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Whats the best videogame of all time, to you. This is in terms of overall playability, the community behind it, and the key, fun factor!
For me, it would have to be TREAD MARKS. (http://www.treadmarks.com)
Why? well...I have plenty to say about why...
Basic Idea:
FPS meets tank sim. handles like a FPS, but your driving tanks. You get every weapon from a machine gun, to lasers, to missiles, to mines, to Nukes. 100% deformable terain, and I mean deformable. TM was the first game to use deformable terrain, and they did it WELL. Nukes leave huge craters, matter bombs make mountains.
Community,
this game is FUN, and the community makes it even more so. You will never hear cursing, you will never be yelled at. The deathmatch servers are almost chatrooms. We are there for the enjoyment of playing. Usually kills are greeted with a "LMAO"....from the person that was fragged! I've never been told "Cheap" on any frag, and there are no cheaters, because well, there are none.
Weapons...
OK, so you have a variety of missiles, guns, chainguns, cruise missiles, radiation grenades, plasma mines, Nukes, even the Shadow Keeper for kicks...but what makes the weapons special? well...for one, they change. Compeatly up to the server admins and the modders. see, all weapon data is stored in ent files, which is plain text. when you join a server, you synch the ent files. as its just text, you can modify thousands of files, and create new ones, and it takes just seconds on a 56K to synch them. then your off to never never land where you might find that sheep like to chase you, your machine gun shoots nukes, theres new tanks available, or any other number of things. It gets crazy, but its darn fun too!
Fun Factor:
Lets put it this way. the story behind the game reads "In the future, artificially intelligent tanks got tired of fighting human wars, and decided to go duke it out for fun!" well...something like that. Basically there is no story, and it lets you know that this is a game that is NOT serious. (I mean, one of the more popular server back when was "Flying tanks and cookie dough" where tanks went FLYING...ALOT) Its just fun to play, period. weather racing, playing CTF, or just having a frag fest....it's FUN. (Nothing like using a nuke at point blank range for zero points. frag+suicide, everyone gets a kick out of that)
Graphics:
Who needs graphics? well...everyone I guess...TM is aging, but in the end, it doesn't matter. It still looks sweet, and since it is moddable, it was easy to make it look a bit better. the Devs are even making a DX version of the engion, which will support shadows and dynamic lighting. And I myself made better textures as part of a high quality mod.
Overall rating: 10/10. Nothing else comes close! (Cept maybe Half Life...but that is a different genre)
Check it out!
So...whats the best game ever to YOU, and why?
For me, it would have to be TREAD MARKS. (http://www.treadmarks.com)
Why? well...I have plenty to say about why...
Basic Idea:
FPS meets tank sim. handles like a FPS, but your driving tanks. You get every weapon from a machine gun, to lasers, to missiles, to mines, to Nukes. 100% deformable terain, and I mean deformable. TM was the first game to use deformable terrain, and they did it WELL. Nukes leave huge craters, matter bombs make mountains.
Community,
this game is FUN, and the community makes it even more so. You will never hear cursing, you will never be yelled at. The deathmatch servers are almost chatrooms. We are there for the enjoyment of playing. Usually kills are greeted with a "LMAO"....from the person that was fragged! I've never been told "Cheap" on any frag, and there are no cheaters, because well, there are none.
Weapons...
OK, so you have a variety of missiles, guns, chainguns, cruise missiles, radiation grenades, plasma mines, Nukes, even the Shadow Keeper for kicks...but what makes the weapons special? well...for one, they change. Compeatly up to the server admins and the modders. see, all weapon data is stored in ent files, which is plain text. when you join a server, you synch the ent files. as its just text, you can modify thousands of files, and create new ones, and it takes just seconds on a 56K to synch them. then your off to never never land where you might find that sheep like to chase you, your machine gun shoots nukes, theres new tanks available, or any other number of things. It gets crazy, but its darn fun too!
Fun Factor:
Lets put it this way. the story behind the game reads "In the future, artificially intelligent tanks got tired of fighting human wars, and decided to go duke it out for fun!" well...something like that. Basically there is no story, and it lets you know that this is a game that is NOT serious. (I mean, one of the more popular server back when was "Flying tanks and cookie dough" where tanks went FLYING...ALOT) Its just fun to play, period. weather racing, playing CTF, or just having a frag fest....it's FUN. (Nothing like using a nuke at point blank range for zero points. frag+suicide, everyone gets a kick out of that)
Graphics:
Who needs graphics? well...everyone I guess...TM is aging, but in the end, it doesn't matter. It still looks sweet, and since it is moddable, it was easy to make it look a bit better. the Devs are even making a DX version of the engion, which will support shadows and dynamic lighting. And I myself made better textures as part of a high quality mod.
Overall rating: 10/10. Nothing else comes close! (Cept maybe Half Life...but that is a different genre)
Check it out!
So...whats the best game ever to YOU, and why?
