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I call BS

oh, I see. a tragic story

pretty friggin' awesome

no caps? something is terribly wrong

Midnight Club Dub was the best

a lot of people like driving games, anything wrong with that?

I can't play any of the games I have on Steam without logging into Steam first, if for some reason Steam won't let me log in, I can't play the game period. this alone is enough to hate it. and then there's the constant updating of the friggin' client. currently, with only 2 games installed (Alien Swarm and AA3), my Steam folder weights at almost 9 GB. the only reason I don't delete Steam completely is the fact that I have a couple of friends there that I don't want to lose contact with, I play AS with them occasionally. this is yet another reason why Steam just isn't for me

sweet

whoa, Raise Dead I'll get back to it some day, just need to finally disassemble my laptop and fix that cooler

I didn't mean games that I own on Steam, I meant games that I own, that can be bought through Steam. like I said I hate Steam and I only use it to play games that were gifts or that require Steam to run at all.

well, the games that I play, Steam versions are incompatible with any other content for this game, procured anywhere else. so I figured it could be the same for any game on Steam. I had no idea DLCs weren't distributed through Steam. god, I hate Steam

what patching? Bioware is done with DA2, aren't they? anyway, what happens with future DLCs in such case?

a pretty poor attempt, I must say

good point anyway, presumably, gamers channel all their anger or whatever, after they're done with the game they don't have any aggression left in them

scientists say/research shows, that people who play violent video games tend to be less violent in real life, as a rule.

you're crazy. the only game better than OFP was R6 Rogue Spear. even Ghost Recon wasn't as good. I mean, Bad Company plays exactly like OFP, only the AI is stupid, and the maps are linear. I never played ArmA, but ArmA2 has a weak single player campaign, so I could understand how somebody would have dropped it. still, the stuff you can do with the engine, some of the user-made cooperative missions are very intense, and BF or CoD could never even get close to that. the AI is smart. they flank you, they use everything they have at their disposal, they use suppressing fire. on top of that one bullet can easily kill you, so you have to be cautious. you can't just take cover and regenerate health. for example, there is this mission where you need to take over a town. there are enemy troops in there, some vehicles, there's also a radio tower, unless you destroy it with satchel charges, the enemy will be receiving constant reinforcements. if you get shot your pals will have 5 minutes to patch you up, or else you'll bleed to death. so you have to stick close to your group, scout out enemy vehicles and stationary defenses, call in an air strike or get a bunch of AT guys and provide fire support, get close to the tower, destroy it, eliminate the opposition and finally sack the town. you cannot do this alone, under no circumstances. compare that to the "kill a wave of enemies, proceed to the next checkpoint, watch a cutscene, rinse and repeat" routine. ArmA2 is easily the best military shooter out there, most people just don't have the patience to get used to the controls and UI.

and what's that thing on his left shoulder? I remember seeing it on the Codex as a smiley

I'm surprised you didn't use his real name

not at all, that's what puzzles me. your desire to completely ignore it

they're not silly. unless you mean you're the person by whom intelligence is measured, and everything you find silly is silly by default

it's more subtle, more "keen", if you must. I can't agree it was "funny-er", different kinds of funny

I played Fallout 2 first. the game blew me away, I decided to try Fallout 1 (against my friend's advice, he thought the first game was inferior). and it really disappointed me. I haven't replayed Fallout 1 since 2000, so I might be forgetting something, but my impression was not too different from what I'd seen in Fallout 2 (if we take the setting). frankly, I found a lot of FO2's jokes very funny. I think that kind of approach to making the game suited it more, being borderline ridiculous but at the same time serious, that's how I see my Fallout

oh I understand it alright. I just don't agree. getting back to DLCs, I wish they were designed as stand-alone games, like mini add-ons or something, I have no desire to level up a new char from scratch just to play a through a short adventure(s)

yeah, a mutated plant and a deranged scientist who likes to put glasses on his test subjects sure hurt the setting... and all the references simply destroyed it