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This week we’re starting a regular feature on the blog where we take a look at what our members are saying about the games they play and the experiences they had. This week, I decided to go right to the well to look at the genre that I love most - the First Person Shooter.

 

 

First up we have a posting from member ZombiemePK entitled "Random Road Rage" from one of my favorite games, Battlefield 2. I took the liberty of adding some parenthetical notes so that everyone knows what ZombiemePK is talking about:

The map was Sharqi Peninsula BF2. I was in a 6 man squad assaulting the last point we needed the TV station (hotly contested base) which was still under the MEC control. My squad leader ordered on voice chat to secure the Vodnik (jeep like scout car) vehicle in front of us so I ran and hopped in the drivers seat. Suddenly i hear him shout out "oh sh** enemies!" and they start firing on a squad right behind the Vodnik I hopped in. I shoved it forward and killed one MEC soldier by smashing him on the wall. Then i hit it in reverse to un-parallel park the Vodnik and slammed into 2 more of the MEC squad smearing them across the pillar behind me. I drive foward and run over another then swing it in reverse trying to steer to escape and smash the last 2 of the MEC squad attacking my squad with the side of the car. I was oblivious to what my squad was laughing their asses off to until I check the kill ticker and see I wiped out a entire squad on my own without even trying or noticing.

I’m just glad I take the train to work.

gamerDNA member icean decided to take a far more conservative approach in writing about a gameplay experience in the always-entertaining Call of Duty 4 with a post that he titled "Coward":

Once I met a coward camper and I owned him. I headshot’d him - BAM!

His name is maggge.

Short, sweet, and to the point. I like that.

Let’s go back to the quintessential PC FPS and take a look at an experience post for the smash hit Counter-Strike. mariemassacre takes a look at the dark side of server hosting as she elaborates on the idea that "It’s a clan… not communism!" (I added some numbers to the post to make it a little easier to follow).

Situation:

1. Player joins a server and plays there for a few months.
2. Player then thinks they should get their own server because of how awesome it is and now all of their friends can play together without all of those other annoying players… on a server that they can control and add mods/maps to and have fun with.
3. Player’s friends play in server 1 and in server 2 (the new kids server).

   Admin in server one freaks out on kid that created their own server practically threatening death and accusing them of stealing their players when the players still play in both servers (and OTHER servers) and these players are friends of kid who created their own server.

4. People get banned from server 1 for playing in server 2 but have never gotten banned for playing in other servers of their choice.
5. Counter-Strike WWIII breaks out and people freak.

Maybe that is the most drama I have seen on multiple occasions in games like CS (specifically CS for this example). This crap takes the fun out of games… no one OWNS a player when it comes to something like this. Players have free will and I do understand if the player was devoted and needed for scrims and this and that… but people… don’t buy servers just because you are power hungry and can’t control people IRL so you try to do it in game.

Sage advice, but it does delve into the dark side of player-controlled servers.

Of course, what type of FPS post would this be without at least one experience post from the undisputed champion of console FPS - Halo 3. Member SolierOfAzriel recounts a frenetic chase and presents a questionable soundtrack decision when he writes "Halo 3 Desert Chase Scene":

I was playing online as a guest to my cousin in Sandtrap. We took the Warthog around to do some scouting, and a Chopper started following us. I was the gunner, so I shot at it while my cousin drove us around. As we were in the chase, another two Warthogs came out of nowhere and started chasing us too. Man, was that exciting. It would have been a perfect time to turn on some chase music (I was thinking of Pump It, but that’s just me.)

While I completely disagree with the idea of using Black Eyed Peas for any video game soundtrack (other than Fergalicious: Hammer of Fate), I can always appreciate good chase sequence.

Well, that’s it for our first Experience Roundup! Got your own story to tell? Why not write one of you’re own! Just click on "Edit my gamerDNA" from the main menu and add experiences for any game using the Experiences tab. You can even import experiences from your blog, journal, or whatever feed!

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