The Official Gaming Thread

[gumtree]

Originally Posted by isolation_years

^ive been debating getting just cause 2, it seems like mercenaries 2, which i loved a lot

just got a gaming PC today, any reccomendations from anyone?

i have crysis (in the mail), mass effect, getting left 4 dead next week, and i suppose the newest games i own otherwise are age of empires 3 and FEAR

I was unsure of it myself, until I played the demo. That sold me. Was so much fun destroying shit.

I'd recommend you try Bioshock (1 before 2). It was just too much fun, and a different gaming experience to a lot of what I have played.
I also agree with trying S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. So intense.

[Lisra]

Originally Posted by Hobo

Tried it.
the controlls sucked, uninstalld after about 1h play.
to be fair though, it was not as crappy as dead space, which was unplayable on pc.

Huh, that's kinda odd.. there were so many issues with that game (EVERYTHING had bugs at the start) but running and jumping worked fairly normal.. I can only urge you to try it again someday with patches!

[Hobo]

I am not sure it was the running and jumping part (dont remember really).. but what i generally dislike with games is that they want to use the entire keyboard for random stuff..
(like DnD online.. a brazillion different windows to cover the entire screen, all with its own shortcut somewhere)

thats one of the reason why i love bethesda games.. ~10 buttons, and youre off, all playercontrolls and stats run through one console using <tab>.

(what was terrible with dead space however, was the running and jumping part, that i remember )

[BlueSky]

Speaking of glitchy ass games, how bout that Fallout 3? Of course when considering a game of that peroration there's bound to be bugs, but not to that extent. I had to literally restart from scratch when I was near the end because the AI refused to move forward in a main mission. Don't know why I bothered since I didn't particularly care that much for the game in the first place ... or why I played all the dlc. Heh.

[Hobo]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Speaking of glitchy ass games, how bout that Fallout 3? Of course when considering a game of that peroration there's bound to be bugs, but not to that extent. I had to literally restart from scratch when I was near the end because the AI refused to move forward in a main mission. Don't know why I bothered since I didn't particularly care that much for the game in the first place ... or why I played all the dlc. Heh.

hm.. i had no problems at all with it (just unluck.. the dropping of the space weapon thingie never occured throughout the entire game )

[isolation_years]

ah thanks for the reccomendation soundjunkie, i played a demo of STALKER on my old computer but it was such a piece of shit (the computer that is) it barely ran. ill look into it!
ive heard it compared to metro 2033, ive been interested in that game but i might wait for it to go down in price

to Gumtree, i actually own bioshock 1 and 2 for my ps3! they were amazing games, i think ive beat them both through 3 or 4 times each

also, im glad people post spoiler alerts!!! thanks go to lisra for starting that

[Lisra]

The original Stalker is long since budget price. Only the two other parts (one prequel and one.. dunno) are slightly more expensive. And despite all the bugs, they are great games.

[Lyre's Harmony]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Stay out of my thread Lyre!

k ill take your bait

Originally Posted by Commence Destruction

Mordecai =

Originally Posted by Coma323

I mainly play my N64 nowdays.

Originally Posted by Hobo

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to be fair though, it was not as crappy as dead space, which was unplayable on pc.

try again

Originally Posted by TrickySkittles

Starcraft 2 Beta - PC (if anybody has a tag, hit me up!)
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F U BLIZZARD IM STARCR4FT 31337 MAST3R AND YOU DIDNT GIVE ME A CODE

[isolation_years]

dead space on ps3 was awesome

[isolation_years]

got supreme commander 2 for 10$ and the witcher (gonan try tonight)


i love steam


anyone here excited for starcraft 2? ive been avoiding it at all costs, so when i play the game the only preconceptions ill have are from the units they released like a year ago

[TrickySkittles]

Originally Posted by isolation_years

got supreme commander 2 for 10$ and the witcher (gonan try tonight)


i love steam


anyone here excited for starcraft 2? ive been avoiding it at all costs, so when i play the game the only preconceptions ill have are from the units they released like a year ago

The game itself is solid. Very true to the original. Aside from unit balance there haven't been too many problems with the game. Heck, the stuff they implement such as facebook friend finding went more smoothly in beta than most other companies can achieve in a full release. Also, they allowed for editor testing which just finished up a few days ago. People have already remade games like Tower Defense and BattleCraft. Apparently the editor is powerful enough to make games of all genres, not being limited to rts.

[isolation_years]

^sounds amazing, but blizzard is known to put out perfect games


i thnik for once i truely have faith that this sequal will live up to the original (which will be tough since its probably the best game ever )

[BlueSky]

2010 blew it's load far too early. Strongest first half and weakest holiday season lineup I've ever seen. Only game left this year I have to look forward to is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood ... At least the start of 2011 starts off with a bang. Let's just hope it can sustain a steady drip, unlike this year.

[isolation_years]

^ive enjoyed the first two AC games, i hope this one is as good, even if it seems like a spinoff just to make money...


all im looking forward to now is dragon quest 9, and starcraft 2, and golden sun DS is it comes out this year


and of course marvel vs capcom 3

[Lyre's Harmony]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

2010 blew it's load far too early. Strongest first half and weakest holiday season lineup I've ever seen. Only game left this year I have to look forward to is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood ... At least the start of 2011 starts off with a bang. Let's just hope it can sustain a steady drip, unlike this year.

pssshhhhhhh. watching the clips from new vegas reminded me of some of the awsome and hilarious things i loved Fallout 3. black ops. i cant believe you are waiting from AC:b though, i heard there was 15 hrs of single player only. maybe you should pick up new vegas. 2011 is going to be huge. most anticipated release: portal 2 or the old republic or mvc 3 or details on an Elder Scrolls V

[BlueSky]

Probably even less than 15 hours, but that matters not. Quality over quantity my friend, which is why I don't need more of Fallout 3.

[isolation_years]

^yeah i agree, fallout 3 should have had a decent 30 hour story instaed of about 10 hours of story and 300 hours of sidequests

[Illnath]

Looking forward to Starcraft 2 and Kane and Lynch 2....and at some point I'm going to uy Metro 2033 and Singularity...when it gets cheap

[Lyre's Harmony]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Probably even less than 15 hours, but that matters not. Quality over quantity my friend, which is why I don't need more of Fallout 3. Plus it won a bunch of best of E3 for multiplayer from top sites. Next year looks insane on paper - Deus Ex 3, Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, Batman Arkham Asylum 2, Dead Space 2, Infamous 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and Mortal Kombat. If all those do come out in 2011 then it will be the greatest year in gaming yet.

side quests in fallout beat the repetitive god fighting of ac 1 and 2. the only real thing i love about ac is the amazing environment and total exploration and climbing mechanics are unparalleled, but it seems like brotherhood is almost all combat based, no CTF. i highly doubt Mass Effect 3. TOR bioware is saying is bigger than all the games they've made put together, and its gonna be their flagship next year.

Originally Posted by isolation_years

^yeah i agree, fallout 3 should have had a decent 30 hour story instaed of about 10 hours of story and 300 hours of sidequests

he was talkn bout AC Brotherhood

[Lyre's Harmony]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

AC Brotherhood will be an AC game so no it will not be primarily combat obviously.

possibly the dumbmest thing you've ever written i think. its not really an AC game. it doesn't follow any of the main story, its just like AC 2.5 with the same environment and more charatars and zomg more templars, kill em all !!1 i can imagine multiplayer as a cool idea, and then again i cant, if you have modes like race or CTF, i dont see how it can be balanced well at all. everyone picks ezio for speed and climbing missions and then picks the tank character for combat. on the other hand fallout new vegas seems to have a completly new environment the same size as 3's wash DC map and the mere fact of exploring 15 story casinos has a fresh appeal that lacks when i look at ACB, plus another protectron with a cowboy hat.

[Lyre's Harmony]

it seems to me like those statements confirm my fears more than put them at ease. seems to me that Ezio would want to meditate on what he learned instead of trying to get back the artifact that he already used its purpose for. im an obsidian fanboi, with more hours in kotor 2 and alpha protocal than many other rpg, so i definitly want to see this matchup for my self, but we'll see, we both know that it'll win more GotY's than AC

[isolation_years]

Originally Posted by Illnath

Looking forward to Starcraft 2 and Kane and Lynch 2....and at some point I'm going to uy Metro 2033 and Singularity...when it gets cheap

kane and lynch 1 had possibly the greatest and most underrated multiplayer of all time



also i thought the combat in assassins creed was a lot of fun, silent hidden blade kills never get old imo, and exploration was fun, and so was seeing the huge cites from the rooftops . although on another note i only play them once and never go back...so i never get much replay from them.
and i'll probably play them both again in preperation for brotherhood, and again for AC3 (when it comes out in like......2-3 years )

[noctambulant]

I've tried to play fallout 3 after playing oblivion for a month or so, and it just felt like another like another boring oblivion expansion set.Same voice acting,even the main quest is as short as oblivion's .

[isolation_years]

^lol well i was going to get oblivion if i saw it cheap....but hearing the main quest is as short as FO3.....i'll pass

[isolation_years]

spent most of yesterday playing starcraft 2 . in my opinion anyone who enjoyed the first game and remembers it fondly will love what they did with two


i find it holds true to the original, while at the same time expanding on nearly everything, new units are introduced, and the races all feel very different now, yet it still is incredibly balenced. they did away with a bunch of the useless units (like those terran bikes, the ones with spider mines, i forget their names, started with a v i think....wish theyd kept golaiths though...)

story mode is al ot of fun, they added a lot so that it doesnt just feel like your playing scenarios all the time, but you have a lot of story unique upgrades

the unit cap is still 200, but it feels like a lot compared to warcrafts 90/120. i had a match with a friend yesterday and won by sending in 17 battlecruisers, it was a massacre

my only complaints are that zerg cannot infest, dark archons are gone (but zerg can mind control i think), and nukes feel weak

still excellent game so far , looking forward to playing it a lot tonight