Anyone playin Left 4 Dead?

"Stri" <geordiekid RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 16, 12:31 am, "McG." <McCod... RemoveThis @comcast.ne> wrote:
> "Stri" <geordie... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Co-op is the future? what an interesting thought. Considering it was the
> > *beginning* for all multiplayer. Don't you remember Doom, and the 4
> > player
> > networked games? Two choices: Co-op, with monsters or deathmatch.
> > Period.
> > ))
> > McG.
>
> Doom passed me by actually. I went from Spectrum to Amiga and then,
> many years later I got a PC100 by which time Doom was "old hat" and I
> didn't revisit it.
>
> I played it briefly on company network but that's it.
>
> Doom 1 was the BIG college craze over here. Seems everyone had their own
> computers, and the schools were all networked. That's nice. Great to see
> how our money is being spent, yeah. So the shareware episode of Doom
> spread
> like wildfire across the country. The single player form didn't see much
> attention for some while. By the time I discovered Doom, Doom II was
> coming out. I bought that one first. Much later, I snagged a clearance bin
> box of Doom. Just to make the set complete. It reminded me of
> Wolfenstein3D, of course. But, Doom and DoomII had networking So me and
> my boy just had to set up some kind of networking at my place just so we
> could try it out. But truly, outside of the college bunch, it didn't catch
> on as fast. Not until Quake. Now THAT was my gig!!! I loved
> Quakeworld CTF, Thunderwalker CTF, ALL the CTF for Quake. That was fun.
> HL was a much more enjoyable single player game for me. I didn't like TF
> much and I absolutely hate CS. WAY too rigidly structured gameplay to be
> any fun.
> BUT...you guys turned me on to HL DM and I was hooked again, specially
> with
> the RatsMaps!
> McG.

Well the first FPS that I recall playing in any amount on a LAN was
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Think primitive Jedi Outcast and you're
not far off. We had some fun with that for a while. Took me ages to
pursade them away from Orion 2 (strategy/economic game) but when they
did they enjoyed it.

First shooter I played online was Half-life: Deathmatch. I enjoyed it
and played it quite a lot. I hated CS initially and it was Vis (but
mostly) my old clan leader Hugoagogo who dragged me kicking and
screaming into what was then the new CS.

Quake, again passed me buy entirely. I had a quick go of Quake III but
it didn't grab me.

I never got any of the JK games. Never played any of the 'economic' type
games. Closest I ever got to those was Morrowind I still don't like the
structured team based games at all.

Quake. All its upgrades, iterations, patches, WinQuake, QuakeWorldGL,
QuakeGL...amounted to over five years of CTF addiction, and every damn bit
of it was over dialup 28,800 kbps tops. By the time I got cable, it was
Quake III Arena, and some of the CTF maps were pretty good so I played that
a few years too. But not to the degree I did Quake CTF. The gameplay and
maps along with the grappling hook were just so much fun. We didn't have
the problems with cheaters then that there is now. Clans started back then,
and I stayed away from em. I like the 'free agent' kind of thing. It was
with Quake I began the Upgrade Odyssey.
Now it's 3D apps pushing on the hardware that have me upgrading!
McG.

> I never got any of the JK games.  Never played any of the 'economic' type
> games.  Closest I ever got to those was Morrowind  I still don't like the
> structured team based games at all.

You could hardly call Morrowind economic. Money was all but pointless
in that game so easy was it to come by. Still, I had fun with it for a
while. I was a much bigger fan of Oblivion though even for it's
smaller size.

"CS" and "structured" don't seem to go. Sure, I know what you're
saying. Compared to DM CS was structured but playing it never felt
that way for me. Certainly not on public servers.

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