/v/ - Video Games

>>13818701

Sonic Robo Blast 2 when there was an active community.

>>13818705

Why would you want to play the fucking Gamecube version?

>>13818705

If dubs, I buy the broadband adapter I'm watching and join in the fun.

>>13818746

Because Gamecube, anon. You silly nigger.

>>13818750

Reroll

>>13818754

Reroll. I wanna waste money.

>>13818701

I enjoyed the first three tiers of Warthunder(the plane battles, not the tanks), but then the grind became too much for me.

[VGTG]: ascend

>>13818758

BOTnigger!

>>13818753

It has less content, no keyboard and runs at 640x480. Come on.

>>13818758

[VGN][VGTG]

I extremely enjoyed playing Minecraft and TF2 during their golden era.

There have been other games where I spent 1k+ hours, but they were more like an addiction than actual enjoyment.

>>13818766

That looks retarded as fuck. Playing MMOs on console will always be shit, even if they were released for consoles first. Blue Burst or bust.

>>13818773

Actually it may have been 500 players, not 5k. You would regularly recognize people you see. Man I miss that game.

>>13818701

>Is it just me or were some of these kid focused online games objectively great?

I think since these games are made with very forgiving, inexperienced children in mind, they were willing to try more experimental things.

Plus, both their demographic and possibly even some of the developers may not have even had a fully developed image of the "standards" of an MMO, so their stuff falls out of the formula just a little bit, like an artist asking for the opinion of an "untrained eye".

>>13818774

I just love my Gamecube. I'm drunk and considering buying a BBA finally, since I just got a paycheck.

>best game I played online

With random people? Probably something turned based

With friends? Halo 3 was great with friends after the map packs came out.

>>13818771

[VGQ][VGS]

>>13818750

I don't think the GC version can even go online anymore. Those servers shut down long ago.

Save your money.

>>13818799

Nah, there're tons of people still playing through private servers.

>>13818848

Damn nigga, how the fuck do you not know in current year+2 3/4

>>13818705

I remember playing the Phantasy Star Universe demo for far longer than I really should have. I miss early 360, very comfy.

>>13818746

Because it has better controls, local co-op, and no server-side saving faggotry.

>>13818781

I've heard you can imitate a broadband adapter with a Wii hack to get online with a Wii now, never gave it a try myself though.

>>13818774

>PSO

>MMO

Pick one and only one.

Chumpions Online

City of Heroes

Team Fortress 2

CS:S

No I don't care that there's furries everywhere games were alright.

The furry pound (not Freak Fortress) servers are some of the least shit community servers there are if you disable sprays and voice

>>13818763

>less content

And no that's not minus in this case because Episode 4's extra crap basically just took a dump all over the rather nice balance between rarity and power of items that they had struck with v3. Episode 4 itself is lazy garbage with the only genuinely interesting area being underground (too bad the boss is cheat as shit).

Also the Gamecube version has one or two graphical effects not present on Blue Burst, interestingly enough.

>>13818774

Phantasy Star Online isn't a MMO and is better played with a controller. If you're not playing Blue Burst with a gamepad and keyboard you're needlessly limiting yourself to the unintuitive result of a console control scheme smeared across a keyboard. If you are then you're playing it exactly as most Dreamcast players did. That controller does look dumb, but if it's anything like the Dreamcast version you can hook your controller up to port one and your keyboard to any of the other three and it'll still work. Also you're a nigger.

I don't think I ever really enjoyed any MMOs, they're all just monuments to wasted potential and the vast majority of them are too grindy and jewish to enjoy even if you ignore it

As far as regular multiplayer games go, I don't play many but I liked red dead and some of the halos

>>13819059

Does it really count if the online part of the game is just an optional mode, like Halo has? It's not the same thing as TF2 or Counter Strike where online is literally the only mode. As far as FPS games go I don't even consider those full games, they're just half-games. An FPS without a single player campaign is useless.

>>13819069

Any game with more than a throwaway focus on multiplayer is a multiplayer game, and halo definitely falls under that category

You could just as easily say the single player campaign is optional

Honestly first person shooting has never been very interesting against AI unless the game has some sort of gimmick that makes it fundamentally different, so the multiplayer is the only part that makes most shooters worthwhile because it takes that simple toolset and gives you an actual dynamic challenge with it

>>13818773

I came here to post that exact game

Glad to find someone who has taste

>>13819101

multiplayer game != online game

>>13818773

>>13818778

Speaking of people you always ran across, remember that faggot Churchill who had aspergers?

>>13819165

>>13819169

>You fagots are your need to do innecesary sociali interactions disgust me

You're post got deleted but I saved it for you :^)

>Wizard101

I still sometimes fork over a few shekels and play it for a month.

I like the combat, and those fuckers just won't stop adding new content. There are 17 or so worlds now, and they've added more combat mechanics like shadow magic and pip conversion.

It's surprisingly hard the further you get.

>>13819214

Shit really? I kinda wanna play again but I don't know if that's appropriate considering I'm gonna be 20 in a month or so and the game is mostly preteens. I'd feel weird about that.

>>13819171

Anon, "online game" is even less distinct

>>13819249

Online game is a game you must be online to play.

>>13819163

Oh shit, you're the first person I've ever met outside of SS itself or the forums that knows it exists.

>>13819181

Nah, I don't even remember the names of the friends I met through it. It was so long ago. I was probably like 10 maybe.

It's a shame there will never be anything like it again due to wikis ruining everything for MMOs. All the unique ships, weapons, skills, etc you had to go find in certain sectors. Remember that asteroid mining ship you could only get from that one unmarked space station that moved around inside an asteroid belt? Shit like that is why I loved the game.

>>13819255

That applies to like 90% of modern games whether they even have online features or not

>>13819263

DRM doesn't count.

>>13819267

Then any game with online multiplayer, so it still applies

Or any game with any real focus on online multiplayer, since I know what your response to that would be

>>13819334

I think I played something extremely similar on GameBoy Advance… is it possible?

I played a lot of online games but the main ones were Darkorbit and Adventure quest.

>>13819225

I'm soloed the vast majority of it last time I played, not much interaction with other players. If you like it and don't mind the $10 to get past the first 10 minutes of the game, go for it.

Little kids become less common the further you get, though you'll still occasionally find a preteen with pay2win gear in the higher worlds.

Here's my mostly chronologically ordered list.

-Doom

-Doom2

-End of the Line MUD

-Quake

-Quake3

-CNC

-CNC: Red Alert

-Ultima Online (first three months only)

-Asheron's Call

-Battlefield 1942

-Battlefield 2

-Battlefield: Bad Company 2

-Dungeons & Dragons Online (before f2p)

-Battlefield 3

-Battlefield 4

-Dark Souls

-Dark Souls 2

-Dark Souls 3

Tribes and Global Agenda.

Plus just about any fighting game that doesn't have a billion hits in a combo.

>>13819285

Stop being so obtuse. Just because it has multiplayer as an option does not mean it is an online game. An online game must be online to play because that's how it works, being online is a central and unremovable aspect of the gameplay itself. of how you play the game. Age of Empires is not an online game. Team Fortress 2 is.

Always online DRM is a meta aspect that not only is not part of gameplay, but is not part of the game itself.

>>13819545

Well I mean, you're arbitrarily defining the term in the first place to be always online, so I can arbitrarily decide that a major online multiplayer component counts even if there's a single player campaign

>>13819587

It's not arbitrary, it's rational. You can still play that single player campaign without an internet connection. You cannot play an MMO without an internet connection. One of these is an online game, and the other is a game that just happens to have multiplayer.

>>13819545

>Age of Empires is not an online game

You're crazy man, that's like seriously thinking the "Arcade" mode is the main feature of a fighting game.

In my opinion, I'd class all games with meaningful networking functions "netgames", whereas anything else would just be an ordinary game

>>13819627 >…You can still play that single player campaign without an internet connection. You cannot play an MMO without an internet connection.

Hasn't Phantasy Star already been posted here?

>>13819661

I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to believe that "online game" included Fighters.

>>13819052

>tfw pre-searing is still alive

Sometimes I'll log in and bum around for awhile, or really get the hankering to play though one of the story arcs again. I have a feeling the only reason why the servers are still up is due to not only having some of the titles affect the second game but because if they did shut down the servers the few that still play it would be out for blood.

The only other MMO I've played that i enjoyed was Everquest but i owe that largely to the fact that most of my family played it as well. I have a lot of childhood memories of getting home from school, logging on and having a grand time exploring around that massive world with them. Couple that with with our innate ability to get into trouble i remember ending up a lot of crazy situations and getting into some shenanigans. Such as getting my cousin's enchanter to charm some bear in a lowbie zone, then buffing the crap out of it with my shaman and dropping the charm, watching as it curb stomps any hapless nub at so much as looks at it cross eyed. Or accidentally stumbling on a mostly forgotten quest chain that ends up spawning a bunch of really high level shit in an otherwise tame area. It eventually got to the point that the GMs knew some of us by name.

>>13819627

An MMO is an MMO

There is no point in having the term if it only applies to that one genre that already has a name

>>13819708

Anon do you even know what MMO stands for?

>Massively multiplayer online game

>>13819285

>>13819587

Fuck off Gaylo fag.

>>13819718

Yes, and by definition that means there are "online games" that aren't MMOs

>>13819733

Right after you kill yourself, you old nigger

>>13819734

I don't think you understand what the concept of an "example" is then, if you assume my mentioning MMOs in that post meant that ONLY MMOs were online games. I've explicitly stated that games like TF2 were also online games, while games like Halo and Age of Empires were not online games.

Try to keep up.

>>13819745

And I've explicitly stated that you're full of shit, so citing an even more extreme genre as an example was never going to prove anything

>>13819734

Yes, something like World of Tanks would fall into that category.

left 4 dead 2

gwent

that's it

>>13820091

>RIP

Have you not heard about PlanetSide Forever?

>>13820325

I have but last time I checked there wasn't much going on with it

>>13820091

Same :\

>>13820430

>4 Players

>Massively Multiplayer

What other popular retard opinions do you subscribe to?

>the controls are extremely simple and the combat archaic

Same can be said for many early gen console titles but I don't use a keyboard to emulate these either.

>Dreamcast owners also played shooters with a single stick.

Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 were designed for PC and KB&M, then ported to console and controller. The reverse is true for PSO. Is this weak strawman meant to imply i suggest you play these games with a gamepad? For shame, nigger.

>>13819259

Ye it was good shit. I would spend hours after school on my parents shit PC just grinding

I mained FC for a bit, but I had a Shield Monkey character as well as the sniper one

The Devs were always active with events, I loved the uni resets. It was probably the best online community I've ever been a part of

>>13820808

How is it not an MMO when you are sharing a common server with like a hundred players?

>but I don't use a keyboard to emulate these either

Blue Burst is not an emulator, it's a port.

>>13820845

Please don't remind me about that game.

Hurts almost as much as Hawken to me.

>>13820930

>common server with like a hundred players

The portion with a hundred players is a (neat) glorified server browser. PSO is no more a MMO than Diablo or Diablo 2. The general game industry can sling around descriptors so carelessly that if you google any genre you get results for the same six titles but I am not such a faggot.

>Blue Burst is not an emulator, it's a port.

This was never debated. The connection lies between "games with simple controls and archaic combat" designed for controllers and whether or not gamepad use is a valid or superior option.

>>13820961

I feel your pain about Hawken anon. I started playing it after MWO turned into even worse shit than when it started, and by that time there were very few competent players left. I managed to climb up to the upper end of the matchmaking rating in the span of like 2 weeks and just kept playing with the same autists over and over. It had such potential.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and one obscure mmorpg called Rubies of Eventide.

>>13819056

The thing about Blue Burst, however, is that it doesn't have true analog directionality. They simply slapped the digital inputs for walk and run on the analog stick. That's what I mean when I say the console versions have better control. You're not actually missing out on any precision if you play Blue Burst with a keyboard.

>>13820845

>Ace Online

Wait, Air Rivals? That shit was GREAT. Now that's a private server I'd play on..

>>13821077

With MOBA's beginning to collapse on themselves, I wonder if we can get back to an era of arena third person shooters with a little personality… I mean, the accessibility and lower standard / dulled reflexes of today's gamer makes it impossible unless asian, but..who knows..

>>13820430

>game is universally regarded as such

Are you the universe now? It's an online RPG, but not an MMORPG.

Analog does matter, the extra movement precision on the console versions allow you to do things like instantly aim at something accurately from any direction, a very useful ability if you're a ranger. This pretty much requires some camera panning on Blue Burst's digital controls, slowing you down. Another example of analog directional precision usefulness is in the fight against Vol Opt. It is considerably more difficult to avoid its trapping attack on Blue Burst than the console versions because it's much harder to run in circles precisely.

>>13818701

There was Guild Wars way back in the day. Started that with my best bud in middle school. Played every day when we came home, sometimes just running around and hanging out and shit until he decided to be a faggot and went to an apprenticeship instead of high school.

Later, there was Warhammer Online.

It's incredible how much the incompetent devs fucked that game. It was centered on PvP and not only did the devs not anticipate that all the edgy kids would go for the spiky Chaos emo look, no, they also removed the last line of defense for the capitals because they were too retarded to make a netcode that actually worked. Then they brought out an expansion that buffed the stronger faction even further.

Still salty about that. It was a great game with a great IP and a great atmosphere, it didn't have to die.

>>13818701

Friend showed me a game called Mars Explorer back in 2009 or so. I never saw more than 15 people online at a time, but it was fun to just explore the maps, play tag, or do whatever with the other few people online with you. It was very simple. (It's not the best online game I played. I'm just curious if anyone else heard of it.) Or the sequel Terrium I just learned about now when seeing if Mars Explorer still existed.

>>13821771

There was a fun server I used to play on back in Alpha before damage worked properly. Because of that, it was more peaceful building focused. It had disabled damage, tool kits, warps for a couple towns, and a spleef arena mods would host occasionally. We had griefers, but in hindsight not a lot for the player size. However, once damage was "fixed" the server went from peaceful to survival immediately and split the playerbase between those who wanted survival and peaceful building. Also after the split I learned the admins were lying banhappy fucks. They basically banned players a lot under false pretenses or for using certain items they allowed in the first place. I wouldn't have thought much of it until I got the hammer myself over an event a furfag admin made up about me.

That server was probably the most notable instance to me of a good/decent community but horrible moderation. I wouldn't be surprised if the staff eventually banned or scared off all the good members.

>>13818705

Kill yourself, this shit killed the PS franchise. And btw it sucks, try playing it now. Aged like milk.

>>13824051

Pretty fun game, tbh famalam. No hard feelings for the original PS games, I like those too. Hard to kill a series that hadn't actually had a game in some time.

>>13819350

It was called Advanced Wars, dipshit

>>13818701

I still play Roblox, actually. And I'm certain some of you fags do too, judging by the type of retards on Blood & Iron servers.

>>13819772

This. Basically enjoyed the game before they introduced Reputation. After that it was a giant spiral downwards into Loot Box Online. 1-2 Lootboxes were fine in theory but now there are several dozen and a dozen reputations and nobody has time for that shit.

>>13823583

I had this same thing happen on the first server I started going to. Seems like once damage got fixed and you could fight each other, every server with more than 10 people went from building cool stuff together to "total anarkee xD lets fight each other and steal stuff"

Uncharted Waters Online. Get your spreadsheet simulator going at sea, PvP aggressively as a pirate, explore the world to make discoveries, raise shipwrecks to explore… quite a lot of fun, and they restarted the server not even a month ago under a new ownership

Cabal Online

Rumble Fighters

Exteel

Grand Chase

S4 League

Trackmania Nations

>>13832730

I forgot to add Toribash

I sunk days into that game

>>13827339

Were you there when the Klingons climbed the mountain to kill Fed players on Nukara?

MicroVoltz

Battlefield Heroes

S4 League

All very fun at first and all became extremly pay to win over time, wouldn't even reccomend trying them

>all these faggots who actually played Roblox

>>13818758

>I will capture the flag!

>No. I will capture the flag!

>You- Shazbot!

>Woohoo!

Games are too serious. Having a fun com system made up for a good 15% of the game's enjoyment.