Why are you going to play Planetside 2?

[atone]

My brother had been looking for a game that we could play together, as I lived in a different city at the time. We played only together at first and I was quickly hooked. I couldn't stop thinking about it during school. I couldn't wait to get back. I found myself rushing home and playing for hours. It was Epic! Hearing the pilot say "drop now!" and dropping from Galaxies on to the beautiful chaos below. Finding myself somehow still alive and that adrenaline fueled mad dash for cover. Tense sniper battles in the middle of a war. Coming across a lone enemy MAX in the middle of no where as an agile, fighting for my life and at the end being completely out of ammo, clutching my knife, shaking uncontrollably but still alive. Planetside was one of two games that I actually have stories about years after playing. All completely organic player created. The classic "war stories" that so many have. It just stuck with me.

I knew that planetside was still active, but for some reason i just didn't want to go back to it. I left about the time BFRs (man i knew they were a bad idea when i heard about them) was implemented and didn't have the extra cash to sub after. I spent many years trying to find that feeling from a game again then life happened and about two years ago or so, i began to seriously wonder: Tech is better. No more dsl or dail up, the fps market for games was THE thing now. WHY THE HELL HAS NO ONE ELSE MADE A GAME LIKE PLANETSIDE?

I did some searching and the first time found nothing but some ill received attempts by other games. But nothing that had the scope that Planetside did, NOTHING. Then the letter from SOE was released asking players about a new Planetside. I have been following ever since. Eagerly awaiting the opportunity to play the game that HAD to be made. A new planetside with todays graphics/mechanics/connection and the spirit and scale of the ps1. Whats better than that?

[Tatwi]

1. Sci-fi + Planetside visual style + good fps combat.
2. Huge, fantastically beautiful open world - that I can barrel roll over all day!
3. An mmo that is 100% community based - that's ballsy and awesome!

[fod]

huge open world battles
1000's of players at once
no npc's all real people
infantry and vehicle warfare
sci-fi FPS

all these things are why i play PS1 and will play PS2

Originally Posted by atone

WHY THE HELL HAS NO ONE ELSE MADE A GAME LIKE PLANETSIDE?

i have wondered this myself

i have been playing battlefield for the last few years its just sad its only 32/64 players - why isnt there more games with 100's or even 1000's of players - it makes it much much more fun than just 32 v 32

[Reginald]

It all started when I was visiting my cousin, who was working for SOE at the time, told me that I needed to play this game. So he booted up his rig, fired up the game hit create character, said good luck and left for work. I made my character hit instant action and ended up in a tower. I then ran outside in my pj's, not knowing that I could use an equip term to get better stuff, only to find a massive field before me with a base in the backround. Half a second later I was destroyed by what seemed to be thousands of shells, bullets and various missiles. It was from that moment on that I knew I was home. Two days later I discovered the certification terminals.

I want this feeling again, the feeling of the unknown, the scale, the adventrue. This is why I will play planetside 2.

Oh yeah and because its free, what do I have to lose?

[Squeegeez]

Ever hear of the term "The more the merrier"? I'm that kind of guy.

I also love video games, and sci-fi futuristic elements. When my friend checked out the beta and told me about it, I had my doubts as always, but when I played the game, I felt the scope, the atmosphere, the unique feel, be it from the UI, the music, the sound of the gauss, or the afterburner of a reaver.

Planetside 2 is a chance to once again join the ranks of friends, brethren, brothers-in-arms; and to expand on those connections. The population density of Planetside determined when I quit that game. I expect the populations of Planetside 2 to be fully rejuvenated.

[Corax]

I first heard about Planetside 1 while I was browsing the net one day. I was reading a webcomic, Dominic-Deegan, and there was a random link up. So I clicked it and it was for a video featuring Evilpig and the 666th. The were showcasing all the stuff you could do with planetside and just how big the numbers got. I instantly went ought purchased the game and joined up for the fight. And that has been now 8 years of gaming.

What really got me in the end, what truly hooked were 2 things.

1. The level of co-ordination that people can truly achieve here. I mean the possibilities for teamplay and tactics were limitless. It all depened on what you are willing to try to do.

2. My seminal moment in PS1 was when I was in a CC hold with my fellow NC buddies. I was in my splattermax at a tech plant, gjaller I think. We had 1 squad in there, and a literal horde of VS descended on us. I was watching my buddies laying in to it with an intense amount of firepower. 1 by 1 I watched them fall, then they started to poor in and I was roaring at the top of my voice as I activated p-shield and layed into them with the scattergun, I mowed down 5 guys in the tight confines of the CC. And eventually all that laser spam downed me. I can still remember the VS just flooding that CC. Eventually we won the fight. But that last stand is something that has always been really special to me, cause I could really feel the adrenaline pumping threw me. Heh, I was really twitchy for awhile as I came off the adrenaline high.
No other game has ever even come close to giving me that same feeling.

[RavenUSC3]

I was playing C&C Renegade with a clan called -PAW- and enjoyed that, but the game was dying, actually wasn't really all that successful to begin with. Everyone from that game was talking about going to this other game when it came out called Planetside, so I figured why not go with them and signed up for beta. It seemed like a cool concept.

I remember the first day I logged into beta not knowing what to do. One of the guys in -PAW- was with me and we left the sanctuary together. I was driving a wraith and he was following behind in a harraser. We went to Ceryshen and landed right in the middle of a dark snowstorm. We started off down the road in the middle of nowhere with no one else to be seen. I forget what happened but somehow I lost the wraith and had to hop in with him. We had still gone for a while without seeing anyone when all of a sudden a TR goes by on a basilisk. He stops, we stop....both turn around and we go at it. We took him out and that was that.

You just really can't describe it unless you've played it. Just so much area to cover and places you can go. So many people as well, like during a hack back in the day there'd be at least 50-60 people just in the basement waiting on the hack to go through. You couldn't get that many in a server on other games, let alone in the basement of one of ten bases on one of ten continents, on one server.

The teamwork was a big key too. NC Emerald had the first CR5's and most all of the outfits worked well together. We organized what had to have been the first massive scale assault from one empire on another when we came about a base or two from sanc'ing the TR just a month into the game. That was unheard of otherwise as no empire had really had less than two continents, let alone two bases. It was planned and executed. It was player driven, no devs telling us what to do or missions to complete or anything like that. Some guy even set up forums for NC Emerald outfit leaders and CR5s where we planned all of this stuff.

Its just hard to duplicate all of that stuff in another game, and heck, will be hard to duplicate in PS2 I'm sure. It certainly won't have that brand new genre feel to it, but I do believe SOE is putting everything into this one and if it gets the populations that Planetside had originally(hopefully more), then it has the chance to succeed. Ultimately its player driven though, gotta have the right people behind the wheel.

[Razicator]

Originally Posted by MyWounds

Technology Equals Might
The Vanu shall be the ones to make the world purple once more.
(And if you didn't know, the Vanu were the only ones to have ever succeeded in turning all conts purple. Don't believe me?

Vanu Sovereignty shall rule again!

-MyWounds

I made an account just to disagree with this. It wasn't the Vanu. I remember vividly that the NC were the first to undergo complete world domination back in 2003-ish. After that one time, I'm pretty sure the devs introduced things like opposing factions could hack literally anywhere or Hart anywhere if completely locked out everywhere to prevent that from happening again. I stopped playing soon after, so I guess it didn't quite prevent another world lock.

Anybody else remember? This was when I played NC so I was happy. But now, TR for life! (and beyond!)

[Magpie]

It gives you the freedom of gaming playing in a open space, u have time to do random things

You cnt do this with lobby's and game modes. I fould planetside 1 on a gaming website back in 2006 and I tryed it out and fell in love with it I remeber messing about in VR trainning for hours, love getting in and out of stuff was pretty cool.

I remeber the first time I got out on the battlefield I was a light troop NC and fell into a massive battle and I sat there on my sofa with laptop looking at the dead screen thinking

WOW what the hell just happen !?!??! With a cheeky smile

Even since then no other game as topped the massive battles, Although bf games gave me the wow faction but only in looks And random crazy stuff

[That one noob]

Last one was the only game not to make me rage as far I could remember, and hell, I was 8 when I played Planetside, and it doesn't take much to piss off an 8 year old. Nothing but good memories, like when I took time from assualting a tower to knife kill an afk MAX.

[Captain1nsaneo]

Ah, lots of stories and feelings in this thread that I agree wholeheartedly with. PS has ruined other FPSs for me as well, I too remember the magic of the unknown when I first logged in, I've made friends, and I've gotten more stories from PS than from any other game I've played.

It's also given me the one good adrenaline rush that I've ever had in a game. TR hacked Vidar and were taking the LLU to Helheim. I was frustrated at my allies for not being able to retake the CC so in an effort to buy them more time I jumped into a mossie and chased after the LLU. It was in a Marauder with 2 gunners so I could only annoy it. So instead I beat it to the base and drop on top. There's a guy at the air term who I knife to death and then move to the top of the stairs and realize that I'm in a cloak suit and am going to have to fight at least 3 guys 2 of which will probably be rexo and that I should have let the guy get his bird as now he'll be respawning and coming up with them. Crap. The LLU is now on my radar, I plan a boomer at the base of the stairs just around the turn and pray. I hear doors opening and see them on my radar moving up the stairs. I catch 2 with the boomer and kill the third by jumping over his head and gunning him down with my AMP. The LLU is now at the bottom of the final set of stairs from the CC. I now have at least 4 angry TR who know I'm here. A quick search through their gear nets me another boomer. Hiding the boomer behind the LLU I catch the TR from the air term. Two more come with a Cycle and MCG. Using the stairs to jump over them and circle strafe I manage to walk away with red HP. Med stick to the rescue. No boomers this time. I'm physically shaking. The yellow blinking of the LLU is palpable as I pray that my allies have broken into the CC and that they're rehacking at this very instant. Another TR rounds the corner. I leap over him and promptly run out of stamina. Turns out I had left sensor shield on the whole time. I die. They cap. I'm shaking from tension that had built up as I was making my Final Stand.

Love this game. Nothing like it.

[KALU]

1. Persistant world
2. Long term skill building
3. Massive Battles

Best game i have ever played.

ITS PLANETSIDE BITCHES!

[GTGD]

Saw a preview in either Gamepro or Gameinformer, and nearly crapped myself in excitement. Read the review in a future issue, and knew it was going to be incredible. Before I bought the game, I checked out the website and was so amazed that I could watch the fights progress in real-time through their web interface. I spent hours looking at all the stuff on the site and reading articles, until I finally managed to get to a store.

Then I logged on, went to the training area to play with some weapons, and met up with a huge group in the NC sanctuary to go to my first battle. Hooked ever since.


I do share the concern with so many things being changed from PS1. I really loved how you could see players loadouts on their back, vehicle entering/exiting animations, and the inventory system. I have faith that PS2 will be a great game, but I'm hoping it will feel just as awesome as PS1 did back in the day.