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Darth Barth
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Well, I have seen people actually cry from losing a dagger in WoW.
People need to get lives or something. Its a good thing many of those caught in MMO havent really discovered better living through chemistry.
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I haven't played RE4, but many people seem to think it's the best game ever released on the Cube, and the best game in the series.
And I'm willing to bet a solid 75% of those people never played an RE until they got their hands on RE4.
I think you are crazy for not liking RE4. By the time RE0 came out, I was tired of the series, just plain bored of it all. Even Silent Hill has started to become old hat. Scary moments tend to be ones you cannot predict and are unprepared for, RE4 delivered that for me.
Are you channeling ender?
I NEVER said I didn't like it :angry:
I said it wasn't a survival horror game.
It's a dumbed down, baby game with no challenge.
It plays as a decent action movie... but it's crap as far as a "survival horror" game goes. No horror, and no "survival".
Ah. I see your point on it being somewhat easy. Not so much on the horror part, though.
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I haven't played RE4, but many people seem to think it's the best game ever released on the Cube, and the best game in the series.
And I'm willing to bet a solid 75% of those people never played an RE until they got their hands on RE4.
I think you are crazy for not liking RE4. By the time RE0 came out, I was tired of the series, just plain bored of it all. Even Silent Hill has started to become old hat. Scary moments tend to be ones you cannot predict and are unprepared for, RE4 delivered that for me.
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It sounds like a power supply issue and that would be the easiest thing to test. If you dont have another system to swap with or dont have a friends you can borrow, get a 300w from Comp and use that to fire it up.
Also, unlplug everything except the cpu and fan, ram and video card. Use just what is needed to start computer up. If your modem, for example, died out it would cause a no post/no beep situation similar to what you are describing. If you still dont get post after that with a new or known good power supply, you've got the potentially bad parts narrowed down.
EDIT: Oh, and clear your cmos just in case.
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Star Control 2, biatches!
The mod music in SC2 was fantastic!
System Shock 2 also had some nice tracks. TTLG has some music here.
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For NES I'd have to go with the Castlevania 2 and Batman soundtracks. Soundtracks ripped from the NES games come as an .nsf file. To play these you need Winamp and an NSF plug-in (Direct download).
Batman and Castlevania .nsfs (among others ) here.
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I agree that this movie is awesome. It was very well done. Not just a good Batman movie but a good movie period.
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I have been on the net for about ten years and one things that I have noticed, especially over the last few years is the amount of computer snobs out there. They constantly bash consoles and yell "PC's are superior because _______".
I honestly ask, what the hell is the difference if a game is on a console or a PC? I know some will say the graphics are much better, and this is true if you can afford to buy the latest 800$ video cards all the time. However most of us are not trust fund babies and can't do this. I have the distinct feeling that the "consolze R fer losers" crowd really just want to feel good about their 2000 dollar investment and their elitist attitude has little to nothing to do with the games.
Several thoughts on why people claim PCs are superior
- Graphics, control and sound are almost always better. Better framerate, higher resolution, whatever, PC usually offers that. You claim $800 video card is needed to get this kind of performance, but when XBox was released my friend bought a Geforce 4600 Ti for about $250. About six months later I purchased an even faster Radeon 9600 Pro for $200. There was and is a big difference between PS2/Gamecube/Xbox graphics and PC. The only time this is not true is when the console is first released. Within months, PCs close the gap.
- Modability. Games can be altered on the computer. Some games like NWN and Morrowind, become entirely different (and better) games with improved textures, environmental sounds, higher quality models and smoother animation. Other games, can be totally remade by fans for a new experience.
- Online multiplayer. Efforts have been made on the part of console manufacturers and game developers to get this right. Up until Xbox Live, this has usually been a clunky and frsustrating experience. On computer, onine play has been refined over many years and is in almost all cases, easy to use.
- Emulation. Sure PS2 has backwards compatiblity. But so does my computer. I can play almost every game ever released on my Windows XP computer, regardless if it was for DOS, Mac, Amiga, Commodore, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Master System, arcade, Playstation, Saturn, and many, many other systems. The only games I cannot play at the time are (mostly) PS2, Gamecube and Xbox games. Expect that to change in the near future as the new consoles come out.
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I thought that trailer was awful. That said, I want to see more of the game. Hopefully, the game doesn't use the music in the trailer.
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Since almost everyone here has a phobia of 1st person RPGs..
Lands of Lore CD - 80% - I remember being blown away by the opening "cinematic"
Lands of Lore 2 - 65% - Started off with a great premise...
Lands of Lore 3 - 78% - Almost as good as the first game. Loved the guild system.
Eye of the Beholder - 60% - Not exactly Dungeon Master but close.
Eye of the Beholder 2 - 81% - Awesome presentation, nice challenge.
Eye of the Beholder 3 - ??? - Never got more than 30 minutes in.
Wizardry 1 - 40% - I loved it when I was in grade school.. it has not aged well.
Wizardry 2 - 30% - Only worth a "once through" to say you played it.
Wizardry 3 - 30% - It had neat little pictures in the manual. Graph paper sales started to go up this time in the 80's.
Wizardry 4 - 20% - Exciting premise 20 years ago. You are the bad guy? Rad! Ultimately, boring as hell and too difficult for its own good.
Wizardry 5 - 55% - Modern Wizardry begins to take bloom...
Wizardry 6 - 65% - ... and picks up steam along the way... (all for a pen?! Whoa!)
Wizardry 7 - 78% - ... and finally peaks here! Dark Savant is bad!
Wizardry 8 - ??? - Never played. At all. I know.
Wizards and Warriors - 70% - Not the NES game, duh! Good fun, but way too easy.
Might and Magic 1 - 60% - Much more involving than Wiz at the time.
Might and Magic 2 - 69% - Getting better!
Might and Magic 3 - 73% - Bigger, better, mo' beautiful! Yummy.
Might and Magic 4 - 73% - The goodness has continued. Nice story, too!
Might and Magic 5 - 73% - Again good plot, graphics and music!
Might and Magic 6 - 70% - After years of waiting, a nice continuation.
Might and Magic 7 - 73% - Turned off by graphics but got sucked in by Scavenger Hunt.
Might and Magic 8 - 65% - Neat NPCs but some really crappy quests.
Might and Magic 9 - 40% - Pretty on outside, ugly on inside.. lowpoint of the M&Ms.
Elder Scrolls 1: Arena - 65% - Very fun gameplay.. but crap quests and zero plot.
Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall - 70% - Buggy! But drastic and awesome gameplay change from Arena.
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind - 68% - Good game. Very sandboxish. Better quests. Not the dialogue I expect nowadays. After fan mods and expansions, rating jumps to 78%
Anvil of Dawn - 70% - Nice fun adventure with pretty graphics.
Descent to Undermountain - 40% - Not good by any means, but nowhere near as bad as its made out to be.
Thats enough for right now.
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All I know is that if you implement a "Dialogue Combat" system, there better be a Rage bar that builds on the NPCs because if in real life someone was spamming "humorous joke" or some crap I'd punch him in his pie hole.
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I've played Warcraft 3 actually and I have to say, it seemed pretty much like Age of Empires except mytholygical (sp?) like. I enjoyed it quiet a bit though despite it's similarity to AOE. Granted, I never played the online portion of it but it seemed like it might be good.
The online portion is insignifigant to my point. The games are 100% different. As different a game as Rogue Squadron is to KOTOR.
Also, where did I say that those people who said that MMORPG sucked keep playing them? And also, money isn't a huge concern. It's just, when I play on Xbox Live I know I'm paying $50 a year to play tons of games online plus the ability to talk PLUS download content.That is true. But the tons of games you have to buy to play on Live, correct? Part of my point was that a good online game can actually cost less because you don't buy new games to play.
MMORPG you pay way more a year to play just one game that doesn't have talking but does have download content. If you ask me, I'd just feel like I was ripped off compared to what I get for Live. Although not many MMORPG interest me anyway. The only ones I'd want are WoW and Star Wars Galaxies.(although I hear the Star Wars one was a HUGE disapointment)Cost per year depends on how many games you buy. Say if you buy only one new game per month to play on Live. $50 for new game multiplied by 12.. That is $600/year minus Live subscription. Compare that to $50 for WoW new + $180/year WoW subscription + $300 for a new Xbox game every other month = $530/year minus Live subscription.
If WoW lets you try a free trial of it then sure, I might do that sometime but I doubt I'm going to want to spend $14 a month for one game. That's just me though.I hear you on that. To be honest, I wouldn't have bought WoW day one had I not been in the beta (learned my lesson from Galaxies). Since I was in beta though, I had a good idea how well the game played. If the game ever does come with a trial, give it a whirl.
There is Guild Wars, completly free.And yes, there is always Guild Wars which I hear is fantastic. I still need to pick it up. It seems to have what I look for in an online game.
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Although there are a truckload of RPGs for PS2, I could never really get into many of them. The only ones I could really point out would be Digital Devil Saga and Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land.
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Well, I personally recomend NOT getting a MMORPG. Why you ask? Well let's see.
1) Most of these online only games cost, what, about $14 a month. That's ontop of whatever internet you already have. (which has to be highspeed/broadband if you're considering a MMORPG)
If money is a concern, then don't play. $15 dollars a month to me is perfectly reasonable for a fun game. In fact, if the game is fun enough you might save money . Every time I am involved in an online MMO I only purchase games that I know I want to play. Otherwise, I would spend more money to try out other new titles that just look interesting.
2) Plus, I hear from lots of people on the fourms I go to that, are they fun? Sure. $14 fun? No. I even hear some people say that they suck.Do these same people keep punching themselves in the crotch to see if it is going to hurt the next time? If the game isn't fun, why play it? More importantly, why take seriously someone who is obviously confused. If you asked if a movie was good and the person replied "It sucks. Im going to see it again", what would you say to them?
3) Why would you want to pay $14 a month just to play one game when you can play tons of other online games for free?Why play any new games when you can just play other games you have already purchased? Why go see a new movie or read a new book? I hope the answer is obvious.
If you ask me, it just doesn't make any sense to buy a MMORPG. You want Warcraft online, buy one of the Warcraft games and then play the online part for free. This is all just my opinon though, so it's really up to you if you want one or not.I understand its your opinion, but it doesnt sound like you've played even one of the Warcraft games to make a comment like that. You might as well not play any new Star Wars games because you played the arcade game in 1986.
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Okay, I was going to make a new thread, but I'd like to hear some of the guru's convicne me why the MMORPG they play is the one I should buy.
There is no real convincing... you'd have to at least try it to be certain. Also, people tend to forget that MMOs can be quit at any time. What I mean is that some games are just not fun for months and months and months on end.
My suggestion for a newcomer would be World of Warcraft. Why do I find it so fun?
1) The PvP and combat in general is very quick and exciting. Some other games combat is dull and plain tiresome. If you like furious combat above all else you may want to check out City of Heroes.
2) You can get something done in a 30 minute session. If you havent played MMOs before this might not sound like a big deal but it is. Some games like EQ and FFXI take forever to get anything done because of all the work involved to get a group together.
3) WoW is semi-soloable. If you never group up with anybody, you can take on everything in the game EXCEPT Instanced Dungeons. Instances have enemies that are much tougher than their level equals outside. Think of it as a Heart of Fury mode.
4) The questing system is actually tolerable. Make no mistakes, every MMO has a very bland questing system similar to Fed-ex type quests. Some games don't even attempt to hide this such as Horizons with such exhilirating orders as "Kill 10 maggots." WoW on the other hand does two things to help allieviate the doldrums these quests usually bring about. First, they mostly give you the option of which reward you want when you turn in the quest. And second, Blizzard has dressed up the quests alot. The quest text is almost always worth reading. Some quests have things going on in the gameworld (quick example, there is this relatively minor quest you go on where the last leg of it you have to take this charged crystal and invade a small hideout of cultists. Once you take care of the cultists, there is this beautiful spinning crystalline orb which you then use your charged crystal to destroy it. The orb actually spins oddly then shatters with a cool sound effect. Might not sound like much but its really cool in-game.)
5) The entire presentation is very slick. By this I mean both graphics and sound. Some games technically look better than WoW, but WoW has heart and soul. There is both style and substance. Audio effects are top-notch and the music is awesome (I love the Thunder Bluff music).
Parting advice: try to download a trial or play at a friends house first. If not, see as many movies of the game as you can and try to discern if the game will be fun for you.
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And here I thought you were a respectable gamer... <_<
I think you can redeem yourself easily, though. Aren't the old Indy games abandonware by now?
I played Pitfall (the original version). Does that redeem me somewhat? :ph34r:
By "original" you dont mean the one for PSX with the Bruce Campbell voicework, do you?
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All of the new consoles games look good.
Xbox 360 - some exclusive games from Mistwalker if you are into Japanese Adv/RPG games like Final Fantasy/Dragon Warrior + Halo and company
PS3 - will probably have a ton of exclusive games if the PS2 generation is any indicator
Nintendo - Zelda/Mario/Metroid/etc.. thats not a bad thing
About the only surprise to me is that none have included a seperate physics processor. Supposedly the next Unreal is going to have support for PPU, anyways...
My verdict is to forget all of these and upgrade your PC to an AMD X2 dual-core running SLI in about 6 months from now.
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By this I mean games which can be just as deep in gameplay as recent games (if not more) but have significantly older and more basic presentations, such as roguelikes and interactive fiction games. Do you feel the need to play more graphical games (in the sense that they must be extensively graphical), or can you abstract yourself from the presentation and just dive right into the gameplay?
Not necessarily. All I require in a game presentation is that the graphics (and sound/music) are not offensive or grating. Now if a game has no graphics or sound, like IF, thats fine.
In a way, your question can apply to movies and novels.
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I just looked up what Nintendos next system will be and this On thing is fake according to details released. The Nintendo Revolution will be backwards compatible with Gamecube games, so..
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Is that link supposed to point to Virtual Boy? I dont know about headache helmets but I will have to wait and see I suppose. I also remember seeing that camera for PS2 and I thought that doesnt seem very fun.
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To be honest, I am not entirely sure what I just saw. Nintendos next console will come with a VR helmet? OWD?
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Grossest one i've ever seen is called Animal Farm. No explanation needed you guys can figure it out for yourself
:'( :ph34r: was not nice.
How do you go out and rent something like that if you don't want to see it? What the hell did you think Animal Farm meant?
Oh, and as for weird sex partners...where's Ender.
He had a book report due and reading the book slipped his mind. The Adult Superstore was the only rental place open at 3:45 am the day of the report and the rest is history. I would have payed money to be in his class during his presentation.
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You just flipped the channel and got that? Normally that sort of thing is PPV.
Not in Sweden :D ..if you watch at midnight there's atleast 5 channels with nothing but good ol hardcore pornography.
As to the horror: The sound was... Imagine if you put a hypersensitive microphone inside the mouth of an 80yearold eating vanilla pudding and then played it back at 110 decibel.
You should record that to CD and play it in your car. Thats the kind of thing I play when I cruise the Strip.
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:'( :ph34r: 
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Uhh.. Velvet Crotch is mine.
My birth name nets me Liquid Fantasy.