Good stuff! It reminds me of the fun I had playing a very different style of FPS: Quakelikes, aka arena shooters. People tend to think of Quake and its descendants as mindless action games, but if you go beyond the super casual/noob stage they are largely about controlling space, reading your opponent’s mind, and confounding their attempts to read yours. (Well, that and executing the basic mechanical skills like moving and aiming; but as long as you’re not completely dominated in those respects, you can win on most maps by outthinking your opponent.)
I don’t know whether this will be interesting to anyone completely unfamiliar with the game, but there’s a great retrospective self-commentary here, by one of the world’s best players, in which he explains his thought process throughout a crucial 10-minute game (with liberal use of slow-mo to give him enough time to fit his explanations in).
Thanks! Yeah, I imagine it’s the same for quakelikes but with a somewhat different set of variables to play with. I’ll check out the video, I’m curious!
Good stuff! It reminds me of the fun I had playing a very different style of FPS: Quakelikes, aka arena shooters. People tend to think of Quake and its descendants as mindless action games, but if you go beyond the super casual/noob stage they are largely about controlling space, reading your opponent’s mind, and confounding their attempts to read yours. (Well, that and executing the basic mechanical skills like moving and aiming; but as long as you’re not completely dominated in those respects, you can win on most maps by outthinking your opponent.)
I don’t know whether this will be interesting to anyone completely unfamiliar with the game, but there’s a great retrospective self-commentary here, by one of the world’s best players, in which he explains his thought process throughout a crucial 10-minute game (with liberal use of slow-mo to give him enough time to fit his explanations in).
Thanks! Yeah, I imagine it’s the same for quakelikes but with a somewhat different set of variables to play with. I’ll check out the video, I’m curious!