If you could get thousands of gamers back on to one dead muliplayer game, which game is it?

[Vrach]

Battlefield 1942 or Vietnam. Brilliant games, never had such an awesome multiplayer experience since (partly thanks to every company killing the LAN option these days...)

 

[The-Fiction]

FFXI. The greatest community I've ever known in all my years of online gaming, hands down.

This all day long. I loved my time on that, would love it even more now that I have more time to put into it. Plus I miss my mithra

 

[Guffe]

Warcraft III B:net.
I used to play the shit out of that but then it just died suddenly...

 

[The_Critic]

Everquest 2. Easily. I haven't had as much fun in an MMO since Eof era EQ2.

 

[Paragon Fury]

So many options......but Top 3?

1: Section 8: Prejudice - Xbox 360

2: MAG - PS3

3: Battlefield 2142 - PC

 

[Rednog]

Either F.E.A.R 3 just because it was so damn unique and actually tried to deviate from the standard team death match and no one even bothered to try it.
Or something like Phantom Dust, dueling other people with crazy psychic powers was really fun.

 

[Spartan448]

Halo: Combat Evolved / Halo: CE Custom Edition:

The first game was, in my honest opinion, the only good game of the franchise. Wether or not Halo 4 can pick things back up again has yet to be seen. Nonetheless, Halo CE had excellent gameplay, and despite being kind of out of place, an awesomely OP magnum that somehow balanced just fine with the rest of the game. And the Assault Rifle wasn't shit. The Custom Edition of the game is PC only, but had awesome new maps, vehicles, and weapons to use that made for a really fun time.

 

[guidance]

Battlefield 1942. It is amazing.


Or even it's crazy-ass predecessor, Codename Eagle.


That said, if most of those thousands of gamers were idiotic 13 year olds... I'd probably rather we had nobody.

You, I like you. Either that or Gears 1 just for the sniper/shotgun wars.

 

[luckshotpro]

Timesplitters Future Perfect
or maybe Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
it is still possible to find a match in Bound in Blood, it just takes forever

 

[Xangba]

Freelancer. Even with over two hundred people,that game can be pretty damn empty. Especially Discovery's added systems.

...I am ashamed I forgot about Freelancer, I used to love that game. Excuse me while I go reinstall it.

OT: A Jedi Knight game, either Outcast or Academy. Personally I would prefer Academy, but I remember fondly using a mod that gave me and my friends grappling hooks that were instead used as weapons since whoever you hit couldn't move. Even if they are in mid air. Good times.

 

[Spitfire]

Left 4 Dead 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the Xbox 360. BC2 has been a ghost town since BF3 came out, and while L4D2 isn't DEAD, persay, it's still hard to get a full match.

Probably not the advice you're looking for, but you could buy both of them on the PC, as they're both fairly well populated on there, with the exception of BC2: Vietnam, which is running a bit low on players.

 

[El Pwnz]

Red Faction: Guerilla. Used to have loads of fun with that game, charging through walls and knocking people around with a sledgehammer.

 

[Aussie502]

Either Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. One of the best team oriented based shooters I've ever played. Sure the combat was a bit unrealistic, but overall, it had the best team mechanics I've seen with actual unique objectives to each map without this "capture the flag" crap.

Age of Empires 2: Conquerors: This one is just a nostalgia hit, one of my favourite games I grew up with. Was devastated when the MSN Gaming Zone no longer supported cd-rom games, I feel like a massive part of my life changed forever.

Using a program called Gameranger and changing settings to onlyw AoE2C. You will see that there are hundreds of games a day. That being said, France is effing broken...

Wow thanks for the info, will definitely check that out, been so many years since I've played it online, should be a blast from the past.

 

[JaceArveduin]

The Battle for Middle-Earth series...

Hey? Can this wish also add in a few patches too? Because a patch to fix the innate ping crap would be great too.

 

[srm79]

This :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5h0dPho_3Y

That was put together using MP footage. We used to have to queue up for ages to get into a mission like that. Now there are only one or two guys who write them any more

Great days.

 

[Mental Cosmas]

The online play for Jedi Outcast was pretty fun. There were multiple game modes. There was your straight up deathmatch and team deathmatch. There was also one-on-one duels and a crazy game of 1 vs all. It would be terribly out dated now, but it was a pretty good time back in the day.

This, I especially loved that one vs all mode you mention, Jedi Master. One guy with all the jedi powers vs everyone else with guns, then when you killed them whoever could nab the lightsaber became the new Master. Fun stuff.

I also miss Resistance 2, if only for the co-op. Damn it was fun co-op though. Simple yet compelling.

 

[EquestrianGeneral]

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Such a well-made, realistic, and intense game...
Too bad nobody plays it anymore.

 

[Razentsu]

Skullgirls. I swear nobody plays that game online at all in Europe at least... I set the filter to any and i'll get some guy in America within a minute and it'll be instantly declined due to a ridiculous ping.

There are a lot of people waiting for the big patch. Once it hits, you should be seeing more activity.

Vanguard Princess [http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Vanguard_Princess] is a game that I think should get more love. It's an indie fighting game made by an ex-Capcom employee. It plays similarly to the Street Fighter games, but with some twists of its own. It looks great, plays well, and is free.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Hard one because people still play all the games I'm currently playing online. I guess I'd have to go with Dawn Of War 2 and it's Last Stand mode which doesn't have as many people as I'd like playing.

 

[DocBot]

The Tribes series (I know there is one out but I mean by the original crew) that was awesome with jetpacks