Best 1st person shooter and RTS game

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Originally posted by TechStar:
Lycia,
If you had UT skills then you would love it, I hit most of the people I aim at, I've tried tons of games but nothing competes with the rush of UT. Practice enough and you'll agree, I used to like the stadegy games until UT. Practice about 100 hours become top scorer almost every game and you'll be hooked like a crack whore.

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You dont need skills on any certain game to like it.... the game play has to be there.
UT just dont have the gameplay. Q3 does...
UT is all about the eye candy, Q3 is all about the feel for the game. UT is all about the horsepower. Q3 does awesome on my K6-2 500 MHz/GeForce. And the main thing that extends the life on a game are the mods....

Lets compare UT's mods to Q3's mods....

My last ramblings on Quake III....
When you can get your wife hooked on a game (and she wasnt a big gamer before she met me...), then the game has to be good!! ;)

I currently have my wife hooked on Quake III, The Sims, and she is starting to dabble into Black and White. :D

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Originally posted by tazdrummer:
You dont need skills on any certain game to like it.... the game play has to be there.
UT just dont have the gameplay. Q3 does...
UT is all about the eye candy, Q3 is all about the feel for the game. UT is all about the horsepower. Q3 does awesome on my K6-2 500 MHz/GeForce. And the main thing that extends the life on a game are the mods....

Lets compare UT's mods to Q3's mods....

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No, UT is not about the horsepower. The reason it doesnt run too good is cos you have an Nvidia card. The UT graphics engine was designed from the Unreal engine which means that it runs best on a 3dfx chipset card (Voodoo2, 3, 4 ,5). UT runs SWEET on my laptop, and that is saying sumthing.

[WD]BurnFEST

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Originally posted by [WD]BurnFEST:
No, UT is not about the horsepower. The reason it doesnt run too good is cos you have an Nvidia card. The UT graphics engine was designed from the Unreal engine which means that it runs best on a 3dfx chipset card (Voodoo2, 3, 4 ,5). UT runs SWEET on my laptop, and that is saying sumthing.

[WD]BurnFEST

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Way back when UT was designed, everyone knew the GeForce was superior to the Voodoo chipset. So..... with Unreal 2 on the horizon, and Voodoo dead..... I guess the GeForce is the last choise. ATI.... bah.... its just a matter of time before they are alos assimilated.
:D

FPS:
1. Descent
2. Descent 3
3. Descent ][

RTS: What's an RTS? :D :p

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Originally posted by Dralliw:
A co-worker of mine recently brought his Delta Force (the original) CD in to work. If I had that game at home, I'd never sleep again!

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If you think DF1 is cool, delta force 2 and 3 are all that! I am not a bot or a paid advertiser, just a hooked gamer.

deus ex and half life are the best single player fps's. counterstrike and tfc are my fav multis, though i really havent gotten a chance for anything else.

i really hope that they come out with deus ex 2 or half life 2 soon. half life esp., cause with all the mods and such for the original, the second id expect to be even better. (and hopefully ill have a t1 by then too...good old college :) )

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Originally posted by tazdrummer:
Way back when UT was designed, everyone knew the GeForce was superior to the Voodoo chipset. So..... with Unreal 2 on the horizon, and Voodoo dead..... I guess the GeForce is the last choise. ATI.... bah.... its just a matter of time before they are alos assimilated.
:D

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GeForce may be superior, but their drivers suck, whereas the 3dfx driversd are the most stable around, so it performs better.

best by far game I have played is Wheel of Time, graphics are just incredible! And there's a story line too :-)

I also love UT and Quake

Fav FPS:
Tie: Serious Sam and Quake 3

Fav RTS: Myth 1 and Myth 2, these are 2 equally awesome RTS games. Starcraft is fun too :cool:

FPS - Unreal Tournament - Life is like a box of rockets.

RTS - Starcraft with expansion

I really hate the focus towards multi-player in the latest FPS games as it takes away the problem-solving element. Running and shooting are fine, but I just get bored with doing that over and over again.

Half-Life and Half-Life: Opposing Force have got to be the best FPS games I've ever played for the whole entertainment value. Unreal Tournament and Quake III are both very nice graphically, but the whole "play against bots" thing sucks. I usually get to the point where one level of bot sucks big time and the next level up are impossible - unless you play against others online (and my 56K modem sort of discounts that!) then they lose their appeal quite rapidly.

I can't wait for the Half-Life: Blue Shift to be released as, although it's the same story again, it will have lots of quality puzzles to complete. The nice things about Half-Life is that by keep basing the games on the same story, they don't have to worry about introducing that story each time - you can just get on with the game play.

RTS? Don't really play them, although I did buy The Sims because it's pretty cool and thought the wife might like it.

Half Life/Opposing Force, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom II (for the chainsaw) and Wolfenstein 3D (Original and the best).

My favourite would have to be Thief, the thinking man's Quake.

RTS - Not a big fan of them, but I like the Command & Conquer series.

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Originally posted by [WD]BurnFEST:
GeForce may be superior, but their drivers suck, whereas the 3dfx driversd are the most stable around, so it performs better.

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If the performance was better, what happened to 3DFX ? :D

Sorry, I just couldnt resist. When I first tried a TNT video card, it was after I had a Voodoo2. I was hooked with Nvidia since.
BUT... I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

3dfx sold out their video card "department" to Nvidia not because it was an inferior product but mostly because of mis-management issues.

At the time, Voodoo cards reigned supreme in the area of quality and the GeForce was an "up-and-comer".

But isn't this the wrong board for this? :confused:

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Originally posted by jaeger:
They Hunger 3 just came out. It's the final release and has all 3 episodes. God, this game is like playing through Dawn of the Dead. Do yourself a favor, DL it, turn out the lights, turn up the volume ,and strap on a diaper.

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Just a word of warning: TH 1 and 2 was about 90MB. My guess is all 3 episodes will be about 150MB or more. TH3 is on the PC Gamer CD for the mag that is in stores right now. You may do better to go ahead and buy it (especially if you have a dial-up or aren't into warez -- AFAIK, TH3 wouldn't be downloadable given PC Gamer's pattern of behavior with the series until about August).

I was kinda bummed with TH3, all of this build up in the first two chapters and then it turns into a freaked out Half-Life story with the sherrif playing the Zombie G-man...
But over all that is the BEST mod I've ever played, I already started over with chapter 1 :D