I got a free copy of this
Maybe I should actually play it.
But that isn't correct at all!pretty much vaporware
But that isn't correct at all!
Grimoire is abandonware, AoD is vaporware, NS2 is shovelware!
But that isn't correct at all!
Grimoire is abandonware, AoD is vaporware, NS2 is shovelware!
Fix'd for ya
Actually, there are two brains in Jim Rossignol. One of these brains has spent years playing games with organised teams, in games like Quake III, through Planetside and Arma II, and off into the awkward realms of MMOs. This brain is one that appreciates teamwork, cohesion, organisation, competition. It’s a brain which, when exposed to Natural Selection 2, sees one vision of how this game would really be worth playing: with a team that I had become familiar with, with regular competitive nights, as part of a clan that took things a little more seriously than the folks who just drop on to public servers for a quick blast.
This brain also feels uncomfortable with Natural Selection 2, because it realises it will never actually experience that level of play. It knows I haven’t played enough of this game. I never will. I am not going to get into serious NS2 play. I just won’t. There’s too much else out there, and it’s not the laser-point perfect place where I want my serious gaming energies to go. In another life – and for other people – it most certainly will be.
There’s something like an irony in the name, too. Because Natural Selection 2 doesn’t seem like an evolution, it seems like a very specific and directed act of creation. Unknown Worlds willed this into existence, and it was a very deliberate attempt to create a game and a community to serve a specific desire and way of playing. Few games reek so pungently of dedication and obsession to a cause. This is one. And it’s a cause I believe we need to support. Let’s do that.
Dumbfuck.Someone post here when NS will be on sale for 10 $ or 5$. Not shelling out 40 $ for a MP only mod rip off that's pretty much vaporware it was so long in development.
My second brain, well, that’s one which has eased, over many years, into a sort of casual appreciation of most games. Almost anything is worth dropping into and dabbling with, even if you aren’t going to get the true reward of full-blown competitive commitment. This brain gets a lot of use these days, because it’s the brain which, while Brain 1 was obsessive over this or that specific game, was tasting everything else on the menu. I sampled things for the sake of criticism, and I sampled things because they were worth seeing.
Natural Selection 2 is worth seeing, but to this second brain it does not stand out as a major highlight in a world with so many classed-based shooters, RTS aspect notwithstanding. That said, I have not failed to enjoy any single session I played. While the servers aren’t perhaps as many and as populated as I’d like, the game always offers something. It’s brilliantly crafted – right down to the FPS counter on the graphical options screen, so you can see what impact your changes are making – and that alone makes it, for me, a game that deserves to sit in my games library forever.
Well at least you're willing to admit it.That's because I quoted what is relevant to me; I lack that second brain.
Well at least you're willing to admit it.That's because I quoted what is relevant to me; I lack that second brain.
One of the major inspirations for Natural Selection. Basically played like ns combat maps.
And how is the game and the community itself?