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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Gotta Find a New Game to Play
Date: Sat, 27 May 07 23:19:21 GMT
For about the last 2 years my main game addiction
has been Enemy Territory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory
But for the last couple of months I’ve grown disappointed
with the game. Mainly because of the huge amount of cheaters
that now come into the game. Yes I also know where to find
Crushr2 and other stuff that allows you to cheat. But its
just no fun.
I was so pissed off that I went to play ICO by myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5KfNJsx8hs&NR=1
(I told you I like weird games…)
Unfortunately “Enemy Territory: Quake Wars” has been
delayed (I was very much into QuakeWorld and Quake III;
not Quake II though), and so I’m currently looking for
some new game to fuel my switch-offs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Territory:_Quake_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeWorld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena
So while on the lookout for alternative MMORPG/MMOFPS
I came up with a few candidates which was a bit hard since
although I’m a fan of fantasy books, I dont like fantasy
MMOs very much (stuff like Everquest or World of Warcraft).
The current options are:
NeoCron
Cyberpunk based which is cool…its not ShadowRun, but hey…
http://ng.neocron.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
PlanetSide
Sci-Fi based which is also cool…
http://planetside.station.sony.com/
City of Heroes
Comic-book based, one of the coolest of them all, even though I’m
not a comic book fanatic
http://www.cityofheroes.com/
Face of Mankind
This is the one that I would choose right now and even
started the registration process. The only thing stopping
me now is the thought of having to pay a monthly fee.
http://www.fomportal.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_of_Mankind
Of course there’s always the option of choosing something
opensource/free/whatever, although the options are fewer.
The only candidate was PlanetShift, which is much too
fantasy-y for my taste in games.
My relentless entrepreneurial mind at once started to
think of the possibilities of using one the opensource
MMO engines to create something to satisfy me, others and
my bank account ;-) I’m pretty sure I could come up with
a good cyberpunk storyline if I had the time, the money,
the programmers and the artists…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldForge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_Network
— MV
