So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?
I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Monday August 10 2015, @02:25PM
Guild Wars 1 is/was a great game from the game mechanics perspective. Many like to praise Guild Wars 2 for doing away with the Holy Trinity, but the fact was Guild Wars 1 wasn't really based on the Holy Trinity from the start. In both PvE and PvP there were far more possible roles than Tank, Healer, DPS. There are shutdown builds, PvE minion masters, PvE runner, PvP split builds[1], PvP flag runner, frontline, linebacking, later on there was stuff like PvE spirit spammers, shadowform assasins and so on.
Problem was/is Guild Wars 1 was not so great from the community and social perspective (you can't send messages to people who are offline, no auction). And you can't queue up for PvP matches while doing PvE or other stuff. And it's still quite expensive for an old game.
PvP:
Guild vs Guild:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_versus_Guild [guildwars.com]
The objective is to kill the other side's Guild Lord or do more damage to it after the time limit of 28 minutes is up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQRSg-aTEk [youtube.com] (one team using a ranger spike build)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIX8auXd-Po [youtube.com]
http://www.twitch.tv/koodikoira/v/9938926?t=2m38s [twitch.tv] (mesmer doing shutdown)
PvE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_30KeT8f-I#t=1m30s [youtube.com] (in PvE you can use Heroes - which are like semi-autonomous player controlled NPCs)
[1] Split ele with shadowstep/teleporting skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4M5Tla6Hw [youtube.com]
Split dervish with teleporting skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdyOx7v0CJQ [youtube.com]
Split ele with self heal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFckwi7k-VU [youtube.com]