Is this it? I'm fairly sure I read it in college - the professor went on at length about Tolkien's translation being one of the reasons that the thing was still read today.
I really did enjoy Myth II: Soul Blighter, though I never really got a chance to play the first one. And it does seem like there hasn't been anything that has been very similar since.
People with 6+ years of experience vs. people with 1-2 days? It's pretty brutal. I think it tends to turn a lot of players off, because they just die, and die and die. With Counter-Strike, the learning curve just gets steeper as you go at what seems like an exponential rate, and while in some ways I like that (because there's always something new to learn or get better at), it does tend to suck when someone higher up the curve slaughters everyone else on the server.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact. Opinion has yet to change objective reality. 'Popular' does not equate to 'good game' necessarily. Without multiplayer, could it stand on its own at all? (if there were a single player version of it, with the other roles played by bots).
Single player, sure, though between the multiplayer and the 'actually being a 3D game', I would tend to say it beats Doom. And between single player and multiplayer, the multiplayer tends to have a lot more replay value;)
The grappling hook mod was just incredible (though I think I really only played it on Quake 1). You should really try Evil Genius though - imagine the Sims, but evil.
It is a lot more tactical, and it does tend to be a game you can't just pick up and do well at right away - I think the learning curve tends to frustrate a lot of people. Though, with some of them, it's the frustration that makes them come back, weird as that may sound.
There are also CS deathmatch servers out there, where you respawn instantly and don't have to buy weapons. It's very, very fast and intense, and tends to retain the good elements of DM style play and CS tactical play. I like playing it every now and then.
Wow. I hadn't heard of that game in a long time... I really like it for some reason, though it seems hard to say why. The storyline is the most obvious reason I suppose.
I'd always heard of that one but I never could seem to find it on the shelves anywhere. I couldn't even find it on any of the abandonware sites. How old is this game??
How many here have actually even played Pong, on an original system? I remember thinking it was pretty damn cool when I was a kid, though these days, I have to seriously wonder how many people actually played the original...
You know, when I played Beta 7, they were saying the same thing about Beta 6?
Fast-forward half a decade later, and they're saying the same thing about CS 1.6! A decade from now, I'll hear kids bitching about how Counter-Strike 7 was so much better than CS 8.5.
Given the sparkling coversational gems I hear on the internet on a regular basis; 'lol wut' or 'OMG, LIEK, U KNOW!?', I'd say a paragraph per page is about all the average internet reader is capable of, given that they seem to find 'Dick and Jane' challenging reading material.
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Is this it? I'm fairly sure I read it in college - the professor went on at length about Tolkien's translation being one of the reasons that the thing was still read today.
I really did enjoy Myth II: Soul Blighter, though I never really got a chance to play the first one. And it does seem like there hasn't been anything that has been very similar since.
Let me know what you think of it when you get it running :D
People with 6+ years of experience vs. people with 1-2 days? It's pretty brutal. I think it tends to turn a lot of players off, because they just die, and die and die. With Counter-Strike, the learning curve just gets steeper as you go at what seems like an exponential rate, and while in some ways I like that (because there's always something new to learn or get better at), it does tend to suck when someone higher up the curve slaughters everyone else on the server.
Indeed it was removed :( Along with Tundra and a number of other good ones. The bigger CS got, the more interesting maps it lost it seems.
What is left is good in terms of deathmatch style play, but the maps don't have any 'soul' in comparison.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact. Opinion has yet to change objective reality. 'Popular' does not equate to 'good game' necessarily. Without multiplayer, could it stand on its own at all? (if there were a single player version of it, with the other roles played by bots).
Says who? Netcraft?
Single player, sure, though between the multiplayer and the 'actually being a 3D game', I would tend to say it beats Doom. And between single player and multiplayer, the multiplayer tends to have a lot more replay value ;)
Ohhh... So it's a board game?
It does seem similar at a glance, but given the dialog, how in the world can you say 'uninspired'?
The grappling hook mod was just incredible (though I think I really only played it on Quake 1). You should really try Evil Genius though - imagine the Sims, but evil.
It is a lot more tactical, and it does tend to be a game you can't just pick up and do well at right away - I think the learning curve tends to frustrate a lot of people. Though, with some of them, it's the frustration that makes them come back, weird as that may sound.
There are also CS deathmatch servers out there, where you respawn instantly and don't have to buy weapons. It's very, very fast and intense, and tends to retain the good elements of DM style play and CS tactical play. I like playing it every now and then.
Every time I hear 'realistic' and 'counter-strike' in the same sentence, I tend to laugh.
What maps did they remove that you liked?
Wow. I hadn't heard of that game in a long time... I really like it for some reason, though it seems hard to say why. The storyline is the most obvious reason I suppose.
I'd always heard of that one but I never could seem to find it on the shelves anywhere. I couldn't even find it on any of the abandonware sites. How old is this game??
How many here have actually even played Pong, on an original system? I remember thinking it was pretty damn cool when I was a kid, though these days, I have to seriously wonder how many people actually played the original...
You know, when I played Beta 7, they were saying the same thing about Beta 6?
Fast-forward half a decade later, and they're saying the same thing about CS 1.6! A decade from now, I'll hear kids bitching about how Counter-Strike 7 was so much better than CS 8.5.
If any game reinvented the FPS, it was Quake. Doom rocks, without a doubt, but it's no Quake.
I personally love it when people don't have an opinion - then I can give them one of my own! I'm considering a future in politics.
How can you fail to list Three Gorges Dam?
Who plays console games? I mean, seriously, do they even have a market percentage these days?
It tried to make the list, but it died of dysentery :(
Given the sparkling coversational gems I hear on the internet on a regular basis; 'lol wut' or 'OMG, LIEK, U KNOW!?', I'd say a paragraph per page is about all the average internet reader is capable of, given that they seem to find 'Dick and Jane' challenging reading material.
Are you sure it's not just nostalgia talking? How many times have you gone back to play any of them?
Starcontrol II did have some excellent humor, and Evil Genius is absolutely hillarious.