Community Question: Genres of Choice

(badman) #1

Community, there’s a huge amount of choice out there when it comes to games. Being a multiplayer-focused company, we’re very interested to find out what sorts of games you like to play when you’re not knee-deep in Enemy Territory or one of our other titles. So, without further word-fluff, here’s this week’s Community Question:

What genre(s) do you currently play the most to get your multiplayer gaming fix?

We’ve got a list of the most obvious choices up at the top for you to vote on. We’d also love to know what games you’re currently into, so please mention them in your replies.

(Dthy) #2

Voted shooter when I could play online, currently loving BL2 (RPG with FPS elements?)

(murka) #3

I guess nothing can beat a few good games of AoE2. Not a lot of shooters out there that hold me playing for years.

(tokamak) #4

Currently I’m really enjoying Dawn of War 2. The netcode is crappy and the community is dying but it’s such a great hybrid between an RTS and a MOBA.

It’s hard to describe the appeal. Unlike SC2 where they player has exact control over his units, in DoW the fights are harder to control, yet, at the same time the stakes of the matches are much higher. Every unit that survives a fight comes back stronger and stronger. A levelled up unit is worth so much more than the mere resource cost, losing it really feels like a punch in the stomach.

That’s the kind of concept I’d like to see more in shooters. If a player grows and becomes stronger while alive then it truly feels like he lost something when he dies. It really puts more tension and emotion AND need for teamwork in a game.

(ran93r) #5

Borderlands 2 here at the moment, dipping into GW2 when I feel the urge.

(DarkangelUK) #6

I play shooters mostly, when I want a change of pace I’ll dabble in racing games with my wheel or get my game on with some 2D fighters. And yes I’m also balls deep atm in Borderlands 2.

(Humate) #7

Dont really play anything anymore, but shooters and strategy.
BF3 / SC2 are the last games i bought.

(acQu) #8

Well, if anything, then always prefer a good and nicely layed out story single player over any multiplayer. Multiplayer games and story are hard to combine it seems.

The last games i enjoyed were Borderlands 2, Starcraft 2, Assasins Creed (Series), along with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (old, but still nice). SC2 and Enemy Territory seem to be that ‘multiplayer type’, but personally i think focusing solely on multiplayer as a game company does not really widen your possibilities to make a good game (guess i dropped the bomb there :D).

Also: i probably said it in a last thread and am going to repeat. I would prefer many things from Borderlands 2 combined with Enemy Territory (FPSRPG type). I don’t know if another WW2 shooter will do it, but these would be some elements i’d combine, because i am pretty much clueless about other good multiplayer game types. Basically i would be only interested in RTS and FPS.

Also, and i really forgot that. Arma 2 DayZ. The whole shooot and loot thingy ? Really enjoyed that.

(Humate) #9

Forgot to add - only play MP.

(.Chris.) #10

Nothing really, I’ve gone back to single player games. Nothing has kept my interest long enough.

DayZ, promising but buggy and hard to get into, perhaps the standalone will rectify that.

CS:GO, bought because was cheap was fun but hasn’t drawn me in at all.

Tribes Ascend, free and fun but again didn’t wow me to keep playing.

Hawken, tried alpha and was fun but yet again didn’t draw me in.

I’ve got lots of games to go through on Steam so it’s not a big loss, currently having blast with Anno2070 :slight_smile:

(Dormamu) #11
  • Strategy only for the story/SP
  • Shooters only for the MP if it’s really good, but i get bored really soon. The only shooter that i played after i get bored to get all the Steam Achievements was Brink :D, for TF2/others i cheated to get most of the achievements, after that i lost interest in them. The harder it is, the most time i will play it. If is “holding hands, catching butterflies and picking flowers” i will play the SP and uninstall it.
  • MOBA - nope, tried but didn’t like it.
  • MMO - very very rarely
  • Racing - very very rarely
  • Sports - only FIFA and NHL - manager mode. Win everything with AZ Alkmaar and Ajax in FIFA, and Boston Bruins/Philadelphia Flyers in NHL. After that i will lose interest in them.
  • RPG and stuff - if the story is somehow good i will play it regardless of the graphics/bugs/art/length/etc. The funny part is that after i finish a RPG game i will not care about future DLC or adons. The exception to this rule was Diablo 2 and Morrowind :D.
  • Web Games - Action (commando like) and Adventure/RPG at work when i get bored :smiley:
(Fooooo) #12

Main genres for a multiplayer fix for me is (in no special order)

Strategy / RTS , Shooter & Racing

Atm im currently playing / into…

FPS:
Mechwarrior Online
ET / ETQW
Borderlands 2
The Hunter

Strategy :
X3: Terran Conflict (Heavily modded)

Cities XL
Simcity 4 (Heavily modded)

RTS:
Rome Total War (Modded)
Medieval 2 Total War
Empires Total War
StarCraft 2
Dark Reign

Racing :

Rfactor (heavily modded)
GTR Evolution (heavily modded)
I-Racing
Nascar 2003

Thats about it I think, I have periods where I’m stuck playing 1 of those games for at least a week without playing any of the others…:cool:

I guess I should also point out that i’ve been playing a few of those for upwards of 10 years because they are just that good…
Its also probably partly because there has been a lack of any games that have beaten / bettered what they provide imo.

Case in point for me is Dark reign and Simcity 4 …no games have come out that do what they do better imo(even tho I DO play SC2 I still prefer Dark reign’s playstyle, and cities XL whilst good, is just missing some great things SC4 did so well) :penguin:

(SockDog) #13

FPS of course, primarily L4D2 campaign simply because it removes a big chunk of the epeen and balancing issues we’ve discussed so many many times. The fact this free weekend has seen peak players jump from 9-10k to 45k and you can still join a game with total noobs and play through whole campaigns shows some undeniable strengths of the way the game works (that’s not to say it isn’t a hell of a lot tougher to play as a result but it’s still playable!). It’s also excellent at making a team work together with very few 4th wall shattering mechanics or bribes. I’d heartily recommend SD play a few campaigns this weekend while the noob level is high.

In the other category:

Open world/emergent games such as Minecraft and DayZ. Seems there is plenty of scope for this type of gameplay to be explored and incorporated into a more traditional FPS multiplayer game types.

Not so much a game genre but I also like passive multiplayer. Things where your friends (or strangers) compete on things like scores, Audiosurf comes to mind as do game like Burnout Paradise. Maybe not enough to hang a whole game off of but it’s nice if incorporated well (aka Brink Challenges).

(BioSnark) #14

The only player versus player multiplayer games I play now are shooters.

(tokamak) #15

Except that it uses a scoreboard and except it’s not competitive.

Open world/emergent games such as Minecraft and DayZ. Seems there is plenty of scope for this type of gameplay to be explored and incorporated into a more traditional FPS multiplayer game types.

Agreed.

(DarkangelUK) #16

Oh ffs, here we go again.

(Senethro) #17

Quick, I’ll derail in a different direction!

Sometimes I like to play League of Legends. Mobas aren’t too awful if you’re pro with the /ignore chat function!

(tokamak) #18

Oh noes! Discord on a discussion board!

(ailmanki) #19

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(tokamak) #20

Starforge has the physics but now it needs geology and ecology so the environment becomes more meaningful to players. That’s the real future of such open world sandbox games.

In a future game a faction of players will be starting their own underground mining operation while fighting off an opposing faction, they will hit on a magma rift that causes an eruption which wipes out a nearby forest located on the mountain hill and a mudslide will flood a nearby base occupied by the opposition. The ash cloud will lower the temperature in a wider region and locational acid rains will change the the quality of the nature it lands on causing certain animals and plants to go extinct while the added fertilisation will attract new species. All of that procedural and none of it scripted.

Implementing a complex natural world in which the action by players have consequences that will ripple through to a larger scale means that there’s many different motives and ambitions players can have that will be directly conflicting with the aspirations of other players.

Players will fight to complete enterprises they conceived by themselves and other players will try to stop them because such enterprises will compromise their interests.