Planetside.

Mrbloodworth

If only you were updated, you were before your time my friend.

Gammit100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2F5eFGBOkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxgI-lya6E

Abrahmm

Wow... That actually looks like a lot of fun. I think SOE should stick to making games, and then sell them to someone else at release. They seem to make good games, and then systematically dismantle them.

Wolfenpride

Planetside was freaking amazing

I made alot of memories in that game, I think its safe to say it's been one of the best mmo's in history thus far.

If only they made a Planetside 2..

edit: In fact i'll go as far to say that as far as PvP goes, this game was the best.

Rayx0r

its still a lot of fun.  You guys do know its still around right?  And no, you wont be behind the curve going against people who have been playing for a long time.  I still go back and resub to this game occassionally. 

but trust me, it is much like a fps and it is fairly easy to get burned out on.  But its still a hell of a lot of fun.

BaronJuJu

I loved playing PS when it first launched. I would love to see it updated, I went back recently to take a look and it is a shell  of what it once was. Small skirmishes, totally one sided fights and no coordiantion anywhere make for bad gameplay now in my opinion.

Scribble

Thats what I found when I re-subbed a few months ago too Baron. I thought there'd still be the massive fights over bases, loaded tower skirmishes, full squads attacking from ground and air simultaneously. It is a game that really needs a decent player base to succeed. Would be well up for a sequel though.

nikoliath

 I loved PS, sadly the last time I called in on the EU servers it was pretty dead.

John.A.Zoid

The problem with Planetside is SOE made three major changes to the game and they all sucked, Core Combat expansion SOE gave 3 months of development for and no tetsing, BFRs which everyone quit over and never came back and the bending which gave us a shitty looking map and the new pointless Oshur thats capped before anyone can defend. There hasn't been anything since but some weapons and vehicles which have the worst art design ever! So everyone has been slowly quiting cause they're bored of playing the flawed game where theres no indoor content but the caverns which are so far outta the way it's too much effort for people to go down.



We wanted unique base designs and cities on the current game, we were asking for it in beta and we never got that. People got tired of fighting in the same bases all the time and people wanted more indoor content. The Caverns they added were horrible to access and they added more space ontop of a world that was already too big for the declining population.

Now Planetside is a dated FPS that offers the same size battles a Battlefield 2 does and people don't want to sub to that. I say make it a free browser based game support by ads.

 

I tried to get 4 of my mates into Planetside but funny enough they all use Vista now and I'm the only one using XP so it worked for me and didn't work for them. I then got a Vista Laptop to test it for myself and we followed the instructions on the forums but it still didn't work for some of us and they were like "I can't be bothered to get this game to work it ain't worth it" so they uninstalled. I asked for SOE's help to fix it because it's losing them trade and they didn't care and didn't reply.

PapaB34R

Planetside was ok, played both beta and then later trials, only concern is that its very repetative and for a fps based game it sucked, was an ok mmo. But the FPS part sucked, the weapons didnt just feel right.

But as an mmo it was ok.. for a short while. With that said I would never want to play it again

Gammit100

The game engine wasn't programmed well for updates.  Instead of using hooks, the main code has to be screwed with.

Rumor has it that a MMO studio is going to try to replicate PS; it may be a Warhammer 40,000 MMOFPS.

goneglockin

I could write a book on all the various aspects of PlanetSide.  The game was way ahead of it's time and, if thoroughly analyzed, gave tremendous insight and inspiration with regard to future designs on MMOFPS concepts.  A design doc isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but I'm very tempted to put in the time on one some day based on everything I've learned from 3 years of playing that game, loving it, hating it and learning from it all at the same time.

trozyxxx

Planetside, as pointed out by the op, was before its time.

I played at launch, I loved it and hated it at the same time. A dev posted that "no computer yet made can run PS at max graphics" this caused an uproar with people who refused to understand that the game had to be made with the future in mind, games trade off fps for eye candy, its still the same today.

but at the time I was 56k or in fact i think I was upgraded to isdn 64k I cant remember my computer but it was utter crap, low ram, very average for the time and totaly unable to run 200 people shooting at the same time. Its sad really just a few years later broadband was reachable computers moved forward but by then most of us had moved away to other games.

Its a shame because I have nice memories of the big battles in PS, just being there was amazing but iv never seen lag like that in any game since.

Jackhammer owns u

Mrbloodworth

Originally posted by Gammit100


The game engine wasn't programmed well for updates.  Instead of using hooks, the main code has to be screwed with.
Rumor has it that a MMO studio is going to try to replicate PS; it may be a Warhammer 40,000 MMOFPS.

 

Lets hope they dont forget what made planetside great.