The "I hate FPS and sports games" thread

**Frogacuda** · 01 Dec 2004, 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by sethsez

Fixed.

Quake is really when I stopped caring about id. Quake II couldn't hold my interest for a single playthrough, let alone multiple ones, and UT was better than QIII from day one. And Doom 3... well...

Quake II was really not that great at all. Something was definately missing. Q3 was where I lost interest in the genre (didn't feel the multiplayer focus). But Quake was and is moody, action packed, tense, and just great straightforward pick up and play fun. I seriously sunk hours into it last week after finishing HL2 and still had a blast. It's still stylish, moody, and atmospheric, and I love the ambient soundtrack. Quake is one of like... 4 FPS that really still matters.

**sethsez** · 01 Dec 2004, 12:32 AM

I wouldn't have minded Quake if one episode looked like that, but the ENTIRE THING did. It was like Doom 3 in that after a while it was impossible to tell where you were anymore. I also wasn't crazy about the presentation of the actual episodes... the hub just felt weird and didn't really feel like an actual place, and there wasn't a feeling of progression at all through the game, both of which the Doom games managed quite nicely (even when a Doom level was almost totally abstract, it still conveyed a sense of location beyond the "big brown room floating in a void" of Quake's hub).

**NeoZeedeater** · 01 Dec 2004, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Quake is one of like... 4 FPS that really still matters.

I was with you on the Quake 1 love until this. For big fans of the genre there are a hell of a lot more than four.

I agree that Q1 > Q2 > Q3. Q3 was the least relevant for me since I mostly played Quake for single-player and UT destroyed it for multiplayer.

**Frogacuda** · 01 Dec 2004, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

I was with you on the Quake 1 love until this. For big fans of the genre there are a hell of a lot more than four.

There's plenty of other games in the genre that are still great, but what I meant is that it's one of the truly genre-defining titles for me.

**Doc Holliday** · 01 Dec 2004, 01:13 AM

I just recently re-loaded Doom1 & 2 on my machine, in honor of it's 10th Anniversary (and the board's addiction to Halo 2). That's some good ol' fashion nostalgia right there.

I've also downloaded a level editor. I’ll be sure to post my WAD when I’m finished, I’m shooting for 3 good levels: a mars base style city, a castle, and hell.

If anyone else is interested (i.e. still enjoys Doom's archaic ass), down load this free editor (if you don't have one), send me your levels and I'll throw them together for a giant TNL.WAD

**Roufuss** · 01 Dec 2004, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by Anomaly

I’ll be sure to post my WAD when I’m finished, I’m shooting

No thanks, you sick freak

**Frogacuda** · 01 Dec 2004, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by sethsez

I wouldn't have minded Quake if one episode looked like that, but the ENTIRE THING did.

It really didn't though. Saying it doesn't make it so. Each episode had its own feel and each level was visibly different from the last. Yes, they were all dreary, and semi-abstract (in that there was usually no apparent utilitatian purpose to the levels) but that doesn't make them all the same.

**sethsez** · 01 Dec 2004, 01:33 AM

I really don't see these visable differences you speak of, but whatever.

**adol** · 01 Dec 2004, 05:48 AM

I hate both genres. FPS games are really annoying to me. Iv'e tried to play some of the popular ones, And I simply can't get into them at all. I can't stand to play them, and it's worse watching other people play them. I Hate sports in general, so I hate sports video games by default.