/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1859010]

Does a multiplayer FPS experience more fun than this exist?

[NESfag No.1859021]

>>1859010
I played a fucktons and fucktons of multiplayer FPS, including a lot of Q3A indeed.

The most fun multiplayer FPS i've experienced is Shadow Warrior

[Anonymous No.1859136]

>>1859010
Unreal Tournament 99, probably.
I'd prefer not to say if I think it is better or not because
1. I dont want to start drama
2. I really dont know

[Anonymous No.1859160]

>>1859010
That's not Q1/Quakeworld, so yes, yes there does. It's hard to put a finger on specifics but the original just feels better to me. There's something more savage and immediate about it all, and the RL has never been as fun before our since.

I'm willing to admit it might be the goggles as quake hit just as I was building my first real "all mine" gaming rig, and I got in to the scene just in time for it to absolutely consume me.

[Anonymous No.1859165]

RIP arena FPS's, you'll be missed.

But theres still a glimmer of hope: Reborn, Nex, UT, John Romero's unnamed FPS

[Anonymous No.1859170]

QW and Painkiller I enjoy just a little bit more than Q3A. I think it's their sheer speed that gets to me and keeps me amped to play.

[Anonymous No.1859175]

>>1859165
It's still alive in free games. There's Xonotic, Urban Terror, Alien Arena, etc.

[Anonymous No.1859180]

>Quad damage.
>Multiplies damage by three.
I can't work in these conditions!

[Anonymous No.1859185]

I honestly like UT99 more in terms of fun. There's more weapons, more alternate modes of fire, I found the levels more fun in some ways, and the singleplayer is even more fun.

Q3A is fun too but not in the same sense. It's mostly for the speed, I liked having one-on-matches a whole lot more in Q3A.

[Anonymous No.1859223]

>>1859185
I feel like there's a bit more of an element of chaos in UT that works for a moderately skilled player like myself. If I come up against someone who outclasses me in Quake it's very easy to find myself totally shut out in a way I don't experience in UT.

I used to feel like Quake had a higher skill ceiling but I'm not so sure that's true these days, there's just a little less room for sudden upsets.

[Anonymous No.1859228]

I'd say Perfect Dark but everyone's just going to say they prefer arena shooters.

[Anonymous No.1859241]

>>1859010
When the stage becomes so complex that it's more about knowing how to fight your environment than your enemies, it's no longer a good FPS. That said, Perfect Dark a best.

[Anonymous No.1859264]

>>1859165
Shootmania is an arena fps.

[Anonymous No.1859293]

>Tfw don't have the skill to play Q3A
I can admit it.

[Anonymous No.1859312]

>>1859175
Urban Terror is excellent.

[Anonymous No.1859403]

>>1859021
You play Q3A? I figured you for a pleb heh.

omg what's ur KDR?

[NESfag No.1859410]

>>1859403
I don't play often anymore. But if you want a comparaison point, I beat the 'single player' campaign of Q3A (every level) on the hardest difficulty (Nightmare) at the age of 12.

[Anonymous No.1859426]

>>1859410
That's hawt.

[Anonymous No.1859429]

>>1859160
I also prefer the original Quake to Quake 3. I've spent a lot of time on E1M7 fragging coworkers with a rocket launcher while everyone laughs at the poor schmucks that fall in the lava.

There's a remake of the map for Quake 3, but it just doesn't feel the same.

[Anonymous No.1859481]

Spend so many hours on Q3A in school... It was the only game I could beat 2 of my best friends at, they still mop the floor with me at any other game... except robot arena 2

This looks like promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B28oQvaL7Mg.

[Anonymous No.1859495]

Think I'll mention this here rather than the Doom babby general.

You guys heard that Romero is making a new FPS game?

Mite b cool.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-11-after-14-years-john-romero-is-working-on-another-shooter

Bear in mind he's on our side. He doesn't like the modern day ultra-linear FPS and enjoys fast games.

I have high hopes. Things can't always be shit anons. The tide must turn some time.

[Anonymous No.1859874]

>>1859264
it's also dead.

[Anonymous No.1859878]

cs 1.5 in its heyday was extremely fun. 1.6 is still bretty gud if you can ignore the fact that the entirety of ISIS has a non-steam version of the game and hacks on every pub server you will ever play.

[Anonymous No.1859892]

>>1859429
>e1m7

e1m8 was my favorite. it meshed together really well with FVF if you used that, too

[Anonymous No.1860258]

>>1859010
Is Quake 3 Arena busy on Steam or is it dead as fuckin fried chicken?

[Anonymous No.1860291]

>>1859495
>Bear in mind he's on our side
oh shut up. Romero and everyone else who has ever made games is on their own side and is only opposed to current shooters because he couldn't break into the niche market and make millions again producing another CoD clone like so many people have done.

[Anonymous No.1860307]

Tribes 2

[Anonymous No.1860326]

>>1860291
>oh shut up.
You shut up homo.

[Anonymous No.1860340]

>>1860291
Butthurt COD baby detected.

[Anonymous No.1860449]

>>1860258
It's no different on Steam than any other version. I found one or two servers which are consistently busy, but other than that it's dead. Most went to Quake Live or Urban Terror it seems.

[Anonymous No.1860462]

What about Nerf Arena Blast? Are there people actually playing it?

I haven't installed for a while, but I took a gander and found there's surprisingly a small group of people making fan content and maintaining the game to this day.

[Anonymous No.1860557]

>>1860462
Holy fuck I haven't read that name in a while. There's actually a community?

This could be fun. I mean it wasn't perfect, but the game was definitely better than most clones.

[Anonymous No.1860740]

>>1859010

Q3A- BFP mod (Dragonall Z mod, essentially) was one of the best multiplayer experiences I had ack in the day.

The sheer amount of mods and independent games that were spawned from Q3 is amazing, second only to Doom.

[Anonymous No.1861220]

>>1859010
maybe unreal tournament, just because it has more modes of gameplay.

as for consoles, Timesplitters games maybe.

[Anonymous No.1861256]

are there still people who play quake 1? i was never able to get it working, but i wouldn't mind setting up a server for /vr/ people

[Anonymous No.1861283]

>>1859180
/set g_quadfactor 4
You're right though, the default is horrible.

[Anonymous No.1861305]

>>1860307
I'd go with this, although cheating and saying that's not an arena shooter, hence it's its own category altogether and thus both are the most fun FPSs is rather tempting.

[Anonymous No.1861334]

>Weak Rail
>Slow/weak rockets
>Weak LG
>Starting weapon is long range

Q2 is better (only people who have not played it will disagree). And Q1/W is even better than that. Though i do love the physics in quake 3. Not all aspects of them but some. Best quake physics was 1.

Have been playing all 3 games more or less daily since release.

[Anonymous No.1861347]

>>1859175
And Warsow is a pretty cool Quake 3 clone, which I prefer if only for the graphics and the wallhop/RL madness.

[Anonymous No.1861362]

>>1859228
Perfect Dark is great, I only found out this past winter but I'm glad that I did.

>>1859264
Didn't even know it was out.

>>1860557
I enjoy it. Never played online before though.

[Anonymous No.1861572]

It's the speed of Q3A that I really enjoy. I'm new to the game (downloaded a torrent of it recently, so shoot me) and the first server that pops up is one with the map in OPs image and one hit kill railguns only. Its so fast paced and comfortable to get into. Simplicity is bliss in this case.

[Anonymous No.1861597]

http://pastebin.com/7dYZRS7D

;_;

[Anonymous No.1861713]

>>1859180
It's balanced for it and x3 still rips people apart.

[Anonymous No.1861748]

>>1861713
Should've just called it trip damage then

[Anonymous No.1861767]

>>1861362
>never played it online
The community is extremely active. All five members.

But seriously, there's a large effort of making the game a whole lot better though barely anyone plays multiplayer anymore. There's CTF now, a ton of maps, higher res graphics, they replaced the multiplayer server after GameSpy quit, etc.. Best of all it's all in one single community package for download.

It's kind of like UT99 with no violence and some different weapons.

[Anonymous No.1861774]

I have to say UT Assault with custom maps and a full server is the best time I've had in a game. The intensity of Quake is unmatched, though.

[Anonymous No.1861848]

>>1859010
Best FPS engine ever created

[Anonymous No.1861852]

>>1861848
Too bad not much was made with it. RTCW was very meh in every aspect. Only JK2 and Academy are good.

[Anonymous No.1861858]

we should all play quakelive right now

[Anonymous No.1861875]

>>1861858
apparently they're turning it to shit by changing gameplay things. I dont remember what exactly. something to do with Loadouts.

[Anonymous No.1861896]

>>1861852
>not many FPS's were made with the Quake 3 engine
Is dis nigga retarded?

Hell the cowadoody games today are still based on a modified idtech 3 engine.

[Anonymous No.1861910]

>>1861875
They're casualizing it, that's what

[Anonymous No.1862253]

>>1861875
see >>1861597

[Anonymous No.1862272]

>>1861597
what have they done

[Anonymous No.1862303]

>>1859010
Are there any active master servers for Q3A, or it's all about QL now?

[Anonymous No.1862305]

>>1859010
NO

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