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| News Comments > Red Orchestra Retail Blitz |
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Re: Bah Humbug! |
Apr 20, 2006, 12:40 |
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Damn, I felt bad because I bought it at BestBuy (clearly not the best buy in this case) for $29.95. But it can be bought via Steam (over the net) at $24.95. Good game though (at that price) and after my rant about the scope bug the other day I haven't had it since. 
Of course I have been spending time learning the other weapons and their weakness or strength. Not even attempting to learn the tank crew stuff yet. And on some of the maps I think they leaned too far toward historical accuracy instead of game-balance. That Russian anti-tank gun is a joke.
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| News Comments > Quake 4 Patch |
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Re: No subject |
Apr 20, 2006, 01:48 |
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Wondering how well this sold at retail? I see thirty to forty boxes on the bottom shelf at BestBuy for $29.95 and they don't seem to be going anywhere.
I enjoyed the first two and finished both. Two of maybe a dozen or so games I have actually finished. HL being one also.. though I never finished HL2 due to nausea the buggy section caused me. I'll admit some games are better left unfinished. And most games I buy today are not meant to be finished. Multi-player or MMO.
As long as I feel I got my moneys worth I am happy. Though I agree I would rather see some games shortened if that meant they would focus more on what they have, polish it up, and make the story-line tighter... but who am I kidding.
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| News Comments > Source Engine Patches |
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Re: Ads |
Apr 20, 2006, 01:19 |
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The match making ads I can take.. never grow tired of looking at hooters. But those invisible pop ups that activate when you click a link are a bit much. And most seem a bit less than legit or just retarded. As if anyone believes they will win a free 360 or a PS3 or anything for that matter.
Like my bro said "Not sure I'm interested in her. But I sure am interested in those!" 
Edit: Back to Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45... damn good multi-player game. Still has a few issues for them to iron out over the next few patches but over all very fun. And steep learning curve that is certain. I just spent a few more hours playing and I must say some of the maps really make the slower more realistic character movements shine. Excellent game play but not for the more twitch orientation gamer. This is more like Rainbow Six than Quake 2. Slower paced but one shot can kill. And most weapons are iron sights only. Never really played the free mod much so not sure how they compare. Any game where bunny-hopping is not built in is above average in my book.
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| News Comments > Source Engine Patches |
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Speaking of Steam... |
Apr 19, 2006, 20:51 |
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Just wondering how many people bought the Red Orchestra mod and what you thought of it? I know its supposed to be a full blown release but after playing it a few hours it doesn't feel like much more than a mod to me. Don't get me wrong I am happy to support modders by buying their mod but I was hopping by going retail that meant they worked out the bugs first.
The one that is kind of a deal breaker at the moment is the blacked out sniper scope bug. Now I don't always play sniper but when I do I want to be able to use the damned scope. As it is now it seems 90% of the time the scope is blacked out (not working).
Unless this mod is so hard core realistic that I am supposed to hit a button to remove the lens cap then I have to assume that its a bug.
Other than that this is a hard core spin on realism.. iron sights and all. And I can dig it to some extent just wishing it were a bit more polished.
Oh, one more thing. If you were planning on buying this for anything other than the multiplayer via internet don't bother. It has bots but they are old school Quake 1 type bots that shoot you from the corner of their eye as they break cover. Yet at other times they can't hit the side of a barn from two feet away. So don't buy it for the single player game because it ain't one... and you'll need to activate via Steam also.
Sorry, just my two cents.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: Linux snobs |
Apr 19, 2006, 19:09 |
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LoL, funny that but true.
About four or five years back I had a dual boot system with Redhat and Windows 98 (I think it was). I quickly became tired of it though. Since I am mainly a gamer I didn't find any bonus to learning (and suffering through) an operating system which seemed too much like DOS to me.
It may be a great server OS but I don't really need that here. Still the more competition the better.
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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China & Pirates? |
Apr 19, 2006, 13:13 |
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What do people expect from the poor? Hell, I'm not poor and I don't want to buy a legit copy of any of MS programs other than the four legal copies of XP I have running. The pricing on some of this stuff is just ridiculous, even the academic versions are sold way to expensive.
The other thing I was chuckling about is that China may be top of the list because they are so large a country and the problem is so wide-spread but other places are just as bad.
England has bootleg and pirated stuff in flea markets just as we do here in California. Same in Turkey & Greece. I can go down to the local Mexican flea market here and pick up a shaky-cam version of a movie just out in theatres.
Black marketing has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years... and it will remain.
This comment was edited on Apr 19, 21:12. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Like My Daughters Say.. Whatever! |
Apr 19, 2006, 01:04 |
Paranoid Jack |
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In August, Verizon created a new tier of service for $14.95 per month that included download speeds of 768kbps and an upload speed of 128kbps.
Out here in Cali we have been offering DSL up to 1536 down and 512 up at under $20 for years. Hell, its $12.95 locked in for a year right now. And for the price Verizon is asking for 786 we offer up to 3008 down 512 up... locked in for a year. Of course we the old Pacbell/SBC are now waving the new at&t flag since SBC bought the old AT&T.
Nobody else can touch that price around here. Comcast is trying to snag people with their $19.95 for three months before jacking up the price to $39.95. Last time I ask a rep she told me if you don't have their cable service the cable modem is $79.95. Talk about behind the times.
And the wireless companies are smoking crack around here claiming they are better than DSL/Cable because they got no wires. Big Woop! They got nothing over 1.5 either. Not to mention the price is so much higher they usually don't even give one during their radio ads.
Also all the new housing developments get fiber to the prem now. No more copper unless the development is already on the books. That started about six months ago. Would have happened sooner but it took years to get a bullshit reg over-turned at the PUC. They were allowing competitors to piggy-back on up to 60% of the network at 40% of the cost. Only a bunch of idiots would pass something like that. Why would any company spend billions so a competitor can use 60% of their network at 40% cost and not pay any of the up keep?
Since PacBell/SBC got that reg turned over at the PUC no competitors can piggy-back on the new fiber. That was one reason they stopped laying fiber several years back.
Damned PUCs are supposed to make competition better but all they do is screw things up more. Look at the cost of the power & gas ... sheesh!
This comment was edited on Apr 20, 01:58. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Previews |
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My Hopes Are Dying |
Apr 17, 2006, 00:19 |
Paranoid Jack |
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I had held onto some hope that GRAW for the PC could actually be a semi success and maybe return the series to the game-play of the original. But now I see that is most likely a snowball's chance in hell...
The part that killed my hope?
"GRAW looks, feels and controls nearly exactly like the recent Rainbow Six: Lockdown."
But after watching the video again I am still hopeful. Even if it looks a bit too arcade-ish.
This comment was edited on Apr 17, 00:42. |
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| News Comments > Dungeon Runners Beta |
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Not Always True |
Apr 16, 2006, 01:11 |
Paranoid Jack |
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"There's a reason they don't make the NES anymore. It's because people no longer want to play games that look like Dungeon Runners. We all recall fondly our atari 2600 days with 10 pixel stick figure characters, that is right until we try to play those old games on our emulator and realize they suck. There is no going back, graphics must continue to advance in order for games to continue to be fun, like it or not. Black and white movies were fine until people saw color movies , etc. The gameplay is important but so is the media. "
In some cases that may be true. But in more cases it comes down to the game-play. If Oblivion had slipped into Fall and no other game had anything to offer (that was of interest to me) I could have easily loaded up an old game like Fallout, Planescape:Torment, Diablo, or Baldur's Gate 2 and had just as much fun even though the graphics are dated or ancient in some cases.
Graphics are usually the attention grabber but once you get past that candy coating if there's nothing new... something that adds to the game-play... that game gets tossed aside as if the graphics were from the mid-nineties. Great graphics help to sell it and may even help to keep you submersed in the game-world but graphics do not a great game make.
Again there is a lot of opinion involved with everything. Some would even say the old black & white movies are so much better than the movies released today.
For me the game can have the latest greatest graphics but unless the game-play is solid I won't spend more than a dozen hours playing it. Again every person is different. Some find Oblivion lacking... though I say they need a good shrink.
This comment was edited on Apr 16, 01:17. |
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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D'oH! |
Apr 15, 2006, 19:17 |
Paranoid Jack |
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I bet our dumb-ass CEOs are wishing now they hadn't taken over the name when they bought the damned company piece by piece.
This is based on a true story, really. A year or two past...
[Tech pulls up in a white van with big blue SBC letters on the side and walks over to the phone terminal at the side of an apartment building some thirty feet from his van which is in clear view. He takes out his butset and starts to A&I a line.]
Guy on the sidewalk, "Hey, are you here to shutoff my cable?"
Tech,"No, I am not with Comcast."
Guy on the sidewalk, "Are you shutting off my power?"
Tech, [sighs] "I'm not with Pacific Gas & Electric either. I am with the phone company here to check a line."
Guy on the sidewalk, [Shaking his head in acknowledgement] "You're undercover... you work for the government don't you?"
[Tech rolls his eyes and hopes the crackhead will go away]
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| News Comments > Thompson Watch™ |
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Damn what a waste... |
Apr 15, 2006, 16:38 |
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He went to law school to be a pain in the ass?
What a waste of time and money. I know the system is whack but letting idiots file frivolous lawsuits has to be stopped or deterred in some way.
There are people in this messed up society making a living off these bullshit lawsuits and Jack Thompson is the kind of attorney they use.
Like the lady from San Jose who supposedly found a finger in her Wendy's Chili. She and her husband had been doing that kind of shit for years. Sad it took that long to land their sorry fat asses in jail for it.
I hope they dis-bar his sorry gold digging ass.
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: picture if you will, a Moron |
Apr 15, 2006, 12:06 |
Paranoid Jack |
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Funny as hell when he is trying to calm the kids trying to escape the class because somebody was stupid enough to hand him an assault rifle after he just shot himself.
I think it was in (eighth grade) hunters education class when they taught me to treat all weapons as if loaded. And to always empty (or check) the chamber when unloading your weapon before cleaning.
So it is beyond baffling why he pulled the trigger on a loaded weapon with a class room full of kids.
edit: Actually my father had already taught me that.. but it was the class I took which was the first state sponsored training.. which I am sure this guy had to go through numerous safety courses to be a DEA agent of over ten years.
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| News Comments > Neverwinter Nights 2 Date |
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Ye Ole Neverwinter Nights |
Apr 14, 2006, 21:28 |
Paranoid Jack |
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"I don't care if the graphics are good or bad, but in NWN the whole game was limited by the simplistic environment engine. 45 degree slopes and 90 degree angles everywhere."
Man, you hit the nail on the head there. That was the absolute worst thing about NWN... the blocky environments.
Took me out of the game more than anything. Hard to forget you're playing a game when everything is on a square tile and the tiles are used far too often.
As good as Oblivion looks (and if you think it doesn't look all that good you need a new video card, an eye exam, or both) it has the same issue. They neglected to make a larger number of tiles or pre-made dungeon pieces. And they use that one corner piece in every cave sometimes repeatedly. The rest of the pieces are varied enough but more is always better in this case.
Again it is minuscule in Oblivion but it still pulls you out of the game every-time you see it.. at least it does me. Now compare that to the first NWN where every couple seconds you are seeing squareness or repeated tiles. That totally ruined the submersion of the game.
And making the player forget they are playing a game is or should be one of the primary goals of every developer. I know there are trade-offs but damn.
From the screen I have seen NWN2 is not blocky at all but the engine looks the same. Look at The Witcher.. that is the same engine is it not? You can hardly tell it is though.
This comment was edited on Apr 14, 21:29. |
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| News Comments > Duke Nukem Forever Pot-stirring |
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deja vu |
Apr 13, 2006, 22:16 |
Paranoid Jack |
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nin, I was thinking the same exact thing yesterday. And was trying to remember all his different user-names. I think he has had at least five but it's hard to remember. Didn't he get banned by Blue under one name? Or was it just that the guys with the butterfly nets came and took him away?
A little tip to those who don't know or remember him.. don't refer to him directly or reply to his posts. He'll just get worse over time and maybe one day if we are all lucky he will disappear again for a few months or possibly a year. 
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| News Comments > Neverwinter Nights 2 Date |
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Not sure what to expect here. |
Apr 13, 2006, 21:16 |
Paranoid Jack |
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I haven't followed the development of NWN2 at all. I bought the first game and both expansions. Played some persistent on-line worlds. Played a few user created modules. Even dabbled with the editor for a few months creating a mod of my own. But I lost focus as the damned thing grew too big... so I shit canned it and played other peoples works.
I probably spent a hundred bucks or so on NWN (and the two add-ons) but I got several hundred hours of game-play. Which is more than I can say for a lot of other games I buy.
I never finished the original NWN campaign. Now that I think about it I never finished any of the previous Biowares games (BG, BG2, or KOTOR). They were a little too long for me. But I enjoyed all the hours I spent on them.
I hope this one is better than it looks. Again graphics are not the end all be all for me. It can be Fallout ugly as long as it has character and game-play (like Fallout had in spades).
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| News Comments > New CATALYST Drivers |
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Re: Not Again! |
Apr 13, 2006, 10:30 |
Paranoid Jack |
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There were no omega drivers in the 90's.
Did I say that? I didn't even own an ATI card back in the late 90's the reviews and message boards gave me enough warning to stay away.
Nvidia is Still cheating on AF quality even to this day on their new 7900 cards just to win benchmarks.
And you called me a fanboy?
I just posted the truth. But your experience with your cards may have been different... it is possible. Not until the 9700 series was ATI even worth a damn. They had nothing but drivers issues all through the late 90's and only started becoming a challenge for Nvidia when they finally started getting things right more often.
I'll admit they have some great cards, like Nvidia. Which is best is all opinion. My experience with an ATI a few years back proved to me their drivers are still shite. Unless you're trying to tell me I was imagining all those issues.
And of course Nvidia has issues at times.. but far fewer. I had more drivers issues in one year with one ATI card than I have had with the last three Nvidia cards (over four years). Sorry but it is fact. Call me what you like...
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| News Comments > Desperados 2 English Demo |
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Return of the King of Trolls |
Apr 13, 2006, 10:16 |
Paranoid Jack |
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You have a very very strange post history fredrickson as you seem to alternate between hating starforce and loving it,
I guess that just makes you a troll.
THERE IS NO PROOF STARFORCE DOES ANY HARM. ITS JUST RUMORS SPREAD BECAUSE STARFORCE IS SUCH POWERFUL PROTECTION - fredrickson
starforce warning: do not download software containing starforce - fredrickson
so what if this uses starforce? why do you make such a big friggen deal. there is NO PROOF THAT IT DOES ANY HARM. the developers invited anyone to prove it an NOBODY could prove it. - fredrickson
you are just a pethetic newb fanboy to support such a shady company as starforce - fredrickson
If I remember right there was a poster by the same name years ago who was even more sporadic. He posted garbage several times a day irritating people and eventually was banned. Or possibly was just locked up in a padded room.
It appears he has returned... or just returned under his old name. Isn't the internet great?
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| News Comments > WoW Patch, Bans, and Plans |
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Re: Ditto |
Apr 13, 2006, 10:01 |
Paranoid Jack |
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"I just don't understand why they don't provide this service, that gamers obviously want, in house. Just charge a flat fee for gold if players want to buy it in game. You'd cripple gold farming industry in one day. And arguing that it would ruin the game doesn't make sense because it seems to be working right now, people are buying gold and the game isn't breaking down."
It does and it doesn't break the game. Depends on how you play it. If you are a crafter or rely heavily on selling items to make your coin in game then the added gold will have an effect on prices. The same as having 5.5 million subscribers versus 1 million.
Again to what extent it breaks the game is a matter of opinion. Some people only quest/level grind/search for gold & loot and they generally don't notice as much they just scratch their heads and wonder why their rare items no longer selling for hundreds of thousands in game.
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