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Post by neutral on Jul 4, 2003 10:07:55 GMT -5
MMOs, FPSs, RTSs - I love 'em all. Was wondering what games everyone played online - not just the flashy ones, but text-based, browser-based, anything really!
Currently playing:
Delta Force (5): Blackhawk Down - I've always been a FPS addict, and after two abysmal games in the Delta Force series they're back on track with this semi-movie conversion. Think multiplayer with 50 people in various towns spanning a several kms. Great squad play (ours took 1st in Euro league, woohoo!).
If you're looking for something to play on a low spec box, give Delta Force 1 or 2 a go. They're better than 3 and 4, and great fun online (even on a 56k).
America's Army: Operations - Free! Need I say more? Fine, it's more of a thinking mans shooter, especially if you play in a regular squad. You don't respawn when you die - you have to wait 'til the next game, so people are cautious and carefull (lots of leaning, smoke nades, flash bangs and tactics).
Nukezone - Free! Online browser-based game in which you build up your province and attack others. Think a BBS door - style version of any westwood rts game.
I don't play any old BBS games anymore, although used to play LOTRD online simply for the nostalgia of it.
I also really enjoy beta-testing MMORPGs, having done so for Shadowbane, DAoC, and Rubies of Eventide (but not Star Wars galaxies, alas). It's good fun if you want to see a game develope, and have your say in how it does so. Also, its free! (A key selling point for me)
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Post by PoolMan on Jul 4, 2003 11:36:29 GMT -5
Don't play an awful lot online... like I'm always griping, I don't actually have enough time to play games a lot anymore, so online multi is a rare thing for me.
However, I will always try and put aside time for Jedi Outcast. Yeah yeah, Star Wars nerd ahoy. But it's a fantastic game that's what, two years old, and I still play it all the freaking time? I just love the fact that they made the lightsaber useful, and that close combat is an actual option.
I've taken to Command & Conquer with Madler lately, although I'm still learning the ropes, so he schools me quite regularly.
I'm still unsold on the whole MMO thing. I've been interested in Star Wars Galaxies, but only for the license, I can't stand the thought of being in a treadmill game.
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Post by BDC on Jul 4, 2003 12:42:48 GMT -5
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Post by Al on Jul 4, 2003 14:51:41 GMT -5
Alas, my broadband is gone, and with it went my online gaming. I too played Jedi Outcast into the wee small hours, my college had a sizable community of C&C Generals fans and we played over the LAN all last semester. Also, when we finally get our DSL line back at home, I'm picking up SWG posthaste. I've waited for four years, and by gum, I *will* play that game!
Al
-wants to be a Twi-lek Jedi NOW!
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xION
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Post by xION on Jul 4, 2003 20:58:51 GMT -5
Ultima Online is always refreshing, especially if you don't have to pay to play. www.uo.jolt.co.uk/ is the shard I frequent. I also play Warcraft 3 and Diablo 1 on occasion o: |
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Post by DarthToad on Jul 5, 2003 1:15:20 GMT -5
NWN: Shadows of Undrentide is a big choice for me, because I'm an RPG lover, and my friend is making a really good mod for it. Great game I tell you, great game. I still go on IRC sometimes to play RPGs. They're cool people and it's text based.  I used to play Age of Empires: RoR a long time ago, now THAT was a fun game. I also played NationStates and Planetarion for a bit, but I didn't like them much after a while, so I gave up. But then there was Runescape. Don't even let me get started on that. If you want to meet a group of Nazis online, go to Runescape, or should I rename it "Naziscape", because everyone on there is either a Nazi or really annoying. Well, almost everyone. So take my advice, you must. Go into Runescape, you shouldn't, unless meet Nazis, you must. Talk like Yoda, I do. Hehe! |
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ThePickleMan
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Post by ThePickleMan on Jul 5, 2003 1:35:09 GMT -5
Priston Tale-Free MMORPG. It has okay graphics and good gameplay. It gets pretty repetitive, but if you have a group of friends that play it, you wont get that bored.
Dark Age of Camelot-An MMORPG, it's almost a copy of Everquest. It's graphics are much better then Everquest, and the gameplay is just as good, if not better.The only bad part, is it costs 24$ a month.
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Post by Al on Jul 5, 2003 12:31:47 GMT -5
I also played NationStates and Planetarion for a bit, but I didn't like them much after a while, so I gave up. I forgot about Nationstates. My friends and I had our own little slice of the earth for a month or two. It was neat, but the same exact questions kept reappearing. I think I may have even gotten into it from a link off of one of you guys... After Nationstates I started playing a different nation-type game whose name escapes me. It was a free text-based game where you were the lord of a medieval province and you had to micromanage the hell out of your region while trying not to get completely destroyed by, well, everyone else (who were other people playing online). It was a lot like the old BBSes. Speaking of BBSes, I was also a longtime fan of LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon). It was simple enough to simply pick up and enjoy, plus it had hundreds of add-ons that made it interesting enough to keep going back to. Al ~meeeeeemoriiiiiiiies.... |
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Post by Head Mutant on Jul 6, 2003 15:46:16 GMT -5
I was excited to get broadband for neverwinter nights, which didn't end up being as fun of a game as I thought it would (and should) be. I do play the occasional Battlefield 1942, and I'm not half bad.
I keep holding out for a MMORPG that will do me justice. Right now, the cons just outweigh the pros, but I'm dying to get into one of those and have fun with it. There's a slew of them coming down the line, and a couple look very impressive... at least a lot of these companies are learning from previous MMORPG mistakes. And making new ones, of course.
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Post by dajaymann on Jul 7, 2003 10:23:12 GMT -5
About a year ago, when I was working at a different office, I was by myself, and REALLYREALLYREALLY bored, I played Runescape at work. Simply because it's low-fi (I had a dial-up at work) and free. And totally filled with Jackasses. Playing this game requires you to have great faith in humanity, and to recognize that even though there are maybe 5 cool people in a server with 1272 playing, that it isn't representative of our civilization at large. But since I have a dial-up at home I don't have the power to play much of anything over the internet, though I haven't tried much thanks to the joys of married life and pregnancy. Has anyone tried Jedi outcast on a 56 k? And is it bearable? I just got Diablo 2, and I'm thinking about trying that out online, though.
-Jay-
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Post by PoolMan on Jul 7, 2003 12:03:43 GMT -5
Diablo you could probably get away with on a 56k line. Wouldn't be too big a deal.
Jedi Outcast... hmm... I play on cable, and even that occasionally stutters. That may be the fact that I crank the graphics up like a knob, too, but I don't think so. I know people DO play it on a 56k modem. I'd recommend trying, it's still a great game single player, and the multi may come through for you. And it's a couple years old at this point, with a sequel on the way, so the price should have come down by this point, or you should be able to find a used copy at an EB or something.
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Post by Al on Jul 7, 2003 19:26:32 GMT -5
It would probably run, but my experience has been that whenever someone with a 56k connection logs in, it lags like there's no tomorrow and makes lots of people quite irratiable. So just prepare yourself for a few flames.
Al
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Post by dajaymann on Jul 8, 2003 11:19:34 GMT -5
It would probably run, but my experience has been that whenever someone with a 56k connection logs in, it lags like there's no tomorrow and makes lots of people quite irratiable. So just prepare yourself for a few flames. Al Which is exactly why I wouldn't want to expose anyone to the horrors of my relatively lo-end PC and 56k. I got Jedi Outcast right after it came out (a year ago), and had to dumb down the graphics quite a bit so that it would run well. But hey, the lightsaber battles are still quite spectacular (especially when you parry then force push someone off a ledge, that rocks), and it runs smooth, so it's all good! Diablo 2 runs really well on my computer, so I'll probably try that instead. -Jay- |
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Post by PoolMan on Jul 8, 2003 18:33:47 GMT -5
There are hand to hand moves that are light years ahead of anything else in Outcast, and I agree, it's very satisfying. I personally like when you get to that point in the game where a dozen stormtroopers are no longer a threat, and you can just toy with them.
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jamus34
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Post by jamus34 on Jul 9, 2003 7:44:20 GMT -5
Eh, I have issues with MMO games, namely that they charge you $50 some dollars to but the game, and then you get charged a monthly fee on top of that...
Besides the fact I'm up to my nosehairs in home improvement projects I just don't have the time to make that type of commitment worth my while.
Eh, maybe someday, but for the most part I'm happy with smaller team based online play (Half-life's mods, DII, and on occasion I still play Total Anihhilation with a couple of close friends).
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