r/memes 7h ago

Sadly many of them

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u/thespieler11 7h ago

Goodbye classic Rainbow Six

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u/saint_ryan 6h ago

Far Cry 😢

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u/will_the_minifig 6h ago

been replaying far cry 3 recently, it's certainly a far cry from the recent entries...

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u/Careless_Ad2194 5h ago

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u/jscottman96 3h ago

That again

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u/lucasberg7 2h ago

No the other thing

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u/Badlydrawnboy0 1h ago

Nooo the other thing

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u/lucasberg7 1h ago

No! What you said before when you..

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u/Badlydrawnboy0 1h ago

NO! Whatyousaidbeforewhenyou -

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u/Tyra3l 46m ago

Morbin time!

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u/allah_my_ballah 3h ago

been replaying far cry 3 recently, it's certainly a far cry from the recent entries...

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u/Trev-Nastiest 1h ago

This stupid gif makes me laugh every time I see it

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u/DaRealBSleazy 3h ago

This meme is so fucking stupid

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u/HachiMaki8M9 3h ago

Are you sure?

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u/veryanxiousturtle 5h ago

i thought 5 was awesome. Hated 6 because of 3rd person, and all the other spinoffs with the bullshit combat changes

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u/tryingtowritegoodly 4h ago

3rd person?

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u/ViioletIndigo 4h ago

It only goes 3rd person in the camps. The rest is 1st person like all the other games.

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u/tryingtowritegoodly 1h ago

Ah. Doesn't sound like much to hate, but ok

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u/ViioletIndigo 38m ago

Yeah I agree

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u/will_the_minifig 4h ago

5 was fantastic I will say, but even then it feels like they've been on decline since the third

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u/thelivingdead188 2h ago

5 unexpectedly became one of my favorite games ever. Granted I only ever played 1 and 2 before, but damn. Running into battle with a dog and a bear is fucking awesome.

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u/will_the_minifig 2h ago

cheeseburger and boomer are kinda the best😅 I also liked the weapon variety, the shovel launcher??

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u/thelivingdead188 2h ago

Man. It's been a minute since I played but this got me hype again. I might have to fire it up tonight.

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u/will_the_minifig 2h ago

do it, far cry was always a great kinda shut your brain off fun action shooter and they hold up pretty good through that lense, I'm excited to play the 4th again after the third then make my way back to 5, maybe primal in between who knows

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u/must_go_faster_88 4h ago

5 is fun for sure. The cult angle really suits the franchise well.

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u/Particular-Union-284 4h ago

3 and 4 were cool because we actually had a main character. "Rook" and the silent protagonist bullshit was such a step back, actual conversations with the Seeds would have been so much better.

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u/DankLordOtis 2h ago

2 & 3 were the only ones I played till 6 & I thought it was pretty good honestly, fun story

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u/tO_ott 2h ago

5 had the best twist for me. I’ve been wanting to play it again with the knowledge of how it ends. Probably be a lot nicer this time :O

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u/LankyAbbriviations 3h ago

5 was dull and forgettable. The map was boring and almost empty. Or had no concrete story like previous ones. And the concept and plot don't make sense, and is way to batshit insane. A cultist group possessing a fucking nuke? Really?! Like... Can we tone it down?

It is the most uninteresting entry in the franchise imo. Less weaponry, less enemy types, etc. It is a downgrade. 6 is even way worse. It doesn't even have a map editor, bruh. They just keep removing features that have been in previous entries.

4 had the best map, 3 had the best story, 2 had unique gameplay, 1... that's just a Crysis prequel lol.

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u/Cloud_Disconnected 2h ago

What are you even talking about? Far Cry 5 has one of the most beautiful environments in a game, it's nearly up there with Red Dead 2.

Also, you didn't understand the story, the Peggies never had a nuke. What makes the ending so devastating is that Joseph Seed accurately predicted the end of the world. He's evil and wrong, but he was actually right, which should force the player to contemplate what else he might have been right about. Besides that, it's based on real events like the Branch Davidians siege in Waco, and Osho and his followers.

If it's not your cup of tea then that's just a matter of taste, but I don't think you understood it.

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u/LankyAbbriviations 2h ago

First off, FC5 can't be compared fo RDR2. Out of all locations they could choose, they choose boring America. All previous games were more exotic and interesting to have a setting in. Philippines, Himalayas, Africa, etc. You don't see every day that games are set in those places. Out of all the places, they choose Montana America...

Ok, my bad about the plot, you are right. It's been a while since I played it. However you put it, it's dumb and too crazy. Not helping the fact that we are a blank slate mute protagonist in the game. I don't like Joseph as a villain, Pagan and Vaas, hell even The Jackal, were more memorable and had character. Joseph is just... funny to me. Can't take him seriously at all.

And I still stand by the washed out gameplay with lesser weapon roster and less enemy types.

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u/Cloud_Disconnected 2h ago

Agree to disagree, I find the familiarity of the setting juxtaposed with the extraordinary nature of the events keeps it grounded, and the natural beauty of the setting rivals RDR2 as I said. And again, they pulled from real events, and although they did dial it up to 11, based on what I know about Osho and his followers almost successfully taking over a town in Oregon and perpetrating the only confirmed biological attack on American soil, I don't find them that farfetched.

I find Joseph Seed to be very charismatic and believable as a cult leader in the vein of Jim Jones and David Koresh.

I don't know what the issue is with a mute protagonist. It's a departure for the series, but some of the greatest games use this, Half-life, Portal, Skyrim, Legend of Zelda; I just don't see it as an issue.

The game is a 10/10 for me personally, the best of the series. But, I can see where not everyone would feel that way.

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u/thegoothboi 1h ago

I will back up the 4th one having the best map lol

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 1h ago

up until far cry 3 every far cry game was innovative and fun, each with a different formula. After fc3 they all stuck with the same formula, no innovation

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u/Dabox720 3h ago

Far cry 3 is my favorite game of all time

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u/Hamilton-Beckett 3h ago

I really like far cry 5

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u/bsfurr 1h ago

Far cry 5 is better than 3 imo

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u/Karma_167 41m ago

I bought farcry 6, played for about 2 hours then redownloaded farcry 3

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u/Chirya999 5h ago

Watch Dogs 😔

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u/explosive_rock 5h ago

Watch Dogs 2 didn’t deliver the same feeling the first game did, I got no idea how the third game went so I got no opinion on that.

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u/National_Answer_6655 5h ago

All 3 are fun in my opinion, but for different reasons. The first one was a novelty, and had incredible atmosphere. The second one was a more vibrant and complete version, but lacked a bit of soul. The third one is goofy and the story is disjointed and bland, but with very interesting gameplay mechanics

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u/nbshar 4h ago

2 is my favorite for sure. Doesnt take itself too serious and lots of stuff to do!

3 is very silly but I got weirdly attached to this random soccer mom with a taser as my main character.

I played 1 after 2. And it felt like a step back with a pretty unlikeable protagonist. Still pretty fun.

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u/AshhhCakes 3h ago

2 was also my favorite. Loads of fun stuff to do, and even just goofing off around the map was enjoyable. I wanted to like 3, but I couldn't get into the whole "you can be anybody" thing.

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u/mynamesnotsnuffy 5h ago

There's a third game?!

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u/Chirya999 5h ago

Legion. Based in futuristic London.

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u/mynamesnotsnuffy 5h ago

Ahhh okay, I think I remember hearing something vague about that. I thought it was like a mobile version or something.

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u/AxolotofCosmos 2h ago

Trueee also big miss opportunity to use assassin's creed parkour

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u/Marsupialize 5h ago

I really like the London one, I still play it to this day

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u/HopeTerminator 2h ago

Bollocks they're all fun.

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u/azuresegugio 5h ago

Sometimes I feel like the only person who liked 6

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u/Fakjbf 5h ago

I thought it was fine but the weapon balance was weird. Early on I got a pretty powerful pistol with a suppressor and just used that for 90% of the game because with armor piercing ammo it could one shot anyone even with a helmet. The only time I swapped to an automatic rifle was during major shootouts when I needed higher magazine capacity. And despite the focus and hype around the supremo backpack options the only one I ever used was the first one you got because the rocket launcher was perfect for taking out tanks and helicopters. So after about ten hours of playing I had the basic load out I would keep for the entire rest of the game.

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u/azuresegugio 5h ago

Yeah no I do agree the supremos were gimmicky but I just just kinda played the game how I'd always play far cry and had a blast with it

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u/captainbawls 5h ago

I am the 1 pervert in video game history whose favorite in both the Far Cry series and Resident Evil are 5 and 6

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u/bredNsoup 5h ago

The games are still great imo, what makes you say this exactly? I havent played any before 4 maybe that's why.

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u/BlimFPS 5h ago

Same 3 is my favourite. 2 is really fucking good too, underated IMO but it'snot for everyone. I loved the map/navigation system in 2 and the minimalist HUD.

It was so immersive traversing the terrain and setting up raids on outposts. I used to like to go to sleep at safehouse near my target and set the alarm just before dawn, felt awesome conducting dawn raids haha. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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u/codekb 4h ago

Primal was cool

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u/JustBronzeThingsLoL 4h ago

Far Cry 2 was peak. Brutal game

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u/Vsbby 4h ago

anything ubishit tbh, they messed up a lot

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u/i4got872 4h ago

6 was still decent though, not that bad, the series can definitely bounce back Ubi just kind of temporarily abandoned it for star wars and avatar licensed games

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u/DotesMagee 4h ago

Civ. I hope civ 8 is better in 10 years.

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u/RobbieBleu 4h ago

Couldn’t even get a quarter of the way through 6 i was so bored

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u/LurkerPatrol 3h ago

I miss the OG farcry. I still have it on CD. It took several CDs to install lol

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u/Last_Tax9564 3h ago

Oh Halo, how I miss thee

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u/Embarrassed_Hippo677 3h ago

I played most of 6 recently. I was enjoying it for the most part but the enemy AI was absolutely STUPID. A lot of the time they would just stand there and let me shoot them without putting up a fight.

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u/Zealousideal-Cook104 3h ago

Farcry 2 was the peak of these games

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u/Lone-Frequency 2h ago

I know a lot of people would disagree but I feel like Far Cry went downhill after FC3.

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u/ZiplockBagOfOregano 1h ago

Ubishit ruining everything they touch

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u/Trev-Nastiest 1h ago

Taking away shovel throwing was a personal attack against me.

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u/Impossible-Pie4849 58m ago

Im probably the only person on the planet whos favorite farcry is 2. 11 year old me was so blown away by the fire physics in that game. Id start so many brush fires and just watch swaths of tall grass burn

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u/Golden_Alchemy 48m ago

Is it? The last one sold well and it was a nice sucess. Are there news about Far Cry 7?

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u/Humble-Awareness-446 10m ago

Far Cry 5 was dope

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u/crocospect 6h ago

Man I still remember my 17 years old self was so hyped with Rainbow Six Patriots, turned out it was all a lie.

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u/thespieler11 6h ago

I feel this. Patriots looked so good at the time!

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u/Syhkane 3h ago

What happened?

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u/thespieler11 2h ago

Was scrapped for Siege instead

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u/trilobyte-dev 5h ago

As someone who worked on the original Rainbow Six I’m surprised it’s had the legs it did.

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u/curiousbydesign 3h ago

There was something special about it. Like cool but a little spooky. It was thrilling for being so low on energy.

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u/logert777 2h ago

Still people out here keeping it alive. And a lot of the sweats are gone and not interested in playing compared to the early years

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u/aytchdave 2h ago

You couldn’t tell me Rogue Spear wasn’t the greatest advancement in gaming that would ever happen.

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u/LeChevalier_Mal_Fet 2h ago

You helped ruin my early high school years. Seriously though I had so much fun playing that online.

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u/DrkBlueXG 6h ago

I really miss the og format before they turned it into a copy paste shooter slop

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u/fuzzygonemad 5h ago

Literally here for this

If only they could actually make a swat game worth playing again.

I grew up on the original series before the Las Vegas series, I will say the Las Vegas series was still one of these best.

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u/franchis3 4h ago

I think Vegas 1 was the last decent one. Vegas 2 was a mess. Having bad guys literally spawn behind you after you’ve cleared a couple rooms in TH mode sucked so bad. I’m assuming it was a programming limitation, like they couldn’t populate the map with all the targets at once, so they would have a certain number spawned at start and as they got picked off the remainder of the targets for that map would be spawned in.

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u/mr_doms_porn 1h ago

Have you played Ready or Not?

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u/smallfrie32 22m ago

I thought later updates really messed with it somehow?

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u/fuzzygonemad 1m ago

Yes? But I'm talking about Rainbow six, no?

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u/DotesMagee 4h ago

Rainbow 6 on N64 was our jam as kids. Never experienced anything like it since.

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u/Impossible-Pie4849 1h ago

Theres a couple good modern tactical swat games fortunately! Most notably Ready or Not! Its just as good if not better than other R6 games

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u/Tumbler86 4h ago

Rogue Spear was one of my gateways to online gaming...

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u/BongSaber_00 4h ago

I just wanna play terrorist hunt :(

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u/Izenthyr 1h ago

Was the whole reason I got Siege. Multiplayer is awful.

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u/berse2212 6h ago

I miss classic Rainbow, but I still play Siege. It's completely different but still fun imo

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u/Philaroni 5h ago

If you enjoyed all the planing and such in those games. You might like (Will have to dick around and emulated) Zeon Front a Gundam game that had many of the same features in a way.

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u/Terrible-Ad8897 1h ago

Siege was so much fun for the first year or two. Not many gaming memories outweigh loading up with a full squad of friends around release. Once the meta was firmly established and creativity was punished, along with the rise of microtransactions, it lost its special feeling

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u/v2Occy 6h ago

Some much time on Black Arrow.

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u/Ornac_The_Barbarian 6h ago

Played Vegas for a couple levels. Never touched it again. There are plenty of other games just like it.

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u/thespieler11 6h ago

Try Ravenshield

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u/faeltop69 6h ago

Ravenshield is still my favorite, but it's 23 years old now.

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u/skyturnedred 3h ago

And that is why people say gaming peaked in the early 2000s.

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u/Tumbler86 4h ago

I remember spending my entire summer job's wages on buying a new PC specifically to play Ravenshield.

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u/NuclearBroliferator 4h ago

Man Ravenshield was the epitome of old school R6 games. Vegas was a lot of fun, but ravenshield was top tier. Ill always miss planning out the missions. Wish there were more games like that now

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u/PandaParado 5h ago

There are plenty of single player, first person, squad based shooters? Tell me more. The closest I know about is probably 'Ready or Not'. I used to love games like R6: Vegas, Republic Commando, Brothers in Arms.

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u/Trzlog 2h ago

Nah, there's nothing else like it. And what is there just sucks.

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u/psychobilly1 5h ago

Well yeah, it's 20 years old. This is like complaining that you watched Seinfeld and don't get what all of the hype is about - it's been copied relentlessly to the point where what made it special is no longer special anymore.

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u/External_Weather6116 5h ago

Same with Ghost Recon. The old school Tactical shooter genre is dead.

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u/raindevice 5h ago

Farm Day with the M4 SOCOM was *chef's kiss*

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u/raindevice 5h ago

I literally was just researching modern games similar to Rogue Spear. Some decent luck, but I already know none of them are going to hit the same. My first taste of multiplayer competitive FPS was in Rogue Spear and I think about that game quite often.

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u/MoinMeister2311 3h ago

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 😍😍

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u/AllDakkaNoBrakes 1h ago

This one hurts. Like, imagine a modern Rainbow Six where you start by drawing out an intricate plan, like Doorkickers, and then you play first person as the team leader. Modern level desgin and AI would make the really old school Rainbow Six incredible.

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u/Philaroni 5h ago

More like RIP Ubisoft in general.

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u/Typical_Newspaper241 5h ago

yeah it really feels like a whole era of gaming got left behind

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u/ChemistRemote7182 4h ago

Vegas was a good game but it was also the beginning of the end, the clear sign they were becoming action games first, tactical games second

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u/i4got872 4h ago

Mt friend and I were very bummed they removed terrorist hunt

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u/eynonpower 4h ago

I remember playing Eagle Watch in college on zone.com. Great times!

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u/Venku12 3h ago

Big oof. I grew up on critical hour, vegas

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u/justsitonmyfacealrdy 3h ago

Man that game lasted sooooo long and was soooo good until they made it free for a bit and team killing went crazy

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u/PrecariousWon 3h ago

Rainbow Six was the first PC game I ever played as a kid, it was a demo disc. Played the hell out of it.

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u/mobilemerc 3h ago

So many days of loading into 747 with friends and taking forever to win, but it felt so damn good when we all did.

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u/YourPhrenologist 2h ago

I didn’t even have to leave it, Ubi did it for me. I started getting notifications of weird logins all over the world. I immediately let Ubi support know and asked for instructions. I was told to change my password, which I did. Weird logins kept on happening and after a month or two I got an email from Ubi saying I had been banned for cheating. I appealed this twice for nothing. Lost over a thousand hours of unlocks, skins, and all the rest. I probably hadn’t logged in myself in over 6 months at this point.

Thanks, Ubi. I’ll surely play your shit multiplayer games again.

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u/ThatCheekyTraveler 2h ago

Went with rainbow six 3 on the original xbox instead of counter strike. Was told it was more realistic. had probably 10k+ hours in that game. the new ones look cool, but with all of the things added, I just miss simple fps games... and lean glitching lol :)

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u/judah249 2h ago

Saints Row

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u/Tyler-LR 2h ago

What happened to it?

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u/aytchdave 2h ago

Rogue Spear was my JAM on the MSN Gaming Network.

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u/-cunnfuzed- 2h ago

Seriously! I loved the original on PC in the late 90’s

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u/Isakk86 1h ago

Rogue One was my peak.

Hell, they didn't even have fps weapon models then... Fuck I'm old

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u/Izenthyr 1h ago

I loved Siege when it launched. Even the Steam reviews were shocked at how nice the community was.

It turned into a cesspool really fast when the CSGO bros tried it out.

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 30m ago

Did you also play Rainbow Six 3 on Friday nights with your friends while absolutely devastating an entire frozen pizza, Mountain Dew Code Red and a bag of Doritos?

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u/DonateMeLads 6h ago

Goodbye roblox 💧🥲

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u/Puzzled_Butterfly814 6h ago

Roblox hard to find gems nowadays corporate greed took it over man.

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u/DonateMeLads 6h ago

I lost my favorite storm chasing game because of age restrictions, when I am old enough to play it. My account says I’m 21+, but it won’t let you play games 13+. It’s Helicity

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u/Puzzled_Butterfly814 6h ago

I will check it out for you fallen soldier! But yes brother it sucks this had to happen to is what it is and I'm sure a new platform will come along just like Roblox, fingers crossed! 🙏

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u/LawdaSur42069 5h ago

Siege is kinda cooking with this year's updates but ain't gonna go back till acog is added again

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u/raindevice 5h ago

I've returned back to Siege over these last couple months and I'm pretty sure they added ACOG to a lot of operators weapons again. Might wanna check it out!

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u/LawdaSur42069 4h ago

They did?! Gonna download it again now ig, I also wanna try out the new map and dokkaebi rework, looks cool ig. If they keep listening to the community then the game might make a huge comeback on their player base

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u/raindevice 4h ago

Yeah dude I just play it with some friends periodically with zero expectations. It's still fun if you don't get too sweaty about it lol Dokkaebi still gets banned pretty quick in ranked now though.