Modern PC Games

[Baker]

Something that has always struck me is the popularity of the original Half-Life. I know when I got the game originally, the box looked cool as hell.

And it was one of the few games that was as cool as the box.

Anyone who has ever played that game remembers the train ride in the beginning the walk thru the facility.

Late at night (5:00 AM Eastern USA) -- pretty much nothing going on at any type of Quake server, not even in Team Fortress which once used to be a sure bet on a 24/7 game --- I decided to check GameSpyArcade.



And, even for a game that is almost as old as Quake, Half-Life has 36000 players in the middle of the night.

Notably, Half-Life 2 has almost nothing going on. I didn't post a pic, but Quake 4 and Doom 3 have almost nothing going on either (66 players, 55 players respectively). Quake 3 has 1954 players on.

You can still buy Half-Life (the first one) in a store or on the internet. You can't still buy Quake.

(Quake is not sold in stores and the only place that sells it new, the ID Software site, has been down for about 2 weeks and who knows when it will come back up).

I think there would be more Quake players if you could buy Quake in a store, but probably nearly as not as many as Half-Life. That's beside the point.

Doom 3, Quake 4, Half-Life 2 ... as cool as the graphics and special effects are, no one appears to be playing the multiplayer.

[Monster]

Yeah Doom3 and quake4 multiplayer both suck. They're way too laggy. I've played Half-Life 2 singleplayer demo and it was pretty awesome. SINGE said he had an HL2DM server running custom maps he made, and it was really fun.

[Canadian*Sniper]

For some reason, my computer can hardly handle Doom3 but plays Half-Life2 perfectly without any lag. They must have better algorithms

[CheapAlert]

Doom 3, Quake 4, Half-Life 2 ... as cool as the graphics and special effects are, no one appears to be playing the multiplayer.

Not true. There's plenty still playing them, and HL2 is ragingly popular. Gamespy Arcade just sucks at reporting players and everyone uses steam (for the half-life games).

note that the majority of half-life players aren't really playing hldm but the mods such as counter-strike and day of defeat.

[Baker]

Gamespy Arcade just sucks at reporting players

You could left off the "reporting players" part for a better and more accurate sentence :d

[Monster]

For some reason, my computer can hardly handle Doom3 but plays Half-Life2 perfectly without any lag. They must have better algorithms

DOOM3 has much better graphics than HL2. You must not know the full capabilities of the 1337 D()()/\/\ 3 ENGINE.

[scar3crow]

For some reason, my computer can hardly handle Doom3 but plays Half-Life2 perfectly without any lag. They must have better algorithms

Well of course the Quake engine with higher res textures, a few DX9 shaders and Havok physics is going to run faster than an engine directed at modern machines.

DOOM3 has much better graphics than HL2. You must not know the full capabilities of the 1337 D()()/\/\ 3 ENGINE.

Its full capabilities are slightly lower than that of the DarkPlaces engine, which means that yes, the Doom3 engine is pretty good.


Ive beaten HL twice, once on Normal, once on Hard, and both Opposing Force and Blue Shift. Honestly, you should experience the Tentacle, the Icthyosaurus, and one of the fights in the rail station with the grunts, and a battle between the grunts and some aliens. The rest is just filler for the most part (dont even talk to me about the "assassins", laser tripbombs defeats them handily, so much for intelligence).

That and yes, bear in mind the most popular HL mods are the ones that dont resemble the original game (aside from bad textures). We still play Quake. In various forms, but its still Quake. They play America's Army in HL and Medal of Honor/Call of Duty in HL.

[foq]

As for games, I'm all around. I got everything from Quake 1-3 to GunZ Online to BF2.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

variation of Q3 oriented games , Urban Terror TC mod for Q3 (which I feel is better than Counter Strike,in many more ways than one..)
Jedi Knights 2 : JKO

im thinking about trying Enemy Territory TC mod True Combat,considering ET is free

UrT had a ET mod in the works,but shit went to hell lalely.Rumor has it,they are about to release a "Stand Alone" UrT GAME! which means,no CD-KEY's and no need for Q3. yay !
Quake1 reigns supreme in my most time spent playing.

offline games ~

Various emulation for console's,arcade's : PSX,N64,MAME,SNES/NES/SEGA
Torrent version of NFSMW..

[Gibaholic]

Yeah Doom3 and quake4 multiplayer both suck.

You're a loser.

[Canadian*Sniper]

You're a loser.

teh flamer warz has begun!

[Monster]

Doom3 multiplayer totally sucks. Its really laggy and slow. Quake4 multiplayer is OK, but its just too Q3-ish for me.

[Baker]

teh flamer warz has begun!

Le Monster was around at TLTQ.com, where real flame wars were the order of the day, and is a pretty good trash talker on the servers if he wants to be, why would that bother him? Heh

[CheapAlert]

hey guys check out unreal lol.

[Canadian*Sniper]

Le Monster was around at TLTQ.com, where real flame wars were the order of the day, and is a pretty good trash talker on the servers if he wants to be, why would that bother him? Heh

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