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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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @11:07PM
I still play Quake 3 botmatches regularly; such a perfect thing to play when you only have about 30 minutes of free time. That, or some single-player levels from the original Dooms and Quakes.
The first-person shooter genre has effectively driven itself off a cliff, in a similar fashion to the way that adventure games drove themselves off a cliff in the late-90's and early-2000's. The new Doom project shows some promises of not being crap, but for the first time in over a decade, I'm casting doubts on whether I even want to build another Windows gaming PC. Other than Flying Wild Hog's work with Shadow Warrior, there are no upcoming releases that I'm confident about. I never was a Battlefield fan, and I'm not much of a Star Wars fan after the prequels, so Star Wars: BattlefieldFront is out. Call of Duty is a hollow shell of its former self. I saw a UK site (Eurogamer? Rock Paper Shotgun?) recount the intelligent level design of the 2003 release's maps in WWII France. Twelve years later, it's a superannualized console-first franchise with very little focus on anything aside from microtransactions and the Baysplosion-fest roller-coaster railshooter experience. CoD:Ghosts in 2013 was a downtick in audience perception, due to the worse quality and campaign authoring that couldn't even escape the notice of the normally desensitized, catatonic mass market brahdience. And Epic Games has stayed so far under the radar after selling off Gears of War and watching most of the Gears producers run off and either chase Gears or do their own thing (Boss Key's project sounds a lot like a microtransactional twist on the same old drill). UT4 is effectively an indie project with detached support from Epic. I wouldn't be surprised to hear about Tencent shutting things down and demanding an endless conveyor belt of phone games, a la Konami.