*sigh*
T:V IS a tribes game, and thats half the problem:
Okay everyone keeps saying what a "total blast" this game is.
Ever consider, in all this "you arent giving it a chance" dialogue, that the problems with the game outweigh the fun experience?
I WANTED this game to rock, I WANTED it to be a fun experience and be the great game it should have been. But when you start tallying the frustrations, and Im not going to list them here cuz its been repeated ad nauseum, it's just not a good enough game to hold my interest... sorry
ESPECIALLY when played over the net.
I got to play the demo in a LAN setting at DragonCon this summer, and that was a TOTAL blast (despite the constant hangups and crashes and flaky weapon handling). I think T:V may be a great LAN game, where net performance might not be crippled by the netcode. I think the game has a few things going for it, but it seems, over and over again, that IG and VUG were out to reinvent the wheel and came out with square wheels. And when you add the timing of the game's release, and lack of dev/publisher support... well honestly, how can you DEMAND the rest of us play this buggy, unbalanced game thats a chore to play?
Since Im not a programmer (and I doubt a complete revamp of the game from the ground up is even possible), I only see two choices:
Suffer through playing a game that only delivers a small portion of the fun I remembered from playing T2 (or T1)
or
Not play, move on, and lament that the Tribes franchise took a HUGE stumble it may never recover from.
For the most part, I chose the latter (as evidenced by my general lack of posts here, and the VUG forums). I post on occasion, but since I'll only get flamed by the "you are too stupid/lame/bad at tribes/etc to enjoy the game" crowd, I only do it infrequently.
And PJ, I'll be blunt - I personally think yer an ass, but I acknowledge you DID forsee much of the comedy of errors that T:V was (as did I, but not being one of the "tribes elite" you know what MY opinion would have been worth
). And I know from experience that when you warn people of an impending disaster and they ignore you or call you a fool, and then the disaster happens, the desire to rub thier noses in it is WAY too tempting
Honestly the only CONSTRUCTIVE thing I can offer now is discussing what the NEXT iteration of Tribes should be like, even if there's only a snowballs chance in hell of there BEING another Tribes game.
/soapbox