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Article #94894Re: So what multiplayer games are Quake fans playing these days?
From: Mr Buckly
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:06
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:06
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Todd wrote: > I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under > XP, I went to Unreal Tournament. When I tried to get back to Quake 3, > I couldn't quite get the hang of it. > > UT is now up to version 3. From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only > game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena. I guess Id realized > that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve > on perfection. On the Unreal side, there are more players on original > UT than either of its two (or three) sequels. > > So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you > find to be the funnest? > > (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense. UT > never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn. Q3 is > some kind of afterlife.) > > (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles. I don't much care for > the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004 > game types.) > > Man, i cant believe this old group is still here........lol I have not posted to this group in years now. Glad to see its somewhat still alive. But to answer your question, i more or less play Enemy Territory now more than anything. But i still have a few Q3 servers up and running right along side my Enemy Territory servers. JAKS.
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