Tangent 21 - First-Person-Shooter Deathmatching

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Alan

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17:45
May 31 2006

First-Person-Shooter Deathmatching

Digging my copy of Doom Collector's Edition out of mothballs this afternoon, I remembered I've never actually had deathmatches on classic games I used to love playing: Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, among others. Bearing in mind these games all fall strictly into the retro category, it might be a bit difficult to rectify that...

Does anyone here have any PC FPS they do deathmatches on at all? Which ones did you really enjoy?

And is anyone up for a Doom deathmatch at all?

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The Noid This must be that Woodstock place mom and dad are always talking about

The biggest problem with all the old (pre-quake) games is that they were never made to be played over the internet, but only on local networks.

The one I used to like best was Descent (I and II). I just love the possibilities you have when there's no up or down. Offcourse this also means that most people get hopelessly lost in no time

Posted: 10:01 Jun 01 2006

Chambler A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

by The Noid
The biggest problem with all the old (pre-quake) games is that they were never made to be played over the internet, but only on local networks.

The horrors of IPX based networks! Luckily there are some tools around (Kali for example) that will provide a sort of wrapper for the IPX protocol which will allow you to use it over "normal" TCP/IP based networks.

Never really used to play Doom, was more of a Duke Nukem 3d man myself and of course Quake , ooooh so much fun with a 14k4 modem.

Posted: 10:27 Jun 01 2006

Wesley - Go ahead and hate your neighbor; go ahead and cheat a friend. - Do it in the name of heaven; you can justify it in the end.

Novalogic's "Delta Force" series - used to play that with my mates all the time - that and SWAT 3, which got a whole lot more fun once we applied a couple of mods; paintball and unlimited bots - no more tear gas and handcuffs, just full on rock & roll

Posted: 21:51 Jun 11 2006

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