Tired of GroundBound shooters, etc.
I can't, for the life of me, get into any of the latest shooters, because, in every damn one of them, you're stuck running around. No jetpacks, no grappling hooks, nothing. How disgustingly boring.
To add to the problem it seems like all the latest shooters with a decent budget are all based on the past or the present. No big-budget, futuristic shooters. The thing is, shooters based on reality all mimic each other with the same 'real world' weapons. Nothing is fresh and nothing is new. It's all crap you've seen before at least once, but more likely a dozen times. Futuristic shooters almost always introduce completely different guns, grenades, weapon mechanics, etc. and are thus more fresh and interesting than real-world games.
I would be happy if every 5 years we got just one shooter of the following qualifications:
-big-budget
-not groundbound
-has multi-user vehicles
-has great net code
-is on the PC(not only on consoles)
-is as futuristic as tribes/halo/etc
To add to the problem it seems like all the latest shooters with a decent budget are all based on the past or the present. No big-budget, futuristic shooters. The thing is, shooters based on reality all mimic each other with the same 'real world' weapons. Nothing is fresh and nothing is new. It's all crap you've seen before at least once, but more likely a dozen times. Futuristic shooters almost always introduce completely different guns, grenades, weapon mechanics, etc. and are thus more fresh and interesting than real-world games.
I would be happy if every 5 years we got just one shooter of the following qualifications:
-big-budget
-not groundbound
-has multi-user vehicles
-has great net code
-is on the PC(not only on consoles)
-is as futuristic as tribes/halo/etc
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and any game that is like halo, I'm not buyin it. But would be cool to see the Tribes influence more in other newer games.
I dream of a day when a game like Tribes 2 will steal the spotlight and be named King of shooters, spawning a new era of FPS glory much like how modern shooterss try to be ultra-realistic after seeing what MW2 did.
Except it'll be an era of originality, creativity, and intense action that isn't necessarily just a game, but rather a venue that players are granted the freedom to bring themselves into a virtual world of infinite possibilities and challenge. An extension of their personalities, if you will, that allows them to explore and discover themselves in ways that they otherwise wouldn't.
At least that's what I see in Tribes 2. There's just so much freedom of personality in it. Whereas in Counter-Strike all you do is run, walk, hop, and hit-scan the same pixels over and over again and hearing that monotonous voice saying "Counter-terrorists win" - in T2 I'll see an unfamiliar in-game name for a few seconds, then notice the way they move, their banter, their actions, and think, "Ha! It's him."
Too bad those millions of halo kiddies who are obsessed with shiny graphics will never get a taste of the this glory. But then again, was Tribes 2 made for people from the center of the bell-curve in the first place?
It didn't do "a lot of things right". Bungie got lucky, period. The X-Box did a lot of things right; Halo was just along for the ride.
It had 8v8 matches, pretty big for the time.
It had a great chat system. You could talk to your whole team, and even talk to or listen to enemies in your vicinity.
It let you send voice messages to friends and clan members.
It made it easy for you to join a group of friends and find a match together.
It had 4 player split screen online play.
Custom matches let your friends and their friends jump in and out very fast.
The loading was fast, pretty much when you loaded your first map you never loaded again.
It was a blast to play online on consoles. Sure compare it to PC and it doesn't stack up. But for the longest time other console games didn't do any of that stuff.
That reminds me. Wouldn't it be awesome to play Tribes 2 or something very much like it except with the CryEngine 3?
OMG, I think I just shit myself!
Check out Halo: Reach review by LTA.
At 2:07 they mention Tribes! Epic Win!
Shattered Horizon looks cool, but it's vista/7 only... Perhaps when I find time to switch to windows 7 I'll try it. I hate Microsoft not allowing DX10 in XP. It's been done with third party software, so MS saying they can't is complete bull.