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Greetings! I would like to gather up a small bunch of people from MS:C to play a variety of multiplayer games with. I thought it'd be awesome if we went around in a guild or whatever and beat everything, but... yeah.
Games
Guild Wars and expansions
Guild Wars is an awesome MMOG - but it's often overshadowed by the younger but much more popular World of Warcraft. Just over 3 million people play it, and there's no subscription fee, so it's great if you want to play online with a load of people but don't want to pay anything monthly. The game isn't really like your conventional MMO; you don't see people everywhere you go, just in towns and outposts. As soon as you leave towns, you're given your own copy of the world which only you and your party can see. This means that there's no problem with kill-stealing like you get with most MMOs. However, despite the lack of a subscription fee, the games themselves are quite expensive. So far I've spent over £70 (that's Guild Wars Factions pre-order (about £25), Guild Wars Nightfall collectors edition (£40!) and Guild Wars: Eye of the North (£20 or something). Thankfully I got the original game, Prophecies, for my birthday a few years ago.)
This game is great, quite frankly. I have played World of Warcraft for 3 months (and I'm proud to say I'm not hooked on it), and to play Guild Wars after that is very refreshing. It's very laid back, but if you want to compete in PvP tournaments then you really need to pay attention. You are given a skill bar consisting of 8 slots, in which you can place any skills you want. There are certain skills that go well together, and some that are the same (so you can cast two spells with the same effect one after the other), adding a lot of variety.
More information here
World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade expansion
An amazing game. I will refuse to believe that anyone has not heard of this game. Last month, it hit ten million players, which is 3.3x more than Guild Wars. At £8 a month, you get a huge free-roam world, thousands of quests and a load of critters to beat up and more than enough weapons to do so. With the original Guild Wars, you have the option of being 1 of 8 races, 4 of which are in the Alliance and 4 which are in the Horde. With The Burning Crusade (the latest expansion), you're given two more races to play around with: the Draenei (awesome) and the Blood Elves (camp pointy-eared bastards). Each race can become certain classes, but the classes you can choose vary from race to race. There are two races that can come Druids - the Tauren (Horde) and the Night Elves (Alliance). Choose carefully!
If you have the money to spare, then I suggest you get this game. If you don't, then save up for Guild Wars. It's what everyone else does!
More information here.
Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion
An absolute classic. Made by Blizzard, the people who fabricated World of Warcraft, this game (in my eyes) still hasn't been topped. Hundreds of thousands of people still play this game, and it has a more complicated trading system than any game I've ever seen. There are thousands of unique items to collect, and with 7 classes you choose, you can't possibly go wrong. While the story is difficult to understand if you haven't read thousands of books and several wikipedia pages, it's still a brilliant way to pass the time. The thrill of finding your first unique is a very nice feeling - you can compare it to feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
There's no subscription fee or anything like that. Unfortunately, the game has almost been completely abandoned. Well, I say almost, but it's completely neglected bar the occasional ladder reset. If your characters expire (which they do eventually if you don't play them for 2 hours), I wouldn't worry, because the person who was supposed to be deleting expired characters was ushered onto working and maintaining World of Warcraft along with another thousand people who look exactly like him. With a sequel on the way, this game will live for another couple of years before Blizzard blow us away with the long-awaited Diablo III. I can't wait.
Starcraft and Brood War expansion
Another Blizzard classic. This time: a strategy game. It isn't advanced; it's the thrill of putting little toy monsters and marines against each other. You have three races: the Zerg (fathers of the ZERG RUSSSSHHH KEKEKEKE), the Terran (armoured Americans) and the Protoss (<3), all of which have their own quirks and 'ways' of 'doing things'. Take the Zerg, for example. Their first unit, the Zergling, is excellent for surprising the hell out of your enemy. Send about 20 along and watch the carnage. However, because they're cheap and quick to create, they're very weak, meaning that a team of 10 Zealots can wipe about about 25 Zerglings if they're fast enough. It's thrilling, knowing every race has a weakness.
Again, there's no subscription fee. However, there are a lot of very interesting maps. Starcraft was the father of your traditional Turret Defence maps, due to the presence of... turrets. There are many custom maps floating around, and thousands of people are still playing this awesome game. Seriously, if you don't have this game then you should be shot!
Root around on Blizzard.com for more info.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
A unique FPS. It's not like anything I've played so far, with guns and ghillie suits galore. Multiplayer is very interesting. In Team Deathmatch - my favourite game mode - you can choose 1 of 2 teams. The teams vary from map to map; it might be SAS vs. OpFor in 1 map or the Marines vs. OpFor-With-Another-Name in another map. It's exciting. I suck at it, though. Also, it's very troublesome trying to meet up with friends; with no buddy system or any real server browser it's difficult to find the same server.
This isn't necessarily detrimental, as it doesn't really stop you playing together if you're patient. Call of Duty 4 is all very nice, but a lot of people have it cracked, meaning they can't play on servers with PunkBuster enabled. Only vote if you have it legitimately!
More information here
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansion
Yet another Blizzard classic. I tell you, I can't keep my hands off these games.
Warcraft III is the third in the Warcraft Series, believe it or not. It takes Starcraft a step further - with 4 races and a very very VERY flexible map-making system. Hundreds of thousands of people play this online, and more than half of those people make the maps everyone plays on. One map - Defence of the Ancients - became so famous that it has a forum with thousands of people on it. Hell, even Curse (my WoW mod manager) has the occasional news article detailing the release of a new version.
There are piles and piles of custom maps, including things like Hero Defence maps (awesome), Turret Defence maps (awesome), Line Wars (exciting) and 'Footmen' maps (where you get a base which generates troops which you use to destroy other people). Again, there's absolutely no excuse for not having this game!
Root around some more on Blizzard.com for some more information.
If you play any of these games, vote in the poll accordingly and we'll see what we can sort out.
TL;DR games
Games
Guild Wars and expansions
Guild Wars is an awesome MMOG - but it's often overshadowed by the younger but much more popular World of Warcraft. Just over 3 million people play it, and there's no subscription fee, so it's great if you want to play online with a load of people but don't want to pay anything monthly. The game isn't really like your conventional MMO; you don't see people everywhere you go, just in towns and outposts. As soon as you leave towns, you're given your own copy of the world which only you and your party can see. This means that there's no problem with kill-stealing like you get with most MMOs. However, despite the lack of a subscription fee, the games themselves are quite expensive. So far I've spent over £70 (that's Guild Wars Factions pre-order (about £25), Guild Wars Nightfall collectors edition (£40!) and Guild Wars: Eye of the North (£20 or something). Thankfully I got the original game, Prophecies, for my birthday a few years ago.)
This game is great, quite frankly. I have played World of Warcraft for 3 months (and I'm proud to say I'm not hooked on it), and to play Guild Wars after that is very refreshing. It's very laid back, but if you want to compete in PvP tournaments then you really need to pay attention. You are given a skill bar consisting of 8 slots, in which you can place any skills you want. There are certain skills that go well together, and some that are the same (so you can cast two spells with the same effect one after the other), adding a lot of variety.
More information here
World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade expansion
An amazing game. I will refuse to believe that anyone has not heard of this game. Last month, it hit ten million players, which is 3.3x more than Guild Wars. At £8 a month, you get a huge free-roam world, thousands of quests and a load of critters to beat up and more than enough weapons to do so. With the original Guild Wars, you have the option of being 1 of 8 races, 4 of which are in the Alliance and 4 which are in the Horde. With The Burning Crusade (the latest expansion), you're given two more races to play around with: the Draenei (awesome) and the Blood Elves (camp pointy-eared bastards). Each race can become certain classes, but the classes you can choose vary from race to race. There are two races that can come Druids - the Tauren (Horde) and the Night Elves (Alliance). Choose carefully!
If you have the money to spare, then I suggest you get this game. If you don't, then save up for Guild Wars. It's what everyone else does!
More information here.
Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion
An absolute classic. Made by Blizzard, the people who fabricated World of Warcraft, this game (in my eyes) still hasn't been topped. Hundreds of thousands of people still play this game, and it has a more complicated trading system than any game I've ever seen. There are thousands of unique items to collect, and with 7 classes you choose, you can't possibly go wrong. While the story is difficult to understand if you haven't read thousands of books and several wikipedia pages, it's still a brilliant way to pass the time. The thrill of finding your first unique is a very nice feeling - you can compare it to feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
There's no subscription fee or anything like that. Unfortunately, the game has almost been completely abandoned. Well, I say almost, but it's completely neglected bar the occasional ladder reset. If your characters expire (which they do eventually if you don't play them for 2 hours), I wouldn't worry, because the person who was supposed to be deleting expired characters was ushered onto working and maintaining World of Warcraft along with another thousand people who look exactly like him. With a sequel on the way, this game will live for another couple of years before Blizzard blow us away with the long-awaited Diablo III. I can't wait.
Starcraft and Brood War expansion
Another Blizzard classic. This time: a strategy game. It isn't advanced; it's the thrill of putting little toy monsters and marines against each other. You have three races: the Zerg (fathers of the ZERG RUSSSSHHH KEKEKEKE), the Terran (armoured Americans) and the Protoss (<3), all of which have their own quirks and 'ways' of 'doing things'. Take the Zerg, for example. Their first unit, the Zergling, is excellent for surprising the hell out of your enemy. Send about 20 along and watch the carnage. However, because they're cheap and quick to create, they're very weak, meaning that a team of 10 Zealots can wipe about about 25 Zerglings if they're fast enough. It's thrilling, knowing every race has a weakness.
Again, there's no subscription fee. However, there are a lot of very interesting maps. Starcraft was the father of your traditional Turret Defence maps, due to the presence of... turrets. There are many custom maps floating around, and thousands of people are still playing this awesome game. Seriously, if you don't have this game then you should be shot!
Root around on Blizzard.com for more info.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
A unique FPS. It's not like anything I've played so far, with guns and ghillie suits galore. Multiplayer is very interesting. In Team Deathmatch - my favourite game mode - you can choose 1 of 2 teams. The teams vary from map to map; it might be SAS vs. OpFor in 1 map or the Marines vs. OpFor-With-Another-Name in another map. It's exciting. I suck at it, though. Also, it's very troublesome trying to meet up with friends; with no buddy system or any real server browser it's difficult to find the same server.
This isn't necessarily detrimental, as it doesn't really stop you playing together if you're patient. Call of Duty 4 is all very nice, but a lot of people have it cracked, meaning they can't play on servers with PunkBuster enabled. Only vote if you have it legitimately!
More information here
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansion
Yet another Blizzard classic. I tell you, I can't keep my hands off these games.
Warcraft III is the third in the Warcraft Series, believe it or not. It takes Starcraft a step further - with 4 races and a very very VERY flexible map-making system. Hundreds of thousands of people play this online, and more than half of those people make the maps everyone plays on. One map - Defence of the Ancients - became so famous that it has a forum with thousands of people on it. Hell, even Curse (my WoW mod manager) has the occasional news article detailing the release of a new version.
There are piles and piles of custom maps, including things like Hero Defence maps (awesome), Turret Defence maps (awesome), Line Wars (exciting) and 'Footmen' maps (where you get a base which generates troops which you use to destroy other people). Again, there's absolutely no excuse for not having this game!
Root around some more on Blizzard.com for some more information.
If you play any of these games, vote in the poll accordingly and we'll see what we can sort out.
TL;DR games
They are all awesome games. Diablo 2 is the best thirdperson Hack 'n Slash-RPG ever made and the item system is extremely loveable. Call of Duty 4 is simply the best multiplayer FPS ever to have been made. It even tops the Unreal Tournament franchise. And the Warcraft franchise is the mother of all tower defence games. You gotta love tower defence games. 
