Do you play a multiplayer shooter on a regular basis? If so, what is it? Are you guys still hammering away at Counter-Strike? Has Team Fortress 2 retained its appeal for you over the year? Are you looking forward to Quake Live? Are you, by some peculiar happenstance, still playing one of the olden Quakes or the early Unreal Tournament? OpFlash perhaps? Do you play any FPS mods?
Also, what do you guys think of Multiplay’s new concept: Pickup.gg? Would you use a service like that to find you opponents, teams, and instant games? How do you find games at the moment? So many questions!
Speak!
I replaced EVE Online with Team Fortress 2 as my main timesink. This means, I have zero sympathy for anyone complaining about “long respawn times”.
Reinstalled HL2:DM a while back, played a couple of hours. Enjoyed it, but quickly went back to TF2. No contest.
Looking forward to Left 4 Dead, suspect I will give BF: Heroes a whirl.
True Combat: Elite
The only decent tactical FPS
I’m still playing BF2, played it since day one, but not as much as i did back then, my clan moved on to other games, being Word of Warcraft, and COD4, which kinda ripped it apart. So nowadays i play alone.
I also have been playing age of chivalry since it appeared on steam, and im quite good at it, i can easily swing my way to the top of the lists, and its nice to be among the best in a game ^_^ . Besides that, it’s just fun swinging a sword beheading pesky archers!
I play Quake Live Beta on a daily basis! :D
I played TF2 for a few weeks when it first came out, since I got as part of the Orange Box. (I never would have bought it on its own.) I had a lot of fun with it for a while, then got bored and never went back. I’m not crazy about the unlockable content, but I may return to it in the future.
In general, I do not play any games multiplayer, FPS or not, and have no interest in doing so. The last game I played online before TF2 was Diablo 2, for about 4 hours total. Before that, it was Quake, over ten years ago.
I’ve not played any FPS mods since the original Doom. Steam just made a few HL2 mods available for free, though, so I might try them out sometime.
This mod on their server has for me been the best online multiplayer experience of the last 2 years. Re. pickup.gg, might be useful for the intial period with a new game, but like a lot of seasoned gamers I tend to stick with the same servers or teammates to play with.
I started off with Quake on 28.8 modem way back in the day. Moved on to hldm and tfc on 56k when those came out. DSL was so sweet at first with TFC and CS betas.
I’m a big follower of Mods. NaturalSelection is the greatest. I’m still pulling for EmpiresMod to have a revival because it’s basically the game I dreamed of when I first played C&C and TFC.
Currently I play TF2 mostly. It is just so great! L4D will be the next awesomeness I’m hoping. CSS and DOD:S are in my steam account, but they just aren’t that appealing anymore. I played some BF42 and DC for a while on a friend’s cd key, but those games just weren’t ever focused enough. Seems like Crysis and later BFs have a similar problem of sandboxy MP with “optional” objectives for most players.
I’ve purchased Savage 2 but haven’t played it much. Red Orchestra is appealing about once a month. I keep thinking about getting ET:QW (it’s cheap now), and ArmA looks interesting (I enjoyed some LANing with OPF). InstantAction was a fun distraction for a few hours.
I’m kinda disappointed MP innovation on the PC has been so directed at MMOs with limited action gameplay. I’m really hoping something comes along to innovate the online action game like FC2 looks to be innovating in the SP action game.
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I always go back to Dystopia and for each new class update Team Fortress 2. The pickup site doesn’t look that bad, if it added other games such as mods or indie games for pickup games it would be a lot better.
Currently taking a break from Team Fortress 2 due to Warhammer, but that’s usually where I go to fulfil my needs of murdering other people. And of course the venerable classic, Quake 3 Arena. Possibly I could also get back into UT2003 or whatever the revamp of that is again.
Still playing cod4 and Tf2 at the moment, but I still have q3/enemyterritory installed if my old clan need some backup (they still play them religiously).