Advice from the minds I respect

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » December 10, 2003, 6:11 pm

Just received my new PC yesterday. I'm giddy with excitement and ready to rock and roll.

I need advice on what first person shooter top buy and what multi player to buy.

1942?
PlanetSide?

I have no clue. I just want to excercise this system.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » December 10, 2003, 6:30 pm

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » December 10, 2003, 6:32 pm

If I'm not mistaken they are already merging servers on PlanetSide.. so doubt that game will last that long.

I don't have 1942 myself, but heard very very good things about it.

Spankes · Post by **Spankes** » December 10, 2003, 6:32 pm

BF1942

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 6:37 pm

1942 is a good game, but I prefer to play it with friends rather than on public servers.

If you like (relative) realism, Rainbow Six: Raven Shield is difficult but a lot of fun.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is still a good game that looks good, and plays well.

Medal of Honor Allied Assault, and the expansions for it are fun games, though a bit on the linear side.

Planetside is worth the free download and you might like it a lot. See the thread in the Video Games forum.

No One Lives Forever 2 is fun, but somewhat campy.

Max Payne 2 is a 3rd person shooter, but it will show off the speed of your computer nicely with 4x AA, and full detail. The game is short though, only about 9 hours of gameplay.

Unreal Tournament 2003 should be cheap, and you can use the console to type 'stat fps' to impress all of your friends with your frame per second count with full detail.

I've heard good things about Call of Duty, but I have yet to play it, and I'm not really interested.

Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy is a just ok game with a bad story and bad voice acting.

Halo: Combat Evolved is an overhyped-console-ported piece of shit, but some people enjoy it, and if you play it and enjoy it, that's what matters.

Those are all of the ones I can think of at the moment.

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » December 10, 2003, 6:41 pm

Hmmm...I've downloaded the Unreal II Extended Multiplayer, and that's not that bad...

I like BF1942, but yeah, if you have lag, it really sucks...

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » December 10, 2003, 6:44 pm

Lohrno wrote:Hmmm...I've downloaded the Unreal II Extended Multiplayer, and that's not that bad...

I like BF1942, but yeah, if you have lag, it really sucks...

That's not lag. That's shell shock. The game is working as intended!

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » December 10, 2003, 6:48 pm

Shame Halo and Jedi Academy are selling overly well then, in the face of most of the other games you've mentioned.

At least in the place i work like.

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 6:49 pm

My opinions != everyone elses (thank God).

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » December 10, 2003, 6:49 pm

Winnow wrote:That's not lag. That's shell shock. The game is working as intended!

Haha,

my soldiers are exteremely shell shocked then.

Epileptic too I think, as I see that quite often they lurch forward, then back then forward again, and sometimes just end up on the ground.

-=Lohrno

xZiBiT · Post by **xZiBiT** » December 10, 2003, 7:32 pm

Aranuil wrote:Unreal Tournament 2003 should be cheap, and you can use the console to type 'stat fps' to impress all of your friends with your frame per second count with full detail.

in planetside, if you hit "shift + >" you can impress us with your fps also

in planetside is generally 100+ when i stand still but when lots of explosions and people come around me it occasionally drops to 4-5 fps (i need a new video card

)

bf1942 - great but my friends all play the original unreal tournament and planetside, i to prefer to play games with people i know

after originating in the original ut, ut2k3 i found boring and quit the game after one night and haven't played in since the day it was released, why fuck something completely over when you had a great game and architecture to build from

Post by **TheMachine** » December 11, 2003, 1:56 am

Call of duty is very hard core, I approve.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » December 11, 2003, 10:15 am

If you have XP, then download Planetside for free and play your free month with us. We promise to put it through a hell of a stress test by getting ultra-zerged for hours at a time.

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » December 11, 2003, 12:21 pm

Thanks guys. Bought 1942 and am enjoying it. Also played EQ with all the bells and whistles on .. its a completely different game.

no lag whatsoever in Bazaar and I'm zoning in 3 seconds.

Life is good.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » December 11, 2003, 12:59 pm

Seebs wrote:
no lag whatsoever in Bazaar and I'm zoning in 3 seconds.

Life is good.

Glad to hear the system is working well Seebs : )

With a pair of pliers and a blowtorch I can help you get that zone time down to 2.5 seconds!

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » December 11, 2003, 1:27 pm

Battlefield 1942 = teh win.

Best

game

ever.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » December 11, 2003, 2:25 pm

I'm playing Call of Duty right now and REALLY enjoying the single player, not sure how MP will be though.

Marb

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » December 11, 2003, 3:11 pm

Marbus wrote:I'm playing Call of Duty right now and REALLY enjoying the single player, not sure how MP will be though.

Marb

If you have BF1942, don't even bother with COD multi.

COD single is just awesome! Pavlov's house is teh win!

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » December 11, 2003, 4:32 pm

Call of Duty is hands down, the best WW2 FPS game ever to be released. If I wasn't so poor I would have acutally purchased a copy.
I can't say anything about its MP. MOHAA has great mp..
planetside blows so don't waste your time with that.

noel · Post by **noel** » December 11, 2003, 4:47 pm

Planetside is not the greatest game ever, but they have made a lot of noticable changes, and some of the new vehicles as well as the new pacing of combat is pretty fun. Given that it's free for 30 days, I think it's worth picking up.

Pengu · Post by **Pengu** » December 12, 2003, 6:20 am

I loved CoD single player with the references to Band of Brothers and Enemy at the gates. After I finished it I tried out some servers for multi player.

I liked it even more.
There are lots of 32-player servers that gets full quickly.
16-man squads gives a new dimension to the game.

I highly recommend it.

Kudo · Post by **Kudo** » December 12, 2003, 10:35 am

64 man BF1942 battles = win