Day of Defeat, anyone

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Anyone in here play Day of Defeat? Love that game, when I have the time to play it. I used to play Counter-Strike a lot, but I got so annoyed at all the juvenile bunny-hopping and AWP-whoring, and the nonsensical rules changes by the creators... (And I found BF'42 to be much of the same silliness)... DoD was a great find for me, a more "realistic" battle sim. (I haven't played Gears or any of the other newer games, since my old PoS computer won't handle them...) I love the tactics, the strategy... sweating and slugging it out for a little piece of land, a bridge, a bunker...

I used to also be big on Natural Selection, but haven't played that in ages...

Oh... and for those who have never seen Day of Defeat before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BRYhg7MKec

I don't. Then again, I'm not a fan of WWII games. At all. If I want realistic action like that, I'd join the Army. :\

I've always been a big WWII buff... probably because my dad was at Pearl.

I was talking with a Vietnam vet once about this sort of game - I think it was around the time that a Vietnam-themed game came out - and he said that while he personally didn't play such games, he was all in favor of them. Not because they glorified warfare... but because they were a way of remembering. Like movies or dramas. And perhaps more real, to be "in the trenches", to get a taste - albeit a somewhat unreal, virtual taste - of what it was like then.

I think that's why I prefer the more realistic, "grittier" games than the silly comic-book warfare of BF 1942. I want to feel the adrenaline, hear the bullets whizzing by my ears, sense the fear, the paranoia - and the teamwork and esprit de corps.

hehe, Omaha was one crazy map in Day of Defeat! Overall though, DOD was an excellent game. Firearms was a close second.

I think they've brought Omaha back (if it's the map I think you're thinking of). Though I can't recall the name of the new map, off the top of my head. It's always been one of my favorites, but most people's least favorite as the Allies have a real tough time of it, getting off the beach. (Which, of course, they shouldn't...)

My favorite map is Flash, the map depicted in the DoD:S trailer. I used to love Caen, but it didn't make it to the Source version. Other favorite maps are Kalt, Donner, Avalanche, Argentan and Snow Battlefield (a custom map).

Yeh I was referring to Omaha where you storm the beach. It was very annoying when you were just arriving at the beach in your boat and get shot while still in the boat!

Regarding CS - yeh - I liked it at first but when they started bringing out new versions of it I began to hate it. Plus, as it became more and more popular you'd get complete as*holes joining in the LAN games in college.

The best shooter of all time, realism is cool, and it has the best maps ever made. Call of Duty on the internet just doesn't have the right balance and doesnt' feel right.

I liked DoD better when it was a free mod. I don't want to pay to play mods.

I'm pretty sure DoD:S is still free... isn't it? As long as you have HL2... maybe I'm wrong tho...

You have to buy it from steam. It's $19.95. Sucks.