# What's your favorite online game? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036 "2002-08-22T04:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/21 "2002-08-24T12:18:49Z")
That link would be [netives.com](http://www.netives.com) ---
**Author:** ![muppeteer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@muppeteer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppeteer)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/22 "2002-08-26T12:55:46Z")
Planetarion ([www.planetarion.com](http://www.planetarion.com)) was great fun until they introduced a membership system… Grrr ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/23 "2002-08-26T13:45:41Z")
One more for Dark Age of Camelot - way too many late nights with it. But have to agree it’s getting a tad stale for me as well. I don’t have any favorite ‘free’ games, but will kill time mindlessly with the Casino games at iwon. ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/24 "2002-08-26T13:47:15Z")
I should add that I have a feeling I’m going to be sorry I opened this thread. ::starts checking the games mentioned above:: ---
**Author:** ![barking\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@barking\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barking_frog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/25 "2002-08-26T16:10:41Z")
Continuum (aka Subspace). Very simple online 2D shoot-'em-up game that I’ve been playing since I was 10. I’m afraid of touching any MMORPGs again, NWN included. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/26 "2002-08-26T16:39:10Z")
The demo for Battlefield 1942 has drawn my attention away from Neverwinter Nights. It’s like Return to Castle Wolfenstein on steroids - the only level you can play on the demo is the battle of Wake Island, and yet I can’t get tired of it yet - you can jump in any vehicle or fixed gun emplacement, set traps and lay mines if you are an engineer (as well as repair stuff), call in artillery strikes as a scout (but unlike RtCW they don’t come in automatically, someone within artillery range has to turn their cannon to hit the coords you called in), drive tanks, APCs, jeeps, destroyers, aircraft carriers, fighters, fighter-bombers - I can’t wait for the full version which will have more battlefields (all based on historical battles like Stalingrad, Kursk, Iwo Jima, etc.) and will allow 64 players in a game (the demo only allows 32). The game has lots of laugh-out-loud humor, if you are the morbid sort. The other day my friend was playing as the Japanese, they were capturing an American airfield and he saw a GI running by so he started spraying him with his assault rifle. He wasn’t controlling his bursts so he wasn’t hitting him much, but the GI stopped to look around for who was shooting at him, and just as he saw my friend some other Japanese soldier ran into him at about 60 MPH with his jeep, sending him flying. The other day, playing as an American, I flew a plane out to the Japanese aircraft carrier, bailed out, parachuted to the carrier deck, planted mines in front of all the planes but one and stole it to get back to the island. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/27 "2002-08-26T19:26:52Z")
[Magic Online](http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/magiconline) But it’s so damn expensive! ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/28 "2002-08-26T19:56:23Z")
I was the one who introduced **clayton\_e** to iSketch. I discovered it only a few months ago and I’ve already logged more than 1,700 hours on it and played over 2,000 games. It’s taught me how to draw and I’ve met some interesting people on it. I know all the regulars and all the inside jokes. It’s a little bit more addictive than heroin. It’s gotten to the point where I’m changing my sleep schedule to accommodate my iSketching habits. Some people may be turned off to the idea of online Pictionary from playing InkLink, but to you I assure you that iSketch is far better. There are admins to take care of the idiots, and even the idiots that aren’t booted by the admins usually go away after a while. The people there (at least the regulars) are a nice crowd, and the game itself is much nicer. The drawing tools are more advanced, there’s a Studio if you just want to doodle around, lounges if you want to doodle around with other people, a chat window for general talk, and lots of specialized rooms for different word lists, languages, and game rules. My favorite room is Connections, where you have to incorporate the last person’s word somehow into your drawing. Here’s [the link](http://www.isketch.net) if you missed it. WARNING: DO NOT CLICK IF YOU NEED TO GET UP EARLY TOMORROW. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/29 "2002-08-26T20:06:40Z")
Ain’t none better than the [Infamous Worm Game!](http://www.liquidcode.org/worm.html) ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/30 "2002-08-28T10:49:51Z")
This is a fun place - [http://www.makaimedia.com/main.asp?gms=1](http://www.makaimedia.com/main.asp?gms=1) ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/31 "2002-08-28T15:52:58Z")
Well, [Darkspace](http://www.darkspace.net) is a very very fun little game. For those of you who haven’t played this bit of online goodness, it’s a RT strategy space game. 3 different factions (with a few more under development) 2 human and one alien. Each faction is broken down into fleets (clans) and we fight for control of the known universe. You can do stuff like capturing planets, scouting, constructing planets, ship to ship combat, ship to ground combat and resupply work to gain prestige, and prestiege will earn you rank to fly larger ships. Very fun, and an intergrated RTS element is being developed so players can control ground forces when you invade an ememy planet (so the players in the fleet defend the ground forces from a space attack while the ground commanders kill off the enemy defeneses). ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/32 "2002-08-28T16:18:14Z")
I have lost far more of my life playing **Diablo 2** than any other game. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe K \* > \*\*Yahoo Pool, without a doubt. It’s easy to pick up, somewhat satisfying, and it even comes with the weirdos that hang out in the pool parlor! Not that that’s a good thing, but I just mentioned it to show the “total realism” of the game… \*\* I was into Y! pool hardcore up until they did the latest update and changed the physics of the table. At one point I was in the low 20’s on the ladder, which was about as high as you could get, since probably only 5 people made up the top 20. (Multiple accounts) #20 out of (roughly) 100,000 ain’t bad, if I do say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036/33 "2002-08-31T18:58:24Z")
[http://www.seethru.co.uk/zine/south\_coast/helicopter\_game.htm](http://www.seethru.co.uk/zine/south_coast/helicopter_game.htm) It’s been posted here before. It nearly destroyed my life, until I finally beat the webmaster’s high score. Note 1: If you’re not using a fast computer, you’re cheating. My scores on the old Mac run about 2x higher than scores on the new PC. Note 2: This is either based on, or it inspired, the worm game linked above. I like the helicopter much better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-online-game/125036.md?page=1)