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Planetside is still the funnest MMORPG/FPS
r1tual
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I have tried almost every MMO game that was mainstream and I Just wanted to say in my opinion Planetside was by far the best.
Planetside is an online persistant war. You pick one of three sides and you enter the persistant war trying to capture bases and continents.
No other MMORPG offers this kind of action. Everquest and Star Wars doesnt come close to the skill or tactics involved in playing Planetside. Most of my time in Star Wars and Everuqest was running around with what I felt was "Boring spam the same spells over and over" with no 'twitch' combat. I target an enemy and then just hit it with a spell or attack until it dies.
In Planetside it is different. I have a wide array of weapons I can choose from. They are actual weapons I can aim, drop, pickup, reload, and just fire into the air to celebrate victory of my empire.
I feel Planetside takes skill. You have artillery flails that can shoot a big ball of energy halfway across a continent with laser guided accuracy. You have main battle tanks that can insta gib you if you are caught in the sight of its main gun. You can carry personal rocket launchers to take out enemy vehicles. You can use anti aircraft weaponry to shoot down enemy planes.
Heck you even can fly airplanes. You can bomb your enemies bases from high altitude. You can get into a light and fast scout aircraft and go hunting for enemy airplanes or lone soldiers.
You can be a support player going around healing and repairing friendly troops, vehicles, and equipment.
You can be an invisible assassin armed only with a pistol and maybe some Claymore explosives and wreak havoc behind enemy lines.
You can be a hacker that is able to hack enemy bases for your empire and steal enemy vehicles and equipment.
You can even loot enemy corpses for their weapons.
To me Planetside is the superior game. It offers excitement no other video game offers in the world. An online persistant war that doesnt involve "level grinding", each and every person can play right away and make a difference. You are apart of a cause that shows visible awards every single day by how much of the world you have captured. No boring pointless MMO stories that never come into fruition. You are living and fighting it every day, every minute. Not "Once a month" or "every great while".
So if your bored with your MMORPG's, play Planetside. The more people that play the funner it is.
And its great at releiving stress. I play it everyday and I know if I am ever bored, mad, sad, I can go bomb someone, blow them up with my tank, shoot them with my machinegun, or stab them in the back with my knife.
It is the ultimate first person shooter.
Come play.
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Beta was the best mainly due to it being new to me
As from them taking the Vanu glow away from the knife and CC came in it got ruined
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Planetside was quite fun...for the first three weeks that I played it. But it just got boring very quickly. I had a hard time finding good fights and a good group to fight with.
Eventually it got to where I was just riding around with the ATV and seeing where I could get the most air (and maybe run into a few stray fighters).
But the most fun I had was with the NC tank...I was a damned good pilot and if I got a good gunner...damn that was fun.
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WWIIO is still the king of MMOFPS's. Check that out if you are interested in Massivly multiplayer online first person shooters.
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Um
If it's the king why does it have 45,000 less players?
No offense, it's a good game, but saying it's "king" is a bit of a stretch. It's a solid MMOFPS but it's hardly the 'king'.
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Um
If it's the king why does it have 45,000 less players?
No offense, it's a good game, but saying it's "king" is a bit of a stretch. It's a solid MMOFPS but it's hardly the 'king'.
Well considering theres only 2 mmofps's that matter out there it probally is the king : Planetside is complete shite now and the Euro server neevr had any battles after BFR's
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when i tried it it was so laggy it was unplayable. has that changed?
you can't have a super laggy fps.
i'm a proponent of the mmofps, a true mmofps, but planetside dissapointed me.
they watered down fps combat, had unimpressive graphics, and ignored the fun parts of mmos (character development, property ownership, etc).
does it still have a trial? I definately wouldn't buy this game out on a limb with how crappy it was last time i played it, but i guess it would at least be worth doing a trial to see if it's still as laggy, and if it's not to see if the base game is worth it. I mean, it has mechs so if it's not still laggy i might get it. Tho i really hate losing the character building system (they shouldn't have erased it, just made it an enhancer instead of a complete thru the roof modification, and they should have had some type of money system).
edit: Oh, and ww2 online did have better core gameply. if they did a graphical update to semi-modern, i'd buy it in a second (used to have it, lost my game and no longer have subscription). however, right now the graphics just put me off. I mean, gameplay is the biggest thing, but I can't get immersed in ww2online after playing something like bf2 (which has its own probs
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I did have fun moments in Planetside, but ...
Basic problem in planetside is that combat is pretty pointless and repeative. You will capture enemy base and next day (or after couple hours) you will fight again in same place. Second problem is that all bases are very similar to each other. Basicly there is only few different types of bases.
Planetside need much more base maps - maybe some unique - maybe some urban. Also war should last multiple days and there should be end of war and reward for winning side. Currently "war" is continuing battle between 3 sides that are moving pretty pointlessly in map.
Core combat extension was most awful extension that I have ever bought to any game. I think that I have been maybe 3 times in those caves.
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Lol, BF42>HL
CS is the ultimate whore game. PPL sprint around and shoot guys with sniper rifles at the same time. It's so friggin unrealistic.
DoD does admittedly rock, i can't wait for DoDS and DoD2. Gonna rock.
Remember kids, when you see the lava coming, duck and cover!!!
I've alwasy awanted to try PS, but with my screaming 56K connection I think it would be pretty pointless.
I don't want to write this, and you don't want to read it. But now it's too late for both of us.
Uh, what CS are you playing? It may be slightly arcadey, but its way more realistic than BF1942. I cant say ive ever seen a prop plane go from a complete stop to taking off in about 30 yards. The only sniper rifle you can run-'n'-gun with in CS is the scout, and even it loses a lot of accuracy when you run.
As for Planetside, its far far far from being the best FPS. It was actually the most boring FPS ive ever played in my life.
Planetside was quite fun ... BFR's and Alien tech ruined it for me.
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Planetside was fun for about 2 months then got a bit samey, I would have probably played it more if it was'nt so laggy, I even reactivated my subscription when i got 2mb broadband and a 3gh pc and it still lagged like a bitch in the big battles. At least the sniping took skill and i had lots of fun shooting people in the back in my stealthsuit.
Btw theres no roleplaying in PLanetside unless roleplaying is shooting someone in the face with a rocket gun.