Shadowbane hit the 1000 vs 1000 mark without crashing the server. Everyone was lagged but could cast and move. I don't think any game has even come close to that mark.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
DAoC Old Frontiers, and Shadowbane hands down to me. Dark and Light was actually fun only because it was a few of us vs Euro players and the cheating GMs that helped them (giving them GM Weps and armor etc...).
biggest battle in darkfall must have bin hyperion vs yssam alliance @ start of the server more then 1000 people where involved in that siege
another big moment would be the server vs cairn siege later on (where like everybody ganged up trying to take cairns holdings but failed due to the client crashing)
ehm day to day pvp id say the sea towers and every siege these days has around 200~people around wich is quite decent , current sieges of agenda vs sun on EU-1 have about 200 people + 50 ~roamers
Shadowbane hit the 1000 vs 1000 mark without crashing the server. Everyone was lagged but could cast and move. I don't think any game has even come close to that mark.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Aion... when a server fights for Divine. nothing matches the numbers
1v1 Aion is fun and one of my faves. GW, and WoW are also rly fun. Aion is very fast though and i like that, not alot of time to think, just have to know what to do. ( i do play ranger though )
Aion has no arenas or BG's, ( dredg doesnt count ) makes me hate the game.
Im going to ignor the "discount EvE" part (like most of us). The Economical side of EvE is my best pvp. Outsmarting the competition, making back room deals and undercutting the market with stolen goods
Clarification: PvP stands for Player versus Player. It does not have to be an orc in oversized korean peacock fantasy armor queing for battle grounds, its all about players competing against the other players. Most games today is RvR, though that is still a kind of PvP, wich is kind of sad.
Give the players control over the game, no more RvR.
Best large scale PvP which I have personally played would be a toss-up between Dark Age of Camelot and Planetside. Both games had phenomenal large scale battles and were extremely exciting to play, but both were very different games and it makes it hard to say which was better.
Coming in at a close second would be Shadowbane. Shadowbane large sieges were actually more exciting in a way than DAOC, but the SB engine failed badly at sieges and the resulting slide show stops me from placing SB first
And thirdly is one of my favourite games of all time - EvE Online. EvE does have some gloriously huge pvp battles, but it is quite easy to feel 'disconnected' from the large scale pvp action in comparison to a player controlled character game, whether it be fps or mmo, or at least that was my impressions after playing a char up to ~54m. The other reason I couldn't choose EvE is because it is dangerously addictive to a sci fi junkie like myself, and I don't want to encourage others to play it too much:P
There are quite a few other games which qualify as 'Medium Sized' pvp - Asherons call, The zek servers on EQ1, WoW, Darkfall, and plenty of miscellaneous online FPS such as BF2 etc.
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Shadowbane hit the 1000 vs 1000 mark without crashing the server. Everyone was lagged but could cast and move. I don't think any game has even come close to that mark.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
DAoC Old Frontiers, and Shadowbane hands down to me. Dark and Light was actually fun only because it was a few of us vs Euro players and the cheating GMs that helped them (giving them GM Weps and armor etc...).
darkfall hands down
biggest battle in darkfall must have bin hyperion vs yssam alliance @ start of the server more then 1000 people where involved in that siege
another big moment would be the server vs cairn siege later on (where like everybody ganged up trying to take cairns holdings but failed due to the client crashing)
ehm day to day pvp id say the sea towers and every siege these days has around 200~people around wich is quite decent , current sieges of agenda vs sun on EU-1 have about 200 people + 50 ~roamers
EVE beat it
http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/10/30/the-largest-battle-ever-held-in-eve-online-is-going-on-right-now/
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Aion... when a server fights for Divine. nothing matches the numbers
1v1 Aion is fun and one of my faves. GW, and WoW are also rly fun. Aion is very fast though and i like that, not alot of time to think, just have to know what to do. ( i do play ranger though )
Aion has no arenas or BG's, ( dredg doesnt count ) makes me hate the game.
Im going to ignor the "discount EvE" part (like most of us). The Economical side of EvE is my best pvp. Outsmarting the competition, making back room deals and undercutting the market with stolen goods
Clarification: PvP stands for Player versus Player. It does not have to be an orc in oversized korean peacock fantasy armor queing for battle grounds, its all about players competing against the other players. Most games today is RvR, though that is still a kind of PvP, wich is kind of sad.
Give the players control over the game, no more RvR.
GG
Best large scale PvP which I have personally played would be a toss-up between Dark Age of Camelot and Planetside. Both games had phenomenal large scale battles and were extremely exciting to play, but both were very different games and it makes it hard to say which was better.
Coming in at a close second would be Shadowbane. Shadowbane large sieges were actually more exciting in a way than DAOC, but the SB engine failed badly at sieges and the resulting slide show stops me from placing SB first
And thirdly is one of my favourite games of all time - EvE Online. EvE does have some gloriously huge pvp battles, but it is quite easy to feel 'disconnected' from the large scale pvp action in comparison to a player controlled character game, whether it be fps or mmo, or at least that was my impressions after playing a char up to ~54m. The other reason I couldn't choose EvE is because it is dangerously addictive to a sci fi junkie like myself, and I don't want to encourage others to play it too much:P
There are quite a few other games which qualify as 'Medium Sized' pvp - Asherons call, The zek servers on EQ1, WoW, Darkfall, and plenty of miscellaneous online FPS such as BF2 etc.