Sephiroth Posted December 16, 2003 last i checked CS and ET where top online games. assuming u play either, which do u like. advantages of both CS - realism is the focus. have to buy weapons. this allows more choice. rounds are short. is more team deathmatch than ET. very popular. weapons are balenced and varied. now on X-BOX and PC, may (not sure if it is or will) be on GC and PSX2 built on Half-life (enhanced quake engine) engine ET - free game. made for longer fun matches. has a renforcment time limit. classes and experince points. medics, engeneers, cover ops, field ops, soldier. focuses more on balenced team play, player rely on classes. no need to buy weapons. focuses more on getting objectives done, thus leading to larger maps voteing punk buster linux, MAC(?) and windows the bad about both CS - need to buy the stand alone game. buying can be annoying and so can a number of weapons realism, stunned when shot. out of match when killed. rounds go quick confuseing to new players windows and X-Box only ET - computer only rounds/matches can be very long allows spawn killing, even worse if a map maker does not consider this. not as much custimization relience on classes (however new mods alow u to change if u find a dead team mate) unless u have limited lives, u cant win by killing all of the other team. well those are about all my points i play ET for the most part. one reason is there is a linux version. another is i just dont like the CS style dont turn it into a flame war, just tell which u like and why 0 Share this post Link to post
cycloid Posted December 16, 2003 C: 1. choose a gun, yet there are 500 to choose from and i have no idea why an AK47b542 9mm is different or more/less desirable than an UZIxy44 9mm or somehow more usefull than an MP5-ncblahblahblah. 2. spawn 3. sneak around/hide/camp and only move about 4 feet from where you spawned 4. die because someone's been playing it constantly and has amounted so much in-game cash they have all 500 guns pointed at you at once. 5. wait half an hour to play again ET/TF/TFC: 1. choose a class, possibly one with a rocket launcher, a flame thrower or some other large weapon or even one that can simply run fast 2. spawn 3. kill other team with said big guns / run circles around them 4. died? no problem, respawn immediatley and carry on fragging! 5. CTF (or vaguelly similar objective type) = win seems like i prefer the latter ... i.e. "fun" i'm not much for "realism" in games, unless it's specifically aimed to be a simulator (e.g. driving games) 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted December 16, 2003 I've only played CS, but if this other game is similar to TFC like you said, then it sounds fun. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted December 17, 2003 CS is ok i guess. I never thought of it as being great. I'd rather play TFC. But, i'd rather play BF 1942 over that even...heh 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted December 17, 2003 LOL before reading the first post, I thought this was going to be a topic about Christian Science versus the possible existence of aliens. 0 Share this post Link to post
Vile Posted December 17, 2003 I used to play CS until steam(ing pile) came along. I tried getting it to work for a while but just stopped caring... I imagine things are better now but there's little motivation to try again. I did enjoy the game though; on AWP-banned servers I'd grab a deagle and the scout rifle and just mess around. ET I've never played, so I can't compare the two, but it sounds interesting. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted December 17, 2003 America's Army is fantastic -- it's the most realistic squad-based shooter I've ever played. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted December 17, 2003 Job said:America's Army is fantastic -- it's the most realistic squad-based shooter I've ever played. that one is free too. but i didnt really like it. i guess if i played it more i would. just didnt like it. also when i did play it servers raked up some horible ping. best i could find was a server with a ping at around 57, but most where 120 or so 0 Share this post Link to post
Arno Posted December 17, 2003 I LOVE Enemy Territory for too many reasons to list here. A few: large battlefields, varied objectives, buildable watchtowers and MG nests, landmines, uniform stealing, experience points system to gain rank, maps are arranged into campaigns, tons of voice chat messages, PunkBuster anti-cheat protection, completely free game, etc, etc, etc I played CounterStrike once, but didn't really like it because of the One Life To Live rounds and the outdated graphics. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom Fanatic Posted December 17, 2003 I guess I'm still the only guy who still plays Unreal Tournament. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted December 17, 2003 Doom Fanatic said:I guess I'm still the only guy who still plays Unreal Tournament. That's a good one too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Isle Posted December 17, 2003 heh, i actually play et with my dad's coworkers on weekends 0 Share this post Link to post
Tobester Posted December 17, 2003 Isle said:heh, i actually play et with my dad's coworkers on weekends but you won't play with me :~( 0 Share this post Link to post
Mr. T Posted December 17, 2003 I might be a bit biased here because I am a staff member on a CS (csnation) site, but I would slant my decision a bit more to Counter-Strike its achieved a fine balance between realism (Rainbow 6, argh) and fun (DOOM!) IE, it's easier to die than most games but you can still take a few hits and keep on going. I'm not choosing one over the other though, because games can be just as fun as each other even if they are a bit different (A good example would be Carmageddon and Grand Turismo. They are both at opposite ends of the realism scale, but are both incredibly fun games to play.) Thanks for reading my epic post (faggot) 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted December 17, 2003 Tobester said:et > cs ET >> CS :P I would play AA:SF but my ADSL causes BSOD's when I run it. O_~ 0 Share this post Link to post
SyntherAugustus Posted December 17, 2003 Doom Fanatic said:I guess I'm still the only guy who still plays Unreal Tournament. I play UT also, 0 Share this post Link to post
Ed Posted December 17, 2003 Let us not forget the vast ammount of cheaters that inhabit nearly every CS server. ET > DOD > CS I'll kindly take my Q3/UT/TFC, thank-you very much.. 0 Share this post Link to post
-Jk- Posted December 17, 2003 CS is pretty good. IMO the old CS betas are the best (Beta 5.2 and 6.x). They're just a lot more fun to play, especially Beta 5.2 as player speeds are higher than in later versions. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted December 17, 2003 Sephiroth said:advantages of both CS built on Half-life (enhanced quake engine) engine BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Now where is that an advantage??? IMO CS is pretty unrealistic. HEs can hit you behind a wall. Guns can easily shoot trough 1m reinforced concrete, but not trough the shield. Hitboxes are everywhere, but not where the player model is. Plus it's buggy is hell. For each bug they fix they implement two new ones. It's not even the big bugs I'm talking about, just the small ones. BTW, I'm usually playing CS every day :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Chow Yun Thin Posted December 18, 2003 I prefer unrealism games. So ET and TFC are my choices. Don't get me wrong though, I do think CS is a good game but the community is something I really can live without. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted December 18, 2003 ET is a fun game, also I made a few HTML pages http://www.furnation.com/chrisdragon/servers.htm http://www.furnation.com/chrisdragon/tips.htm http://www.furnation.com/chrisdragon/WW2fromET.htm I am a PlanetWolf regular fyi 0 Share this post Link to post
Arno Posted December 18, 2003 Mr. Chris said:I am a PlanetWolf regular fyi Me too! In fact, I recognise you now! :D 0 Share this post Link to post
cycloid Posted December 18, 2003 Ed said:I'll kindly take my Q3/UT/TFC, thank-you very much.. so the consensue generally seems to be: rocket launcher = good, waiting hours to respawn = bad :-) 0 Share this post Link to post
-Jk- Posted December 18, 2003 boris said:BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Now where is that an advantage??? IMO CS is pretty unrealistic. HEs can hit you behind a wall. Guns can easily shoot trough 1m reinforced concrete, but not trough the shield. Hitboxes are everywhere, but not where the player model is. Plus it's buggy is hell. For each bug they fix they implement two new ones. It's not even the big bugs I'm talking about, just the small ones. BTW, I'm usually playing CS every day :P Shields... CS 1.6... CS 1.6 sucks. Steam sucks. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted December 18, 2003 Sephiroth said:advantages of both CS - realism is the focus. have to buy weapons. this allows more choice. rounds are short. is more team deathmatch than ET. very popular. weapons are balenced and varied. now on X-BOX and PC, may (not sure if it is or will) be on GC and PSX2 built on Half-life (enhanced quake engine) engine uhh...I'd say most of those points are bad. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted December 18, 2003 I don't really see what people found in CS, but Enemy Territory pleasantly surprised me (certainly it's a lot better than RTCW dm), although I'd still take DoD over it. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathz0r Posted December 18, 2003 D-Day: Battle for Normandy > All which have been mentioned 0 Share this post Link to post