timeless popularity...

[UberMonkey]

What games do you think have/will always be popular?

so far i've seen that cs, cs:s, DotA and WoW have been popular for a long time... very popular... what others are there?

also please say how popular these games are... like counterstrike is many peoples lives, but DotA seems to be just a little bit of LAN fun (although i'm not entirely sure)

[Gunsmith]

Originally posted by UberMonkey
DotA seems to be just a little bit of LAN fun (although i'm not entirely sure)
replace "LAN fun" with "Chronic Anal Disease"

[UberMonkey]

Originally posted by Gunsmith
replace "LAN fun" with "Chronic Anal Disease"

never actually played DotA myself...


i may seem to ask peoples opinions on games... but i want a lot of new games, and i have very little to base my choices on, so i've decided to give 'lan popularity' high priority...

[her0n]

Dota is popular at lans with a group of about 10-15 or so of us. It's merely a casual thing although saying that, we played our first clanbase cup match this week and won 2-0 ;)

Joint ops normally gets a look in at lans.. as does ut2k4 (neotokyo mod), bf2 and bf1942 (altho not so sure on the latter these days)

[UberMonkey]

thinking about getting BF2...

also planning to get halflife2/cs:s, looked on amazon and its suprisingly expensive... i thought the price would come down since its been out for a while.

also decided i must get guild wars...

just bought ut2k4 and the first thing someone said was 'that game is dead. no one plays it anymore' but oh well... i'll get people to play it \o/

[Quietus]

UT2k4 is not dead. Neotokyo and Alien Swarm are still popular, and minigun instagib ctf is good fun for a few minutes ;-P

Further, crate wars is excellent as is carball.

[10G0]

are we forgetting the golden oldies?

How about the dooms, the quakes, the wolfensteins, the marios?

[Jingles]

Quake is eternal - its the fallback lan game since you can start with just 2 people and then others can join in later.

BF series is great, but not so good for lans because you need a big game for it to be really fun

[UberMonkey]

Originally posted by Jingles
Quake is eternal - its the fallback lan game since you can start with just 2 people and then others can join in later.



1, 2, 3 or 4? lol...

i was looking at it, and assuming my pc can handle it i might get it... should i go for the £10 or so Q3 or the £35 or so Q4?

[oxy]

2k4 aint dead ... insta is still played and TAM .. its liek a decent last man standing thing in teams lots of fun ß

[Switch`]

Allegiance
Armagetron
TA?

[philbert_mcpleb]

Originally posted by Gunsmith
replace "LAN fun" with "Chronic Anal Disease"

oh my sides

still not caught the LAN virus yet then, good for you

[Semajal]

Red Alert 2

:D

[Cypher]

FAO: UberMonkey
I 've seen the HL2 pack, standard AND collectors edition, for £19.99 online (Gameplay.co.uk was one of the places), and CS Source for £24.99 individually (same sites)

But like with GuildWars, there's a new version of the game out, incorperating recent patches etc, to which they've slapped a higher price sticker on

UT:GOTY is also a classic



EDIT:
www.Xfire.com (you those you dont know, it's a messager program designer for gamers, records all your gametime etc) lists the following as popular games, most i've seen on there for a while... but pick the older ones and you have some of your list
http://www.auta06.dsl.pipex.com/xfire_popular.JPG

[UberMonkey]

Originally posted by Semajal
Red Alert 2

:D

got :)

got red alert 2, tiberian sun, generals, even renegade etc.

[TimmyNoShoes]

Just have to say, renegade SUCKS.

[Cypher]

Wasnt it developing Renegade..and then the complete lack of sales that made Westwood go bankrupt?
Renegade killed Westwood!!

[olatronic]

Personally it doesn't matter what I play, I always end up going back to HL2DM. It never gets boring for me! Grav grenades, orb jumps, car throwing, and of course pwning noobs!!:D

Cillit_BANG!

If I'm getting pwned on BF2 I go on there to make myself feel better.

[Murray-Mint]

Red Alert 2 FTW.

BY the way, we CAN get it working on a LAN, no problems, we can also get it working over the net with no issues - nice 3 player game a couple of weeks ago :)

[UberMonkey]

never really played racing games... i think i will get need for speed: most wanted....

[Elbonio]

I imagine there will be Quake 3 for a long time to come

[AcidIce]

Originally posted by Elbonio
I imagine there will be Quake 3 for a long time to come

Q3 is really quite unbeatably win.

[UberMonkey]

Originally posted by Elbonio
I imagine there will be Quake 3 for a long time to come


dont think all the Q3 players will just move on to Q4?

[Andy^]

Originally posted by UberMonkey
dont think all the Q3 players will just move on to Q4?

Not really, I'd think that a lot of people will stay with q3 as q4 costs a lot to buy atm. When the price comes down a bit i'll move to that.

</tight arse>

-Andy :D

[Demonic]

Also a good number of Q3 players don't like Q4 for one reason or another.

And there's not really timeless popularity as such in any game. People may still like older games, but very few actually play them regularily, and you cannot say which current games will last the longest, for obvious reasons.

[Steadders]

Originally posted by UberMonkey
dont think all the Q3 players will just move on to Q4?

lol, did you know that i26 was the first event that had more CS:S players than 1.6?

[UberMonkey]

true, but cs was number one... and there were how many years till cs:s came out?

quake is up to number 4... and since i havent really played any games, as far as i see, Quake 2 has been made obsolete by Q3...
wanted to make sure Q4 wouldnt do the same to Q3 before buying it... :D

[UberMonkey]

apparently i hit quote instead of edit... lol

[no friends]

CSS fun maps (fy_shotgun :D)
nfsu2 at i23 was much greatness :D
armegetron at i25 at 5am was even better :D

[PyscoFalcon]

UT ftw!
Been going for so many years now. Yes most are on UT2k4 but as long as there's an Instagib they'll always be UT :D

Oh and C&C Red Alert.

[Ch3m1c4L]

ROME-TW

TA

Serious Sam--although serious sam 2 is almost identical just new levels and gfx etc so will super seed it very soon as soon as ppl can be assed to pay for it

DoW 40,000

AVP gold edition/avp2 is allways fun at lans :D

and, teh most popular of all
STARCRAFT:BROOD WAR---is still peoples lives, and deaths, today, however many years on it is

[Elbonio]

There will always be a Quake Game at a LAN
There will always be a Warcraft game at a LAN
There will always be Midtown Madness II at a LAN

[Killy]

just remember folks if AvP2 ensues your face *WILL* be humped mercilessly by alien wing wong.

<3 your face