What have been your fondest Multiplayer games

[YorkshirePud]

I only got into multiplayer gaming in the last 5 years, before then i never had access to a decent interweb or a online console, then finally i moved into my own place, got broadband and fitted the adapter for my fat PS2

the world was suddenly open! hours dissapeared friends and nemesis were made!

MOH Rising Sun the first ever multiplayer game i tried, Dreadful then and now but something about it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, i also encountered my first nemesis "Mr-Green" whenever we saw one another accross the map, regardless of what else was happening we would charge one another!

TimeSplitters Future Perfect
other people say TS2 was better i think they are nuts, the online was epic, no prone no ADS just madness, fighting in a disco with robots, monkeys and pirates! fun and accessible, pretty twitchy but other games required some pretty good co-ordination. also introduced me to the very first cheater i ever came accross who hacked the boards, "Snabo" was his name and he was a Twunt and a half, EA did fuck all then (and still do now snarf snarf) but it was still an epic game, even more fun with the map creator and sharer!

Star Wars Battlefront 2
FUCKINEPICLAZORBATTLESATATWALKERSHIZLELIGHTSABERMADNESS. loved it even had some primitive rush games and CTF was legendary on the Death star, the Jedi and Sith characters were great fun in hero mode. it was full of glitches but privately hosted servers by clans meant that it was a great community really was a busy game!

COD4
OMGWTFBBQ - yes i did like this, before all the stupid killstreaks and hacks it was a great game, and made me realise how much fun a FPS was online with a good crew.

BF: Bad Company
a real slow burner didnt like it at first but then i realised it was just out and out more fun than COD, and not only that it had a great team work ethic. and i met most of you folks in it

Bad Company 2
base raping, chopper circling, quad launching, wookie raping. nuff said.

[DJ-Daz]

Wow fondest memories?

My first foray into multiplayer gaming that I enjoyed would be doom and quake. Both were more LAN than WAN, but but we're with close personal friends and colleagues from work. Both rocked my world.

For the online gaming it was return to castle wolfenstein on the pc again, but those were dial-up days, and while still fun, it was also frustrating as hell. When I eventually got broadband (50kb per second WOW, it's not even classed as broadband anymore), and that's another topic, my first game was Black Hawk down by nova logic. Absolutely amazing game to play, so much so that I joined a clan -- Oap Squad, a great bunch of people led by a total muppet.

The battlefield 2 came out and the squad days were numbered. Arguments about how some people couldn't afford the hardware upgrades and they'd paid to use the server, and the admins telling them to fuck off and grow up. So a lot of people left and formed the Notorious killers (NK) and continued to play BHD. I left with them on principal.

I did play some BF2 though, but not much, I got to rank 4/5 and quit playing it online. Just played bot matches mostly.
But then came a real shocker, more marmite -- battlefield 2142.

It. Was another game that rocked my word like no other. I even rented my own private server just for me to play on, Titan only suez canal 24 man. I stuck with it through thick and thin... Lots of the usual dice bugs, and despite my love for the game, it helped me decide to quit gaming once and for all... Or until the ps3 phat came out.
In all honesty I did stay off gaming for about two years, but boredom set in.

But of course it was bad company 1 that brought the founders of the mess-hall together, and eventually kill zone 2 brought us Dave. And the rest is as they say... History



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[Symonator]

Battlefield 1942 - vietnam was one of my faves.. tranporting tanks across the map with a chinook was mind boggling at the time.. in a video game lol.

Battlefield 2 is the best FPS i have ever played - EVER.
It has everything in it you see in different formats today.
Community was great, have our own clan servers (still do) going strong.
Game is unmatched in terms of gunplay and vehicles and of course maps.

2142 was alright but wasn't keen to much into bf2 at the time.

I also played a few mmo's when i was in school which i quite liked too, but yeah.. long time ago..LOL.

Also some fond mmemories of recent games, like demons souls co-op..a force to be reckoned with if ou had a mate the game was much more exciting.

[InfiniteStates]

I dabbled on dial-up in the early days with Unreal Tournament (got owned by better draw distances) and Starcraft (got owned by hardcore Koreans), but never really got into it too much. I was much more interested in making my own games and obliterating AI in C&C games.

Then I started getting more into multiplayer when I started making games for a living as every company has a game that is played at lunch time for an hour across the LAN. At first it was Half Life (laser mines FTW).

Then new company, new game: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - that got some serious hours, including online play outside of work. Excellent game, and free too. Plus we were close enough to the guys that made it to consider setting up a line-of-sight network over rooftops. We never did though.

Then just before that company folded, the BF 1942 demo came out with Wake Island which we played to death. The death of the company.

After that I got my PS2 online, and my first major online outing was Burnout 3. Met lots of cool people and formed a clan. Then Killzone arrived and the clan grew, to the point were we entered ladders on various websites and had bitter rivalries with a couple of other clans. Killzone was soon superceded by Battlefield: Modern Combat. That should have made the clan better, but instead dissolved it as our 18+ rule fell apart and it got overrun by kids.

But then Monster Hunter arrived with little fanfare in shops. I picked up on the recommendation of a mate (from Burnout) and never looked back. Literally thousands of hours (I was unemployed) disappeared on that. If it ever comes to PS3, Dave and Sy, you should pick it up - I think you'd love it. Comparisons have been drawn with Demon's Souls, and to a degree, they share similar traits.

After curing my MH addiction (or quelling it, anyway), it was time for a new job and new inter-office lunch time game (where we'd meet in an online server): Battlefield 2142. Even the intro movie was the best thing I had seen in digital form. I loved this game. It was Aliens without the aliens - but with big fuck-off robots instead. Walkers and dropships were my specialty. My favourite trick was to crush a tank under my dropship - very hard to tell WTF is going on from a tank when that happens... I should load it up again one day, as I'll probably rank up about 3 times just from the comeback bonus lol.

Then PS3 came out and all the usual milestones apply. I bought CoD4 on a whim on release day and realised it was something special. Unfortunately, the rest of the world soon followed, but the online was never quite as good as that very first week.

I had a long stint on Civilization Revolution online as well, to the point where I was third on the leaderboard. But it was (and still is) fundamentally broken, and they released a patch by territory but allowed patched and unpatched versions to still connect. Needless to say it ended badly and I wracked up a fair few losses thanks to weird things happening and eventually the affair ended.

Again I returned to Burnout when that came out and spent a long time climbing the leaderboards there too. I think I was in the top 100 for a while. I also think that's where I met Pud?

Ironically, despite being the most recent history, memory gets hazy after that... Obviously Bad Company 1, but that's about all I can remember. I guess there have been so many online games since then, it all blurs into one. Spent a lot of time playing End War online, despite being pretty bad at it. And Wipeout. And Warhawk.

And now loving Battlefield 3. I know I'm loving it, because I will no doubt continue to play it beyond platinum.


TLDR:
Unreal Tournament/Starcraft (PC) =>
Half Life (LAN PC) =>
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (LAN/Online PC) =>
Battlefield 1942 Demo (LAN PC) =>
Burnout/Killzone/Battlefield: Modern Combat/Monster Hunter (PS2) =>
Battlefield 2142 (Online PC) =>
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/Civilization Revolution/Burnout Paradise/End War/Wipeout/Warhawk/Bad Company 1 (PS3) =>
Battlefield 3 (PS3)

[YorkshirePud]

i think we might have met on Burnout

while it was my first online PS3 game its not left a massive lasting impression. dont know why.

[chrisdfa1]

top 5 would be:

1. Battlefield 2142
2. James Bond Nightfire
3. Bad Company 2
4. Bad Company 1
5. Star Wars Jedi Power Battles

and yes JB Nightfire, 4player split-screen. Used to play it every saturday constantly with my friends in primary school

[theENIGMATRON]

[*]1. Battlefield 2 (All the Way) + Expansion Packs
[*]2. Saint ROW the Third ROLF!!!!!!!!
[*]3. Battlefield 2142 (Sort of, Great Multiplayer, Bit Buggy and to many hacks)
[*]4. Battlefield Bad Company
[*]5. Battlefield Bad Company 2
[*]6. DC Universe

[Killzone_Kid]

Killzone on PS2. Sony made it awkward to join online, you had to have a online disk, register username on jesus christ's website and then pass DNAS shit and stuff, but it was worth it.

Was crap with the controller but still enjoyed it immensely. Later I bought a Mouse and Keyboard adapter for PS2 and never used it, instead my flatmate used it and started owning in Killzone from day 1like a pro. This kinda discouraged me later knowing that there are people who have it too easy.

Next stop - Bad Company.

[InfiniteStates]

i think we might have met on Burnout

while it was my first online PS3 game its not left a massive lasting impression. dont know why.

Steep learning curve maybe? I know a lot of die-hard Burnout fans couldn't cope with Paradise City. It was bastard hard until you knew enough of the city to know key routes (basically all the way around the edge and 3 or 4 across the middle). But the learning process of trying to navigate via the mini-map and avoid 150mph head-on collisions put a lot of people off.

I don't know if that applies to you, but I saw it a lot. But once you cracked the city and just knew where to go, the game was fucking awesome.

[Symonator]

C&C was fav too on pc, how could i have not mentioned it lol.