june gloom on 7/2/2009 at 09:00
What it sounds like. List the multiplayer games you enjoy or once enjoyed playing.
Here's a few of mine:
Still play
Day of Defeat Source Well, sometimes. It's slowly going to shit again, though, and will eventually slide back into the "no longer play" list.
Zombie Panic Source I play this fairly regularly. If you're looking for something with a slower pace than L4D this might be up your alley. The zombies are all player-controlled. Some of the custom maps are quite awful, though- anyone who suggests lila_billy should be murdered. Requires HL2.
Team Fortress 2 Gets rid of just about everything I hated about TFC.
DEFCON If I'm lucky I can find someone willing to play this with me. I won't play against anyone I don't know- it's not as fun.
Used to play
Counterstrike Source/Condition Zero Just fucking sick of it now.
Day of Defeat 1.3 Has a lot of stuff that I wish was in DoDS; but the playerbase is fucking retarded and consists entirely of all the BF1942 kids who got banned.
Red Orchestra Everyone who got banned from DoD 1.3 plays this.
Insurgency It'd be nice if the fucking thing would actually let me join a game, but the shitty GUI keeps triggering some error.
Muzman on 7/2/2009 at 09:16
Apart from the usual suspects (although not Counterstrike) I only really used to play
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Quake_2) Action Quake 2 a great deal, back in the day. Tiptoeing around in that inspired me to find other tiptoeing games, and here we are.
The mechanics were great, suiting many different styles of play. I've never really understood why Counterstrike was the big breakout hit and not this. It's a lot more ...elegant (mostly I'd guess timing as much as anything. Half-Life was just coming to the fore as playable online and mod-able while the fashion for squad shooters was really kicking off).
I've always had vaguelly fond memories of
Weapons Factory for Quake 2 as well. One of many TF knockoffs, but was pleasingly batshit insane with more goofy weapons than you knew what to do with. This aspect wears off once people practice and use tactics and things but oh well.
entertainer on 7/2/2009 at 09:45
Red Orchestra(though those 5$ discounts brought so many idiots, that now it's only worth playing on very few servers), PR mod for Bf2 and ArmA.
Aerothorn on 8/2/2009 at 00:03
Currently Play:
NOTHING! Sigh. I'd play Eternal Silence if the servers were ever populated...
Used to Play:
Aliens vs. Predator 2: Really underrated multiplayer. Lots of fun, and the race seperation gave it a real tight-knit team element. Also, for some reason, AVP2 players were nicer and more mature than the player of any other online game I've ever played. I still don't know why.
"Alien Life Cycle" mode is unbalanced but incredibly fun.
Tribes 2: - Loved it.
BF 1942 - Replaced T2 and still my favorite multiplayer game. I particularly like Midway.
Firearms (for Half Life) - the only online game other than Bf 1942 that I've every rocked at.
Malf on 8/2/2009 at 01:21
Quake got me into Deathmatch, and Quake 3 refined that. I played a lot of Quake 3 Fortress as well.
Then I got serious about Return to Castle Wolfenstein and ran a clan for a while. I tend to grade all multiplayer games, and particularly team-based ones, by my experiences with RtCW. I still don't think its objective based gameplay has been matched, even by the Enemy Territory "sequels" created by Splash Damage.
Then I got hooked on Guild Wars betas, and for a long time, multiplayer for me meant Guild Wars. I dabbled with WoW for about 3 months, but came away feeling offended by the cheap timesink style gameplay. I've never gone back.
Recently, I got hooked on TF2, but got fed up with the Steam forums driving class balancing, so now it's all about Left 4 Dead.
Those are the internet multiplayer games that have influenced me the most.
Oh, and I went through a stage of playing FEAR online too, mostly because it was hilarious to be accused of hacking while running around one-shotting people with melee combat.
In FEAR multiplayer (which, by the way, is (
http://projectorigin.warnerbros.com/fearcombat/main) free), if you holster your weapons and go for hand-to-hand combat, you move faster than players holding guns. The one-shot melee is just the icing on the cake :D
june gloom on 8/2/2009 at 01:37
I still enjoy TF2 a lot. I'm not bothered by the class balancing thing- the new weapons don't terribly unbalance the game and the occasional tweaks such as Nastasha getting buffed are quite welcome. The only real problem I have with TF2 are the dumb clan fags like eGO who scream cheater every 5 seconds.
Conversely, you couldn't pay me to play L4D online. Everybody on every fucking server is a god damned clownshit asschamp. Fuck L4D online.
doctorfrog on 8/2/2009 at 08:53
In spite of my skepticism, I've been enjoying
Quake Live beta in 10-20 minute spurts here and there. I'm utterly terrible at it, but it's a rush.
I've also been playing a lot of
CounterStrike Source, which I'm pretty good at, but I just feel dirty when I'm playing it. However, I've only been playing it online so I can compete with my friends, who have all moved to disparate parts of the country. We only can 'see' each other online and spend that time talking trash and playing CSS, so I have an excuse.
I used to play quite a bit of
TF2, but it got kind of boring, and I never cared enough about the gameplay to get anything but fair-to-middling with any of the classes.
I've just had (
http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/evochronlegends/features.htm)
Evochron Legends brought to my attention. It's a Freelancer-like indie space-shooter-trader game with multiplayer, and a ton of space geek features, like Newtonian-ish physics, and planets you can land on without loading screens, and no "warp points," just wide open infinite space and I think I just peed a little. It's 52MB, costs $25, and is made by one dude, there's no way it can live up to this promise. I'm gonna fire it up once I dust off my joystick.
EDIT:
dethtoll, you're not missing out on a whole lot with Insurgency. It has quite a bit of promise, and reminds me of the time I spent playing the VietCong demo some years back. There's crouching, hiding, iron sights, quick deaths, frantic firefights, grenade lobbing, and an urban jungle to spill blood on. Much like VietCong, for some reason, I can only play the resistance/insurgency. However, the controls are very sloppy, and the good maps are few in number. I quickly set it down after a week's play.
henke on 8/2/2009 at 11:43
Whenever I want some quck, fun, no-brainer action I go for some GTA4 multiplayer. GTA Race is my favourite mode, preferably Cannonball Run or Free Race, although most people don't seem to share my enthusiasm over these two modes. In fact, it seems like every motherfucker just wants to drive supercars around the airport. What is wrong with these people?
EvaUnit02 on 8/2/2009 at 11:51
Good ones that I've played:-
Left 4 Dead and TF2
BAD multiplayer games/mods:-
Halo 3 competitive MP modes
GoW competitive MP modes
Every iteration of Counter-Strike
