Last week's
debate was a big Kum-Ba-Yah around the Dtoid campfire, in which we all discussed the games that have consumed the most hours of our lives. Some looked back lovingly while others shook their fists in regret Over two hundred votes were cast, and surprisingly the majority of them were all for completely different games than others had mentioned. Here are some of the games that stood out among the rest:
- 1st: World of Warcraft (38 votes)
- 2nd: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (15 votes)
- 3rd: (Tie) Halo 2 & Counter-Strike & Super Smash Bros. Melee (11 votes)
- 4th: Final Fantasy Tactics (10 votes)
- 5th: Pokemon Red/Blue (9 votes)
- 6th: (Tie) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (8 points)
- 7th: (Tie) Team Fortress 2 & GoldenEye 007 (7 votes)
- 8th: Final Fantasy X (6 votes)
- 9th: (Tie) Final Fantasy VII & Diablo II (5 votes)
This week's debate question came to me when reading one of urbanyeti's comments last week. I realized that we've never had a debate over which are the most loved levels in popular multiplayer games. So, with easily dozens of great online and offline multiplayers to choose from, this will become the theme of the next few debates for the next month or two. On top of casting your vote this week, feel free to request which multiplayer games you'd like to have level debates over in the future!
For the first week of this new trend, the easy choice was GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64. Take a look at the picture above and you'll probably see images of what several of your Summers revolved around as a child. The early Facility fad followed by the Complex Christmas of 1997, the Bunker days locked away in your basement, the Summer of slappers-only -- the list goes on and on, and every level deserves respect in its own way, but only one can win. Which level was your favorite, and why? Give each level some serious consideration, cast your vote, get some friends to share their opinions as well, and check back next week for the winner.
Bonus: Which multiplayer gameplay modes and/or cheat codes were your favorite to play with, and why? Also, which characters did you play as the most, and why?
Contest:
10:35 PM on 02.19.2008
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I was always a Complex fan.
Glitching vents FTW
Or Bond because...he's Bond.
cheats: paintball until everyone wanted cupcakes
characters: Moonraker -- because getting killed by an asshole in yellow is sad
And my favourite mode was mines only(played in that level, thats my best memory of goldeneye, damn its hard to think back that far lol). Kicked ass in timesplitters 2 as well.
you're thinking facility
But I'm thinking complex. def complex. i barely remember playing many other levels.
Runner-up: One-hit kills + Slappers Only on Facility was a hoot.
As far as cheat codes; I never used them. My favorite gameplay modes were Licensed to Kill and the occasional proximity mines game--prox mines really required you to stay on your toes and search corners. ALWAYS play with the auto-aim OFF, c-button aiming is the only way to play.
I always played as Bond because I'm that sexy. If you play as Odd Job... GTFO!!
Complex. big time.
levels:
stack ftw
followed by facility and complex
i always played the snow guy. he was just way N.
code: paintball
this is the best debate ever.
Complex is a close second, but bumped down because it was so much more awesome in PD
I went back and tried playing with turbo on now, and I don't know how the fuck my friends and I managed to sit through it and play for hours on end. It goes WAY too fast, and the framerate drops to like 20. Fucking disgusting, but it was gaming bliss at the time. I still consider it my favorite FPS, but there's no way in hell I'll touch turbo today. Not unless they retouch it and RERELEASE THE MOTHERFUCKER ON XBLA. C'mon. DO it.
Though i did love Bunker and archives. Archives was great when throuwin mine on the roof, people walking above exploded! BOOM!!
Temple with rockets or remote mines was always great, and Complex was always a good time, but I've still got to go with Library.
We always -- ALWAYS -- played with License to Kill (one hit kill) and paintball modes turned on. Counter-Strike is pretty much the only FPS game I've wished would have less one hit kills, I really can't stand when FPS games take several hits to kill people on average.
PS -- for those of you who haven't played GoldenEye 64 for in years, you should try and go back. It's scary. Me and most of my friends just couldn't get back into the groove, and pretty much swore to never play it again so that we can always remember it as an amazing game.
I was a Mines kind of guy. I had a friend who knew all the spawn points around Complex so he would just put proximity mines right at the spawn point so the second you spawned, big boom.
@ Scape -- Oh yah, we hated when people played as Oddjob because of that!
We also played with DK (big head) mode turned on a lot of the times too -- sometimes just to defend against people using Oddjob :)
Also Oddjob is savage cheats. I forget the level name, but crouching in boxes with him sent him to banzville.
also, BFF's hot mom FTW.
we also did a lot of pistols - one shot kills.
ALso, nothing was more annoying than Remote mines in the Bunker.