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The modern deathmatch experience?
Tediak
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So I've been feeling nostalgic as of late. Having grown up with Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Q3 Arena, I've been craving the old FFA Deathmatch experience. But looking around, it seems they don't really make games like this anymore, at least not good ones. It seems every FPS these days feels they need to have some sort of silly objective to make the gameplay meaningful.
So, am I missing something obvious, or is deathmatch really dead?
So, am I missing something obvious, or is deathmatch really dead?
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This right here. For me, nothing has surpassed the awesomeness of Q3A, or even came close.
CPMA has been the competition mod of choice for quite a while now and there are still tournaments if you care enough to look!
The community is active and generally try to accept new people. But there are also douchebags.
People have embraced team based gameplay. Mostly I'd imagine because it's far more fun to play as a team and you don't have to put in a trillion hours to the game and become some trick-shooting-rocket-jumping-bunny-hopping asshole just to get some enjoyment out of it.
I also miss FFA, but I still play Q3 and Warsow, so I can get my fix when I need it. Team games can be fun, too, but it's a completely different skillset (and mindset) to play FFA. Maybe there are just too many bruised egos laying around, maybe designers don't want to bother with balancing DM maps, maybe it doesn't push the hardware hard enough, it definitely scares off the newbies and scrubs.
I also lament the death of 1v1 gaming.
That's pretty arbitrary. Just because someone decides they want to be good at something, doesn't mean they're an asshole. Or that they have too much free time. Or that they're 13 with a face full of acne.
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Was I implying anything like that?
Well, even if I was, my points still stand!
I have no problem with team games, as I said. I play them more than DM or Duel. But I still think DM and Duel are dying because they have too steep a learning curve, and are a lot more results oriented.
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Seriously, every FPS game/mod/TK/whatever with the word Pro in it somewhere? Someone should have been shot for that decision. It's the gaming equivalent of the Chess Club naming themselves The Cool Kid Club.
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This right here. COD4 is the best deathmatch I've played this decade.
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I just don't like playing with other people unless they're good friends and in the same room. I never play team games online, or MMORPGs - basically, if the quality of my experience relies on random idiots, screw that.
So free for all deathmatch is awesome. Even if I don't practice eight hours a day and win all the time.
I'm not a huge fan of vanilla FFA on COD4, but playing with Hardcore mode is one of the most intense DM experiences I've ever had. Not over-the-top blood-everywhere guns-blazing intense, but unbelievably intense.
Gravity guns firing rocket launcher toilets everywhere.
But yeah, closest to classic "deathmatch" I've played in awhile.
EDIT: It even still has the old-school narrator who calls out "HEAD SHOT!" and "KILLING SPREE!" in that big, booming voice. The game is worth purchase for that alone.
On the contrary, I felt like actually coming up with an in-game rationalization for why you can shoot your sister in the face with a rocket launcher without feeling bad about it actually scored the game some bonus points.
What the hell are you playing the single-player campaign for? It was terrible in every other Unreal Tournament game, too. The only joke here is how they were trying to make it good this time.
I can only play the newest Unreal in SinglePlayer because I got my copy from a LAN party and it won't let me play it online.
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Jedi Knight 2, full force FFA.
Weapons, sabers, and force powers...oh my.
Hmm... I'm getting back into playing shooters online. If UT3 is only 20 bucks I might nab it.
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Agreed about the art. They tried too hard to use Gears of War to try and sell Unreal Tournament; and they really didn't need to do this; it's a great series on its own merits and they should have played to the series strengths in terms of presentation rather than trying to bait people with Gears of War.
The Need to Explain has been in there since the first Unreal Tournament game, and it's something easily ignored. Although they really shouldn't even bother; rather, I prefer the quicker, streamlined user interfaces of previous Unreal Tournaments. Because ultimately nobody cares about the "explanation" or "story." Just give us a quick an easy way to set up a game and its options and get going.
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There's nothing wrong with utilizing the single player campaign as a means for "training" yourself before going online to get your ass beat.
But so long as the "story" doesn't get in the way of that, fine, whatever. The important thing is streamlining the user interface.
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Here, the friendly AI is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I got stuck on the level where you have two bases with a bridge in between because, while the enemy AI were flanking the base from both sides, my entire team were in buggies, ramming into each other repeatedly in the middle of the map. Gave up at that point.
And unless the multiplayer brings back neon shiny that the rest of the series had I don't see it improving the shit art direction the game took.