Beamer wrote on Oct 3, 2018, 08:40:

christheshitter wrote on Oct 3, 2018, 08:35:

Flatline wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 20:43:

christheshitter wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 16:34:
Really i can't believe everyone is so down on the Witcher games. The Witcher games are the most overrated games in history.

They are assboring!

It's sad that you kids don't know good games from bad games.

Username checks out. Shitty troll is shitty.

You seem to lack a brain or haven't hit puberty yet. Go and play your silly CoD and Witcher crap or go to bed. You don't seem to know any better.

Looking through your post history, you mention puberty an awful lot.
Which is ironic, given that your aggro stance and immediate aggression towards anyone that likes something you don't closely resembles an argument by 11 year olds during recess. It's like right out of that Mortal Kombat scene in Billy Madison.

At some point, you've got to learn that not every game is made for you. That people have different ideas of fun, and not every game is aimed at yours. Life is a lot easier when you see a game you dislike, or a movie, or a comic book, or whatever, and just shrug and realize it's made for a different audience.

Unfortunately, culture in 2018 seems to be largely wide groups of people struggling for the first time to accept that not everything is tailored to their tastes.

Flatline wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 20:43:

christheshitter wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 16:34:
Really i can't believe everyone is so down on the Witcher games. The Witcher games are the most overrated games in history.

They are assboring!

It's sad that you kids don't know good games from bad games.

Username checks out. Shitty troll is shitty.

Xero wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 17:58:

christheshitter wrote on Oct 2, 2018, 16:34:
Really i can't believe everyone is so down on the Witcher games. The Witcher games are the most overrated games in history.

They are assboring!

It's sad that you kids don't know good games from bad games.

I would LOVE for a list that you can provide that tops Witcher 3. Give me at least a top 10. I'm talking credible mentions and not just, Oh yeah I had fun with this game so let me throw it out there.

We can know what kind of gamer mind you got with the list you can provide.

Thanks.

DarkCntry wrote on Sep 5, 2018, 18:14:

Murray wrote on Sep 5, 2018, 06:09:
Everyone is just seeing 'Lord of the Rings' and missing the most important part of this announcement:

Set in the world of Middle-earth™ at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings, exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe

Seems like it might be based on The Silmarillion?

Improbable, seeing as MeE doesn't hold the rights to it, nor really anything outside of the Third Age...I would expect this to be akin to the Shadows series, in that it'll have aspects that tie it to the larger Third Age narrative, but in a wholly made up source.

YourNick wrote on Sep 1, 2018, 20:11:
There are no known bugs in Quake1 E4M3. However there is a long chain of Demon teleports, and they all manage to teleport out eventually without cheats (30 sec timer between fiend agro.)

Sometimes I get impatient though and noclip to the box of fiends to agro them all so they all move and cross a teleporter! Often times they telefrag themselves, lots of fun!

yonder wrote on Sep 2, 2018, 18:20:

Cutter wrote on Sep 2, 2018, 15:12:
No it doesn't unless you're on a very limited budget, which Valve most certainly is not. They could have dev Valve and store Valve without breaking a sweat.

Since resources are, by definition, limited... yes... yes they do. There are only so many supremely talented people in the world, only so much time in the day, and only so many days on the calendar.

Saying they don't take resources away is like telling someone to give 110% and then meaning it literally.

Cutter wrote on Aug 17, 2018, 14:14:
Rumack: Well, I don't have anything to say, you've done the best you could. You really have, the best you could. You can't expect to win em all. But, I want to tell you something I've kept to myself through these years. I was in the war myself, medical corps. I was on late duty one night when they brought in a badly wounded pilot from one of the raids. He could barely talk. He looked at me and said, "The odds were against us up there, but we went in anyway, I'm glad the Captain made the right decision." The pilot's name was George Zip.

Ted Striker: George Zip said that?

Rumack: The last thing he said to me, "Doc," he said, "some time when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc," he said, "but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."

Ted Striker: Excuse me doc, I got a plane to land.

Cutter wrote on Jul 20, 2018, 11:48:

Darks wrote on Jul 20, 2018, 10:53:
The VAC ban system how its setup is bullshit. There is no warning that you will be banded or a second chance if something happens that is not the persons fault. I get it that there are many out there who are cheating a lot. But there are circumstances where someone gets baned that should not be but there is no way to undo it.

They're breaking the TOS and costing the Developers, Publishers, and Valve all money. You don't rob a bank and then stand in front of the judge and say, 'Gee, your honor, I forgot it was illegal to rob a bank. Can I get a do-over? Won't do it again. Pinkie-swearsies!' Ya pays yer money ya takes yer chances. I have zero sympthay for cheaters/griefers that get the banhammmer. Can't happen to quickly or enough IMO.

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 13, 2018, 16:22:
Not dead yet, but on life support.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/362478/pc-shipments-up-after-long-slump-but-it-wont-last

Enterprises are migrating over to Windows 10, which resulted in PC shipments increasing year-over-year during the second quarter. However, demand on the consumer side continues to struggle, which doesn't bode well for future growth.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jul 5, 2018, 22:16:
Seriously, Cutter? That game looks gorgeous, and the gameplay even this Alpha(beta?) seems good enough to be fun in coop. Somewhere between The Division and Borderlands, with apparently a night time Dying Light style mechanic thrown in.

Frostbyte used to make a more vertical, alien world, with some flying and stomping around, blowing stuff up... can't be that bad.

The coop group will probably get onto this, unless something horrible happens to the game near release day.

CJ_Parker wrote on Jun 29, 2018, 13:12:

Scheherazade wrote on Jun 29, 2018, 11:44:
So why get obsessed with details when players (presumably they are like me) will be too busy playing to pay attention to details.

Cuz the mere claim of "never been done before FIDELITEH" keeps the money train rolling and rolling and rolling on.

The cultist whales pour money into the project precisely because of this minute attention to detail. They demand it. For the IMMERSHUN.

It's like a perpetuum mobile at this point. Roberts talks about FIDELITEH and IMMERSHUN, cultists get wet panties, open wallet and suggest even more detailed features that Roberts gratefully ingests to talk about even more FIDELITEH and IMMERSHUN than ever done in a game before.

Rinse, repeat... feature creep madness for almost six years now. Squadron 42 was originally supposed to be out by xmas 2014.

This joke of a "game" just keeps getting more and more pathetic with each passing year.
I wonder what the Hollywood friends of Roberts are thinking of him as they must be aware that their mocap sessions in 2015 never lead to a finished product in spite of Roberts' claims that it would be done by 2016 (he even said so not only for Squadron 42 but also the FULL PU was supposed to be out by the end of 2016 according to Roberts at Gamescom in 2015).

He should be embarrassed as fuck at this point. If not with regard to his loyal cultists then at least with regard to his Hollywood friends and maybe also his devs (though most of them are probably just happy to be part of a solid years long employment plan).

WaltC wrote on Jun 12, 2018, 22:33:

everyone wrote on Jun 12, 2018, 18:35:
I am not living in the dark ages, as I have my main rig on Windows 10. But I have a "legacy PC" on XP which runs all my old games. Shame that I will have to get all these games reconfigured for a new OS. Steam should leave an old version of steam that will still run on old OS's. Migrating a large library of old games and game settings (many of them non-steam) from a 32 bit OS to a modern OS, is one of the biggest nightmares of modern PC gaming.

Really, the only nightmares to the very old games are the copy protection, some 16-bit file structures, and a few other things--which you can get past easily these days with the GOG versions of the games where available.

I have dozens of Win32 & DOS16 games and every single one runs terrifically on my latest version of Win10x64, build 17686.1000 (Insider's). Games going back 30 years plus run wonderfully. I find Win10 far more backwards-compatible than Win7 32/64, thought I'd mention it.

There are some caveats, however...;) All the old games you want to keep for the future I'd strongly advise picking up at GOG as the terrible stuff like ancient copy protection (DRM) and file structures for some games just won't run these days--unless you pick up the GOG versions--which do run extremely well and have all of the copy protection stripped out, and the ancient file structures, too--and these are all legal IP copies, as well. IMO, GOG does a much better job with the preservation of older games than Steam--lots of older Steam titles seem to have nothing done at all for them in terms of latter OS compatibility.

I see zero advantage to keeping a "legacy PC" (the actual hardware) around just to run older games, really--much more trouble than it's worth these days, imo. There's just no sense in it as either the titles have been updated to run on modern OSes or else will run fine on DOS emulators, etc., inside Win10x64--I've got ~285 GOG titles, ~60 Steam titles, and 30 Origin titles, ~10 Ubisoft titles and ~35 originals that I've made to run fine on Win10x64--and all run very well on versions of Win10x64 that aren't even available to the public yet. I prefer GOG because I get a complete installable copy of the game--every game--that's stripped of all DRM (Galaxy is *not* DRM, though some mistakenly think it is like Steamworks in that regard, and Galaxy is optional.) Don't need "offline mode" and all of that claptrap with GOG, etc. But not all the games I collect are available on GOG so I have to go Steam occasionally--have nothing against Steam except that it's more of a hassle and less user friendly than GOG, imo. Origin I have to have for the C&C classics I like to have in my collection--that's about it.

I've got at least one Myst title that *nobody* can get running with modern OSes (Exile)..;)...but the good news there is that the Myst guys have announced they are re-releasing all of the Myst games for Win10x64 in the next year or so--if not remastered then 100% native compatible. As for Abandonware--if you've got good working knowledge with DOs box (I prefer the SVN-Daum versions) then you already have a dos computer--no need to really go back to a '486 DOS rig...! Arggggghghghg...;) Lots of games are porting from DOSbox to SCUMMVM--which often works wonderfully well.

Ironically, the latter Win10x64 OS versions I've found to be a lot more compatible with older Windows games than Win7 in general. Basically, I can't recommend anything earlier than Win10x64, version 1803, build 17686.1000, believe it or not...I won't even look at Win 7 these days anymore--too much trouble--no payoff that I can see. Microsoft is putting a ton of effort into backwards-compatibility for Win10--especially beginning with version 1803 and the newer builds. It really pays, too.

Well, we all love to collect games--so just thought I'd chime in with what I like and what works for me....;) Happy gaming, guys!

Darks wrote on Apr 23, 2018, 22:00:
Just low of Blizz to be pimping out two new maps. As if they need more money. These should have been free to the pubic. Blizz just keeps sinking lower and lower.

Cutter wrote on Dec 4, 2017, 21:57:
You just answered the question I was going to ask...who the hell doesn't have/hasn't played Black Flag yet? I thought everyone would have by now. BF is definitely the best of them. If you were ever going to only play one game in the series that would be the one to play. I prefer Ezio and the Italian Renaissance myself, but BF was the most fun and most like playing out a classic pirate film. Cruising around the Caribbean - especially if you're playing in the winter - is pretty damn sweet as well.