Christmas Attrition

NordoNordo Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7372Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Only the hard-core will remain</div> Now that Xmas has showered a majority of NS players with fancy and expensive new games, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will forget about lame old mods. Which means only the really good, or really poor, will still play! Time to ring in a glorious era of fewer llamas and lamers! Does this sound likely to anyone else?

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  • Seraphic8XSeraphic8X Join Date: 2002-06-15 Member: 771Members
    Doubt that. CS has survived Christmases since 1999 and it's still alive isn't it?
  • EdcrabEdcrab Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4324Members
    <i>What</i> fancy games? Still plenty of expensive ones, but nothing will be distracting <i>me</i> from NS in this Christmas/New Year period until C&C: Generals and Unreal 2 (which are Feb/March releases respectively, I believe). Might take a break, mind, for whenever Simcity 4 arrives...
    Admittedly, a friend finnaly bought GTA3 for Christmas and he's often playing that at night rather than NS... but it won't last <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • TrikkTrikk Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9606Members
    The Sims Online beta didn't break NS, and nothing is more exciting than that.
  • QuestionQuestion Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9180Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Nordo+Dec 25 2002, 09:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nordo @ Dec 25 2002, 09:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Now that Xmas has showered a majority of NS players with fancy and expensive new games, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will forget about lame old mods. Which means only the really good, or really poor, will still play! Time to ring in a glorious era of fewer llamas and lamers! Does this sound likely to anyone else?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    *blinks*

    You mean people get fancy games as PRESENTS?!
  • masterswordmanmasterswordman Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11303Members
    Splinter Cell 9.6 PERFECT REALLY BLOWS COMPARED TO NS

    I mean, lets play something where skill, not just shooting a person in the head with a clumpsy X-BOX controller before they hit the alarm.
  • AcKzAcKz Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10079Banned
    <!--QuoteBegin--masterswordman+Dec 25 2002, 10:33 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (masterswordman @ Dec 25 2002, 10:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Splinter Cell 9.6 PERFECT REALLY BLOWS COMPARED TO NS

    I mean, lets play something where skill, not just shooting a person in the head with a clumpsy X-BOX controller before they hit the alarm.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Umm, don't ever start dissing another game in here, ever. Just because you favor one game over the other doesn't mean it totally sucks. Splinter Cell is an awesome game, and don't ever try and bad mouth it. People can say the same thing about NS "oh yah go cap nodes and get to hives before marines then win big deal" - See how pathetic that sounds? NS is nothing like that, just like splinter cell is nothing how you described it.
  • VashVash Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8333Members
    There are no really good games around this christmas...Anything that people were excited about got pushed back to be released in early 2003. Ill tell you one thing though, as soon as FFX-2 comes out, my NS is going to collect insane amounts of dust..
  • DoombringerDoombringer Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8679Members, Constellation
    FFX-2?

    SimCity 4 will steal some of my time, as will Generals and Unreal 2. I might try Battlefield 1942 again, especially after the expansion, though I think I'll wander back to NS and TFC again <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    TFC... heh, haven't played that in a few weeks now.
  • superninjabeastsuperninjabeast Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11082Members
    I'm waiting for Star Wars Galaxies and Master of Orion III, which judging by release date changes, should be released 3rd quarter 2007.
  • MartMart Origin of SUYF Join Date: 2002-02-26 Member: 248Members
    Who said anything about new games? Redescovering old games is just as distracting.

    StarCraft... Need I say anything?
  • Rico1Rico1 NS Oldtimer Join Date: 2002-05-24 Member: 664Members
    Bah, who plays starcraft when you can play Broodwars?

    pfft, you fool, my medics pwn j00 mart.
  • SemperFiSemperFi Join Date: 2002-08-02 Member: 1049Members
    4 medics and 8 marines is a force to be reckoned with indeed..............unless of course my lurker gets them first <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • kaxmankaxman Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4149Members
    Love to see your 8 marines and 4 medics take my 500 cracklings! *evil cackle*

    No seriously, funny you should mention SC, since I just dusted it off and reinstalled it. I still had my cdkey memorized, though. I was scared.
  • ZerglinZerglin Join Date: 2002-12-13 Member: 10754Members
    edited December 2002
    At this time, the only thing I'll be playing for a long time IS NS. I see nothing right now or on the horizon that has me wanting to play it. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

    But it would be cool if all the lamers got new games and left NS.

    EDIT: Except Project Ego! AKA Fable. Those guys come up with the most coolest ideas...
  • KenichiKenichi This is not a pie. Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2941Members, NS1 Playtester
    The holidays did 1 thing. It slowed down clan play. The top clans basically died over the break except a few.
  • DefconDefcon Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9402Members
    edited December 2002
    I've played bf1942, actually I was one of the best in the UK at it...

    I played UT2k3

    and so on and on...

    none of them, NONE of them, have the near player base of a potential half life mod like natural selection. It's catching up to the likes of both of these games, and it's... cough... free. If the bugs are fixed, we can see alot of cs/tfc/dod players moving to it. Competition will be huge.

    I don't play games for "graphics", sure they're nice, but if they do the job whats behind it is more important.

    UT2k3 is a remake of UT, nice gfx, but it's been done a million times before.... bf1942... they've lost there chance at this being a big thing, the thousands that bought the game have quickly left it realising how buggy it is, and still is. The netcode is a mess, even delay between players is very noticable on a LAN, no way is shooting "precision", sure shooting tanks the size of an ant on your screen takes some doing, but I picked it up in a couple months, first shot, hit every time...

    yawn.
  • cindows_xpcindows_xp Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11078Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--AcKz+Dec 25 2002, 10:39 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AcKz @ Dec 25 2002, 10:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--masterswordman+Dec 25 2002, 10:33 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (masterswordman @ Dec 25 2002, 10:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Splinter Cell 9.6 PERFECT REALLY BLOWS COMPARED TO NS

    I mean, lets play something where skill, not just shooting a person in the head with a clumpsy X-BOX controller before they hit the alarm.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Umm, don't ever start dissing another game in here, ever. Just because you favor one game over the other doesn't mean it totally sucks. Splinter Cell is an awesome game, and don't ever try and bad mouth it. People can say the same thing about NS "oh yah go cap nodes and get to hives before marines then win big deal" - See how pathetic that sounds? NS is nothing like that, just like splinter cell is nothing how you described it.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well, I believe he is talking about gameplay, replay and all combined. The fact that you are 1 man pretty much striving to save the world as is with alot of 3rd person shooters. Compared to 30 guys using teamwork, screaming at each other through a mic, and being able to be told to F-Off in a game kind of makes a game interesting. A game such as splinter cell has a main plot, and can only follow that plost. where in NS, you make the game, your team decides the outcome.
  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    My Firebats will crush you both! (Mart, Rico)
  • AcKzAcKz Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10079Banned
    NS and Splinter Cell are 2 totally different games; you cant say splinter cell sucks because its not mulitplayer, thats cheating. Splinter Cell is an awesome game, and so is NS. Dont be **obscenity** bias because you like one more then the other, alright?
  • VisserVisser Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6613Members
    Splinter cell = console = evil

    Hows that for bias? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ShuflYShuflY Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8760Members
    I got Metroid Prime for Christmas, and while I think it is a fantastic game, I've only put about 40 minutes into it so far. I still play NS every day for several hours. I'm going to be playing NS like this for a long time, I'm thinking, because I doubt another FPS multiplayer game will come along that trumps it for some time.

    I've got pleanty of time to get into Metroid (and I have pleanty of Electronics Boutique gift cards to spend) but for now, it's easy to forget about it because NS is teh best thing evar.
  • TechwidTechwid Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8440Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Visser+Dec 27 2002, 09:19 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Visser @ Dec 27 2002, 09:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Splinter cell = console = evil

    Hows that for bias? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Agreed consoles are the places for cheap nubs...
  • Crazy_DogCrazy_Dog Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2701Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Mart+Dec 26 2002, 04:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mart @ Dec 26 2002, 04:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Who said anything about new games? Redescovering old games is just as distracting.

    StarCraft... Need I say anything?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LOL! about 2 weeks after NS came out I reinstalled Starcraft myself! now I rotate between the two. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    It really bumms me out when I go back to NS and I start clicking marines as commander and they don?t say anything humorous....
  • ImmacolataImmacolata Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2140Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--Edcrab+Dec 26 2002, 04:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Edcrab @ Dec 26 2002, 04:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><i>What</i> fancy games? Still plenty of expensive ones, but nothing will be distracting <i>me</i> from NS in this Christmas/New Year period until C&C: Generals and Unreal 2 (which are Feb/March releases respectively, I believe). Might take a break, mind, for whenever Simcity 4 arrives...
    Admittedly, a friend finnaly bought GTA3 for Christmas and he's often playing that at night rather than NS... but it won't last <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've got GTA Vice City for the PS2. An uttergloss game if I ever saw one. had a real hard contest with NS for my time. But at some point GTAVC ends, and NS is still there. I do believe S?mCity 4 will suck me into the void for a small time, though. Am an absolute sucker for these games.
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