Incline Best PvP you ever saw

[luj1]

Guild Wars 1

particularly TA, RA and AB formats

it was good because,

- there were 1300 skills
- 30+ skill types (blessing, chant, ritual, hex, condition, shout, signet, enchantment, trap, shout, well spell, weapon spell, etc.)
- you make your own skillbar via deckbuilding (like in Magic the Gathering)
- multiclassing
- skill hunting
- skill based gameplay (timing and twitch)
- remarkably devs didnt have to balance much, there was a counter to everything
- checkpoints, objectives, king of the hill

if you are sweating your armpits while playing you know its good

never saw anything like it since (maybe Ability Draft mode in Dota 2 comes close)

 

[El Presidente]

Well... you already answered it, it's Guild Wars 1.

Then Unreal Tournament and TF2 on second and third place but in no particular order between the two.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

For me it was Shadowbane. Never played GW1 though.

 

[Zenithsan]

Very few will understand

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Eh, I’ve never had much interest in twitch-based PvP (and yes, that’s probably because I am bad at it). AoW, HoMM3, or Civ 2 on the other hand… well bring it on.

 

[Silverfish]

Conker's Bad Fur Day. Deathmatch, evasion, capture the flag, tank combat, heist and, if you get tired of all that, even combat racing.

 

[attention_deprived]

Half Life deathmatch in crossfire map.
It's simple and fast.
Every gun is unique and OP.

Gameplay

and if you ever feel bored, activate the nuke!
all the tactics and memories already rushing into my mind I must install it now.

 

[luj1]

Then Unreal Tournament and TF2 on second and third place

I hope you meant UT1999

Quake 3 Arena too then

if were gonna include shooters

 

[Cyberarmy]

Guild Wars 1 is easily my favorite too.
But I also had a lot of fun PvP in WoW before honor rank and dishonorable kills came. Large scale village battles that took an entire day in Tarren Mill and Crossroads.
Those were the days, before arena and battlegrounds.

Also Jedi Knight 2 PvP had really fun moments with only lightsaber and force maps.

 

[Hag]

Battlefield 1942 (and Desert Combat) was top shooter PvP. See that outpost ? You can run, crawl, drive, tank drive, fly, parachute or beach an aircraft carrier there. It sometimes (on more open maps) felt like a giant sandbox where improvisation and surprise were more important than pure skill, but you could still camp if you wanted to. Desert Combat had a feeling of power whatever equipment you were using. Every gun was powerful, every vehicle had its uses, it was all a war of movement, position, anticipation of the next hot flag to be or to avoid.

Mechwarrior Living Legends sometimes manages to evoke this feeling. Sometimes. Most of the time it is ok, or boring, but once it a while, it clicks and you have the real fight you didn't know you were craving for, the perfect one, that lasts and lasts and how good it is.
Then on the next round some moron uses aerospace asset or the map simply sucks and the players resume their grieving and harassment of newcomers.