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Can you not play Oblivion in 3rd person on the X-Box? I can do it on my PC

Which game would you want to try out? I'm thinking CMBB would be the one to pique my fancy. I'm vaguely familiar with the game as I did play the BO demo when it came out. I was a Close Combat fan though, so I sort of forgot about this one. I'm game for the clean slate as well, as it would make for some interesting manouvers in the way of mistakes costing us bigtime :D One thing I liked about Close Combat was setting up your units from an allocation pool. I wasn't sure if the CM games had that or not in the campaign, which had me somewhat hesitant way back in the day. I'll be in and out of this thread for the moment, as I try out the CMBB demo.

I noticed that the two sequels, Afrika Korps and Barbarossa to Berlin are 30% off if you use Direct Download

Angry Eldar brings up good points, so don't let it get you down

I think this is why he called them elitists. If games "should have moved on" as you say, then why is Diablo 2 easily one of the better selling PC games of all time? Ironically, it's the gameplay of Diablo that is its charm, whether or not you like to admit it. It's not the most complex game in the entire world, but that's part of its charm. Don't like Diablo? Fine. Don't go around saying what gameplay "should" be, when it is obvious that many people disagree with you. If people didn't want this "poor" gameplay, they wouldn't buy it.

What are the Combat Mission games like? I played a demo of it once, a looong time ago. I did enjoy it. Anyone out there recommend for or against purchasing it?

I believe the Oilers will have had 8 straight days off. I'm not too worried about the flu bothering them anymore.

You hate it so much that it's one of your favourite games ever.

Wow. Talk about the conspiracy theorists

May you die a horrible, horrible death.

I think you can replace Americans and Canadians with human beings.

Yes really. I'm not even sure how AMD could make a processor that didn't want to work with an nVidia chipset anyways. If anything it would be the motherboard that did it.

Well that was a fun little action romp. Good times good times!

That's all he'd need

AMD would lose money in the long run if nVidia didn't run their games properly. You can run an ATI card fine on a computer with an nVidia chipset. Why?

Heh, why? Only if nVidia fans were so adamant to not use AMD chips for some stupid reason.

When a game comes with tools specifically designed with the intent of allowing users to create their own stories (like NWN), it probably results in them depending somewhat on mods. Although I didn't actually play too many mods for NWN. I played Shadowlords/Dreamcatcher and that was about it. No PW either.

I'm too lazy to go back, but I think I said Buffalo/Edmonton. Hopefully we're fully recovered from that annoying Flu bug!

Heh, I guess when you put it like that

Which is why we haven't been recommending NWN purely for the fact that you CAN have mods. But rather that there ARE good mods. I didn't bother commenting on The Opera or Action Half-Life when recommending Half-Life, because they weren't worth it IMO. In some people's mind, Counterstrike alone justified a purchase of Half-Life, and they didn't even bother playing Half-Life or anything else. Just CS.

That's what I'm thinking too. Except that I didn't really stalk anybody in the Opera level. .

I'd be surprised if they just dropped support. It sounds more like a consolidation of capital to help get fabs. I'd imagine they will use graphics cards as an alternative source of income as well, sold under the ATI name.

I don't do anything half assed I also wanted to play with my new toys. My M4 was pimped out like crazy. A lot easier to go through if you aren't being clandestine. I'm going through to get Silent Assassin ratings on all of them now.

If you don't want to judge something that is part of the intended use of the program in question, then fine. If it makes you feel any better to give the game a C, knock yourself out. Don't criticize other people for considering things like that. If you don't consider it value added, fine. I'm not about to stop suggesting a game that has a kickass mod for it, so there's no sense in you telling me how you feel games should be rated. I told people that if they got Half-Life, they could look forward to a kickass mod and get more bang for their buck. And I'll tell people about other future mods for their game purchasing decisions.