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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-12-2004 10:45
I figured that since the gaming thread is at the end of it's last page that a fresh new one should be started.

So mods, please close the old thread: http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/12-001976-19/ (http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/12-001976-19/)

And to start it off, every body that is considering a purchase of the Nintendo DS should check out the 15 minute Demonstration of Mario 64 DS at www.gamespot.com. (http://www.gamespot.com.)

Seriously, when I was watching it, I was close to tears. It looks so amazing...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-12-2004 10:46
*Hits Pasty*

Starting the gaming thread is my tradition! Mine! The old one is barely closed as well.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-12-2004 11:24
Ohhh, Super Mario 64 DS does have new levels. My DS hpye-o-meter just jumped like 40 notches.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-12-2004 11:31
It has new levels?! Awesome, I might just have to get me a DS now  :cool:...
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Post by: Tweek on 10-12-2004 11:35
Next time wait till the old thread is closed before starting a new one  :nono:
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 10-12-2004 11:40
Yes, Pastry- you taffer!

All that SWG screen whoring from the last one made me sad-I can't play any kind of online games here at this dorm-type place...  :cry:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-12-2004 12:14
Pikka: Hurry up and graduate, then get a place to live.
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 10-12-2004 12:52
Well, at this price, I'd say I've got a fairly sweet deal here- 12 square meters (go metric, you emperialists!). with own bathroom. Breakfast, dinner and a packed lunch plus electricity, water, heat, cable and 100 mb/s internet, all at the pretty low cost of 40£/week... Maybe we can make the admins at school loosen up the security for the school dorm... After all, opening up a few ports would only enable us to play on-line and use Kazaa... We can already fiddle our way around the proxy with a few other p2p programs (but we won't tell the admins that when/if we're gonna negotiate)
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Post by: transgender nerd under canada on 10-12-2004 13:18
Pfft. Xbox pwnz j00 all. Burnout 3, people! Best. Game. Ever.
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Post by: Nixorbo on 10-12-2004 13:19
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Starting the gaming thread with a crappy name is my tradition!

FIXED.

Fable is a good game.  Not really mind-blowing, though.  Parts of it feel incomplete.  But it does play well, for the most part.

And just what game is that code from?  Definitely not Contra for the NES.  UUDDLRLRBABASelectStart.
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Post by: FemJesse on 10-12-2004 13:44
Yea its like someone screwed up the Konami code...
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Post by: Tweek on 10-12-2004 13:50
 
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Originally posted by FemJesse:
Yea its like someone screwed up the Konami code...
I came across that code in The Kingdom of Loathing, alas I didn't know it so looked it up  :p

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Post by: transgender nerd under canada on 10-12-2004 13:53
The only cheat I know off by heart is the one for Level Select on Sonic 2. Up, down, left, right, A, B, C, A+start. Go to sound test, enter 19, 65, 09, 17. Go back to the main screen, and enter the first code again. On pressing A+start, you get the level select. All other cheats I forget or write down.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-12-2004 14:52
I got my ass kicked in two PVP duels. Damn grinders making a fool out of my novice ass.
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-12-2004 15:30
Played the Dune Sea map on Battlefront - God I hate that map. Virtually no room to maneuver anything and me and the Rebels kept getting are arse kicked repeatedly. Well except the time that I hopped into an X-Wing and hovered around the map (difficult, since you have a choice of flying into a rockface or flying out of the map entirely) Despite my best efforts, the Rebels were slaughtered again, but we managed to bring the Imperial count to lower than 20, at which a rule kicks all CPU characters out of any vehicle or turret. And luckily there was one Rebel CP left, so I hovered above that, hoping to catch and fry any Imps that came close. But also on the Dune Sea are a third party of Sandpeople who shoot at anyone and everyone. And lo and behold, they basically finished off all the remaining Imperials for me, and the Rebels won, even though I had been the only one left for about 5 minutes!  :p
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Post by: B.B.R on 10-12-2004 15:35
Have any of you heard of that new Ps2 game coming out called killzone?  It's supposedly supposed to be contending with Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2:echoes. Speaking of Ds Pasty what about the psx(handheld playstation). Since were talking about games I'd like to ask a question.  Does anyone think there comes a point when games have to stop? I do, because you are waisting your money every year to buy something new. When will it end.  It was supposed to be a good thing, but every three years they are coming out with a new friggin system. N64 absolete, Dreamcast absolete.  Pretty soon they are gonna have a Ps5000 and an Xbox5000. I like how games are evolving, but it doesn't seem to have an end.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-12-2004 16:32
B, A, D, A, Start, Start would have been better... and funnier... and shorter... and from a better game.   :p
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-12-2004 16:35
The bigger problem is the fact that consumers continue to buy these new systems, encourgeing game compines to create more. If everyone ignored PS2 and continued to buy PS1 games, companies would have continued to create games for the PS1 ignoring the PS2 over time. A system is only obsoulete once you've beaten all the good games for it, though I know many don't share that view point.
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Post by: FishyJoe on 10-12-2004 16:40
Gamespot sucks and refuses to let me download or stream that Mario 64 DS video. But if there really are new levels, I am in.

Don't forget that they are finally releasing another side-scrolling Mario game for the DS, plus a new Mario Kart game. My only doubts about this system have been addressed. It's gotta be the best system ever.
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Post by: Gleno on 10-12-2004 20:38
(http://img52.exs.cx/img52/6810/POP2-Thewarriorwithin.jpg)
Screw everything else, this is the only game that I'm waiting for.... :p
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-12-2004 20:57
Yes. Everyone look forward to that game. I command you.
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Post by: M0le on 10-12-2004 23:44
It's supposed to be darker! That alone means it's worth getting.
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Post by: Gleno on 10-13-2004 08:17
Look at those fucking blades....! Pwned....!!
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Post by: winna on 10-13-2004 09:37
More like raped.... just raped....  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-13-2004 10:02
 
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Originally posted by newhook_1:
Ohhh, Super Mario 64 DS does have new levels. My DS hpye-o-meter just jumped like 40 notches.

Yes, apparently the game will have 150 Stars instead of 120 plus new levels, a multiplayer mode, and dozens of minigames.

And the added bonus of being able to play the game as Wario, Luigi, or Yoshi is nice too.
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Post by: Gleno on 10-13-2004 10:14
ok 2 games I'm hanging for now.... (http://img60.exs.cx/img60/9633/MKD_wp2_1280x1024.jpg)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-13-2004 11:24
Played Evil Genius, pretty good. If you played Dungeon Master back you'd love it.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-13-2004 16:17
I put this in the last thread.  NINTENDO DS FANS LOOK HERE (http://www.k-hausmann.de/webspace/futuramafreak.htm).

@Nasty Pasty: I spend most of my time torturing myself by watching and researching Nintendo DS and Halo 2 and I happen to know that that movie is 16 minutes!  :p

@totalneruk: Thank you!  Now I have someone agreeing with me on Xbox.

@Gleno: My friend rented that.  Pretty good, but I wouldn't recommend buying it.  He beat it in 2 days.
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Post by: Zeep on 10-13-2004 16:27
AFter finally geting my internet fixed, I'm back!


and i've been obsessing over the DS since may 11th at e3.

SM64DS looks awesome, as well as Metroid Prime: Hunters. The control scheme just looked so fucking amazing in the gamespot demonstration.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-13-2004 18:03
In SWG, there is an awesome option to have two professions at once. I decided I had enough of being in hunting groups that had no medic and getting the crap kicked out of them, so I decided to become one myself. They get tipped if they spend some time in the Medical Centre's and wait for the injured players to limp in.
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Post by: Gleno on 10-13-2004 18:28
 
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Originally posted by futuramafreak:
@Gleno: My friend rented that. Pretty good, but I wouldn't recommend buying it. He beat it in 2 days.

I assume you mean Prince Of Persia....well if I'd played the first one non stop I could have probably beaten it in 2 days as well (just ask Cube  :p )
But I'm still buying it.... :D
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Post by: Bushmeister on 10-14-2004 10:55
Evil Genius is indeed pretty nifty Nurdy, although the demo I played only allowed for a little bit of experimentation and the constant barrage of intruders was pretty annoying.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-14-2004 17:01
Bush: Yeah, I just managed to complete it though. Will only my Henchmen and the Genius left.

Anywho, I'm sure you'll like my latest SWG screenies. Especially Fazeshift.

(http://img98.exs.cx/img98/6164/screenShot0084.th.jpg) (http://img98.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img98&image=screenShot0084.jpg)

(http://img93.exs.cx/img93/1277/screenShot0085.th.jpg) (http://img93.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img93&image=screenShot0085.jpg)

(http://img97.exs.cx/img97/8009/screenShot0086.th.jpg) (http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&image=screenShot0086.jpg)

(http://img94.exs.cx/img94/6416/screenShot0087.th.jpg) (http://img94.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img94&image=screenShot0087.jpg)

Just a friendly Jedi PVP duel in the Cantina of Anchorhead called touche_station.

And something for Speli and the Scouttrooper fans.
 http://img73.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img73&image=screenShot0088.jpg (http://img73.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img73&image=screenShot0088.jpg)
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-14-2004 20:08
 
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Originally posted by Gleno:
 I assume you mean Prince Of Persia....well if I'd played the first one non stop I could have probably beaten it in 2 days as well (just ask Cube   :p )
But I'm still buying it....  :D

No, Mortal Kombat is easily beaten (sp?).
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-15-2004 00:06
Uh, hello? Jedi!
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Post by: M0le on 10-15-2004 00:45
[Chalmers]Yes, hello, Nurdy.[/Chalmers]
Any option of a black lightsabre?  :p
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Post by: winna on 10-15-2004 00:57
 
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Originally posted by futuramafreak:
 No, Mortal Kombat is easily beaten (sp?).

Are we talking about Deception, or Deadly Alliance though?

Also, I was wondering if Deception had a whole bunch of extra stuff kinda like DA did; I have very little information about Deception, but IGN said it was a superhyped up game even though I only heard about it, when it came out....  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-15-2004 01:02
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
[Chalmers]Yes, hello, Nurdy.[/Chalmers]
Any option of a black lightsabre?   :p
Maybe. The colour of the crystal you choose when you build the lightsabre depends.

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Post by: winna on 10-15-2004 01:12
I actually went to IGN and looked up a review for Mortal Kombat: Deception (under its XBox title, it also comes in Cube and PS2 flavors), and it sounded like a whole lot of game with extra stuff and online playability.

Anyways here's a quote about one of the aspects of gameplay:
 
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Originally written by IGN:
Easily the largest area of the game, Konquest can take as many as 20-30 hours to complete; and even then, the chances that you'll successfully complete all your missions are slim and none.

And your friend beat it in a day you said futuramafreak?  :nono:  ;)
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Post by: Gleno on 10-15-2004 02:37
Yeah what gives, Winna and others go to the official site and dload the 10 minute interview with Ed Boon....he goes on about all the new features and whatnot....there's no way you could unlock everything in 2 days unless you cheat....

And the online play has me salivating....no more letting my Dad win anymore....!  :D
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-15-2004 04:19
I got a demo of Medal of Honour: Pacific assault with 28 days - Extremist makeover. Only played it once, and besdies some issues with genericy, seems awesome. Didn't take any screenies, but if anyone really wants some, i'll see what i can do.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-15-2004 06:52
Hmmm, so we may have a MoH that might beat the 4 years old Allied Assault?
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-15-2004 21:17
I pirated StyleXP and downloaded the new update for my Xbox theme, so there are only 2 things on my computer that don't look like an Xbox- Trillian and iTunes.  Or maybe other programs, but I think those are the only ones with independent themes.
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Post by: Jicannon on 10-15-2004 21:25
I am greatly anticipating the release of the new Zelda  :D It looks so sweet...it isn't cell shaded (not that I didn't like Wind Waker, it was awesome, but I'd like to see a game using the full potential of the GameCube) and it features Adult Link.  :D
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-15-2004 21:41
If anyone is interested in my Xbox theme:

Desktop (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img19&image=XboxDesktop.jpg)
Example of title bar and such (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img19&image=XboxPaintWindow.jpg)
New Start Menu (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img91&image=XboxDesktopNewStartMenu.jpg)
One of the few things not Xbox, my logon screen (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img91&image=NewLogonScreen.jpg)
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Post by: Alliteration on 10-15-2004 21:42
Sweet stuff futuramafreak!

Incidentally, I can't wait for Halo 2!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-16-2004 03:59
I did several more things interesting today on SWG, I advanced the last skill of the Marksman pistol skills (70000 exp, that was a climb!) I discovered that Medics have to make there own Stimpacks and HAM wound repair packs and I finally located that damn Mos Entha Speeder Race Track. Though I never beat it, I was 50 seconds behind the last player. Anywho, here's some screenies of one of the hundreds of Point's of Interests in SWG.

This is the Larr's Homestead. Or was.

(http://img9.exs.cx/img9/4727/screenShot0091.th.jpg) (http://img9.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img9&image=screenShot0091.jpg)

This was once the courtyard of the underground homestead, now filled with sand due to the many sandstorms Tatooine has.

(http://img71.exs.cx/img71/5775/screenShot93.th.jpg) (http://img71.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img71&image=screenShot93.jpg)
I think there are the gravestones of Owen, Beru, Shimi, Shimi's husband (Forgot his name) his first wife and his brother who was killed in a landspeeder accident.

(http://img79.exs.cx/img79/8793/screenShot0093.th.jpg) (http://img79.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img79&image=screenShot0093.jpg)

This is the entrance to the Homestead, now scorched by the fire the Stormtroopers left behind (Or blown up by Beru is you watched Troopers).

Now, SWG has some pretty good POI and some pretty bad. I rate this one 1-7, it could have been a lot better. For example, I never knew those were graves until I looked it up. There should be more fire damage, debris and a few broken moisture vapours and droids. Oh, and realisticly who'd bury Owen and Larrs? they're in the middle of the freaking Dune Sea! it'd be cooler to see there half burried charred Skeletons in the sand.

Oh, and this last screenie is very good. A Podracer, but if you look closer half of it has items from other things skillfully attached to it. Still, I loved this and thought this should have been a POI. It's located near Beggar's Canyon where the Mos Entha Swooper track is.

(http://img99.exs.cx/img99/1989/screenShot0094.th.jpg) (http://img99.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img99&image=screenShot0094.jpg)
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-16-2004 06:15
 
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there are only 2 things on my computer that don't look like an Xbox
I'm trying the opposite. Getting a desktop environment on an Xbox  :p

Nurdy, are many of the players in SWG really zealous, take it too seriously? That's the first thing i expected from it as soon as i heard of the concept...
I wish i could just damn well play it myself to find out.  :p
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-16-2004 06:34
Rage: I know it's the future but I can't imagine some stranger stopping off at this farm in the middle of nowhere and burying two charred skeletons.

As for the Gravestones, wound you know what they where?
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Post by: fry2006 on 10-16-2004 07:33
Hehe, played a Burnout 3 demo when I went to preorder my 2nd copy of Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2 at Best Buy. Slow-motion takedowns rock.

Anyways, anyone seen the new Halo 2 page? Too hard to decode...
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-16-2004 07:59
Regarding the Gravestones:

Would it be that hard to imagine that Luke had burried his caretakers before he returned to Obi-Wan? Perhaps the family had their headstones already made. Like the Flanders.
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Post by: Coilette on 10-16-2004 08:11
Just bought Star Wars Battlefront.... and checked too late to see that it need directx 9.0c.... which I can't bleepin well install!!!

*smashes things*

I also bought Empire Earth (at a very reasonable £9.99), I remember how much fun I had chargin in with some battle bots and watching with amusement as several knights tried in vain to get through the armour.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-16-2004 09:40
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Regarding the Gravestones:

Would it be that hard to imagine that Luke had burried his caretakers before he returned to Obi-Wan? Perhaps the family had their headstones already made. Like the Flanders.
Nah, I think Luke left after seeing the Homestead burn. The Imps may have left something behind anyway.

There's also a burnt out Sandcrawler near Mos Eisley.

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Post by: M0le on 10-18-2004 00:20
I'd imagine that Luke or Obi Wan were the ones who buried Owen and Beru. Do the sandstorm events actually happen or are they just imagined?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-18-2004 00:33
The Sandstorm's randomly happen, the planets each have different weather patterns. As for the burrying of corpses, you may be right but I still think the graves are generic.

Anywho, a tour around my little homestead in SWG. I live in a Village SE of Mos Eisley so I'm never far from the action. All objects are mine and have been placed where I wish them to be placed.

(http://img39.exs.cx/img39/6704/screenShot103.th.jpg) (http://img39.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img39&image=screenShot103.jpg)
Have a glance around for my weapons rack.

(http://img49.exs.cx/img49/6704/screenShot103.th.jpg) (http://img49.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img49&image=screenShot103.jpg)

(http://img91.exs.cx/img91/6764/screenShot0103.th.jpg) (http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=screenShot0103.jpg)
A data terminal, for all my PEELing and pornographic needs.

(http://img93.exs.cx/img93/2176/screenShot0104.th.jpg) (http://img93.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img93&image=screenShot0104.jpg)

Ever see a Speederbike do this?: http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&image=screenShot0096.jpg (http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&image=screenShot0096.jpg)

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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-18-2004 03:11
 
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Originally posted by Coilette:
Just bought Star Wars Battlefront.... and checked too late to see that it need directx 9.0c.... which I can't bleepin well install!!!

*smashes things*

I also bought Empire Earth (at a very reasonable £9.99), I remember how much fun I had chargin in with some battle bots and watching with amusement as several knights tried in vain to get through the armour.

How come you can't install DirectX9thingythingy?  :confused:
It'd be great if you could, I'd love to give you a game on Battlefront  :)
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Post by: Coilette on 10-18-2004 09:57
I have no idea, it keeps on blabing about 'this product has not past the windows logo test'. StuartB has been very helpful with this problem and provided links to solutions, however I don't have the XP cd to uninstall directx with.

On topic: Star Wars battlefront does look like an amazingly fun game. To pass the time I've been playing Diablo 2 online (as people in #fc can testify). I now have a level 50 Barbarian that does 194 - 410 damage  :D
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-18-2004 12:31
I found this for you (http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Techsupport&message.id=178040) - may or may not help. Doesn't seem to require the XP cd (unless I'm reading something wrong - which is a distinct possibility)
And it's probably something Stu's already suggested. Hope it helps though  :)
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-18-2004 13:06
 
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Originally posted by Coilette:
I have no idea, it keeps on blabing about 'this product has not past the windows logo test'. StuartB has been very helpful with this problem and provided links to solutions, however I don't have the XP cd to uninstall directx with.

Sorry if I'm retreading ground Stuart B has already covered, but is there a "Continue Anyway" option when you're installing the drivers? If it's a WHQL message, and the one I'm thinking of, I'd just ignore it. Microsoft takes far too long to certify drivers, so they're usually a couple of releases behind.

However, if it's happening when you run the game, or in the DXDiag control panel, then that points to something more complicated.

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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-18-2004 13:34
Heh, Liberty City:
(http://img75.exs.cx/img75/248/ahcrap.th.jpg) (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=ahcrap.jpg)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-18-2004 13:45
Ah, is that new new build for GTA3?
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-18-2004 15:13
This (http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/topic.asp?fid=2348&tid=1506235) makes me very happy.  :cry:  :D
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-18-2004 15:58
Nasty: Nope, thats Liberty City, a total map conversion of Vice City to Liberty City.

CK: Thank Bob!
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Post by: Coilette on 10-18-2004 16:13
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
 Sorry if I'm retreading ground Stuart B has already covered, but is there a "Continue Anyway" option when you're installing the drivers?


Unfortunately there is no option to 'skip'. That is what ia so frustrating. I'll hopefully figure it out with some help with others though.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-18-2004 16:17
 :cry:
You heartless bastards!? Not even a complement, I slave all day as a Novice Carabineer who gets his ass kicked by men wielding staffs! I can't afford a damn Jabba's Palace!
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-18-2004 16:55
Coilette and CK: why would there be a WHQL thingy for DirectX 9.0c? It's Microsoft software!  :confused:

The directx 9.0c installer file I downloaded was about 33.4 MB's, I believe I got it from here (http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=directx_9c_redist.exe&size=35113704).
Although I did install it fresh with a slipstreamed XP & SP2 install...  :p
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-18-2004 17:25
9.0c also comes with Battlefront, like it has that option after normal installation it says "blah blah blah needs DirectX9.0c to run, would you like to install DirectX 9.0c now?"
That's how I got 9.0c onto my system and I've have no problems what so ever. I seriously don;t know why it should be throwing up the WHQL malarky.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-18-2004 22:52
 
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Coilette and CK: why would there be a WHQL thingy for DirectX 9.0c? It's Microsoft software!   :confused:

You'd be suprised.  ;) I've seen Microsoft Hardware stuff throw up the WHQL message in the past - to be honest I think it's silly - like a lot of things Microsoft, it causes people to worry unnecessarily about something completely trivial.

Of course, the biggy for that one is "This computer has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" - I wonder how many people have turned off their machines for good for fear of the police breaking down their door!  ;)

Coilette, that is indeed strange.  :confused: Does it happen when you're running the setup? What's the exact message?

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Post by: M0le on 10-18-2004 23:38
Your house looks nice Nurdy, a little bit on the dry side though. Are Player-owned cities up yet?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-19-2004 00:03
Yeah, they've been around for a while now.
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Post by: Coilette on 10-19-2004 10:16
Knight: it is the same as all WHQL messages, except there is no 'continue anyway button'. After I select 'stop installation' it comes up with a message saying 'this game requires 9.0c and will not be installed'

I'm trying out the link Faze suggested *crosses fingers*

I pre-ordered a copy of Everquest 2 last night, this game looks like much fun  :)
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Post by: Jicannon on 10-19-2004 10:21
I got another copy of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast last night after I accidentally threw away my other one  :)/ :cry:
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Post by: Stuart B on 10-19-2004 10:30
To be honest Coils, I'd be starting to think about a complete backup--reformat--reinstall to be honest  :(
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Post by: Coilette on 10-19-2004 10:42
Panic over, that link that Faze gave me worked a treat  :)

Thanks everyone who gave me advice, especially Stu, who was a great help. I shall now never see the light of day until Saturday, playing either Sims 2 or Star Wars, Battlefront
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Post by: Bushmeister on 10-19-2004 11:54
Ah another person who was succumbed to the Sims 2. Whenever I begin playing that game, I seem to always end up only noticing the time hours later.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-19-2004 12:15
I'll admit to being a closet Sims 2 player as well.   :cry:

Because, uh, I like building and stuff. Manly stuff like that. Yeah.   ;)

However, I've refused to play the game for a couple of weeks now due to the infamous (or maybe not) "Jumping Bug". That's the one where your characters "jump" out of interactions, and is theorised to be caused by overflowing the memory count (which has apparently been set as an unsigned byte).

So until Maxis produce the patch to fix this, my Sims will remain in limbo.

BTW, glad to hear Coilette fixed her problem. Sounds like a corrupted DirectX installation to me (sometimes I get fed up of Microsoft "integrating" stuff into their OS, like TCP/IP, DirectX, etc).
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Post by: Stuart B on 10-19-2004 12:50
Due to being hugely poor at the moment, I can't sink any cash into the gaming delights offered by The Sims 2, Rome: Total War, or any of the others.

So, I've been playing through the classic LucasArts adventures on the insanely wonderful ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org)
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-19-2004 13:09
Talking about old games I tried setting up Open TTD but nothing I did wanted to work. GAH!

That's great news Coils. Enjoy!  :D

Fancy a game sometime now you've got it working?  :)
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Post by: Stuart B on 10-19-2004 13:12
Zed: do you have the data files from the Windows version of TT Deluxe?

EDIT: w00t! Starship Captain! I name this ship the SS Suicidal Insanity in tribute to the late Douglas Adams!
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-19-2004 13:39
@Stu:Well no, all I had was the original DOS Transport Tycoon (that I bought ages ago) so that didn't work. So I tried to download the Deluxe 95 version (thinking it's not in the shops...). And then it didn't want to install! At which point I bounced off the walls!

Anyway, I have a slightly older TTD"Patch" that -does- work on the one upstairs, so when I want to re-live the good ol' days, I just fire that up, put the cheats in and go!  :)
I liked the look of OpenTTD, but I may as well wait till the sequal comes out.

I tried it again, it worked first time, how the bloody hell...!?!

Da, Kul!  :D
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-19-2004 17:12
These screenies have been floating around my folder for some time, enjoy.

(http://img87.exs.cx/img87/4901/screenShot0107.th.jpg) (http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=screenShot0107.jpg)
A Medical Droid in action.

(http://img26.exs.cx/img26/8254/screenShot0109.th.jpg) (http://img26.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img26&image=screenShot0109.jpg)
4-LOM!

(http://img93.exs.cx/img93/888/screenShot0079.th.jpg) (http://img93.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img93&image=screenShot0079.jpg)
Hanging around in the lobby of the Mos Eisley Cantina.

(http://img94.exs.cx/img94/9103/screenShot0061.th.jpg) (http://img94.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img94&image=screenShot0061.jpg)
The great hall of Theed Palace.
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Post by: PCC Fred on 10-19-2004 18:20
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
However, I've refused to play the game for a couple of weeks now due to the infamous (or maybe not) "Jumping Bug". That's the one where your characters "jump" out of interactions, and is theorised to be caused by overflowing the memory count (which has apparently been set as an unsigned byte).

So until Maxis produce the patch to fix this, my Sims will remain in limbo.

"The Sims" and it's various addons are some of the buggiest games I've ever played.  "Unleashed" was particularly bad, and when I downloaded the Maxis patch for the game, it resulted in further problems that rendered the game virutally unplayable.

Right now I've got "The Sims" and "Vacation" installed, the other addons I have are gathering dust on the shelf until I work up the enthusiasm to take them to a second hand shop.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-20-2004 00:05
I gave up on the Sim's after the 5th Expansion Pack was released.
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Post by: M0le on 10-20-2004 00:09
Does anybody have Sims 2 here?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-20-2004 00:11
Read the last page M0le, several PEELer's have it.

Someone, please talk about my screenies?
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-20-2004 01:18
 
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Originally posted by PCC Fred:
 "The Sims" and it's various addons are some of the buggiest games I've ever played.  "Unleashed" was particularly bad, and when I downloaded the Maxis patch for the game, it resulted in further problems that rendered the game virutally unplayable.

Right now I've got "The Sims" and "Vacation" installed, the other addons I have are gathering dust on the shelf until I work up the enthusiasm to take them to a second hand shop.


I've got five of the packs:



I didn't bother with Superstar or Makin' Magic, because frankly by that time it was getting ridiculous.

I always felt that Vacation was the worst of the bunch, though. Half the objects don't even have proper descriptions in the catalog.  Hot Date annoyed me because it made social relationships so much harder to maintain (in the original Sims, I always used to just queue up a whole load of Talk/Joke/Hug interactions to produce a friend, which won't work in Hot Date). Unleashed, I actually felt was good value for money. Not only did you get pets, finally, but the Old Town lots (no need for cash to go downtown).

The Sims 2 is a fantastic step up, in my opinion, but this bug is so obvious, and will eventually hit everybody, that it's thrown the question of whether Maxis and EA actually did any playtesting on the game.

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Post by: Cyberman on 10-20-2004 10:46
Anyone have Fable? If not, you must get this game. You won't be disapointed.

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Post by: Kloudes on 10-20-2004 14:09
I just got the Sims 2 and I haven't yet noticed this "jumping bug".  What exactly is the issue and is it universal, or just when you use a certain object or interaction?  Is it something that will permanently mess up a saved family? (Because I had major issues with that in the first Sims.)
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-20-2004 14:23
The major symtom of the bug is that Sims are no longer able to "Talk" (the pure "Talk" interaction). This affects:



And basically any interaction where the afflicted Sim "chats" with other Sims. Unfortunately it appears this bug can also "infect" other family members. What happens is that the Sim will begin the interaction, but before it can initiate, the Sims will "jump", as the game appears to default out of a corrupted action.

As far as it being universal, it appears to occur when your Sims live longer than they should (either through aging_off or The Elixer of Life). However, several people have reported getting this glitch without using either of those things.

It may or may not cause irrevocable harm to the family. It all depends on the patch which Maxis is working on - if there's a way to "upgrade", so to speak, v1.0 families to v1.1 without losing any data, then it shouldn't be a problem. However, Maxis may end up saying that any families from before the patch are a lost cause - personally I don't think they'd do this, as by the time the patch is (rumoured) to be released, early November, the game will have been out for 6 weeks.  I doubt telling people that they've lost the families and storylines they've accumulated during that time would be a huge PR coup for Maxis.
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Post by: Kloudes on 10-20-2004 14:42
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
This affects:

  • WooHooing
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Anyway, thank you.  That's very helpful.   And bad considering how I like to take advantage of the elixer of life. 
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-20-2004 15:53
The annoying thing is, that Woohooing itself isn't affected. It's the automatic talking thing which happens when you tell two Sims to Relax or to Sit in Hot Tub.

However, there is apparently a way around this - if you go to a community lot, and tell one Sim to Try On clothes, and then, while they're in the booth, get the other sim to "WooHoo in public", you can still produce children (although more rarely).
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Post by: Kloudes on 10-20-2004 16:55
The automatic talking, like at the dinner table, etc, is about the only thing that keeps their social meters up when I play (I.. uh... suck at keeping Sims happy). Where are you getting the news about the progress of the patch from? I should probably keep an eye out. 

Oh, and I haven't experimented at all yet with community lots, so I didn't even know their was an option to "WooHoo in Public", but that is fantastic.  :)
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-20-2004 18:24
Largely from thesims2.ea.com, on the BBS. But there's not much - Maxis themselves don't moderate the boards, but there is a feedback form if you have the bug (or any other for that matter).

Personally, I've always felt that the game places too much emphasis on the "Social" meter - I certainly don't need human contact every day to keep me happy..... :p
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Post by: Kloudes on 10-20-2004 19:07
Ah, didn't check the BBS, just the news, which told me nothing.

I concur on the social aspect.  It also bugs me that you have to put in so much effort to keep friends.  I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have to call a friend every 3 days to keep from losing them.  That's probably one of the things that bothers me the most.
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Post by: winna on 10-20-2004 19:28
And you have friends?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-21-2004 04:45
Winna: Posting on a dead cartoon message board also crushes your street cred.

Holy crap! I discovered some of the newer ships for JTL, the new ships are on the list along with the other ships you can build and own:
Souped up Rebel Transport.
The Imperial Shuttle.
Z95 Headhunter.
Droid Ship from Episode 1.
The Medical Frigate.
Star Destroyers!
TIE Opressor.
3 Hutt Fighters. (small, medium and large)
The YT-1300.
X-Wing.
Y-Wing.
B-Wing.
A-Wing.
The Corellian Corvette (Tantive IV like ship).
Escape Pods.
TIE Fighter (2 models, one for training I expect)
TIE Bomber.
TIE Interceptor.
TIE Advanced (Vader's TIE Fighter).
TIE Agressor.
VT-409.
'The Lady Luck' Model Cruiser (Only for players who have subscribed for around 6 months)

I expect the bigger capital ships may be floating guild halls in space with guns, only formed guilds could get and operate them. I don't know but this add on pack will not be as bad as the usual add on's we see. We have 10 space sectors, 2 new species and nice amount of new content (Some more Imperial and Rebel Weapons, proper flightsuits with helmets etc) as well as the ability to customise your own ship's part and colours and as well as actually living and chatting with other friends in the bigger ships like the Falcon. It's release date is the 27th of October, and is so on my Christmas list.
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Post by: winna on 10-21-2004 19:55
Mmmm new ships ^_^
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-21-2004 20:31
 
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'The Lady Luck' Model Cruiser (Only for players who have subscribed for around 6 months)

Mmmm... Thrawn trilogy goodness.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-21-2004 20:40
TIE Oppressor? TIE Agressor?

Great. As if we didn't have enough TIE varients already...

TIE Fighters, Bombers, Interceptors, Advanced/Avengers, Defenders, Hunters, Phantoms, Tanks, Scimiters, Hunters, Tie/D Droids, and probably more I can't think of right now...

But... STAR DESTROYERS? Totally, unbelievably, awesome. I doubt you'll be able to carry out orbital bombadment on planets, but it's a fun mental image.
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Post by: Nixorbo on 10-21-2004 23:19
Does that list include the experimental TIEs from Xw:A?
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-21-2004 23:55
It might as well, though those things weren't production models. They didn't even have cool names. Silly things.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-22-2004 00:25
Nix: I expect so.

A few of the capital ships will not be unplayable for the time being, they have to sort some system out with them. I think they should use my suggestion and make the Capital ships Guildhalls for space.

SOE will promise a new ship for every update in the future, I hope or LucasArts will give them a good reaming. Either of the two would be fine come to think of it. The rest of the ships you can pilot to high heaven and back.

Slacky: It's for ballence, all The Rebel's have there precious shielded hyperspace ready fighters, so why not a few Experimental TIE Models?

I doubt these would be common to get, you'd need an assload of faction points.

They updated SWG's for JTL's code, we SWG: Empire Divided non beta chaps get 25 new emotes and emote animations as well as some new clothing. Which is about bloody time.

One of the new loading screens!

Give it a good read, especially if you are an Imperial fan.
(http://img62.exs.cx/img62/9889/screenShot0111.th.jpg) (http://img62.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img62&image=screenShot0111.jpg)
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-22-2004 00:56
While most of the TIE models are pretty miserable, the Advenced and Defender models completly own the rebel ships, in just about all areas (B-Wings are probably more heavely armed/shielded, but what does that matter when they'll be taking all the hits?). The later model Imp ships simply outclass the rebs.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-22-2004 01:07
Slacky: Like I said, the Advanced and all will cost a huge amount of faction points, 20-30k if I am not mistaken (You get 20-60 factions points every faction mission) so there won't be Squadrons of them all over the place.

I hope they include the Death Star wreckage in the Yavin Sector as a POI, I'd go there.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-24-2004 06:17
In the last month, or so, the only game i've been playing is SimCity 3000, you would think that, by now i'd be in the year 3400. But no, there seems to be some problem with my computer when it comes to running this, and even at the highest speed it still takes about 30 minutes for a year to go by.

Anyway, the year is 2035 and the city has just recently expanded over the river in the past 20 years. Ever since then, the populance has boomed and land values have skyrocketed, the treasury is bringing in 300,000 Simoleans a year, and the city is struggling to spend it all, even with the slow passing of time.
A disaster nearly occurred which involved the cheap-assed mayor realising that if he pushes the already malfunctioning Nuclear power plants just a little bit more, he could replace them with Microwave power stations instead and save a few bucks, besides a few freaked out citizens the plan worked perfectly, We're now eagerly awaiting the arrival of Fusion power plants.
Mass transit, schools, police, hospitals, parks are all the best in the region. There are more subway lines than roads.

Demand for residential and commercial zones is still high, even with the populance at 1,100,000.

Finally, here's the overview.
(http://img100.exs.cx/img100/7220/City.th.jpg) (http://img100.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img100&image=City.jpg)
That overly detailed description killed the necessary 20 minutes, now i can do something remotely worthwhile.  :p
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-24-2004 14:13
I got acess to Jabba the Hutt's Palace, with around 50k worth of cash and quite a few unique goodies. I'll get a screenie of Jabba and Boba Fett when they sort out the screwed textures left behind by Patch 11.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-26-2004 09:32
I just got GTA: SA.

First stop: Find the fastest car and explore the city.

This game is fucking amazing.
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Post by: termos on 10-26-2004 10:22
Rage Dump: Nice city, I also played the game a lot. When you realize that if you place the parks in a specific way, pretty much all land values will be astronomical. At that point, you will have more money than you can spend. Weird time problem you have though - I've never seen that.

I'm playing Gothic II yet again, the only RPG where orcs are actually dangerous. I love this game, it's full of exploration and side-quests. And it's also much more challenging than most other RPGs. Any Gothic II players in here at all?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-26-2004 11:44
A few SWG Screenies, oh and some JTL info.

Apparently, another playable Ship will be the Firespray (Slave 1 type in others words) which will be as hard to get as the Mandalarin armour of everyones favourite Bounty Hunters (8 bits of Schematic scattered throughout the Galaxy)

The first two images are taken, my avatar watching a Player Live Event which was the best PVP Fighter of the FarStar server. Winner got over a million credits.
(http://img78.exs.cx/img78/4052/screenShot0114.th.jpg) (http://img78.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img78&image=screenShot0114.jpg)

(http://img91.exs.cx/img91/7700/screenShot0115.th.jpg) (http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=screenShot0115.jpg)

Yes, I shouted the odd John 3:16 for nerd purposes.

(http://img88.exs.cx/img88/9527/screenShot0116.th.jpg) (http://img88.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img88&image=screenShot0116.jpg)
Standing infront of a Imperial Shuttle in the Theed Starport Docking bay.

(http://img84.exs.cx/img84/3186/screenShot0117.th.jpg) (http://img84.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img84&image=screenShot0117.jpg)
My character wearing a mixture of Ubese, Composite and Chitlin armour and firing a Tusken Rifle. Mmmm, diversity.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-26-2004 12:02
I've been getting into Zelda Wind Waker lately. Just finished the second dungeon, the forest one. Man that rules, one of the greatest dungeons ever! The whole vibe and atmosphere is amazing. Those butterfly/caterpillar things which shoot out their lava onto you; I found genuinely freaky as hell! I just wish the game would have gotten to this good stuff sooner. I was getting bored of this game before I even began, way too much set-up blah blah blah. The dungeons are the best bits, when you're alone with those horrible creatures...
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Post by: M0le on 10-27-2004 00:22
*Cries with sadness at not having SWG*
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-27-2004 00:39
*Cries with sadness at not having a good enough connection to play SWG*

*Reconciles in the fact that he's getting GTA:SA in a few days*
  :D

Nurdy, those first two scream "Antialias me!"   :p

Gaming news:


The only games on my list so far are Halo and Mechassault. (For the linux hack) Suggestions quite welcome, give me a brief description and name.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-27-2004 03:58
I hear Fable is pretty good, and I'd reccomend picking up Dead To Rights as well. I have it for Gamecube and it's an awesome game if you like cheesy cop movies.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 04:11
Oddly enough, you can play SWG on 56k. Better have a bitching graphics card and processor though.

Anti-Alias? I am confused, lord of FC.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-27-2004 04:18
 
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Rage Dump: Nice city, I also played the game a lot. When you realize that if you place the parks in a specific way, pretty much all land values will be astronomical. At that point, you will have more money than you can spend. Weird time problem you have though - I've never seen that.
I've got another problem now too, seems now that my city takes a month to start pumping water after loading a game, usually about 300,000 people leave when the find out that there's no water. It's just about unplayable now.

Nurdy: Yeah? Are 56kers repressed? The processor and video card should be good enough. I can run Doom3 on 'High' quality at about 25 FPS.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 04:22
Booze: That should do, I'd wait until Christmas though and get SWG and the Expansion pack JTL. Why? for the MMORPG new content bugs to be squished.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-27-2004 04:30
I'm not booze.   :p
And yeah, i probably will... I might even have a decent connection by then.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 10-27-2004 05:33
I tried playing Sim City 2000, but all my buildings turned to those horrible brown structures, and there were riots. Most of the city burnt down, and I blew up the rest of it with the bulldozer except for the Mayor's house and the ten or so police stations surrounding it. The newspaper said something about the need for a fire station, but it was a bit late.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 05:34
Also, feel free to join the FarStar server. It's where I live.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-27-2004 05:49
 
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I tried playing Sim City 2000, but all my buildings turned to those horrible brown structures, and there were riots. Most of the city burnt down, and I blew up the rest of it with the bulldozer except for the Mayor's house and the ten or so police stations surrounding it. The newspaper said something about the need for a fire station, but it was a bit late.
Get SimCity 3000, you can turn disasters off.  :p
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 06:26
What's on your Christmas lists then?

Mine:

Jump To Lightspeed.
Battlefield 2.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour.
Battlefield Vietnam.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-27-2004 06:33
New video card.
More RAM
Pre-ordered Jade Empire.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-27-2004 06:48
San Andreas
POP2
Er, a new computer would be nice, but I don't see that happening anytime soon...
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 10-27-2004 07:01
Wish list (for games- I will provide myself with a killah graphics card):
Half-Life 2
NFSU 2

...that, combined with Thief 1,2 and 3 + Unreal and Morrowind should keep me busy for a while...
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-27-2004 11:22
Nothing on my Christmas list, because jack shit came out for the Cube this year...

I have a few games on my list for next years Christmas though...

Mario 128
Super Monkey Ball 3
new Zelda game

*shakes fist*
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Post by: ghoulishmoose on 10-27-2004 11:30
I'm sticking Mario Party 6 on my Christmas list for this year. And for next year, I'm the same as Otis. I cant wait for a new Monkey Ball, and I'm sure Mario 128 will be great. The only one of that list I wont add is Zelda. I've never played any Zelda game yet. But I'd like to  :)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-27-2004 11:35
Xmas List:
-Metroid Prime 2
-Some DS games
-The Sims 2
-Paper Mario 2
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-27-2004 11:38
Wish list:

GTA : San Andreas (for the PC!!!!!!!!!)   :mad:
Legend of Zelda : Untitled (Gamecube)
GeForce 6800 Ultra
Half-Life 2

Christmas List:

None of those, because I ain't waiting till December 25th for HL2 and the 6800U, and GTASA PC and LoZ won't be out till next year.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-27-2004 11:41
Yo, by the way.

It says on my GTA:SA box that it is for 1-2 players.

What the fuck? I had no idea!
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-27-2004 11:43
Half-Life 2
Battle For Middle Earth

When is Halo 2 coming to PC?

Oh baby, Samuel L. Jackson is doing a voice for San Andreas!!  :eek:  :love:
Hot diggity.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-27-2004 11:47
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Yo, by the way.

It says on my GTA:SA box that it is for 1-2 players.

What the fuck? I had no idea!

Apparently there are little rampage-style missions where somebody can pick up the second controller and play. As well as being able to play pool against them.

I'll admit, I sold my soul and have bought SA for the PS2 (my housemate has one, but he's too cheap to buy it himself, so we split the cost). Stupid European release date.

Of note is the fact that all the retailers seem to be sold out of it!
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 10-27-2004 11:47
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
It says on my GTA:SA box that it is for 1-2 players.

I'm pretty sure that's a mistake.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 12:01
Has anyone here got HL2? I wanna hear about it first hand.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-27-2004 13:02
It's not out for another three weeks but I'll tell you:
They've completely replaced everything with fighting chipmonks, and it's now a 3rd person, text based strategy dance game with vampires and horny sailor robots.
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Post by: termos on 10-27-2004 15:33
At least it's original...

3rd person AND text based? Interesting...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-27-2004 17:41
With lots of / commands too?
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-27-2004 18:48
Interesting.  No wait that other thing...tedious.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-27-2004 19:11
It can be two things!

Instead of typing "go forward 10 paces", you type, "go 10 paces on the x-axis, 5 paces on the y axis and 2 paces on the z-axis.... and kill futuramafreak for being a twat"   :p
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Post by: winna on 10-27-2004 19:19
you forgot "rape the dog with magical item found in the 3rd dungeon" bit....  :rolleyes:
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-27-2004 19:28
 
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I'm pretty sure that's a mistake.

It's not. I've read a review or two, and they definately talk about a two player feature. Like CK said, it's pretty much for mini-missions and stuff.

No online support, though.

 
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3rd person AND text based? Interesting...

What? Never played Space Quest 1?  :p
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Post by: futuramafreak on 10-27-2004 19:38
For a person like me, I don't buy many video games.  The only game on my Christmas list right now is Paper Mario 2, for I've reserved Halo 2 and I'm buying my DS games when I pick it up.  Maybe Voodoo Vince...

[edit] Oh and of course if we weren't counting just games, but accessories too, I want an Xbox Live-Compatible switch and the Logitech Cordless Action Contoller for PS2.
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Post by: FishyJoe on 10-27-2004 23:06
Crap. All these awesome games and systems are sneaking up on me. The DS, Metroid Prime 2, and Mario Tennis all come out next month. There's no way I can afford all this crap.  :(

Maybe I can convince someone to get me Metroid and/or Mario Tennis for christmas, or something.
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Post by: M0le on 10-28-2004 00:09
Christmas List:
Half Life 2
Halo 2
GTA: San Andreas (PC)
Some sort of MP3 Player
SWG
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Post by: Rage Dump on 10-28-2004 03:00
Just got a call from EBgames, they got thier copies of GTA:SA a day early. And since i paid for express delivery, i should have it by tomorrow, beating the weekend.
Booyakasha!

EDIT: Zed, i love you.
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Post by: airbagfailure on 10-28-2004 03:14
Christmas List-
Big day out ticket
MONEY for my trip
the sims 2


the only video game i ever managed to finish was Phantasy Star on the sega.. man that was an awesome adventure game....
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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-28-2004 03:19
Luckily it seems that the PC version's been brought forward to May or something like that in Q2, which is much better than what it was. Hey, me and Meri made a two player game out of VC. We'd take it in turns to do missions.

Oh incidentally, anyone who's a fan of the Jedi Knight series should be aware that a new Dark Forces Mod demo for Jedi Academy is out. Looks fantastic  :)
Clicky (http://darkforces.jediknight.net/index.shtml)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-28-2004 04:17
M0le: Join us my Aussie friend, we shall b0rk the Galaxy Together!
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Post by: Bushmeister on 10-28-2004 13:03
Half-Life 2 and Rome : Total War are both high on my list, just below the upgrades I need to be able to actually play them  :(

On my GC, I'll definitely get PoP 2 and Paper Mario 2, it's a bitch that Mario Tennis isn't coming out in Europe until after Christmas though (I think).
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-28-2004 13:11
Interesting that MGS3 isn't on anybody's list.....
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-28-2004 14:00
Well, the MG series has toppled a bit and has a few new rivals to compete with now.

Saw my first player Ithorian yesterday in SWG (You can see and speak to users of JTL and buy the items and sell things to JTL but you cannont go into space) and tipped him 1k. Waiting for the first player Sullustian too.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-28-2004 14:01
I still haven't played the first two.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-28-2004 14:04
I think MGS2 kind of made people a little more skeptical about the next sequel. It was still a fantastic game, but the overabundance of cutscenes (and especially Codec sequences) was it's downfall, I feel.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-28-2004 14:06
Man, those lucky gits who have the Sorusub Lady Luck Ships. I bet in the future they will tour people around the galaxy in them and rub there noses in the fact they have an awesome Cruiser and most of us will have 2nd hand TIE Fighters and Z-95 Headhunters.

They can't be destroyed as well, so these guys can go anywhere! They can plonk down in the PVP Sector and watch Faction's tear each other apart for there own leisure.

Also, The Falcon is only for Neutal non factional players. Dammit, I knew I should have stayed Neutral.
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 10-30-2004 01:27
San Andreas seems to be pretty standard in terms of GTA chaos and rampaging.  They've upped the violence factor slightly, and I'm finding the new city to be harder to navigate than, say, Vice or Liberty City what with the limited access highways, railroads, and drainage ditches.  Police bikes also make getaways more difficult since they can shoot submachine guns at you on the fly.  The new "food" factor as well as skill levels that increase with experience are pretty enticing as well.  As is the fact that C.J, unlike his predecessors, can swim.

Still, there's a lot of damage for me and C.J. to do.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 10-30-2004 01:51
The worst thing I could find about SA in the hour or so I played was the colouring... what tastes like orange?

And the sub-par graphics etc, but that isn't why you play GTA games.

I liked the pedal bike, though it took a bit of getting used to. I actually failed the first mission where you follow the gang members.

And I can't use the D-pad to move anymore!   :cry:
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Post by: mikey on 10-30-2004 02:21
Its almost too much to handle at once. I know my way around the block, but now Ive got 4 different mission guys on at once its just so hard to get around. Its a great game.


Ive been playing for about 2 hours and I still dont really have my bearings. I know where I am if I'm within a burb of Ganton.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-30-2004 03:26
 
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Originally posted by Bushmeister:
 On my GC, I'll definitely get PoP 2 and Paper Mario 2, it's a bitch that Mario Tennis isn't coming out in Europe until after Christmas though (I think).

You're kidding me?  :mad:

*adds another game to next years christmas list*  :p
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Post by: Tweek on 10-30-2004 03:38
 
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You're fighting a Gnollish Crossdresser

You focus your Wizardliness through your staff.
FUMBLE! You drop your chrome staff on your foot, doing 11 damage.

He quickly applies mascara, blush ,and foundation to you. Guerrilla Makeover! Ouch! Ugh!

 You lose 2 hit points.

Kingdom of Loathing cracks me up  :laff:

Any PEELers playing might want to join The Clan of PEEL you'll get three extra adventures and 500 meat each day, also access to the junk I put in the clan stash  :p
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-30-2004 04:00
 
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
The worst thing I could find about SA in the hour or so I played was the colouring... what tastes like orange?

And that mini-map. Gah!

[Chandler Bing]Could those icons be any more difficult to see?[/CB]

 
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And the sub-par graphics etc, but that isn't why you play GTA games.

I think the car graphics are much improved. It almost looks cel-shaded in places to me.

 
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And I can't use the D-pad to move anymore!     :cry:

My personal control qualm : Not being able to use L1 to change the radio stations anymore.

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Post by: Zed 85 on 10-30-2004 04:22
Which is why I'm content to wait till it comes out for the PC...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-30-2004 04:31
Indeed, VC was much better for the PC.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 10-30-2004 05:22
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
And that mini-map. Gah!

[Chandler Bing]Could those icons be any more difficult to see?[/CB]
Oh yes. Quite annoying. I couldn't see where the bloody tags were meant to be... I'm guessing it will get this will better/easier the more I play it though.

I can't wait another 2 1/2 weeks to get my hands on it again now...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-30-2004 05:34
So, only Halo 2 is left.
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Post by: zoidyzoid on 10-30-2004 07:03
Question: will Doom 3 and/or Half-Life 2 run (by which I mean give me a playable framerate at ultra-low detail and the worst possible resolution) with my pathetic GeForce 4 MX? It's some sort of crappy 32MB integrated GPU version. The rest of my PC isn't too laughable; 1 Gig of RAM, Athlon XP 2600+ 1.91 GHz. I can't justify- or afford, for that matter- a video card upgrade right now.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-30-2004 07:18
I doubt Doom 3 would run at an acceptable FPS. Half-Life 2 should be runnable; Valve have said in many interviews that their intention is to make the game ultra-scalable. However, I'd wait until there are some real-world tests for evidence.
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Post by: wu_konguk on 10-30-2004 11:01
Well I just got the latest issue of Edge today (a UK games magazine). Throughotu the magazines history they have only give ten out of ten to very few games. These games had to be considered exception. In this issue Half life 2 has entered a small group that includes Mario 64, Legend of Zelda Ocharina of time, Halo and one of the Gran Turismo'. Now I am not one to usually go by review but Edge has never steared me wrong yet.

Anywya my point is that this is a game that has got ten out of ten from a magazine who rarely awards such high marks (unlike some magazines who praise a game becuase it is popular).
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Post by: zoidyzoid on 10-30-2004 19:00
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
I doubt Doom 3 would run at an acceptable FPS. Half-Life 2 should be runnable; Valve have said in many interviews that their intention is to make the game ultra-scalable. However, I'd wait until there are some real-world tests for evidence.

Thanks for the advice. Luckily I was more excited about HL2, so that's kind of good news. But yeah, I'll wait until I know for sure- hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on a demo soon.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-30-2004 20:03
Best thing to do with Doom 3 is download the demo and give that a try. It's worth a shot, at least (I'm only running a Ti4600 and I can run that at Medium settings fairly well).
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 10-30-2004 20:08
I was wondering could anyone fill me in on that Futuremark 3D Mark program thing, I downloaded the trial version/demo thing and ran the test but I was getting such a shitty framerate of ~1 FPS!!

Now, I thought I had built me a pretty top end machine but now I have the feeling my GFX card is holding it all back, a PNY GeForce FX 5600 256MB which was sent to me as a replacement for a broken Geforce 4 ti4200.

The rest: Athlon 64 3800+, 512MB's DRAM, 120GB 7200rpm HD, MSI mobo with all the bits and bobs.

Could it be the lack of cooling? Need a new SATA HD or RAM?  :confused:

I ask because I'm currently NOT running all my games at high graphics and settings, and Doom III and Halo at surprisingly low levels...  :(
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 10-30-2004 23:24
 
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Originally posted by mikey:
Its almost too much to handle at once. I know my way around the block, but now Ive got 4 different mission guys on at once its just so hard to get around. Its a great game.

Ive been playing for about 2 hours and I still dont really have my bearings. I know where I am if I'm within a burb of Ganton.

On the mission where you have to save "Slim" or whatever his name was and his girlfriend, I couldn't figure out where to pick up the gun, so I ran over all the bad guys with a police motorcycle.  Squishing a bunch of gang-bangers with an inline police bike is not my proudest moment, but I still managed to pass the mission.
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Post by: mikey on 10-30-2004 23:37
Yeah, I use the weapons cheats. Im on this one called "Wrong side of the tracks". Its a bitch.

*gets thrown at with stuff from nerds*
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 10-30-2004 23:55
You cheaty bastard!  You're wrecking the purity of the medium.

Seriously though, dude, what are they?
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-30-2004 23:55
While the city stuff is all pretty standard GTA fare, some of the real fun starts once you end up trapsing all over the countryside. Seriously, there's crazy slopes everywhere, and when you're hurtling down cliffs on a trail bike, swerving through woodlands whilst  trying to escape the police... your brain is in a very happy place. There's also much less orange (that's mostly around Los Santos, anywhere. San Fierro a lot cleaner).

And I'm sure it's been said before, but the Soundtrack's no where near as good as VC's. Still okay though. At least there's a classic rock station. And the german DJ for the house station is hilarious.      :D

Oh yes... and I enjoyed the mission where you steal a combine havester from a 'survivalist' compound a little too much...
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Post by: mikey on 10-31-2004 00:20
weapon set 1: R1 R2 L1 R2 Left down right up, left down right up
weapon set 2: R1 R2 L1 R2 Left down right up, left down down left.
weapon set 3: R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up, left down down down.

I like to mix up which one I use.

I got on the boat and I crossed into san fierro, but all the sudden I had 4 stars and got taken down like clockwork. Has anyone done that "Lifes a beach" mission where you have to dance. I kicked serious ass.
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 10-31-2004 00:31
Crap, wrong button.

Look at the times though.  Creepy Halloween magic or Daylight Savings Time shenanigans?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 10-31-2004 00:54
Apparantly if you cross into any of the "locked" cities you immediately get four stars.  That's less cheesy than that barricade between the islands in GTA:III.  I want to know what kind of heat they bring if you steal a plane from Los Santos Int'l.
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Post by: Pitt Clemens on 10-31-2004 02:06
I love Rez.  I'm seriously considdering buying a new PS2 just to play it.  Here's a great game synopsys of it:
 
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Game Synopsis:

"There are a color, a form, and a motion in all sound."
The pleasure generating equipment named the game which can feel transformer feeling in the rhythm which comes on the contrary by the act a player "shoots", and it are "Rez."
A player can destroy an enemy and can sound sound. It is formed with the image from which the sound joins a rhythm and a new rhythm changes. It becomes the own groove of a player and is sublimated gradually to music.
We promises that the feeling which has not been felt until now can be experienced.
Play of new feeling can be experienced by powerful vibration.

Of engrish becomes power joy!
Pleasure making to at home PS2 equpping!
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-31-2004 04:40
There's a really interesting article about the rise and fall of Nintendo, and it really does raise some very good points as to why Nintendo is unfortunately no longer top of the games. It pinpoints it's problems in detail... http://cube.ign.com/articles/561/561400p1.html (http://cube.ign.com/articles/561/561400p1.html)
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Post by: CyberKnight on 10-31-2004 05:29
 
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Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Apparantly if you cross into any of the "locked" cities you immediately get four stars.  That's less cheesy than that barricade between the islands in GTA:III.  I want to know what kind of heat they bring if you steal a plane from Los Santos Int'l.

Not much (I scaled a fence and stole the non-wingless Dodo). Just 4 stars. I was actually expecting to be "pushed" back just like if you try to fly to the edges of the map in VC.

And I can't steal any of the aircraft parked at San Fierro airport.  :(
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 10-31-2004 05:32
What's fun is that there's a no-fly zone out in the desert (which also covers the third city, for a time). SAM's.  :eek:

The planes are a lot more fragile this time around. Clip a building and it's flame time! Ram into the ground, and goodnight, children!
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Post by: mikey on 10-31-2004 05:46
Ive stolen a private jet and its very easy to fly. Their is a part of Los santos intl where you cna get in over the wall if you jump up on your car. There are 2 planes, a small one and a cool private jet. You get taken down by missles. But I have made it to LV.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 10-31-2004 06:56
Poor old Nintendo, Nurdy still loves 'ya.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 11:54
   
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Poor old Nintendo, Nurdy still loves 'ya.

Yeah. Me too.

Let's all hope the new DS whoops the shit out of Sony and their sexier PSP.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-31-2004 12:14
Nintendo all the way in my book...
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-31-2004 12:18
I think that we're the niche that the article refers to. When Nintendo picked up the resident evil series, I was like, "Welcome to two years ago." The series may still be somewhat popular, but GTA is the big new "mature" game on the block. It's like that article said, Rockstar took a chance and pushed the hell out of something original. Nintendo really could have struck it big with Eternal Darkness had they actually promoted the fucking game.
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Post by: winna on 10-31-2004 12:21
Resident Evil 4 is going to pWn though...
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-31-2004 12:23
No doubt about it, but when the avarage gamer (IE: the ones who don't post on message boards) sees it will they really think it's any different from "That game we played on PS1 back in the day."? I agree 100% with what the artilce is saying. When Nintendo cut the ties with many of its second parties, it was the worst thing it could have done. Now, Nintendo has to depend on itself for coming up with new ideas, which the 2nd parties used to do, and making the "Big games" like Zelda and Mario.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 12:25
 
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Resident Evil 4 is going to pWn though...

Definitely. From the videos that I've seen it is the best lookin RE game EVER.

Oh, by the way. Did anyone hear that Rockstar is gonna make a brand-new top-view GTA game for the Gameboy Advance? I read about it in an EGM magazine.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-31-2004 12:47
I've got to admit that article really hit me hard, and makes me quite worried about Nintendo's future. For now I'm content knowing they will have a new console out, but I fear it'll be the last nail in the coffin when it does worse than the Cube, and then Nintendo will turn into a Software company like Sega (and handheld, I don't see it dieing in that market for a while). That is my fear, and the article really puts things into perspective, detailing exactly what's gone wrong.

I think one of Nintendo's biggest mistakes in recent years was letting Rare go. I was so sad when that happened, because I couldn't wait for a Banjo-Threeie on the Cube. The sequal to Perfect Dark would have helped the Cube a lot, and there's so many other games the Cube lost out on as a result to letting Rare go, let alone any original game ideas Rare had...

I just have to wait it out, carry on supporting Nintendo, and hope my dream of playing Mario and Nintendo games with graphics as real in their own world, as our world is for us. I doubt that day will ever come, and if Nintendo turn into a software company, I doubt I'll even bother, because it wouldn't be the same playing it on anything other than a Nintendo system. I was happy when Sega died, because it meant I could play Sega games on the best hardware; Nintendo's...

*prays that Nintendo will pull through*
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 13:48
I swear, I could never see myself playing Metroid, Zelda, and Mario on an XBOX. If that day ever comes, it will be the worst day in gaming history...
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 10-31-2004 13:55
It would be equally as bad on a Sony system IMO...
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Post by: Bushmeister on 10-31-2004 13:55
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Oh, by the way. Did anyone hear that Rockstar is gonna make a brand-new top-view GTA game for the Gameboy Advance? I read about it in an EGM magazine.


Yeah I've heard about that as well. Apparently it's set in Liberty City but the area of land that you can explore is three times larger than that in GTA3 (or so I've heard). I might get it, although I haven't had the time to use my GBA for a while now.

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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 13:57
 
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Originally posted by Bushmeister:
 Yeah I've heard about that as well. Apparently it's set in Liberty City but the area of land that you can explore is three times larger than that in GTA3 (or so I've heard). I might get it, although I haven't had the time to use my GBA for a while now.


Never mind my previous GTA comment. Don't get this game without reading this: http://www.gamespot.com/gba/adventure/grandtheftautogba/review.html (http://www.gamespot.com/gba/adventure/grandtheftautogba/review.html)
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-31-2004 14:04
If you ask me, making gta advance a top down game was shere laziness on Rockstars part. The game could have easily featured a simulated 3d environment using the GBAs mode 7 capibilties (like in Mario kart).
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 14:48
 
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Originally posted by newhook_1:
If you ask me, making gta advance a top down game was shere laziness on Rockstars part. The game could have easily featured a simulated 3d environment using the GBAs mode 7 capibilties (like in Mario kart).

I guess they wanted to morph the classic top view GTAs with the new type of gameplay from 3, VC, and SA.

I guess we'll have to wait til the DS for a fully 3D GTA game. *hint hint nudge nudge*
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Post by: newhook_1 on 10-31-2004 18:51
This just in, Nintendo is releasing a platformer for the DS starring Peach where she must rescue Mario. I'm not sure what to think of this. Interesting concept though. Mario's been getting kidnapped alot the last few years, hasen't he? A bunch of other new games were shown as well. (http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1099027373)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 10-31-2004 20:20
Woooo! A break from the Mario game norm!

Hopefully that Peach game wont suck as much as Luigi's Mansion. Great concept.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-01-2004 00:06
OH MY FUCKING GOD!

San Andreas has... has...

A MOTHER FUCKING JETPACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

JETPAAAAAAACK!!!!


This is possibly one of the most awesome moments in my video game life.

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-01-2004 01:23
SWG has a jetpack.


Speaking of which, have some screenies:

(http://img89.exs.cx/img89/6141/screenShot0118.th.jpg) (http://img89.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img89&image=screenShot0118.jpg)
Someguy owns all these mineral miners, eep.

(http://img74.exs.cx/img74/9962/screenShot0121.th.jpg) (http://img74.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img74&image=screenShot0121.jpg)

(http://img51.exs.cx/img51/9728/screenShot0125.th.jpg) (http://img51.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img51&image=screenShot0125.jpg)

(http://img81.exs.cx/img81/7623/screenShot0127.th.jpg) (http://img81.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img81&image=screenShot0127.jpg)

The other 3 screenshots were taken when me and 9 other guild members ventured forth with buffs, revive packs and an assload of Stimpacks into the Genesioan Biolab.

The hunt started off pretty well, but we were swamped by quick respawing cavern spiders, Kitniks and Droidka's. Cue Benny Hill retreat sequence with lops of incapacitation, running around and overworked Medics with slowly dwindling mind bars. We retreated outside and rebuffed (not allowed to buff up in Dungeons, which is a pain in the ass) and then ventured fourth once again.

I was knocked out halfway by a fucking client crash, by the time I logged back on I was unbuffed and by Guild was too far off to help me and my I was instantly killed by a human mercenary with a goddam knife.

I spent the other half of the hunt staring at my corpse until someguy who was part of another party came into the room, and told me I had been dead so long I couldn't be revived. Sod.

The hunt was a pretty bad one, the remaining group members all got to the bottom level and waited for the Ackley to respawn (One of the Monsters Obi-Wan and Anakin fought in Attack of The Clones) it never came and they got into a fight with an Imperial Guild that was also waiting down there.

Needless to say, they got bored and ran like hell from the bio lab when there buffs were about to run out.

We barely got any good loot as well. Sod.

After that, I sped across half of Yavin IV to have a look at the Dark Temple of Exar Kunn, which was pretty good. Had a hidden evil atmosphere.
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Post by: mikey on 11-01-2004 02:07
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
OH MY FUCKING GOD!

San Andreas has... has...

A MOTHER FUCKING JETPACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

JETPAAAAAAACK!!!!


This is possibly one of the most awesome moments in my video game life.

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Where abouts you up to in the game? And wheres the jet pack.

Im up to a few hardish missions. One for smoke involving russians, one for that Loc guy involving stealing rap lyrics and one for ryder which incorporates stealing from the army.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-01-2004 02:17
Jet Pack's much later in the game, in some government facility called Area 69 (naturally).

There's some absolute buggers of missions, but it would be GTA if they weren't there.

Also, there's an awful lot of aircraft to fly... inc. a WW2 fighter plane...

TOTP criminal activity.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-01-2004 03:02
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
SWG has a jetpack.


Speaking of which, have some screenies:

(http://img89.exs.cx/img89/6141/screenShot0118.th.jpg) (http://img89.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img89&image=screenShot0118.jpg)
Someguy owns all these mineral miners, eep.

(http://img74.exs.cx/img74/9962/screenShot0121.th.jpg) (http://img74.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img74&image=screenShot0121.jpg)

(http://img51.exs.cx/img51/9728/screenShot0125.th.jpg) (http://img51.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img51&image=screenShot0125.jpg)

(http://img81.exs.cx/img81/7623/screenShot0127.th.jpg) (http://img81.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img81&image=screenShot0127.jpg)

The other 3 screenshots were taken when me and 9 other guild members ventured forth with buffs, revive packs and an assload of Stimpacks into the Genesioan Biolab.

The hunt started off pretty well, but we were swamped by quick respawing cavern spiders, Kitniks and Droidka's. Cue Benny Hill retreat sequence with lops of incapacitation, running around and overworked Medics with slowly dwindling mind bars. We retreated outside and rebuffed (not allowed to buff up in Dungeons, which is a pain in the ass) and then ventured fourth once again.

I was knocked out halfway by a fucking client crash, by the time I logged back on I was unbuffed and by Guild was too far off to help me and my I was instantly killed by a human mercenary with a goddam knife.

I spent the other half of the hunt staring at my corpse until someguy who was part of another party came into the room, and told me I had been dead so long I couldn't be revived. Sod.

The hunt was a pretty bad one, the remaining group members all got to the bottom level and waited for the Ackley to respawn (One of the Monsters Obi-Wan and Anakin fought in Attack of The Clones) it never came and they got into a fight with an Imperial Guild that was also waiting down there.

Needless to say, they got bored and ran like hell from the bio lab when there buffs were about to run out.

We barely got any good loot as well. Sod.

After that, I sped across half of Yavin IV to have a look at the Dark Temple of Exar Kunn, which was pretty good. Had a hidden evil atmosphere.
Just to make sure that it was worth the effort doing all this so people can see it.

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Post by: M0le on 11-01-2004 03:18
Heh, you can get into Geneosis? Those mining droids look pretty cool, do they have any weapons?
EDIT: Misspelled Geneosis.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-01-2004 03:48
M0le: The planets name is Geneosis, but not yet. I don't think that they will add it (Because it's the same at Tatooine really) but you do get Geneosian weaponry. The biolab has schematics for the blaster and melee weapon lying on the odd corpse. Now THAT is loot.

Also, As you can see Droidika's and Battledroids are still being used.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-01-2004 05:33
I forgot to mention this, I got Paper Mario 2 about a 2 weeks ago. It is indeed an awesome game. If you like the other Mario Rpg games, this is probably the best one yet, besides the original of course. Haven't gotten very far into it yet as I have three 2000 word term papers due in the next two weeks.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-01-2004 09:10
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
There's some absolute buggers of missions, but it would be GTA if they weren't there.

If there's one thing I think Rockstar should stop doing, it's basing difficulty of certain missions (*cough*AIR RAID*cough*) on the difficulty of the PS2 controller.

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Post by: termos on 11-01-2004 09:13
At least the missions to unlock areas shouldn't be too hard. I like the part where you can just drive around doing whatever you like.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-01-2004 12:18
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 Hopefully that Peach game wont suck as much as Luigi's Mansion. Great concept.

The only sucking done on Luigi's Mansion's part, was sucking up ghosts...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-01-2004 12:46
Yeah, Luigi's Mansion was great. I enjoyed it.
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-01-2004 12:46
 
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
I think one of Nintendo's biggest mistakes in recent years was letting Rare go. I was so sad when that happened, because I couldn't wait for a Banjo-Threeie on the Cube. The sequal to Perfect Dark would have helped the Cube a lot, and there's so many other games the Cube lost out on as a result to letting Rare go, let alone any original game ideas Rare had...

Don't cry about losing Rare. They suck. Banjo jumped the shark with Tooie, and that freaking lame "stop and swop" fiasco. Perfect Dark 2 still hasn't seen the light of day. Their one game for the Xbox sucks, and all they have coming up is a remake of a game that wasn't even good in the first place! (ok, fine--I never played Conker's Bad Fur Day. Maybe it was fun. But the "edgy" humor was painfully lame. It sold next to zero copies for a reason. I don't understand why they think it's going to tear up sales on the Xbox)

DO cry about how Nintendo is handling their second parties. It's not huge that they F'ed up their relationship with Rare, and it's not huge that they F'ed up their relationship with Silicon Knights--but it flat out sucks that they are losing their second party support.

I think Nintendo is done with 3rd parties. Game companies are going to keep giving more support to the mainstream consoles--that's just the way it is. Nintendo's survival rests on 2nd party support. They need to keep investing in small, little-known but GOOD developers. Look at what they're doing with Retro. They were a mess, but Nintendo helped them out and they are making badass Metroid games. They can work their magic on other companies. But instead, they seem to be letting everyone slip away. Their first party games don't come out often enough to keep their systems afloat. They need quality 2nd parties.

Also, the Peach game sounds awesome, even though I know nothing about it. I'm hoping it to be Mario 2-esque, what with the floating and stuff.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-01-2004 12:49
Maybe It'd give her some personality as well.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-01-2004 12:55
Banjo-Tooie wasn't a patch on Banjo-Kazooie, but I still thought it was great. I couldn't wait to see it with the Cubes graphics too. All they needed to do was toughen it up a bit, drop the kiddy bits, and make the bird-bear duo more badass.

Let's also not forget that Rare was responsible for one of the N64's biggest hits, Goldeneye. And I'm sure Perfect Dark 2 would have been out on the Cube by now had they stayed with Nintendo, there was even a short mock up of it at the Cubes very first world premiere. Rare could have easily made a kikckass DK platformer for the Cube too, all they needed to do was drop the collecting everything under the sun crap, and it would have ruled.

Fair point, they've done jack shit any good since leaving Nintendo, but isn't that fact saying something?...

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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-01-2004 13:07
 
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By Otis:
all they needed to do was drop the collecting everything under the sun crap, and it would have ruled.

True. But would they have done that? Somehow I doubt it.

And no, I don't think Perfect Dark 2 would be out, if they had stuck with Nintendo. The mock-up was just that--a mock-up. There were a bunch of other mock-ups that never became real games. Developers just do that to hype people up, and show them what could be possible with a new game system.

But more 2nd party whining: why don't they buy out Free Radical, or something? With Nintendo's guidance, they could be the next Rare.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-01-2004 13:18
Maybe hoping they'd cut down collecting on DK was wishful thinking, I doubt they'd cut down too, but I can't help thinking how much better it'd be if they did.

I guess in the parallel universe we’d know if Perfect Dark was out for the Cube yet or not...
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-01-2004 15:33
 
Quote
Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Jet Pack's much later in the game, in some government facility called Area 69 (naturally).

There's some absolute buggers of missions, but it would be GTA if they weren't there.

Also, there's an awful lot of aircraft to fly... inc. a WW2 fighter plane...

TOTP criminal activity.

This game is absolutely incredible. I've opened up Las Venturas, and I have to say it's my favourite city of the three. It feels a lot like Vice in style, and the fact that you can find a Ferrari F50-a-like and Ford GT40-a-like there sweetens it.  :D

SJM (or anybody else), have you found a Countash-a-like in the game (or a Diablo)?

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Post by: winna on 11-01-2004 15:39
Isn't the team that created Goldeneye not working at Rare anymore anyways?

And yeah, Nintendo is losing steam, which is sad.  I enjoyed reading that article you linked to Otis (it was Otis, right?).  That article pretty much summed up EVERYTHING; one can only hope that big executive type people read stuff like that.  I'm not saying said executives don't know what they're doing, but we all make mistakes, eh.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-01-2004 15:51
Ironically(becuase we were talking about it on the last page), Resident Evil 4 is no longer GC exclusive. While I didn't think it was the saviour that many thought it would be for the GC(as expressed on the last page), I still think it would have helped Nintendo's cause to have it exclusive. Capaom are just being dicks by announcing this a mere few months before the GC version is realeased. They could have waited until E3, seeing as how the PS2 version is just a port coming out like a year later.

@Winna: Yeah they broke off and formed their own company called Free Radical. They make the Time Splitters series which I reccomend to everyone who liked Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. It's basically the same game engine tweeked to near perfection.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-01-2004 15:55
 
Quote
Originally posted by winna:
 And yeah, Nintendo is losing steam, which is sad.  I enjoyed reading that article you linked to Otis (it was Otis, right?).  That article pretty much summed up EVERYTHING; one can only hope that big executive type people read stuff like that.  I'm not saying said executives don't know what they're doing, but we all make mistakes, eh.

Yeah, it was me who linked that article. I thought it was a great (although a bit worrying) article. Glad others enjoyed it too...

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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-01-2004 15:57
This was in my post above yours but I'll repost it to avoid confusion.

 
Quote
Originally posted by newhook_1:
@Winna: Yeah they broke off and formed their own company called Free Radical. They make the Time Splitters series which I reccomend to everyone who liked Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. It's basically the same game engine tweeked to near perfection.

And just so I'm not being a spammy mcspam pants. If you are a Mario fan, you must play Paper Mario 2. Seriously, I just went through one of the sequences where you control Bowser and it was one of the funniest bits I've seen in a Mario game, or any game for that matter.

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Post by: M0le on 11-02-2004 02:43
 http://swg.stratics.com/php-bin/db/char/view_chars.php?charID=1753 (http://swg.stratics.com/php-bin/db/char/view_chars.php?charID=1753)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-02-2004 05:08
Holy crap, M0le how did you come across that?


I gotta sort the skills boxes out.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-02-2004 07:09
*checks in Nurdys Items menu*

HA! Poor man!

Aren't you worried about the Imperials just checking on the internet for hidden Rebel agents names?
That's what I'd do.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-02-2004 07:12
*Smacks Faze*
Ain't poor bitch, One million and 14k credits prove you wrong.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-02-2004 17:20
Then buy a room...

...and lose some weight!
I assume SWG has some sort of item inventory in it?
[gay lisp] C'mon, show us your ssstuff! [/gl]
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Post by: spawn_2008 on 11-02-2004 17:50
I like the game San Andreas, although I would like to pass over the missions, I just want to travel to the other cities.  And I want to sit down on the front step like the other people, or lean against a van like my gang does.

Anyone have any thoughts on the new WWE game, Smackdown vs Raw?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-02-2004 18:08
I have 130 items, but I'll list some. Check out the screenies of my house a thread back as well.

Clothing:
1 Bandolier with Grenades.
1 Ammo Bandolier.
1 Mercenary Bandolier.
1 Ammo Belt.
1 Grenade Belt.
4 Special Op Duster Greatcoats (Khaki, Jungle, Urban and uh..white).
2 Gunmans Greatcoats (White and Brown).
1 pair of Khaki Trousers.
1 Pair of blue trousers with white Corellian stripes.
1 black pair of boots.
1 brown pair of boots.
1 black long sleeved shirt.
1 white long sleeved shirt.
1 black special ops jacket.
1 black long vest.
Spare Jedi Clothing for the future.

Weapons:
1 EE3 Carbine.
1 E11 Carbine.
1 DL44 Metal.
1 DL344 Metal with Scope and Stock.
1 Tusken Rifle.
1 CDEF Carbine.
1 D17 Carbibe.
1 TT3 Carbine.
1 CDEF Pistol.
1 D16 Pistol.
1 Flamethrower.
1 CDEF Rifle.
1 D11 Rifle.
1 Lightning Cannon.
1 Jawa Ion Rifle.
7 C12 Grenades.
1 Rantok Sword (Quest item).
1 Gammorean Guard Axe (Quest Item).
1 Sword.

In your face, NRA!

EDIT 2: Got some new weapons.
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Post by: M0le on 11-02-2004 23:05
I was quite surprised when I came across that, but you have all those damn weapons? What the hell do you use them all for? You've got more weapons than Boba Fett.  :D
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-03-2004 03:05
Well, weapons are cheap and I can use most of them so why the hell not? Plus, it looks manly having an armoury in your living room. There's a lot more weapons to get and use.

Oh, I forgot to add I have one more on that list.
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Post by: Speli on 11-04-2004 19:50
Aww, Charlie is sleepy after a hard day's battle:
(http://img126.exs.cx/img126/3228/SleepieCharlie.jpg)
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-04-2004 19:57
Behold what's on the mind of just about every Nintendo DS fan.  From an official Nintendo DS site.
(http://img123.exs.cx/img123/7508/NintendoDSWireless.jpg)
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-04-2004 20:06
"I love my jeep!"

I found out that Age of Empires can be played on a PDA!!  :eek:  :love:  :D
And better yet, I know a guy who has the full version! (I only have the demo now)

CK might be interested in getting it?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-05-2004 03:03
I'm getting sick of my do-nothing gang doing nothing to help me win the gang war in Los Santos.  I'm out there busting my ass by busting caps in the asses of the Ballas while my gang just hangs around the hoods I've already secured.  Lazy bastards...I don't get no respect from my homies.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-05-2004 05:15
I can't stand the bit I'm on (or was on, just got out of it) - it's just capturing territory after territory. Which isn't much fun.

I will say this about San Andreas, it's an absolutely fantastic game, but darn it if it doesn't get utterly frustrating at times. And they make you do boring stuff like build up your lung capacity or capture dozens of neighbourhoods, just so you can proceed in the game. I wouldn't mind if there was actually a fun way to do these things, but diving repeatedly in San Fierro Harbour for 10-15 minutes is not what I would call exciting.

@Faze: I think I've got a copy at home.  ;)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 05:37
Last night, I learnt the entire 1st tier of the brawler class under two hours. I'm one step closer to gaining Commando.

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Post by: M0le on 11-05-2004 06:59
I'm very confused on the subject of space flight in SWG. Certain things on SWG Stratics seem to be saying that people do have ships, and people are talking about the stats of their ships, and bad areas to go in space, etc. Are these just people in the beta?
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-05-2004 07:20
CK: Ahh!
I'm really behind this week!! First, I learn there's PDA AOE, then I learn that EVERYBODY has it (well, you and another guy) and I could have been playing it all this time!!

Then I learn that I should have opened my broadband router ports for faster BitTorrents/eMule!
Bah, learning stuff sucks.   :p

What kind of filesize is that AOE?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 07:35
(http://img129.exs.cx/img129/4159/screenShot0129.th.jpg) (http://img129.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img129&image=screenShot0129.jpg)
Check out the mostly wearable armour.

(http://img109.exs.cx/img109/6836/screenShot0132.th.jpg) (http://img109.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img109&image=screenShot0132.jpg)
Slicing a Whomp Rat while training up my brawler skills.

(http://img111.exs.cx/img111/6341/screenShot0080.th.jpg) (http://img111.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img111&image=screenShot0080.jpg)
Firing my favourite weapon, my Scoped DL44 at night.

(http://img119.exs.cx/img119/7216/screenShot0131.th.jpg) (http://img119.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img119&image=screenShot0131.jpg)
Completed my class and got a shiny new Badge!

I'm considering using FRAPS and making two small SWG video's as well, I plan for a short quick tour of Jabba's Inner Sanctum and a battle against some Slavers on Tatooine. What do you think?
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-05-2004 08:19
So has anyone else pre-ordered the DS? I was talking to the guy at Gamestop, and he said they are no longer taking pre-orders. Nintendo is only shipping 1 million to the united states, and they are afraid of selling out.

Luckily EB Games was still taking pre-orders, so I'm in. This is gonna be awesome.
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Post by: termos on 11-05-2004 08:42
OK so next week, Halo 2. The week after that, Half-Life 2. But the one I'm looking forward to the most is Pirates, which will also be out very soon. The next few weeks will be expensive...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 11:47
W00t. I finished the video of a quick tour of Jabba's Palace. You can watch it with Windows Media, the file is a minute long. Who wants to host?

Sorry about the lack of Sound though.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-05-2004 11:59
 
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Originally posted by FishyJoe:
So has anyone else pre-ordered the DS? I was talking to the guy at Gamestop, and he said they are no longer taking pre-orders. Nintendo is only shipping 1 million to the united states, and they are afraid of selling out.


The Gamespot I work at sold out of pre-orders also. Our store is only getting 5 DS's for the first shipment.

Yes, I wanted to pre-order it, but I'll just wait until the next shipment comes before I get it.

Edit: Top of the Page Boogie
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 14:14
Hellooo? SWG Gameclip ready for hosting?
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-05-2004 15:25
 
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Originally posted by FishyJoe:
So has anyone else pre-ordered the DS?

I preordered mine in September. Does anybody know when those who have reservations will get it?

Oh and PS: I just got a job at ToysRUs in the Videogame Dept. Bitchin.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-05-2004 15:42
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 I preordered mine in September. Does anybody know when those who have reservations will get it?

It's supposed to come out around the 22nd of this month...

Good luck with your job.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 15:45
Someone host my file dammit!
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-05-2004 15:46
I'm holding off  on DS until January when Mario Kart is supposed to come out. There's such a flood of good games this time of the year. In the last month alone I bought Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Smackdown vs. Raw, and Paper Mario 2. Then a new Zelda comes out for GBA in November.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-05-2004 17:28
This time of year is the best time to be a gamer.

I mean when you have GTA: SA, Halo2, Metroid Prime2, Mario Tennis, Goldeneye Rouge Agent, Paper Mario, THUG2, SDvsRAW, AND the new Nintendo DS all being released within weeks of each other, it's a good time had by all.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-05-2004 18:24
Phew. Completed all the storyline missions in San Andreas.
.
.
.
OK, so I might have overplayed it juuuuuust a tad.  :p

Excellent game. Definitely longer than Vice City or GTA3. Aside from the early gang missions, which I found annoying for the most part, I loved it.

I still want the PC version though.  :p
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Post by: spawn_2008 on 11-05-2004 19:03
I'm stuck on the mission "Wrong Side of the tracks", are you suppose to go up that mountain ramp after avoiding the on coming train?

When do you unlock a new city?
And what do you have to do?

Does anyone know if the original 3 Mario games are out for Gamecube, or at least coming out soon.

And if you have Smackdown vs Raw, how is it?  I should get mine on Monday.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 20:05
People, I spent a fair bit of time putting that nice little clip together for you and nobody is willing to host it's measly 2 Megabytes?

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Post by: M0le on 11-05-2004 20:10
Nurdy, I just noticed my Geocities account has some room, I could host it for you if you'd like.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-05-2004 20:13
I'll compress it and send it you, thanks M0le.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-05-2004 20:36
 
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Originally posted by spawn_2008:
I'm stuck on the mission "Wrong Side of the tracks", are you suppose to go up that mountain ramp after avoiding the on coming train?

If that's the one I'm thinking of, where you have to follow a train while Smoke shoots at it; I never had to. I think you just have to keep a fair distance to the side of the train so his shot angle isn't too steep (he's a sucky shot, I know  :p).

 
Quote
When do you unlock a new city?
And what do you have to do?

When you play the Storyline Missions.

San Fierro and the Badlands are unlocked after you play the mission
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Post by: M0le on 11-05-2004 21:40
Here's a quick screenie of this cute little Star Wars fan game I've been unable to win for a while:
(http://img119.exs.cx/img119/883/yavinbattle.th.png) (http://img119.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img119&image=yavinbattle.png)
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Post by: Lrrr_2004 on 11-05-2004 23:21
Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-05-2004 23:30
I'm going to make a list of everyone who's preordered the DS.

With Wireless Router:
futuramafreak
Zeep
FishyJoe (if he decides so)

Without:
Nasty Pasty
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-06-2004 00:20
I haven't been following the online capabilities of the DS.

...when do they plan on having online play? Will you have to pay a monthly fee for it, or is there going to be a Warp Pipe type of deal?

Right now I don't have one, but I figure wireless routers are cheap enough. I'd get one if I was sure the DS provided a decent online gaming experience.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-06-2004 01:00
No one knows.  We just have to wait.  But look at my post almost at the bottom of the page before this.  I'll put you under having one.
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Post by: Gleno on 11-06-2004 01:01
I just bought Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 2 mainly because it has arcade perfect conversions of Mortal Kombat 2 and 3.... :)

Ahh old school....
So give me the lowdown, is GTA:SA worth buying or is it the same as the last 2 GTA games just more guns and stuff....?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-06-2004 01:36
Actually, they're mostly the same old guns.  New stuff includes:



The gang warfare thing is pretty annoying.  The worst part isn't even fighting the battles, it's getting them started where you want them.  I've already wiped the Ballas off the map and have launched a few unintended campaigns against the Vagos...some more successful than others.

Spawny, "Wrong side" is pretty easy once you know the terrain.  You have to keep up with the car in question and let Big Smoke take care of the gangsters on top.  I tried a bunch of cheap tricks like jumping the bike onto the train itself (my bike skill was already pretty high thanks to all my practice in Vice City), but the only thing to do is keep up and keep upright.  I don't know which ramp you are referring to.  If it's the one immediately after the first tunnel, I've always taken it and was eventually successful.

Also, if you didn't like "Wrong Side", you're going to love "Just Business".
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-06-2004 01:40
There's a helluva lot of guns if you use cheats.  I'm partial to the shotgun, but I'll be know to use the flamethrower.  Oh and the chainsaw I use a lot too.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-06-2004 01:47
I'm looking forward to getting dual sawn-off shotguns a bit later in the game. I passed 'Wrong Side Of The Tracks' on about my third try, and I'm semi-stuck on Just Business (I've only been through it once or maybe twice, so I haven't given it a go really).

I love the pedal bikes, and the open country space, even if I am confined to LS still. The clothes changing pisses me off, because it's damn slow, but that doesn't really matter. My guy is an absolute unit, 100% muscle and about 50% fat, so he just walks around topless anyway.

I'd say it's definatly worth getting though.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-06-2004 02:11
I played San Andreas today, I am definatly going to get that game now!
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-06-2004 02:20
Your guy is 50% fat?  Lardo.  My guy is no fat and about 80% muscle.  I owe the lean physique to eating nothing but salads, but it's just so hard to find time to go to the gym when you're constantly battling the Ballas.

I'd suggest posting pictures of our respective Carls, but I don't quite know how to move something from the PS2 to my computer.  I only have my guy run around topless when I'm on a non-storyline rampage.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-06-2004 04:02
Unfortunately the only (cheap) way I know of doing it is using a TV capture card and recording the video. Ala:

(http://www.ktsltd.co.uk/peel/ckcj.jpg)

No prizes for guessing the inspiration here.... ;)
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-06-2004 04:26
 
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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.

It's a poor mans Doom III...

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Post by: termos on 11-06-2004 05:37
 
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 It's a poor mans Doom III...

No, it isn't. It's a different game. I am one of the people who wasn't so impressed with Doom III. Doom III is way more repetetive than Halo - after a while Doom III becomes "pick up ammo, hear sound, get attacked by demon, kill demon, repeat". It's really very predictable - I was often thinking "when I pick up this I bet I'll get attacked", and that's just what happened. The maps in Doom III are really very nice, until you discover that they're all pretty much the same "generic military installation".

One map in Halo is very repetetive though, but apart from that, it has more variation - like vehicles.

And just for the record - Halo 2, being an xbox game (for now) will be more expensive than the PC version of Doom III, so poor people can better afford Doom III.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-06-2004 09:51
M0le, have you hosted yet?
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-06-2004 10:08
 
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 It's a poor mans Doom III...


Just wait until you hear the news on Tuesday about a truckload of Halo2 shipments being hijacked by a lone crazed Nintendo fanboy and threatening to drive it into the side of Microsoft HQ.

Just wait....

*instantly gets jumped by 100 angry Xbox fans*
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Post by: Joysauce on 11-06-2004 10:33
Whoa! Has anyone seen the puppy game for the DS? I'm totally getting that. It's so freaking cute. I can rub their bellies with a stick and they wag their tails. Adorable!
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-06-2004 10:56
Those difficult levels in San Andreas, are they as frustrating as the one in Vice City where you've to race that fat nervous guy in the Sabre Turbo?
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-06-2004 11:03
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 Just wait until you hear the news on Tuesday about a truckload of Halo2 shipments being hijacked by a lone crazed Nintendo fanboy and threatening to drive it into the side of Microsoft HQ.

Just wait....

*instantly gets jumped by 100 angry Xbox fans*



Ah, I'd salute you for that Nasty, if only to piss off all those annoying Halo fanboys.

And I never understood what was so tricky about that mission where you had to race Hilary. One attempt told me I couldn't beat him in a fair race, so on the second attempt I got out of the car straight away and popped two of his wheels with my M4. After that I went as fast as I could although I did look behind a few times to see him crashing into lamp posts and buildings  :laff:
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-06-2004 11:53
 
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Those difficult levels in San Andreas, are they as frustrating as the one in Vice City where you've to race that fat nervous guy in the Sabre Turbo?

Oh yes. Just a tad. There are two missions for a guy called Zero, which are optional, but are incredibly frustrating.

The first is annoying because (as I said above) it relies on the crappiness of the PS2 control scheme (i.e. rate of change targeting, as opposed to coordinate based) to make it annoying. And the second isn't too hard (aside from the fact you have nowhere near enough fuel), it's just mind-numbingly dull, because you have to fly half-way across San Fierro and back in a tiny little RC plane which travels at approximately 0.00001 miles per hour.

 
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Originally posted by Bushmeister:
 And I never understood what was so tricky about that mission where you had to race Hilary. One attempt told me I couldn't beat him in a fair race, so on the second attempt I got out of the car straight away and popped two of his wheels with my M4. After that I went as fast as I could although I did look behind a few times to see him crashing into lamp posts and buildings   :laff:

I really didn't like that you had to use the Sentinel. Plus he had a bulletproof Sabre Turbo so you couldn't blow him up.  :p

In fact, a lot of the missions in San Andreas are too like that - you must do the mission this way or else you fail. You must drive this car. You must be steathly, despite the fact you're a badass one-man army and the cops couldn't hit something even with the aid of some kind of automated hitting machine.  :p

I kinda miss the freeform of GTA3 and Vice City in that respect; where you could find yourself a nice car and do the mission however you chose, as long as you won.

Of course there are missions where stuff has to be used, or things must not happen, but I think it's the number of them that aggravates me this time wrong. Having said that, none of these things are bad per se, they're just annoying.
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Post by: Joysauce on 11-06-2004 11:56
 
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Originally posted by Joysauce:
Whoa! Has anyone seen the puppy game for the DS? I'm totally getting that. It's so freaking cute. I can rub their bellies with a stick and they wag their tails. Adorable!

Wow! I know. I can't wait for that game to come out. It's going to be so awesome.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-06-2004 13:03
Fishy, you're taking split personalities to a new level, even your alter-sister-ego has issues...
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-06-2004 15:08
 
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Originally posted by termos:
 And just for the record - Halo 2, being an xbox game (for now) will be more expensive than the PC version of Doom III, so poor people can better afford Doom III.

My "poor" was in response to taste, not money. But then again, you would interpret it as money, seeing as you're sticking up for a game exclusively on a Microsoft console...
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-06-2004 15:16
 
Quote
Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.

Halo 2 is only going to be the best Xbox game ever.  Not like Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow, where you have to be careful, but you can go and kick some serious Covenant ass guns blazing.  There's nothing like going up to a Hunter that's turned around and sticking 3 plasma grenades to him.  Or when I was playing with 3 people, my teammate was turned around and standing so I went running at him and slammed his head with my assault rifle and yelled "BAM!".  Yeah, he died.  It has a deep storyline, it's really sci-fi-ey, and the new Warthogs have things besides machine guns *chough*rocket launchers.  You can play as the Covenant (aliens) including a big dude with a huge plasma gun and a long flat metal arm good for bashing skulls in and a bigger dude with a huge energy sword.  And even when you're Master Chief, you can still pick up said sword and look at someone for about 3 seconds, then lunge at them for a 1-hit kill.  You can now knock people out of their vehicles and hijack them.  And Xbox Live.  Oh, Xbox Live.  *drools*

[edit] Any instances where I said I did something were in H1.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-06-2004 15:27
Don't get me wrong, I think Halo is great... but I don't think any game should be getting as much attention as it's getting. C'mon it's just a game, you don't have to count the days until it comes out like a person waiting to be released from prison.

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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-06-2004 16:32
Pfft. Yeah.

10 days to Half-Life 2, 10 days to Half-Life 2....  ;)
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-06-2004 16:59
I'm so excited I wish I could wet my pants!!

... Oh wait.


Eww.

Thank Bob it's coming out now and not when I'll be doing 4th year, otherwise I probably would have wasted college fees and failed the year!

What's that you say? Aren't I concerned about it affecting my job?
 :laff:
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-06-2004 18:32
 
Quote
Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Your guy is 50% fat?  Lardo.  My guy is no fat and about 80% muscle.  I owe the lean physique to eating nothing but salads, but it's just so hard to find time to go to the gym when you're constantly battling the Ballas.

I'd suggest posting pictures of our respective Carls, but I don't quite know how to move something from the PS2 to my computer.  I only have my guy run around topless when I'm on a non-storyline rampage.
Apparently if you don't have any fat, physical activity burns muscle. I'm at about 25% fat now because of all the bike riding I do. I don't have any current pictures of my CJ, and I won't play the game again until probably next Friday, but I was out in the country when I jumped onto a roof of a house and left by bike in front of the house. When I jumped back down, some hick was sitting on top of my bike.
(http://img127.exs.cx/img127/9928/hick.jpg)

Any tips of dating Denise? I got her to about 50%, and have the keys to her car, not that I can open it though. I'm guessing you only can on a date. Anyway, she's never bloody there any more.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-06-2004 20:55
 
Quote
Originally posted by futuramafreak:
  Halo 2 is only going to be the best Xbox game ever.  Not like Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow, where you have to be careful, but you can go and kick some serious Covenant ass guns blazing.  There's nothing like going up to a Hunter that's turned around and sticking 3 plasma grenades to him.  Or when I was playing with 3 people, my teammate was turned around and standing so I went running at him and slammed his head with my assault rifle and yelled "BAM!".  Yeah, he died.  It has a deep storyline, it's really sci-fi-ey, and the new Warthogs have things besides machine guns *chough*rocket launchers.  You can play as the Covenant (aliens) including a big dude with a huge plasma gun and a long flat metal arm good for bashing skulls in and a bigger dude with a huge energy sword.  And even when you're Master Chief, you can still pick up said sword and look at someone for about 3 seconds, then lunge at them for a 1-hit kill.  You can now knock people out of their vehicles and hijack them.  And Xbox Live.  Oh, Xbox Live.  *drools*

[edit] Any instances where I said I did something were in H1.

God I hate you.
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Post by: M0le on 11-06-2004 23:55
Nurdy: I've hit a snag. Geocities doesn't seem to be able to upload .rar files. Could you change it to something else?
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Post by: canned eggs on 11-07-2004 00:48
 
Quote
Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
Any tips of dating Denise? I got her to about 50%, and have the keys to her car, not that I can open it though. I'm guessing you only can on a date. Anyway, she's never bloody there any more.

She's only there between 16:00 and 6:00.  But she might not be there after you leave LS.  To date her, bring a nice car to the date, and expensive threads, and don't stop anywhere unless she says she likes the place.  You know there's other girls scattered around you can date, right?
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-07-2004 01:29
 
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Originally posted by canned eggs:
  She's only there between 16:00 and 6:00.  But she might not be there after you leave LS.  To date her, bring a nice car to the date, and expensive threads, and don't stop anywhere unless she says she likes the place.  You know there's other girls scattered around you can date, right?
Yeah, but either I haven't done enough to get up to them, or I just haven't discovered them yet. I haven't played all that much yet. Come next week though, after my last exam on Monday, I have 8 days with no school. 8 days of GTA straight, I don't plan on eating or sleeping.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-07-2004 01:36
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 God I hate you.

Get used to it.
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Post by: termos on 11-07-2004 02:48
 
Quote
Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 My "poor" was in response to taste, not money. But then again, you would interpret it as money, seeing as you're sticking up for a game exclusively on a Microsoft console...
Well thank you very much for not understanding my post. That last was mean as a joke, although it might have been a pretty lame joke. But implying that I'm an idiot because I'm buying an xbox game is pretty tasteless.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-07-2004 04:27
I understood alright, but taste and idiocy aren't the same thing btw. You're confusing them however... maybe they're not as far away from each other as I thought. Tastes pretty sweet to me...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-07-2004 04:55
 
Quote
Originally posted by M0le:
Nurdy: I've hit a snag. Geocities doesn't seem to be able to upload .rar files. Could you change it to something else?
*Goes insane, finds gun and pulls the trigger*


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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-07-2004 06:15
Spent an entire day playing GTA:SA, found a way to get onto the third island before it's unlocked. But R* seem to have thier based covered, before i even got close to the third city i got a four-star wanted level and got hit by  a missile delivered by some sort of fighter craft, didn't get a good look at it, but i damn well hope you can use one of them yourself.

Still, i managed to bail out and land in the water before my chopper exploded. I got out and stole the closest vehicle, which was a generic cop-car, went trekking across the north of the top-most city, in my haste, i didn't take note of what it was called.     :p

I got absolutly nothing from this, but it was still fun.

I'm currently up to the...
*Weak spoiler, just names*

Carl's basic Stats:
Respect: 20%
Stamina: 100%
Muscle: 100%
Fat: 10%
Sex appeal: 60%
Lung capacity: 30%

Driving Skill: 100%
Flying skill: 20%
(Motor)Bike Skill: 80%
Cycling Skill: 100%

He's got a blonde mohawk, white shirt and green cargo pants.

Alex: Save, drive around for about 3-4 hours game time, she'll either call or the marker will be there again. You can give her flowers if you find some, and there's a dildo you can give her from the Cop shop.
Seriously though, you only get a
for getting the bar full, don't stress over it.

Also i've been playing Need for Speed - Underground recently too. I'm about halfway through underground mode.
Current car looks as thus;
(http://img114.exs.cx/img114/9841/NFSCarBack.th.jpg) (http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img114&image=NFSCarBack.jpg) (http://img114.exs.cx/img114/1178/NFSCarFront.th.jpg) (http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img114&image=NFSCarFront.jpg)
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-07-2004 06:21
Oh yes... those Jets.

They're called Hydra's, but they are for all intents and purposes Harriers.

They're kinda tricky to fly... but they have homing missiles. Lock on and let fly!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-07-2004 06:30
Am I the only one who thinks GTA:SA has gone too far with the stats? what options will there be in the next one? Will it be mandatory to deficate? will you have a choice to abort one of your bitches unborn babies with a +1 coathanger? Will you be able to build a crib with hoverjets in the next one?

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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-07-2004 06:36
You know, all those stat things really aren't that intrusive. They're quick to do, and, for the most part, easy to ignore. Most of the game is all GTA goodness. (Though there isn't as much property purchase in this. Mostly just hotels and stuff).
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-07-2004 06:41
It'd be nice if you can limit the stats, I like my games interesting and not that simple but stuff like that can get out of hand for a forgetful guy like me who sometimes just wants to turn the cheats on and cause chaos.

I'd wish some MMORPG's would have those sort of stats though, dammit. I'd like SWG even more if I could get got scars or prosphetic limbs.


EDIT: Imagine, a freaking wookie with a metal arm!
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-07-2004 07:42
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Most of the game is all GTA goodness. (Though there isn't as much property purchase in this. Mostly just hotels and stuff).

Yeah, I was disappointed on that front. One of the things which was rumoured was the ability to build property, and I was hoping, since there's a significant amount of construction sites and buildings in the game, that this would come true.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-07-2004 08:01
Yeah. Vice City made me feel like I was the spider at the centre of a thriving web of criminal power. SA, like GTA3, is more like a simple wacky adventure through the underworld.
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Post by: termos on 11-07-2004 10:32
 
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
I understood alright, but taste and idiocy aren't the same thing btw. You're confusing them however... maybe they're not as far away from each other as I thought. Tastes pretty sweet to me...
There you go again. I tried to argue that Halo 2 is not a poor man's Doom III, and all you can do is insult me. You haven't presented a single argument yet.

This should end right here.

I was wondering, how does the whole eating system in GTA: SA work? Do you have to eat often? Is it annoying?
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-07-2004 10:43
Well... you're really supposed to eat about once a day. If you don't, you might lose a small bit of muscle strength. I assume that if you don't eat for ages, you die (though I've not tested this out).

I usually stop off for a bite between every other mission or so, and I'm fine.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-07-2004 12:08
 
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Originally posted by termos:
 There you go again. I tried to argue that Halo 2 is not a poor man's Doom III, and all you can do is insult me. You haven't presented a single argument yet.

This should end right here.

I've hardly insulted you, you're taking it way too seriously. If you call those insults, then by your standards you insulted me before I'd even said anything directed towards you. I'm not presenting an argument, because I'd rather make my point in one sentance, then post uopn post of long winded dribble. If you want to end it, then do, I'm not stopping you...

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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-07-2004 12:23
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
I usually stop off for a bite between every other mission or so, and I'm fine.

Every time I'm low on power it's off to Pizza Stack for a salad.

I guess even with all the muscles and guns and cars and prostitutes Carl is still a leaf-eating pansy.
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Post by: Coilette on 11-07-2004 14:34
*still hasn't got San Andreas*   :(

Until then I'm playing with Mr Vercetti for a while, going from the beginning of the game. Hopefully come tomorrow I'll be able to join in on the 'my guy has 20% fat' conversation, which right now has me confused...
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Post by: Lrrr_2004 on 11-07-2004 15:12
 
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Originally posted by DrThunder88: The gang warfare thing is pretty annoying.  The worst part isn't even fighting the battles, it's getting them started where you want them.  I've already wiped the Ballas off the map and have launched a few unintended campaigns against the Vagos...some more successful than others.

How do you start a gang fight?
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-07-2004 15:30
Go into an opposing gang's territory and kill about 6 members while on foot.
You can only do it once the tutorial mission on the matter has been done.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-07-2004 17:25
I've found if you kill three members very quickly, it's enough to start the war. Try and find a group of them together and blast them with your shotgun (although the shotguns seem to have a much more focused blast radius in SA).
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-07-2004 17:30
Hey Termos, do you have Xbox Live, and if so what's your GamerTag?
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Post by: termos on 11-07-2004 17:39
I do, and I think I'm called termos (it's been a while), but I'll take a look tomorrow since it's pretty late now.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-07-2004 17:47
I'd say a flamethrower (if one can be found) would bam it up a notch, although I'm not sure if it counts as a kill if you just set them on fire...
In any case, the gang you're attacking shouldn't like it too much.   :D

BTW, does SA still have weapons classes?
i.e. one melee, pistol, shotgun etc.?
Also, which weapons can you hold in both hands?
Pistols and submachine guns I expect.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-07-2004 18:25
~Faze~: Haven't got any dual weapons yet, however, yes, the weapon classes are still there, and there's now a... i guess; "Utility" slot, for cameras, flowers and dildos. All the usual stuff.

Incidentally, you have to use a flamethrower to burn down a weed farm. That was a hilarious mission. What a cool van that guy has, i wanted to keep it and try to get it done up, i should have failed that mission and kept it...
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-07-2004 20:07
Whenever I play that game at my friend's house all I ever end up doing is jumping onto the roof of a car, riding it around town, and stomping on the roof until the car explodes. Fun stuff. I'm so amused by doing that over and over it's almost sad.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-07-2004 20:27
I have to say, this feature of having to feed your guy and make him workout is really starting to piss me off. It's like the frickin SIMs all over again.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-07-2004 20:54
You know whats sad, is that the new Mario Tennis game comes out the same day as Halo 2. I kinda want that game but I will have to fight the damn Halo crowd.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-07-2004 23:27
 
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Originally posted by Rage Dump:
Alex: Save, drive around for about 3-4 hours game time, she'll either call or the marker will be there again. You can give her flowers if you find some, and there's a dildo you can give her from the Cop shop.
Seriously though, you only get a
for getting the bar full, don't stress over it.
I want her bitchin' car though. That thing is sweet.

My stats are quite amazingly low...
Driving Skill: about 20% if that
Flying skill: 0%
(Motor)Bike Skill: less than 10% I'd say
Cycling Skill: 100%. What can I say, I like riding...

I had my own experience in LV even though I haven't left SA. I swam across the channel between the two places, got out of the water, and didn't even make it to the road before I was gunned down. Dammit.

Only one week until I can play it for many hours on end too.
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Post by: M0le on 11-08-2004 00:40
Stupid San Andreas! Why aren't you on PC?
Can you drive double decker buses and put a gang on the top level?
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-08-2004 00:43
Maybe in the next GTA, which I'm hoping is set in England, or at least Europe...
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Post by: M0le on 11-08-2004 00:48
No way. Have it set in Melbourne. Apparently we have a nice little underworld going between the Asian gangs in Footscray, the Lebanese and Greek Fish and Chip shop owners, and the welfare-leechers.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-08-2004 01:16
What's the Greek gangs motto?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-08-2004 02:33
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
Maybe in the next GTA, which I'm hoping is set in England, or at least Europe...

Oh god, they drive on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!

 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
What's the Greek gangs motto?

"We a-fuck up you face...right after our nap."

Seriously though, the Vagos have just been Vago-vanquished.  The western-most hoods held by the Vagos were the hardest to take.  I suppose this is thanks to the lack of suitable bottlenecks.  The last few areas I took were fairly sizeable...minus the very last dinky one (they launched three attacks on my territor from it, but I could never attack it). I did manage to come up with a fairly effective strategy for dealing out carnage on open ground:
I also noticed there was still a sizeable Balla stronghold near the pier, so I had to conquer those in rapid succession.  The anti-Vago strategy worked on Ballas even better than the "get a big car and take cover behind it" strategy.

I take it Las Venturas will only open up after all the Los Santos storyline missions are complete, because, in terms of the gang war, everything is coming up Grove Street.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-08-2004 04:29
Las Venturas is the last city to open up. And I've found that that strategy tends to work (I still can't take the "dinky" Vagos territory by the dam, as I can never actually find any Vagos to shoot.  :hmpf:

Those Ballas ones by the pier are really dimly coloured, though. I didn't realise they were actually Ballas until I wiped out the more obvious ones from around Grove.
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Post by: termos on 11-08-2004 06:47
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
Stupid San Andreas! Why aren't you on PC?
Can you drive double decker buses and put a gang on the top level?
The interesting thing is that GTA started out on the PC, but then in GTA 3 they suddenly decided "screw the old fans, let's make it for the PS2 instead". It makes me... angry...

I assume you've all played GTA 1 and 2? They were really good in multiplayer, except the flamethrower and the rocket launcher were much too powerful.
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Post by: mikey on 11-08-2004 07:18
Man, SA just got so much better. Now there's girlfriends and gang war. Im claiming more territory than the US marines in Iraq.
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Post by: termos on 11-08-2004 07:38
 
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Man, SA just got so much better. Now there's girlfriends and gang war. Im claiming more territory than the US marines in Iraq.

Well there was gang war in GTA 2. You could work for different gangs and then get enemies in the other gangs. I imagine it's more complex in SA, or at least it should be.

One more question: do all of your skills decrease over time? For example, does your driving skill decrease if you don't drive for a while?
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-08-2004 07:42
I don't think so. It's one of the hardest to get up, driving, though (I've finished the storyline, Vigilante, Ambulance and several gang warfare missions and I've still only got it to about 85%). Flying skill is comparatively easy. Bike skill is the only one I've maxed out.
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Post by: termos on 11-08-2004 07:44
I was worried that you'd have to micromanage all the skills, something that's not very GTA-like. But I can live with it this way. Now I just have to wait for the PC version - there's no way I'm not buying it.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-08-2004 07:48
I just hope that MTA produces a multiplayer client like for VC and GTA3. Multiplayer chases across an entire state......:drool:  ;)
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-08-2004 07:50
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
Las Venturas is the last city to open up. And I've found that that strategy tends to work (I still can't take the "dinky" Vagos territory by the dam, as I can never actually find any Vagos to shoot.   :hmpf:

I've found myself stopping traffic and getting headshots through the windshields of Oceanics and Hermeses occupied by Vagos.

 
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Originally posted by mikey:
Man, SA just got so much better. Now there's girlfriends and gang war. Im claiming more territory than the US marines in Iraq.

Re: Girlfriends.
Overrated.  I had just finished repelling yet another Balla attack on Grove Street when I stopped by Denise's crib only to find out she was dumping me.  Ces't la vie.
Re: Claiming territory.
I would go so far as to say this stupid game has made me appreciate the complexities of urban combat.  Gains aren't made by armies sweeping across fields, but by small groups fighting tooth and nail, street by street and block by block.  Of course, it would be nice to have a small group to work with.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-08-2004 07:57
Y'know, DrT...

Have you left Los Santos, yet?

With all that territory that you're gaining, I centainly hope so...
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Post by: mikey on 11-08-2004 08:50
Whats the deal with me getting enough respect to start a four man gang? Whats that about? I dominate with the M4, no gang can defeat me.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-08-2004 12:33
 
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Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Oh god, they drive on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!
Like that matters in any GTA game!  :p
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-08-2004 17:43
True.

I don't quite get the respect-o-meter either.  I've pretty much maxed it out (me and my M4).

And no, I haven't left LS.  A responsible gangsta like myself can't leave his bungling gangsta underlings alone while there are much better gangsters all around them.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-08-2004 18:01
DrT:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-08-2004 18:18
Skreee!

Big Ass Server player event going down, Massive Battle between the Imps and Rebels on Dathomir over an Imperial Prison.

Go team Red!

Of course, I will take part.
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Post by: mikey on 11-09-2004 09:36
 
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
DrT:

It just happened to me. Im doing the country missions. I thought I would take the long journey home to stir some shit up. And bam, nothings going on, except every gang dislikes me.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-09-2004 11:55
Well i had my first day of working in the videogame dept. Pretty good, but today will be a fucking nightmare. I can picture myself and my coworkers up on the counter amid a raging crowd of angry, impatient Xbox fanboys wanting their goddamn game.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-09-2004 12:05
This month marks the one year anniversary of Mario Kart Double Dash coming out. Since then, I've played it nearly every night of the week, sometimes more than that. I've played the All-Cup against my brother a good 300 times by now, out of the 365 days of the year. And the All-Cup takes about an hour, so with my other play as well, I've played on Double Dash over 300 hours in a year. Pretty good value for money if you ask me, and I'm not about to put it down either...
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Post by: termos on 11-09-2004 12:19
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Well i had my first day of working in the videogame dept. Pretty good, but today will be a fucking nightmare. I can picture myself and my coworkers up on the counter amid a raging crowd of angry, impatient Xbox fanboys wanting their goddamn game.
And next week you will feel the wrath of the PC gamers when Half-Life 2 is released.
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Post by: Pitt Clemens on 11-09-2004 13:53
Last night I bought both X-box and halo 2.  I played till six, and thusly got four hours of sleep.

Worth it.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-09-2004 14:21
 
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Originally posted by termos:
 And next week you will feel the wrath of the PC gamers when Half-Life 2 is released.

Well I'm lucky because ToysRUs really doesnt carry PC games. Now may god have mercy on the souls of those BestBuy employees...   :nono:
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Post by: termos on 11-09-2004 16:48
 
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Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:
Last night I bought both X-box and halo 2.  I played till six, and thusly got four hours of sleep.

Worth it.

That's good to know, I preordered it today. That's right, it's not out here until the 11th.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-09-2004 17:07
 
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Last night I bought both X-box and halo 2. I played till six, and thusly got four hours of sleep.

Worth it.
I'm getting a replacement Xbox, and Halo 1.  :p
I got Fable last week too, waiting on the new Xbox to play it.

I'll probably end up getting Halo 2 on PC, either that or i'll do what i did with Halo 1, leech it off a friend and clock it with two players.
Good times.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-09-2004 18:29
Time for some more SWG screenies from PEEL's corospondent, Nurdbot. And awesome, they are.

(http://img47.exs.cx/img47/1512/screenShot0112.th.jpg) (http://img47.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img47&image=screenShot0112.jpg)
An Imperial Pilot awaits outside the Kor Vella spaceport with his Darktrooper bodyguard and Officer for more Player Imp Pilots.

(http://img61.exs.cx/img61/293/screenShot0135.th.jpg) (http://img61.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img61&image=screenShot0135.jpg)
Me messing around with the awesome holoemotes you get from Image Designers.

(http://img106.exs.cx/img106/6610/screenShot0136.th.jpg) (http://img106.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img106&image=screenShot0136.jpg)
An awesome fully decked out Player Rebel Pilot shows off the best Item in the game, the Rebel Pilot helmet and respirator. You get these when you master the Alliance class. Glee!

(http://img129.exs.cx/img129/1739/screenShot0138.th.jpg) (http://img129.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img129&image=screenShot0138.jpg)
Meet my awesome new Probot Droid, ready to help me kick ass throughout the galaxy. Spot the Futurama references and win a prize.

I might do a tour of my little home on Tatooine using FRAPS. Anyone wanna host?
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Post by: Zeep on 11-09-2004 21:48
roberto the robot, and that line from... um... obsoletely fabulous, i believe?

anyway, it's only 11 more days until dual screen goodness. and now a number of people (gaming websites/magazines, nintendo employees, stores with demo kiosks) have actaully gotten to play the DS in a normal environment (not bolted down at some gaming expo) and their impressions have been only good. i'll see if I can find the link to IGN's article later.

EDIT for LINKAGE (http://ds.ign.com/articles/564/564540p1.html)
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Post by: M0le on 11-09-2004 22:47
Roberto is knifeless?
Oh, I could try hosting the FRAPS movie, unless it's in .rar format again.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-10-2004 01:41
Zeep: Good boy, have this fish.

Zuckuss M0le: He's got a little blaster, that can oddly make the bigger blasters look like crap. I don't care though. I love the little fella.

As for the Movie, I won't .rar it.

EDIT: I also got 3 Mil credits for free, that is so going towards my X-Wing in JTL.
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Post by: Zeep on 11-10-2004 12:00
woo! i got a fish!

...

*doesn't really like fish*
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-10-2004 12:10
Does anyone want to add a Soundtrack?

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Post by: Lrrr_2004 on 11-10-2004 21:11
I like the camera work that they have now, not that eagle's eye view crap in the first.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-12-2004 13:58
Who here's got/completed Zelda Wind Waker?...

I'm playing through this at the moment, and have been for the last couple of months. I've just got to the end of the Wind Temple. Anyway, I do love this game, it's pure genius in places, and a joy to play. However, some of it really pisses me off...

Ok, the beginning was boring as hell, until you get to the first dungeon, but I've already said about that anyway. And that's not what annoys me though, because you know what you're doing. What does annoy me is how vague, stupid and pedantic this game can be. Here's a run down on the things which I got stuck on, down to the games vague and stupid nature...

After finishing the Temple of the Gods, I was told to go to the two Sages temples marked on my Sea Chart. Fair enough, it's very clear and easy to follow. But when I get there, I obviously can't enter, again fair enough. What now? I talk to the boat, and he tells me to "talk to the people in the seas nearby" Oooook... That tells me a lot... Yeah riiight! So I go to the nearby islands, and talk to countless people, and waste hours and hours, and get knowhere slowly. This is what I mean about vague, I mean come on! I've got no idea who I'm meant to talk to. In the end I gave up, looked at an online guide...

I found out that I was supposed to have deliberately sailed my boat into a tornado! How stupid is that?! I've seen the tornado, but obviously I've tried to avoid it, because it's hardly gonna do much good getting sucked into it. Anyway, I find out that sailing into the tornado is pivotal to the game, so in other words I have to do it, or I can't ever complete it! Jeez, how stupid, it's no wonder I got stuck. And what's more, you have to search for this one tornado, which changes locations and could be anywhere in a sea which takes almost 10 mins to sail across, and that’s just in one direction! Now this is getting pathetic. Ok, so eventually I do all this to learn that song of gales thing...

You have to learn that to get onto that island to get the fire and ice arrows, which you need later on. So now I've got those arrows right, what now? I talk to the boat, same old shit about talking to people again, jeez, not again! Back to the guide...

Ok, now the guide tells me to find a volcano, and fire an ice arrow into it, and then find an ice dragon and fire a fire arrow into. This is a good idea in theory, however when you have no damn idea what to do, and you're simply told to talk to people, how the hell are you meant to work it out? Why couldn’t the boat have given a clue about hot and cold things, instead of the people crap? I'd seen the volcano on my travels, yes, but it was hardly shouting out to me, I thought it was just part of the seascape. What's more, you have no damn idea where it is, even when you do look for it. And as for the ice dragon, I'd never even seen it before, so how the hell was I gonna even think about finding something I didn't know existed? How annoying. Anyway, moving on...

In the Wind Temple, something really pissed me off too, because it's so damn pedantic! Ok, there's a room with spikes in it, and 5 cracked floor tiles in front of you. So the first thing I do is put my iron boots on, and walk over them, in hope they'll crack. I walk over them all several times, but nope, nothing happens. So then I try everything I've got, the hammer, arrows, you name it. Nothing works, so I go back through the whole Temple to see if there's anything else I can do, but can't find anything! That's an hour wasted for no reason at all. So I give up, look at the guide, and what does it tell me to do? It tells me to put the freaking iron boots to break the floor tiles! Ok, I'm mad now, because I already did that, that was the very first thing I did for gds sake. So I go back, try it again, and still nothing! I keep trying, until I accidentally find out you have to put the iron boots on whist your actually already standing on the tile! Can you believe that!... Where's the logic in that! I mean, if you can walk over floor tiles with iron boots on, time and time again, but they don't break, then why oh why would they crack just by putting them on while your on the tile? It just makes no sense, and is incredibly pedantic, and annoying as hell!...

And now that I've finished the wind Temple, it's back to the vagueness. Finding 8 Triforce maps, there's so many damn maps I get confused. I found one Triforce map earlier by accident anyway, but what's the point in getting all these maps, then getting them translated, then finding the frigging pieces. It's hardly clear, it's just a vague confusion mess of pointlessness. The boat should just mark the 8 Triforce pieces on your Sea Chart, then you should go find them, and then do various interesting tasks to obtain them. Not finding maps which you have no idea where they are, then translating them and having no idea where to do that either, then finding the frigging pieces, how tedious...

Otherwise, it's an awesome game. It's worth the shit above for the good bits. It still doesn't stop me asking "Why?" in places though...

How the hell is anyone meant to complete this without a guide?...
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-12-2004 14:08
I've got Wind Waker. It's a great game; not as good as OoT, largely because as you say you spend most of the game on treasure hunts.

I think the problem you're having is that you don't know about the fish. Most of the problems you've had can be solved by talking to each of the fish in the various map locations. Not only will they reveal stuff like needing to sail into the tornado, but also draw out your map (so you can find the volcano).

You're right, though, the 8 Triforce shards thing was a total cop-out. I'd have rather had a couple more Sage style dungeons than be gallavanting all over the place (the sailing physics are pretty, though   ;)).

EDIT: Oh, and I think the idea behind that bit in the Wind Temple is that Link does a little jump when he puts on the boots, so creates more force. I agree that it is rather convienient that the tiles have just enough strength to support walking in heavy boots, but not for jumping.  ;)
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Post by: Coilette on 11-12-2004 14:10
Well, I got Everquest 2 in the post yesterday. I've been playing it a bit today, and I'm impressed. There's a lot of depth to the world, and hopefully I haven't humiliated myself online due to n00bness...
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-12-2004 14:26
Otis: Yeah, I agree with CyberKnight. The King Of Red Lions wanted you to talk to the fishmen. You just toss them some bait, near the island you're trying to enter and they'll spill the beans, he literlally wanted you to talk to those "In the seas nearby.". I agree with the Triforce map/collecting the triforce peices, though. It's a complete pain in the ass, and was just used to artifically extend the game. There should have been a dungen where you earn the Wind Waker rather than just having it given to you.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-12-2004 15:30
I posted this plea for help in the StarWars thread, but no help came.

I just started playing StarWars Battlefront in online mode for the PS2, but I dont know how to talk using the SOCOM headset. I hear others talking, but I dont know how to respond!

So what button do you push to talk into the mic?

Can anyone help?
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-12-2004 15:56
Aaaah, you've high both (CyberKnight and newhook_1) highlighted the errors of my ways, to some extent. It's funny you should mention the fish thing, because I just today worked that out. A bit too late I know. I wish the boat was more specific than just saying "talking to those in the seas nearby", because that's too vague in my opinion. The thought of talking to fish never even crossed my mind. I guess the bait is a clue, but I never put that together with the talking to those in the seas nearby thing...

When I worked it out, it was because after you come out of the Wind Temple, you see a cut scene of the boat talking to a fish. That's when it kinda hit me, but it's too late now because I've had to look at a guide to get there...

I've talked to a few fish, however as snoon as I worked it out, I then realised that would mean talking to every fish on near every island to get a full map, and a huge feeling of "can't be arsed" came over me. It's no fun doing that, it's just a time consuming chore. I personally think that your map should expand and have information on it as snoon as you enter each square. That would be a lot easier. Talking to every fish is another one of those "do something and repeat x number of times" things, really tedious. Getting all the Triforce pieces will be tedious enough, let alone that...

I guess I can see what you mean about the iron boots on the tile's thing, but I still think that's increadibly pedantic. It just wasted an entire hour of my time, even though my initial idea was the correct one...
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-12-2004 16:41
I had a solid few hours of GTA last night, and unlocked the next island. I had a bit of a drive is SF, but the missions are setting me at the foot of Mt Chilliad. That this is fucking huge too, took me a fair while to reach the top on a trusty Sanchez. I then looked for a parachute, but had no idea where it was, so I hopped on the push bike to start the Chilliad Challenge, which I finished a disappointing 3rd in. I'm currently sleeping in a trailer park, as I only have $20k, not enough to buy myself a nice place nearby. The only property I own is on Grove St.

The mission Body Harvest has to be the best mission ever. Running over hicks, and seeing them come out the back to the tractor is priceless. I only had a few shotgun bullets too, so I had to run them all over...
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-12-2004 16:45
That's where the game really picks up, in my opinion. Los Santos was great, but it was just essentially the same mission over and over - drive (usually in the Greenwood  :() to point A, shoot rival gang members, escape). Ryder's missions were a little more varied, and a couple of the chases were good fun, but none of those missions compare to what comes later in the game.  :D
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Post by: Coilette on 11-12-2004 17:01
I'm struggling in Los Santos :/ I can't seem to kill all the guys who are on top of the train in time and I'm on the bike with BS.
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-12-2004 17:30
TWW was indeed great, although I would agree with the triforce shard part letting the game down quite a lot. One of the things that I most enjoyed about the game was the way in which it made several references to past Zelda games and the way in which parts of the plot were connected. For example it was  a nice touch havingstain glass window depictions of the seven sages from OoT in the master sword chamber and I thought that having a large portrait of Tetra (Zelda) and her pirate crew in royal dress in the palace was great.

I'd still maintain that 'Majora's Mask' is the best Zelda game ever though. Despite the epic scale and the fact that it created the engine and character models that MM used, the latter just had so much more of an atmosphere (and a quirkier and darker one at that). I'm replaying it now and have reached Ikana Canyon. Great music and the palace area is pretty nifty to look around.
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Post by: Idan_Aharoni on 11-12-2004 18:06
I just played against my brother 4 games of Warhammer 40k: Dawn of war. Every time it was only me against him, with only annhiliaion as a term of winning. Beat him the first 2 times fairly easy. Third time he started to get the hang of it but I still beat him with some cunning strategy. 4th game took us 110 minutes, a huge map, only me and him. He wasn't too agressive in aquiring strategic points, and I took over the whole map and had endless resources. Last fight for his base took 20 minutes. It was really kick-ass.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-12-2004 18:56
Well, EverCrack 2 (EverQuest) came out today... and we sold out already, I just don't see how that game is so popular.

Anyways, I'm looking foward to the new "Goldeneye" and of course "Metal Gear Solid 3".
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-12-2004 19:01
Today I have had a long tidious but incredibly epic day on SWG.

I went to Lok and did the 2nd part of the Rebel Themepark (A series of quests Exclusive to the Rebel's only, given by very famous characters from the films).

Lok is a huge Wasteland Pirate World, filled to the brim with Sulphur pools, a manner of wrecked things and very tough lost Space Pirates. It's not the Planet for a lightly armoured n00bie Carabineer-Brawler-Medic such as myself, but I knew the risk and I wanted phat loot.

The only safe area of Lok is Nym's Stronghold, where a local Pirate Warlord keeps order. In this only City on Lok in the Cantina resides the two NPC's I needed to contact.

The 1st NPC was Nien Niub, Lando's Sullustian Co-Pilot in ROTJ, followed by  Han Solo and Chewbacca himself. After Nien's missions, my loot was an awesome Rebel Banner that has a place of honour in my house on Tatooine.

The loot from Han was quite insignificent, weak ass boots with 100 condition and slight resistence from poison and stun attack. Big deal, I was hoping for something like a Bowcaster or a Uber DL44. Damn you SOE.

After Lok, I went to Bestine to have an Image Designer set my stats which I changed slightly to fit some armour on me (This was a failure, pity I paid in advance) and as soon as I stepped into the main room of the Starport I incapped by a Tusken Raider.

I was confused at first, but it turns out a small army of Uber Tusken Raiders had invaded Bestine and was causing chaos through the Imperial Tatooine Capital.

I of course ran like hell out of the Starport when I recovered from my visit to laa laa land. Seconds later I was watching two Dark Jedi, a few other players and a Rancor beating the hell off two of these Raiders. It took them forever to take them out. Apparently these Tusken Raiders had 20k HAM and a large amount of resistence to things like poison and stun. Unless buffed, a normal Player has only 1k of HAM and has to lump it.

I got involved and gunned one down, salvaging a huge amount of Jawa Faction Points. Sadly, I was killed taking on the second.

It was a full day, but I'm glad I experienced it all. I regret nothing.

Except that bloody stat thing. Shitty composite armour.


Have some images I took:
(http://img130.exs.cx/img130/8643/screenShot0141.th.jpg) (http://img130.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img130&image=screenShot0141.jpg)
HAN!

(http://img124.exs.cx/img124/4249/screenShot0142.th.jpg) (http://img124.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img124&image=screenShot0142.jpg)
CHEWIE!

(http://img108.exs.cx/img108/566/screenShot0143.th.jpg) (http://img108.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img108&image=screenShot0143.jpg)
Uh, Nien?

(http://img16.exs.cx/img16/7754/screenShot0146.th.jpg) (http://img16.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img16&image=screenShot0146.jpg)
For the Alliance!

Also, try to name the weapons in that screenie.

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Post by: M0le on 11-12-2004 19:50
Dear GOD! Romuski looks like Antonio Banderas!
What exactly does an Image Designer do? Just reset stats or can they actually alter your appearance?
Will they be introducing new species with Jump to Lightspeed? Sullustians, Bith, Ithorians, Gammoreans, or even Gands?
I see you've got one of those breathing masks that Leia was wearing in ROTJ on the wall. Nice touch.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-12-2004 19:59
1: The Image Designer can alter you avatar and stats, but they have to do the stats in Salon buildings.

2: The new species in SWG are Ithorians and Sullustians. Ithorians have a crafting bonus and Sullustians have a piloting bonus.

3: As for the mask, it's actually an Ubese Helmet. I wore it a lot until recently, when it broke. Now it just looks neat hanging between my Duster coats.

What movies has this so called Antonio been in? can he match the feats of Romuski Til!

EDIT:
Sorry about this, why do I always get the last few posts of the last page anyway?

 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Today I have had a long tidious but incredibly epic day on SWG.

I went to Lok and did the 2nd part of the Rebel Themepark (A series of quests Exclusive to the Rebel's only, given by very famous characters from the films).

Lok is a huge Wasteland Pirate World, filled to the brim with Sulphur pools, a manner of wrecked things and very tough lost Space Pirates. It's not the Planet for a lightly armoured n00bie Carabineer-Brawler-Medic such as myself, but I knew the risk and I wanted phat loot.

The only safe area of Lok is Nym's Stronghold, where a local Pirate Warlord keeps order. In this only City on Lok in the Cantina resides the two NPC's I needed to contact.

The 1st NPC was Nien Niub, Lando's Sullustian Co-Pilot in ROTJ, followed by  Han Solo and Chewbacca himself. After Nien's missions, my loot was an awesome Rebel Banner that has a place of honour in my house on Tatooine.

The loot from Han was quite insignificent, weak ass boots with 100 condition and slight resistence from poison and stun attack. Big deal, I was hoping for something like a Bowcaster or a Uber DL44. Damn you SOE.

After Lok, I went to Bestine to have an Image Designer set my stats which I changed slightly to fit some armour on me (This was a failure, pity I paid in advance) and as soon as I stepped into the main room of the Starport I incapped by a Tusken Raider.

I was confused at first, but it turns out a small army of Uber Tusken Raiders had invaded Bestine and was causing chaos through the Imperial Tatooine Capital.

I of course ran like hell out of the Starport when I recovered from my visit to laa laa land. Seconds later I was watching two Dark Jedi, a few other players and a Rancor beating the hell off two of these Raiders. It took them forever to take them out. Apparently these Tusken Raiders had 20k HAM and a large amount of resistence to things like poison and stun. Unless buffed, a normal Player has only 1k of HAM and has to lump it.

I got involved and gunned one down, salvaging a huge amount of Jawa Faction Points. Sadly, I was killed taking on the second.

It was a full day, but I'm glad I experienced it all. I regret nothing.

Except that bloody stat thing. Shitty composite armour.


Have some images I took:
(http://img130.exs.cx/img130/8643/screenShot0141.th.jpg) (http://img130.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img130&image=screenShot0141.jpg)
HAN!

(http://img124.exs.cx/img124/4249/screenShot0142.th.jpg) (http://img124.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img124&image=screenShot0142.jpg)
CHEWIE!

(http://img108.exs.cx/img108/566/screenShot0143.th.jpg) (http://img108.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img108&image=screenShot0143.jpg)
Uh, Nien?

(http://img16.exs.cx/img16/7754/screenShot0146.th.jpg) (http://img16.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img16&image=screenShot0146.jpg)
For the Alliance!

Also, try to name the weapons in that screenie.


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Post by: Lrrr_2004 on 11-12-2004 20:25
I feel so disappointed when i fail the mission with Big Smoke on the bike.  I will pass that mission, if it takes me a 100 days, then i'm giving up.  I mean screw that.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-12-2004 20:50
I beat Halo 2, all I can say is that there is going to be a Halo 3...
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Post by: mikey on 11-12-2004 21:14
Damn Zero's missions are hard. I cant do the first one.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-12-2004 22:46
Yeah, that one's a bitch. Here's a pointer: Don't even think about attempting it at night.

The one after it's worse...
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-12-2004 23:51
My greatest feat of stupidity in San Andreas went like this: I started somewhere near the base of Mt. Chilead.  I manuvered my way to the tunnel that has one entrance overlooking the Easter Bay Airport.  I went to the other end of the tunnel, built up a big head of steam, and launched over the cliff, landing on one of the hangars inside the airport (only made $32 on the stunt bonus, bastards).  After finding that none of the fixed-wing aircraft were stealable, I stole the whirly, collected the parachutes from the top of Chilead and the big, round building in Los Santos, and touched down at LSX (Los Santos Int'l).  From LSX, I stole a corporate jet and proceeded to launch an air invasion directly over the Las Venturas strip.  After evading several missiles, I was finally shot down over the desert.  I bailed out and hit the silk.  My hope was to land in the "Restricted Area" and maybe pick up the fabled jetpack, but I landed significantly farther away than I had anticipated.  I made a break for the water.  My wanted level dropped to three stars once I started swimming, and by staying under a nearby bridge, I evaded police choppers.  The ride to the nearest Pay 'n Spray was unventful, thanks largely to the incompetence of the backwater county sheriff's deputies (I killed three of them with a dildo in one rampage).

I still can't win the Wu Zi Mu race.  I can keep the lead up until the hairpin turns, where I usually understeer and turn myself around or oversteer and spin out.

Also, there are now Ballas hanging around on Grove Street.  My M4, which I call "Blasty," made sure they understood my feelings on who belongs in my hood.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-13-2004 00:21
I had an adventure in a plane today over LV. Took a smallish plane from LS Airport and flew it over, picked up four stars, and crashed into the baseball stadium, presumably killing thousands of baseball fans. I bailed out about 5m from the ground but died on impact.

I'm up to the robbery missions with that bitch whats-her-name. I did one, but the quad bike one just pissed me off, those things are damn hard to control. The betting shop I managed to screw up by not having a vehicle within 10km, I got killed by cops whilst I was running around like a mad man. I also managed to lose the tanker thingo on the other robbery, as I took a wrong turn and tried to turn the thing 'round. Didn't work.

I bought a lovely place in eastern Los Santos for $10k, so I've got that, Grove St, Bitch's house and the caravan park, with only $10k further in the bank. I'm a poor man. With no weapons.

And where on earth is the parachute on top of Chilliad?
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Post by: Alliteration on 11-13-2004 01:10
 
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Originally posted by Squeaky:
I beat Halo 2, all I can say is that there is going to be a Halo 3...

Hahaha! You can say that again!

Still, great game, I have been playing 16 person multiplayer matches almost everyday since it came out. I love the multiple teams. Its not just red vs blue anymore!
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-13-2004 02:33
 
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
And where on earth is the parachute on top of Chilliad?

It's on that rest area near the top.  It's usually on the corner (do round things have corners?) near the most obvious precipice and the incline leading to the pinnacle.

In other news, I finally defeated Wu Zi Mu by a large margin (in either a Landstalker or Ranger) only to find the two things I am most tired of:


Then again, I did finally get around to visiting the Cobra Gym in SF.  Killer new Kung-Fu moves that I've been using on the drug dealers in East LS but I really want to have a move where you sneak up on someone from behind and break his or her neck.

I also got to drive the train.  That was also pretty cool until I derailed it, presumably killing hundreds.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-13-2004 03:24
 
Quote
Originally posted by Alliteration:
 Hahaha! You can say that again!

Still, great game, I have been playing 16 person multiplayer matches almost everyday since it came out. I love the multiple teams. Its not just red vs blue anymore!


I have to agree with you, I think the multiplayer on this game is the best... I like how you can play on the internet with a friend through splitscreen.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-13-2004 05:02
GTA:SA Cash total: $70,426,935
Not bad for someone who only just unlocked the last island, i think you'll agree.

Save, go to a horse racing joint, bet all your money on the crappest horse. Reload and repeat until it wins.
Bam! Money x10-12.
The $70m originally spawned from $2,700, or so. Took about an hour.
Does it take the fun out of it? Not really, saves a lot of buggering around, especially in this game, where cash reserves are found to be particuarly low.

I used the betting place in Montgomery, (Small place north of LS, check your detailed map) and the save place at
You can make it up and back in about 20 seconds.

In other GTA:SA news, i'm stuck on a trifecta of missions: Air Raid, The flying school, and the one involving doing a P.I.T. move on the chick with mobile phone.

So, while i'm still too pissed off to keep trying any of them again, is there any cool things to check out, now that i can access the entire map? I went to that restricted area in LV, and found nothing but a 5 star wanted level. Now i'm quite curious and suspicious.

EDIT: Oh, and i was very dissapointed to find out that you can't mod the monster truck.
It would have been funny with Hydrolics.   :D

NFS-U: New drag record is 23.67, waiting on that level 3 Nitrous Oxide...
Close to 2/3 complete now. No screenies this time, but my car looks a lot different, now that i've unlocked nearly all the vinyls.

SimCity 3000: Found a way to fix the massive water shortage bug, however the speed thing remains. Been playing GTA:SA too much to do too much about expanding. City treasury is at 2,453,212 Simoleans.

Fable: No news yet, but i've got a new xbox that i can actually play it on, so expect some soon.

 
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Damn Zero's missions are hard. I cant do the first one.
I keep getting knocked out with 3-10 seconds left. It's really shitting me.
I found that if you work on one axis, (Up-Down, or Left-Right) and let the planes fly into your retical as much as you can, it helps... Just not enough.  :p
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-13-2004 12:57
Can anyone tell me if Half-Life 2 has anything other than what looks like a totally amazing story to play through.

I just put a pre-order in when I saw that Metacritic, who calculate a weighted score based on review scores from other sources, gave it a 97, the highest PC score and joint highest score of all-time!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-13-2004 17:21
Ho hum, busy day. Went to Dantooine. Spoke to Captain Ackbar. Did missions. Spoke to Mon Mothma. Did her missions. Planet hopped back to Tatooine, joined a player city party and then joined a few Guild members on a mission to blow up a CorSec run Corvette in space. Which we all lost. Back on Tat, go back to dying party then home. I've got some awesome screenies of the Corvette.

Oh, the loot wasn't bad for the 3rd bit of the Rebel Themepark. A B-Wing Flightsuit and Schematic for Commando Backpack. I hope the last bit of the themepark has the best loot.

And now, the amazing screenies of the Corvette. This is LucasArts heaven!

(http://img49.exs.cx/img49/2014/screenShot0147.th.jpg) (http://img49.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img49&image=screenShot0147.jpg)

(http://img95.exs.cx/img95/6576/screenShot0149.th.jpg) (http://img95.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img95&image=screenShot0149.jpg)
Me and the female Combat Medic Twi'lek Emmi gape at the engines of this thing.

(http://img27.exs.cx/img27/6124/screenShot0151.th.jpg) (http://img27.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img27&image=screenShot0151.jpg)
Remember Leia and the Droid's skulking through these?

(http://img23.exs.cx/img23/572/screenShot0155.th.jpg) (http://img23.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img23&image=screenShot0155.jpg)
The Warriors of Hope hold the fort as there attack plan crumbles around us.

Some more images, linked:
 http://img42.exs.cx/img42/6205/screenShot0153.jpg (http://img42.exs.cx/img42/6205/screenShot0153.jpg)

Blasting at a tough CorSec Mercenary.
 http://img48.exs.cx/img48/5165/screenShot0150.jpg (http://img48.exs.cx/img48/5165/screenShot0150.jpg)

Engine Room goodness!
 http://img131.exs.cx/img131/6092/screenShot0152.jpg (http://img131.exs.cx/img131/6092/screenShot0152.jpg)

What we looked like before we crumbled.

What happened you ask?
Well, we were all fully buffed and armoured up to the gills. But somebody impatiently ran off leading the others while 3-4 of us with slower connections were still loading up. We managed to regroup but the elevators confused some and we eventually were seperated and were blasted by the CorSec or stomped on by those annoying BattleDroids from Episode II.

The only loot gained was a Bantha Toy and the reactor core of the AV-21, the best Landspeeder in the game.

I got nothing but some damaged armour. It was still very exciting.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-13-2004 20:36
 
Quote
Originally posted by Rage Dump:
GTA:SA Cash total: $70,426,935
Not bad for someone who only just unlocked the last island, i think you'll agree.

Save, go to a horse racing joint, bet all your money on the crappest horse. Reload and repeat until it wins.
Bam! Money x10-12.
The $70m originally spawned from $2,700, or so. Took about an hour.
Cheat!

I have a great GTA gambling story though. I headed to the one in middle or western LS, with $3000. I ended up losing it all in about 6 bets, all on the purple horse. I was mighty pissed, so I killed to the two people who were in there are stole their money. I had about $200, which I put on the purple horse to win... and bam! $2400 or so! I then put another $400 or so on purple, for another win!

Gambling is fun.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-13-2004 22:49
Well, I just got back from the PEELathon, and I have to say one of the highlights was all of us cramming into a EB Games to play the 2 Nintendo DS's they have on display.

My Review:

This had to be one of the most thrilling gaming experiences of my life. My hands were shaking when I touched it, and the graphics on Metroid Prime Hunters look breath-taking. It took a minute to get used to the 2 screens and controls, but I really like the usage of the touch screen. Using it to change the camera angles felt very smooth and fluid. You use the R button to fire your blaster and a button on the touchscreen to turn into a morph ball. The A,B,X,Y buttons are used to change camera angles on one control setting but they dont feel as good as the touch screen setting.

It was really a blast to use picto chat to IM the other PEELer playing and drawing little amusing pictures never gets old.

And needless to say, I kicked everyone's ass in Multiplayer Metroid.

Unbelievable.
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-14-2004 03:21
 
Quote
Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
 
Quote
Originally posted by Rage Dump:
GTA:SA Cash total: $70,426,935
Not bad for someone who only just unlocked the last island, i think you'll agree.

Save, go to a horse racing joint, bet all your money on the crappest horse. Reload and repeat until it wins.
Bam! Money x10-12.
The $70m originally spawned from $2,700, or so. Took about an hour.
Cheat!

I have a great GTA gambling story though. I headed to the one in middle or western LS, with $3000. I ended up losing it all in about 6 bets, all on the purple horse. I was mighty pissed, so I killed to the two people who were in there are stole their money. I had about $200, which I put on the purple horse to win... and bam! $2400 or so! I then put another $400 or so on purple, for another win!

Gambling is fun.

The lesson here is "If at first you don't succeed, kill a bystander, take their money, and try again."

My favorite way of getting fat stacks is to cruise East LS, sneak up behind drug dealers, and cut their throats.  They give you lots of money and a gun.

Zero's Air Raid mission is pretty tough.  The best strategy I could come up with is to "shoot skeet."  I essentially lead the target by a short distance and walk the stream of fire back into it.  Zero's next one screwed me up too.  I don't think I destroyed any of the couriers while in the air.

The following is not for anyone who cares about the storyline and hasn't passed the Catalina missions yet:
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-14-2004 05:12
 
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Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Zero's Air Raid mission is pretty tough.  The best strategy I could come up with is to "shoot skeet."  I essentially lead the target by a short distance and walk the stream of fire back into it.  Zero's next one screwed me up too.  I don't think I destroyed any of the couriers while in the air.

Grrr. I hate that mission. It reminds me of "Phnom Penh '86" from VC except even more annoying. At least "Supply Lines" is a bit more fun. You do get rewarded with a much better mission as his third one, though.  ;)

 
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The following is not for anyone who cares about the storyline and hasn't passed the Catalina missions yet:

Yep.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-14-2004 06:03
I've moved my SWG reports to the Star Wars thread, because this thread has turned into 'Everybody loves GTA'.
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Post by: Zed 85 on 11-14-2004 06:13
 
Quote
Quote
Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Zero's Air Raid mission is pretty tough. The best strategy I could come up with is to "shoot skeet." I essentially lead the target by a short distance and walk the stream of fire back into it. Zero's next one screwed me up too. I don't think I destroyed any of the couriers while in the air.

Grrr. I hate that mission. It reminds me of "Phnom Penh '86" from VC except even more annoying.

Phnom Pehn? I loved that mission.  :love:
'Course, shooting up targets from the air is a piece of piss with a mouse - suppose it must be an absolute bugger without though  :hmpf:
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-14-2004 06:30
Definately. I think the best indicator for how big the difference is is the shooting range missions in VC. They're tuned for the PS2, so they become ridiculously easy on the PC (it's a struggle to get the 60 score on the PS2, but easy to get well over 100 on the PC).
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-14-2004 06:42
Oh, for Zero's mission with the couriers...

A strategy which worked for me was to hold my fire, land pretty much directly behind one of the couriers, and let 'er rip. Takes 'em down quickly, and they don't fire at you unless you fire upon them (at least when I tried it). Not exacyly playing fair, but it got the job done.

Biggest bitch was trying to get back before all my fuel ran out.



I think that Catalina's scared me off of women for life...

Though I was amused by her constant phone calls.


Incidently, I've finished the main story. Huzzah! Fave characters in this one include...

Maccer "Oh, Maggie!"

Toreno "What was that, Carl? I can't hear you on account of your brother's love cries!" (Just hang around for a while after he tells you to go to flight school. It's worth it).

The Truth "I'm a hippy, man, the only thing I've shot was acid. I had a friend who snorted it once. he thought his nose was a Kangeroo and the moon was a dog!'

And Tenpenny. Just 'cause.
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Post by: mikey on 11-14-2004 07:05
Im kicking ass, just killed ryder and that mendez guy. Still on the second city but I feel im on the brink of going to LV. 'The truth' is priceless, that rant he has on the way to SF is comedy gold.
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Post by: Mr.Nintendo on 11-14-2004 07:15
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
because this thread has turned into 'Everybody loves GTA'.

I agree, GTA is undoubtably a great game, but the almost constant posts centered around what people are doing within the game are beginning to piss me off. Mostly because i don't own the game myself  :p.

Anyway, yesterday in a store i managed to get about 15 minutes on Paper Mario 2, and oh, what a game it is. Having played on the first Paper Mario on the N64 i've been looking forward to this for some time, and it certainly doesn't dissapoint. Like the previous game, the visual aspect of the game is remarkable, all of the various villains and characters from Mario's illustrious history are insantly recognisable and the '2.5D' graphics (my god, i hate that term) are as effective as ever at conveying the unique look of the series. I didn't get much of a chance to test out the battle system or any of the other gampeplay mechanics, but no doubt they will match up to the rest of the game, something else to add to my christmas list i think.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-14-2004 12:18
I've got Paper Mario on the N64, very clool, but never made it to the end. I doubt I'll get the sequal. I love the visual style though, I wish they'd make a Mario Platformer in the Paper Mario style...
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Post by: Zeep on 11-14-2004 12:18
   
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Well, I just got back from the PEELathon, and I have to say one of the highlights was all of us cramming into a EB Games to play the 2 Nintendo DS's they have on display.

My Review:

This had to be one of the most thrilling gaming experiences of my life. My hands were shaking when I touched it, and the graphics on Metroid Prime Hunters look breath-taking. It took a minute to get used to the 2 screens and controls, but I really like the usage of the touch screen. Using it to change the camera angles felt very smooth and fluid. You use the R button to fire your blaster and a button on the touchscreen to turn into a morph ball. The A,B,X,Y buttons are used to change camera angles on one control setting but they dont feel as good as the touch screen setting.

It was really a blast to use picto chat to IM the other PEELer playing and drawing little amusing pictures never gets old.

And needless to say, I kicked everyone's ass in Multiplayer Metroid.

Unbelievable.

ARGH!!!

it's as if everyone but me has gotten to play the DS!!! the gamestore i go to doesn't have a demo one yet, and i doubt my parents would drive me across town just so i could play it early. oh well.

ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT!!!

in an unrelated matter, it's also only 4 days until Metroid Prime 2: Echoes! me entire computer is metroid themed, bootscreen, logon screen, desktop wallpaper, icons, screensaver, system sounds, media player skin, IM buddy icon, and visual style.

(http://img30.exs.cx/img30/3167/desktop168.th.jpg) (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/3167/desktop168.jpg)
my wallpaper, some icons, and an example of the visual style

(http://img30.exs.cx/img30/1019/desktop169.th.jpg) (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/1019/desktop169.jpg)
the start menu

(http://img30.exs.cx/img30/8630/desktop170.th.jpg) (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/8630/desktop170.jpg)
the logon screen

(http://img128.exs.cx/img128/4194/desktop32.th.jpg) (http://img128.exs.cx/img128/4194/desktop32.jpg)
my media player (and me typing this message)

most of this i got from the official MP2 website (http://www.metroid.com). click lauch site or whatever, and there's a cool game based on MP2 where you wander around this area and scan things to get information about the game, and various downloads, including a windows media player skin, an MP2 concept art screensaver, the MP2 theme music, 6 or 7 wallpapers, and 3 sets of buddy icons. there's also a number of  gameplay movies and a TV ad (scan the federation trooper in the first area for a really cool gameplay movie!)

edited so the picture links work
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-14-2004 14:11
My Xbox Computer - The Official Collection:

Desktop (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115ℑ=newdesktop1.jpg)
Start Menu (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115ℑ=newstartmenu.jpg)
Logon Screen (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11ℑ=newreallogonscreen.jpg)
WMP Skin (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11ℑ=newwmpskin.jpg)

Damned if I can find system sounds.

Boot screen coming soon.

[edit] Going to see if thumbnails work, which they probably won't.

(http://img115.exs.cx/img115/9131/newdesktop1.th.jpg) (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115ℑ=newdesktop1.jpg)
(http://img115.exs.cx/img115/3133/newstartmenu.th.jpg) (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115ℑ=newstartmenu.jpg)
(http://img11.exs.cx/img11/7175/newreallogonscreen.th.jpg) (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11ℑ=newreallogonscreen.jpg)
(http://img11.exs.cx/img11/9964/newwmpskin.th.jpg) (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11ℑ=newwmpskin.jpg)
[edit2] Just checked the thumbnails, none of them work, but maybe they'll start working.  Zeep's didn't work earlier today, but his work now.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-14-2004 16:44
Hmmm, maybe i should do that with the desktop environment on my Xbox...
I think i'll do that tonight, make it look like an official microsoft thing...
*Attempts to avoid the onslaught of things thrown by angry Linux nerds*

Mind telling me where you got that wallpaper?

My friends are coming back from uni soon, i'll have friends again! Yay!
I'm going to get an extra Xbox controller and we'll play Halo, start to end. If enough interest is shown, i might buy Halo 2 and do the same with that too afterwards. Should be a blast.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-14-2004 17:42
Got the wallpaper from the StyleXP site.  Got to the search, type "xbox" and choose description.  They have a ton of stuff for all screens of a computer.
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-14-2004 19:41
Metroid prime fans I was wondering something, is Metroid Prime 2 coming out the fifteenth or the sixteenth, because the guy at eb games says it's the sixteenth, but IGN .com says the fifteenth. Anyway Nasty Pasty was there any hints that there might be a Metroid prime 3,  I was just curious. And did metroid hunters have more variety of weapons.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-14-2004 19:55
Well, the date on IGN, is the day most games ship out, and the date at EB, Gamestop, and other stores is the day they get it.

The real popular games like Halo, GTA, Zelda, and the others are street dated, meaning the stores get them the day before they come out...
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-14-2004 20:08
I've noticed that Play.com ships stuff a day or two earlier than the actual release date on some occasions, I hope Sendit (cheaper HL2 than Play surprisingly) do the same thing which means that I can get Half-Life 2 by Friday!!  :love:

*prays to the great Nihilanth who died for our sins with his big yellow brain and grey dreads*
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-14-2004 20:13
Yea, this happens sometimes, but stores are not allowed to sell those copies until the release date. At the Gamestop I work at, we got Halo 2 two days early, and the same thing for San Andreas
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Post by: Zeep on 11-14-2004 21:06
i talked to a store clerk today and he said it would ship the 15th, meaning it should be in tomorrow or tuesday.

if you preordered it, just wait until your store calls you. or call them monday night to see if they have it, and if they don't, call on tuesday.

while i was here, i also laid claim to a metroid prime 2 standing display. when i get it, i'll take a picture and post it.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-14-2004 21:23
 
Quote
Originally posted by B.B.R:
Metroid prime fans I was wondering something, is Metroid Prime 2 coming out the fifteenth or the sixteenth, because the guy at eb games says it's the sixteenth, but IGN .com says the fifteenth. Anyway Nasty Pasty was there any hints that there might be a Metroid prime 3,  I was just curious. And did metroid hunters have more variety of weapons.

Well, I didnt play Echoes, I played Hunters for the Nintendo DS.

But I do work at Toys R Us and I do know that it's comming out on Tuesday the 16th.
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Post by: M0le on 11-14-2004 23:26
I got up into a new part in that Battle of Yavin fangame the other day too. I actually got past the bit when the Star Destroyer warps out of hyperspace and sics it's thousands upon thousands of TIE Fighters on me! Now I have the chance to be killed in the trench!
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Post by: winna on 11-15-2004 00:03
The DS commercials are starting to come in waves... Nov 21!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-15-2004 01:07
Have some SWG screenies. But if everyone starts harping about GTA:SA again I am staying in the Star Wars thread.

 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Went down to Yavin IV to complete the Rebel Quests, you EU junkies are going to cream yourselves.

Feast your eyes on Exarr Kunn's Temple!

(http://img128.exs.cx/img128/6402/screenShot0158.th.jpg) (http://img128.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img128&image=screenShot0158.jpg)

(http://img5.exs.cx/img5/5342/screenShot0156.th.jpg) (http://img5.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img5&image=screenShot0156.jpg)

(http://img125.exs.cx/img125/1643/screenShot0160.th.jpg) (http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img125&image=screenShot0160.jpg)

And the main Jedi Padawan soon to be Knight himself!
(http://img130.exs.cx/img130/2208/screenShot0159.th.jpg) (http://img130.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img130&image=screenShot0159.jpg)

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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-15-2004 01:59
*huggles San Andreas*

"Fido" is the only thing I can remember GTA:III's protagonist being called other than "handyman," which has way more letters.
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Post by: winna on 11-15-2004 02:03
handyman has great sexual innuendo potential though...  :cool:
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-15-2004 02:36
Fido doesn't?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-15-2004 03:47
Shut up shut up shut up!
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-15-2004 04:34
Not enough GTA talk in here.

I'm off school for 8 days, so 8 days of solid playing. I just finished the Wu Zi Mu race, it was cake the third time I tried it. Taking it easy, not flooring it all the time. I used that car up at Catalina's, the Buffalo or whatever it is.

I also did a bit of taxi work. 25 straight in LS, then 5 in SF. I want the nitro cabs, and I'll do the rest tomorrow. I may also go for 100 tags.

I'm 20% done and 18 hours played. I want to get to 100 hours as I get 100%.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-15-2004 05:23
Sung to the tune of "Dr. Zeuss" from "A Fish Called Selma":

San Andreas, San Andreas!
San Andreas, San Andreas!
San Andreas, San Andreas!
Woah, San Andreas!

  :p

I feel like I kind of burned myself out too quickly on San Andreas. I went through all the storyline missions but I'm finding the rest of the stuff less fun to get through. (By the way, the storyline didn't seem so much to end as to just "stop". A whole load of stuff seemed unresolved.)

I'd restart the game, but I'm still pondering whether to wait until the PC version is released, thus justifying further what is already a very justifiable purchase, a tactic further supported by the reports that SA is messing up people's PS2s (I don't own the PS2 I play on, I use my housemates).

Ah well. Roll on tomorrow!

Sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells"

Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2, Haaaalf-Life 2!
*shotgun blast*   ;)
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Post by: mikey on 11-15-2004 08:40
Shouldnt half life 2 be life?

Stung! Mikey does it again.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-15-2004 09:04
Grrr, I just learned that I (or rather, me from 3 months ago) made a stupid mistake - Half-Life 2 is going to my home address, rather than my term-time address.

Which means I won't be able to play it until Friday. That's four whole days! Four whole days! I'm so glad I have San Andreas to get me through this tough time.  ;)
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Post by: mikey on 11-15-2004 09:07
So guys, you care about football manager right? Well its coming out. Sweet to the max.
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-15-2004 10:01
It was out on the 2nd and it looks like a great game, but I have LMA Manager 2004 and I'm really rubbish at it so I figured football management isn't my strong point!
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-15-2004 12:12
 
Quote
Originally posted by CyberKnight:
Grrr, I just learned that I (or rather, me from 3 months ago) made a stupid mistake - Half-Life 2 is going to my home address, rather than my term-time address.

Which means I won't be able to play it until Friday. That's four whole days! Four whole days! I'm so glad I have San Andreas to get me through this tough time.   ;)
You fool! You foolish fool!  :p
Meh, welcome to my world.
Can't you change the delivery address really quick?
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-15-2004 12:36
Nope, because by the time I remembered it had entered the "Dispatching Soon" phase.  :(
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-15-2004 15:23
I had a quick question for all of you.  I was wondering if any of you knows any good qualities that the gamecube doesn't have that the xbox does? The reason I ask this is one of my friends says that the gamecube sucks and it is considered to be in last place out of xbox and ps2,according to some magazine. To me the only difference between the three systems is xbox and ps2 has a dvd player.  I can't think of that much stuff other than that and that the gamecube doesn't have halo,any of the GTA's or much online play.  In my opinion if xbox didn't have halo it would be nothing but a microsoft made box where as if gamecube didn't have prime it would have mario, zelda,star wars, and the resident evil saga. And if ps2 didn't have GTA's, well it pretty much has everything. Forget that I said it was a quick question.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-15-2004 15:54
Some of the best quality exclusive Gamecube Games are...

Mario Kart Double Dash
Mario Sunshine
Zelda Wind Waker
Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2

Anyways, I've got further on Wind Waker, and finally collected all those damn Triforce maps and shards. I'm back down in Hyrule, in Ganon's Tower. I'm a bit disappointed that you have to repeat previous bosses though, it seems a bit of a cop-out to me, especially after having collected all those Triforce shards...
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Post by: winna on 11-15-2004 15:57
To add to Otis' list:

RE:Make
SSBM
Metroid
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Post by: termos on 11-15-2004 17:39
 
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Originally posted by B.B.R:
To me the only difference between the three systems is xbox and ps2 has a dvd player.  I can't think of that much stuff other than that and that the gamecube doesn't have halo,any of the GTA's or much online play.  In my opinion if xbox didn't have halo it would be nothing but a microsoft made box where as if gamecube didn't have prime it would have mario, zelda,star wars, and the resident evil saga. And if ps2 didn't have GTA's, well it pretty much has everything. Forget that I said it was a quick question.
First of all, how can you claim Halo is all the xbox has when it's not the best xbox game. Ever tried Morrowind or Knights of the Old Republic? Now there's something you don't get on the other consoles. But the PS2 clearly has the most games, and also many of the most awesome games like (but not only) the GTA games. All in all, I would rank the PS2 highest, then the xbox and the gamecube last. Of course a PC beats the three of them at the same time. In a jiffy (last time I checked, that was 10 ms).

Even though I would rank the PS2 highest, I still dislike it very much at the same time. It's old now - how much longer must we PC gamers suffer because the PS2 is not powerful enough?
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-15-2004 17:43
 
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Originally posted by termos:
All in all, I would rank the PS2 highest, then the xbox and the gamecube last. Of course a PC beats the three of them at the same time.

Exactly how I would rank them, although I think the XBox and Gamecube are a little more on a par.

 
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Originally posted by termos:
how much longer must we PC gamers suffer because the PS2 is not powerful enough?

How is that?
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Post by: termos on 11-15-2004 17:47
 
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Originally posted by Ozor Mox:
 How is that?

Because many game developers choose the PS2, which is not very compatible with the PC. PC gamers then get the games later, if they get them at all. And when that happens, the games will look old and outdated compared with other PC games.

Three more reasons:
1. GTA
2. GTA: VC
3. GTA: SA

What if they developed GTA: SA for the PC? It could look much much better!
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-15-2004 18:00
 
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Originally posted by termos:
What if they developed GTA: SA for the PC? It could look much much better!

It ends up on the PC eventually, but it takes such a long time. I guess they think they are reaching a wider audience initially with PS2 owners than PC owners.
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Post by: termos on 11-15-2004 18:11
They are reaching a wider audience that way. But that doesn't mean I have to like it!

By the way, Half-Life 2 is coming out this week and I'm pretty excited about it. I just hope my 2.26 GHz P4, 1024 MB DDR RAM and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro can handle it.
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-15-2004 18:25
I have it on pre-order, it looks damn amazing, if only from its reviews and scores. Rather mysteriously, Amazon not only tells me it is going to deliver it on the same day as it is released, but it also says the release date is tomorrow. Seeing as how all games are released on a Friday in the UK I can't see how this can work. I won't be complaining if I get it early though!

I'll also repeat my question on the previous page. Does it have anything else other than the story to play through? I feel like getting immersed in a nice long story, but I was wondering if it has other modes of play.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-15-2004 18:26
My friend thinks my machine can handle it other than the GeForce FX 5600 which is causing a bottleneck in the graphics....  :(
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-15-2004 19:04
 
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Originally posted by futuramafreak:
[edit2] Just checked the thumbnails, none of them work, but maybe they'll start working.  Zeep's didn't work earlier today, but his work now.

I totaly figured out how to make them work.

(http://img115.exs.cx/img115/9131/newdesktop1.th.jpg) (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115&image=newdesktop1.jpg)
(http://img115.exs.cx/img115/3133/newstartmenu.th.jpg) (http://img115.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img115&image=newstartmenu.jpg)
(http://img11.exs.cx/img11/7175/newreallogonscreen.th.jpg) (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11&image=newreallogonscreen.jpg)
(http://img11.exs.cx/img11/9964/newwmpskin.th.jpg) (http://img11.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img11&image=newwmpskin.jpg)
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-15-2004 22:39
Has anyone tried "Lord of the Rings: The Third Age" or "Killzone" I have been wondering how good they are?

 
Quote
Originally posted by termos:
They are reaching a wider audience that way. But that doesn't mean I have to like it!

By the way, Half-Life 2 is coming out this week and I'm pretty excited about it. I just hope my 2.26 GHz P4, 1024 MB DDR RAM and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro can handle it.

Your PC, should be able to run it, but I would probably upgrade your Processor, yours is a little outdated, seeing that most P4's are 2.7 or higher now.
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Post by: Zeep on 11-15-2004 23:15
hooray for boredom forcing me to create pictures!

(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/7924/justice.jpg)
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-16-2004 03:40
 
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
My friend thinks my machine can handle it other than the GeForce FX 5600 which is causing a bottleneck in the graphics....   :(

Mwahahahahahahahahahah!

*huggles his 6800 Ultra*  ;)

*Remembers that at the moment it looks like he's not going to get to play it until the 27th November*  :(
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Post by: chay´s head on 11-16-2004 04:26
 
Quote
Originally posted by Squeaky:
Has anyone tried "Lord of the Rings: The Third Age" or "Killzone" I have been wondering how good they are?

yeah, i got the Killzone Demo Disc a little while ago, VERY GOOD, ive already preorderd the Collector's Edition which is due for release end of november, in Australia and most of Europe.
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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 04:48
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
*Remembers that at the moment it looks like he's not going to get to play it until the 27th November*   :(
With the time this game takes to install, you won't be playing it until the 29th.

Stupid steam crap.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-16-2004 04:59
I hope Black and White II will be out soon. REAL soon. Like this month.
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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 05:36
Well the long installation was worth it, the game is absolutely amazing. Too bad I have to study now.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-16-2004 06:18
Screenies! PRINT-SCRN now man!
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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 06:37
Relax, I'll post some tonight.

Update:

The key to victory is the element of surprise...
(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/421/surprise1.th.jpg) (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=surprise1.jpg)

Water looks good
(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/7184/water4.th.jpg) (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=water4.jpg)

The crowbar is back!
(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/1369/crowbar.th.jpg) (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=crowbar.jpg)

So are these things
(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/1162/stuff6.th.jpg) (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=stuff6.jpg)

Attack?
(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/4613/whatsthat.th.jpg) (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=whatsthat.jpg)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-16-2004 10:02
Wooooo! Metroid Prime Echoes came out today!!

I already cut class and picked up my copy from EB Games!
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-16-2004 10:07
And with the DS coming out, I'm too poor to buy it.  :cry:

It sounds like it's going to be amazing.
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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 10:14
HL 2 is great so far. Does anyone recognize the gun in my screenshots? It looks like a USP Match.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-16-2004 10:38
Metal Gear Solid 3 is being released tomorrow in the US. TOMORROW. I can't believe that this just snuck up on me. I'm freaked. (Of course, it won't come out in Aus for a little while yet, but people will be playing it! REAL people, not pretend playtester people! Eeek!)

So many good games coming out, so little money. Gaaaah!
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-16-2004 11:15
 
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Originally posted by termos:
HL 2 is great so far. Does anyone recognize the gun in my screenshots? It looks like a USP Match.

Must..resist..temptation..to. .scream..... ;)

Meh, I think I found a solution - asked my brother to repost it back to me here. Now I can swop from panicking that I won't be able to play it for two weeks to panicking that it's going to get lost in the bowels of the Royal Mail........ :(
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-16-2004 12:40
I don't know if my PC can handle HL2. It's barely a year old though...

termos, you must inform us of any great moments you have with that sexy HAVOC engine.
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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 12:57
My PC handles it just fine in 1024x768. Haven't tried anything else.

First great moment was a few seconds into the game when I started picking things up. Pretty much anything can be picked up or smashed. The graphics are generally awesome, and it's all pretty intense. I have to play some more now.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-16-2004 13:15
I did see a quote from a re-review of the original that I rather liked on BBC News:

"Half-Life is already ahead of Doom 3 since you can hold a torch and a crowbar at the same time!"  ;)
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-16-2004 14:46
Dear me those HL2 screenies certainly look purdy. How scaleable are the options for graphic detail and such in the game termos? I've heard much about how the game is supposed to be able to run on most computers and be much less exclusive than Doom 3.
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Post by: Grim on 11-16-2004 15:37
Termos, you need some FSAA, seriously

I'm going to pick my copy up this morning, all my friends who cached it off steam seem pretty happy with it, but I dunno I really wanted a physical copy of the game, I'd feel cheapened if I steamed it
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-16-2004 16:03
"Item shipped."
The two sweetest words in the English game related language.  :love:
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Post by: Nixorbo on 11-16-2004 16:05
I'll disagree.

"Unlockable content"
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 16:28
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Metal Gear Solid 3 is being released tomorrow in the US. TOMORROW. I can't believe that this just snuck up on me. I'm freaked. (Of course, it won't come out in Aus for a little while yet, but people will be playing it! REAL people, not pretend playtester people! Eeek!)

So many good games coming out, so little money. Gaaaah!

Wow, I forgot about the new Metal Gear game, I'll definatly get that.


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Post by: termos on 11-16-2004 16:29
Nixorbo: Unlockable content is great unless you really suck and end up not unlocking half of it. Like me.

Bushmeister: Well, there are lots of settings to play with, but I have no idea how it will run on other machines.

Grim: Not seriously. Right now there's no anti-aliasing at all, but it runs so smoothly now I could probably run it in 1280x1024 with a bit of anti-aliasing as well.

The grav gun (picks stuff up and throws it) is lots of fun and an effective weapon. Sometimes I find myself throwing cardboard boxes at big brutal enemies, but when you throw something heavy at them it works great. It's just hard to hit headcrabs with it.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-16-2004 16:43
You can't throw headcrabs?  :(

What about corpses?  :D
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-16-2004 16:54
I just played Metroid Prime Echoes at my friend's house and all I have to say is: Wow.

Fuck Halo Multiplayer. Metroid Multiplayer is fucking amazing.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 16:56
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
I just played Metroid Prime Echoes at my friend's house and all I have to say is: Wow.

Fuck Halo Multiplayer. Metroid Multiplayer is fucking amazing.

I like Metroid Prime, but I like Halo also, I think they are both equally great games... So, does the new Metroid have multiplayer now?

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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-16-2004 16:59
Yes it does. Deathmatch baby.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 17:00
That's great, now I have more reasons to get Metroid Prime 2.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 17:07
(http://img102.exs.cx/img102/4756/realjustice.jpg)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-16-2004 17:10
Byte me FF.
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Post by: Zed 85 on 11-16-2004 17:11
STALKER's been delayed till May  :(
And I have to wait till Spring 2006 to play Operation Flashpoint 2 and I already can't wait - and there's no solid information on it whatsoever. I think I'll be happy enough just as soon as I know what it's going to be like. But I have no idea when BIS are going to release any. ARGH!
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 17:14
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Byte me FF.

Thanks for noticing, but it's directed at Zeep.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-16-2004 17:40
 
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Originally posted by Zed 85:
STALKER's been delayed till May   :(
And I have to wait till Spring 2006 to play Operation Flashpoint 2 and I already can't wait - and there's no solid information on it whatsoever.

Man, that sucks.  :(

It's a pity that what looked like a bumper period for multiple great FPSs (Doom 3, HL2, STALKER) - has been totally spread out.

I was reading an article on Megagames today about how HL-2 hasn't really been promoted, anywhere near as much as Halo 2/San Andreas, since Valve and Vivendi have been bickering. It's so true that the big publishers are pushing towards consoles since that's where all the money is made. What we loyal PC gamers really need is a kick-ass application which would only run on PCs (not even the next-gen consoles) - and HL2 could have been that, I suppose.
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Post by: M0le on 11-16-2004 18:15
 
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It's a pity that what looked like a bumper period for multiple great FPSs (Doom 3, HL2, STALKER) - has been totally spread out.
It's probably annoying for you, but think about it this way: it's a lot easier on people who don't have the money to rush out and buy all three games in one go.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-16-2004 18:16
I like the look of that Stalker, a post Soviet Union wasteland sounds awesome place to be.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-16-2004 18:35
 
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Originally posted by Slacky
Metal Gear Solid 3 is being released tomorrow in the US. TOMORROW. I can't believe that this just snuck up on me.

Oh, the irony! 

Seriously, I may be broke, but that game is going on the top of my Christams List.  GTA would be on top, but I don't have the time I need to devote to that.

*Prays for some plot resolution.*
Yeah, right.
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Post by: M0le on 11-16-2004 18:53
None of these are mine, but they look really neat:
(http://img20.exs.cx/img20/4278/tiecorvette1.th.jpg) (http://img20.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img20&image=tiecorvette1.jpg)
(http://img20.exs.cx/img20/5198/ywingspace.th.jpg) (http://img20.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img20&image=ywingspace.jpg)
Look familiar?
(http://img20.exs.cx/img20/8461/ig88swg.th.jpg) (http://img20.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img20&image=ig88swg.jpg)
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 19:09
looks to me like samus is about to kick some alien ass. you're right, that is real justice. first killing mater chief, then finishing his job.

that's samus for ya.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:11
Samus is too busy trying to look like a hero for the dozens of fans and doesn't see the approaching Flood.
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 19:12
which is why she has her arm cannon pointed straight at him. riiiiiiight.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:12
Look where her helmet is pointing.  You don't exactly get 360 degrees of vision in that thing.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 19:13
[sarcasm]You know, we could turn this thread into a "Samus vs Master Chief" thread...[/sarcasm]

*Goes back to playing Halo 2*
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 19:14
yeah, well... shut up.

i'll be back in a few minutes with my rebuttal.

update: my rebuttal:

(http://img132.exs.cx/img132/815/realrealjustice.jpg)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-16-2004 19:25
M0le: Not the true IG-88, but one of his brother Bounty Hunters probably. IG-88 has red lights I believe. Plus, you fight these types sometimes when Bounty Hunters are to be faced in NPC missions.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:25
I'll be back.  Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow.  But there will be revenge.
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 19:27
hehehe... sucker.

never send a man to do a woman's job.

unless it's real life. *gets slapped by female passerby*

that's right... i have passerby in my ROOM...
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:39
Zeep, I think we can both agree that Master Chief, the marines (all "Human", the grunts, the jackals, the elites, the brutes, the hunters, the drones, the prophets (all Covenant), the infection forms, the carrier forms, the Covenant warrior forms, and the Human warrior forms (all Flood) can get along with Samus, the metroids, the fission metroids, the metroid primes, the dark metroids, and all the other Metroid things I don't know about including space pirates.  Am I right?
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 19:42
Why can't this thread go back to being an all out GTA thread or for Nurdbot a SWG thread?
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:42
Because these games are better.  *gets gangbeaten*
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 19:45
no. the metroid kicks halo's ass.

my game disc could even beat up your game disc. so there.

fine. we'll agree on a truce...

...for now...

oh, and if any ing appear near you, as if coming out of a transdimensional portal, it wasn't me.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:49
Same goes for me if a Covenant drop ship lands in your back yard.

<_<
>_>
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Post by: M0le on 11-16-2004 19:53
I just love watching these idiotic battles between X-box nerds and Gamecube freaks. But Metroid sucks.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-16-2004 19:55
[sarcasm]Isn't it great, the best fight since that fight between "Tanya Harding" and that one chick from Clinton's regime(forgot her name)...[/s]
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Post by: winna on 11-16-2004 19:58
Metroid doesn't suck mole...  :rolleyes:

And both of your games are being raped by Duke Nukem Forever... so there!  :p  :rolleyes:
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-16-2004 19:59
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
I just love watching these idiotic battles between X-box nerds and Gamecube freaks. But Metroid sucks.

I'm a GC nerd too, but I just love XB way more.  :hmpf:
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-16-2004 21:01
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
I just love watching these idiotic battles between X-box nerds and Gamecube freaks. But Metroid sucks.

Ummm..... your mom sucks.

OH!! Swish.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-16-2004 21:45
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
Meh, I think I found a solution - asked my brother to repost it back to me here. Now I can swop from panicking that I won't be able to play it for two weeks to panicking that it's going to get lost in the bowels of the Royal Mail........  :(
If you haven't already, set up a Steam account, it'll save valuable seconds once you get the precious DVD bounty.
I warn you htough, the full install file is 723MB.
It's a shame they aren't selling Half-Life: Source seperately.
And I never nknew about that 2D platform edition of Half-Life! Codename Gordon, I wonder if there's a PDA version...
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-16-2004 23:23
You know what I hate even more than racing?  Driving school.  That and accidentally wandering into a Navy submarine pen and instantly getting four stars...lousy Navy.  I fully intend to see what's on that stupid carrier.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-16-2004 23:32
Oh, not much... just a Harrier.  ;)
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Post by: Zeep on 11-16-2004 23:57
SCREE!!
(http://img28.exs.cx/img28/7717/M0le.jpg)
i gues you're right, metroid's suck... THE LIFE FROM YOUR COLD PALE BODY AS IT CLENCHES ITS FANGS AROUNG YOUR TEMPLES!!!
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-17-2004 00:02
 
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Oh, not much... just a Harrier.
Speaking of crazy vehicles, i want some, i haven't completed the storyline yet, but i can access the whole map. Lead me to something cool, people.

If i can get another one of them crazily coloured VW vans you get in that funny mission towards the end of Act I, that's priority one.
Why didn't i steal the damn thing when i had the chance?

Dr. T; It only gets worse. Flying school is next. *Shudder*
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-17-2004 00:23
The Truth's 'Mothership' turns up later, so you have another chance to nick it, fear not.

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Post by: Grim on 11-17-2004 01:05
Well CS:Source is as craptacular as old cs, and HL:Source is hardly distinguishable from the old one except for fancy shadows and physics, I was hoping they'd updated the textures as imported the HL2 model set, but alas no

Halflife2 however seems pretty awesome, this game really shines in its NPC models and physics. Mmm Gravity gun goodness
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-17-2004 01:11
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
 
Quote
It's a pity that what looked like a bumper period for multiple great FPSs (Doom 3, HL2, STALKER) - has been totally spread out.
It's probably annoying for you, but think about it this way: it's a lot easier on people who don't have the money to rush out and buy all three games in one go.

Oh, hush.  ;)

Of course you're right - there's nothing more annoying than being hit by several great looking games in a short timespan (I think that it happened a couple of years ago around Christmas but I'll be damned if I can remember any of the games). Even I wouldn't be able to justify spending £90 on games in a single month.

What I am saying is that it looked like 2003 was going to be the year of the PC. But then when all three of the games got pushed back to 2004, it looked like 2004 was going to be it. Now, although we've had several fantastic games in the past couple of months (Doom 3, The Sims 2, Half-Life 2), so have the PS2 and X-Box (I'd be happy to include the GameCube on that list but there doesn't seem to be much happening at the moment as everyone's waiting around for the next Zelda).

It's silly, I know, but I feel that the PC needs a good publicity push, especially without a corporate giant pushing it's agenda behind it.

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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-17-2004 01:58
 
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Originally posted by Rage Dump:
 
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Oh, not much... just a Harrier.
Speaking of crazy vehicles, i want some, i haven't completed the storyline yet, but i can access the whole map. Lead me to something cool, people.

There are hotdog vehicles in a few places.  Nothing says "bad motherfucker" like a gangsta rollin' in a wienermobile.

I like trying to mod out otherwise crappy cars.  You might ask what the point behind having a nitrous-equipped Landstalker is, and I'd give you the same reason it also has hydraulics: because it's not there.  Now, a nitrous-equipped 900cc sportbike....that would be hot shit.

 
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Dr. T; It only gets worse. Flying school is next. *Shudder*

Yeah, if Zero's "Supply Lines" is any indication, I'm going to crash and burn in more ways than one.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-17-2004 03:11
 
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Originally posted by winna:
Metroid doesn't suck mole...   :rolleyes:

And both of your games are being raped by Duke Nukem Forever... so there!   :p   :rolleyes:
Isn't that the game that's been in production for 3 years now?

Also, Metroid and Halo fanboys don't make me neuter you both.

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Post by: termos on 11-17-2004 04:07
The title Duke Nukem Forever is actually very amusing. The game hasn't been in production for 3 years now, it's more like it should have been finished 3 years ago.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-17-2004 04:22
Go to SA and read the Weekend Web, it shows you why some Developers should never use a message board for certain games.
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Post by: mikey on 11-17-2004 04:33
 
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Speaking of crazy vehicles, i want some, i haven't completed the storyline yet, but i can access the whole map.

Dr. T; It only gets worse. Flying school is next. *Shudder*

I can give you a cheat that spawns the jet pack: L1 L2 R1 R2 UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT L1 L2 R1 R2 UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT.

Also, flight school was piss, except that helicopter shooting one. Damn.

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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-17-2004 04:41
A) I don't cheat
b) I just got the jetpack properly recently  :p
Great mission by the way.

I'm currently trying to steal myself a Hydra.
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-17-2004 06:33
I just got done playing Metroid prime 2 and it is freakin awesome. Mole obviously your not a metroid fan, but don't tell me that when you were younger that you didn't like the original versions of it, every person liked that. Now there's a time in history when we can all agree due to the fact it was only nintendo and sega.
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Post by: Zed 85 on 11-17-2004 12:46
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
 Man, that sucks.    :(

It's a pity that what looked like a bumper period for multiple great FPSs (Doom 3, HL2, STALKER) - has been totally spread out.

Well the excuse is so that they can polish the code - that sounds fine to me. I have three reasons to look forward to May 2005 now, and as long as they release it sometime in the spring of 05, the more Polish the merrier.

 
Quote
I was reading an article on Megagames today about how HL-2 hasn't really been promoted, anywhere near as much as Halo 2/San Andreas, since Valve and Vivendi have been bickering. It's so true that the big publishers are pushing towards consoles since that's where all the money is made. What we loyal PC gamers really need is a kick-ass application which would only run on PCs (not even the next-gen consoles) - and HL2 could have been that, I suppose.

PC games are never advertised outside of PC magazines it seems. I've only seen one PC billboard (Blade Runner) and two different game's TV adverts (The Sims -before it got ported across and an overlong Populous advert)
It's when I start to see "X-Box exclusive" adverts in PC magazines that I get annoyed. There are plenty of fine PC games for PC only, but the mass public doesn't care about them anyway. Of course, in my snobbish PC exlusive mentality, I think consoles are dumbed down games machines that play dumbed down games - and many PC games wouldn't work on Consoles because they're too sophisticated and Console-owners are too stupid to appreciate them. Yes you see, I'm a snob. And arrogant. Have to say though, Vice City rightly turned my mind.

Anyway, incidentally, STALKER has been described as an exlusive PC game, designed apparently for the truest PC fans, who like to update their PCs every six days...
So yeah, providing it turns out okay - since it is sort of a revolutionary way of doing FPSs - it'll be a very significant game, and one that's entirely for the PC with there being no way even a next-generation console would be able to play its DX9 graphics or survive in its unscripted, unrestrained, 30km2, photo realistic, fully dynamic enviroment. Because not many PCs probably could either...
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-17-2004 14:50
 
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Originally posted by mikey:
Also, flight school was piss, except that helicopter shooting one. Damn.
You know the problems I had with flight school, but that one wasn't too bad. The pitch one though... and then the pitch and land... bitches.

Still can't do air raid. I'm 45% or something through the game, just finished flight school and haven't tried the latest two missions yet. I'm currently doing some street racing, the go-kart is the shit. Best car ever.
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Post by: Idan_Aharoni on 11-17-2004 15:48
I think the problem (and the great thing) with PCs that there are so many manufacturers and companies who build computers from parts and all, that they aren't united as sole organizations such as Microsoft or Sony who wish to push further the console. When you make a PC game, you don't really care to make people buy more PCs.
After I bought my playstation 2 (which got stolen later) I immediatly relised nothing can replace the good old keyboard & mouse... and the ability to quit a game and go surfin'... nothing like the PC.
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Post by: termos on 11-17-2004 17:30
Nice bridge.
(http://img121.exs.cx/img121/5416/bridge1.th.jpg) (http://img121.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img121&image=bridge1.jpg)

Had my first ant-lion encounter. They look a bit like the bugs from Starship Troopers.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-17-2004 17:47
Hey, you've actually got an alternate fire bullet for the Pulse Rifle!  ;)

I haven't seen one of those at all....
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-17-2004 18:44
In some MMORPG's people just have 1 pair of work clothes and there armour. I am NOT those dullards.

My avatar has a nice little wardrobe not only filled with Gunman and Camo Dusters, but other things to wear too since there's many live events and social stuff to do on SWG.

For example, look at this lovely JTL Rebel Flightsuit Introduced earlier on in the game. This cost me 8k, 5 for the suit, 3 for the boots and the rest were on these cheap little gloves. I want to get the gauntlet type but they aren't available at the moment.

(http://img106.exs.cx/img106/3312/screenShot0164.th.jpg) (http://img106.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img106&image=screenShot0164.jpg)

Next up, we have Romuski Til in Rebel NC Officer uniform. Perfect for attending parties or leading soldiers into battle in Corvettes. I was inspired by Crix Madine.

(http://img55.exs.cx/img55/6758/screenShot0163.th.jpg) (http://img55.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img55&image=screenShot0163.jpg)

Back to some casual screenies:
Me, and Player Rebel escort a NPC Symphasiser back to the Rebel base on Corellia backed up by Roberto. Ignore the neon green tree, that's my driver being subtle and saying 'Update me!'

(http://img93.exs.cx/img93/152/screenShot0140.th.jpg) (http://img93.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img93&image=screenShot0140.jpg)

And an intense SWG melee moment, I still like using blasters better if you ask me.

(http://img72.exs.cx/img72/7125/screenShot0162.th.jpg) (http://img72.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img72&image=screenShot0162.jpg)
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-17-2004 18:52
I knew it was only a matter of time before Nurdbot posted more SWG pics.  ;)

Anyway, Termos, does Half-Life 2's story follow directely after the first game? I won't be able to find for myself because I need a new PC for I'm able to play HL 2.
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Post by: M0le on 11-17-2004 22:31
*sees Nurdbot's beautiful pictures*
They all look awesome, but the Rebel Flight Uniform looks the coolest, I'm afraid. Can you mix and match different clothes, like wearing the flight uniform with the Ubese Helmet on?
 
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I just got done playing Metroid prime 2 and it is freakin awesome. Mole obviously your not a metroid fan, but don't tell me that when you were younger that you didn't like the original versions of it, every person liked that. Now there's a time in history when we can all agree due to the fact it was only nintendo and sega.
I wouldn't know. I've never played the original Metroid. I played the Gamecube Metroid at a friend's house one day and it just wasn't very fun. And I stick by my original "Metroid sucks".
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-17-2004 23:33
Metroid is a lot like Zelda. I don't think you can just play it for a few minutes at a friend's house and judge it. You have to give it time, and explore the world, and really get sucked into the atmosphere.

I've always liked Metroid(the first one was always way too hard for me as a kid, I couldn't beat it without using cheat codes. Super Metroid was more my style), but I never *really* started liking it until recently. I love what they've done with the franchise since the move to 3D. Metroid Prime is probably my favorite Metroid game, Zero Mission was sexy as anything, and the new DS incarnation is brilliant. The control scheme is perfect, I just hope they can make a one-player version out of it that lives up to the gamecube games.

Sigh....I'm still depressed that I'm too poor to buy Echoes.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-17-2004 23:52
I agree with Joe all the way, Metroid Prime isn't just a game you can just judge in five minutes of playing it. It is definatlely a game you have to spend time to fully enjoy it, but M0le you should try the GBA versions of Metroid, you might like those if you don't like Prime.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 01:03
M0le: Yeah, you can.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-18-2004 01:42
I went to my mates place for some 4 player Halo 2 today, it's good but probably not quite up to the hype. GTA or Halo? You can't compare the two.

I modded out a taxi in SA, it's now red. You can actually spray it which is cool.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-18-2004 01:45
@Alex: I think NO game should get the hype Halo 2 got, I mean it got to much publicity...
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Post by: termos on 11-18-2004 02:52
 
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Originally posted by Squeaky:
Anyway, Termos, does Half-Life 2's story follow directely after the first game? I won't be able to find for myself because I need a new PC for I'm able to play HL 2.
Not directly. Some time has passed, but how much I don't know. You're still Gordon Freeman however, and you meet several other characters from the old Half-Life.

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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-18-2004 03:16
 
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Originally posted by termos:
 
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Originally posted by Squeaky:
Anyway, Termos, does Half-Life 2's story follow directely after the first game? I won't be able to find for myself because I need a new PC for I'm able to play HL 2.
Not directly. Some time has passed, but how much I don't know. You're still Gordon Freeman however, and you meet several other characters from the old Half-Life.


I don't know how much further you've got than me, termos (I'm at Lighthouse Point), but do they actually explain anything at any point? I'm still completely in the dark as to what exactly happened after HL (aside from the obvious things from the newspapers).
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-18-2004 03:18
Well, I'll have to check out HL 2 as soon as I get a computer that won't explode when I put the disc in.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 03:21
I have to download the original Half Life.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-18-2004 03:24
^
[sarcasm]
Cheater! Downloading is for losers. You are not getting that lightsabre anymore.[/sarcasm]

I downloaded mine also
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Post by: termos on 11-18-2004 03:40
CyberKnight: I was just at the lighthouse. I got a little further - down the path from the lighthouse to the beach. I also have no clue what is going on, but I hope we'll get an explanation at some point.

I liked the buggy, too bad I can't use it anymore. But I hate those annoying mines that zap you.
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Post by: M0le on 11-18-2004 04:05
 
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Metroid is a lot like Zelda. I don't think you can just play it for a few minutes at a friend's house and judge it. You have to give it time, and explore the world, and really get sucked into the atmosphere.
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I agree with Joe all the way, Metroid Prime isn't just a game you can just judge in five minutes of playing it.
I was playing it for about 2 and a half hours at the insistence of my friend, and I just didn't enjoy it.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 06:29
Welp, The Warrior's of Harmony has officially broken up now. I left the guild after the last Veteran decided to go. It was a good guild, torn apart by asshole suspicions that one of the 4 leaders was an enemy Guild spy. I blame democracy for crushing another brilliant guild.

Anywho, I'm now looking for a good RPing Rebel Guild, a one with a group of Commado's or a small Squadron of Rebel Craft.
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Post by: Juliet on 11-18-2004 11:47
I been playing Leisure Suite Larry and I thought that this game was bloody funny. Ok it is kind of chessey though with the loser trying to score with many girls as he can but what I like about this game is the comedy and the lot of laughs on what I get while I was playing it.

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(http://www.peelified.com/ubb/sigs/00000110.gif)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 11:49
That game is bad, that sort of genre should be left to Japan and Korea. I thought only good games from the US too  :nono: .
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-18-2004 12:37
Termos, ~Faze~, anyone else who has HL2....

There's a very, very cool suprise in store for you once you get to the penultimate chapter.

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Post by: termos on 11-18-2004 13:14
CyberKnight: I'm looking forward to it! I've been having much fun with ant-lions lately - they're not all that powerful in small numbers, but still.

Nurdbot: Yes it is kind of bad. But look at this (http://www.allowe.com/Larry/MCL.htm).
Al Lowe, the man behind the original Larry series, didn't even participate! I like the original Larry games and I would like to know why they took an adventure game and remove the adventure part.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 13:36
Also, I find it amusingly ironic that Juliet who a few years ago when a picture of naked girl was posted or something related to the part flew off the handle and fired accusations of chauvinism everywhere is playing a LL game.

Mmmm. Irony.
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Post by: Ozor Mox on 11-18-2004 15:23
 
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I find it amusingly ironic that Juliet who a few years ago when a picture of naked girl was posted

Wasn't it the Naked Amy and Naked Leela threads? I remember the most pointless things.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-18-2004 17:48
CK: Don't tempt me!!

Must resist spoiler...

... resisting...

Phew, that was a close one.  :p
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-18-2004 17:51
Bah, I've completed the game now.

Most annoying ending ever!  :p

*Begins waiting for Half-Life 3*
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Post by: Juliet on 11-18-2004 18:00
I didn&#8217;t played because and the nude girls. I played because I fallen for this guy.

(http://frat.leisuresuitlarry.com/lsl/tools/uploads/lovage.jpg)
He so cool  :love:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-18-2004 19:34
Juliet, don't ever get drunk in a sleazy bar.

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Post by: M0le on 11-18-2004 22:21
Nurdeh: It's official, I've just ordered SWG and Jump to Lightspeed from eBay. *happy dance time* Can you combine elite professions, ie. Bounty Hunter/Pilot in JtL?
So, CK, any chance of a spoiler on HL2 regarding the storyline?    :D
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Post by: TheMadCapper on 11-18-2004 22:59
My buddy Bill and I rented Halo 2 yesterday. Neither of us had played it before (though we're both Halo ninjas). We beat the game in a matter of hours.

Is it just me or is there no health bar? There weren't any health packs either... I guess the idea is once your shield is down you're doomed unless you run and hide.

And they nerfed the shotgun, those bastards! it takes twice as long to reload and has less shield-destroying power!

That said, it's still a good game.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-18-2004 23:55
Thought nurdy might want to see this (http://www.petitiononline.com/swg1104/petition.html).  :p
Fuck, i hate fanboys.
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Post by: David A on 11-19-2004 01:04
 
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Originally posted by TheMadCapper:
And they nerfed the shotgun, those bastards! it takes twice as long to reload and has less shield-destroying power!

That's a shame.   :(
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-19-2004 01:06
M0le: Awesome, and yes you can be a Pilot Bounty Hunter.

Rage: *Signs the Petition*
SOE has screwed with the game a lot, using LucasArts and Star Wars as there front. Examples are the following introduced by the boneheaded SOE Programmers who've never seen Star Wars:
-Made Jedi a PVP Class only, thus once you loose all your hard earned skills and talents all you can do if chop up overt Rebels/Imps at the Space Port.
-Screwing up the Galactic Civil War with the lame ass overt/covert system on the ground.
-Making lame faction armour condition 100, so it'll only last once in battle then break.
-Introducing only several types of armour into the game including uber armour called composite, before Jump To Lightspeed 80% of the people you'd see were wearing the same composite armour. Making it so you can change the armour's colour does not make up for it.
-Everytime a new Patch comes out, it's riddled with bugs which they take 2 weeks to squish with the hotfix.
-The Hologrind, last year at Christmas everyone got a Holocron. Worst mistake ever. Everyone for the 6 months just put together Macro's and left the computer running while they automaticly grinded.
-Removing of the audiable Wookie roar. Bastards.
-Making most of melee classes (Teras Kasii Artist for example) powerful than the rangled classes. Imagine Han missing Greedo and then being decapatated by an ordinary axe?
-Introducing some pretty lame items, like warm hats for humans. They seem to forget that Twi'lek's and Trandoshans need hats as well.
-Putting in some pretty useless loot that nobody will buy.
-Using the same servers they ran the original Everquest on, the lag can be pretty bad even if you have a pretty good system.

These 'fanboys' are sick of playing a game like this, I'm with them. JTL was a step in the right direction and the combat, loot and GLC revamps this January will help as well. Hopefully. A server upgrade would be nice as well.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-19-2004 03:53
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
So, CK, any chance of a spoiler on HL2 regarding the storyline?      :D

What would you like to know?

Because, quite frankly...


In fact, as promised

*DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK IF YOU DON'T WANT THE END TO BE SPOILED IN ANY SHAPE, WAY OR FORM*  ;)

H-L 2 Final Scene (http://www.ktsltd.co.uk/peel/hl2end.jpg)
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Post by: M0le on 11-19-2004 04:36
I can safely say...
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-19-2004 05:01
 
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I can safely say...

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Post by: mikey on 11-19-2004 06:20

GTA just keeps on keeping on. My girlfriend has just buggered off and isnt at her home. The truths mission where you get the jetpack is so killer, except the 'army' are totally poor.
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Post by: winna on 11-19-2004 06:46
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
I have to download the original Half Life.

Nah, get HL2, they even redid the original HL with the HL2 engine, so I say go for that.

And Cyber, you may have beaten the game, but as I hear it there are multiple multi endings of multiplenessness...  :laff:  :)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-19-2004 07:03
M0le: My server is EuropeFarStar by the way. Feel free to mail me in game.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-19-2004 07:42
 
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Originally posted by winna:
 Nah, get HL2, they even redid the original HL with the HL2 engine, so I say go for that.

Actually, HL:Source isn't really worth it from what I hear. They didn't even include the models from HL2.


The main thing I feel about HL2 is that HL3 should definitely be the final episode for this particular storyline. Not because it's a bad story or bad game, but because stringing it out past HL3 would be too agonising.  ;)

My awe at HL2 will be significantly diminished if HL3 doesn't answer some very significant questions.  ;)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-19-2004 07:49
Man, Duke Nukem Forever is gonna suck when it comes out. Halo 2, HL2, Doom 3 and The Sims II has whopped it's ass already.

Who said sequals were bad? I declare 2004 the year of good game sequals!

Speaking of Duke Nukem forever:
Check out this SA article about them.
 http://www.somethingawful.com/ (http://www.somethingawful.com/)

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Post by: termos on 11-19-2004 08:59
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
My awe at HL2 will be significantly diminished if HL3 doesn't answer some very significant questions.   ;)
HL2 doesn't really have a big and complicated plot, or at least they don't explain much about what's going on. But with FPS games, the most important thing is atmosphere and how the gameplay is, both are near perfect in HL2.

What I'm not so impressed about though is squad-based combat. They keep blocking doorways, and unfortunately, you have to lead your squad through many houses.

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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-19-2004 12:06
Today I completed Zelda Wind Waker!  :D I didn't think I'd defeat Ganondorf, because I have a long history of getting to the end of games, but not being able to take out the boss. The first few times I failed miserably against him, and in all honestly I found him extremely hard to defeat, very challenging. I managed it after quite a few attemps though. I'm really happy, it's the first Zelda game Ive managed to complete...
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-19-2004 12:15
What'd you think of the ending?
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-19-2004 12:34
I liked it, it was quite sweet I guess. I didn't quite get what happened to Hyrule though, that was a bit confusing to me. I didn't expect Zelda to go back to being a pirate, but I actually liked that, she stayed herself like the strong character she is. A reasonable ending...
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-19-2004 12:49
(http://img66.exs.cx/img66/1127/drfreeman.gif)
Damn Strider at the end is tough.

Well, HL2 did not come today, Monday it is...  :(
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-19-2004 14:03
 
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Originally posted by mikey:
GTA just keeps on keeping on. My girlfriend has just buggered off and isnt at her home. The truths mission where you get the jetpack is so killer, except the 'army' are totally poor.

Pfft...my CJ is way too cool to have time for chicks.  When he's not hopelessly crashing DC-3s into cliffsides or tear-assing around the restricted area on a Sanchez he's busy driving motorcycles off bridges and trying to pick up prostitutes in a Sea Sparrow before cutting them down with the machine gun.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-19-2004 14:15
Your CJ sounds like he has issues with woman.
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Post by: Ranadok on 11-19-2004 15:13
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
 Actually, HL:Source isn't really worth it from what I hear. They didn't even include the models from HL2.

I'm having fun replaying through HL in HL:S while my brother plays HL2 (for some reason, he gets to play it first just because he spent over $150 on it... is that fair?). It isn't that different from the original, but enough that I'm not bored with it.

The main difference is the water (absolutely beautiful) and the ragdolls (fairly standard, but nice). There are a few lighting effects (shadows mainly, but seldom used and I didn't notice them past the first level), and a few physics-reactive objects (VERY few, almost not worth mentioning).  Same models, textures, and levels as the original.

Gameplay is exactly the same, with a few exceptions. The player speed seems a lot higher. It has been a while since I played the original, but I am arriving at locations before scripted events occur (such as the one where the elevator with the scientists falls down the shaft with them screaming), when before they happened just before I reached them, and jumps that used to take me several tries to get have been a snap the first time through. I have no idea why they would change this, unless it is the default speed for HL2 and they forgot to change it for some reason. The other minor change is related to the water.  Before, when it was a texture, it was hard to kill the water shark alien thing (ichthyosaur), as it was only visible when it was above the surface, forcing you to join it underwater. Now, with the water a shader, you can see through the water in places (it gets murky as it gets deeper, a nice effect), so you can stay on land and pick it off with pretty much any weapon. It's much easier, but only really a factor in two places, and more realistic, really.

Overall, it's still loads of fun to play, and a nice visual update in places, but more of a curiosity than an actual game in and of itself. It's worth it for the extra $10 of the Silver over Bronze on Steam (when you take into account that you get the yet-unreleased DOD:Source and all of Valve's past games with that ten bucks), but I wouldn't get the retail CE just for it (as it's the only software that the CE has over standard, IIRC).  Once a mod comes out (there are a few in the works) that replace the models and textures with the HL2 ones (or new ones completely in some places), then it might be worth another look.  Or, there is one mod in particular that is planning on remaking the original completely on the HL2 engine, as a total conversion mod, with completely new everything built from the ground up (but staying true to the original).  That one will be a while, but should be interesting(and I think it's a mod for HL2, so you won't need anything beyond the basic version to play it.

That is way, way more than I needed to write, and likely more than anyone wanted to read. Oh, well. 
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-19-2004 17:11
 
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Originally posted by TheMadCapper:
My buddy Bill and I rented Halo 2 yesterday. Neither of us had played it before (though we're both Halo ninjas). We beat the game in a matter of hours.

Is it just me or is there no health bar? There weren't any health packs either... I guess the idea is once your shield is down you're doomed unless you run and hide.

And they nerfed the shotgun, those bastards! it takes twice as long to reload and has less shield-destroying power!

That said, it's still a good game.

Yeah, I noticed that with the health too.  And what is up with the shotgun?  Could they load it any slower?  :nono:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-19-2004 18:17
M0le: Since you are coming to SWG, I've prepared a official PEEL Goody bag. You have:

A Duster Coat.
A DH17 Blaster.
A D18 Pistol.
A Landspeeder.
A Customization Kit for speeder.
An Weaponless Probot that can store Contraband.
The pack it self.

Enjoy!
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Post by: Zeep on 11-19-2004 20:33
holy shit!!!


i just got this email from nintendo:

 
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You're Invited to the Nintendo DS Launch Party!

Don't Sleep! Nintendo is throwing a launch party for Nintendo DS this Saturday night at GameCrazy in Redmond. Show up early to make sure that you're among the first to snag your very own Nintendo DS when the clock strikes midnight.

This isn't your typical midnight release party. You can show off your skills in organized gameplay competitions, and Nintendo will be tossing out free giveaways all night long. Don't miss your chance to be there when Nintendo DS is finally unveiled!

What: Nintendo DS Launch Party

Where: GameCrazy (8867 161st St. N.E. Redmond, WA 98052)

When: 11/20/04. The activities begin at 10:00pm. GameCrazy will begin selling Nintendo DS systems and games at the stroke of midnight.

Learn more about Nintendo DS and the hand-held gaming revolution at NintendoDS.com.

See you on SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!

Redmond is less than half an hour from here! i could practically take the bus there!

YES! hooray for DS and SM64DS at the stroke of midnight and being able to deathmatch people right out of the box!
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Post by: Lrrr_2004 on 11-19-2004 20:38
In GTA San Andreas, what's the reward for respraying 100 Tags?  I'm at 44 and curious to why I should keep going.

On the map there are red houses, why can't I buy them?  When can I buy them?
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-19-2004 23:54
You can buy red houses later in the game, be patient. Rewards for 100 tags are weapons in your GS home. Can't think what they are right now.

I'm just about to return to LS, I'm up to the Madd Dogg mansion mission.

Favourite moments of the game so far:
- Stopping my car on the highway and going to get something to eat. I came back, and there was a massive pileup of blown up cars behind me. Sweet.
- In the mission where you have to destroy the plastics machines, about half way through I was low on health so I popped down to the Burger King down the road. In the middle of a gun battle, there is nothing better than a burger.
- Beating the fuck out of that cop.
- The Black Project mission, and any cutscene with the Truth in it.
- Picking up those Brits in the desert with a limo. Worst offroad car ever.

Worst moments:
- My PS2 making horrible chunking noises during the mission where you have to save Madd Dogg. Not cool.
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Post by: Mr.MastodonFarm on 11-20-2004 02:17
Hey, I've heard about some "strange" features of San Andreas... has anyone here found the totalled cars left in open fields? The alleged serial killer in the Panopticon? Random plane crashes? Bigfoot?

...oh, yes, and I'm still in the rural areas... I've not had the time to compete in that Wu Zi Mu race yet... though I have had the time to get a new girlfriend. Katie the nurse is awesome... you can get wasted and still keep all of your arsenal. Anyone else dating a girl not tied into the central storyline?

Oh, yes, and what does your CJ look like? I went for the Lenny Kravitz look...
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-20-2004 02:56
My CJ has a mohawk, and wears shorts and tshirts. He's the sporty type of gangsta.

I'm also dating that Katie girl, but I haven't been on any dates with her. I just like the free wasting.

I've seen a few random plane crashes, nothing else sus though. Scare the fuck out of me when they happen, everything starts shaking.

Oh, and has anyone done either of the triathlons? I've done won, took it out thanks to my super cycling skills. Almost got caught in the run though. I liked it though, good feature.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-20-2004 03:51
Someone make there CJ look like the Criminal from Demolition Man.

Zeep: Lucky git.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-20-2004 04:38
My CJ used to have an eyepatch, which was awesome. Then I found a selection of suits in Las Venturas, so now he's all formalled up, with silver bling and blue shades. Also, he has a black beret. He looks like a total wanker.  :D
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Post by: mikey on 11-20-2004 04:54
My CJ is brown from CSI, with edgar davids shades and 'gangsta' chains.

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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-20-2004 05:32
Slack: Which shop did you get the suit in? I've been looking for a bitchin' suit, but haven't come across one yet.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-20-2004 05:48
The store is called 'Victim.' You can find at least two in Las Venturas.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-20-2004 10:01
Yaargh, Vice City keeps crashing on me.
I think it's a temperature thing, because my monitor turns off and says "No signal" and I can't get it back on again, but I can hear all my system fans still spinning.  :(
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-20-2004 10:35
Wow. It's cool to think that in 2 days I'll be playing the DS. And as soon as the network is hooked up, I'll be happy to rule you all in Metroid Prime Hunters. Just like at the PEELathon...
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Post by: David A on 11-20-2004 13:03
I finally got to play Halo 2 last night.  What was up with that ending?  I need some closure.

I can see what you guys were saying about the shotgun, but it doesn't really bother me.  Now that I can dual wield plasma rifles, the shotgun isn't my favorite weapon anymore.

Also, I love the sword.  I always wanted a melee weapon in Halo, and now there is one.
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Post by: TheMadCapper on 11-20-2004 13:31
The sword = mad fun. Perfect for blowing flood to smithereens. Also good for hacking brutes down to size. The more I use the sword though, the more I think it's made to be the perfect antiflood weapon. You get to rush them before they can slap you, they explode in one shot, leaving no body to get back up later, and the beam sword's charges deplete much more slowly when used on flood than on live creatures. The sword is slightly less than perfect for Hunters, though.

The shotgun can still be used to prevent flood from getting back up, which is nice. Shoot them down, walk up, blast the corpse to little bits in one blast.

I'm also irritated that the pistol seems to have been nerfed as well. And don't get me started on the plasma pistol, which is harder to fire rapidly and the charged blasts don't home in on targets anymore. The plasma pistol used to be one of the best weapons if you were skilled. The plasma pistol was very versatile, and you could kick ass with it in nearly any situation. Now it sucks.

I also think MS got a little lazy with the covenant sniper rifle. Seems to be the same power as the human one, and has exactly the same zoom settings (5x and 10x).

That said, the vehicles are better this time, which I approve of. They can be destroyed more easily, but by golly it's fun to leap on top of a tank and punch the occupant to death and take over ownership of the vehicle. I'm also a fan of the covenant carbine and the warthog-mounted bigass shotgun (flak cannon).
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-20-2004 14:14
Actually, it's a Gauss Cannon.  And I wouldn't say the pistol was nerfed, because it has a cooler name (Magnum) and the melee atttack is a lot faster.  The shotgun seems to have shorter range, which sucks.  I love getting medals in multiplayer.  I once got 4 snipers and another time just 7 random ones including double kill, assasination, sniping, and killing the person with the bomb.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-20-2004 15:47
 
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Originally posted by David A:
I finally got to play Halo 2 last night.  What was up with that ending?  I need some closure.

That's what I'm saying, Halo 1 ended with more closure than this game. You know there is going to be a Halo 3 on the Xbox 2, with that ending.

(Top of the page I don't give a damn!)
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-20-2004 16:19
It's how all trilogies work: First episode gives some closure (but not firmly,) because the producers/developers don't know if they're going to make enough money to write the second one.

The second episode, once they've got the ball rolling, ends with a cliffhanger so people will have to see

The third episode, which gives a fair amount of closure, but still leaves things open for novelizations/cartoons/comics/etc.

Just watch the Star Wars, The Matrix, or X-Men movies to see what I mean.

On a completely unrelated tangent, why was everyone so pissed at the cliffhanger ending in The Matrix Reloaded.  Oh, no, I have to wait one frigging month to figure out what's going on  (in theory.)  Imagine how people who saw the Empire Strikes Back felt...theirs was almost as dark (though much less confusing) and they had to wawit three years for resolution.  I'll personally take Reloaded over Revolutions any day, and Star Wars over the lot of them.
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-20-2004 16:26
 
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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
On a completely unrelated tangent, why was everyone so pissed at the cliffhanger ending in The Matrix Reloaded. 

Well personally at the end I was thinking: "I actually paid money to see this?"


To add something game-like to my post, I've been playing a little more Majora's Mask and it continues to rock. Had a real fun time last time I played it, arriving in Ikana Canyon on day 1 and having completed the temple and found all the fairies with about three minutes to go. Things really got interesting when I couldn't find the last fairy and I could here the countdown music when I kept on going outside to flip the dungeon. Now onto completing all the sidequests, I definitely need all 24 masks before beaming up to the moon and I'm gonna see if I can find all the heart pieces as well.
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Post by: Logan Fils on 11-20-2004 16:48
I don't think Halo will end at three. The series will be humped with great vigor until people stop buying the game and it does not look like that will happen.
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Post by: M0le on 11-21-2004 00:08
 
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M0le: Since you are coming to SWG, I've prepared a official PEEL Goody bag. You have:
A Duster Coat.
A DH17 Blaster.
A D18 Pistol.
A Landspeeder.
A Customization Kit for speeder.
An Weaponless Probot that can store Contraband.
The pack it self.

Enjoy!
Thanks, I've heard that the earlier missions are a real bitch to do without a speeder to get the job done.  :)
Unfortunately though, I'm not getting it until Christmas.   :mad: *goes insane with rage*
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-21-2004 01:43
 
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Originally posted by Mr.MastodonFarm:
Random plane crashes?

Yes, each time I try to fly.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-21-2004 04:55
M0le: And a CDEF Carbine, make sure you choose Marksman and some other profession at the start to help.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-21-2004 06:01
Today i got through 6 hours of NFS-U, I'm about 75% finished now. I figured out that you have to buy the Pearlescent paints, not unlock them as such. So the car went through a massive re-decoration job.
(http://img110.exs.cx/img110/9477/Image145.jpg)
The pearl doesn't show up as much as it usually does in this shot, but you can see the colour variance on the tip of the front bumper.
Trust me, it looks cool.  :p

After that, it was another 3-4 hours of SimCity 3k. Up to 1.6mil people now, and we're supported by Fusion power plants now. I realised that there's no upkeep on water pipes, and i have more money than i can spend, so naturally i've started covering the whole map in pipes. I'm about 1/5 of the way there.  :p
(http://img72.exs.cx/img72/9089/Image623.th.jpg) (http://img72.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img72&image=Image623.jpg)
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-21-2004 11:03
Well I got my DS. You can all bite me now.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-21-2004 11:32
 
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Originally posted by Logan Fils:
I don't think Halo will end at three. The series will be humped with great vigor until people stop buying the game and it does not look like that will happen.

Only if Bungie really, really sucks.  You'd think people would know by now to stop making sequels when they've run out of good ideas (I'm looking at the makers of slasher flicks and a man to whom I will refer as George L.  No, better make that G. Lucas.)

And Bushmeister: me too, but other people were annoyed at the abrupt ending, because apparently it was too sudden or they just don't like leaving the plot completely unresolved.  The people who realized it was just a badly made film  were more correct in their pissed-offedness.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-21-2004 12:14
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Well I got my DS. You can all bite me now.

How many games did you get? And was Mario 64 DS one of them?...

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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-21-2004 12:46
 
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 How many games did you get? And was Mario 64 DS one of them?...


I got Mario64 and The Urbz.

Sometimes working in the videogame dept is handy. I got mine last night before anybody else in the US.   :D
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-21-2004 13:03
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 I got mine last night before anybody else in the US.    :D

Except other people working in video game depts/stores...

That's clool you got Mario 64 DS though, it sounds pretty interesting...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-21-2004 14:29
So M0le, what are you naming your SWG avatar?
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Post by: Lurrr on 11-21-2004 17:31
GODDAMNIT!!!    :mad: It's bad enough losing 2 hours worth of gaming because you forgot to save, but even worse when you lose it because you aren't allowed to to save!!!    :mad:

FYI, I'm playing through FF7 (I know, I'm seven years behind, so sue me) and have reached the Northern Crater. And I can't save. And that's a perfectly good evening wasted...
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Post by: Whoopwhoopwhoop on 11-21-2004 18:29
Haha, I still think FFVII is the best in the serious...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-21-2004 18:53
BF1942, Smashing a Troop Truck into the face of a newly spawned German, then leaping into the nearby AA Gun and firing at the windmill's window opposite, getting another kill.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-21-2004 19:52
Lurrr: My method for the northern crater was just to take the quickest way through (yes I use a strategy guide...you almost have to in an FF game unless you want to unintentionally spend hours wandering around trying to figure out where the Hell you're supposed to go,) save at the latest opportunity, and then head back and pick up all the crap you missed.

On a review note, FFVII probably ties with VI as my favorite in the series.  I've probably played it the most completely - never quite got around to mastering everything or doing the weapons, but eventually you just get bored, y'know? - and the only real flaw is the lame vague ending, which is soon to be remedied with that new movie thing.

(And I would literally kill somebody, possibly Aeris, to hear a full orchestral version of the final boss music.)
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-21-2004 20:12
What's so hard about the northern crater anyway? You get some of the best enemy skills there. Once you have Magic breath, Trine, Aqualung and Beta, there isn't much you can't kill, especially that early in the game. I still remember the first time i played the game through, i managed to get Beta at the earliest possible stage. The game was simply too easy for the next 12 hours.

I'm downloading FFVII for PC at the moment, so i'll actually be able to keep my saves without losing them in priority to something else. Also i want to try it with 6x antialiasing.   :D

I want to get a Lvl 99 party again, and i want to try out my idea of killing the emerald weapon with one attack. I reckon it'll work too. I'll give details when/if it works.

Incidentally, i'm getting the "Ultima Edition" Any idea what the difference is?
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-21-2004 20:25
 
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especially that early in the game
I assumed he was talking about the last section before Sephi: no save points except where you make your own.  I assume from this line you're talking about the first time you go there, which is one long interactive cutscene.  Then again, so's the entire game, there's so much exposition.

And in Ultima Edition, you can resurrect Aeris.  Seriously.  Try it.
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Post by: M0le on 11-21-2004 22:42
I loved FFVII so much. I'd definately say it was the best in the series. FFIX comes second.
What was the name of that security organization in it again with Rufus and the other two? Trinad or something? They were awesome.

 
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So M0le, what are you naming your SWG avatar?
I've picked the name Kivadria Nett for my avatar, in fact, I've already got an account on SWG stratics.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-21-2004 23:35
To answer your question, M0le, the "security organization" you're thinking of is probably The Turks, Shinra Corp's muscle.  Vincent is a former Turk, and you can play as a random Turk grunt in the upcoming mobile phone FFVII spin off.  The three main members you meet are Reno, Rude, and the rookie Elena.  Rufus is the fellow who inherits Shinra after a Sephi-CloneTM offs his pappy.

And bringing the discussion back into the present, just how time intensive is SWG?  Is it worth it for a fairly busy University student on a limited monthly budget?

EDIT: My response to Slacky's post, below:

DUN Dun dun...dadadaDAdun
daDaDUN DADadadunDun
daDADUUUUNNN dadadaDUNdun
DadaDun DaDadun dunDun!

That's supposed to be the theme song, as presented in the third ending to MGS and in a somewhat different form in MGS2. 
Must...play...MGS3...
Must...have...someone...expla in...MGS2 to me...
Just kidding, I got most of it.
Now let's all pray together for some fucking plot resolution.  Please?  Ooh, and a dead Raiden, if possible.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-21-2004 23:39
MGS4... confirmed! (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/565/565308p1.html)

Any actual details... unconfirmed! Wooo!
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Post by: M0le on 11-22-2004 00:27
 
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To answer your question, M0le, the "security organization" you're thinking of is probably The Turks, Shinra Corp's muscle. Vincent is a former Turk, and you can play as a random Turk grunt in the upcoming mobile phone FFVII spin off. The three main members you meet are Reno, Rude, and the rookie Elena. Rufus is the fellow who inherits Shinra after a Sephi-CloneTM offs his pappy.
That's the one. I haven't played it in about two years, but I loved it so much. Some bastard borrowed the game from me and I never saw it again.  :mad: A truly beautiful game. I've got the Battle and Boss themes from it too.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-22-2004 01:01
Nerd: Well, all you have to do is fork over 20 pounds or dollars for a month subscription and you can do whatever the hell you want.

It depends if you want to be l33t right away, there is a hell of a lot of grinding envolved.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-22-2004 01:33
Well, unlike regular RPG's, MMO's are typically fucking boring until you are 1337.  How much effort does that take, and where can I find good advice on doing it?

Also, MGS3 questions (I assume one of you has it) - I don't want any spoilers, but are any dangling plot ends tied up?  Any mention of The Patriots?  And this 60's Snake...he is the "obvious" Snake, correct?  The on you'd expect to find in the 60's that looks exactly like three other characters in the series?  Also, just from curiosity, is Gurlukovich in the game?  I ask because I don't think the man got enough screen time in MGS2.  I loved his little Sovietsky rant...it kinda sounded like Nurdy.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-22-2004 01:38
Nerd: In SWG, you don't have levels. You arew given a profession with 12 skills to learn, you start our as a Novice and end up as a Master. Each skill gives you a new or upgraded trick which can help you heal/kill/craft/fly/dance better than before.

Don't worry, mission termials give you missions you can handle as well.

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Post by: mikey on 11-22-2004 04:08
Man, I just raided the tank from Area 69 with the jet pack. Casually drove the tank back to my garage at the airfield. I died shortly after, but the tank was home and hosed.

Bonus dude!
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Post by: Lurrr on 11-22-2004 10:05
 
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I assumed he was talking about the last section before Sephi: no save points except where you make your own.

That's what I'm referring to. And I did have a save crystal, but since it can only be used once there's no point in using it early on. And I was doing so well up to that point, but Cid got petrified while Cloud was reduced from full to zero health in one attack. It was especially annoying as I had spent a lot of time collecting enemy skills and AP  :(

Well, no use crying over spilt milk. Or whatever.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-22-2004 10:16
Go through first, and then use the save crystal, and then go back through to get all the items, AP, XP, and Enemy skills.  And if you also might consider running away from Tonberries on your first run-through, especially if your level is very high (Everybody's Grudge does 9999 damage) or very low (you can't kill him before he uses Knife.)  But if you want to survive the last phase of the final boss, you should probably have three ribbons, which means you're probably gonna need to morph one eventually.

I miss FFVII...I'll probably pick it back up and complete it over Christmas.
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Post by: winna on 11-22-2004 10:25
I have one teacher who was an early SWG player... He really hates it now, cause they nerfed it down so much for n00bs... He played the addon when it was in beta too, but he said they nerfed that bastard down when it came out aswell... alas.... sigh....
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Post by: Lurrr on 11-22-2004 10:34
Cheers NOR, I'll try that then. I've been working at FF7 on and off for the past year and would like to complete it soon so I can get started on FF8.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-22-2004 11:26
Winna, your teacher sucks. The reason why WoW is going to be hit because it'll be easy to level and newbie friendly. If SWG was more like WoW, maybe it'd actually be popular once. Grinding sucks.

Oh wah wah wah, I can't solo Stormtroopers with my crappy Novice Carbine! The whole goddamn point of MMORPG's is social. If you want to kill things, play Jedi Academy or KOTOR.
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Post by: winna on 11-22-2004 12:00
You should be able to randomly find somebody and kill them if you feel like it... that's the point of  playing a star wars MMORPG... You use your force powers and rape other people at whim  :p
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-22-2004 12:17
If you want to randomly kill people in an MMORPG, Join Dark Age of Camelot.
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Post by: winna on 11-22-2004 15:48
The point is this... The creators changed the gameplay of the game to support the whines of dumb little n00bs... I don't agree with that.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-22-2004 16:11
 
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(Everybody's Grudge does 9999 damage)
It does 10 damage for each enemy that character has finished off. If you alternate your characters, he does bugger-all damage until late in the game.

Also, for AP, use the W-Item bug and get 99 elixers, look for some magic pots and BAM. 1000AP and a wad of cash from each. Also "Movers" (I think) Come in groups of three, are piss easy to beat, and give you 30,000 gil and 800AP each.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-22-2004 17:15
 
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Originally posted by winna:
The point is this... The creators changed the gameplay of the game to support the whines of dumb little n00bs... I don't agree with that.
You ever played a MMORPG with a cruel learning curve? It's not fun. Or easy. In SWG you start off with 250 credits, a melon, a crappy pistol/stimpack/instrument/creation box and some cruddy ass clothing. SWG where the stuff on the bazaar is between 2-6k.

There's whining newbies, and there's people who can't be bothered to grind just to get a slightly better gun at the end of the day and quit.


EDIT: And the people who whine about n00bies, remember you WERE once a newbie you ignorant twats. It's like saying you hate foetuses yet you were once one yourself.
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-22-2004 18:24
If any of you think halo's storyline sucks you should read the Halo books they have out.  It's really dumb and nerdy, but I thought halo's storyline sucked too until I read the books. Also you find out about the chiefs origin or where he came from in the book Halo: The fall of Reach.  Nasty so does the ds come out this week for the U.S.  or is it already shipping?
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-22-2004 22:50
Well, my SA is fucked. Disc read error. I've heard about this...
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Post by: M0le on 11-22-2004 22:58
 
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If any of you think halo's storyline sucks you should read the Halo books they have out. It's really dumb and nerdy, but I thought halo's storyline sucked too until I read the books. Also you find out about the chiefs origin or where he came from in the book Halo: The fall of Reach.
Having not read any of the books or played Halo 2 myself, I think it's most likely that the books were probably designed for "nerds" to read. Most fanbooks are.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-23-2004 00:29
 
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
Well, my SA is fucked. Disc read error. I've heard about this...

I got a disc-read error all the time when I rented Vice City from Blockbuster.  I assumed that was because some idiot hick who had rented it previously (probably my neighbor) had scratched up the disc.  Sure enough, it looked as if it had been pwned by a labrador.  What this has to do with your problem, I have no idea.  Same effect, different causes.  Send it back, dude.
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-23-2004 00:33
I've been playing it for the past four weeks, and it just decided to die on me now. I wasn't even doing a mission or anything, just roaming around. I may take it back to EB, I'll have to look at the disc.
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Post by: mikey on 11-23-2004 01:54
You can take the fat nerds if things get nasty.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-23-2004 06:23
Maybe you should just wait for the PS3....
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Post by: winna on 11-23-2004 08:15
Maybe we should walk down to sony and blow up their corporate headquarters... Even you should be all for that nurdy, being communist and all!
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Post by: termos on 11-23-2004 10:20
I found this thing (http://pc.ign.com/articles/568/568154p1.html) about TES IV: Oblivion. Judging by the interview and the screenshots, I'd say good news for Morrowind fans! And it seems like you can ride a horse - good news for the people who thought walking was too slow in Morrowind (of course those people had obviously never found the Boots of Blinding Speed or didn't know how to use them).
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-23-2004 10:50
 
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Originally posted by winna:
Maybe we should walk down to sony and blow up their corporate headquarters... Even you should be all for that nurdy, being communist and all!
Give me the stuff, I'll do it.

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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-23-2004 11:15
 
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Originally posted by termos:
I found this thing (http://pc.ign.com/articles/568/568154p1.html) about TES IV: Oblivion. Judging by the interview and the screenshots, I'd say good news for Morrowind fans! And it seems like you can ride a horse - good news for the people who thought walking was too slow in Morrowind (of course those people had obviously never found the Boots of Blinding Speed or didn't know how to use them).

 Didn't you have to more exploit those boots then use them. I remember having to raise my resistance to magic/disease (or something) to 100 and then being able to use them just fine.

Those screnshots do look nice indeed though, although I'd like to see whether the addition of horses is a gimmick or something quite deep. I expect the latter but some information would be nice.
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Post by: termos on 11-23-2004 11:38
They don't reveal much, unfortunately. All the shots should be from real gameplay and not from cutscenes. At least that's what they claim.

About those boots: I wouldn't call it an exploit because you need seriously powerful stuff to raise your resistance and so they're not overpowered. Even then they have drawbacks - they don't protect you much and they break easily. In the original game they didn't break much, but against the monsters in Bloodmoon, it happens all the time.
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Post by: Zeep on 11-23-2004 11:45
 
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 I got Mario64 and The Urbz.

Sometimes working in the videogame dept is handy. I got mine last night before anybody else in the US.    :D


i just got mine sunday morning, with mario64. i'm also going to get Feel the magic soon.

oh, and you have to remember that a number of stores were selling them early, even if they weren't supposed to. you might have been in the first 100, maybe the first *legally*.

i was (probably) the first to get mine in my time zone. i got it literally seconds after 10:00 when the store opened.
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-23-2004 11:56
I don't have too much time to post, but I just want to say that I am completely in love with my DS. I bought Feel The Magic, because I wanted something with fun, short minigames that I could show my friends. And I bought Mario 64, because I wanted a good long one-player game.

Feel The Magic is decent, but I regret buying it, because as it turns out Mario 64 has some minigames of its own, and they are WAY more clever than the Feel The Magic stuff. And the multiplayer mode is fun, too. I am morally opposed to ports/remakes, but I am seriously digging this Mario 64.

It looks like the next couple of months are going to be slow, though. Why in the world is it taking them so long to release Mario Kart over here? It's a launch game in japan...certainly it can't take that long to translate.
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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-23-2004 12:12
 
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Originally posted by FishyJoe:
 It looks like the next couple of months are going to be slow, though. Why in the world is it taking them so long to release Mario Kart over here? It's a launch game in japan...certainly it can't take that long to translate.

You've got it good compared to here, way good, trust me...

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Post by: Coilette on 11-23-2004 12:41
Well, Everquest 2 kicks arse, I am looking forward to playing KoToR 2, when that comes out. I was in PC World last week and saw SWG on the shelf, I picked it up, put it down, picked it up.... looked... thought... and put it down again. MAybe next month I can afford to buy it.

 Does anyone actually own EQ 2? If so, ever considered letting me play aswell?
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-23-2004 14:30
Mario64 DS is absolutely amazing. I cannot put this game down. As a matter of fact, I'm playing it as I'm posting this right now. The character models are 100% better than the ones in the original and the extra levels, minigames, and character is great.

Nintendo is god.
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Post by: winna on 11-23-2004 14:39
Do you use the d-pad or the emulated analog control on the touchpad?
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-23-2004 14:43
 
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Originally posted by winna:
Do you use the d-pad or the emulated analog control on the touchpad?

I've messed around with the analog control on the touch screen but i stick with the D-pad. I've gotten used to it.
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Post by: FishyJoe on 11-23-2004 14:49
The D-pad isn't too bad. I've read some reviews that complain about it--and yes, it is noticeable if you're used to playing the N64 version. But it's not bad--you can still do everything you need to do.

So far the new areas have been cool. But I hope there are bigger/better ones.
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Post by: termos on 11-23-2004 15:59
 
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Originally posted by Coilette:
Well, Everquest 2 kicks arse, I am looking forward to playing KoToR 2, when that comes out.
KotOR 2... Drooool...

About all this SWG:
I'm not really into MMORPGs myself. If it was single player, I would have bought SWG and Jump to Lightspeed when they came out. I'm very disappointed that they made such a good-looking space sim for SWG when they should have just made a sequel to X-Wing.

Edit: Just finished HL2. Great game, bad ending.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-23-2004 17:33
Come on man, think of fighting TIE Fighters that have skill. I find shooting AI TIE's boring now.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-23-2004 17:42
 
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Edit: Just finished HL2. Great game, bad ending.

It's the sort of ending that really makes you want to be playing in the future when all three HLs have already been released, like Star Wars.  :p

Anyway, what did you think, termos? Personally I thought the game was incredible, aside from the ending and the comparatively sparse assortment of weapons (the latter is balanced out by the gravity gun (ahem: Zero Point Energy Manipulator)  ;).

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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-23-2004 17:54
Who needs an armoury when you can throw enemies through windows with the Gravity Gun?
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-23-2004 17:57
Great news for the people who haven't played HL2!! The ending sucks!
 :mad:

Spoilers people, they were used on the last page.
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Post by: termos on 11-23-2004 18:17
Nurdbot: True about the skill, but you do know X-Wing vs TIE Fighter was a multiplayer game right?

Faze: I'm sorry about it, I didn't mean to ruin anything for you. In fact:

CyberKnight: I also found the game incredible. The assortment of weapons wasn't all that sparse compared to something like Doom 3, and it was only a problem in a few maps. Besides, there's always fun to be had with the grav gun. Best gun ever. My conclusion is that Faze still has something to look forward to!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-23-2004 18:57
termos: So's JTL, only you don't need DOS and you can form Squadrons and customize your Ship's paintjob.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-23-2004 18:59
You're forgiven, but if I find it one bit dissapointing I'm coming for you!

I'm interested in playing all the oldskool X-Wing games, but I doubt they'd work/look well on my WinXP system... would they?  :hmpf:
I'm wondering if it's better if I just get them off BitTorrent or actually buy them (only found 1 place that has them too).
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Post by: winna on 11-23-2004 20:54
The Doom 3 add-on is supposed to add a gravity-gunesque type weapon... as well as a double barrelled shotgun...... hmmmm.
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Post by: M0le on 11-23-2004 21:07
Played the Doom 3 demo the other day. Spookerific.
I thought it wouldn't even be able to run on my computer, being about two years old. Ran perfectly and even though the graphics were set low, it still looked great. Having heard that Half Life 2 is also crap-PC friendly, I can't wait until I get it for Christmas now.  :D
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-24-2004 00:58
(http://img121.exs.cx/img121/6538/SimCity.th.jpg)
Two-freakin'-million people! (http://img121.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img121&image=SimCity.jpg)
Wooo! Here, have a higher than usual quality screenshot of it.

If there's any interest whatsoever, i'll send you the city, so you can start some disasters.  :p
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-24-2004 01:00
Record a disaster with Frap's, oh please do!
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-24-2004 01:09
Not a chance.
A) No place to upload it
B) No bandwidth even if i did.

Buy a $5 copy of Simcity 3000 and you can make your own disasters.   :p
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Post by: zoidyzoid on 11-24-2004 02:26
 
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Originally posted by M0le:
Played the Doom 3 demo the other day. Spookerific.
I thought it wouldn't even be able to run on my computer, being about two years old. Ran perfectly and even though the graphics were set low, it still looked great. Having heard that Half Life 2 is also crap-PC friendly, I can't wait until I get it for Christmas now.   :D

Yeah, don't hesitate in buying HL2, it's more low spec friendly than Doom 3. The Doom 3 demo is barely playable on my PC, but Half-Life 2 runs silky smooth, and still looks really good (by my standards anyway). HL2 is better anyway, IMO  :)
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 11-24-2004 02:36
 
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Originally posted by winna:
The Doom 3 add-on is supposed to add a gravity-gunesque type weapon... as well as a double barrelled shotgun...... hmmmm.

Then they must die. Horribly. They can't expect anyone to not think "Lousy stinking rip-off!".
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Post by: termos on 11-24-2004 02:52
   
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
termos: So's JTL, only you don't need DOS and you can form Squadrons and customize your Ship's paintjob.
Yeah but it's part of another game, that's what I'm bitching about. That's fine, but I would like a game that's just about flying where there's also a good single player campaign, like the original X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Sometimes I like multiplayer, and sometimes I just want to blast TIEs and not listen to other people bicker and argue about who killed who.

Faze: Well they won't work without a joystick. That's as far as I got    :(

Pikka: They won't be able to do a gravity gun ripoff since their engine doesn't allow everything to be moved around. But it's still pretty weak if they try. The double-barrelled shotgun was in Doom II, so I guess I would like to see that one again.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-24-2004 03:01
Everyone gets a fair share of loot, in SWG. On the ground and in space.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-24-2004 03:03
 
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Originally posted by termos:
CyberKnight: I also found the game incredible. The assortment of weapons wasn't all that sparse compared to something like Doom 3, and it was only a problem in a few maps. Besides, there's always fun to be had with the grav gun. Best gun ever. My conclusion is that Faze still has something to look forward to!

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Post by: termos on 11-24-2004 03:13
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-24-2004 03:25
 
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Originally posted by termos:
Faze: Well they won't work without a joystick. That's as far as I got     :(
Rasberries...
*snaps fingers*

Also, damn you and your spoilers!!  :p
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Post by: Gleno on 11-24-2004 07:49
*Gleno's review of Mortal Kombat Deception*

The choice of characters old and new....AWESOME

The ability to finish yourself before your opponent does....EXCELLENT

Puzzle Kombat, Chess Kombat....ADDICTIVLEY FUN

The different ways the characters get up after losing a round (eg Scorpion harpoons the ceiling and drags himself up) NICE TOUCH

All the unlockable stuff....WICKED (some pointless though)

This game rocks, if like me you lost interest in Mortal Kombat over the years, play Deception and you'll change your mind....everything has been revamped and it rocks....!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-24-2004 11:03
        JFK Reloaded!
Oh no! A commie with a rifle!
Seriously, this is all just plain hype. I downloaded the demo, the graphics are far from perfect and there's only 1 music track. You are Oswald, in a building holding a Rifle with a sniper scope over looking a tiny area and you have less than 30 seconds to plug ole' JFK.

Why is JFK so damn great anyway? so what if he was a War hero, so are all the other damn Yanky Presidents. Oh, and he choose the man who decided that War in 'Nam was just worthy to be his Vice President. He was also a moron trusting the people of Texas and riding in an open car.
I hate the JFK Family hype.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-24-2004 17:03
I agree totally with nurdy on the game (and on the politics).

I downloaded the game and it's absolute shit. I want a boss battle when JFK rises from the dead, becomes 50ft tall and can shoot fireballs from his eyes. Now thats a game I want to see.

Edit: A Commie TOTPD
(http://img86.exs.cx/img86/6301/ani6.gif)

Double Edit:
I just found some new Screenies of the new Legend of Zelda game comming to the GameCube. And yes, you have permission to shit yourself when you see these:
(http://img76.exs.cx/img76/189/212918584.jpg)
(http://img125.exs.cx/img125/4499/212916334.jpg)
(http://img131.exs.cx/img131/1921/212918585.jpg)
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-24-2004 17:45
My Zelda fanboy instincts are stirring.
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Post by: Gleno on 11-24-2004 18:18
Also I forgot about the death traps in MKD....at anytime during a fight (usually on every level) there are death traps that you can knock your opponent into and win the round instantly....excellent....!
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-24-2004 20:15
I was looking at those pictures eariler today. It looks awesome. Nintendo is such a tease. I want movies, damnit!
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-24-2004 20:25
What is it with Nintendo and making awesome looking character models, and really shit terrain?

Got Dawn of war today. Haven't played it, but i've got it.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-24-2004 21:44
To all those who've actually noticed I've not been online, it's because of Super Mario 64 DS and its addictiveness.
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Post by: winna on 11-24-2004 21:52
Already seen those... Are you stalking Wesley, nasty?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-25-2004 00:31
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:

Why is JFK so damn great anyway? so what if he was a War hero, so are all the other damn Yanky Presidents. Oh, and he choose the man who decided that War in 'Nam was just worthy to be his Vice President. He was also a moron trusting the people of Texas and riding in an open car.
I hate the JFK Family hype.

Kennedy was considered by many historians to be America's most overrated president.

In video game-relevant news, I'm back to fighting for control of Los Santos.  My ability to recruit gang members, however, is completely nullified by their absolute incompetence.

CJ: You homies stay here and make sure these two Ballas over here don't sneak up behind me and kill me while I single-handedly wipe out those ten Ballas over there.
OG posse: Duh, sure thing, boss.
(CJ mops the floor with the ten Ballas he was fighting)
CJ: Hmmm...where are those bullets that keep hitting me coming from?
(CJ dies after being shot in the back repeatedly by the two Ballas that walked right by the army of eight OG's who were supposed to be defending CJ)
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Post by: mikey on 11-25-2004 06:00
Yeah, Im up to that mission where you take Madd dogg's mansion back. The hiest was easy. I got way too excited when It said 'fly to liberty city'. Darn.
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 11-25-2004 06:14
 
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Originally posted by Rage Dump:
What is it with Nintendo and making awesome looking character models, and really shit terrain?

Yeah, I noticed that too... The surroundings (also that interior) seem like they've been modelled for the N64. And the mane on that horse is crap.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-25-2004 06:19
Yeesh, some people seem to forget the power that the Gamecube harnesses.
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-25-2004 09:56
That's right, the gamecube, to me has just as good as graphics as any system out there it's just the wrong games with cell shaded graphics have been out recently.  Pick up Metroid Prime 2 that'll show you people. But I had a question for all the gamecube owners.  I was playing Metroid 2 yesterday and I had just gotten on dark Aether and I went to the first save station on planet dark aether.  I went back into the station just to replenish health again and it said my memory card was corrupted and somehow it erased all my progress.  I had to start freakin all over again, I was so pissed, but I saved all my progress on one slot and overwrit it every time I got to another save station.  I guess this is one reason xbox might be considered better, is the lots of memory built in.
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Post by: Bender_Waffles on 11-25-2004 12:09
 
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Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
 Yeah, I noticed that too... The surroundings (also that interior) seem like they've been modelled for the N64. And the mane on that horse is crap.

Well you have to remember that these are not final version screenshots. The final version will have better enemy and scenery graphics.

And BBR, I personally loved the cel-shading graphics on WindWaker. They perfectly conveighed the message and the feel that Miyamoto wanted. And try doing those kind of graphics on an earlier system. Good Luck! Those graphics are just as advanced as graphics you'll find in the new Zelda or Metroid. It's just a different style.

Man, I gotta post in this thread more often...
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Post by: TheMadCapper on 11-25-2004 12:11
Not to mention graphics aren't that important in the end. Sure it'd be nice if everything was rendered breathtakingly beautifully, but I don't REALLY care if the bush over there looks kind of blurry if you get up really close. What really matters is gameplay, fun, challenge, and replay value.
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Post by: Bender_Waffles on 11-25-2004 12:13
 
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Originally posted by TheMadCapper:
 What really matters is gameplay, fun, challenge, and replay value.

And that is why we all love Animal Crossing...   :D
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-25-2004 12:17
Bad news, everyone. I picked up a magazine with a 10 day SWG trail disc, and it turns out it was a DVD, not a CD. I only have a cd-rw drive. Looks like I'm out $13, and 10 days of pocrastinating on school work.
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-25-2004 12:24
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
My Zelda fanboy instincts are stirring.

Indeed, I can't wait for this, it just looks better and better each time I see any screenshots or movies.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-25-2004 16:02
 
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Originally posted by newhook_1:
Bad news, everyone. I picked up a magazine with a 10 day SWG trail disc, and it turns out it was a DVD, not a CD. I only have a cd-rw drive. Looks like I'm out $13, and 10 days of pocrastinating on school work.
Noooooooooooo!
Surely that magazine has a CD Edition? write in or something.

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Post by: Otis P Jivefunk on 11-25-2004 16:11
As I've just recently finished Wind Waker, I'm now hungry for that new Zelda game. It looks totally cloolsome. There's no doubt that Gamecube has amazing graphical power, and I agree with Bender_Waffles about the cel shading. I think it's really awesome how they've tried totally different approaches for the two Zelda Cude games...

I agree with TMC that graphics don't make the game. Although if they are good, then enhance the game and enjoyment...
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-25-2004 17:01
I think cel shading is fine, but alot of nongamecube people think it sucks.  I think if the cube made more games like the new Legend of Zelda game coming out and Metroid, it would attract more people who aren't that fond of nintendo or the gamecube.
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Post by: Rage Dump on 11-25-2004 19:19
Mikey: Yeah, what a crock. I was pretty doubtful when i saw the objective, i thought the plane might get shot down, or something. But when i saw the place i thought... Holy crap! It's Liberty-freakin'-City, baby!
What a rip off.

Gaming in my world has been put on hiatus until i get Gentoo on this thing.
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Post by: winna on 11-25-2004 20:39
The Gamecube technically outpowers the PS2, as far as hardware is concerned.
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Post by: mikey on 11-25-2004 21:14
Your saying that the gamecube could beat up a PS2 on robot wars? Ill believe it when I see it.
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Post by: winna on 11-25-2004 21:44
Those minidiscs are razor sharp  ;)
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Post by: M0le on 11-25-2004 23:38
I say, let the console nerds fight amongst themselves. The time is rife for a PC comeback. With monkeys.   :p
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-26-2004 03:44
I admit that my heart also skipped a beat when my marching orders were to head for Liberty City.  I also felt some amount of disappointment when I realized it was only the Bistro, but how many full cities do you think they can fit onto a disk?

Anyway, I just finished the last storyline mission (except, of course, for Zero's damn "supply lines" ), and I have yet to rob the mafia casino thanks largely due to my girlfriend never having time for me.  If I were the jealous type, I might suspect she had another sado-masochistic boytoy somewhere.

New best thing: Fighting the gang war while aloft with the jetpack.
New worst thing: Flying across the state to date Millie and flying back to repel the Vagos.
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 11-26-2004 04:12
 
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Originally posted by Bender_Waffles:
  Well you have to remember that these are not final version screenshots. The final version will have better enemy and scenery graphics.
And you have to remember that it doesn't take very long to model semi-decent scenery/interior architecture. If they're making publicity screenies and actually bother to make surroundings, then why not add at elast some detail? It takes a few minutes to add some rubble and boulders to the exteriors and the same amount of time to make some staircases in those archways and some furniture or something in the interior. They can model in 3D, it seems. So a little tad of eyeandy shouldn't be all that troublesome.

 
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Originally posted by B.B.R:
That's right, the gamecube, to me has just as good as graphics as any system out there it's just the wrong games with cell shaded graphics have been out recently.  Pick up Metroid Prime 2 that'll show you people.

I don't really mind cel-shading. It can be used for some very good visual styles/effects, like those in XIII. It isn't a lesser form of graphics, and people who think so should be fired out of a cannon into the sun. Of course, it should be used corectly. I've seen games where the boundaries between body of an object and the black outlines were so horribly smudgy because the models were simply too tiny on-screen to display the cel-shading decently.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-26-2004 04:23
Does anyone find the Final Fantasy Series title a tad ironic?
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 11-26-2004 04:31
::raises hand::

And another thing about it which I don't get: Why do they have to share the name? The individual games (and movies) have nothing to do with each other. It's not like Apogee named all their games Commander Keen, so why does Squaresoft name (almost) all their games Final Fantasy? Makes no sense to me.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-26-2004 04:39
Well, I'd like to see the FF games renamed myself since they take place in different dimensions or thousands of years apart. Stick something like
Final Fantasy VII: Mako War (Or, more depressing than the entire series combined if you look at it my way)

Also, I'm surprised nobody is playing Final Fantasy XII yet. I heard the translation system in it is funny as hell.
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Post by: Pikka Bird on 11-26-2004 04:43
And hell is really funny, I've heard.

I don't really know much about the dimensions and history in the FF series, but I just say that if the storyline doesn't have anything to do with former games, then use a different title. Using "different dimensions" as a cover is weak, especially since it's completely unnecessary.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-26-2004 04:47
Hey, I like the idea of different dimensions. Sue me. The map always looks the same. Of course, if you are willing to prove me wrong with a large amount of proof then go ahead if you can be bothered.

Also, Hell is funny. Nothing like watching people burn.
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Post by: winna on 11-26-2004 11:39
I totally agree with you Pika... There is no point for all the games which are completely unrelated with eachother to all be called Final Fantasty...  I think it's a selling point, so that they can sell different stories under a name that most people know.

Another ironic game name: Duke Nukem Forever.
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Post by: TheMadCapper on 11-26-2004 12:07
The FF games do have certain similarities to each other. Fighting evil empires and then narrowing your quest to fighting one evil entity, airships, recurring characters (Cid the engineer!), recurring items, etc.

If you're buying an FF game, you know what you're getting into, more or less. If they didn't call every game Final Fantasy, they'd get ripped for making all their games too much alike.
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Post by: David A on 11-26-2004 12:30
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Does anyone find the Final Fantasy Series title a tad ironic?

The title of the original Final Fantasy made sense.

I don't know why they decided to make "sequels" with the same title, but I've never played any of those anyway.
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-26-2004 14:51
What started as a final game called final fantasy, ended up being one of the most favored games for years to come.  I guess they figure, well if people are that desperate, we'll  make a series of FF games to play with their minds.  Then before you know it people don't even realize the name, they just want to play it, and by then generations after generations will buy this franchise.  Good scheme if you ask me, They only get richer.  So now since they are running out of ideas for new ff games they make sequels, perfect plan.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-26-2004 15:37
The Final Fantasy games do have alot in common. Sure the world and characters are different every time, but many creatures, character archetypes and classes, and conventions are carried over from game to game. It may not seem like much but, alot of these things define the series. TMC put it quite well, if each game wasn't called Final Fantasy, people would bash them for being to similar. If a game does not fit into the Final Fantasy series, Square will not stamp the Final Fantasy brand on it, just look at Chrono Trigger and Cross, or Parasite Eve.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-26-2004 18:26
In other news, I've decided to pack up my house in SWG and move into the Guildhall along with 3 other members since I can't pay the rent for both, I'll keep the deed in case the Guild dies so I can put it back up.

Quite sad really, I liked my house and so did a lot of people. I'll take some through screenies of it tommorow and post the links. Please look at them all and comment. I slaved to get a lot of the stuff in that house.

EDIT:
Got the new PC Gamer today, SWG: Jump To Lightspeed got 77% (Needs a wee bit more content and some bug fixes) and poor old Battle of Middle Earth got 73%.

Oh? And Leisure Suit Larry got 3%. That is the lowest score PC Gamer has given to date.
Fwhahahahaha!
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Post by: M0le on 11-26-2004 20:19
 
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Fighting evil empires and then narrowing your quest to fighting one evil entity, airships, recurring characters (Cid the engineer!), recurring items, etc.
One thing I really liked was the constant re-use of characters named Biggs and Wedge. I remember FF7 and FF8 both having Biggs and Wedge but I can't remember if FF9 had them.
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Post by: futuramafreak on 11-26-2004 23:33
Well, I'm probably the last person in the fucking world to finish Halo 2, after finding the time between playing DS.
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-27-2004 03:22
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Oh? And Leisure Suit Larry got 3%. That is the lowest score PC Gamer has given to date.
Fwhahahahaha!

Didn't they give N/A% (i.e. they couldn't even be bothered to score it) to one of those god-awful Big Brother mini game packs?

edit: an unfortunately pedantic TOTPD.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 04:06
To date my friend, as in recently.

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Post by: termos on 11-27-2004 05:43
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Oh? And Leisure Suit Larry got 3%. That is the lowest score PC Gamer has given to date.
Fwhahahahaha!
If that's true then the reviewers of PC Gamer are very VERY unprofessional. MCL is a bad game, but it is still not even close to 3%.
Are you sure about this?

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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 05:53
Yes, PC Gamer is very Unprofessional since It's the best Magazine in Britain and all the games I've got thanks to it's advice rock, not to mention the quality demo's and awesome DVD Edition. Oh wait....no it isn't wrong.

They have the spine to ignore the Cartoon boobies and point out the moral implications, sterotypes and buggy games.
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Post by: Zed 85 on 11-27-2004 06:02
Tricky, I think PCG's reviewers can get a bit - well perhaps opinionated is too strong, but often the score relates to how much the reviewer personally hates the game rather how well made the game is (or not)
I personally remain loyal to PCG though. And as Nurdy said, they gave plent of reasons why they would hate that game...
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 06:13
My kind of magazine, like OC says sometimes you must conform to something. Seriously, I'd rather spend my money on good games. Like Pacific Assault or JTL.

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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-27-2004 11:39
The Amazing Mid Air Park-job:
(http://img129.exs.cx/img129/9382/Clipboard5.th.gif) (http://img129.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img129&image=Clipboard5.gif)
(http://img129.exs.cx/img129/9493/Clipboard3.th.gif) (http://img129.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img129&image=Clipboard3.gif)

Jesus, I'm almost finished VC 100% in the time it's taking HL2 to be delivered...  :hmpf:
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 13:57
I'm not surprised you are getting Battles of Middle Earth Faze.
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-27-2004 14:10
I don't know if this is what I supposed to do or just what happened, but I was trying to give Millie, the BDSM chick from Las Venturas, some flowers when I accidentally scrolled too far, selected the chainsaw, and killed her.  I still got the keycard and carried out the heist, but I feel like I somehow cheated by dismembering my girlfriend in the street with a chainsaw instead of giving her flowers.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 14:13
I gotta remember not to do that if I meet a hot girl who likes me.
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Post by: winna on 11-27-2004 16:51
You... meeting a hot girl???  that likes you???? 

Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha ha

I can't get up cause I'm laughing too hard!
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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-27-2004 16:53
My PS2 has completely had it, I'm going to open it up and give it a cleant today and see if that does anything. If not, it looks like I'll be getting one of those slimline PS2s somehow. They aren't all that expensive, really.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-27-2004 17:02
 
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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
I'm not surprised you are getting Battles of Middle Earth Faze.
[Paranoid]What? Why? Do I look like some kind of game-liking person?!?

Well I am, to hell with you and your pickles... (http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/soupson.gif)

2 weeks to go!
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Post by: Bushmeister on 11-27-2004 18:02
Although I haven't bought it yet, I got my first taster of HL2 today and it was great. I only got to play the a few bits but the Ravenholm section was by far the best. Everything about it, from the swinging sets of legs (which were fun to shoot around with the gravity gun) to the crazed Russian Orthodox priest ("caring for his flock" with his trusty shotgun) and those bloody jumping head crab zombies, which scared the shit out of me the first time I saw them. Playing it on hard made it real tense, even if I did need help against that flood of jumping dudes at the end. Fucking awesome is all I can say.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-27-2004 19:23
 
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Originally posted by winna:
You... meeting a hot girl???  that likes you???? 

Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha ha

I can't get up cause I'm laughing too hard!
You do know you have the same chances right? posting on a dead cartoon message board is the epitome of nerdity.

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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-29-2004 04:30
No, the epitome of nerdity is driving all over San Andreas going clothes shopping only to realize the character's clothes are exactly the same as your own.

Anyway, most of my organized San Andreas hijinks have come to a stop.  Los Santos is fully under my control, Zero's crappy missions are done, the Mafia casino has been robbed, and while I've killed a lot of people, I wish I could have killed more (namely OG Loc).  I did manage to steal a tank from the restricted area, but I'm having a dickens of a time finding a Hunter helicopter.  Does anyone know have any idea where they keep them?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-29-2004 04:43
Thunder: Now that you are mostly done, consider getting the cheats and just going nuts.
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Post by: Grim on 11-29-2004 05:24
Well I finished HL2 today, what a dissappointing ending. Some cool stuff happens and then boom its over. I was left all, "aww come on!"
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-29-2004 05:33
There is going to be a 3rd one, you know that right?
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Post by: Grim on 11-29-2004 05:58
yes I know, but my point is still valid
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Post by: winna on 11-29-2004 06:21
Didn't you read his spoiler nurd?
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-29-2004 06:26
Hell no. I want to find out for myself.
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Post by: winna on 11-29-2004 06:45
I'll sum up the last sentence for you...

Now we all have to wait another 5 years for the next one!

Oh wait... that wasn't summing at all, that was exactly what grim said, cause I just copy pasted it....  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Alliteration on 11-29-2004 11:13
The ending to HL2 is actually very similar to the ending of
(concealed just in case somebody really doesn't want to know)

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Post by: termos on 11-29-2004 12:18
So very true. I didn't actually expect anything else. Anyway, the story is much more important in other genres, like RPGs.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-29-2004 12:48
 
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Originally posted by DrThunder88:
No, the epitome of nerdity is driving all over San Andreas going clothes shopping only to realize the character's clothes are exactly the same as your own.

Anyway, most of my organized San Andreas hijinks have come to a stop.  Los Santos is fully under my control, Zero's crappy missions are done, the Mafia casino has been robbed, and while I've killed a lot of people, I wish I could have killed more (namely OG Loc).  I did manage to steal a tank from the restricted area, but I'm having a dickens of a time finding a Hunter helicopter.  Does anyone know have any idea where they keep them?

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Post by: alexvilagosh on 11-29-2004 14:58
I finished the storyline missions of San Andreas yesterday. I've still got an ugly Z on my map, which I really can't be bothered with. I'm wearing a lovely tux and some bowler hat type thing.

I stole a tank yesterday after a half hour battle with the cops which left well over 200 of them dead and me without ammo. However, the damn thing blew up (with me inside it) before I could get to my garage. So I'll have to do it all again.

I've got the LV courier missions, and a heap of other side missions to do including the firetruck, vigilante and ambulance missions, which I may or may not do. I also plan on doing the tags, and possibly the oysters and horseshoes. The photos seem like a pain in the arse though.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-29-2004 16:54
I must play MGS3.  I must find out everyone's backstory.  I must blast the Hell out of Sovietskys.  I must stop reading the damn spoilers in the GameFAQ threads before I completely lose interest.  I must get all the frogs, bonus camo, and no kills.

I must stop taking Robitussin for my head cold before I make more posts like this.
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Post by: winna on 11-29-2004 17:54
Plus you can spin Snake around and make him throw up!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-29-2004 18:28
Solid Snake is a bitch. Master Chief PWNZ.
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Post by: winna on 11-29-2004 18:45
I'm sorry, you aren't allowed to talk anymore nurdy...  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-29-2004 18:46
Bah, screw futuristic weaponry and cyborgs.

All Snake needs is a couple of shadows, five minutes to call everyone and their brother on the radio, and maybe some sort of remote-controlled rocket launcher, and ANYTHING he sees is going down.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-29-2004 20:12
Snake owns Master Chief. No question. He says cool cheesy action one-liners, snaps necks like chickens, and runs around inside a cardboard box. And he smokes.

Sigh...
I've just had to make this connection, though....

In MGS3, you play as the one-eyed Naked Snake, the Snake Eater.  :nono:

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Post by: M0le on 11-29-2004 20:21
So the Snake Eater doesn't have a cool nickname, like Flying Mongoose or something?  :cry:
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-29-2004 20:35
Eh, I kind of like Naked Snake. Sounds cool and inuendo stuffed all at the same time, like a good Bond girl name.

Of course, that's not the name that we come to know him as....
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-29-2004 22:50
I don't think "Naked Snake" has any more innuendo than "Solid Snake" to be honest.  Though the fact that he becomes a one-eyed Snake makes it a lot funnier.  Until you realize what his cyclopia means...

I would hazard a guess that Solid Snake is the greatest video game action hero ever.  NS rivals him just 'cause of the whole Darth Vader thing he's got going, but knowing how Metal Gear 2 concludes, I think Snake trumps him in combat ability.

Long story short, Dave pwns all.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-29-2004 23:25
Naked Snake doesn't have more inuendo then Solid Snake. But, be honest now, that's not saying much.   ;)

And Snake IS one of my fav video game characters.
It pisses me off that I have to wait for another month before I get to experiences his genetic predecessors little jaunt in the woods. Damn secluded island-continent.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 01:15
Fanboys.

In other news, Guildmaster Romuski has settled into his massive Guildhall and is recruiting for the Vienna Entertainer Club, which has an exclusive Party attitude. Of course that is just a front. Our Security will be armed Rebel's and we will do some of the Dungeons at a later date.
We only started on Sunday, but we now have 8 members. The Guild Hall is halfway furnished as well. It's going to be awesome for parties at any rate.

(http://img125.exs.cx/img125/8449/screenShot0009.th.jpg) (http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img125&image=screenShot0009.jpg)
My spacious Office in the Hall, canyou believe this room is bigger than the main room of my old house? I still can't..

(http://img109.exs.cx/img109/8547/screenShot11.th.jpg) (http://img109.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img109&image=screenShot11.jpg)

You can also store items in a safety deposit box in the Galactic Bank, which is quite handy.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-30-2004 02:07
 
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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
It pisses me off that I have to wait for another month before I get to experiences his genetic predecessors little jaunt in the woods. Damn secluded island-continent.

Don't complain to me about it.  I'll have to wait till Christmas or afterwards, since I have ZERO DOLLARS.  Aside from having to get a job over winter break (teh suxxor, but at least I know some guys who'll guarantee me employment,) there are three games (maybe 4) that I have to play this season: MGS3, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2 (but I can just bum over to my friends' room for that) and maybe GoldenEye:RA.  Is that any good?

And Nurdy, at least I'm not my own fanboy.  Seriously, all this pimping of your SWG character is like some kinda ego-masturbation.  Nah, I'm just kidding, you're all right.
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 11-30-2004 03:07
 
Quote
Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
I've got the LV courier missions, and a heap of other side missions to do including the firetruck, vigilante and ambulance missions, which I may or may not do. I also plan on doing the tags, and possibly the oysters and horseshoes. The photos seem like a pain in the arse though.

The tags are driving me nuts.  I've done 99 of them and can't find the last one.  I even enlisted the help of a map, and I still can't find it.
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Post by: M0le on 11-30-2004 05:12
So, Nurdy, where's your Guild Hall based? I keep getting images of Tatooine sweeping through my mind.  :)
 
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Originally posted by Ricky:
And Nurdy, at least I'm not my own fanboy. Seriously, all this pimping of your SWG character is like some kinda ego-masturbation.
Pfff, Nurdy's SWG screenshots are the highlights of a day wasted at PEEL for me.
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Post by: CyberKnight on 11-30-2004 05:50
 
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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
And Nurdy, at least I'm not my own fanboy.  Seriously, all this pimping of your SWG character is like some kinda ego-masturbation.

Ooh, burn.   :laff:

Anyway, on the subject of MGS (MGS1 Spoilers)


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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 06:22
I'd rather pimp my own original character off than be a fanboy of a worn out one, Snake will be as dead as Croft soon. Burn back!

M0le: Tatooine, where else?
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Post by: David A on 11-30-2004 06:29
 
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Originally posted by Ricky:
Long story short, Dave pwns all.

I sure do.   :p

Also, I agree with M0le.  I'd rather hear about Nurdy's character than read one of your posts, Ricky.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 06:34
Thanks David, have a Bantha Blaster Drink on me.
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-30-2004 07:21
@Cyberknight:

@Nurdy: Don't you ever compare the MGS franchise to the Tomb Raider franchise again!
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 08:54
What? It's the truth. This game may not suck but like there B list Celeb counterparts Video Game characters (Unless Mario) eventually slip away into retirement, followed by a few bad sequals and a failed line of collectors models.

Don't see any Modern Megaman games now, do you?
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Post by: SlackJawedMoron on 11-30-2004 09:08
Actually, you do.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 09:15
Any GOOD Megaman games.

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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-30-2004 12:08
Yo, I was wondering if anybody here knows when Animal Crossing DS or Mario Kart DS are scheduled to come out?

Those are games I'm dying to play.
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Post by: Nerd-o-rama on 11-30-2004 13:11
Just to clarify, I really don't care about Nurdbot's SWG stuff.  It's moderately interesting, even.  I just don't like being called a fanboy.  (I do love the MG games and most of the characters therein, but not to an obsessive point.)

On a different topic entirely, is GoldenEye:Rogue Agent any good?  Normally I say away from PS2 FPSes (for that matter, all console FPSes except Halo) but the concept looks nice and...well...all they have to do is take the engine from the original and beef up the graphics and AI right?  Even EA couldn't screw that up.
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Post by: Nasty Pasty on 11-30-2004 14:35
I was amazed when Gamespot.com gave Rogue Agent a 6.5. I was expecting a 8 or 9 but apparently it's not that good.
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Post by: MKTai on 11-30-2004 15:02
I was thinking I might get it, but it didn't seem to be anything special. I'll probably just get Halo 2 for Christmas.

And on a completely random side note, I decided to try and complete Final Fantasy : Crystal Chronicles today. Walkthrough required after about 5 minutes...
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Post by: winna on 11-30-2004 15:10
X-play gave Rogue Agent a decent review if I remember correctly.  An ok FPS amid lots and lots of excellent ones.
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Post by: Nurdbot on 11-30-2004 17:30
You can try, but you can't beat the Magic of the N64 GoldenEye.

*Huggles his copy*
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Post by: B.B.R on 11-30-2004 18:36
I've played Rogue Agent and it's alright personally I didn't think it was all that great.  Everything in that game has already been done before. I'd give it a 6 or a 7.  I just didn't have a lot of fun with it. And like Nurdbot said Goldeneye was the best.  To me if GoldenEye's graphics were up to date, it would easily outbeat Rouge agent.  And I had a question for those who've played MP2:echoes. Have any of you gotten to the Agon Wastes Boss Amorbis yet?  I can't seem to beat him. I've only tried once though.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 11-30-2004 19:22
Hooray!  :D  :love:

It came, and then I came...

It's that great.

HL2 huzzah!
Runs like a dream too: 1280x1024, meduim textures and reflections, full shaders and shadows... (http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sabber3.gif)
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Post by: Kloudes on 11-30-2004 19:27
*interjects*

I know this is completely off-topic, but do any of you lovely gamers know somewhere I can find a comprehensive list of DS games being released in the US before Christmas?
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-30-2004 19:36
Here ya go Kloudes,

Launch Games for DS:
Mario 64 DS
Feelin' The Magic
Madden 2005
Spider-Man 2
The Urbz: Sim's in the City
Asphault Urban GT

Upcoming Games:

Metroid Hunters
Picto Chat
Mr. Driller

There is more but can't think of any right now.
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Post by: Kloudes on 11-30-2004 20:06
Thanks, Squeaky.  Hmm... Feelin' the Magic?  Sounds... different.  I thought Picto Chat was what came with it?  Now I'm confused.
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Post by: newhook_1 on 11-30-2004 21:01
Picto Chat does come with it. It's built into the hardware.

Not sure how up to date this (http://thttp://www.planetgamecube.com/dsreleases.cfm) is. Mr. Driller is listed as unknown so it's probably a few days old. Should give you a general idea though. Not a whole lot coming out until 2005.
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Post by: Squeaky on 11-30-2004 21:52
Newhook is right, Picto Chat is built into the DS, but Nintendo listed it as an upcoming game, so when I copied and pasted it... well, you know the rest.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 01:01
Mr Driller? I bet it's a Hentai Dating Game.

Hehe. Negative sterotypes are the best.
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Post by: Squeaky on 12-01-2004 01:36
 
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Mr Driller? I bet it's a Hentai Dating Game.

Hehe. Negative sterotypes are the best.

Yes, and it's about the act after the date... the "vertical shuffle". Actually, until you mentioned that Nurdy, I only thought Mr. Driller as a puzzle game.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 01:42
Wouldn't it be whacky if it was? Hehe, I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't dropped it's anti-violent games pledge and try and save it's dying Empire.
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Post by: Squeaky on 12-01-2004 01:52
I think that is one reason that Nintendo did struggle a little bit a couple of years ago, I mean they didn't have any games for the college age crowd. Nintendo tends to market it's games for the younger audience, which is fine but most people who play games are 17 or older. Now, I still like the games like Mario, Zelda, and Metroid because they have that "nostalgia
aura" around them.

Also, Nurdy, I'm thinking of getting SWG, How would you start a character?
 
 
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Post by: CyberKnight on 12-01-2004 02:29
 
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Hooray!    :D    :love:

It came, and then I came...

It's that great.

HL2 huzzah!
Runs like a dream too: 1280x1024, meduim textures and reflections, full shaders and shadows... (http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sabber3.gif)

Pah, High Shadows, Reflect All, 1280x1024, High Texture Detail, High Models.....  :p

Congratulations, though.   :) Boy, your mail service sure took their sweet time  :hmpf:.

EDIT: But what does that matter? Valve just released a free HL2 DM mod along with the SDK!  :D
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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 02:59
Squeaky:
Character Creation? as in the avatar appearance? the tutorial? the starting classes?
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Post by: DrThunder88 on 12-01-2004 03:06
So yeah, I was just flying around Los Santos looking for the 100th tag, and the very last place I looked (i.e. the 100th spot on the map) was where the missing tag was hiding.  The jetpack made the hunt a little easier, and now I get an AK, a TEC-9, a sawed-off, and a molotov cocktail in my kitchen.

Speaking of TEC-9s and sawed-off shotguns, I've reached 'hitman' level with both of those weapons and have been dealing out two-fisted fury all around the state.  It's pretty cool.  Most cars are goners by the second 1-2-3-4 punch from the two-handfuls of shotgun.
 
I also went back to the cycle school and took silver or better in all the classes.  This upgrades the bike that spawns outside from a Freeway to an FCR-900.  I'm still miffed that 97% isn't a gold medal.

CJ now wears a tweed suit, gray fedora, and his characteristic black shades.
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Post by: Ranadok on 12-01-2004 03:09
 
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EDIT: But what does that matter? Valve just released a free HL2 DM mod along with the SDK!    :D

Which promptly killed all games using the Source engine, including HL2 itself! Yay! The bug will likely be fixed by morning, but for now, no HL2 for me    :( .  Oh, well. At least I finally beat the single player this afternoon.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 03:29
So CS: Source right? Is it a lot less smacktardy than the original? I may buy HL2 at some point as well. I think it'd run well on my PC, by the sounds of other PEELer's reports.
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Post by: Grim on 12-01-2004 04:32
Yay, HL2DM is pretty awesome, even if it just degenerates into filing cabinet wars.
Perhaps the gravity gun shouldnt be given as default?

still lots of fun tho
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Post by: CyberKnight on 12-01-2004 05:19
 
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Yay, HL2DM is pretty awesome, even if it just degenerates into filing cabinet wars.

And?  :p

"Taste death at the hands of my......"

*desperately looks around for something to throw*"

"TOILET!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

 :D

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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 12-01-2004 06:12
 
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  Pah, High Shadows, Reflect All, 1280x1024, High Texture Detail, High Models.....   :p

Congratulations, though.    :) Boy, your mail service sure took their sweet time   :hmpf:.
It wasn't Irish mail, I rang them up and they said they've had loads of complaints, but they explained they weren't getting any of the things from Britain until a week after dispatched.
Doesn't Royal Mail break down every December?  :p

As for high graphics (Nyah!), I said in the buying thread, I might get a Radeon x800 PRO, but I think I'll try to OC my FX 5600 first, Coolbits awaayyy!!
I looked in my case too and there was a laod of dust fuzz in its fan...  :hmpf:
So I closed up those PCI slots in the back panel.

Get DM off Steam, do I? Buggy, is it?
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Post by: CyberKnight on 12-01-2004 06:32
 
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Doesn't Royal Mail break down every December?   :p

Something that's not fixed can't be broken any more.  :p

 
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As for high graphics (Nyah!), I said in the buying thread, I might get a Radeon x800 PRO

That'd probably be your best bet for HL2. To be honest I wouldn't justify going for a top-of-the-range card anyway (I doubt I will). The performance edge you get isn't worth a 25% price jump.

 
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Get DM off Steam, do I? Buggy, is it?

Yep. And possibly. I've only played LAN games at the moment.

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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 06:34
Must be pretty nice feeling when you nail a camper over the head with an object though.

If that happens, please take a screenie.
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Post by: Jade_Gryphon on 12-01-2004 06:43
The only game i'm looking forward to right now is Conker: Live and Reloaded for the Xbox. I loved the N64 one, and this version looks nothing short of amazing. Although, I'm still a little peeved that they gave Conker these really ass-ugly puke green and yellow shorts. But...erm...other than that minor flaw, the few screenshots I've seen of it, I was impressed by. Just hope the folks at Rare do a better job on it than on that godawful Grabbed By The Ghoulies game. Good lord. No offense if any of you liked it...but geh. -_-;
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Post by: Nurdbot on 12-01-2004 06:52
Ooh? what will we expect to see in this new Conker? I enjoyed Conker on the N64.
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Post by: ~FazeShift~ on 12-01-2004 07:37
 
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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
That'd probably be your best bet for HL2. To be honest I wouldn't justify going for a top-of-the-range card anyway (I doubt I will). The performance edge you get isn't worth a 25% price jump.
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Quoth teh ~FazeShift~ from buying thread:
I find it un-hilariously ironic that HL2 is running sweet, and if it starts raining in Vice City or I drive through a bit of fog, I get a crappy FPS of 15...   :mad:
In short, there's gotta be a bottleneck/heat problem with my PC, gotta do sumthin!
Is the X800 PRO upper meduim range?