Just saw Call of Duty and Dances with Ninjas

[Firefly]

Thanks, Les and Bellisarius for your comments. It looks like CoD may be worth looking at when the price drops. I'm not totally anti-FPS myself, I enjoyed Operation Flashpoint and Deus Ex, both of which took elements from other genres. I tend to find the pure shooters like Quake or Half-Life a bit boring though.

[ShermanM4]

Hello,

hi.

i never played one of the games online only SP.

how is the best way to play online ?
also how to find beginner players like me ?

Really online playing with an FPS is sort of quick and dirty. What I mean is, it is a little difficult at first to find the best way to play. MOHAA itself comes with the gamespy finder so just look for forums that seem to sound right: "New B Forum, Play Nice." If English isnt your first language fear not, there are tons of Deutscher MOHAA forums. Also, if you can download the program called "The All Seeing Eye." That should really help you find other people that you might want to play with and against on a regular basis. It works much better than GamesSpy.

[Taiko]

In response to Paul about guilty pleasures, one wonders what your son would think if you had my WRX instead of the Forrster.

[NefariousKoel]

If ya wanna get something good for nothing... try America's Army. I never said it was easy though. That's why I love it.

[Sarge]

The only thing I hate about COD is no skins in MP play. MOH was ok but the idea of you being able to play in the skin of choice was outstanding. Pluse they need to fix the bunny hopping in COD it was BS in MOH and its still BS in COD. Some clans have got some good realistic mods running on there servers "2ndforcerecon" is the best I have played so far next time on look it up

[Golf33]

America's Army gave me the squirts after a while. Far too many losers out there who have the time to memorize blind shots so you get killed without ever seeing who shot you through the fog. Plus the weapons modelling is crap, I used to score quite well on the range and especially so in short-range snap practices but I couldn't hit a thing in AA.

OTOH I just downloaded the Steel Beasts demo, it's an old game (1998) but I was impressed enough to fork out $40 for it. It's shipping bundled with Panzer Commander so I'll let you know what I think of the pair when it arrives. The SB demo is cool though, I'm not a tank gunner but it sure feels about right. Planning is a bit tricky and involved though especially if like me you are mainly interested in the shooting things blowing up stuff side of it.

Cheers
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[ravinhood]

That's kinda funny Sarge, because yesterday for the first time I thought to myself, ok, I gotta see what all this hype is about with "Call of Duty". I've had it on a PCgamer demo sitting in a drawer for a couple of months now, never even had a 2nd thought about trying it out. Until yesterday.

As you I was impressed with the overall flow and the brotherhood of men as I played out the demo. I even resorted to using the German machine gun over the US version because there were more dead germans laying around that had dropped these weapons so lots more ammo. heh

What of course hit me in the face as I completed the demo mission was the fact it was a mission based game. Every time it is played it would have the same objectives, over and over and over again, and in the same order. I don't care for repetitive or orderly gaming in this genre. So while it's awesome looking and gives one the simulation of what real war fighting might have been about. It lost its lustre with me because of the linear approach it took, vs BATTLEFIELD 1942 which is simular in that it has "scenes of battles" but, nowhere near the linear play. In the "scenes" of BF42 you can go anywhere and do anything at anytime with any piece of equipment heh as long as the major objective of defeating the enemy is complied with.

And it works in the "single player" game this way. Too much emphasis is placed on FPS games being MP games, there's a slew of "non-multiplayer" based fans out there as there are MP fans, so when a game like BF42 delivers me the kind of enjoyment I want in a FPS without seeming LINEAR or same ole same ole every game, that's the game that takes top billing with me.

Call of Duty is a "graphics candy baby" treat. But, it's still a linear mission based game and once through it like you said, it's like watching a rerun of the same movie. I did enjoy hiding behind a dead cow in the demo blasting away at the mortar crews! lol Always wondered what that would be like, but, of course, games don't have smellavision or scratch n sniff stickers to put on the monitors! LOL So no realism there.

[NefariousKoel]

I'll keep it blunt.

Call of Duty was the first cookie eating WWII FPS that actually made me feel like I was shooting the rifle... not aiming a crosshair.

All else is quizzical BS.

[ravinhood]

How did you eat a cookie and shoot a rifle at the same time?