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Talos · 2026-07-28T01:35:01-0400

Dr.Retarded · 2026-07-28T01:43:02-0400

M Power said:
Quake 3 Arena was peak FPS gaming. Everything after was a downgrade. I do remember when Planetside came out before they nerfed it I would rage my teammates by suiciding the air planes into enemy buildings taking out the enemy and every passenger while yelling Allah Akbar. Eventually the way Planetside worked my account got spawn timed out so long I basically couldn't play ever again due to killing teammates.

Were you flying a mosquito? I thought there was some ship that was a kamikaze deal people used to do. Despite playing that game as much as I did I never did any of the flight stuff on the one time I tried it I just couldn't get it to work.

However if you knew how to do it, the aircraft were completely bonkers. I just stuck to tanks, and mag riders were the greatest because you could go over water.

M Power · 2026-07-28T07:46:45-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
Were you flying a mosquito? I thought there was some ship that was a kamikaze deal people used to do. Despite playing that game as much as I did I never did any of the flight stuff on the one time I tried it I just couldn't get it to work.

However if you knew how to do it, the aircraft were completely bonkers. I just stuck to tanks, and mag riders were the greatest because you could go over water.

I would use the transport ships because they were larger and could hold more teammates.

Kharzette · 2026-07-28T08:08:24-0400

M Power said:
I would use the transport ships because they were larger and could hold more teammates.

I probably fell victim to your schemes. I loved jumping in a galaxy.

Cybsled · 2026-07-28T09:24:26-0400

Speaking of Planetside, I read that Tencent bought the IP rights to the franchise. Apparently China loves the game - makes me wonder if a PS3 might be on the horizon

Daidraco · 2026-07-28T10:21:20-0400

Cybsled said:
Speaking of Planetside, I read that Tencent bought the IP rights to the franchise. Apparently China loves the game - makes me wonder if a PS3 might be on the horizon

Cant wait to see what microtransactions come about out of that.

Jovec · 2026-07-28T11:13:53-0400

Doom 1v1 over dial-up was the first multiplayer FPS for me. Quake was the first LAN multiplayer FPS, initially on Qtest1 demo over null-modem cable, then online multiplayer and Quakeworld. Because I was in the industry, I had ISDN (97) and then DSL (99) early on, so some skill was actually just being a LPB. DN3D, RotT, Quake 1 & 2, Kingpin, Battlefield 1942 especially with the Desert Combat mod, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Pretty much stopped online FPS games after EQ came out; it just felt like any time not playing EQ was lost progress. Friends and I were living together so in-house LAN and ran our own dedicated servers, with static IPs through work. Good times. Voodoo 1&2, Verite Rendition, S3 (IRIC?) all before Nvidia TNT took over the market for that sweet 3D acceleration. I wish I kept all those cards..

Never really consoled gamed (Owned a PS2, Dreamcast, and Xbox 360), but started on a Ti99 4/A, then Commodore 64/128, to Amiga (for King's quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and pretty much the entire Sierra OnLine library), then PC ever since. Wish I still had those systems too.

Penance · 2026-07-28T11:29:49-0400

Jovec said:
Kingpin

Man I'd forgotten about this game. I loved those types along with Soldier of Fortune and Redneck Rampage and probably a ton others I'm forgetting.

Hekotat · 2026-07-28T12:09:30-0400

Cybsled said:
Speaking of Planetside, I read that Tencent bought the IP rights to the franchise. Apparently China loves the game - makes me wonder if a PS3 might be on the horizon

They were hiring for ps3 around covid.

Zindan · 2026-07-28T12:18:05-0400

Jovec said:
Doom 1v1 over dial-up was the first multiplayer FPS for me. Quake was the first LAN multiplayer FPS, initially on Qtest1 demo over null-modem cable, then online multiplayer and Quakeworld. Because I was in the industry, I had ISDN (97) and then DSL (99) early on, so some skill was actually just being a LPB. DN3D, RotT, Quake 1 & 2, Kingpin, Battlefield 1942 especially with the Desert Combat mod, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Pretty much stopped online FPS games after EQ came out; it just felt like any time not playing EQ was lost progress. Friends and I were living together so in-house LAN and ran our own dedicated servers, with static IPs through work. Good times. Voodoo 1&2, Verite Rendition, S3 (IRIC?) all before Nvidia TNT took over the market for that sweet 3D acceleration. I wish I kept all those cards..

Never really consoled gamed (Owned a PS2, Dreamcast, and Xbox 360), but started on a Ti99 4/A, then Commodore 64/128, to Amiga (for King's quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and pretty much the entire Sierra OnLine library), then PC ever since. Wish I still had those systems too.

I hated the LPB's I had to go against while on 56k dialup in Q2..until I got the grenade launcher, quadpower and camped bottlenecks. Loved wining a match with 180ms vs guys with 20ms.

M Power · 2026-07-28T17:20:38-0400

Penance said:
Man I'd forgotten about this game. I loved those types along with Soldier of Fortune and Redneck Rampage and probably a ton others I'm forgetting.

Kingpin and all those FPS games at the time I believe were using the same iD game engine Quake 3 used.

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