did u ever like any of those "halo killers" from 2002-2008?

>u
Fuck off halobaby.

>>376856874
jeez sorry man i just wanted to talk about these type of games :\

>>376856671

Halo killed itself, nothing killed Tribes 2.

i liked the first killzone

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>>376858002
>nothing killed Tribes 2.

Fuck Hi-Rez

>>376858196

Tribes 2 is still up, you can VGNT and VGNB

>>376856671
Tribes 1 and 2 are both older than Halo and still have a few people playing them.

>>376856671
This was my first introduction to Tribes. I thought it was great. Being able to set up defense was really neat so the "goodbye halo" shit rang true in my ears. Shame it never took off.

I played the fuck out of Tribes Vengeance.

>>376859414
That was the worst Tribes game tbqh.

Reminder that the whole Tribes series except for Ascend is literally free now.
>http://www.tribesuniverse.com/

>>376859576
I haven't played them all so I can't really confirm, but even if that's true I felt it was still a good game. Had a blast playing it at LANs.

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>>376858196
are you underage or something, this was the tribes killer

>>376860487
the netcode was unplayable, but maybe it was better on lan, i don't remember if vengeance had local lan

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>>376860814
reminds me of this art

>>376860814
this was the game that made me hate ken levine
even if you ignore the neutered MP the singleplayer story was painfully bad

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>SHAZBOT

nothing will ever beat Starsiege Tribes

>>376861164
at least hi-rez had the decency to unfuck the game before abandoning it, unlike irrational

There has never been a successful "X killer" type game ever

prove me wrong

you cant because they are all dead

Metal Arms was my favorite Halo killer

>>376861949
>Metal Arms
?

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>>376861949
i remember coded arms

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>>376856671
>Halo killer

I vaguely remember reading that Bungie was calling Halo the "Tribes killer" during the development of CE.

Now that I think about it, why don't I ever see discussion on the older Tribes games? I know 80% of /v/ are Ascend babies, but it's disappointing nonetheless.

>>376861164
>>376861647
Irrational actually did intend to support Vengeance, they even had a big patch ready to fix and balance some stuff, but they had some kind of falling out with their publisher, stopping the support of the game.

>>376862964
according to the damage control from levine after it bombed

>>376863258
why do people hate kev levine so much. what has he done

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>>376862964
I used to make Tribes threads but they always died.

>>376863337
He made a bunch of second rate sequels to beloved games/franchises.

>>376856671
Funny how the real Halo killer ended up being Halo itself. Ironic.

>>376863337
Infinite showed he was a hack

>>376863745
Ascend threads? Or just Tribes in general?

>>376863936
That's usually the case for most franchise giants. See World of Warcraft.

>>376864156
Tribes in general. I payed for early beta access for Ascend because I was desperate and didn't end up liking it because of neutered base mechanics as well as premade classes. I know later on they let you make freeform classes like the originals but it still had other issues.

>>376864296
>neutered base mechanics

That's probably the biggest problem with the game in general. They had a big issue with a capper vs chaser balance, which led to them putting in a speed limit while holding the flag. I believe all of that stems from the base mechanics, because it threw off the set of checks and balances that the previous games had.

It's funny, they tried so hard to emulate Tribes 2, but it feels like they've never even played it.

>>376856671
Timesplitters was out at the same time and was massively better.

>>376865116
for a short time yes it was better than halo 1. but the mods for halo pc and custom games for halo 2 and 3 completely deprecated timesplitters. none of my friends were playing timesplitters at that point even though it was "our game" for the summer of 2003

>>376865014
It's too bad Sierra shit the bed with pushing Tribes 2 out before it was done as well as shutting down Dynamix soon after. None of the sequels by other devs got it right for me and now I'm sitting here learning how to strafe jump because I backed the wrong horse in the multiplayer FPS genre.

>>376856671
The irony was the true halo killer was halo via 343

>>376865650
I was comparing Halo Xbox to Timespliltters for like items if we count PC in the mix then everything out for PC I'll take over Halo on consoles.

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>>376862202
coded arms' soundtrack was fucking amazing, though, real talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhdXOk3B0P0

>>376865810
Dynamix isn't completely innocent in regards to Tribes 2. They heavily nerfed skiing, in order to put more emphasis on vehicles. That's why you have classic servers more like Tribes 1.

I'm hoping that Tribes will get its triumphant return someday. Midair looks interesting, but it could easily fall into the same trappings that Ascend had. I don't think free-to-play is a good model at all.

>>376866534
Yeah I only play on classic servers.

>>376866597
Or I should say played since the game is dead as fuck now.

>>376866659
Really? Fuck, I know Tribes 1 has been dead for awhile, but I always thought Tribes 2 had at least one or two full servers at peak hours. That fucking sucks.

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>Those crazy modded servers on tribes 2

>>376866895
all 15+ year old games are dead. most 5 year old games are dead too

>>376867039
I don't expect TF2 levels of staying power, but the first two Tribes games had amazing longevity.

>>376867004
>Those modded servers that had nukes

>>376866895
Yeah I went back earlier this year since T2 was pretty active just a few years back and there were 2 or 3 people in one server.

>>376867039
Quake 2 still gets full servers on a regular basis.

>>376867428
>you will never experience chaos like this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtHPhgTsVnM

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>>376868092
feels bad

>>376856671
Unreal Tournament 2004 was allright

>>376856671
Why don't people ever understand that World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Halo can only kill themselves. And we've seen it happen with all 3, feels great man.

>>376859243
Nobody cares what aspies still play.

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>>376867004
>mech servers
>special weapon servers
Tribes 2 will never be topped ever

>>376871259
Ha, I didn't know there were servers that had mechs. Those ones with the crazy weapon mods were great though.