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posted by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the stuff-we-can-add-... dept.

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: 1) by Drake_Edgewater on Monday August 10 2015, @12:03PM

    by Drake_Edgewater (780) on Monday August 10 2015, @12:03PM (#220639) Journal

    Long time ago I used to play quake deathmatch.

    No rules, no teams, just shoot at everything that moves. It was hilarious, perfect for stress relief. Now the servers are mostly empty.

    On the other side of the spectrum, I started playing FlightGear [wikipedia.org]. I hope to join a multiplayer server soon since I can finally take off and land an Airbus A320.

  • (Score: 2) by broggyr on Monday August 10 2015, @01:08PM

    by broggyr (3589) <broggyrNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday August 10 2015, @01:08PM (#220657)

    We used to have a quake server at my first helpdesk job in 2000. The manager would often come in to watch us play.
    PAINKEEP!

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    Taking things out of context since 1972.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 10 2015, @01:46PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday August 10 2015, @01:46PM (#220668) Journal

    Now the servers are mostly empty.

    Well, they have made a few new shooters since then.

    But seriously, pure DM is pretty niche nowadays. Perhaps, you could try out Quake Live, though it's Windows only.

    Blizzard is readying Overwatch, its answer to TF2. TF2 and counterstrike are still pretty big along with Arma 3. Though, I haven't played CS in years (only up until 1.6, the pre source version) and never touched Arma 3.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday August 10 2015, @01:59PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Monday August 10 2015, @01:59PM (#220678) Journal
      The main thing that made Quake popular was the mods. The original Team Fortress was a lot of fun (I got bored waiting for TF2, and the Half Life version wasn't as good), but there were other odd ones like QTank (jump in a hover tank and have a lot more firepower and health than a guy without a tank - always a bit frantic when you respawn), Quake Rally (because driving games without rocket launchers suck), and AirQuake (not very realistic physics, but fun dodging SAMs) were all fun. There were also a load that added a little bit of variation to the game (or, in the case of the Killer Quake Patch, added a huge number of completely overpowered weapons - great for when you're bored of tactics!)
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:26AM (#221168)

      QuakeWorld, the successor to Quake which was released in 1997 (a year after original Quake) with better net code for multiplayer, lives on!

      http://quakeworld.nu [quakeworld.nu]

      I'm top5 in the USA come at me

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @11:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @11:20PM (#220971)

    Feel welcome to check out our hightime vanilla ffa (deathmatch) servers for openarena and xonotic :) We are still testing the latter, but it is basically the same deal as the former [openarena.ws].

    Happy fragging!