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Hey guys.
As some of you are no doubt aware, for the past five months (Christ, has it been that long
) I've been running weekly retro-fps multiplayer games, with a focus on deathmatch.
We've played through a lot of classics in that time, and even a few surprises (Soldier of Fortune was unexpectedly great).
But I've always hated how restricted to PC we've been.
Only the first two Quake games were available to console players which meant once we moved past them, they weren't able to join in.
Well we've decided that our next three games will all be available to our Xbox owning forumites as well.
I know Cumberdanes had been asking about this as well so I wanted to make sure we got around to it at some point sooner than later.
Starting on Wednesday 13th, and for two weeks, we will be taking on Halo: Combat Evolved via the Master Chief collection. It's the easiest way to play it that's available to the most people. Especially being crossplay with PC.
After that, we will do a couple of weeks of the XBLA port of Perfect Dark. The port had an excellent multiplayer mode with even more options than the original game.
Then, wrapping things up we'll be heading back to Master Chief Collection for Halo 2.
Personally I'm looking forward to not having to write up instructions for everyone. That and manually setting up and configuring servers is a lot every week.
It'd be great to see some of you there. I know we had some really active Halo players back in the day and it would be fantastic to see some of you back.
You can find the retro-shooter thread in my sig, or just talk about it here. I'm interested to hear suggestions for what we can do for each game. I'd like to play stuff as close to the original game as possible in terms of game types and maps but I'm not as familiar with Halo as I am the PC shooters of the time.