sounds like an update AND an expansion pack.
You forgot to mention that you also want it on a "current" engine for some stupid reason. There are plenty of games that apply to what you want... until you stick in the fact that if it doesn't have shiny Shader 3.0 things and bloom you don't want to play it. :/You guys do know I was pretty much a fan of UT3 from the beginning right? I certainly don't want to see UT fail, because regardless of what multiplayer games I try (TF2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty 4), and despite them all being great games, I just want a deathmatch game. Good ol' fashion rockets and plasma deathmatch.
You forgot to mention that you also want it on a "current" engine for some stupid reason. There are plenty of games that apply to what you want... until you stick in the fact that if it doesn't have shiny Shader 3.0 things and bloom you don't want to play it. :/
I mean, if the game still had a thriving community you might expect that they could release an expansion that would sell reasonably well, but I'm not sure that has any validity at this point.
Comparing multiplayer-focused first person shooter games in the same series (with, by and large, the same weapons, and in some cases the same maps) is not exactly a case of comparing apples and oranges. Comparing them and saying that one was a "better" game than other doesn't preclude making statements about their relative strengths and weaknesses. Pushing everything into the morass of "Well, it's different" isn't really helpful when critically discussing areas where games improved, failed to improve, or regressed.
None of those games are UT.
This is what I'm most afraid of. UT3 has the most fun UT gameplay I've ever played, and the idea of them turning it back into the nerfed-to-hell, floaty, overly cartoony, mini-me 2k4 style sounds dreadful.
I'll just skip the "update" if that's what they do, considering I spent more time tweaking mutators trying to get back to the UT feel than I actually spent playing 2k4 by the end...
1999..2009.. I really do hope it is "large"
Anyone telling themselves it won't cost money is probably going to be disappointed. In fact, if it doesn't cost money it probably will be a disappointment
(how much do you expect for free?.. a couple maps maybe? lol)
Unless they're hoping to make money from selling more of the base game, but I mean - for people that didn't buy the game in the first place, why would they buy it now just because it's got more "stuff".
Indeed, a year and a day out makes the decade exactly in fact. You've got to think they have that circled on the calendar, and not just for champagne popping. It just makes too much sense.1999..2009..
um ... ok you need some stiffer competition.all you have to do is run around with your finger held down on the RL fire button.
I don't even know how to respond to this.Lol, How can you say 2k4 was nerfed when UT3 is a skill-free, feature poor, bug riddled spamfest nothing and more. I can live with either system of movement/weapon balance but UT3 was the game that was 'nerfed-to-hell' not 2k4. Who needs to move or aim well when all you have to do is run around with your finger held down on the RL fire button.
Lol, How can you say UT was nerfed when UT 2x is a skill-free, feature poor, bug riddled bouncefest nothing and more. I can live with either system of movement/weapon balance but UT 2x was the game that was 'nerfed-to-hell' not UT. Who needs to move or aim well when all you have to do is hop around with your finger held down on the SR fire button.
Lol, How can you say 2k4 was nerfed when UT3 is a skill-free, feature poor, bug riddled spamfest nothing and more. I can live with either system of movement/weapon balance but UT3 was the game that was 'nerfed-to-hell' not 2k4. Who needs to move or aim well when all you have to do is run around with your finger held down on the RL fire button.
Like, Unreal II is considered to be not good, but why? Because they rushed. They didn't complete MP, and that left the game with small replayability. U2XMP was never finished too, yet it's still fun as it has MP! But if they didn't rush again, they would have made it even better. So they *really* shouldn't rush. U1 was developed in like 3 years - and it was fantastic back then. You can create miracles if you have enough time. And I guess they should take their time and make UT3 playable on lower end PCs for now...
And yes, UT3 is nice, only if it was playable both online and offline!..
I will answer ...you obviously haven't played much DM against the best players who go 50-4 K-D against other, very good players. I loved Ut2004 but tbf UT3 is faster , it requires a different mindset and it demands 100% concentration (unlike floaty 2k4) if anything,it could be too intense for most people , that's why they stick to other shooters and put down UT3. I agree, it can get way too crazy on certain small confined DM maps when a server is full. However , to characterize it as needing no skill is mad, just spectate some of the best UT3 DM'ers.
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A damned shame, too, because ultimately I feel it's the best of the series next to the original. I think most long term UT players (from the UT99 days) feel that way, too. Now for the generation that came into the series with UT2003/4 I wouldn't expect them to feel that way. Where as the classic UT99 community felt that UT2003/4 was a betrayal of the classic formula, now the hardcore UT2003/4 players now feel a little backhanded by UT3.
but with very few exceptions Unreal Tournament and Q3 were really the last of the MASSIVE COMMUNITY games (not counting Counter Strike...etc). A few games have bumped some big numbers since, but Jesus, UT was a long term and massive success.