won't end up being as good as Dark Messiah. I could say that Bioshock fits more into "Dark Messiah, but shooter" category.

Even the games I suggested deviate a lot from the DM formula, yet with my experience I can guarantee that these are the most simular gameplay loops you can get as of now.

[Heresy]

Автор сообщения: SilverSet

Автор сообщения: Heresy

Check out Trepang2, its a homage to fear but its amazing and has kick. But its a shooter rather than melee.

See, the issue with this thread and with threads alike is that everyone thinks differently about the gameplay of Dark Messiah. Sure, Trepang2 has a kick mechanic, what else though? I'm not saying that game is bad, but as you said, it's a shooter, meaning there probably won't be many melee interactions, which is a #1 thing people remember DM for.

Furthermore, lack of physics-based magic system or tight level design with systems and mechanics that all work together don't make up for the Dark Messiah-like experience either.
There might be some of those things, but they probably won't end up being as good as Dark Messiah. I could say that Bioshock fits more into "Dark Messiah, but shooter" category.

Even the games I suggested deviate a lot from the DM formula, yet with my experience I can guarantee that these are the most simular gameplay loops you can get as of now.

Yeah Dark Messiah is one of my favourite games. I actually got it as a kid when it came out and had a hard copy of it. I would tell everyone about it but no one ever played it or cared. It still holds up very well.

That is all correct but the physics and rag doll bodies after dying specifically remind me of Dark Messiah when playing Trepang2. I really liked the first Fear. Trepang is almost better. It offers a similar immersive fps experience at least just like DM.