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Yes, but no. Quake and especially Quake II multiplayer back in the day was a crazy and super intense experience that still hasn't entirely been replicated in th

Yes, but no. Quake and especially Quake II multiplayer back in the day was a crazy and super intense experience that still hasn't entirely been replicated in the modern era. Everyone running around in their custom skins on custom maps, like threewave, grappling everywhere, leaving grenades and trip mines everywhere, trying desperately to get the flag back to base. It was delicious chaos, and it was so incredibly fun. A lot of modern games are still fun, TF2 still captures a good bit of what the old times were like, but many modern multiplayer games have a lot of MMO and leveling mechanics added to them which introduce a fair amount of "grinding" into the game which makes it a bit too much like work and not enough like just raw fun.

bitwize 13y ago
If you want a fun FPS, check out Sanctum 2. It mixes FPS with tower defense, sure, but you are usually severely resource-constrained in terms of the towers you can build and have to mop up quite a few baddies that make it through your gauntlet. It requires some high-level strategic thinking in terms of weapon, perk, and tower load-out, how and where to spend your resources to place towers, and tactics against the enemies that make it through. But it's pretty much jump in and have fun.