Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? 804
An anonymous reader writes "I have been playing videogames for years, but only recently got a DSL line in my house and so have never played any online games before now, as dial up was always too slow. Now that I have a fast connection, I want to get into online gaming, FPS gaming in particular. My problem is that Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Quake and all the other popular games seem to be dominated by people using cheats, and by established clans of players who are a lot better than me. Are there any online FPS games or servers whose barriers to entry are not too high for the average player? I am looking for something that I can just connect to for a half an hour now and then when I am bored and can have fun with."
LORD! (Score:5, Funny)
Team Fortress 2! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:LAN with Friends (Score:5, Funny)
Compared to what? playing with a mass of immature idiots in your living room?
Sorry :P (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:5, Funny)
Don't try Enemy Territory (Score:2, Funny)
I first started to play it, and found that it was to diverse. There are TOO many things that you can do in it. So then I had to try everything, and what started as a couple hours of playing has turned into a 6 month obsession.
Every night I can't wait to get home from work, and load up my riffle nade and shoot some nazis. It's become pathetic. I dream about Enemy Territory, I get words like "Danke" and "Aufiedersien" stuck in my head. I continually chant "We've captured the old city, DYNAMITE the old city wall! They've captured the old city! We've captured the old city, DYNAMITE the old city wall! They've captured the old city!"
At work I try to needle nose my monitor, but that doesn't get my work done!
If you like having any social life at all. Stay away from ET, it's 100% addictive. It's worse then smoking.
My experience with FPSs (Score:2, Funny)
Quit your whining. (Score:4, Funny)
While people using cheats do exist, they're not nearly as prevalent as you seem to think, you're just unable to accept that people are that good.
Take Quake 3, for example. I got tired of having my butt handed to me by people with the railgun. So, I limitted myself to *only* using the railgun. In time, I got pretty good. With more time, I got really good. With even more time, I got fan-freaking-tastic. When you're single, don't own a home, and have a 1-megabit pipe into your apartment, it's amazing how much time you can dedicate/waste on those things!
So, what did that get me? A bunch of whining cry-babies yelling "Aimbot! Cheater!" every time I killed them. After they did it enough to annoy me, I'd chase them down and kill them with the gauntlet. At that point, they'd generally just leave the game.
steve
Re:Your best bet... (Score:4, Funny)
You will never see such a wretched hive of scum and villainy anywhere else in the galaxy. We have to be careful not to be pwned.
Re:LAN with Friends (Score:1, Funny)
Some what now?
Re:Well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)
They're not very good players, unfortunately. But at least they're not weenies.
Re:America's Army (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, he was behind the middle bush.
Re: Ridiculous (Score:5, Funny)
Just because it has taken you 10 years to learn how to play a FPS doesn't mean the average geek reading this site will require that much time.
Doom I??? Doom II??? I haven't heard of anyone playing either of those games in at least 5 years. My god, they had a Doom release on the Atari Jaguar!!! Think about that!
I think you have dedicated way too much of your life to playing these games.
In the amount of time that has expired since Doom I came out, you could have gotten your undergrad degree, gone to medical school, AND finished your residency. You would be a real, licened, ready to probe the vagina gynecologist.
Lets get our priorities straight here. Games should be a minor diversion, not an activity which requires 15% of your life to master.
Re:Your best bet... (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, no, really.. (Score:5, Funny)
If someone shoots you a lot and you cant seem to touch them, that means their cheating. Its always best to call them a cheater out loud. This will show the other players that you just want to play a fair game.
Monopolize. If your playing on a level with any 'scarce' items its probably best if you get to them first then run directly over to the enemy side and open up! Just to show them how leet you are (they'll apprecaite you donating the weapon too).
Talk shit. Players really respect a player who knows how to talk shit. If your losing, insult the enemy team! This goes great along with accusing enemy players of cheating.
Finally, if *your* using a cheat its probably best to start accusing enemy players of cheating *as soon as you log in*. Your team mates will apprecaite this and admire you for your honesty.
Don't forget to bunny hop! Good gaming!
question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Your best bet... (Score:1, Funny)
That sounds like a lot more fun than playing a FPS online...
Re:Savage (Score:3, Funny)
Realism (Score:2, Funny)
Now I'm in prison.
Seriously. It loaded a map, and now I'm wandering around in a tiny cell, and nothing has happened for five minutes. It's the most brilliant thing I've seen in my life.
There's a harmonica playing.
Re:Realism (Score:3, Funny)
I've spent the last hour getting yelled at in medic training for jumping on tables, looking at other people's papers during tests, and standing up for no reason.
As far as escapist gaming goes though, it might be a little too real. If you talk to the nurses too often, one of them tells you she's married, and the other tells you she has a 6 foot tall, 240 pound boyfriend in Special Forces.
Rejected by pixel-women...
Just now? (Score:2, Funny)
While I certainly can empathize (and agree) with all that you've said, I have to ask: Did this happen to you in the last thirty seconds?
In addition to your point, I can't fathom how anyone can really enjoy the game when they know they're cheating; I'd rather "Get My Ass Royally Kicked" than win the round/game/whatever using some cheat hack.
...but I can laugh now because you sound just like I do right while it's happening. With my usual attention to spelling and grammar lying comatose in the corner, riddled with shrapnel, you'll find me screaming at the monitor and banging on the keyboard. I get so flustered that my already-crippled 55-WPM typing plummets to around 20, and is still as riddled with holes as my poor character's cyber-body. Zedmelon the Online Gamer can be quite the poster child for rage-supressing medication.
YOu stup8id mother*($&@#!! Can't y0ou just pul;l up your panti3es and play fair?!?/1 what p9ossibvle enjoymeaint couildf you get ou5t of fragging me fr0om behind a wall .002 seconds after I spa2wned??!?! WHat the hell is your G0da^m problem?!? DId your mother jkeep you in the xcellaer as a child!??!
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I feel for you, GooberToo. I really do.