Ya, the Tribes franchise is right up there with Half-Life in terms of great FPS games imo. Tribes is just too hard of a game to get mass appeal though. The skill curve is way too steep for many casual gamers to enjoy it, and the game strategy is too complicated for disorganized public servers. One moron chain grabbing the flag as a heavy can disrupt the entire flow of the game for your team.
I still have a lot of fun just skiing around and fragging people in pubs though. I actually used to love just throwing on some good tunes, smoking my brains out, and working on cap routes in private servers.
If any of you decide to download Ascend (the newest one), shoot me a PM if you wanna hook up for some pub play. Ascend is a bit different from the earlier games, so I can give you a quick crash course in going fast and not being bad.
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