Good FPS games to play while listening to podcasts. Sorta like Destiny.

[Minuano]

I'm looking for some fun games to play while I'm listening to podcasts. Looking mostly for FPS games right now. Stuff that is mostly focused on the shooting. Little to no story, or sneaking, or puzzles. Just something that occupies my hands while my mind is halfway elsewhere.

Stuff like Destiny 2, Doom, Ziggurat, worked great in the past, but I played those, so I'm looking for something new now.

[FPS]

Serious Sam, Painkiller

[Forcen]

This is pretty destiny like but it's third person: https://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/

Great simple and cheap:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/422970/Devil_Daggers/

Not really a shooter but it's real chill and relaxed. UI similar to destiny :P
Might be a bit overpriced but it's good for what it is.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/

Overwatch is a multiplayer game but I listen to loads of podcasts while playing it, It will be free this weekend. Good excuse for trying it if you haven't. https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/free-trial

Good game for trying to finish a map real quickly over and over and over.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/457210

The only good painkiller afaik.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/39530/Painkiller_Black_Edition/

[Minuano]

Originally posted by Forcen:

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First of all, thanks for replying. About the games:

I do love Overwatch, but I feel like I play worse when I'm listening to something else. In PvE that's fine, but Overwatch, outside of certain events, is PvP only, and I feel bad about letting down the other five people on my team.

I tried playing Warframe, I know it's very well-regarded, but it felt really janky to play for me. The best way I can describe it is: it felt like playing the tacked on third-person perspective in an FPS.

Painkiller, I tried getting into it, but it, and some other older shooters, felt a bit too repetitive to me. Like all I was doing was walking backwards and shooting straight forward at the conga line of enemies after me. Maybe I'm just not good enough to get the most out of it.

No Man's Sky I'm really interested in, especially in whatever they did to it post-release. It is indeed a bit too expensive, but if I find in a good sale, yeah, I'll give it a shot.

Devil Daggers looks cool. I'm not sure how much game time I'd get out of it, but for that price it shouldn't be much of a problem.

I played Seum once. No real reason why I stopped playing it. But that was before any DLC, I should go back to it and give it another shot.

[Forcen]

Thanks for the responses! Here is some more context for the games.

Depending on when you tried warframe it might have changed a lot to the better, they recently added an open world field thing to make it a bit more destiny-like.
If you tried it years ago then it looks and plays better in general, the movement is real good but maybe it always was.
The bigger hurdle for me is the progression system and not the gameplay, it can be a bit much.
Still worth reinstalling and checking out. you can always do the same mission over and over and level up your weapons.

Some tips to make painkiller more fun, constantly bunny jump around to move faster and circlestrafe the enemies and blow em up with with all the weapons you get. This is also a good tip for devil daggers, bunny jumping speeds things up.

NMS will get a huge multiplayer co-op patch in july, probably more stuff in general.

About overwatch, quick play is fine to play with podcasts in the background. I sometimes pause it with my mouse hotkey in real heated crucual moments.
If it isn't competitive then it's fine for me, just lower the podcast audio so they don't drown out eachother to much.
If you still feel weary then do some mystery heroes because that mode is made for random stupid team comps with multiple mercys and bastions constantly ressing and boosting eachother and you never get ults.
At that point a podcast is fine! :P

[FMP]

+1 for Serious Sam 1 and 2.