Re: DOOTF Multiplayer - Anyone still playing
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:21 pm
Nobody's working on new textures AFAIK.
Yeah, consoles are popular platforms, so it makes sense developing for them from business perspective. If you've accumulated more PC games than you can stomach, then few exclusives there and there on consoles don't make the world crash and burn. At least that's how I see it. Each platform has some hidden gems, which'd be nice to play. I'm not generally against them, just never had the incentive to get one. You also have people that go way overboard with this whole PC master race bullshit.
Speaking of $$$, if someone convinced some publisher that a game like Drakan would sell, I bet we'd eventually see something new in that genre, perhaps even something innovative.
I think you're right about certain games being better played with gamepads. I suppose it's just the kind of games I play that I see no other good option but KB + MB. I just remembered I played FIFA 2 or 3 times in my life, an example where I wouldn't miss the keyboard.
Who knows when OpenOOTF will be done. These things take years, especially to perfect all the small details.
I just mentioned Tunngle as alternative to Hamachi and GameRanger when it comes to virtual LAN gaming. I don't remember if I just had something misconfigured in the past, but Hamachi involved manually inputting IP addresses. I know for a fact that Tunngle emulates LAN, so games can discover servers on their own. Though port forwarding may still be required, at least for the person who hosts the server. But yeah, multiplayer is pretty much dead. We tried running servers few years back, but nobody ever joined.
Yeah, consoles are popular platforms, so it makes sense developing for them from business perspective. If you've accumulated more PC games than you can stomach, then few exclusives there and there on consoles don't make the world crash and burn. At least that's how I see it. Each platform has some hidden gems, which'd be nice to play. I'm not generally against them, just never had the incentive to get one. You also have people that go way overboard with this whole PC master race bullshit.
Speaking of $$$, if someone convinced some publisher that a game like Drakan would sell, I bet we'd eventually see something new in that genre, perhaps even something innovative.
I think you're right about certain games being better played with gamepads. I suppose it's just the kind of games I play that I see no other good option but KB + MB. I just remembered I played FIFA 2 or 3 times in my life, an example where I wouldn't miss the keyboard.
Who knows when OpenOOTF will be done. These things take years, especially to perfect all the small details.
I just mentioned Tunngle as alternative to Hamachi and GameRanger when it comes to virtual LAN gaming. I don't remember if I just had something misconfigured in the past, but Hamachi involved manually inputting IP addresses. I know for a fact that Tunngle emulates LAN, so games can discover servers on their own. Though port forwarding may still be required, at least for the person who hosts the server. But yeah, multiplayer is pretty much dead. We tried running servers few years back, but nobody ever joined.