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Parts 1 and 3, yes, but Part 2 was also released for PC.Never played the original, but Marathon 2 rocked! IIRC, these were mac only werent they?
Parts 1 and 3, yes, but Part 2 was also released for PC.Never played the original, but Marathon 2 rocked! IIRC, these were mac only werent they?
Unreal's netcode was never as good as it needed to be. UT's netcode was completely changed (and one core reason it was not an expansion pack like originally planned).
No, need to steer someone away from UT3.I do have to wonder about the motives of people who clearly try to steer others away from UT3. What do they gain from it? Is it some sort of weird pride in knowing that they "saved" someone from a game they think is bad? Are they just looking for attention? Really, what's the point?
imo, the whole series has strived to be a quake clone, and has never really achieved that .. then they bolted a whole bunch of features (alt-firing, dodging, multi-jump, etc) and alternate game modes on top of that to try to differentiate it, without ever really getting the "quake clone" thing down.
**** like this is WHY people aren't playing it. "Don't play it because nobody's playing!"No, need to steer someone away from UT3.
There is nearly no UT3 anymore, at least not Online in Central Europe.
I am from Austria - 'in the heart of Europe', I play on servers from Germany, Italy, France, Poland etc.
An this is the situations on servers today (Friday) at about 6:30 pm , cloudy and rainy weather.
I highlighted servers with a ping less than 120 and active players.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7236/ut3serversrb5.gif
Go feed your juggernauts, Epic and Midway.
Send them your money... and have fun with Bots.
Cheers
**** like this is reality, at least throughout Central Europe.**** like this is WHY people aren't playing it.
Hmm, the bots are stupid as ****, there is soon no one to play with/against online."Don't play it because nobody's playing!"
**** like this is WHY people aren't playing it. "Don't play it because nobody's playing!"
You're just shooting yourself in the foot with that logic...
I like UT3 btw, even if it's maybe not what it should be and I am unhappy they removed things like canister gun etc, or conquest and certain flaws in game, it plays good and I think the sp is best of the UT series even if the story is so........it kinda is self parody but I like it more than these ladders and compared to ut2004 singleplayer, this one simply rocks.
I like it the way it is and I don't see why people bashed this storyline as if it was the worst thing, they didn't understand it at all then...........
Yeah, I totally couldn't tell this was UT when I first opened the package. All new weapons, all new levels, none of the vehicles were the same, only some basic game modes... yup. Complete and total confusion. I thought I was playing Quake!Well people dosent play UT3 because they simply dont like to play it so theres no need to encourage others to play it either...
Epic shoot themself in the foot by making another UT nobody wanted or could recognize as such...
UT games have never had anything beyond a thin storyline, as UT has never been a story-driven FPS. If you want story-driven FPS games, UT isn't going to fill that need now or ever.The singleplayer mode is simple Deathmatch with a poorly attached storyline...
Not only was the story garbage it utterly destroyed any chance of getting a decent Unreal singleplayer game again without having to retcon practiclly everything...
UT games have never had anything beyond a thin storyline, as UT has never been a story-driven FPS. If you want story-driven FPS games, UT isn't going to fill that need now or ever.
You can make a great SP game, or a great MP game, but rarely is there a game that pulls both off successfully. UT never has, and it never will, and I'd rather it stick to MP than SP.
I'd much rather have Unreal 3 for my SP.
WTF! I thought this was Mario 43!!!! [Shafted!!!]Yeah, I totally couldn't tell this was UT when I first opened the package. All new weapons, all new levels, none of the vehicles were the same, only some basic game modes... yup. Complete and total confusion. I thought I was playing Quake!
UT games have never had anything beyond a thin storyline, as UT has never been a story-driven FPS. If you want story-driven FPS games, UT isn't going to fill that need now or ever.
You can make a great SP game, or a great MP game, but rarely is there a game that pulls both off successfully. UT never has, and it never will, and I'd rather it stick to MP than SP.
I'd much rather have Unreal 3 for my SP.
Isn't that kind of why UT3 was a lot more like UT?UT cant survive on a single extreme and it cant be just a multi game and it cant be just a single game and it cant reinvent itself everytime either, it cant survive on such a volotile concotion. UT needs solid and reliable gameplay and thats it.
UT dosent have the backbone of gamers to sustain a multi game only due to Epic trying to reinvent UT everytime all it managed is to alienate most of the gamers.
Gears of War shows that Epic if they put their act togheter can produce a solid single/multi/coop game, and from what I have seen of GOW2 they are not trying to reinvent the game.
Catch 44 situation.
[1] You bought it at Walmart, which means :tdown: -10JimBodkins
I dont have quite enough iron to really play it - so I wont be going online.
WalMart lowered the price from $50 to $29.
This is an odd thing really. At $50, it seems to be contending for a choice as 'the next ... thing'. At $29, it is just a good game - well worth the money. Its not the money, its the positioning. For whatever reason, people seem to have decided (voted - like caeser ... thumbs down) that it isnt 'the next ... thing'.
I have played the demo ... and ignoring the 'my game is THE game' cool factor ... it is clear that UT3 is a good and fun game.
I wonder if people will buy and play it for $29 as a good/fun game.
Probably not ... gamers are jaded and dependent on associated game coolness.
Just curious how (or if) a price change effects anyones thinking.
P.S.
The retail game (unpatched) is MUCH heavier on resources than the demo.
I'd much rather play UT3 with everyone else that plays UT3 online.
I really liked UT3. It had its flaws, and still does, but they were mostly in the shoddy finishing touches that make a product feel polished. Core gameplay is mucho fun.
However, though I don't usually consider the surrounding circumstances when I rate a game's merits, I admit I was severely turned off of UT3 by Epic themselves. Their launch and treatment of the community were and continue to be so heavy-handed that I began to have negative associations with UT3. They were so defensive about it, and tried to hard to silence the flood of legitimate criticisms, that it very much gave the impression of a damage game from the days of the disastrous "beta demo". "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" doesn't work very well, it seems. Seeing the high quotient of forum scrubbing and message control on Epic's official boards was the last piece of it, for me.
So, though the gameplay is good, Epic has nobody but themselves to blame for the awful reception Ut3 received. Many mediocre games have very strong communities, and the major factor seems to be the parent company's culture, and relation to their fans. Epic seems to feel that it can treat its fanbase however it pleases, and that it can survive by engine sales alone.
I loved UT3, but have not really played for three months now. Since I played every other UT game non-stop for nine years, and UT3 is easily their equal, I have to figure that there's something else that turned me away from it. So don't judge the gameplay by the awful online presence, or the negative vibe on these boards. Epic has shaken off a large portion of their loyal UT fanbase in these past six months, and is likely hoping for a new community based on UT3, who doesn't remember the company they used to be. Good luck to them with that, and if you like UT3 enough to stick around, you could get in on the new ground floor of the community, since the game itself is loads of fun.
The Problem with the UT series is, every game looks better but plays worse.
First Unreal Online: Hard to frag, the way it should be, a skill game.
UT 99, still pretty good, but slightly dumbed down. Everyone can easily achieve frags.
UT 2003 better graphics, but the gameplay doesnt feel right, same goes for UT 3.
Previous UT's default FOV was 90, not 100.