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xhonzi said:

What is this thread doing on page 2?!?!

 

THIS IS NOT A PAGE 2 THREAD!

This is what happens when a couple of bored people go on a necropost binge...

ONLY I'M ALLOWED TO MAKE BORED POSTS HERE!!!

So...Anyone else playing Deus Ex 3?

I ran through on easy in a 'run 'n' gun' style and it took well over a week to finish. Pretty happy about that.

Now I'm trying to get through it without killing anyone - for an achievement. Sneaking around is a lot of fun, it's a good feeling passing through an area unnoticed.

Doubt I'd have had the patience to play this way on the first play through.

The last playable area in the game was a bit rubbish and I really didn't enjoy the boss fight moments but otherwise it's pretty solid.

oh, the other issue I had was that the character is dumber than the audience - I'd figure something out and 20 minutes later Adam would still be connecting the dots and acting surprised.

My friend has been obsessed with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Kind of makes me want to play it, but I am willing to wait until it gets a lot cheaper.

On the other hand... Dead Island comes out Tuesday and I think I am really excited.

Am I seriously the only one here buying Dead Island today?

Essentially a co-op Fallout 3 with zombies, how can anyone not want that!

After finishing Silent Hill 2 and feeling depressed by the rather laboured ending sequence, I started Silent Hill 3 but decided I needed a break from the series.

I opted instead for Cold Fear which is much more fun.

Sure it's Code Veronica light with camera control options but paradoxically science amok storylines seem much more silly and fun than supernaturally tinged psychological ones.

I can cope better at the moment with a Russian corpse wandering around with half a face if a mad scientist did it, than kicking the crap out of a deformed headed nurse wearing barbed wire fishnets conjured out of my character's diseased and possibly deceased mind. 

Nice atmosphere too, being set on a whaling ship with a secret... is leading to all manner of choppy wind swept wave and flooded room action.

The combat controls really stretch my fingers too even if my character could have done with a smidgen of Russian so he could explain that he isn't a half faced zomboid before the still living start shooting at him.

I went around my pal Martin's over the weekend and he's been playing Alan Wake.

Obviously it's graphically better (though surprisingly not that much so) than much of the generation of games I play but it was more clearly a mish-mash of gaming styles than even this overlooked little game. It's event triggers are also less obvious and it's really stingy on ammo which is good for laugh.

Modern games (and I realise I must be making a sweeping generalisation here) seem to arm you with much more than you need which dissipates much of the tension.

Any road up wish me luck on those stormy waters.

Most recent "I'm old" experience.  Took a trip to Red Robin this weekend.  Had to wait for 30 minutes, and my daughter wanders over to the little arcade section to see what it is.  I happen to notice that the Galaga machine has a credit in it.

The fact that I did quite well is beside the point, other than the fact that my wrist hurt something terrible the next day. :-/

I used to really love playing Starcraft 1.  But since I never became very good at the game, I really found myself enjoying the creation of clever maps in the game.  I never truly finished it, and the site where I was originally posting it lost all their maps (staredit.net), so my newest version is no longer online anywhere.

Here is an older version.

http://sc.nibbits.com/maps/view/14826/a-grander-vision-v54

I still have the newest version but have never again uploaded it anywhere.  It was to be part of a hypothetical sequel campaign where you find that an interesting character has been crossing Zerg and Protoss.  In this map, these hybrids are called infested zealots who explode with powerful psionic energy and destroy all military units along with them (the idea being that their minds were ruptured in the explosion).  Given the basic system of creating maps, the complicated trigger system I created to allow this to happen led to an interesting game IMHO.  It wasn't perfect, but it showcased an interesting weapon.  Check it out if you love classic SC and want to try something new.  Don't forget to check Use Map Settings.

darth_ender said:

I used to really love playing Starcraft 1.  But since I never became very good at the game, I really found myself enjoying the creation of clever maps in the game.  I never truly finished it, and the site where I was originally posting it lost all their maps (staredit.net), so my newwest version is no longer online anywhere.

Here is an older version.

http://sc.nibbits.com/maps/view/14826/a-grander-vision-v54

I still have the newest version but have never uploaded it anywhere.  It was to be part of a hypothetical sequel campaign where you find that an interesting character has been crossing Zerg and Protoss.  In this map, these hybrids are called infested zealots who explode with powerful psionic energy and destroy all military units along with them (the idea being that their minds were ruptured in the explosion).  Given the basic system of creating maps, the complicated trigger system I created to allow this to happen led to an interesting game IMHO.  It wasn't perfect, but it showcased an interesting weapon.  Check it out if you love classic SC and want to try something new.  Don't forget to check Use Map Settings.

Upload Starcrafty maps on Mediafire.

Anyone else buying Skyrim for best platform which is Windows based computer? OR VMWare?

Hey I found some links for Dune video games on http://snesorama.us/board/showthread.php?p=281406#post281406 Just look under D.

Wow, first day under the whole no moderation thing, and we already have wares links! I don't see this going over very well...

But yeah, if you are into stealing games, PC is totally the best platform. Damn consoles and their copy protected games!

CP3S said:

Wow, first day under the whole no moderation thing, and we already have wares links! I don't see this going over very well...

But yeah, if you are into stealing games, PC is totally the best platform. Damn consoles and their copy protected games!

Try before you buy. Many of these titles are not supported by these companies.

FremenDar said:

CP3S said:

Wow, first day under the whole no moderation thing, and we already have wares links! I don't see this going over very well...

But yeah, if you are into stealing games, PC is totally the best platform. Damn consoles and their copy protected games!

Try before you buy.

That is what demos are for.

Kind of funny, the other big PC gaming advocate in these parts mentioned getting some of his games from torrents... I am sensing a pattern.

Anyway, I love this image from Zero Punctuation, it sums up how I feel about all this silly PC "fanboyism" than seems to have been stubornly making its way onto every page of this thread lately:

CP3S said:

FremenDar said:

CP3S said:

Wow, first day under the whole no moderation thing, and we already have wares links! I don't see this going over very well...

But yeah, if you are into stealing games, PC is totally the best platform. Damn consoles and their copy protected games!

Try before you buy.

 

That is what demos are for.

Kind of funny, the other big PC gaming advocate in these parts mentioned getting some of his games from torrents... I am sensing a pattern.

 

Anyway, I love this image from Zero Punctuation:

I have not watched Zero Punctuation for awhile. Not enough companies are releasing demos, excluding PC Gamer.

I feel like you are just using that as an excuse. There are reviews and plenty of other methods to try out games before you buy them these days. It is not an excuse for piracy. I suspect you don't always check for a demo before you download, if you do I'd be impressed. And I'd be even more impressed if you download brand new $50 dollar games, play them, like them, then run out and buy them the next day, or delete them the second you realize it isn't a game you'd spend money on.

CP3S said:

I feel like you are just using that as an excuse. There are reviews and plenty of other methods to try out games before you buy them these days. It is not an excuse for piracy. I suspect you don't always check for a demo before you download, if you do I'd be impressed. And I'd be even more impressed if you download brand new $50 dollar games, play them, like them, then run out and buy them the next day, or delete them the second you realize it isn't a game you'd spend money on.

Not all games I buy are always $50. Quite an extensive wishlist on various websites. If there is a game I like which I have downloaded I do in fact buy it. There have been bad eggs and those were a waste of a download.

Reviews don't mean much as they used to be years ago. Duke Nukem Forever is a certain game I shall never waste time on. But as said certain games so old they're not supported by the companies so makes zero difference if I download them or not. Many of them on Steam or gog.com

That image I have my image in, I proudly have owned it since its release.

FremenDar said:

That image I have my image in, I proudly have owned it since its release.

I assume you meant to say something along the lines of the game your avatar image is from?

I actually always wished I had bought that game years ago when it was still on store shelves. I remember it was part of a buy two get one free deal at EB Games once, but I wasn't familiar with BR at the time. I think I got Sim Copter, the Streets of Sim City (which were the two games I really wanted), and some crappy racing game as my third game since they didn't have anything else I was interested in. Really should have grabbed BR then. That would be one old game I'd be very proud to have the complete original box and book for.

xhonzi said:

xhonzi said:

Johnny Ringo said:

So...Anyone else playing Deus Ex 3? 

As the record states- I am a huge fan of the first 2.  So this is definitely high on my list of games to play, but like [CE](3?)[PR](3?)(i?)[CSX]/i, I can wait out a price drop a little bit. 

Toys'R'Us ad shows them having DE:HR PS3/360 for $35 next week.

That's a pretty tempting price... but as I said, it's a matter of time as well as price.  By the time I have time, the price will probably be even lower.

Would be nice if the price was also for PC release. From what little screenshots I've seen, it mirrors almost implicitly the great film Blade Runner. Gives me a chance to replay the first two Deus Ex games before playing Human Revolution.

Hoth-Nudist said:

just beat AC2 on PS3 with 98% completion.  I got tired of looking for all those damn feathers and missed just a few monetary treasures.  The game rocked!!  Is AC brotherhood worth buying?  Im not interested in the multiplayer stuff.  Is the single player campaign fun and have a good continuing story about Ezio?

Hell yes it is worth buying, it is a BLAST to, but you better get it soon and beat it, AC: Revelations is coming and it is bringing closure to the Altair and Ezio stories.