Mr_Putter

The first and better one is on the PC and the PS2, and the second one is just on PC. I found the second one kind of stale, but the first one is one of my favorite games. It's really more of a cult PC series, and I'm guessing it was not very popular because it features a female lead, it isn't your traditional WW2/sci-fi type shooter, and was unfortunately released only a few months after the similar and more popular Perfect Dark.

I hated it at first, but after a couple hours and when I figured out what's going on, it's actually really fun now (and nobody's cheating yet so it's very easy to excel).

Its out; go play.

Euthanize The Simpsons. Please, I beg of you. It's hard to believe it is the same show it was 20 years ago, and in most ways it isn't. Despite the Simpsons family characters going by the same name, all of them are completely different as characters. Homer has gone through about 4 radical personality changes since it started, and the rest have changed too. There's almost no humour in the show, and they have exhausted all possibilites of the characters (including almost every notable Biblical story, tall tale, piece of literature, historical story etc.) Cancel it, its done. I would have said Family Guy too, but I watched the episode on Sunday and it was impressively funny. Not a lost cause yet, I suppose, even though there have been some seriously bad episodes since it came back from cancellation a few years back.

Doesn't the RROD only hit Xbox's sold before like June 2007 or something? All of the new ones have been fixed haven't they? The rate is much lower, but they still get RROD.

I think BF1942 was a blast and the most playable. BF2 was also amazing because it added all those sweet extras (medals, leaderboards etc.). Both of them had OK shooter mechanics, sorta broken at times though. Plus, the vehicles in BF2 were much too overpowered, I felt. I actually thought BFV should have been the best in the series. It had the best vehicles and maps, but it suffered from being poorly optimized and the teams were completely unbalanced. Now that I have a better computer, I would really love to go back and play BFV though (and the other two as well :)).

24 players, 3 maps, regening health, unlimited ammo, every class having anti-tank weaponry...would be neat on a console, but who cares about a small graphics ungrade if you're regressing in every other way? Answer, probably a few hundred thousand people, unfortunately.

Finished World of Goo. It was OK, but I think it's praise is a bit out of proportion. It had really great production values, but the puzzling wasn't anything exceptional. I've played equal and greater puzzle games along similar lines that came out years before. Definately worth the $15 I paid (it's about 10 hours long), and good humor, but it's another case of an overly excitable and vocal cult following. Trails 2 also got 10 hours of play out of me, and I think I'm about done for now. It's super addicting, but once it gets to the levels that would take potentially days to master, it just isn't worth it anymore. Great value, though, at $2.50. X-Com was seriously amazing though. For $3.75 I got more than 30 hours of the best classic PC gaming there is. It's old ('93) and has a crippling learning curve (without some heavy help from the internet and the manual, it's near impossible at the start even on Beginner), but this is rightly remembered as one of PC gamings finest classic games. IGN called it the best PC game of all time a few years ago, and while I think that may be overboard, it really is amazing. Way ahead of it's time and so undeniably PC-focused, it's a great feeling to play this game when so many games appearing on PC these days are designed with consoles in mind. Now playing CoD2 on Veteran.

This comes up ad nauseum in video games forums and circles, and the answer I've come up with is that it really doesn't matter one iota. An arbitrary label doesn't cheapen or enhance the experience, so I don't really care to be honest.

Alan Wake, Diablo 3 and the first Starcraft 2 game are the only ones I'm surely going to get at release, but there's also a good chance I'll get Alpha Protocol aswell. Also, if I happen to have a PS3 by then, I'd really like to see if Heavy Rain ends up as good as I hope.

I have the one you showed. It is OK (I think I bought it for BF:Vietnam), but mine doesn't work anymore because I left it in a cupboard and it got clogged with dust. I can't say I'd absolutely suggest it, but I don't regret what I paid (I think 20-30 at Staples). I actually had a pretty easy time with helicopters, in BF:V anyway, and I was OK with planes with KB+M. Getting the joystick improved my fighter jet skill more than my helicopter skill.

I bought World of Goo, Trials 2 and X-com on Steam. I started out playing mostly Trials, but now I'm really into Xcom. I guess I need to get farther into WoG b/c right now it's far, far too easy. I recently played The Orange Box (Portal and Ep2), Bioshock, GTAIV and Psychonauts. All were good, none were amazing. Bioshock was probably the best among them (and I say that with the full understanding that it is very, very derivative). Ep2 was solid but overly familiar, Portal's main levels were too easy and it's become the Anchorman of videogames (overquoted to hell) so I knew most of the punchlines, Psychonauts was strong but it lost a lot of it's humor in the second half, and GTAIV was a decent game, just a poor GTA game.

That's because it goes by the developers Minimum and Recommended specs which are frequently inaccurate. I have often played games just fine with less than minimum specs, and have barely been able to play other games with better than recommended specs.

Hot Pursuit is pretty good, but High Stakes has pretty much everything HP had and much more, so it's my favorite. Porsche Unleashed was pretty good aswell, and I haven't put much time into any since then. It seemed to go in a different direction that I didn't really like too much.

I just watched Enemy at the Gates last week. I don't know if anyone here has seen that movie and played Call of Duty 1 recently, but the first few Russian missions in COD1 and the first 15 minutes of that movie are exactly the same. Clearly COD copied it (having come out after), but had it been the other way around it would be a wonderfully faithful adaptation. :). That said, games should be moving towards their own storytelling style that links it to the gameplay, and some of the best examples of storytelling in games already do that (mostly RPG's). I think there could be some pretty good action movies made out of the best linear shooters/action games, however I doubt we will be seeing genuinely amazing movie adaptations in of any sort of dramatic movie any time soon. The maturity and quality of most (not all) games is just still not very high.

Those are sales numbers. For one week. In the UK.

GTA: SA only because after I finished the main story I still wanted to be in San Andreas, and doing all the extra missions seemed like the logical next step. Usually I just go to the credits and then never start the game up again (until I decide to play it some years later). If it has multiplayer I might give that a go but it almost never does much for me. I'm well beyond the time where I can afford to spend time lollygagging if I still want to play as many games as I do.

Only person here who gets it.

In that video where they play both in unison...sounds better than either one alone.

I just finished STALKER for the second time. I had been looking for Word one day when I was doing my homework and I accidentally clicked on the STALKER icon and it started up magically without the CD in the drive. So I just decided to play the whole damn thing :|. Pretty wierd, since I rarely replay games twice in a row (though the last time I finished this was in May, I just haven't played any games since then). I think I actually enjoyed it more this time because I wasn't so disoriented and could just explore. In taking my time I found just how much attention to detail there is in this game, matched only by the very best AAA titles. It's just a shame the story is nonsense and there are some fundamental design flaws. This would be one of the best games ever if the design was rejiggered in some areas, but instead its only quite good.

That's capitalism, and that's what our nations have decided is best. It might be the only working system as it relies on peoples own greed and self-interest in an attempt to maintain structure. It's not perfect, but its all we got.

^^^I've played and read about a lot of PC games and spent much time in PC game circles, and I can honestly say I've never heard of any of those. Finally someone else who gets this game. I've played many of the games mentioned by others (and many of them among my top 10), but this one is easily at the top. Others that haven't been mentioned: Max Payne 2 (near-perfect in everything it does), and Warcraft III. WC3 is the sort of game that has layers: it's extremely accessible and many played it for a short time in 4v4 team games or a lot of DOTA, but you can only truly appreciate this game in more serious 1v1 and 2v2 matches. That's where this game shines above all other RTS games, including AoE2. The balance, the attention to detail, the variety and the refined features make it much better than similar games, but the heros/RPG elements are really what make this pretty well unmatchable. I can hardly even play traditional economy/military RTS anymore because so many of them seem to encourage turtling and avoidance. They don't encourage engaging foes and taking damage because there's no benefit, and this is particularly noticable when you are on even footing unit wise. Because they discourage confrontation they get in the way of the intense micromanagement which is really what makes this game so amazing to experience. Its in a whole higher class than Starcraft, and people would probably realise that if they set nostalgia aside.

I've been following this for some time, but I figured like most mods it would never get done. With this trailer it now seems pretty certain it will, and I'll probably have to give this one a go when it is done. From the trailer it looks pretty much up to Valve themselve's standards.

You can get a PS3 for regular price and get $150 cash back when you sign up for a Playstation Visa (essentially, that's a $250 PS3). http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/24/get-your-own-playstation-credit-card/

I should just point out that .