🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:07 -0800, Todd <noone@nowhere.com> 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.)
>


Stopped playing Q3 about a year ago, after ASE crapped out. Decided to
give UT (Urban Terror) a go and love it. Simple, free, lottsa fun and
despite more hacking than I saw in Q3, there are enough good servers
that police themselves well.