Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

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Oh god... I never bothered to consider Unreal Tournament 2004 was 20 years old. I still consider it the "newer" unreal tournament compared to the OG and 2003...
- UT2004 is peak UT, UT3 was just a brown mess, and the latest UT never got out of Alpha before Epic shelved it infavour of Fortnite
  
  I recently had the opportunity to go to a lan party, but the only arena shooter they had listed was UT3. Why even bother having any if that's what you pick?
  
  Why only play listed games?
  What is stopping you from setting up your own server and playing UT2004?
  
  oh, you mean at the lan party. There were more reasons not to go, but if the game isn't listed, I doubt I would be able to get anyone else to play it. Even back in the day, I could never get anyone to play Quake 3. The crew I use to game with moved on to RPing in Battlefield and CoD games.
  
  I mean, the master server that lists everyone else's games is down. Epic maintained a server that was just a list of other servers. A casual player opening up UT or UT2k4 will see nothing. You can play against bots, at LAN Parties, or direct connect to server you already know about, but you wont find new servers through the game without changing where the game looks for the master server. More technician info on the process is here.
  
  It was probably shelved because the company they contracted UT2k3 and UT2k4 out to is now Digital Extremes.
  
  Too bad DE is so hard on dark patterns & FOMO, trying to keep you in the game / returning daily. Warframe was great for a while but it became more and more of a chore which soaked all the fun I had out of it. Unfortunately they'll likely do the same for Soulframe.
  
  Eh its in a really good place right now. They've added a bunch of ways to get archon shards and even some new attempts at an endgame
  
  At the time I bought UT2003 a few months before 2004 came out and I was kinda peeved I just spent money for a new release to come out so soon
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2003
  I never played UT3 though. Not seriously, anyway. I think I tried the demo and never got it.
- UT99 is still one of my favorite games of all time. I would love to see a remaster
- Oh shit this isn’t 2003 but a third game? I was wondering why I didn’t remember any vehicles.
  I just played ‘99 as that’s all my PC could run.
  
  Yeah, 2k4 was it's own thing. Also the collectors edition had a set of video tutorials on how to create and modify models in the free version of Maya. As well as how to add them to the game in the unreal editor.
  
  2003 and 2004 were separate games, but 2004 was basically an improved version of 2003.

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