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Posted: 5/25/2006 9:23:04 PM | | as i think it is true that games are far more better on the pc. you also have to take into account that they can be far more expensive to run on the pc. a console is more geared towards the ppl that dont nescacarily want to spend the big money to get a system that will run half these new games. wereas console everything is built in and ready to go. as for update content well microsoft has already found a way for you t access stuff liekthat on thre 360. and yes the ps3 has more hype then it should. not so much because it was pushed back all systems have had this problem. but more so because no one really cares about the technology thats in it as long as it runs the good games and properly. blue ray in the ps3 is not going to boost sales anymore then they project. as for handhelds yes the psp is a little much. i understand ppl like games like tom clancys and such. but why do ppl wanna spend such a high price on a handheld that maybe nice and ahead of its tech but still such a small screen. handhelds are not a substitute for a console or pc. there only meant to entertain ppl on the go. if you have the option to play x36 or the psp at home. well the psp is going to be left in the cold. movies eh i copuld watch them on a 5.1 dolby system why in the world would i wanna watch em on a small little screen. the only advantage mobility. but you can also buy mobile dvd units. technology is just gotten to a point were its all just a little silly to have compatition like this. and has anyone seen the controller for the wii. i think i will go gag now after seeing this controller. ergonomic desgin pls no one wants a controller that is so free formed. its going to take ppl alot longer to get used to it then they will actually spend having fun. | |
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Posted: 6/4/2006 5:43:12 AM | Ultima Online, there's a good mmo.
EQ was great too, but I wish I didn't play a cleric =/. MUMKEN YOU'RE NEXT, START CH IN 4 SECONDS!
Counter-strike 1.6, now there's a huge tournament game.
Source, is pretty and whatnot, but whenever you turn on hitbox's via console and the hitboxss travel INFRONT of the model you're shooting at... game loses it's fine points. Not to mention the Half-Life 2 engine was bad. Man the FPS struggles with that game.
Any of you cats play some tournament style 2d fighters? Like some street fighters super turbo, Marvel vs Capcom 2 (most broken game ever, which led the game to be amazing), or even 3rd Strike? I'm all about tournament games here, I love me some competition, but for some reason I also like to practice.
Games are starting to become more about graphics, but fallout on gameplay. Ex: Halo 2.
Storyline was predictable and multiplayer is just.. horrid. The idea that a FPS should be played on a controller just boggles my mind. Not to mention xbox live ranking means nothing.
I'm too critical on games I guess, I mean they are games right? I just don't know why people put out steaming piles of.
Then again, it's not whether the game is any good really, it's if it sells.
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Posted: 6/21/2006 3:39:10 PM | | I mainly play racing "SIMS" and FPS games, heres quick vid I made, someone wanted to see my wheel in action.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUds4PnXxYY | |
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Posted: 6/23/2006 7:09:16 PM | Lets see, favorite Games.
Meridian 59, the first and best MMORPG... though the Massively part can be debated these days.
Civilization 4, one of the best in the Civilization style, Civ3 sucked... Alpha Centari / Alien Crossfire was also the best, though honorable mention goes to Colonization.
Sims 2 kicks ass.
FPS, I'd have to say Halo 2, on xbox 360.
RPG, Finaly Fantasy 3/6.
RTS, its all about starcraft.
Hmm... what else :)
Favorite system Nintendo DS. GBA is the best series for playing RPGs, sad but true, DS can play them as well as the touch games, so it hits the favorite mark.
Favorite System of last generation, the gamecube, followed by the xbox. Gamecube is great for party games, and me and my friends clocked countless hours on it.
Xbox's online play was great fun.
PS2 collected dust.
Most anticiptade, Revolution... The one system i won't buy (atleast untill there is a major price drop... or a final fantasy game comes out...) PS3 | |
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Posted: 6/25/2006 10:52:51 PM | I have an Athlon 64 3200+ with 2 gigabytes of ram.
I used to have the FX5200 128 meg video card for my computer. Folks, this is a terrible video card (and I tried things like "OMEGA DRIVERS" and they just turned the graphics to sh it). Games like Doom 3, Halo, Quake 4, etc. would not run very well on the FX5200. In fact Doom 3 ran poorly in 640x480 mode in "low quality" with half of the options turned off. I recently purchased a much older TI 4600 128 meg video card off of ebay and it is at least 3 or 4 times as good as the FX5200.
Then I got the TI 4600. Those games play perfectly in medium or high quality settings at 800 x 600 on the TI 4600. Even though DirectX9 is not supported in the TI 4600 most games that claim to need it actually don't. I've played Far Cry, Doom 3, Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil, Painkiller, Halo, and a few other very demanding games at medium or high settings and they play beautifully.
On the FX5200 those games ran terribly on those settings. In fact, most of the FX series cards are garbage. The only one I've seen that performs roughly as well as the TI4600 is the FX5900XT (at over $200). I payed $40 for my TI 4600.
So if you have a system similar to mine and want to play games like Doom 3 and Quake 4, I recommend getting a TI 4600. Real nice card for the price if you can find one. | |
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| Video games. Oh you play them too.
Posted: 10/3/2007 6:59:45 PM | Xenogears is one of my fav games though out of all the games I own and play almost on a daily basis -but- my fav wich I sorely miss is Darklands (not many peeps have played this one) If I listed all the games I liked the list would be extermly long how many favs I got is a hard one for like the one post I do like the fallout games they're freedom is amazing btw Fallout 3 releases fall 2008  I have recently been aquiring parts to built a new computer my old one just doesn't cut anymore my old compter I built it's specs are 1 gig ddr ram, Athon XP 2400+, 8X Deluxe Asus motherboard, ATI X1600 256, Sound Blaster Audigy 4, with two 80 gig harddrives - it's not fast enough or for that matter good enough to play BattleField 2142 a game I have been wanting to play since I bought it (why? cuase it's got mechs in it lol) now I am actually a newbie when it comes to putting a computer togther (though I can do it in under 20 min {roommate clocked me}) And if you do wanna know I can post how hard it is getting a new system running - oh and I have been playing video games since oh pong - still have a intelivision sold my old sega master system and the gensis as well as the old nintendo kinda kicking myself now - shoulda never sold them LOL | |
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Posted: 10/3/2007 7:22:09 PM | | I love flight or combat sims and driving games. Pandora Tomorrow was great too. As far as retards acting out violence on video games goes, did bush play too much Medal Of Honor? How can anyone be so stupid as to act out a video game. Yes, they are getting way out of hand with senseless violence though. GTA was fun but has gone too far already and not made for simple minds. Besides being 18, people should have to do an IQ test before renting or buying those types of games. The humans with at least an average IQ would not act that crap out. It's hard to tell if monkeys would though. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2008 8:59:17 PM | wow.. long long time since my last post here and . well great stuff got left here.
OK not to ignore your post as .. well .. wait..WoW is like huge.. Istopped playing it but they just released a new X pak and scooped up anther 250k players along the way.
at any rate.
I have been busy playing alot of PRO game.
Now excited to say that the CPL (bought out by the investors group) is coming to Toronto.
.. it's like a dream come true for a hardware tech game jocky like myself lol.
So.. I was given a sponsorship by a local comp store and am building a team Hopefully to get signed intot he new league.
Wow.. i am really excited and busy lol.
Beta testing Call of duty 5. .. and if you done beta before.. Buggy.
Threw a grenade well napalm in the air at a guy .. but it got stuck on a thin leafless branch.
I looked at it and thought.. Not good.
So after I respawn from burning to death I make a note on my pad next to me.
At any rate. This update is about the CPL.
Now.. as for you hard working money non gameing types I know you have heard of the investors group.
Yes them..
They have bought hte gameing league ( the CPL) google CPL vid game league.
Now allwe wait for is them to nail down the .. well the outline of the league.
Team sign ups are in .. well Rumored feb of 2009.
I'd love to give you my t eam name and team contact info AND the name of the store sponsoring us.. But I do not think POL will like that.
But If you do game you can prob find the information.
Well now that you know it exisit lol.
What types of games will be considered for PRO levels.
Well alot of FPS on PC. PC is faster harder.
However alot of console games will make it. HALO on Xbox and .. something or other on Sony.. lol I am not a sony fan.
BUT they do make it to tourny.. well consoles dont play against PC as.. no cobntest.. PC players would ruin the life and moral of a console player lol.
OK .. I am soo busy and it has been a long time since last rant
but buildign machines and playing game is time consuming.. and WHY is there such a SHORTAGE of gameing chicks still!
like COME ON !! lol
do woman have any idea how much is made playing games competivly? ALOT!!
lol
ok peeps stay sharp and alert!
Uhgg.. I orig had a hole thing on WoW EVE online Fianl Fantasy and the new types of MMOs from Marvel DC and Star trek. But .. I have to actaully play 3 hours a night..... so I ran out of time on the top part. Sorry lol
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Posted: 11/4/2008 2:50:21 PM | Another mild PC gamer here...I agree with others, PC gaming is tuff to beat if you've built the beastly system, from the graphics to the modding community, etc, just seems like the replay value is better/longer.
That said, I'm not as into it as I used to be, but I guess as far as more modern games, I can get into a few of the EA sports series like FIFA soccer and Madden, then again, never been a fan of their racing games, prefer stuff like GTR2. Also luv the IL2 series.
But really, NOTHING is as fun theses days as firing up MAME and enjoying all the simple old skool, true arcade classics I grew up with, not the home version Genesis, SNES, etc, crappy knock offs, but the real McCoy - stuff like Joust, Galaga, Ring King, Excitebike, Street Fighter series, Commando, etc. =) | |
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Posted: 11/5/2008 6:33:47 AM | As much as I love video games for their detail rich environments, especially single player RPGs (console and pc), they are starting to take a turn for the worse. To many game companies are jumping on the bandwagon of charging real money for virtual items in games, it's going to ruin the experience when I run through a dungeon in my favorite RPG series (Star Ocean, which probably wont be affected by it) and get prompted to pay $5 to be able to open that chest someone told me contains an awesome item that really helps game play.
My all time favorite games though have to be the classic adventure games, the newer variants just don't do it as well as they used to. Things like Monkey Island series, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Simon the Sorcerer, and Maniac Mansion. I loved the slapstick comedy that was thrown into those games, a light and enjoyable atmosphere that engaged you in thinking unconventionally.
Some of my current favorite games:
Everquest
Counter-Strike: Source
Final Fantasy 12
Star Ocean 3 (still haven't finished the optional dungeons, stupid ps2 not wanting to read the second disk even though it's perfectly fine)
Tales of Destiny 2 (Tales of Eternia)
Tales of Symphonia (I really like the tales series heh)
Lunar 1 & 2 (liked 1 a whole lot better than two though)
Wild Arms 3 (even though the odd bugs in it keep me from finishing the game every time I try to play through it)
Phantasy Star Universe (offline, don't care for the annoying kids on the online mode)
Games I'm looking forward to:
Final Fantasy 13
Star Ocean 4 (this one has me real excited)
Phantasy Star Universe Episode 3 (in expansion form for offline play)
Infinite Undiscovery
Tales of Vesparia (well it's out by the cd drive in my bro's 360 crapped out so I can't borrow his unit to play it) | |
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Posted: 12/9/2008 3:49:23 PM | Doctor: "Make sure drink milk, eat your vegetable, and remeber to play a lot of video games" | |
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Posted: 8/1/2009 6:36:25 AM | | looking forward to gran tursimo5 as i watched the video trailer of that game and hope it comes his christmas and looking forward to that game same with heavy rain and eye pet | |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 1:56:34 AM | All im playing right now tends to be Everquest (new server, even tho it sucks!)
World of Warcraft - patch 3.2 on wednesday!!!
Counter Strike source
Other than that, i dont play many games nowadays, although i do ocassionaly like the old blast on classics like Monkey Island, Unreal (The first!) and naturally the Final Fantasy series (However, there was no 9, or 11!! honestly - it went 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12!!) | |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 6:39:31 AM | Deus Ex is still amazing :) i fired it up only a matter of months ago to go beat up goons with JC Denton!!
one of the best in game storylines ever written imo | |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 8:08:50 AM | | I play Counter Strike: Source quite often with my buddies. If anyone of you want a game with me then hit me with a P.M :). | |
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Posted: 8/19/2009 8:21:16 PM | | I just got done playing Nintendo Wrestling! lol Man that game brought back a lot of memories. I used to play that game until I couldn't feel the tips of my fingers when I was a kid. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2009 3:28:46 PM | recently got into Fallout3 but i have to say that if you want an immersive game, Mass Effect will not disappoint you, it's been stealing a lot of my time lately  | |
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Posted: 8/20/2009 5:01:57 PM | | Currently waiting for Mass Effect 2, Halo ODST, Mortal Online, Modern Warfare II, the area 51 map-pack for CoD:WaW, and a few other things. Q4 2009 and 2010 look like some decent years for the gaming industry. | |
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| Video games. Oh you play them too.
Posted: 8/21/2009 2:05:12 PM | Recently started to play Tales of Vesperia and I'm a bit less than impressed. It's leaps better than the last major game of the series published in the US Tales of Legendia, but still lacking that touch that makes Tales of games what they are. Graphically it's amazing outside of the night time areas looking a tad bit to dark; there's also the text, only one of the 3 fonts looks even halfway decent on a SD tv, can't wait to find the cable to hook it up to my monitor as I'm sure it'll look much better on an HD display. The battle system of the game leaves much to be desired when your playing alone however, the AI isn't nearly as smart as it was in Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Symphonia, but if you play with at least 1 or 2 other people it gets to be loads better once you crank up the difficulty.
I've been glancing at my bro playing Star Ocean 4, very odd for that series, they seem to have strayed away from the cartoon look of the series and moved toward realism, which isn't bad as it looks great (after all it is an artist oriented game engine). I'm putting off playing it until I finish Vesperia though. | |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 2:09:43 PM | just got internet hooked up to the wii and my oldest downloaded super mario 1-3; I never saw 2 before; it's giving me a different taste of what it was to "save the princess" in a whole lot more jumbled of a world... it's driving me crazy but I kind of like it...
guess that makes me ancient; but it brings back memories of back in the day... | |
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