Reporting for duty, Sir!

[tugrik]

Holy Crap on Toast.

I picked up the RAM upgrade required to play Planetside sometime midday Saturday (noon-ish?). After a wonderful dinner at Frang's, I played from 9pm to 8am. I napped. Got up, had brunch, started playing again at 3pm Sunday. it's now 4am, and I just finished.

This game is just too dang fun.

The ironic thing? I may not pay for the $10 subscription after my free month runs out. If the past day and a half's severe-addiction behavior is any indicator, this will eat my life far worse than Tribes2 ever did. I stopped playing Tribes2 because I was getting depressed at finding nights and weekends simply vanishing into the game. This is a far better game. Far more involved. Far more addicting.

I'm scared.

(but damn, it's fun)

Comments

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Ooooh... what is Planetside?

I still play Tribes 2 sometimes. It's fun to own the people who try to be gung-ho cowboys. :)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

www.planetside.com

Take Tribes. Now make it so instead of the normal semi-small Tribes2 maps you have a continent. Make this continent visually stunning in comparison to Tribes, with weather effects, vegetation and all kinds of graphics $bling$. Enough to require major computer upgrades.

Now make that continent one of 10 on a planet. A planet that's fought over by 3 factions.

Make 5 of those planets. That's Planetside.

It's an infrastructure-lover's dream, game-wise. :)

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Ooh. :)

[katrinacat.livejournal.com]

I must own this game. o.o

I love Tribes2, but the problem I seem to have is that everyone in the public servers is, to put it lightly, scum. I got voted out of one game simply because I was a newbie, despite having done nothing wrong. And that was after being chased down and killed by someone on my own team. Twice.

...So, um... is Planetside actually populated by slightly more mature players? :)

planetside

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

The nature of the game itself really removes the whole server-based issues (Being punted from a game, newbie bashing, etc etc). About the worst thing that can happen if you're a total TK-ing newbie is that you'll be punted from a squad, which is just a method of organization. It won't remove you from the world or the fight at hand.

Planetsiders seem to be far more tolerant of newbies than Tribesers... *especially* because the game has been out there less than a month. Everybody's a newbie.

And, yes... slightly more mature players. Again, it's part of existing in a persistant world and having no choice but to work together to win.

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

I played it a while but got tired of it. Eve Online is MUCH better.

www.eve-online.com

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

*looks at the site* Impressive!

I'm not much of a space-priate type of player, though. I'm more into the personal ground-pounding aspects which addicted me to T2. But I may still give Eve Online a try sometime soon. :)

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

http://www.taggarttd.com/forums/download.php?id=807

Yes that is actually a flyable ship in Eve Online, one the size of a moon. :)

[katrinacat.livejournal.com]

o.o

*drool*

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to visit and see what it's like.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Please, do! Let's start up an outfit. I'll be glad to do some in-game training. The game comes with 1 month of free play. As usual when I start out as a n00b on a game, I'm using a cheese-name: "PowerTool".