What's your choice for game of the year?

cricket · 09-25-02, 08:45 PM

WHAT GAME WOULD EVERYONE IN HERE VOTE FOR TO BE "GAME OF THE YEAR FOR 2002" IF THEY HAD TO VOTE RIGHT NOW?

Nephilim · 09-25-02, 08:58 PM

thcdru2k · 09-25-02, 09:07 PM

mafia for single player..ut2k3 for mp

kuzujanakis · 09-25-02, 09:09 PM

Mafia does jam!

Matthyahuw · 09-26-02, 02:14 AM

Mafia, this game does no dissapoint!

Fotis · 09-26-02, 03:51 AM

Jedi Knight2

Kruno · 09-26-02, 05:19 AM

Warcraft 3 :P

SnakeEyes · 09-26-02, 07:59 AM

UT2003Demo, no contest. Consider:
-UnrealTournament usually has over 2000 DM servers available at any one time.
-There are certain extremely popular public UT servers that are normally hard to get into because the server is normally full.
-Example: The Factory public TDM server. This server is set up for 6 on 6 TDM, and normally is hard to get into. Usually, I'd have to connect as spectator and watch for someone to leave, or try to beat someone in as the server reset for the next map load.
-UT2003Demo only has 2 DM/TDM maps, 1 CTF map, and 1 BR (Bombing Run) map, along with one basic skin (multiple faces), and doesn't have some of the weapons (mainly the Redeemer and the Ion designator thingamabob).
-On the night that the UT2003 demo was made available, the UnrealTournament servers were largely abandoned, as people overloaded UT2003Demo download mirrors attempting to get the new game.
-On that same night, over 500 DM servers sprang up within hours of the download's availability.
-By the evening of the following day, there were 1400+ DM / TDM servers.
-Within 3 days of the download's availability, there were 1700-1900 DM/TDM servers available for the Demo.
-Predictably, many popular UT public servers are now empty, or nearly empty. This includes the Factory public server.
-UT's graphics, while based on an aging version of the engine, is to the point that most hardware can / does run the game fluidly in most situations.
-UT2003 Demo graphics, based on a new version of the engine, is extremely gorgeous, but taxes hardware, and especially the CPU (during gameplay), to the point that minimum framerates for most people are at best in the mid 40's, with most probably falling somewhere in the lower to mid 30's. Translation, extremely hardware intensive, while most people using the demo don't have hardware capable of giving the same fluidity that UT has.

Conclusion: Any game (demo!) that can grab the majority of the fanbase for it's extremely popular predecessor, despite being extremely feature limited and hardware intensive has got GoTY written all over it.

I still find it hard to believe that there are nearly as many DM/TDM servers for the 2 map demo of ut2003 as there are for the full, mature, well-established UT.

ExitWound · 09-26-02, 08:27 AM

It's hype. Expect it to die down in a few months.

Kruno · 09-26-02, 08:31 AM

Yeh it will die down

UT 2k3 will become just another game gathering dust

While I go and play Warcraft 2 and 3. (yes I still love 2. It's one of those games that never collect dust)

volt · 09-26-02, 08:33 AM

Singleplayer: GTA3
Multiplayer: Battlefield 1942
Despite quite a few bugs in BF I really enjoy playing this game

nin_fragile14 · 09-26-02, 10:06 AM

Dungeon Siege or Mafia.

09-25-02, 08:45 PM	#1
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09-25-02, 09:07 PM	#3
thcdru2k Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Milpitas, CA Posts: 1,142	mafia for single player..ut2k3 for mp __________________ Athlon XP 1.58GHz \| MSI KT3 Ultra2 \| 256MB DDR PC-3000 \| GeForce 4 ti4200 64mb @ 310/533 \| IBM 120GXP 40.0GB \| Det. 41.09 \| DX 9 RC2 \| Win XP SP1 11118 3DMarks

09-26-02, 02:14 AM	#5
Matthyahuw Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: AZ Posts: 919	Mafia, this game does no dissapoint! __________________ Shalom!

09-26-02, 05:19 AM	#7
Kruno TypeDef's assistant Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,641	Warcraft 3 :P __________________ "Never before has any voice dared to utter the words of that tongue in Imladris, Mr. Anderson" - Elrond LOTR

09-26-02, 07:59 AM	#8
SnakeEyes Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Lake Zurich, IL Posts: 502	UT2003Demo, no contest. Consider: -UnrealTournament usually has over 2000 DM servers available at any one time. -There are certain extremely popular public UT servers that are normally hard to get into because the server is normally full. -Example: The Factory public TDM server. This server is set up for 6 on 6 TDM, and normally is hard to get into. Usually, I'd have to connect as spectator and watch for someone to leave, or try to beat someone in as the server reset for the next map load. -UT2003Demo only has 2 DM/TDM maps, 1 CTF map, and 1 BR (Bombing Run) map, along with one basic skin (multiple faces), and doesn't have some of the weapons (mainly the Redeemer and the Ion designator thingamabob). -On the night that the UT2003 demo was made available, the UnrealTournament servers were largely abandoned, as people overloaded UT2003Demo download mirrors attempting to get the new game. -On that same night, over 500 DM servers sprang up within hours of the download's availability. -By the evening of the following day, there were 1400+ DM / TDM servers. -Within 3 days of the download's availability, there were 1700-1900 DM/TDM servers available for the Demo. -Predictably, many popular UT public servers are now empty, or nearly empty. This includes the Factory public server. -UT's graphics, while based on an aging version of the engine, is to the point that most hardware can / does run the game fluidly in most situations. -UT2003 Demo graphics, based on a new version of the engine, is extremely gorgeous, but taxes hardware, and especially the CPU (during gameplay), to the point that minimum framerates for most people are at best in the mid 40's, with most probably falling somewhere in the lower to mid 30's. Translation, extremely hardware intensive, while most people using the demo don't have hardware capable of giving the same fluidity that UT has. Conclusion: Any game (demo!) that can grab the majority of the fanbase for it's extremely popular predecessor, despite being extremely feature limited and hardware intensive has got GoTY written all over it. I still find it hard to believe that there are nearly as many DM/TDM servers for the 2 map demo of ut2003 as there are for the full, mature, well-established UT. __________________ Snake-Eyes

09-25-02, 08:58 PM	#2
Nephilim Slacker extraordinaire Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Nashvegas, TN Posts: 502	GTA3

09-25-02, 09:09 PM	#4
kuzujanakis Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 27	Mafia does jam!

09-26-02, 03:51 AM	#6
Fotis Radeforce GTX7970 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Greece Posts: 1,346	Jedi Knight2

09-26-02, 08:27 AM	#9
ExitWound Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: State College, Pa Posts: 62	It's hype. Expect it to die down in a few months. __________________ "If you wanna kill the beast, You gotta be blessed from the man from the east. So why don't you get down on your knee and I will bless you with my Flying V? I'm the Heavy Metal Jesus. I'm the Heavy Metal Thunderstriking Jesus. "

09-26-02, 08:31 AM	#10
Kruno TypeDef's assistant Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,641	Yeh it will die down UT 2k3 will become just another game gathering dust While I go and play Warcraft 2 and 3. (yes I still love 2. It's one of those games that never collect dust) __________________ "Never before has any voice dared to utter the words of that tongue in Imladris, Mr. Anderson" - Elrond LOTR

09-26-02, 08:33 AM	#11
volt Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: /dev/null Posts: 1,556	Singleplayer: GTA3 Multiplayer: Battlefield 1942 Despite quite a few bugs in BF I really enjoy playing this game __________________ [b]Optimization guidelines by Koji Ashida of NVIDIA:[/b][list][]Use fx12 instructions whenever possible[]Use lowest pixel shader version[/list][url=http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/10878/ChinaJoy2004_OptimizationAndTools.pdf]source[/url] [size=1]The politics are invading the technology. We don't really like to mess with politics because that kind of adversarial relationship has nothing to do with pure technical operations and the technical specifications of what we like to play with, the hardware![/size]

09-26-02, 10:06 AM	#12
nin_fragile14 Fat Tuna Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 509	Dungeon Siege or Mafia. __________________ 2.66 P4 @ 3.0 Ghz / Geforce 6800 GT @ 410/1080/ 768 mb Samsung DDR333 @ 374 mhz / Abit IS7 / XP Pro / NEC 1760NX LCD

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