Codex Gaming

[AZ]

GTA2?
It is freeware.

 

[Surgey]

Is that multiplayer Oblivion mod done yet? We could play that!

Kidding, of course. But aren't there any Codex-top-ten games to play multiplayer? 6-person Baldur's Gate?

I'm down with an Infinite Engine game. IWD2 is hack and slash. BG2 is a little more story-driven, but it'd still work.

I also have ISO's for IWD2 and BG2.

 

[ixg]

Hm, you seem to have ISOs for everything.

I guess a game of BG2 would be neat. I have BG1 too, never finished it though.

 

[Fez]

You could attempt to go through all of BG1 and 2 with a party.

 

[MINIGUNWIELDER]

Hey can we play some Doom/Tribes? Also, is this good for a dialupper who lives in New Mexico?

 

[kingcomrade]

Dialup is a no go, especially for Doom.

 

[MINIGUNWIELDER]

Satelite Broadband, I have two options(that I know of), WildBlue, and Hughes.
Can someone with an adequate internet please tell(ie search the webs) me if they are any good?

In the meantime, what can I play with you freaks using dial-up?

 

[SlavemasterT]

In the meantime, what can I play with you freaks using dial-up?

Online pong.

Oh, also, satellite is almost always super expensive, from what I've seen. They do that to make sure that there are SOME disadvantages to living in a fortified compound out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[roguefrog]

Tribes TAC would be a gas. Really the only old game I would still play multi.

 

[OccupatedVoid]

Satelite Broadband, I have two options(that I know of), WildBlue, and Hughes.
Can someone with an adequate internet please tell(ie search the webs) me if they are any good?

In the meantime, what can I play with you freaks using dial-up?

Satellite is horrible for games. The lag is unbelievably bad, and most games can't even run at all with it. It's fast for downloads, but NOT uploads/games.

I used to have satellite, but I got Texas Cellnet. It's wireless, good for games, and I live in the boonies.

Summary: NOT RECOMMENDED.

 

[kingcomrade]

Tribes TAC would be a gas. Really the only old game I would still play multi.

I don't think we have enough players for Tribes. However, I have an old Tribes CD that I could maybe upload somewhere.

 

[Surgey]

Tribes is free anyway. Look on Fileplanet.

 

[Fez]

Are the Tribes bots any good to fill out the numbers? I know the Tribes 2 ones were supposed to have been worked on as well.

 

[Surgey]

Tribes 1 had bots? Oh, I think there are third party ones, but not sure. On the small maps, 4v4 isn't bad. But Tribes IS free (and the second one, if Fileplanet still has enough CD Keys), so it's worth a shot. Runs easy. Just be warned, I like to go kamikaze in the scout a lot.

 

[kingcomrade]

I got fairly good at it, however Tribes is a pretty difficult game. What I really hated was how some people could use the Juggernaut (bitch) armor and get into your base and totally fuck you up with mortars but I was never able to accomplish this.

I think the gun I used most was the grenade launcher. For some reason it just seemed to work for me.

 

[Surgey]

It's a very powerful gun. I prefer the chaingun and blue plate special, personally. Indoors I'm partial to the plasma gun and grenade launcher.

EDIT: Here is a link to the Tribes download. It's Fileplanet, I know, but at least it's reliable.

 

[kingcomrade]

Yeah outdoors the chaingun is better. I liked the plasma gun too, the splash damage was helpful.

One cool thing I remember doing was piloting a bomber around. That is, a heavy APC with a bunch of juggernauts with mortars flying around the enemy base. I remember you could do that in Planetside, too, back when I played that.

 

[Surgey]

Good times. Download link posted above, by the way. One reason I preferred the plasma indoors is because people tended to use the Shield pack indoors more often, since they didn't jet around as much, and the plasma gun ignored shields.

 

[Fez]

Tribes 2 is legally free too now, isn't it? Might be worth trying seeing for that price.

 

[Surgey]

Yes, but if I remember correctly Fileplanet had limited CD Keys, so it might not be available anymore. Still, we could always use, uhh... different... CD keys...

And just so you guys know, the latest version is 1.11, I believe. Get the 1.8 to 1.11 patch for Tribes.

 

[kingcomrade]

I remember I had Tribes 2 but I forgot my password. I tried installing and playing the game like 3 years later but I couldn't play, a login and password was already assigned to my CD-Key but I didn't know what it was. Gay to the max.

I remember Tribes 2 wasn't as good as the original anyways.

 

[Fez]

The vehicles were fun if you had plenty players.

 

[Surgey]

You know, D&D Online would be fun to play if we got a private server thing going so we avoid that fee. And since it's an instanced dungeon questing game, you don't really miss out on the online economy stuff. I've played DDO before, and I vouch for its enjoyment. Most people like to compare it to Guild Wars, but personally I liked DDO more, if only because it's D&D, maybe.

But anyway, it's a fun game. Many of the dungeons are made for parties, and the translation of D&D rules actually isn't too bad, it'd be great to have a cool unique party of different-classed adventurers going. Anybody up for acquiring it and doing the private server?

 

[OccupatedVoid]

I thought DDO sucked...

 

[United Nations]

I heard DDO was pretty terrible myself, otherwise I would have given it a shot.