Damn, it’s been too long since I’ve played these games. I’ve always been kind of afraid to start over again since I assumed that all the people still playing them are just assholeds who could kick my ass any day. If anyone wants to set up a game. I’d love to have a chance to play although I’ll bet that by now both my SC and D2 accounts have been wiped. Email me if you wanna play some time. I’d love to get re-aquainted with these games.
Sounds to me like there were too many people for the map size you were playing on. Go to a server with fewer people, or one that uses larger maps.
Other than that, if you see a big green energy ball moving towards you, you might want to find safe cover. sigh too bad the BFG 10K isn’t in more maps these days… 
Sounds to me like there were too many people for the map size you were playing on. Go to a server with fewer people, or one that uses larger maps.
Other than that, if you see a big green energy ball moving towards you, you might want to find safe cover. sigh too bad the BFG 10K isn’t in more maps these days…
As a slight hijack… are there any dopers out there who currently play quake III and would be interested in a game?
Perhaps even a whole tournament if there were enough players!
I can see it now: A whole thread devoted to it, the throngs of admiring fans cheering on their favorite, all topped off with the grand prize of getting to meet Cecil himself!
Er…yeah, well, maybe not. Anyhow, if anyone’s interested in a game, my AIM handle is Lysanduss if you’d like to get in touch.
…That is all.
Yes. Far too many online gamers are anti-social little fuckheads who shouldn’t be allowed near a PC with internet access. As far as I’m concerned, the little worms can lie/steal/cheat with the rest of their ilk.
While they’re out there stewing in the Hell that they created, the rest of us polite/friendly/legit gamers will block them out by only playing in private games among friends and clan members.
Online gaming is fun, and I wouldn’t give up on it if I were you. Find some friends or join a clan. When Diablo2 came out, I joined a pretty good clan and have had oddles of fun playing with these folks. None of the killing/stealing/cheating crap with them. (if you want the contacts for a few legit Diablo/Starcraft clans, I can help you out)
Anyone want to start a SDMB gaming clan? Or at least have a few folks who meet online from time to time?
Um… (shuffling feet) Guilty on the Trade Wars there. Sort of anyways. I was known to help some newbies and to be a real pain towards others.
Serious newbies were fun to help and were willing to put up with me Babbling russian poetry for hours on end over fedcom
Some new comers to the BBS I played at (the now defunct BBS.Paul.com) were pains in the ass and smack talkers who had to be crushed.
So, it you were at BBS.Paul and were harrassed by a player named Icarus aka Mayakovsky aka Ick! aka Dylan Dog aka Man covered in Fish well here is an apology.
Osip
Amen brother.
I’m a casual gamer at best. I play for enjoyment. I don’t stand a chance online. Why? Because I’m not willing to memorize the stats of every single item in the game, to discover every exploitable nuance and trick there is, to explore and recall every single pixel of the map. And there are idiot 14 year olds who are (or idiot 25 year olds with the minds of 14 year olds.) I don’t stand a chance against them, because they care about it much more than I do. I want to go in, kill stuff, get loot, and enjoy myself.
Nethack does the job just fine.
Online gaming doesn’t seem to be about defeating someone. Merely beating them in the game isn’t enough. No, it has to be overwhelimng, crushing, punishing, humiliating defeat to be good enough. There are penis lengths at stake here, people!
As for the social aspect, you can keep that as well. I played on a MUD for about a year, just because some friends of mine who were out of the state were on it and it allowed me to play games with them. After a while they became too busy and I realized I didn’t care about any of those other people. I was in a clan and just removed myself from it because I didn’t want to deal with any of them. And I realized on the MUD that there was nothign to do after I reached HERO status except do player-killing, which I couldn’t be less interested in. So I quit.
The puberty force can keep online gaming. I don’t miss it in the slightest. I have piles of single player games I happily play and replay, with more coming out each day. It alarms me that so many game companies see games as pointless unless they are multiplayer, but that will change as the fad ages.
Ok folks, hardcore/PGL player here (aka poor sonofabitch with no life)
Diablo…
I never got into diablo, it smacked too much of nethack and honestly, had no replay value.
The multiplayer was bad… very bad especially after they stopped batching the netcode to stop hackers. I know some people who had a LOT of fun with multiplayer diablo/diablo 2 but it rarely involved pubbie games. Play with people who already know, or see if any clans have open servers. Usually you run across better players in clans (most clans are anti-hack and have enough of a structure where assholes get kicked out)
Good luck though
Starcraft:
I played this for about 3 years on line, in one of the top B-net clans (by the end I was definatly the weakest link in the clan )
SC multiplayer has a HUGE learning curve. First you need to figure out how to build to hold off multiple foes at the same time… This takes a while before you stop sucking and can eventually hold your own (for a general rule of thumb, if you can hold off 3-4 comp players at once you can handle 1, maybe 2 average B-net players).
As you play you’ll learn various building techniques to stop various rushes of different types of critters (like lurker rushes… reaver rushes DT rushes). It just takes a long time to get good, unless someone teaches you.
The hardest thing about SC is finding someone to play with. I’ve done the random 2 on 2 pubbie games, and without a doubt my teammate was always an idiot. To find good games, go for the 2 on 2 games that use ladder maps (but not the ladder games, stick in the pub arena).
3) Quake (FPS)
I haven’t played much quake, I can’t stand the engine personally, I stick with halflife (Counter-Strike and Firearms)
But there are some general suggestions I can offer.
Learn the map! Make your own game and lock it down so only you are in it and run around to find all of the weapons/armor/medikits.
Once you know that, you won’t have to look around. But once you’re playing, NEVER stop moving.
Sometimes, accuracy is a problem. If it is for you, download a bot program and set up a private bot game (at the lowest skill setting) so you can get used to shooting more realistically moving targets.
Personally, I don’t like FFA games I like teams damnit! I like knowing that everyone isn’t trying to kill me.
Give counter-strike a whirl. Good anti-cheats out there, good support and a lot of servers w/o friendly fire.
Personally I find multiplayer the most enjoyable aspect of most games, but a lot of games have terrible multiplayer (the mechwarrior games?!). Try some stuff until you find what you like. Just don’t be discouraged immediatly, most games have a pretty steep learning curve.
Just my two cents, good luck and have fun.
Let me echo the advice to find people and play with people you know.
Just as bloodthirsty and challenging, but fewer cheats and jerk offs.
I’m a college student and that’s what my computer gaming friends do. I hadn’t really imagined doing it any other way.
CRorex, what clan were you in? Was it sc or bw clan? Have you played at all recently? If you have, I bet I’ve played you (if you play on USWest, that is).
I’ve recently moved away from the shoot-em-up-and-that-is-it genre of, say, Unreal Tournament and its mods (Tactical Ops). Don’t get me wrong, I still like’em, and I’m still good at them too. However, the team-based play of something like Return to Castle Wolfenstein is more appealing to me right now - and the brief spawn protection you get makes up for the getting nailed right after you spawn problem.
If anyone is up for UT/TO or RTCW, just holler.
I was in Nomadic Cabal Guild [NCG] SC then switched over to BW
(Usually played under the name Ash’elth, or when I wanted to impress the pubbies [NCG]Dragon)
I left around the time Crushen, AgentOrange and all of the top ladder players joined us.
The happiest day of my SC career was when I held off crushen for 2 and a half hours and on the rematch, [o]wned him :).
I haven’t played since junior year in college… and that was on the B-net servers.
I was in Nomadic Cabal Guild [NCG] SC then switched over to BW
(Usually played under the name Ash’elth, or when I wanted to impress the pubbies [NCG]Dragon)
I left around the time Crushen, AgentOrange and all of the top ladder players joined us.
The happiest day of my SC career was when I held off crushen for 2 and a half hours and on the rematch, [o]wned him :).
I haven’t played since junior year in college… and that was on the B-net servers.
I remember NCG. CRorex do you remember playing any people from fuall? I used the name Asm0dean
Asm0dean… yes that name is very familiar
I remember seeing you in our channel, I can’t remember if I actually played you.
I must confess that I have no interest in online gaming beyond well-regulated MUDs and playing with friends. I simply don’t have the time to become an uberplayer, and online games just aren’t conducive to novices (every “newbie” game I’ve played always had very experienced people playing).
I enjoyed playing multiplayer for Age of Empires II, but unfortunately I could only get it working 20% of the time. Now that I’ve installed the expansion, that percentage has dropped to zero. (Something about IP sharing? Microsoft’s tech support is useless, so I can’t find out.)
Starcraft. Ah, Starcraft.
I tried playing SC online a few times. It was fun once or twice (usually when in cooperative team vs. team mode,) but mostly was a frustrating mess. See, I was used to playing with friends, and we had a iron-clad policy of not allowing attacks for 15 minutes. This allowed the buildup of defenses and attacking armies, as well as a few upgrades, so we could launch probing attacks, set up spy networks, make alliances, break those alliances, etc. It was great fun.
It worked like this:
Six of us would get together in the Geography computer room at the University (late at night…we were all grad students. We wouldn’t hog resources at high traffic times) and play Starcraft (we started on Warcraft II but upgraded to SC) via LAN. We’d order pizza, bring beer, and launch huge, epic games that would last for up to two hours.
Those were nerdy, but good times. I remember one time playing Protoss, and I’d finally fought my way into an advantageous position. Three other players had been eliminated, and I was left alone to face the remaining two, which had run out of resources, but had forted up on a central island and ringed the place with fully upgraded goliaths and missile stations. I was strung out on the last of my resources, and my arbiter tribunals had been decimated in the long campaign to land troops on the island to soften up defenses before I used my ace in the hole…a fully upgraded flotilla of eight carriers. If I could guarantee that the carriers wouldn’t be hacked apart before they made landfall, I could just sit back and watch while they destroyed everything in sight.
Finally, everything was right. There was a nice, empty area into which I could insert my carriers. I advanced them cautiously, parked them, and before my invasion, I went over to kill a few pawns so my troop queue wouldn’t be completely full. I was busy working when the “Warning: Nuclear launch detected” alert came over the speaker.
“No biggie.” I know they can’t hurt me. I assumed they were taking potshots at one of my coastal installations with the only weapon they had left.
A few seconds pass.
“Unless…I somehow parked my carriers…OH NO!”
I rushed back over to my flotilla, grabbed them, and ordered them to RETREAT! RETREAT!
Carriers are damnably slow. They made a pretty fireworks show as the nuke detonated just to their southwest. Not one survived.
My enemies’ (OK, my roommate and my officemate) howls of delight were deafening. I had to agree to a stalemate, of course. I had no more resources or troops capable of invasion.
I stewed for a while and had another beer, as I recall.
Good times. Good times.
Get a few friends together (even over the net) and play. You’ll have lots more fun.
I play the HL mods. I was scary good at TFC, then switched to CS. Which I kinda suck at. But then I found Day of Defeat. Ah yes, DOD, what a wonderful mod. The best there is. They just made a new version, so it’s all better. Play on a map like Caen2, where the maker must have been shut in for months mapping out every detail, and you’ll see why it’s so good.
Try EverQuest or Dark Age of Camelot.
I recommend finding a group of people (preferably friends in real life ™ ) and gaming with them. Diablo has the wonderful option of being able to password protect games. I recommend using it.