Why are you going to play Planetside 2?

VioletZero · 2012-02-29, 06:22 PM

I think it is time to tell our developers why we have come to Planetside 2 in the first place.

Why does this interest you so much?

How do you hope to see this expanded on?

I'm interested to hear what reasons you have for being here.

BigBossMonkey · 2012-02-29, 06:24 PM

Planetside was quite possibly the greatest gaming moments I've ever had.

Sure it had its problems, it wasn't perfect. I'm the first to admit it.

But it was the MOST fun and enjoyable experience I've ever had in a video game.

When they announced the sequel I damn near peed my pants while cheering. When I told everyone on Ventrilo at the time about it, they had similar reactions.

Planetside has introduced me to people I consider close friends, having gamed with them across a dozen games over the course of a decade, and I can't wait to be reunited on the fields of Auraxis.

TR for life.
tE for life.

Shogun · 2012-02-29, 06:26 PM

that´s easy!

ps1 spoiled me for all other shooters!
artificial intelligence is still too predictable. only human opponents do the trick! and not just 4 or 16 of them...

VioletZero · 2012-02-29, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Planetside was quite possibly the greatest gaming moments I've ever had.

Sure it had its problems, it wasn't perfect. I'm the first to admit it.

But it was the MOST fun and enjoyable experience I've ever had in a video game.

When they announced the sequel I damn near peed my pants while cheering. When I told everyone on Ventrilo at the time about it, they had similar reactions.

Planetside has introduced me to people I consider close friends, having gamed with them across a dozen games over the course of a decade, and I can't wait to be reunited again.

Do you mind going into more detail? I mean, what brought you to Planetside in the first place?

Aurmanite · 2012-02-29, 06:27 PM

Giant battles give me lots of people to snipe/mow/shoot/kill in all sorts of fantastically fun ways.

I enjoy adapting to the battle that's happening, finding my own space to have an impact on.

Sometimes, I just love the chaos. Hauling out the MCG and jumping into the meat grinder.

The pain train is coming. WOO WOOOOO.

BigBossMonkey · 2012-02-29, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by VioletZero

Do you mind going into more detail? I mean, what brought you to Planetside in the first place?

I was 14 and saw a preview talking about it in an issue of Gamepro, that's about it really.

Happened to be randomly recruited into my outfit in the Sanctuary one day, and I've been with them ever since.

ThGlump · 2012-02-29, 06:32 PM

Since i played PS i wasnt satisfied with any other online shooters. They all seem to be only fragfest without any other meaning and zero cooperation.
So im following ps2 due nostalgia for ps1, as there are too much changes (to worse from my view), that it will need to prove be worthy of that name.
So im sitting back, watch their every move, and dream that i could have as much fun in ps2 as i had in ps1.

Vancha · 2012-02-29, 06:32 PM

I'm not.

Aurmanite · 2012-02-29, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by ThGlump

Since i played PS i wasnt satisfied with any other online shooters. They all seem to be only fragfest without any other meaning and zero cooperation.
So im following ps2 due nostalgia for ps1, as there are too much changes (to worse from my view), that it will need to prove be worthy of that name.
So im sitting back, watch their every move, and dream that i could have as much fun in ps2 as i had in ps1.

I can dig this.

MMO's ruined my interest in regular games.
Planetside has ruined non-mmo shooters.

Synapses · 2012-02-29, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Planetside was quite possibly the greatest gaming moments I've ever had.

Sure it had its problems, it wasn't perfect. I'm the first to admit it.

But it was the MOST fun and enjoyable experience I've ever had in a video game.

When they announced the sequel I damn near peed my pants while cheering. When I told everyone on Ventrilo at the time about it, they had similar reactions.

Planetside has introduced me to people I consider close friends, having gamed with them across a dozen games over the course of a decade, and I can't wait to be reunited on the fields of Auraxis.

TR for life.
tE for life.

This but replace the TR/te for life with

NC FOR LIFE!

Really though, he nailed it. I saw Planetside 1 through an advert on some other website (the little side ones) and was bored while looking for a new game... It just so happened that the game had literally just released the day previous. And boy did I have a blast (even with my 10 fps). It created some of the BEST memories I have in gaming. I still remember some of the fights I had those many many years ago. Thats just not something that happens in games much anymore. And I think most of us want to see this happen again in PS2, with new technology and all helping lead the way there.

SUBARU · 2012-02-29, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Planetside was quite possibly the greatest gaming moments I've ever had.

Sure it had its problems, it wasn't perfect. I'm the first to admit it.

But it was the MOST fun and enjoyable experience I've ever had in a video game.

When they announced the sequel I damn near peed my pants while cheering. When I told everyone on Ventrilo at the time about it, they had similar reactions.

Planetside has introduced me to people I consider close friends, having gamed with them across a dozen games over the course of a decade, and I can't wait to be reunited on the fields of Auraxis.

TR for life.
tE for life.

+1 I loved PS1
I dont know that i will play PS2 .I was hoping for PS2 to be more like PS1
I dont want to play Call Of duty 5 The battle for Auraxis.
I'll give it a try, I hope i love it like i did PS1 .PS2 is starting to look like every FPS game, other then PS1.

KoGoO · 2012-02-29, 07:01 PM

The scale of battles and the random / weird situations that happen when so many interrests collide.

Played PS1 on a friends account for a while, back when it came out.

StumpyTheOzzie · 2012-02-29, 07:02 PM

I'm a military man. This is the closest I can get to work without it feeling like "work" if you know what I mean. Military guys will get it. You train for years and never "get to the grand final"

The main selling points for me are there's no stupid restriction on having only 32 or 64 players in the battle. Why would the US army commit only 32 marines to capturing a village and then give them 3 or 4 tanks/heavy vehicles and a couple of helicopters and a couple of jets? (Battlefield/COD, I'm looking at you!) That level of vehicle support would normally be attached to a lot more troopers.

In PS1, everynoob couldn't just get into a tank or plane and drive it away - just like IRL. I can drive a tank around IRL because I've been trained, but put me in an F18 cockpit and I got nothing. So I liked the cert system in PS1

In PS2 I'm a little bit worried that everyone will have access to the basic vehicles. Have to see how that works out later.

Back on topic, proper sized battles where everything is player controlled, proper strategy and tactics will be more important than twitch skillz0rz and what I do today has an effect on the game tomorrow. Not like COD where the timer runs out and the map changes and everything I've done vanishes in a cloud of electrons shifting out of server memory.

BigBossMonkey · 2012-02-29, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by SUBARU

+1 I loved PS1
I dont know that i will play PS2 .I was hoping for PS2 to be more like PS1
I dont want to play Call Of duty 5 The battle for Auraxis.
I'll give it a try, I hope i love it like i did PS1 .PS2 is starting to look like every FPS game, other then PS1.

All that made PS1 what it was, was the scale.

That's it. It was a pretty shitty FPS when you get down to the nuts and bolts.

But the scale and teamwork and all that, that emerged because of the scale, should still be there, only several times larger.

Hmr85 · 2012-02-29, 07:07 PM

I ran upon PS while browsing the Internet. I was bored sitting at home wondering if anybody had ever made a MMOFPS. Because, TBH I was bored of all the other shooters that where out at the time. So I Yahoo'd MMOFPS and up popped PS. As soon as I saw it I knew it was the game for me.

I joined the game back in may when it first came out as I was following it religiously at the time. I participated in my first major battle within the first couple of days of it coming out and was hooked. Even though I lagged through the entire battle...56k eek

. I still had a absolute blast. The chaos/scale of it was awesome as I had never experienced anything like it. I knew my days of 12vs12 or smaller where over.That pretty much sealed the deal and well, here I am today. If PS2 can capture the heart and soul that was PS1. I'll be around for another 8+ or however many years. That one of the reasons I'm playing PS2.

A side note: As a result of PS. I can't even look at the Battlefield series or games similar to it. It just doesn't capture the size and scope that is PS. Its just not as fun imo.