28th March 2005, 4:27 PM
I can't imagine playing hundreds of hours of multiplayer of any one FPS... they're fun for a short time, but as I said, get boring. I'd say 'I'd rather play a strategy game', but actually, I haven't played most strategy games all that much online either... the main exception, of course, is Blizzard.
What games have I put hundreds of hours into online? Very few, actually. I'd say that probably it's only Starcraft, Warcraft III, and probably Netstorm. That's probably it.
But as I've said before, that's just a statement about how utterly brilliant Blizzard is... SC/WCIII are just about perfect. Why play anything else (in the genre)?
As for Netstorm, it's just so completely unique and original (It's still, after over seven years, a completely unique game. There's nothing else like it.) that I've returned to it every so often over the years. Age of Empires 2, or Red Alert 2, or whatever else, are more similar to Blizz FPSes (they're standard FPS games), so I'd rather just play some B.Net (something custom, probably), but Netstorm is different so I'm pretty sure it's the one online game that's even within a few hundred hours of the amount of time I've played Blizz RTSes. (and make no mistake about it, it's a fairly distant third, hours-wise)
What games have I put hundreds of hours into online? Very few, actually. I'd say that probably it's only Starcraft, Warcraft III, and probably Netstorm. That's probably it.
But as I've said before, that's just a statement about how utterly brilliant Blizzard is... SC/WCIII are just about perfect. Why play anything else (in the genre)?
As for Netstorm, it's just so completely unique and original (It's still, after over seven years, a completely unique game. There's nothing else like it.) that I've returned to it every so often over the years. Age of Empires 2, or Red Alert 2, or whatever else, are more similar to Blizz FPSes (they're standard FPS games), so I'd rather just play some B.Net (something custom, probably), but Netstorm is different so I'm pretty sure it's the one online game that's even within a few hundred hours of the amount of time I've played Blizz RTSes. (and make no mistake about it, it's a fairly distant third, hours-wise)