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You can never call yourself a veteran of a game until youíve been through it all, and I believe I have.
You see, for the past couple of hours, I have been taking part in a non-stop continuous 2 hour Quake 3 marathon, playing Quake 3 Revolution in Asylum with 5 nightmare bots, and I kicked butt, notching up a mighty 793 frags. Thatís a frag every 15 seconds. I now know everything there is to know about Quake 3, including every tactic, secret, method and skill. I was triumphant, victorious, nothing could beat me. In short, I was the arena master. My skills are so finely honed that I can zero in on any target using the dual shock, I can see invisible player like they have a big arrow above their head saying ìshoot meî, I can frag people in mid-air with the rocket launcher and score 100% accuracy with the rail gun.
One of my favourite tactics is the ìblood screenî. If there is a bloodbath in a corridor, shoot some of the dead bodies on the ground, this sends up a screen of blood. Fire manically through this and you will dominate. Fire at the bodies of your subsequent victims to keep going until you run out of ammo. Then, run like a madman into the screen with your gauntlet, theyíll never see you coming. Using this technique you can score at least 15 frags.
A good skill to learn is turning whilst moving. This doesnít sound hard at first, but it takes practise to perfect. You have to make a full 180ƒ turn whilst maintaining the same direction. Itís tricky, but is really useful for when someoneís tailing you. However, this is useless if you donít know theyíre there in the first place, but after 2 hours of living and breathing Quake, you get to learn the telltale signs. These include bullets bouncing off the wall in front of you, the sound of bullets hitting a wall and even the footsteps of your pursuant. You get so in tune to the gameís atmosphere that you have absolute knowledge of your gameís surroundings and atmosphere, so that minute changes are instantly noticeable.
So you think you know Quake, Unreal or Counter Strike? In my opinion, no one can make such a claim until they have lived, breathed and fought the game for several hours and won against the hardest of opposition. Only then, are you a veteran.
You see, for the past couple of hours, I have been taking part in a non-stop continuous 2 hour Quake 3 marathon, playing Quake 3 Revolution in Asylum with 5 nightmare bots, and I kicked butt, notching up a mighty 793 frags. Thatís a frag every 15 seconds. I now know everything there is to know about Quake 3, including every tactic, secret, method and skill. I was triumphant, victorious, nothing could beat me. In short, I was the arena master. My skills are so finely honed that I can zero in on any target using the dual shock, I can see invisible player like they have a big arrow above their head saying ìshoot meî, I can frag people in mid-air with the rocket launcher and score 100% accuracy with the rail gun.
One of my favourite tactics is the ìblood screenî. If there is a bloodbath in a corridor, shoot some of the dead bodies on the ground, this sends up a screen of blood. Fire manically through this and you will dominate. Fire at the bodies of your subsequent victims to keep going until you run out of ammo. Then, run like a madman into the screen with your gauntlet, theyíll never see you coming. Using this technique you can score at least 15 frags.
A good skill to learn is turning whilst moving. This doesnít sound hard at first, but it takes practise to perfect. You have to make a full 180ƒ turn whilst maintaining the same direction. Itís tricky, but is really useful for when someoneís tailing you. However, this is useless if you donít know theyíre there in the first place, but after 2 hours of living and breathing Quake, you get to learn the telltale signs. These include bullets bouncing off the wall in front of you, the sound of bullets hitting a wall and even the footsteps of your pursuant. You get so in tune to the gameís atmosphere that you have absolute knowledge of your gameís surroundings and atmosphere, so that minute changes are instantly noticeable.
So you think you know Quake, Unreal or Counter Strike? In my opinion, no one can make such a claim until they have lived, breathed and fought the game for several hours and won against the hardest of opposition. Only then, are you a veteran.
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Your Honour wrote:
> Try playing online, then you'll realise you're actually crap.
> Some of the
> people who play online are just ridiculously good, it's unbelieveable.
I know, but the nightmare bots from Quake are also stupidly good.
> Try playing online, then you'll realise you're actually crap.
> Some of the
> people who play online are just ridiculously good, it's unbelieveable.
I know, but the nightmare bots from Quake are also stupidly good.
I absolutely can't play FPSs with a keyboard+mouse. I find a Dual Shock much easier.
Try playing online, then you'll realise you're actually crap.
Some of the people who play online are just ridiculously good, it's unbelieveable.
Some of the people who play online are just ridiculously good, it's unbelieveable.
I had Rainbow Six and after only the first level I decided to play online (silly I know) and to put it bluntly I was slaughtered!
Pah!
Pah!
Turbonutter wrote:
> Woah. Impressive.
Cheers
> Woah. Impressive.
Cheers
Woah. Impressive.
I don't claim to be a verteran but if we're talking a ridiculous amount of kills... Perfect Dark, Goldeneye Temple, Close Combat (Knives, Crossbow, Umarmed) In a space of 1 hour I notched up 500 kills against a team of 8 sims all set on DarkSim, And you know what? I only died 2 times!
Veteran? Me? You got the wrong bloke. I find the occassional game that comes along now and then and that just gets me addicted and at the moment Commandos 2 has done that to me. I'm on the last level and I've got all the extras but I've only done it on medium, I'm going to complete it on Very Hard atleast twice and then I can call myself this veteran, even though you can only play it online co-op : - (
You can never call yourself a veteran of a game until youíve been through it all, and I believe I have.
You see, for the past couple of hours, I have been taking part in a non-stop continuous 2 hour Quake 3 marathon, playing Quake 3 Revolution in Asylum with 5 nightmare bots, and I kicked butt, notching up a mighty 793 frags. Thatís a frag every 15 seconds. I now know everything there is to know about Quake 3, including every tactic, secret, method and skill. I was triumphant, victorious, nothing could beat me. In short, I was the arena master. My skills are so finely honed that I can zero in on any target using the dual shock, I can see invisible player like they have a big arrow above their head saying ìshoot meî, I can frag people in mid-air with the rocket launcher and score 100% accuracy with the rail gun.
One of my favourite tactics is the ìblood screenî. If there is a bloodbath in a corridor, shoot some of the dead bodies on the ground, this sends up a screen of blood. Fire manically through this and you will dominate. Fire at the bodies of your subsequent victims to keep going until you run out of ammo. Then, run like a madman into the screen with your gauntlet, theyíll never see you coming. Using this technique you can score at least 15 frags.
A good skill to learn is turning whilst moving. This doesnít sound hard at first, but it takes practise to perfect. You have to make a full 180ƒ turn whilst maintaining the same direction. Itís tricky, but is really useful for when someoneís tailing you. However, this is useless if you donít know theyíre there in the first place, but after 2 hours of living and breathing Quake, you get to learn the telltale signs. These include bullets bouncing off the wall in front of you, the sound of bullets hitting a wall and even the footsteps of your pursuant. You get so in tune to the gameís atmosphere that you have absolute knowledge of your gameís surroundings and atmosphere, so that minute changes are instantly noticeable.
So you think you know Quake, Unreal or Counter Strike? In my opinion, no one can make such a claim until they have lived, breathed and fought the game for several hours and won against the hardest of opposition. Only then, are you a veteran.
You see, for the past couple of hours, I have been taking part in a non-stop continuous 2 hour Quake 3 marathon, playing Quake 3 Revolution in Asylum with 5 nightmare bots, and I kicked butt, notching up a mighty 793 frags. Thatís a frag every 15 seconds. I now know everything there is to know about Quake 3, including every tactic, secret, method and skill. I was triumphant, victorious, nothing could beat me. In short, I was the arena master. My skills are so finely honed that I can zero in on any target using the dual shock, I can see invisible player like they have a big arrow above their head saying ìshoot meî, I can frag people in mid-air with the rocket launcher and score 100% accuracy with the rail gun.
One of my favourite tactics is the ìblood screenî. If there is a bloodbath in a corridor, shoot some of the dead bodies on the ground, this sends up a screen of blood. Fire manically through this and you will dominate. Fire at the bodies of your subsequent victims to keep going until you run out of ammo. Then, run like a madman into the screen with your gauntlet, theyíll never see you coming. Using this technique you can score at least 15 frags.
A good skill to learn is turning whilst moving. This doesnít sound hard at first, but it takes practise to perfect. You have to make a full 180ƒ turn whilst maintaining the same direction. Itís tricky, but is really useful for when someoneís tailing you. However, this is useless if you donít know theyíre there in the first place, but after 2 hours of living and breathing Quake, you get to learn the telltale signs. These include bullets bouncing off the wall in front of you, the sound of bullets hitting a wall and even the footsteps of your pursuant. You get so in tune to the gameís atmosphere that you have absolute knowledge of your gameís surroundings and atmosphere, so that minute changes are instantly noticeable.
So you think you know Quake, Unreal or Counter Strike? In my opinion, no one can make such a claim until they have lived, breathed and fought the game for several hours and won against the hardest of opposition. Only then, are you a veteran.
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