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You snap your fingers and an older game suddenly has a playerbase equal to its peak and would sustain that for a year. What would you choose?

Nobody_Important

“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I think I would choose Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring, or Bloodborne. It probably sounds weird I know, but anyone who is a hardcore souls player knows the hype, ecstasy, and the drive that the playerbase of these games command in their first 3-5 months. It is biblical. I want that level of fervor and activity to last a year. You have an entire community that grinds its face off only to turn around and help newer players or those vets that are making new characters. Some level up and then turn around to guide others. Others turn around and try to invade and make everyone miserable. I still remember sitting up late at night at certain bosses or areas. Places like Cainhurst where invaders sat licking their chops so I had leveled a character SPECIFICALLY to counter invaders. The ultimate PvP build not to actually PvP in the traditional sense, but to protect noobs from the vets there at the start. I spent I don't even know how many Fridays or Saturdays just sitting outside Cainhurst just to help people. The same went for Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring where I specifically made faith based support characters. Not to dominate the game or bow to the meta, but to heal and help those along who were just finding their way and getting started. The idea of the Vet hunkering down to help the Noob is just something that I love from the Souls games. Something that you can not only choose to do, but that the game and its community actually encourages. No other multiplayer setting is quite like the Souls games, but the only problem is that the peak is brief and it all falls apart fast. The average person makes their character plays the game to the end and they are done. Not everyone goes to New Game Plus. Not everyone goes for a different playthrough or a different ending from scratch. So the life of these Co-op juggernauts is short-lived. I would take that magic and make it last a full calendar year. And yeah I wouldn't sleep and would probably lose my job, but man......it would be a hell of a year.



What games would you resurrect? What playerbases would you flood with activity just so you could enjoy them again like you did before? Or maybe what games would you repopulate because you had missed it originally?
 
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demigod

Member
Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 and 2.

Beat File 2 with some dude with the username AlbertWesker(guess he was a Wesker fan). The final map was intense. Defend from waves of zombies. We had to use i think it was either ventrilo or teamspeak on PC since you couldn’t talk on the ps2.
 
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Nobody_Important

“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Before someone might ask I would choose Bloodborne with a gun to my head. Elden ring is bigger with a larger build variety, but no Souls game equals Bloodborne in the intricacy of its combat system and the simplicity of its execution.


A good Bloodborne PvP player is a fucking demon compared to the riffraff you may see in Elden Ring or DS3. No souls game has ever scared me as much as Bloodborne did when someone invaded me when I was in the middle of a level. The amount of sweat and the amount of planning that went through my head is unmatched.
 
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Soodanim

Member
Resistance 2, specifically for the co-op mode. I loved it, and I'd love it again.
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Yes! What a truly excellent game that was. I don't know if an online shooter will ever top that. MW2 had my friends, BC2 was an excellent game.
Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 and 2.

Beat File 2 with some dude with the username AlbertWesker(guess he was a Wesker fan). The final map was intense. Defend from waves of zombies. We had to use i think it was either ventrilo or teamspeak on PC since you couldn’t talk on the ps2.
I did think about this. If it had better loading times, I'd pick it in an instant.
 
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Tarnpanzer

Member
Enemy Territory - Quake Wars

Played a lot of it on my shitty PC back then. Should run like a dream now, even on a low end PC, but since no one is playing, meh.
 

demigod

Member
Resistance 2, specifically for the co-op mode. I loved it, and I'd love it again.

Yes! What a truly excellent game that was. I don't know if an online shooter will ever top that. MW2 had my friends, BC2 was an excellent game.

I did think about this. If it had better loading times, I'd pick it in an instant.
I’m hoping they bring back Resistance instead of just teasing us. I played 1 and 2, bought 3 but never played it. Maybe i should play it on PS Plus.
 

Tams

Member
That depends on if the game could go back to how it was then.

If it could, then RuneScape 100%. Though Age of Empires played on MSN Gaming Zone would give it very hard run for the money.

If not, then Age of Empires II. Sure, there's still a sizeable player base, but at least with more people there'd be more of the fun matches/maps coming back.
 

Drizzlehell

Banned
Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena. I love those games but for the longest time now, every time I tried to play multiplayer, the servers were populated exclusively by 1 or 2 maniacs who still play these things after 20 years because that's the only thing they're still playing and they managed to achieve superhuman level of skills that are impossible to beat.
 
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Other than what's been said already... I'll go with Eternal Crusade. Game had a lot of potential, even after that guy fled with the money he got from selling us the Moon, and I definitely had a lot of fun playing it despite its numerous flaws. LEAD BELCHAS FOREVER!
 

acidagfc

Member
Battlefield 3.Yes, it is still playable, but certainly not as lively as it was back around launch.
BF4 also was good after it got a few fixes in, but BF3 is king.
 

BlackTron

Member
Without even thinking for a second, I knew my answer is when PSO first came out on Dreamcast.

When you think about it, not that many people were even there in the grand scheme, to even know what it was really like to be there.
 
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