| 11 APR 2011 at 10:17am |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I thought I'd try a war game, and now I'm hooked on the single player of Battlefield Bad Company 2. Visually stunning, lots of fun and great dialog (and half the gore of Fallout New Vegas). I'm still a noob at war, though, and I'm wondering whether I should try the multiplayer.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 2:20pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | They say that battlefield bad company 2 is a great multiplayer game, but that it also manages to attract some of the worst people (not as bad as Call of duty, but still bad enough to make it a big problem). Be prepared for some rather abusive people, if you decide to play online.
PC versions usually fare noticeably better than console versions, when it comes to player maturity.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 3:29pm |
XerNosamSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (11 APR 2011 2:20pm)
They say that battlefield bad company 2 is a great multiplayer game, but that it also manages to attract some of the worst people (not as bad as Call of duty, but still bad enough to make it a big problem). Be prepared for some rather abusive people, if you decide to play online.
PC versions usually fare noticeably better than console versions, when it comes to player maturity.
Precisely the reason I stay away from FPS multiplayer games - unless the devs (most) are smart enough to place a 'Mute Player' option. The language and banter of some folks in these games/matches blows my mind - each one of them in desperate need of a Tiger Uppercut.
On another note, I completed Crysis 2 and LOVED IT. I think I enjoyed it more that Crysis - better aliens and more focused level design... very well done.
Playing: Skyrim: Dragonborn/Dawnguard; Torchlight 2; To The Moon; Far Cry 3
Finished: HomeFront; Far Cry 3; Dishonored
Always Playing: Half Life 2
Looking Forward To: BioShock: Infinite
Reading: BioShock: Rapture; SW: Revan
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| 11 APR 2011 at 3:31pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I was wondering if Crysis 2 is about on the same level of what it demands from your hardware as Crysis 1, or is it more demanding?
Interesting observation Halcyon, that a fullblown shooter has less gore than New Vegas.
My appetite for shooters has actually been whetted by having played a bit of Cabela's dangerous adventures on PS2 this weekend.
I feel very sad now that I never got my copies of some shooters back from a male friend I'd lost contact with. I remember there was a game I had really started enjoying, called Mortyr 2.
Hey, I suppose I could always try some of the James Bond games to wet my feet with?
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:19pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TAS (11 APR 2011 10:17am)
I thought I'd try a war game, and now I'm hooked on the single player of Battlefield Bad Company 2. Visually stunning, lots of fun and great dialog (and half the gore of Fallout New Vegas). I'm still a noob at war, though, and I'm wondering whether I should try the multiplayer.
Whether? I bought BC2 for the MP alone (played maybe 10 minutes of the single player).
The game is the most fun online MP shooter at the moment, far more fun then any of the CoD games imo.
The environmental destruction adds so much to the game. No sniper hiding in a building behind a thin wall, you know he is there just shoot a rocket into it/grenade and watch the carnage.
It's also a blast to go into a building, plant some c4 at all the major support beams in it and then detonate it when you see a poor bastard run into it to camp and watch the entire thing come crumbling down as he tries to make it out.
Vehicles are also a blast. nothing like rolling down with a tank and shelling some houses, etc. Fence in your way? Drive right over it, no problem.
The audio of the game is also top notch, easily some of the best sounding guns/vehicles, etc. Everything sounds more realistic/loud then most fps games that have guns that sound way too muted and low, like bb guns.
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| 12 APR 2011 at 2:07am |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I agree with all that!! But I am surviving on Easy mode and fear I'll die a-plenty with the experienced folks online.
Don't miss the single player!! The plot is great, the dialog is even better, and the short missions are challenging and fun. It is so good, that you could imagine taking out the war element and adding puzzles or timed sequences or beat-the-clock stuff...you know, all the things AGs hate
I have Vietnam and I think I'll give that a whack online (love the music....grew up with it!!...although, at the time, most of it was anti-war, not a sound track to a war game. Ironic what time can do.)
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| 12 APR 2011 at 3:06am |
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| 13 APR 2011 at 11:08pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | In honour of the release of the 25th anniversary edition of Battletech, I'm playing MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (game can be downloaded for free, check the free games thread). It is a mech simulator, and not a pure action game, and it puts you in the seats of one of the titans of the battlefield.
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| 14 APR 2011 at 4:46am |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Fnord, have you saw the recent trailer for HAwken? (Indie game).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39kMMpDe6cU
and in-cockpit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9nujmgPBo
it's hard to believe it's an indie game, looks very good. Though it's not as much "mechwarrior" more so then Heavy Gear, still looks likle a blast.
Mechwarriors I always loved because they felt like truly giant tanks, beasts of machines that could topple over buildings. From the towering ones to the smaller nimble ones, personally I was always a Hellcat fan. I hope the new Mechwarrior game actually comes out and they make it, heard there were problems with getting it going though.
Mechwarrior 3 was my favorite, loved going for the leg shots, that was my main tactic, to hell with everything else haha, just bombard a leg with everything in my arsenal, once the leg goes down the body will follow.
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| 14 APR 2011 at 5:40am |
XerNosamSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | As I am still underwhelmed with Dragon Age 2 (enough so that I still have not finished it after starting it on the release date) I decided to take another break from it and load up a FPS that's been sitting in my queue for months, if not years: Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty.
What a turd this game was. Well, it had semi-OK level design, but I've never been so blown away by how terrible a game was since, oh, ever.
Unbelievably almost, the game was released in 2008, which is strange... 'cause unless the devs were shopping for a publisher for 8 years, there could be no other reason for the visuals that are right on par with MoH: Allied Assault, which was released in, oh, 2002. Crazy!
Hit detection was gawd awful. I could shoot a dude in the head 3 times and he wouldn't flinch - then I'd aim for this same gentleman's foot and he'd go down in dramatic fashion in one shot. Also, I could stand a 'virtual' 1-2 feet away from a crate, fire my weapon, and the crate would splinter and block my shots. Annoying at first, hilarious later.
Simply said, it was a strange experience - I ended up finishing the game as the foolishness of it all, oddly enough, kept my interest. As I said earlier, the level design was OK - completely on rails the entire time - but clever at times as well.
It was an unintentionally (I'm hoping) goofy ride! I feel like I want to keep typing away at how blown away I am by how bad it was, but nahhh, I will just simply leave it at that and (attempt) to finish Dragon Age 2 now.
At the very least, it's made me develop a different view of what 'underwhelming' truly means.
Playing: Skyrim: Dragonborn/Dawnguard; Torchlight 2; To The Moon; Far Cry 3
Finished: HomeFront; Far Cry 3; Dishonored
Always Playing: Half Life 2
Looking Forward To: BioShock: Infinite
Reading: BioShock: Rapture; SW: Revan
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| 14 APR 2011 at 10:59am |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Just want to share this moment of frustration...
I just realized I lost my savegames of Mass Effect 1 and 2! They were in my old laptop and I did not remember about them when I was doing the back up... which means, now i'll have to replay both games before I play the 3rd game! ahhhhhh! :-X :'( :'(
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 14 APR 2011 at 11:57am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Inesrocks (14 APR 2011 10:59am)
Just want to share this moment of frustration...
I just realized I lost my savegames of Mass Effect 1 and 2! They were in my old laptop and I did not remember about them when I was doing the back up... which means, now i'll have to replay both games before I play the 3rd game! ahhhhhh! :-X :'( :'(
Oh no!! Sorry to hear about that.
I have an idea how you must feel since I also had to restart and replay quite a bit of ME1, and then in spite of that, I couldn't get past a certain point because the game kept crashing. I'm not sure if I'd want to restart it a 3rd time anytime soon... so I just started with ME2 without finishing ME1.
Anyway, shame, that sucks. :-/
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| 14 APR 2011 at 1:03pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Stiler (14 APR 2011 4:45am)
Fnord, have you saw the recent trailer for HAwken? (Indie game).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39kMMpDe6cU
and in-cockpit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9nujmgPBo
it's hard to believe it's an indie game, looks very good. Though it's not as much "mechwarrior" more so then Heavy Gear, still looks likle a blast.
Mechwarriors I always loved because they felt like truly giant tanks, beasts of machines that could topple over buildings. From the towering ones to the smaller nimble ones, personally I was always a Hellcat fan. I hope the new Mechwarrior game actually comes out and they make it, heard there were problems with getting it going though.
Mechwarrior 3 was my favorite, loved going for the leg shots, that was my main tactic, to hell with everything else haha, just bombard a leg with everything in my arsenal, once the leg goes down the body will follow.
The battletech community has been quite excited about that game since it was first announced. And I agree, it looks great.
With hellcat, do you mean Mad Cat? Hellcat is an aerospace fighter, while the Mad Cat is one of the most iconic mechs of the battletech universe.
The upcoming MechWarrior game sadly ran into some legal issues. It should by the way be noted that FASA got the rights to use the mechs in question from the creators of the mechs, but Harmony Gold USA claim that they have the rights to all of these mechs in USA. The lawsuit in the mid 90's was very inconclusive, so it is unclear who actually holds the rights to those mechs. Catalyst game labs (the current holders of the battletech license) re-designed many of these mechs that caused the legal issues, and the mech in the video is supposed to be based on the re-designed mech.
*edit* Darn, I got to pilot one of my favourite (from a visual point of view) mechs for a single engagement. Then I found a better mech
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| 14 APR 2011 at 4:44pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Hah yeah, the Mad Cat is the one I meant. Was my favorite, not as oquick/nimble as some of the smaller ones but the loadout you could put on it was awesome. Remember being injuring with a missing arm and a wounded leg joint limping around and coming up on a new mech, with little hope of winning I hit the "fire all weapons" button, blew everything I had left into the leg of it, lost all power afterwards (as that usually overheated your engines quickly), then watched the mech fall to the gorund from it, was an awesome moment in the game.
I hope they get the legal issues worked out and can get the new mech game underway. Just imagine all the cool things they can do now, with the use of phyiscs, environmental destruction, etc. I mean think of Battlefield 3, but with mechs. A huge cityscape (like in the trailer they made to announce the new game, before the legal problems) where you can fire missles and lasers through broken out buildlings, actually cause them to crumble down, etc.
Have it so weight affected things, where the smaller nimble mechs could land on rooftops/scout easier through smaller streets, while the big lumbering mechs could step on buildings causing them to give way under the sheer weight of them, running into them making the sides crumble away like you'd expect.
That would be a dream game for me.
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| 14 APR 2011 at 7:33pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Trying to finish HalfLife 2 - Episode 2. My problem? I detest the grav gun [except for launching saw blades at zombies] and Ep 2 is All About the grav gun. So I've been starting/restarting/rejoining the big 'clear the striders' level - which must be towards the end of the game. I would gladly use a save game to finish this level out! Otherwise the HL series is pure awesome.
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| 14 APR 2011 at 9:11pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By mgonneau (14 APR 2011 7:33pm)
Trying to finish HalfLife 2 - Episode 2. My problem? I detest the grav gun [except for launching saw blades at zombies] and Ep 2 is All About the grav gun. So I've been starting/restarting/rejoining the big 'clear the striders' level - which must be towards the end of the game. I would gladly use a save game to finish this level out! Otherwise the HL series is pure awesome.
Can you use Console to, erm, help you get over that part faster?
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| 14 APR 2011 at 10:01pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | The devs claim that they are still working on MechWarrior 5, so we might see the game at some point.
The board game actually deals with what happens when a mech is too heavy for a building or bridge that it tries to stand on. And you can also weaken a building/bridge that a mech is standing on just enough to make it crash down. It is quite satisfying to wreck a brdige under one of the heavier mech (and as they are so heavy, they also take a lot of damage from falling). It would not be hard to imagine that any future computer games will include such mechanics as well.
And I just found an awesome mech to pilot (alright, that one was really bad). The fact that I'm already beginning to get mechs out of the heaviest weight category (assault mechs) might mean that I have spent too much time with the game today... I have not had any close calls like the one you described yet though.
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| 15 APR 2011 at 12:44am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By mgonneau (14 APR 2011 7:33pm)
Trying to finish HalfLife 2 - Episode 2. My problem? I detest the grav gun [except for launching saw blades at zombies] and Ep 2 is All About the grav gun. So I've been starting/restarting/rejoining the big 'clear the striders' level - which must be towards the end of the game. I would gladly use a save game to finish this level out! Otherwise the HL series is pure awesome.
I loved the gravity gun, but that bit with the striders had me pulling my hair out, probably the only really frustrating part for me in the series. I ended up setting the game on easy for that fight and doing a lot of quick saving/loading.
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| 15 APR 2011 at 2:01pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | lotta saving and gnashing of teeth. I just can't get into the grav gun and those temporal sticky bombs - too much fuss! I tried some cheats but couldn't seem to get them working with the console - god mode and unlimited ammo I think I tried. One day..
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| 15 APR 2011 at 11:38pm |
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Status : Offline | I'm playing Mafia 2 right now, it's more like an interactive movie, very detailed city and environments.
The story is quite good, too bad there is little else to do in the city apart from shooting bad guys in between cut-scenes.
I do miss the freedom i had in GTA, but the story is more interesting
(It tried arcania, but it's still a slideshow, so i'll have to upgrade my graphics card first >)
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| 16 APR 2011 at 7:52am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By markornikov (15 APR 2011 11:38pm)
(It tried arcania, but it's still a slideshow, so i'll have to upgrade my graphics card first >)
I know exactly what you're talking about re Arcania...
Apparently there's a patch out that's supposed to make performance better. Have you tried it yet?
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 16 APR 2011 at 12:32pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (16 APR 2011 7:51am)
Originally Posted By markornikov (15 APR 2011 11:38pm)
(It tried arcania, but it's still a slideshow, so i'll have to upgrade my graphics card first >)
I know exactly what you're talking about re Arcania...
Apparently there's a patch out that's supposed to make performance better. Have you tried it yet?
No I haven't, but even at low res it plays horrible.
But I still have a lot of things to do in Gothic 3, so it's not a big problem
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| 18 APR 2011 at 2:33am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I'm still chipping away at X-Wing. I'm now stuck in Tour IV, so I decided I'd take a stab at Tour V ("B-Wing", and it's thus far proving easier overall, I'd say. I'm not a big fan of the B-Wing itself, but the missions are enjoyable.
[img]http://jkingweb.ca/junk/xwing/case6.png[/img]
Besides that I played through Portal today. It didn't take me long since I vividly remembered most of the puzzles which gave me trouble the first time around, which I suppose is just as well, given that the release of Portal 2 is imminent. It was a good refresher, though a jarring reminder of just how short the game is. That much is understandable, though, given that it wasn't marketed as a full-length game in the first place. Eagerly anticiparting Tuesday, anyway!
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| 18 APR 2011 at 1:31pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Yeah, I finished Portal about a year ago, then went back to get some achievements and listen to commentary and was surprised at how short it was! It can be beat in about an hour.
That said, I just pre-ordered Portal 2. I always buy my games on discount, but to hell with it, I need this game in my life.
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