Awaiting Beta? Play NS!

Zarparchior · 2002-11-06, 03:08 PM

God... what a great game. I suggest everyone play it.

www.natural-selection.org

It's a half-life mod, for those who are curious. It is well worth the download time if you have a 56k. If you have a better connection, then what the hell are you complaining for?

Unregistered · 2002-11-06, 03:28 PM

If only I had Half Life installed.

Zarparchior · 2002-11-06, 03:32 PM

You DON'T have Half-life?! OMG! What happened?! Did someone tie you up and threaten to kill kittens if you got it? If that's the case, it's forgivable.

Well, it's cheap anyway. Dirt cheap. You could buy it if you want. Hell, I'd buy it for you if I could...

Of course, I play this because Beta will pass me by, unwilling.

Unregistered · 2002-11-06, 04:02 PM

Back when Half Life came out I borrowed a friends copy and played it. I even bought Opposing Forces and played that.

But you have to understand that durring that time I was playing Tribes, and I was leading my own clan. Back when I played Tribes (That's Tribes, not T2) it was sacreligous to even speak of oither games much less admit to playing anything else.

Tribes 2 was the same way for a very long time. Hell I just recently (in the last 2 weeks) took my T2 CD out of the drive. It felt creepy, like I was cheating on my Girl Friend or something.

Tobias · 2002-11-06, 04:17 PM

Tribes 1 was very cool, very nice game, tribes 2 i played for about 3 weeks, usally using invise on a server that had a shotgun to kill justabout everyoe and get in top 5 score or highest score (alot) it was cheap as hell of me but hey it worked, i felt cool, but then i stoped playing ause tribes two sucks, and i was a eq adict sience beta (eq that is) so i had that to fall back on hehe

Warborn · 2002-11-06, 04:20 PM

I have terrible luck with Half-Life. I've bought it three times, somehow managing to lose the CD each time. I've never lost any other game -- just Half-Life. It's irritating as hell. Natural Selection sounds like fun though, so I guess I'll buy it for a fourth time.

eMaGyN · 2002-11-06, 04:49 PM

I miss running my own clan

/me cries

eMa

Hamma · 2002-11-06, 04:57 PM

I refuse to run half life, its time for that damn engine to go away

Zarparchior · 2002-11-07, 03:42 PM

The hell you say Hamma.

NS has GOT to be one of the most fun games I've ever played.

Ever.
(Just thought I'd emphasize that

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RTS + FPS. How can you go wrong? The only buggy thing is that you get stuck every so often as an Onos (Too damn big) or Gorge (if you build a structure on top of yourself), but it is a small price to pay for this beloved game. I needed another CD Key, so I had to go out and buy it... again... (I feel your pain all too well Warborn

)

$9.99 fools! Can you not afford that? If you pick up change that you find on the street for a few weeks you can buy this for christ sake.

The gameplay is awesome... This is the only FPS I know at this time that uses teamwork. Counter-Strike? Ha ha... very funny. Might as well be Team Deathmatch on any other FPS of your choice, except with slightly more realistic damage. This is also the first game I've used voice communication. I can't believe I ever typed when trying to coordinate anything with other people before. It really makes teamwork a lot easier to just say "JEEZUS! BEHIND YOU!" instead of, 'b' 'e' 'h' 'i' 'n' - oh wait... your're dead. Too bad...

If you're bored, I suggest you at least try it Hamma. Just make sure you have teamates that IQ excels that of the average 10 year old FPSer (Sterotyping, of course. I'm sure there is at least one smart 10 year old out there who can listen... but I haven't met them yet).

And Unreg... I know how you feel. I felt like I was cheating on EQ when I first got AO. Then I realized that is was more like dumping a beautiful albeit problematic girl for an overweight hippo of a nasty women. I quickly went back to the former and muttered sweet nothings into her ear. Relationship still didn't last, though... At least I have NS now.

Hamma · 2002-11-07, 06:15 PM

hehe, like i said i want that engine to go away. Im not building a P4 so I can run a game that runs on a Pentium 500

Sadfre · 2002-11-07, 06:16 PM

why not? Duke3D is the uberest game there is!

RocketFodder · 2002-11-07, 07:10 PM

Anyone that doesn't immediately recognize NS as the greatest game in existence isn't worthy of gaming. :o

Zarparchior · 2002-11-07, 07:15 PM

So, as soon as you have a p4 - you will never lay any older games again? You sincerely have my sympathies.

I play a lot of my older games all the time still. Call me a purist, but it's the gameplay that makes or breaks the game, not the graphics.

Hamma · 2002-11-07, 07:19 PM

I dont play many of my older games, I just dont like half-life and what it represents, its one of the games that makes some people think they never have to upgrade :[

Zarparchior · 2002-11-09, 01:15 PM

Ah... the real reason. People will never upgrade their comps if they don't want to - regardless of game. Sure, I'd rather NS be on something other than the Half-Life engine, but it's such a great game I don't care. And it's FREE!

But yeah. I'll stick to talking about PS since no one here seems to give a rat's ass.