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Posted by Dark Tree on Sun Feb 26th at 12:51pm 2006

Half-Life: Deathmatch - Tons of fun. More fun than HL2DM or HL2DMPro anyway

Half-Life: DeathMatch Classic - Tons of fun. Fast, furious, fun.

Armagetron - a Tron-esque game that is wicked fun.




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Feb 26th at 1:19pm 2006

Why are you typing in gray?




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Feb 26th at 8:36pm 2006

The "Mercenaries" mini-game in RE4 is a TON of fun. Seriously -- it's my dream come true... an undead arena with sweet pickups, great unlockables (Krauser and HUNK = Awesome), and frantic frantic run 'n gun.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Mon Feb 27th at 1:45am 2006

Grey is easier on the eyes.




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Posted by ReNo on Mon Feb 27th at 2:31am 2006

Yeah I love playing as Hunk - he looks just plain badass, and the SMG/grenade combo, though a bit limited perhaps, kicks the s**t. Are you playing the GC or PS2 version? If the PS2, does it have any other unlockables of note?



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Feb 27th at 3:43am 2006

First things first... the "neckbreaker" melee attack is probably the single sweetest thing in the entire game. There's no better resident evil 4 moment than snapping the neck of a chainsaw wielding hag just as it appears your fate is sealed. I don't know why, but his SMG also feels more powerful than Ada's.

My second favorite character is definitely Krauser. His special attack is badass. It's almost too satisfying to watch that dual chainsaw wielding freak in the waterworld stage explode when I spear him.

Jeez, my ardor for this game is boundless, ain't it?

Anyway ReNo, I'm playing the PS2 version.

In general after beating the game I unlocked 4 extras.

1. Seperate Ways -- This is a side story where you get to play as Ada Wong from the opening village sequence (where you have to ring the church bell) to the end (I'm assuming, I haven't beaten it yet).

2. Assignment Ada -- You work for Show spoiler and have to collect 5 plague samples. I haven't played this yet but I think its shorter than Seperate Ways.

3. Mercenaries -- I've unlocked Show spoiler Is that the same as your GC version?

4. Cinematics -- Just get to watch all the cutscenes at your liesure.

Additionally, I unlocked alternate costumes for Leon and Ashley: a Show spoiler as well as two new weapons for purchase: Show spoiler

I've read that after I beat the extras I can also unlock Show spoiler

That's all I can remember. I think the Seperate Ways missions are a PS2 extra, but I don't know about any of the others.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Feb 27th at 4:04am 2006

Seperate Ways is PS2 only, but the rest sounds much the same. I had thought there were extra weapons, outfits, and maybe characters for Mercenaries, but perhaps not.



Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Feb 27th at 4:13am 2006

Well I'm not sure yet since I haven't completed everything. There could be more...

The only way to check right now would be to google it though.




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Posted by Crono on Tue Feb 28th at 11:28pm 2006

I've been playing Need for Speed Most Wanted a little bit. While the actors and dialog is completely cheesy and ridiculous, the actual game is very nice. I'm actually surprised (which seems to happen a lot now ... weird) the handling on ALL the cars is good. I haven't unlocked much of anything, so I can't say that for a fact, but, all the ones I've tried have actually handled like CARS. You don't wipe-out when going around turns or anything like that like in a lot of racing games. I thought the other NFS games were mediocre at best, they always rubbed me the wrong way, since there was usually something you couldn't do that was fairly vital to controlling a car. In this, the only vehicle draw backs are: they don't act with the same amount of force a normal car would, Some cars are just "better" when in all actuality they're terrible, you can't do tricks since the "driver" will automatically break when going from reverse to 1st ... douche, no j turns, which would be very incredibly useful since well, half the game is running from cops!

Drifting is pretty much a no go ... at least, I can't do it on a keyboard. I don't know if the actions are actually pressure sensitive, I'll hook a controller at some point to find out.

Anyway, it's a really fun game, if not just for the free roam ability. And this is on computer, by the way, I didn't bother touching it on console ... especially because it looks BEAUTIFUL on computer. The environments are HUGE too.

We still need realistic damage though. And it'd be pretty cool if you could get pulled over (instead of just arrested for not being able to move your car ... which is odd)
You should be able to go out in the gun blaze of glory if you wanted.
But, it'd be interesting if you could BS your way out of tickets. Just like a game that's an amalgam of NFS, GTA, HL2, RTW, and many other games. That game would be sweeeeeeet.

Anyway, if you hate driving games because of the God awful unrealistic handling, then you should give this a try, since they remedied that. Also, the car specs are (as far as I can tell) pretty spot on. They mostly handle like the actual cars. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Feb 28th at 11:44pm 2006

I find that it handles almost exactly like NFS:U2 <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/confused.gif"> All in all the driving physics are one of the things I like least about the NFS games, probably because the lack of drifting (it is basically impossible to use as a feasible cornering technique) removing most of the excitement. The cop chases make up for it though IMO, however since picking up the full game (Xbox version, after playing the PC demo) it seems to have lost some of the appeal. I think it has to do with my PC having a nice sound setup and the obviously far nicer graphics more than anything; the atmosphere just gets stripped down a few notches and it makes a world of difference.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Mar 1st at 2:23am 2006

Maybe I didn't play the others enough.

But, "the pretty" is one of the largest selling factors. I just wish you could do more in the game. Maybe if it wasn't "need for speed" they would have gone a little further.

I played the Xbox version in a store demo a while ago and I was like "Yuck". I was really reluctant to try it on PC, tried the demo, thought some of the controls were ass. I'm glad they were only unique to that car though <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

I want to try this thing out on a lan against some buddies. Bust up some cops together, you know, have a real bonding experience.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Hugh on Wed Mar 1st at 7:28am 2006

Been playing Scorched Earth 3D since last night (not non-stop) at the urging of my brother, pretty fun. Graphics are sucky but you couldn't really expect better anyway. It's been a long time since I've played the original, so I can only say that I think this one is more customizable. And the bots are CRAZY, they'll fire a MIRV at one guy... slight overkill.


One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Mar 1st at 8:39am 2006

OMFG! Scorched Earth! I still play Scorched Earth 1.2 against the computer bots using DosBOX......I will have to check out Scorched Earth 3D. Rock on! THE MOTHER OF ALL GAMES....... also, I have been playing a VERY similar game to Scorched Earth, and it is new.....I bet you would LOVE IT.....its called Pocket Tanks.

It has 140 different weapons and is a side angle view just like Scorched Earth.

MIRVs....lol....nice......multi-explosive colorful wickedness

Pocket Tanks has got TONS of similar stuff......

PMing you about mo' *details*




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 3rd at 8:38pm 2006

I rented Super Mario Strikers last night since my friends and I love Mario Kart and Fifa, so we thought it'd be a good combination.

It's pretty entertaining, and definitely fun... but nothing more than a rental. I have a feeling the fun will wear off after another day or two of playing.




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Posted by Gwil on Fri Mar 3rd at 8:40pm 2006

FIFA? Heathen!

The only "soccer" game worth your time is Pro Evolution Soccer.. close to real football as you're ever likely to get, and so much enjoyable than sticky dribble/easy scoring FIFA.






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Posted by ReNo on Fri Mar 3rd at 9:27pm 2006

Well I got the wrongly provided Extreme-G 3 replaced with what I had actually tried to buy - Extreme-G Racing Association (or XGRA) - and I'm fairly impressed.

- Very fast game, but then the XG games always have been.
- Looks better in some ways than the third game, and worse in others, but that might just be because this is a PS2 game and I have the GC version of 3.
- Quite a nice weapons system, which has a primary weapon with limited ammo that recharges over time, and a secondary weapon which changes as you pick up powerups on track. Each time you pick up a powerup it goes further up the list of weapons - so if you pick up just one powerup and use it you get an energy draining device, pick up two before using it and you get mines, three and you get a speed boost, and so on.
- Pretty cool track designs with a fair amount of route choices, though in places the meandering track can get a little too hard to navigate without using the sides.
- The camera often has trouble showing you what you need to see. With sudden and extreme dips, rises and corners it can be down to luck whether you are aiming for the right line.
- Hated the soundtrack in the third game, but this time around it seems a lot better. It gives you the choice of techno or rock soundtracks, or a mix of the two (which I went for), and the tracks in each genre seem to work very nicely with the theme.



Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 4th at 9:45pm 2006

Bought 2 new games this week, yeah assholes, bought. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Well, they're new to me.

Dungeon Siege II
Serious Sam 2

and, I bought another gig of RAM.. whohoo, that makes 1.5 for me now <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Mar 4th at 11:25pm 2006

Just got NFS: Most Wanted from a gypsy legitimate software store.
The graphics are droolashious, but the cars behave pretty strangely on the road. Not being a driver myself, I can't tell whether the handling is more realistic now or not, but, for the sake of having fun, I prefer the semi-realistic way the cars behave in the previous titles.



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Posted by Spartan on Tue Mar 7th at 9:33pm 2006

Well I got my new video card Sunday so I can now play games again. I'm playing through HL2 again with max settings and no lag. On my old comp I would get an fps of 15, and that was the high point. I'm also playing through Far Cry for the first time. I also tried out AoE 3 . I plan to try the Doom 3 demo too.

Far Cry and HL2 run nice on my comp. I'm dl Lost Coast right now.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Mar 7th at 11:12pm 2006

? quoting Spartan
Well I got my new video card Sunday so I can now play games again. I'm playing through HL2 again with max settings and no lag. On my old comp I would get an fps of 15, and that was the high point. I'm also playing through Far Cry for the first time. I also tried out AoE 3 . I plan to try the Doom 3 demo too.

Far Cry and HL2 run nice on my comp. I'm dl Lost Coast right now.


Having a more powerful rig is a great feeling. With every upgrade I go back and play all my old games, and it's like they're completely different experiences.





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