Most played games of all time

[ukbob]

Mine would be TFC (team fortress, an online half life mod). Played it for years, and thousands of hours online, without ever getting bored. Only stopped when the last of the 2000 servers dried up, as players moved on to other games. Cost to buy/play probably worked out at less than 1p per hour. RIP TFC.

[ukbob]

satch said:

am I juvenile?

You posted on the same page of the same thread that Steve Evil and I contriubted to, so quite possible yes

[ukbob]

d-man said:

TFC, simply awesome prior to TF1.5 and probably still the definitive team based FPS for me.

Post 1.5, it was still possible to straff jump, and if you put in the hours practising, you could get the HW guy up to any speed (except medic/scout) Oh the memories

[ukbob]

Steve_evil said:

Valve keep letting out rumours about Team Fortress 2, when I last read about it (about 5 years ago now) it resembled something like Battlefield 2, but 90% of the ideas that were supposed to be in TF2 have already appeared in BF2 so I guess they've gone back to the drawing board and are thinking up some other direction to take it in.

Yup, there were some cool videos floating about at the time though, it looked good. It just never came out

My two most played Atari ST games were Barbarian...


And super sprint


And commando on the C64.


Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga!


Also on the Amiga, Iron Man's Super off Road


Note the automotive theme

[ukbob]

d-man said:

Things slowed down so much after that it just wasn't the same game and that's before you even get into the rampant cheating in the immediate aftermath

The cheating was awful! [brag mode]I was accused of cheating in most games, not that I ever cheated, I just played far too much [/brag] Its only a game, but it felt bloody good getting into your groove after 8 hours play for the umpteenth night in a row and being able to jump round any corner playing any class, and waste 3-4 players plus a few sentries, grab the flag, and kill the same 3-4 players as they respawned on my way back to base

I miss those servers. It has a lot to do with age, the fact that I spend my time doing other things now, but it'll never be the same. And I'll never enjoy a game again as much as I enjoyed TFC. My hard core gaming days are.. snivel, sob, cry... over.

[UKBob]

Mr E said:

By the way, SkidMarks (Acid software) was far superior to Iron Mans truck racing. www.classicgaming.com/amigareviews/skidmark.htm

I remember the name. I never had it though

[UKBob]

d-man said:

ukbob said: The cheating was awful! [brag mode]I was accused of cheating in most games, not that I ever cheated, I just played far too much [/brag] Its only a game, but it felt bloody good getting into your groove after 8 hours play for the umpteenth night in a row and being able to jump round any corner playing any class, and waste 3-4 players plus a few sentries, grab the flag, and kill the same 3-4 players as they respawned on my way back to base Possibly the only game that I've ever popped onto for a quick session one night and still been playing when the sun came up the next morning, it used to happen regularly too! Getting told you were cheating or that only n00bs and lamers with no skill cap the flag (cue hunting down and mercilessly and repeatedly slaughtering someone... as Scout if they really sucked) was all part of the fun on public servers. Did you play as part of a clan? Clan matches were a whole different ball game, I played in the UKTFCL Premiership seasons III and IV. We regularly got our arses handed to us by people that were so good it was untrue lol, but the pace and teamwork was on another planet compared to public games. ukbob said: I miss those servers. It has a lot to do with age, the fact that I spend my time doing other things now, but it'll never be the same. And I'll never enjoy a game again as much as I enjoyed TFC. My hard core gaming days are.. snivel, sob, cry... over. Aye, I'm too busy doing other things to be REALLY good at games now. I can still hold my own, but you're right it isn't the same. LOL do we sound like a couple of addicts or what?

Yes, totally Its all good fun though I joined a few clans, but didnt like the "Right, this is how we are going to play" rules so never stayed for more than a few matches. I much preferred the 'every man for himself' rogue soldier approach on the pubs, capping the noobs - which never got boring. Many of the noobs though were bloody good though, who seemingly never left the pc and spent their lives practising. Id usually play engineer, set up sentry and go flagrunning. You knew what/where the other players would be, and jumping round corners primed, or emping sentries from a floor below was part of the fun of knowing the game inside out, especially when winding up the folks who think you're cheating

We had a few chaps from BC (body count - at the time best uk clan) come on for a skimish now and again - they made formidable foes!! Better than bots on the hardest setting from games like unreal tournament, you really had to be on your toes in openspace shotgun fights to take them on - it was almost spooky coming face to face with players of that calibre. True professionals

[UKBob]

Plotloss said:

Mario Kart in all its formats. Quite literally thousands and thousands of hours.

Thats a lot of hours