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FEAR single player demo is out in a few hours on gamespot...just a heads up. :smile:

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I Ain't Gettin' On No Plane, Foo'

Kage_Prototype said:
FEAR single player demo is out in a few hours on gamespot...just a heads up. :smile:

craps pants

I got ahold of the MP beta, couldn't play online, but I could lan it up. It felt smooth and solid enough.

I haven't been excited by a games release in awhile. I hope it's good.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

FEAR looks awesome visually, I'll need to give this a shot. Wasn't the
multiplayer demo for pre-ordering people only? I seem to recall seeing
that and chalking it up to misfortune. Can't afford the game, but would
love to play some demos :smile:

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Google seems to have a few links relative.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I still think RTW rocks. I've completed the full compaign for the first
time now. I really don't think that ther will ever be an RTS that can
quite measure up to RTW's diversity. Theres ifinite ways of completing
the game.

FEAR looks awesome visually, I'll need to give this a shot. Wasn't the
multiplayer demo for pre-ordering people only? I seem to recall seeing
that and chalking it up to misfortune. Can't afford the game, but would
love to play some demos :smile:

Yes, it was, I used a banned key, since someone leaked it online, so I could install it to check it out. I got the actual install file off of fileplanet, actually.

I haven't pre-ordered it yet though either, no money.

But apparently, earlier this year, in like Febuary, they had the first MP beta which was completley open.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Has anyone played Psychonauts? I've heard it's a really fun game. I remember KungfuSquirrel talking about it not too long ago.

I played the demo and loved it, but unfortunately it STILL isn't out in
the UK. Wish it would hurry the hell up though, had a lot of charm :smile:

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Reno we should play some BF some time, It plays quite well even across the atlantic.

I just finished playing the FEAR demo, and it's unbeleivable in every
aspect. The only problem is that it hogs a lot of resources. It's scary
(VERY scary, as in f**king with your head WTF WAS THAT?! scary), it's
challenging (the AI is ridiculously advanced, they literally do
something different every time and never fail to impress), and fun as
hell. No
doubt I'm getting this the second it's released.

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I find BF2 really laggy actually DrGlass - I wouldn't fancy playing on
a US server! I think its to do with my wireless connection giving lag
spikes every few minutes (apparently a common problem, dunno of any
"fix" other than going cabled), but while with some games (CS:S, HL2DM)
it only lasts a few seconds, in BF2 it seems to have more profound
effects.

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Anyone play SvenCoop?

Its great fun, especially the cartoony levels, and sveencoop2 is coming
out. I have to admit the graphics on svencoop are very poor so its hard
to imagine it with source graphics.

I just played through the F.E.A.R. demo and here are my thoughts.

I played it on Moderate difficulty and I died probably 3 times
throughout the demo. Which, is kind of nice. I'm glad it
the enemy grenades did just as much damage to me as mine did to
them. Definitely not one of those forgiving FPS types.

The sleek presentation reminded me of Half-Life 2, espeically in the
beginning with the white text, and the close up of some old guy's
face. The psychological aspect of the game reminded me a lot of
the Hitman series. The presentation and immersion reminded me of
the Half-Life series. The nice dynamic lights and the bumpmapping
reminded me of Doom 3. And the "slow motion" of course reminded
me of Max Payne. It seems that Monolith and Sierra took the best
parts of each series a tried to cram it all together. I couldn't
really tell from the demo if it worked. Although I have to say I
was more creeped out by the Doom series (even the first doom) than I
was by this demo. The female child antagonist, ala Samara of The
Ring, didn't really do it for me.

I guess the little evil child thing has been beaten to death already by hollywood.

The F.E.A.R demo made me feel like I was trapped in one of those
movies... which I didn't particularly enjoy, but I'm sure some of you
will. If you like first person shooters I'd check it out.
However, I don't think I will be buying the final product.

Isn't it amazing that they're able to invent rail guns but have such a
hard time creating a flashlight with a battery lasting longer than 20
seconds...

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Er, are you implying a rail gun is more efficient then a 20 second battery?
Because, if you are: you'd be quite mistaken.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

No.

I just think it's funny that you have all these fancy weapons but not a flashlight that's able to work for more than 20 secs.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

I didn't like the FEAR demo at all. I found combat very
clunky. Recoil was strange and the guns didn't feel right.
When I was running around shooting people I felt like I was in a pool
of molassas. The slowdown thing didn't work becuase if you wanted
to switch wepons it would take all the slow-mo time to do so, all the
while your getting hit just as much as when you were at normal speed
and the recoil of the guns didn't improve.

HL2 has the same weapons phyics, where as your gun has the same spread
no matter if you crouch or run, but in fear they have the shift aim
thing, so one would think there would be a more CS style recoil.
Didn't seem that way to me! There was just a smaller field of
fire when you aimed. Also one of the guns had a "burst fire" but
it took like 2 seconds to fire a burst... so the controles felt really
slow. Then the bad guys would get their head blown clean off by a
pistol shot then take 3 shots in the head from an rife and keep on
truckin'.

I died about 6 times on hard then changed to normal and died 3 more
times. It cool how I took about as much damage as they seemed to.

As for the look of the game, I had everything set to full (though the
FPS seemed to suffor even on my computer...) and it looked nice, but
only a few places really popped out at me. Most of the time it
was just yellow/orange light on flat boring walls, bad mapping I guess.

I didn't like how the bad guys would jump through windows and stuff,
seems like a silly little bit of code. Though I did like it when
they jumped over the rail to get to a lower point.

The "scary" parts are just too... cliche, little girl back lit and lots
of blood. Whoop-d-s**t It had all been done before. Doom 3
was much more of a scare becuase it set up an atomosphere of phear,
they "boo" you at random times through the demo and it almost seems
like it was an after thought.

It could be good, but it just looks like a re-hash of every other kinda
game out there. Though like morph said its a re-hash of all the
best parts but doesn't seem to me like it all fits together.

Glass, the "feel" of both Hl2 and Fear is pretty smooth, try turning your settings down and seeing if it 'feels' better. I thought the controls were solid enough.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

It wasn't even the low frame rate, I dont know... it didn't feel as
solid as HL2 does. Fear just felt too slow for me, It was like a
fast action FPS on the swat 4 engine.

I doubt you had a low frame rate. There's other factors in sluggishness though.
I don't know, it felt as solid as Hl2 to me.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Just given fear a try, really really impressed. Finally a game that was
up there with system shock 2 for scaryness and atmosphere :biggrin: :biggrin: At
first I found combat a little arkward, took me a while to get around
the fact that this isnt really your straight up fps game ala HL2, I
cant just run into a room guns blazing and expect to come out alive :smile:

The sound was amazing though, loved that song that seemed that it had
come right out of Terminator 2 :biggrin: . Only annoying thing was when you
trod on a dead body and it caused it to move which made noises
everytime...

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Hello there.

Yeah that made a bloody racket :biggrin: Otherwise I really enjoyed the demo.
Not sure if it will be an essential purchase, but if I have money and
there isn't much else out at the time, I'll certainly consider picking
it up.

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Doc I agree with your assessment. My computer is pretty much a
beast... and yet I suffered with low FPS in that one tiny room showing
off the water effects...

I dunno-- it just wasn't that fun, for all the reasons you and I mentioned.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Battlefield 2, PCWow, what a good game!</DIV></DIV>

I've just bought BF2 myself. Great game, but a shame they haven't learnt anything from all the bitching about setting up key configs in BF1. I spent a half hour yesterday merely trying to change the controls - usually a 1 minute task - and gave up in frustration. I still haven't even bothered trying to pilot a plane or chopper yet cos I just can't setup the keys properly!

Firstly, as with BF1 but unlike virtually every other FPS game ever made, any key conflicts don't automatically unassign what the key was previously being used for.

Secondly, there are functions which aren't even listed in the key config UI - you've gotta trawl through a really complicated config file to change the keys?!?!

Thirdly, I don't know why there were some key conflicts in the first place. For instance, all I was trying to do was swap around the default controls used for helicopter pitch/yaw/etc - not use any different keys, merely change them around - and after first unassigning them I'm getting conflicts! What's that all about?!

Who designed and implemented the key config UI for BF2 needs severely beating with a stick.

I don't even bother trying to fly in BF2, it always ends in disaster :biggrin:
I don't think even tweaking the controls could help me with that! I
stuck with default controls for the game for the most part so don't
really have any complaints with the difficulty of changing them, but I
did find it rather odd you have to unbind a key before it can be
rebound.

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ReNo said:
I don't even bother trying to fly in BF2, it always ends in disaster :biggrin:

I know what you mean mate, in BF1 whenever I tried piloting a plane I'd stay airborne for a shorter length of time than the Wright Brothers' first attempt at flight. I used to be quite decent at handling helicopters in Desert Combat though and wanted to setup the controls in the same manner; but no such luck so far.

Baldurs gate - Immersive and long

Baldurs gate II - One of the best rpg's of all time in my opinion story continues from BG

Throne of Bhall - Expansion to BGII is pretty much a whole new game, story still continues

Icewind dale - Large and immersive storyline , uses infinity engine
much like the above games , multiplayer is easier to work and takes
place in the same world as baldurs gate 1 , 2 and TOB.

Daggerfall - largest RPG of all time

Diablo - picked it up for 3 american clams =p

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Play anything OTHER than "famous" PC RPG's parakeet? :razz:

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Theres not much point in flying an aircraft sim, even one as unrealistic as BF, without a joystick. It makes all the difference.

I havent played any flight sims since mine died :sad:

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

WarloK said:
I still think RTW rocks. I've completed the full compaign for the first time now. I really don't think that ther will ever be an RTS that can quite measure up to RTW's diversity. Theres ifinite ways of completing the game.

Currently replaying Rome: Total War myself. Previously I conquered about 30-odd provinces, never the full 50 required.

Just reinstalled it on my new PC - the really annoying thing is that the prologue tutorial mission cannot be skipped. I've just sat through an hour of endlessly closing hundreds of tutorial messages, ignoring all new turn info, letting the AI manage everything and automatically resolving all battles, just to be able to start the main campaign itself! Totally pointless waste of time for those who already know how to play it.

About the whole flight issue in BF2, I never really had that much of a
problem with it. I know my brother can't fly to save his life,
but I taught my friend and he got it in 5 minutes. I personally
can fly jets and copters fairly well. I got a little frustrated
at first, but then I made a LAN game, and played by myself for about 2
hours :biggrin:

Anyways, I learned how to fly reallly well with that practice. I
found that turning up the sensitivity for jets really helps.

French Toast said:
About the whole flight issue in BF2, I never really had that much of a problem with it. I know my brother can't fly to save his life, but I taught my friend and he got it in 5 minutes.

I guess some people 'get it', others don't. I used to play BF1 a lot at work on our LAN against colleagues, and one guy (Canadian as it happens) was absolutely lethal in one of the small nimble jet fighters in one of the expansion packs. He'd literally rack up scores of 200-5 during the lunch hour. But for any of the rest of us it'd be a miracle to survive more than a few dozen seconds!

Just reinstalled it on my new PC - the really annoying thing
is that the prologue tutorial mission cannot be skipped. I've just sat
through an hour of endlessly closing hundreds of tutorial messages,
ignoring all new turn info, letting the AI manage everything and
automatically resolving all battles, just to be able to start the main
campaign itself! Totally pointless waste of time for those who already
know how to play it.

There is a much easy way to get past this. You enter the preferences
and beside "first_time_play" you put it "FALSE" and you wont have to
got hrough the prologue.

WarloK said:
There is a much easy way to get past this. You enter the preferences and beside "first_time_play" you put it "FALSE" and you wont have to got hrough the prologue.

Can't see that option in the preferences menus, but after digging around a little in the R:TW directory, the preferences.txt file has this...FIRST_TIME_PLAY:FALSE.

I've been playing soem Robin Hood:Legend of Sherwood. It's old, but good.

I've been playing some Torus Trooper... it's insane, flying around a
tunnel and blowing up s**t while not trying to get blown up yourself...
it'd probably be boring if it wasn't so goddamn fast-paced.

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Maps! - Audio blog!

I've been playin Dawn of War- really good game, but being an ex warhammer collector, its a bit disapointing how much they missed out :-/

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Indeed, I felt the same way Myrk-.

On another note, I just recently sold my old WH40k army for $600 Canadian :smile:

Yer I'm currently in the process of paint stripping them all to sell them!

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I sold mine with the paint. Upped the worth about 200 in the
opinion of the buyer, sweeeeeeeet. I guess all those hours spent
in my basement weren't wasted :biggrin:

My mother says that I have to put half of what I make into my RESP, and
the rest I have to spend. However, I get some sort of interest
upgrade if I put in a certain amount. So I'm putting in 500 of my
makings, and putting the other 100 towards a
FlyBar.

OOoooohhh god I want one so bad!

French Toast said:
I sold mine with the paint. Upped the worth about 200 in the opinion of the buyer, sweeeeeeeet. I guess all those hours spent in my basement weren't wasted :biggrin:

My mother says that I have to put half of what I make into my RESP, and the rest I have to spend. However, I get some sort of interest upgrade if I put in a certain amount. So I'm putting in 500 of my makings, and putting the other 100 towards a FlyBar.

OOoooohhh god I want one so bad!

you're f**kin' KILLING me! It's a pogostick! That's like me saying "buy my new 'Magic Space Flinger'" and it's a yo-yo. I'm gonna start selling hula-hoops under the name "SaturnRings!" Hey, anyone wanna buy some marbles? er, i mean "Spaceballs"

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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Nah, it's a super pogostick. I was watchin about it on TV, and
Andy Mac got 7 feet high with it. I want to see you do that on
your pogo buddy.

Besides, who gives a s**t about the name. The fact is it's a friekin awesome toy, and I'm half way there.

Just finished Max Payne 2. Excellent, but I kinda think the original
was better. I loved the touch of weird both of the games had aswell as
the strained humor (like the TV shows). But I have to say the dream
levels in the first game were infinitely superior to the ones in the
sequel.

Just finished Max Payne 2. Excellent, but I kinda think the original
was better. I loved the touch of weird both of the games had aswell as
the strained humor (like the TV shows). But I have to say the dream
levels in the first game were infinitely superior to the ones in the
sequel.

I thought the dreams in the sequal were better because they felt more
like dreams. If I remember correctly in the original you had to walk
along these silly lines suspended in space? Anyways, yeah MP2 didnt
feel quite as good as the original imo from what i can actually
remember of the original. Think it suffered from the same problem that
HL2 suffered. The makers tried too hard to make a clever, well thought
out quality classic. It looked great yeah, there was some great
storytelling, and it was generally a well made product...but in the end
its meant to be a game, they seemed to treat it like some interactive cinema

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Hello there.

Been playing Still Life lately. If you enjoy adventure like games, I suggest giving it a try. It's made by Microids, They also made Post Mortem, Syberia one and two, amongst other games. Oh, Still Life takes place in the same "universe" as Post Mortem.

The basic plot is solving a serial killer case. Has some nice dialog, most of it sounds too linear or forced, but that's fine. The only thing is that some of the puzzles are just ... insane, while others are quite simple.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Blue Shift got released on Steam today, so I'm going to go play through that in a couple of hours again :smile:

I recently downloaded and played a new HL2 DM mod that is pretty
awsome. Do you guys pine for the old HLDM but can't wait for BM:S?
Well, you're in luck. Now there's Half-Life 2 DM Pro:

http://www.hl2dmpro.com/

It tries to emulate HL1 except with HL2 graphics. Not many servers up,
(around 18) but there is always at least one with people in it.

The HL2DMPro mod includes Tau Cannon, LongJump, and the HL1
functionality. It is still under development and is a great breather
from HL2DM.

Viva La Tau Whores!

Been playing Ridge Racer on my PSP. Awesomeness. Really recaptures the
classic RR feel, to the same quality as its peak (RR Type 4, I would
say). Woulda been nice if the 24 courses weren't only 12 with reverse
versions, and if there were some original ones instead of remakes, but
its still a wonderful portable gaming experience. Highly recommended.

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I want Black and White 2 as the first one was amazing. I love the idea that now you don't influence villages, you annihilate them with your armies.

I've been playing Tiberian Sun again recently. Wow, it's still just
good. The storyline is immersive, much better than say Generals (duh).
Why did they let the story down in Generals and such? I see it as a
main point in the whole CnC series...

What I like so much about the game besides it's story is the whole
fitting together and how well a lot of game elements seem to be thought
out. Tiberium not only is a source of income, it also plays a major
role in the story (scrin ship...), and created a third faction in the
game. It's also a tactical factor as it damages infantery and heals
mutants.

It also features a lot of side-missions and even some secret missions.
I really love secrets in games. :smile: The side-quests are optional, good
for those that want the extra play and those that just want to rush
through the game to see the end.

All in all, an old but still fine game. :smile:

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