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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jan 9th at 7:31pm 2005

If you want to play an amazing game you need to try World of Warcraft. Its amazing and is probably the most enjoyable game I've ever played. Its beat out Half Life 2 on many sites. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 9th at 7:48pm 2005

i just watched brother-in-law play halo 2 on xbox.

ugly maps.. the gameplay seemed ok i suppose, but the weapons or at least some of the block of 30 to 40% of the viewing area :/

but what caught my eye was the horribly simplistic and/or ugly maps.

anywho, IMO its no loss at all if you never see or play the game.

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Posted by Vash on Sun Jan 9th at 11:17pm 2005

Withdrawn! (opps :S)
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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jan 9th at 11:20pm 2005

Try reading the rest of the thread before posting about your confusion Vash
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Posted by Vash on Sun Jan 9th at 11:22pm 2005

Thanks Reno. I am uh, lacking sleep ^_^;;. Reading is for people with those uh..What'ca ma call its...Oh, brains.


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Posted by Gorbachev on Mon Jan 10th at 1:21am 2005

I'm sure if you went be reader polling the best map ever would be a killbox.
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Posted by Foxpup on Mon Jan 10th at 5:06am 2005

A few days ago, I played CS Source for the first time at the my local friendly gaming cafe. After clicking on the first server I saw, I found myself face to face with the worst map ever. My first ever HL1 map was better than that, and that's saying something. [addsig]



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Posted by Coconuts_are_gay on Wed Jan 12th at 11:22am 2005

HALO 2? HALFLIFE 2?

Forget em...... TRY S.T.A.L.K.E.R TWATS!!!





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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jan 12th at 2:09pm 2005

You really have a way with words huh? You might wanna try to avoid using insults in every single post you make if you want your stay to be a welcome one.
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 12th at 2:10pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
You really have a way with words huh? You might wanna try to avoid using insults in every single post you make if you want your stay to be a welcome one.

*whispers to duncan*

MUST .... READ .... PROFILE.

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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jan 12th at 2:21pm 2005

LOL, oops
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Posted by dwats32 on Thu Jan 13th at 2:55am 2005

I think Halo 1 was better than Halo 2 but HL2 is better than both.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Jan 13th at 6:00am 2005

Just got done playing Halo 2 on x-box live and playing Halo 1 in a LAN set-up, I must say that Halo 2 is a piece of crap. I noticed that the players and you FOV in Halo 2 is much less than that of Halo 1. Also the HUD clutters the already small screen you are given. And there are too many weapons now, soooo many that I get confused as to which combo works best.

They have even modified the weapons to make them unbalanced. Now the sniper rifle fires faster, thus elimiating the skill required to snipe in Halo. Same for the RPG, now it requires no skill to hit a vehicle with the RPG with its new locking on ability. LETS JUST SAY THE LEARNING CURVE FOR HALO HAS DROPPED SINCE HALO 2 WAS RELEASED.

After playing both worlds, I have to say I enjoyed Halo 1 over Halo 2
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Posted by Agent Smith on Thu Jan 13th at 8:46am 2005

Don't forget that Halo 2 was designed to be a multi-platform game, so they drag in any voters for X-Box rubbish, where as HL2 is solely PC based, and therefore can't draw on another entire gaming community to boost its votes. Also you'll find people who have X-Box's mainly buy X-Box games, stearing clear of PC or other games. I know myself I only occaisionally buy PS2 games, usually sticking with the PC.

Of course, most of the people who bother to vote are console jockies, trying to prove how superior their conoles are to other gaming machines.
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Posted by ReNo on Thu Jan 13th at 9:47am 2005

Hitting a vehicle at range in Halo was impossible - if you managed it it wasn't skill it was luck. Adding in the lock on ability means that vehicles DO have to worry about things at range now, but its still perfectly possible to dodge incoming rockets. Up close, where the RPG WAS effective in Halo, lock on is useless and so the skill required to take out a vehicle is the same.

Halo didn't really have enough weapons, while Halo 2 gives you a far more varied mix. Each weapon does have its ups and downs and serves a purpose (bar the magnum) - after playing through single player I don't see how there is any confusion as to which combos to go for, use what you are comfortable with for the situation.
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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Thu Jan 13th at 12:13pm 2005

Well I got Halo 2 for Christmas and only played it a little bit so far - just seems like more of the same to me (which isn't a bad thing). I'm still adjusting to using the pad for a FPS though.

And Agent Smith, I might be a bad example, but I buy games for all formats - and don't tend to steer clear simply because it's PS2 etc, though i'm quite picky in the games that I do buy.

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Posted by Agent Smith on Thu Jan 13th at 12:53pm 2005

I just tend to play FPS more than most other types of games, and as such my purchasing is usually done for the PC which is far superior to consoles in all matters FPS.
So I myself will admit that my opinion is somewhat skewed by my own preferences. I generally buy a game depending on which would be the best system for running it, so I buy games like War of the Monsters (a flaming awesome game for those who haven't played it) for the console because it's tekken style gameplay is more suited to that than the PC.
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Posted by Fjorn on Thu Jan 13th at 4:58pm 2005

I tend to buy FPS games for the PC and buy RPGs for the console...

although I do get RPGs for the PC too
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Posted by SaintGreg on Thu Jan 13th at 5:35pm 2005

In a game of the year discussion I cannot for the life of me understand why far cry wasn't even mentioned a single time. Yes, its a bit older than the games that came out a couple months ago, but it is on par or superior in many many aspects. It takes advantage of new graphics technology to make an innovative and interesting game. Its gorgeous. It offers plenty of shootem up action, suspense, and just plain old fun. Yes, all the situations are sort of generic, and the monsters lack creativity, and the voice acting of the mercs is repetetive and boring. But I like being able to have to think about how I am going to approach a situation rather than have the path chosen for me. IE: do I bust in guns blazing? Do I sneak around killing people with the mp5 at range? Do I get on that hillside and snipe down at the encampment? Heres how it is in HL2: run down the ally, kill the guy, go down the next ally, kill the guy. Motor to the next area. Go down some more allys killing people.




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Posted by Loco on Thu Jan 13th at 5:44pm 2005

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Heres how it is in HL2: run down the ally, kill the guy, go down the next ally, kill the guy. Motor to the next area. Go down some more allys killing people.


Disclaimer: Here is my opinion. It is in no way designed to provoke anyone or start a flame war.

I can't help but disagree I'm afraid. I thought it went like this: You run around marvelling at the detail/graphics/AI/city, you get the HEV suit, and have fun with exploding barrels, the pistol etc, you get a boat and have great fun with it, you get a gun for your boat and have even more fun, you get a gun which picks things up, and you have great fun with that as well, you creep round ravenholm trying to avoid the disturbing atmosphere of the place, you get a buggy with a gun and race around an entire coastline again having fun, you get an entire army of aliens and raid a prison, you take part in one of the most incredible assaults on a city, and then you get to play/see an awesome ending. And then repeat another 3 times.

Sorry, but I played this game three times over and never got bored - maybe you found it too easy, I hear that several people did, but I'm not too good at FPS games so I wouldn't know.

Just my opinion, nothing else.
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