TomGreen321
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They can say whatever the hell they want about pc gaming...Just keep bringing me more Gears of War.
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UT III is 99.5% an awesome game, but they were too lazy to spend the couple of days it would have taken to make it a great game - and make me buy it.
The problem with twitch shooters is they aren't fun for new players. Give someone who's quite good at modern FPSes a copy of Quake 3 and put them on a random server and they'll get constantly hammered and have no fun.
UTIII is rediculously bad CONSIDERING what UT2004 delivers in comparison. You failed as a developer when everything except the graphics (SLIGHTLY) is WORSE in your sequel.
UT3 is actually pretty solid with respect to gameplay. My biggest complaint about it is that NOBODY plays it online, so basically it is useless. Seriously, there is almost never anyone playing CTF and it is the best mode in the game.
Also, and I think people overlook this aspect, the stock maps are absolutely terrible looking and playing. They don't have any retro UT charm whatsoever. Get on a good custom map server, with some people actually playing, and some remakes of classic maps, and this game is better than the original UT ever was. When you get on a map that is styled more like old school UT, the game really pops visually. I think this is a game that really depends heavily on mod and custom map support and the community just is not there.
I agree with a lot of the constructive thoughts in this thread but for all of you posting two liners about how much UT3 sucks you also say you barely played the game. Things have improved dramatically with the first two patches. Even if you played the game on and off for a month that wasn't really long enough to give it a fair assessment given the horrible state it was released in. My bet is Epic just wanted to rush it for the holiday season after already having several delays.
The core gameplay in UT3 is great. A lot of the people who thought UT2K4 was inferior to the original find UT3 a fresh restart. There are more people playing UT3 than you might realize but most of the decent people aren't playing in pubs, they are finding private matches over irc. Regardless of how few people play the DM numbers at least are slowly increasing and all you really need is one good server to have fun.
Over at the Epic forums hundreds of people report having trouble playing the game but then they are attempting to do so with 3 year old hardware so no wonder they end up going back to UT2K4. Also, the UT series in general isn't very noob friendly so to speak. If you've never played this type of game before you won't be able to do much in an average dm server which is probably another reason people only give it a short amount of time. Other games like COD4 you can be pretty decent after a couple of weeks.
I Using the excuse that a game that requires skill is no fun for new peopls is stupid, we couldnt play any game as each one requires some skill to do anything in.*snip*
Not really true. Good reaction time and aiming skills are just as important in all FPS games. The reason minimalist fps games like Q3 dont get made/played as much anymore is because the trend nowadays is for more "realistic" and complex shooters like CoD4 and others. Newer players tend to jump into newer games, and because there are no new minimalist shooters coming out the only ones left playing them are those who started a long time ago.
But im sure epic are still scratching their heads trying to make all sorts of excuses. What i think the problem really is that they should built the core of the game around the PC and NOT the console. It should be a PC port rather than the other way around, after all, this is where it all started
Doom 3, UT3, and Crysis just to name a few CoD3. Some developers will never learn that pretty graphics won't make up for bad game play.
you make shit games you get shit sales
x2... ut2004>>>ut3I tried playing it and really couldn't get the feel for it either. Unreal Tournament 2004 was a much better game at least judging by the demo.