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[EatChildren]

The greatest no frills deathmatch game ever made; Quake 3 Arena

 

[Shanlei91]

For me, it's a tie between:

 

[theRizzle]

I'll toss in a vote for Quake 1. While the base game wasn't the greatest, the mod support was mindblowing. Rocket Arena, Threewave CTF & Team Fortress basically birthed a lot of what we consider to be standard multiplayer modes today.

However, for sheer competitiveness, nothing beats Q3A in my mind.

 

[Lion Heart]

Counterstrike. I play it every day.

 

[Cornbread78]

Should be just titled PC GAF: what is the best MP game.


Killzone 2 and RFoM take the cake in my experience. I don't play PC games.....

 

[Vagabundo]

No contest here: Enemy Territory by a nautical mile.

 

[Sir Garbageman]

1. COD: MW
2. Halo 2
3. Team Fortress

 

[Drkirby]

A single vote with no deadline or format? This is going to make crummy statistics and be annoying to add up.

I for one disaprove of the voting gaf tag, this is just a discusion topic.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

CS1.6 and MAG.

 

[V_Arnold]

CS 1.6. Without a doubt.

 

[ksan]

Should be just titled PC GAF: what is the best MP game.


Killzone 2 and RFoM take the cake in my experience. I don't play PC games.....

whine in tsay/mm2 please

 

[Old Gimlet Eyes]

Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein. There is no contest.

 

[Chuckie]

 

[Lionheart1337]

Counterstrike. I play it every day.

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Such is the opinion of those with lion's blood in their veins.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Counterstrike. It was groundbreaking stuff.

 

[theBishop]

No contest here: Enemy Territory by a nautical mile.

<3 enemy territory <3

have you played MAG? It's the best current-gen game I've played which scratches the same itches, while also moving it forward. Quake Wars sadly was just not a very good game imo.

 

[demon arm]

Difficult question, but at the end of the day I'd vote

Team Fortress 2

quite simply because I've had the most fun over the longest period of time with that online FPS.

That being said I really don't care much for its hats'n'crates incarnation and have practically stopped playing it since.

 

[bbagwell]

1: Ghost Recon
2: Bad Company 2
3: Rainbow Six

 

[AIRic]

Quake III
UT
CS

 

[ghst]

i'd have been pretty heart-broken if nobody came into this gaf thread declaring killzone 2 the greatest fps of all time.

 

[alphaNoid]

Since I played it for 4 years straight, Counter Strike 1.6.

 

[legacyzero]

Spoiler

I haven't played MW2 or Black Ops

Came here to post this.

Oh and MW2 and BLOPS are ok-ish. Not even close to the heart of COD4 though.

 

[Emitan]

I'm gonna get hate for this too but I loved COD4 Modern Warfare. At the time, the XP system with its levels, unlocks, attachments and customization was fresh and new. Looking back, it changed the entire genre did it not? Countless FPS since then have tried to copy it. Kind of like Gears of War with its cover system -- lots of third-person shooters have tried to mimic it.

I wouldn't pick COD4 as my favorite, but I agree there's a reason why it's now the de facto FPS of this generation, like Halo before it. If only the PC version didn't use Punkbuster... I keep getting kicked from servers, but at least the 360 version is still alive and kicking.

Halo Reach is better than Halo 2 in like every single facet of the game.

Halo 2 > Reach to me solely because I've never had a Reach LAN party and me and my friends would LAN Halo 2 all the time. Only two out of the 8 of us owned Xboxes, but we all bought controllers to make it easier on our 2 Xbox owning friends. Those late night cutom games filled with frantic shouting, screen looking and pizza rolls will be missed ;_;

i'd have been pretty heart-broken if nobody came into this gaf thread declaring killzone 2 the greatest fps of all time.

I hate the controls and I never have enough ammo. I love their multi objective gametype idea though. More games need that.

 

[Tworak]

Any answer that isn't Quake III Arena or Counter-Strike borders on ignorance.

good man. I think I love you. Deeply.

Also, Tribes.

 

[Hitmonchan107]

I wouldn't feel right if I didn't come in to give my answers.

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Command & Conquer: Renegade

*edit* If anyone could point me towards what I need to do to play Renegade on active servers today, I'd be happy.

My God, the hours I spent on that game.


Edit: Strike that. If Jedi Outcast counts as a FPS, then my vote goes for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Over 500 hours of good ol' dial-up lagfesting.

 

[Haklong]

Counter Strike 1.6 and Source.

 

[NewFresh]

CS 1.6

Limitless hours of fun playing this game. It is the only one that I can still play and enjoy just as much as when It first came out

 

[Future PhaZe]

Halo Reach is better than Halo 2 in like every single facet of the game.

Lulz.


Halo 2 for me.

 

[Jokab]

Counter-strike 1.6 by a mile.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Guess I'm the only Delta Force fan.

Loved me some Raven Shield too.

 

[Absinthe]

Maybe i'm too old, but my favorite was Doom 2 multiplayer through bbs. Along with creating your own maps and downloading others. Being able to play multiplayer at that time was an awesome experience. And Doom 2 was pure greatness in multiplayer IMO

 

[BMX Bandit]

I'm gonna go with QuakeWorld, which I'm extremely dissapointed to not find in the OP.

Yeh. Anyone that doesn't say QuakeWorld I get the feeling never played it. The amount of mods that sprang from it alone destroys anything today. Going from playing Quake online on dialup to QuakeWorld was something amazing as well. I laugh when people talk about lag nowadays. Try being around when Quake launched on dialup.

 

[mxgt]

This was my first shooter for PC, got it because my friends played it. So much fun. Too bad it was rife with cheaters and hackers.

 

[Kawl_USC]

Gotta be Halo 2 for me. I don't even want to know how many hours I put into that game during middle school. I'm sure it easily numbered in the thousands. No online shooter has captured my time and attention like that again. Not being a PC gamer it was just an incredible experience that was so far ahead of its time for consoles. I mean hell it took years before anything came even close to topping it. While people may argue that the later Halo's are better, Halo 2 has the best maps of the series by far. Midship and Lockout were 4v4 perfection and with Big Team Battle Maps like Headlong, Coag, Waterworks and more I can look back on almost every map with fond memories; which is a far cry from Halo 3 or Halo Reach. No game has captured the magic I felt playing Halo 2 online and so for me its easily the best online FPS of all time. Not even the rampant modders could ruin it for me. It also had zombies when team changing was entirely honor based and it still managed to be a hundred times better than what Bungie has been able to come up with in matchmaking. I could go on and on about all the things that I love about Halo 2 that are lacking from all other console shooters I've played.

Again so PC-GAF doesn't berate me, never had a hardcore gaming pc so this is coming from a console only gaming perspective.

 

[Gowans]

For me playing BFBC2 online has been the highlight of FPS shooters for me so far.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Quake II mod community.

 

[Powercast]

Battlefield 2

 

[dragonfart28]

Believe it or not...

But seriously, Q3A, Counterstrike and Battlefield (Bad Company 2 and 1943) need to be mentioned.

 

[Kujo]

Halo 2
Quake 2
Modern Warfare 2
Soldier of Fortune 2

This is a very 2 list, but they all gave me a lot of fun.

 

[Dice]

1. Quake 3 Arena
Forever and ever. It is the genre.

2. Unreal Tournament
I played a TON of this and while I want to say it is equal to Quake 3, deep down I know it isn't pure enough. The abundance of weapons and secondary fire and other things makes it too cluttered. That is the only weakness.

3. Left 4 Dead 2
So amazing and creative, yet not slipping too far down the douchebag slope. Not a single space marine in sight. True co-op not just in people playing the game at once but through the whole design. Versus modes are fantastic and get enough to mix it up without trashing it.

4. Team Fortress 2
I'm not one of these guys, but I can understand and see the genius in the design.

5. Battlefield 2
Allows for too much douchebaggery but still less than other modern war shooters. Unlike BC2, the design itself is the real deal, and Battlefield 3 has potential to climb to a higher position.

 

[Fallout-NL]

For me playing BFBC2 online has been the highlight of FPS shooters for me so far.

I tend to agree. It's just that given Counterstrike's role in the world of online FPS I couldn't answer otherwise.



Oh, I forgot about the first Gears of War actually. Not as relevant as CS, but as an online multiplayer game, I don't think there's something that rivals the sheer amount of fun I've had with that.

 

[John]

team fortress 2

 

[tiff]

Counter-Strike Source is the only online FPS I've ever put a significant amount of time into.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

My number one is Counter-Strike 1.6 I think, with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2 a very close second place tie.

 

[Typographenia]

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Left 4 Dead
3. Counter Strike Source


How can anyone not love TF2? It's one of the most brilliantly executed multiplayer games of all time.

 

[Solal]

Bad company 2 and Counter strike are my 2 favourites of all times.

 

[BeeDog]

Quake 3 Arena is by far best competitive shooter ever.

 

[kamspy]

Bad Company 2

It's far from perfect, hell, it's barely even a PC game. But......destruction. All that really needs to be said. After I spent a dozen or so hours with it I couldn't go back. In other games I'd find myself shooting a rocket into a wall to make a quick escape only to get a quick suicide. An enemy sniper would duck behind a windows and I would project some for of explosive in the general area just to be sobered by the invincible drywall.

Aside from that, rotating flavors of UT. Can't pick a favorite.

 

[iNvid02]

cod4

 

[DeadRockstar]

Unreal Tournament 2004.

Played the game in leagues competitively for years. No contest.