LadyCrimson

System Shock2 is the most fright-shock game I ever played. :ph34r:

Yeah, HL1, mid-late 1998. http://www.avault.com/REVIEWS/review_temp.asp?game=half The 'story/atmosphere' gushing is on page 2 of that review. And this one isn't so into the 'story' angle but does title their article with the word revolutionary. hehe http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife/review.html Most of the reviews I'd read at the time were in magazines, not the net.

I remember that too...you're not crazy. In fact, that's why I bought the first Half-Life...(I don't typically buy shooters)...cause all the reviews in magazines made it sound like a FPS with a brain and lots of story-atmosphere, or something.

Their commercials are funny. You really like that

You guys post links to some weird stories, and that one's one of the tops.

That sure would buy a lot of pizza, Dew, and video games.

Mount the camera over the peephole. If you can see out the peephole, so can a camera. If there's enough light outside your front door to at least get a grainy picture, that is.

The graphics in SH:Crusader don't seem to support my screenshot vision so this is the best I could do for a siege picture. You can see a few guys on fire, and the laddermen on the right who managed to get against my wall...the macemen in the middle got up those ladders and onto my walls, which made for fun mayhem. But I still 'won', of course. Computer AI is always very short of the "I" part, even when you give them the advantage. :cool:

Guess I'm the only one who thinks the HDR/Bloom makes it seem like you're viewing the graphics through a vaseline coated soft-focus but well lit lens. :D

The Davinci Code. W/reviews, I expected to dislike it, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Again, haven't raed the book, maybe that helps. It does start a bit slow, so if you're the type where the first 15 minutes affects how you feel about a movie, probably not for you. The ending and some of the 'surprises' were a bit weak and predictable even w/out the foreknowledge of having read the novel, but I thought it had decent pacing and suspense...not action/scary suspense, just the drama kind suspense. Thought it told it's story fairly well. Could've been 15 minutes or so shorter, and Tom Hanks seemed like he was on acting-auto-pilot but anyway, I liked it and didn't feel bored.

It's not just the store pricetag that makes a lot of stuff expensive to me. I'ev spent a lot of money on stuff that was a good deal in the long run and a little money on stuff that felt like a ripoff.

Cheap rickety parts in expensive yet disposable hardware, perhaps? Maybe we're unlucky, but I've also noticed it in DVD-theater players lately.

I used to have a lot of pipedream goals and ambitions. Then I realized I had neither the personality or the drive to accomplish them, and now I'm just happy to be....well, happy, whatever it is I'm doing. It's the little things that make me content, and most of those I already have or have done. I wouldn't mind building a massive non-profit housepet shelter for pets & wild animals that does not ever put the animals 'to sleep' (there'd have to be a limit to new admissions of course, but I'd want that to number to be HUGE, not just a few hundred). But I don't think that's going to happen. :D

If one has the seat reclined back enough to steer with one's feet, how does one see out the window?

I knew there was a reason I didn't like RealPlayer. Personally I'd add QuickTime to that list...tho I haven't tried it in a little while.

I remember reading a lot of good things about G. Fandango...but never bought it, not my type of game really. And I think I'm one of the few who doesn't generally mind that old games run faster. Guess I don't play games that are really affected much...even stuff like DK1, the extra speed doesn't bother me at all. The imps run a little faster and are harder to grab, that's it. I get used to it and then it seems normal. Doom1 was a little hard to control the view-swing but still fine. But I don't play any ancient side-scrollers or anything.

I have 9 games installed on my PC at the moment and I switch back and forth between them all...which means I make very little progress in stuff like Oblivion. Games don't affect your attention span, oh no. :D (that's a joke...)

This is a bit off-topic, but has anyone else had problems with their DVD-rom RW drive not even noticing that some game CD-roms are inserted? ie, the drive spins the disc a while then falls silent, no error message, no nothing...just doesn't see the disc. If I re-insert it several times it'll eventually notice. It's not the disc itself, cause I can put in the plain vanilla CD-rom drive in the older PC and it runs just fine. Sometimes I think DVD drives are a bit more...picky.

It's been a couple years since the 58K modem days but I remember websurfing with images turned off as more and more people loaded up huge images without thought. Pain in the arse.

Posts like these make me glad I'm on broadband. Failing compression, you could have made them attachments... I've been trying to get some decent skirmish castle siege shots of Crusader but no luck so far.

Well, according to that picture, it actually does fill up the entire width of your screenshot. Your screen seems oddly tall compared to it's width, however.

Silver (or white, it's pretty much white...)...orange/copper, and blue.

Some drama/character study called Winter Passing. Funny, it was one of those films where you're so bored you're about to fall asleep and yet you don't get up to go do something else. Or maybe it was just cause my back hurt and the couch was comfy. At any rate...it's a really weird, slow, plodding film with a main character that I just couldn't relate to at all. Ed Harris is always fun to watch tho.

I find all such movies a little superficial... :ph34r: