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How Steam Revived a Dead Game
Ask Stenum writes "Rock Paper Shotgun has an interesting write-up about how Unreal Tournament 3 has risen from the dead after Epic Games patched it, made a deal with Valve to put it on Steam and making it available for free for a weekend. It's interesting to see how a multiplayer game that's almost one and a half years old suddenly has become what it never could be; a game with multiple players. What other (maybe older?) online multiplayer games would you like to see make a comeback?"
UT3's resurgence was mentioned here briefly last week as part of our discussion on the future of game pricing.
Tribes 2? It was terrible.
The reason it flopped was it lost everything that made Tribes 1 a great game.
Tribes 1 was fast paced, requires little skill to start, but incredible amounts to master, and was just plain stupidly fun. Cue Tribes 2: For starters, slow, too easy, skiing was nerfed considerably etc etc. Why would anyone leave T1?
There...fixed that for you. Not to be a grammar Nazi, but this is definitely a first for me...even on /.
Sadly, I once had someone spell Cue / Queue as "Que" in scrabble (I still don't know which one they were after). After some sad laughing to myself I got out the dictionary and told them they could take their fake word off of my board.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
You need to play Deus Ex the story in that game is incredible, much better than Halo.
But I did like Halo's lore, but it didn't come through as well as it should have, and defiantly not to the point were people can seriously consider it to be an excellent story, the games themselves spend too much time beating off the MC.
I've actually read all of the Halo books except for the most recent one, and they do an excellent job at describing how the conflict is going.
In all actuality the Covenant should have steam rolled humanity in short order but they don't have proper military discipline. The Covenant wins ground wars through attrition alone, the humans are much better fighters they just don't have the hyper advanced technology.