Nick_i_am

The fun in achevements is in getting them. 'Grinding' achevements can go screw a rock, but the good ones are those that encorage you to play in a way you wouldn't otherwise consider or a way that pushes your skills to the limit. I don't care about the boast potential, but thinking of them as extra objectives that increase the playability of a game is the right way to aproch these. A good exacmple is the 'pacifist' achevement in Geo Wars, which 'rewards' you by simply staying alive for a set amount of time, likewise the 'Dot Eater' from Ikaruga. Conversly, CoD4 had pretty boring achevements, 70% of them were either 'complete this level' or 'complete this level on this diff', both of which I would do anyway in my standard playthroughs of a game. Gamerscore/boasting is irrelivent, but if you don't like the extra objectives then nobody is forcing you to play them, dissing the system as a whole seems pointless.

You misspelled coop.

I've got a friend who swears that VC is the best, despite being the 'least popular' for the same reasons.. I didn't play it much back in the day, but looking back I can see what you both mean.

Yeah, the 22 is top-teir at dogfighting, long range AA and the SOD is easily good enough for most bombing missions. I never really used it much though, for some reason, perfering the 33 or 37. For the PC I perfer WW2 flight sims and space sims, as it happens. I cut my teeth on them, but the platform is dead.

Looks like we have a winner, I went for the 22, Llyranor for the 33, because the third member of our idiot squad stole the Rafale.

I probably should have made this into a poll or somthing. Ooops. Still, it looks like the Rafale is winning.

You make a good point, D_N, you make a good point.

It's a tossup, I can't choose between this custom Rafale M And this custom F-22 While the 22 has, stealth and slightly better stats, save for defence i'm not a big fan of the aircraft itself. In favour of the Rafale, it has SAAM (Semi active missles, long range AA) so it basically comes down to those vs QAAMs (Quick manover missles, short range highly accurate AA). In terms of colour sceme, both stand out like a sore thumb and fire missles that do the same, so no problem there. Please help me guys, I just can't decide!

*I'M* getting tired of you insulting and baiting Anne Coulter.

Yeah, multiplication is a whole different kettle of fish.

I've pirated a game I would have otherwise have bought, so that's a lost sale so you fail.

I too want GTA4 so I can play Wii-sports on my 360.

Yeah! Realtime is awsome!

Shh, don't use logic and previous experience as the basis of your arguments, that's not fair.

Yeah, you having sex was an image we wanted too I mean...tell us more.

rofl @ warm coffee

Piracy doesn't hurt book sales either!

haha, burn.

I know what i'd spend all day doing then.

Good job earning your achevements! No, really!

A squaddie friend of mine refit his Land Rover 'Monty' to run on cooking oil. Would get it free from the local chippy then purify it, and it ran as well as it ever did. And yeah, smelt nicer.

10/10 for flamebait it's not perfect, but it's the best at what it does.

I'm in. fo sho. I'll do biomedic if nobody else wants it.

Bling, the keychain was 'bling'. Lurn 2 gangsta.

The 'have to be online to play HL2' thing was pretty freaking dumb, and you're right, HL2 was priced as a 'normal' game, but on the flip side I had the satisfaction of knowing that the profits were going to the people who actually made it rather than the people who printed the crappy box art. My issue is more with people who refuse to use DD simply on principle. Like those who'd refuse to play a console game 'on principle' or those who'd refuse to eat japanese food 'on principle'. Not that it's really an issue, i'm just a bitter old fart.