S2Rocky's post was an amazing display of marketting ignorance ^^
Lots of good posts with a few interjected posts by people with no clue. Fun read though <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
DruBoBack In BeigeJoin Date: 2002-02-06Member: 172Members, NS1 Playtester
Anyone notice how the "S2 Staff" post like 13-year-old flamer/llamas, and the "troll"(JohnnySmash) has writing skill comparable to most of the moderators here? Makes you think.
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
edited October 2003
S2Rocky may have been a bit biased towards Savage with his first post there (to be fair, most of the staff here would probably be just as in favor of NS), but I think his fellow admin S2Jesse said it best on page 2: <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->play both sheesh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Any good game deserves to be played, regardless of genre, age, or whether it was first of its kind. /me tips hat to JhonnySmash for being able to hold his temper while representing us to those unfamiliar with NS
For anyone to make that post at all is bad. For an admin to knowlingly byass his own game versus another in a gross manner like that in unimaginiable. It's a pity this smash fellow doesn't hang around the forums more, he seems like a nice guy. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I think hes trying to find an fps/rts home. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> (I understand the feeling, as I was here then to planetside, and back again).
Argh... misinformation run amok! I can't stand people who decide to argue for one side and completely ignore the other.
NS is a better game, simple as that. This said without bias. I was a beta tester for Savage. This doesn't mean Savage isn't a fun game. Some people love it.
I hate this, as I always have, becuase it always grows into "My games *male body part* is bigger then your games *male body part*".
People "choose side" and defend them to the death, no matter how stupid they look.
Its always "MY GAME RULES!!!" "NOT AT ALL!! THIS GAME IS BETTER" "YOU SUCK" "NO YOU SUCK!!".
And as always, someone feels they have to defend one or the other. Why can't we just play what we like and stick to our own forums. I mean its not like we are fighting one another.
I actually think savage and NS are completely different but both fun in their very weird and wonderfully diverse ways... I also think that a post or two in that thread that was linked though were made with little knowledge of the subject actually backing them, hoping somehow their rabid savage fanboyism/marketting spiel would make them right anyways =/
I wonder where JohnnySmash has gone? I remember he used to post in S&I every now and then, but has he gone for Savage? Nooo!
Oh, I thought this was rather funny. <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> NS had a dedicated PR man, who answered the questions from the slavering hordes. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
that s2rocky guy definately very biased against NS. his arguments falter, however, because most of his comments are incoherent and sometimes blatantly untrue
JohnnySmash is mah hero <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
take it from a guy who plays both games exclusively (my only current games right now except wc3)
they are both so different its ridiculous........IMO even comparing an corridor-fps to outdoor fps is differen't enough as it is.....both have different atmospheres and call for different weapon types, etc.
then compare a outdoor-rts/fps with a corridor -rts/fps? We're talkin apples and oranges folks.
the funny thing is that even though the movement in NS is much faster (skulks/lerks/freaking blink fades) savage has literally improved both my aim AND my ability to melee with a skulk......fast movements no longer SCREW with my sense of direction due to having to be so damn cautious when using ranged weps in sav (easy to get snuck up on)......I rarely get confused in NS like I used to when skulking (where did the marine go?)
Was kinda funny coming into the demo sav server for the first time as a newb (b4 I bought it) and completely owning all the other newbies in melee *cough, skulkage, cough*
With that said there will ALWAYS BE GAME BIAS. If you think its just the sav players just look at this thread. heh.
If people came onto the NS boards toting how much they like savage over NS people would **** I gurantee. I don't see the problem with people stating they don't like a game nor its style, etc. I hate all CnC after red alert 1. I could be the damned next westwood prez or some crap and still say: "I FRIGGIN HATE ALL OUR GAMES AFTER redalert 1!!!!!!!!!!!" without a single stutter.
We all know that NS is a great game, so thats all that matters. Don't try to lump all savage players in the same 'omg th3y hat3 ns and are teh suk!' category. I've seen quite a few who play both games.
<!--QuoteBegin--Catpoker+Oct 17 2003, 12:06 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Catpoker @ Oct 17 2003, 12:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I hate this, as I always have, becuase it always grows into "My games *male body part* is bigger then your games *male body part*".
People "choose side" and defend them to the death, no matter how stupid they look.
Its always "MY GAME RULES!!!" "NOT AT ALL!! THIS GAME IS BETTER" "YOU SUCK" "NO YOU SUCK!!".
And as always, someone feels they have to defend one or the other. Why can't we just play what we like and stick to our own forums. I mean its not like we are fighting one another. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> when I was young this is what I did although about something far more serious than a game
I had good reason I was right but today, I have learned to let it go.
It doesn't matter who is wrong or who is right. If you are willing to defend your beliefs, no matter how wrong they may in fact be, that in itself is what makes them worthwhile.
Not that there's anything wrong with embracing the beliefs of others when you know your own will no longer serve you. The trick is to continue to be as passionate about your surrender as you were about your fight.
...
Oh, and... um... yay for JohnnySmash! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
EVERYONE from the NS forums should sign up to the Savage forums and each post "Yeah, Savage is pretty good, but NS ROCKS!" in that topic. Show them the fanbase we have.
After playing both games, i would say Savage is much more like tribes with a 'com'. Except the players are MUCH less relient on the com, and the com's job is easier. I play NS when i feel like a good game, i play Savage when i feel like tribes with a touch of battzone.
<!--QuoteBegin--Geminosity+Oct 17 2003, 05:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Oct 17 2003, 05:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Last your wife is cheating with one of the board members!!! ...but we don't know which one o.O ~dun dun duuuuuuun~ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Geminosity did it, in the library, with the candlestick.
Arent these topics (this one and the one on the savage forums) just inviting open conflict? Not the best thing to do, as they are completely different games? Do you see people arguing about which mod for HL is the best? I'm excluding the 12 yr old zealots here, as they will always have blind belief in their mods.
Anyway, no, you don't see argument about HL mods because they are all different, even though many of them have the same interface, textures, gameplay styles ETC. That's becuase they are all fundamentally different. You may as well say that all FPS are the same as they all have a gun (or big claws) and you go around killing people.
Despite this, i'm not in the best position to comment as I've only played savage once when i hijacked my friends broadband connection (stuck on 56k normally, which makes most new games unplayable) and despite it being a lot like NS, it was also a lot likeany other FPS and seemed to remind me of age of empires a lot (probably just me).
Now the only unsolved mystery is who let Geminosity havbe that candlesitck.
<!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow and your all no better, its ok to bash S2 games, and ok to congratualte someone related to NS...Hmmph. Irony <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> No one bashed S2 games...
Oh, and The_duffy, that idea is horrible. We've already seen how the savage mods deal with something they don't like, regardless of its realism/intelligence. Further provoking them would be immature and pointless.
<!--QuoteBegin--Forlorn+Oct 17 2003, 07:53 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 17 2003, 07:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow and your all no better, its ok to bash S2 games, and ok to congratualte someone related to NS...Hmmph. Irony <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> No one bashed S2 games...
Go back to the off-topic forums plz. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh nos! Teh fanboi has flamed me! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Oct 17 2003, 09:13 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 17 2003, 09:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Forlorn+Oct 17 2003, 07:53 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 17 2003, 07:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 17 2003, 08:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow and your all no better, its ok to bash S2 games, and ok to congratualte someone related to NS...Hmmph. Irony <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> No one bashed S2 games...
Go back to the off-topic forums plz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh nos! Teh fanboi has flamed me! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We played savage alot on a lan lately, and tbh, the savage engine sucks big ****...graphics and mapdesigns are good enough, but certainly not stunning as the posters said...
The Savage game is not balanced, it has poor variation and too much time is spent on building and running...
Even though we had great fun playing it, Id take NS over it any day...
Comments
Lots of good posts with a few interjected posts by people with no clue. Fun read though <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->play both sheesh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Any good game deserves to be played, regardless of genre, age, or whether it was first of its kind.
/me tips hat to JhonnySmash for being able to hold his temper while representing us to those unfamiliar with NS
I think hes trying to find an fps/rts home. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> (I understand the feeling, as I was here then to planetside, and back again).
NS is a better game, simple as that. This said without bias. I was a beta tester for Savage. This doesn't mean Savage isn't a fun game. Some people love it.
People "choose side" and defend them to the death, no matter how stupid they look.
Its always "MY GAME RULES!!!" "NOT AT ALL!! THIS GAME IS BETTER" "YOU SUCK" "NO YOU SUCK!!".
And as always, someone feels they have to defend one or the other. Why can't we just play what we like and stick to our own forums. I mean its not like we are fighting one another.
Oh, I thought this was rather funny.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> NS had a dedicated PR man, who answered the questions from the slavering hordes. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
they are both so different its ridiculous........IMO even comparing an corridor-fps to outdoor fps is differen't enough as it is.....both have different atmospheres and call for different weapon types, etc.
then compare a outdoor-rts/fps with a corridor -rts/fps? We're talkin apples and oranges folks.
the funny thing is that even though the movement in NS is much faster (skulks/lerks/freaking blink fades) savage has literally improved both my aim AND my ability to melee with a skulk......fast movements no longer SCREW with my sense of direction due to having to be so damn cautious when using ranged weps in sav (easy to get snuck up on)......I rarely get confused in NS like I used to when skulking (where did the marine go?)
Was kinda funny coming into the demo sav server for the first time as a newb (b4 I bought it) and completely owning all the other newbies in melee *cough, skulkage, cough*
With that said there will ALWAYS BE GAME BIAS. If you think its just the sav players just look at this thread. heh.
If people came onto the NS boards toting how much they like savage over NS people would **** I gurantee.
I don't see the problem with people stating they don't like a game nor its style, etc. I hate all CnC after red alert 1. I could be the damned next westwood prez or some crap and still say: "I FRIGGIN HATE ALL OUR GAMES AFTER redalert 1!!!!!!!!!!!" without a single stutter.
We all know that NS is a great game, so thats all that matters. Don't try to lump all savage players in the same 'omg th3y hat3 ns and are teh suk!' category. I've seen quite a few who play both games.
People "choose side" and defend them to the death, no matter how stupid they look.
Its always "MY GAME RULES!!!" "NOT AT ALL!! THIS GAME IS BETTER" "YOU SUCK" "NO YOU SUCK!!".
And as always, someone feels they have to defend one or the other. Why can't we just play what we like and stick to our own forums. I mean its not like we are fighting one another. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
when I was young
this is what I did
although about something far more serious than a game
I had good reason
I was right
but
today, I have learned to let it go.
It seems I have no spirit now tho.
Not that there's anything wrong with embracing the beliefs of others when you know your own will no longer serve you. The trick is to continue to be as passionate about your surrender as you were about your fight.
...
Oh, and... um... yay for JohnnySmash! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Or would that just be prompting conflict? :/
...but we don't know which one o.O
~dun dun duuuuuuun~
<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
<b>edit:</b> changed the drama type for the heck of it ^^
...but we don't know which one o.O
~dun dun duuuuuuun~ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Geminosity did it, in the library, with the candlestick.
Anyway, no, you don't see argument about HL mods because they are all different, even though many of them have the same interface, textures, gameplay styles ETC. That's becuase they are all fundamentally different. You may as well say that all FPS are the same as they all have a gun (or big claws) and you go around killing people.
Despite this, i'm not in the best position to comment as I've only played savage once when i hijacked my friends broadband connection (stuck on 56k normally, which makes most new games unplayable) and despite it being a lot like NS, it was also a lot likeany other FPS and seemed to remind me of age of empires a lot (probably just me).
Now the only unsolved mystery is who let Geminosity havbe that candlesitck.
No one bashed S2 games...
Go back to the off-topic forums plz.
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed.
Oh, and The_duffy, that idea is horrible. We've already seen how the savage mods deal with something they don't like, regardless of its realism/intelligence. Further provoking them would be immature and pointless.
No one bashed S2 games...
Go back to the off-topic forums plz. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh nos! Teh fanboi has flamed me! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
No one bashed S2 games...
Go back to the off-topic forums plz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh nos! Teh fanboi has flamed me! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=SF&f=10' target='_blank'><!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--></a>
The Savage game is not balanced, it has poor variation and too much time is spent on building and running...
Even though we had great fun playing it, Id take NS over it any day...