Do I just have a short attention span...

(Ranstaton) #1

Recently there hasn’t been a game that can hold my attention the way Day of Defeat and Counter-Strike did (I nolonger play either of them).

The last game to really hook me for a long time was America’s Army, and I’ve been playing that recently for now.

I think that I need the game to be updated frequently or else I get fed up with the bugs or tired of the gameplay. With the chances of ET getting patched the way they are I don’t see myself playing this game anytime soon.

Has anyone else had this? Not just ET I mean games in general. Most RPGs that I’ve played recently I haven’t bothered finishing. Depending on the features I will generally tire of FPS within a month or two and strategy games feel very repeditive after about a month (even if they are as cool as Rise of Nations is/was when I first got it).

Is the quality of games out recently just below average or have I been playing FPS too long? I’m looking forward to Half-Life 2 (mainly because of the mods that will be coming out for it, the game seems rather dull to me) and Fable for x-box, even though I don’t have one. Hopefully those games will save my love for these types of games, but I’m not very optimistic.

Any of you feeling the same way, or do I just have a short attention span?

(Shiznit) #2

Hey maybe its gonna be like when halflife was released, all fps suck at that time, then halflife came along and won the trust of the FPS community

meh! what do i know…

(Englander) #3

Cant say iam bored by the game play in any way,but the 2 campaigns what come out with ET are started to get to me, ive played them that much its natural to get a little bored of them.Be great when some cool customs come out,but the game itself iam not bored of at all.

(fattakin) #4

take a few days off when you are bored - or play in a team with your friends / mates in work and basically get the craic going.

Mods like the Indiana Jones one should help keep ET alive!

(Wraith2k3) #5

The last game to really hook me for a long time was America’s Army, and I’ve been playing that recently for now.

heh, I havent played AA in a while, it got deleted when I had to reformat my hard drive, and I never got round to re-downloading it. I might do that later actually.

(Ranstaton) #6

I guess it’s not necessarily the gameplay, but there are so few maps (all of which are pretty good) that it just seems repeditive.

America’s Army is definetly worth giving another shot, all the models were redone. It looks beautiful, plus they added medic class.

Only problem with AA is that I have to be in the right mood to play it. If I’m not feeling incredibly alert, it can be very frustrating due to the long waiting times when you die.

I miss when Quake 2 was fun :frowning:

(damocles) #7

I’ve never played AA, but if you were a big counter strike and DoD fan, then you may find that ET won’t hold long term appeal for you. CS and DoD are (despite what they try and tell you) little more than team deathmatch games with realistic weaponry. ET on the other hand is very unique in it’s balancing. It NEEDS almost every class to be played. You can’t just run around and kill each other like you can in DoD and CS (unless you decide to play on one-life-to-live servers).

I had a flatmate who was a hardcore DoD player and I introduced him to ET. He enjoyed it at first, but in the end he went back to DoD saying it was “simply more fun”. What he was really saying is that it was simply more simple. ET is a lot more tactical and team based than pretty much every other MP game out there, and a lot of players don’t want that - they just want quick fix death and destruction. Personally I get extremely bored by action only games like Q3 and DoD. (not including the DoD para mode, but not many people play that). I like games with depth and strategy.

(Chrysis) #8

I’d say that any game out there need new improved well made maps on a regular basis to stay alive.
I got tired of Mohaa since there were only three objective maps. Tried Spearhead but…well the objective maps were echem sparse.
At least in my case I never played HL “out of the box” online. It was the fact that it had two great mods almost from the beginning, Team Fortress Classic and eventually Counter-Strike, that made me play on the net.
And every new revision of both of them included new great maps. (Like de_dust 2, badland, etc). And everyone got them.

Its all about the maps…

/C

(Wraith2k3) #9

America’s Army is definetly worth giving another shot, all the models were redone. It looks beautiful, plus they added medic class.

Only problem with AA is that I have to be in the right mood to play it. If I’m not feeling incredibly alert, it can be very frustrating due to the long waiting times when you die.

Yeah the new models look nice. I did my medic training, but that was before the servers were updated so I never got chance to play online with 1.9 >_<

(scungili) #10

Ahh… I sure miss the days of Q2 Lithium… mid-air grappling rocket wars all over the arena in q2dm1. Q3 just didn’t have the same mojo, and ExcessiveFFA just killed it.

I was hooked on CS also, but strangely I never really played anything other than dust2… and somehow never got bored of it…

Some of the custom ET maps have bugs and may have objective balance issues. But some like Flughafen, Rhine and Carnage2 show promise for the future of ET… Im sure someone will slap some total conversions on top for even more fun.

I tried DoD after a great PCgamer review… but the graphics just hurt my brain… is it just me?

I never played the full RTCW, is ET that much better? Or is it just so popular bcs it’s free? It’s currently ranked #2 at Gamespy http://www.gamespy.com/stats/

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(Ranstaton) #11

I have played ET since the playtest thingy was released, but I’ve just gotten fed up with the bugs, the newbs, the fools, and it all starts feeling repeditive. The custom maps out right now, in my opinion are not good at all. They might be once they are balanced a bit more, and fixed up, so I’m definetly gonna keep ET installed for later, but right now it just feels like I’ve done all this before.

Definetly looking forward to that Indian Jones thingy though.

(damocles) #12

but right now it just feels like I’ve done all this before

Funny, that’s how I feel about DoD and CS. Nothing special. ET in my opinion is a move in the right direction for online shooters. Moving away from bland shoot or be shot styles to more team based, objective based, strategic thinking games. Games wehre you need to rely on your teammates more. I’ve seen good DoD players win a map single handedly and that’s just ridiculous. The thing I love (and hate) the most about ET is the fact that you have to work in teams to win. When your team are a bunch of n00bs or cowards it can be the most frustrating thing in the world, but when your team get it together and win it can be the greatest experience any online game can offer. Especially if the other team also get it togetehr and you have to fight tooth and nail for the victory.

(Ranstaton) #13

ET is definetly an awesome game, I’m not saying otherwise. I’m just tired of it.
Same thing with CS and DoD.

My progression with games

Step 1.
I have no idea what’s going on and I’m quite excited.
Step 2.
I’ve gotten used to it enough to start killing people.
Step 3.
I start getting familiar with the game, start finding certain things specific to it (such as goofy hitboxes while prone)
Step 4.
Very familiar with the game, usually pretty good at killing/objectives
Step 5.
Frequency of playing drops
Step 6.
Completely stop playing.
Step 7.
Installing the game after a long break.

Depending on the game, some steps last longer than others and step 7 doesn’t always happen. But recently I’ve just not been interested in any of the games. I think it’s because I expect a lot more from the games.

Quake 2 was what really got me into FPSs. Quake 3 came out, we bought it and it wasn’t anything new, in fact I think it wasn’t nearly as good. I went through the steps with Quake 3 much faster than I did with Quake 2.

I spent a lot of time playing ET, mainly because of the amazingly well thought out levels which require teamwork. The actual FPS part of ET is very simple. What makes ET so great is the fact that it is a squad game, rather then a frag-fest like every FPS previously.

But the lack of support for the game will probably doom it. This game could have been awesome if we actually had to buy the box… Finally a game worth buying, and they make it free and let it go (I still have hope that they will patch it though!)

(damocles) #14

Don’t get too hung up on patches. There are two guys out there that got the source code (Bani and Shrub) and are making server side mods that fix the bugs and balancing issues. These mods are pretty much the patches you speak of. Just because it’s not an official patch and you don’t have to download anything doesn’t make them any less effective.

In time I think all but a handful of servers will switch to either bani or shrub simply because they will realise it’s the way the game is moving forward.

And new maps are coming out, and getting better and better. All games start out with poor custom mapping support as people learn the tools and techniques for developing them.

In time ET will grow and because it’s free it has the opportunity to become one of the greatest online FPS games of all time.