If you build it, they will come. Years later, I still have t
Posted: 16-09-2008 18:49
Deathball was one of the best mods ever created for a pc game. It was new, exciting, and just fucking fun. There was no better feeling in terms of gaming than being boosted down the field, then scoring a mid air volley passed a goal keeper. At least 3 plays out of a game deserved to be aired on ESPN for weekly highlights.
I remember when DB FIRST came out. I played on Fooman's server, with Foo and some other random people. The first time I booted it up, it was a nasty addiction.
I remember playing a game in one of the early versions of DB, way before it picked up into popularity. I stopped with the ball in possession, and announced to the other team that I was going to just walk it right into their goal. I get down the field, and did just that. It was hilarious, and very rewarding. From then on, I knew I was a DB addict.
I had the chance to watch the US community grow. I watched the power shift from clan to clan, player to player. It was exciting, L7 had domination, Rush had domination, V3 utter domination, at least at some point in time, every clan had domination. Watching players trade from team to team was like a professional free agency.
Every player had to have a role in the game. Whenever I stepped on the field, my favorite role was to develop a play. I felt like I could set a volley way better than any other player could, even if I was bouncing it off a wall to myself, then volleying it to a team mate.
So many other people had break out play styles. xelent was just nasty at putting the ball in the net. Prank.. Fucking Prank, I remember the battles Prank and I would have in SmallCube with Volley Only. We'd each light the scoreboards up, and if by chance we ever got put on the same team, the other team had zero chance of winning.
Bodom was another one of my Favs, JJSupah early in DB at goal keeping, Sin at defense, even though he never spoke on TS so we all figured he was just some sort of fag with a girly voice too scared to reveal it.
Insane was like Prank Jr, he was definitely up and coming. There were just way too many players out there with skill to name off. You could make multiple winning teams if you rearranged teams over and over again.
The community was an interesting one, it was small but organized. Even when life had developed on me, and I got married, I came back and saw people were still around, YEARS after playing. That says a lot for a community.
To not see DB freshly laid out on UT3 is almost a crime. Maybe I speak for myself, but when I'm sitting at work, I'd love to know that after I got home and did the whole family thing, I could boot up into a brand new Deathball in ut3 and see some old names and score some stylish goals just like I did with them half a decade ago.
DavidM, this is your game, your baby. Ut3 may be dead, but I think you could resurrect part of the community with a UT3 DB, with similar gameplay to early builds of DB. From there, maybe people passing by might get involved again, or new players might stick to it.
We need less World of Warcraft, and more DB. Don't lie either, I know half the community is playing that life drainer.
One more thing, for anyone who remembers me. Here's a pic of me getting married to my beautiful wife. As much as we made fun of euros with Deez to keep the battle going, I ended up marrying a girl from the Netherlands, LOL. Life is pretty good right now, I hope all of yours is just as good.
http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... wn1ne3.jpg
I remember when DB FIRST came out. I played on Fooman's server, with Foo and some other random people. The first time I booted it up, it was a nasty addiction.
I remember playing a game in one of the early versions of DB, way before it picked up into popularity. I stopped with the ball in possession, and announced to the other team that I was going to just walk it right into their goal. I get down the field, and did just that. It was hilarious, and very rewarding. From then on, I knew I was a DB addict.
I had the chance to watch the US community grow. I watched the power shift from clan to clan, player to player. It was exciting, L7 had domination, Rush had domination, V3 utter domination, at least at some point in time, every clan had domination. Watching players trade from team to team was like a professional free agency.
Every player had to have a role in the game. Whenever I stepped on the field, my favorite role was to develop a play. I felt like I could set a volley way better than any other player could, even if I was bouncing it off a wall to myself, then volleying it to a team mate.
So many other people had break out play styles. xelent was just nasty at putting the ball in the net. Prank.. Fucking Prank, I remember the battles Prank and I would have in SmallCube with Volley Only. We'd each light the scoreboards up, and if by chance we ever got put on the same team, the other team had zero chance of winning.
Bodom was another one of my Favs, JJSupah early in DB at goal keeping, Sin at defense, even though he never spoke on TS so we all figured he was just some sort of fag with a girly voice too scared to reveal it.
Insane was like Prank Jr, he was definitely up and coming. There were just way too many players out there with skill to name off. You could make multiple winning teams if you rearranged teams over and over again.
The community was an interesting one, it was small but organized. Even when life had developed on me, and I got married, I came back and saw people were still around, YEARS after playing. That says a lot for a community.
To not see DB freshly laid out on UT3 is almost a crime. Maybe I speak for myself, but when I'm sitting at work, I'd love to know that after I got home and did the whole family thing, I could boot up into a brand new Deathball in ut3 and see some old names and score some stylish goals just like I did with them half a decade ago.
DavidM, this is your game, your baby. Ut3 may be dead, but I think you could resurrect part of the community with a UT3 DB, with similar gameplay to early builds of DB. From there, maybe people passing by might get involved again, or new players might stick to it.
We need less World of Warcraft, and more DB. Don't lie either, I know half the community is playing that life drainer.
One more thing, for anyone who remembers me. Here's a pic of me getting married to my beautiful wife. As much as we made fun of euros with Deez to keep the battle going, I ended up marrying a girl from the Netherlands, LOL. Life is pretty good right now, I hope all of yours is just as good.
http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... wn1ne3.jpg
) and WOW and whatever, they have me producing this with mighty budgets.
