Who here can proficiently play FPSs?

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I don't play multiplayer FPS, I just find that boring, but I play all kinds of single player FPS campaigns and never have problems with controls.

I've always thought I was pretty good at FPS games. I'm familiar with a wide range from the 1995-2005 period (not caught up with the last decade), stuff like Doom, Medal Of Honor, CoD, Red Faction, Half Life, Halo etc. I generally play them on the higher difficulty settings, and take 30-60 hours to complete them.

What really bugs me is that many reviewers on sites like Gamefaqs constantly claim that these sorts of games take around 10 hours to complete. Are they talking rubbish, or am I really not very good at all at them?

It really, really depends on which games you're playing, and how you're going about them.

Many modern FPS games, which is probably what those on GameFAQs are talking about, tend to have very short campaigns, focusing almost entirely on multiplayer. So finishing those quickly is common, particularly if the player in question is playing on a low difficulty (and the default is often low). Or so I'm told, anyway. "Modern" meaning very recent. Some people look at games from 2005 as being retro nowadays, actually, since you mention that year.

As for older games, it depends more on playstyle. Doom for instance can be completed pretty darn fast, if you're just rushing through. But if you like to explore, find and/or kill everything in the level and locate secrets, or if your approach to combat is a bit more of the "careful" style, it'll take longer. Or even a mix of styles... I like to explore and try to do every little thing in that series, but my approach to combat is to just charge directly at everything ASAP. Kinda breaks even, really.

I used to have the same thing but mostly when it was in a cut seen where you can't move in C.o.D

I eventually got over it and I have over 600 hours on World at War on steam. Other games I play are: Heroes and Generals, Red Crucible Firestorm, Combat Arms, and Insurgency. those are just my fps games

Well, for instance look at Half-Life versus Blue Shift. I know it's just a mission pack (and if you put HL into steam, you get most of them for free), but I'd be surprised if it took me more than 4 or 5 hours to beat it.

Or look at Portal =) Just the main story mode, I'm not counting the challenge levels (or whatever they were).

I use to play COD online back in the day, I did pretty average when I tried. My stats probably weren't great but I didn't care or play for them.

I use to be God in doom up to call of duty 1-2 but that stopped at halo 3 and when I hung up the multiplayer Gloves. Nowadays i am just barely better then bots and thus stick to single player fps but yeah ones like battlefield or modern cod games, I can barely get through on easy.

I'm actually great at them. They are by far my favorite type of game to play. But I typically only play single player. You kind of have to adopt a different playing style for multiplayer. Besides the story and pacing are critical to my enjoyment. I know some people complain about corridor shooters but I love them.

^ I love shooting baddies in FPS games as well, whether in corridors or out in the open. I often get annoyed when a FPS game interrupts the action too frequently with jumping and platforming elements, or puzzles. The Half Life games come to mind here.

I do like single-player campaigns, dont play mutliplayer for anything. Was a Borderlands2 junkie for like almost 2 years.