Rigs wrote on Apr 29, 2018, 22:17:
The genre that practically made PC gaming is now one of the most barren and deserted. Fucking sad.

I got into 'modern' PC gaming in 1992 because of flight combat sims like Aces of the Pacific, which was my first game on a 'modern' PC. I say 'modern' in quotes because before getting an IBM PS/1 486SX/25 w/4mb of RAM I had a Tandy CoCo3 from the time I was 5 in 1983. And one of the first games on that, in fact, was a port of the very first Flight Simulator. In all it's black and white wireframe glory. ('Is that the horizon or a mountain range?!') I also had Flight Sim 2 for it along with Epyx's Sub Battle Simulator. But when I sold it in 1991, I was left with nothing but a Genesis and sims were not exactly it's forte. (To put it mildly) When I saw an ad and previews for AotP, I had to have it! I bought it six months before I even had a computer to run it on! I didn't care, I just needed it. (And prior to this, I had stared at an ad for Their Finest Hour for three years that was in an old copy of Game Player's magazine!)

I really don't think we'll ever have those days again and it makes me sad. Game stores with shelves lined with big box flight combat sims and other simulations, wargames and rpgs? All with phone book-sized manuals? Heaven. And that's probably the only place we'll ever find another one again, too. Maybe, just maybe, it's time for me to let it go and retire from gaming altogether? There's just so much bullshit and greed. Devs no longer make games to see how far they can push their system but to see how much money they can wring out of their customers. I miss those days more than I can describe...

=-Rigs-=

Re: New SteelSeries Rival Mouse Features Dual-Optical Sensors Jan 10, 2018, 12:27 SpectralMeat

I've used the Rival 300 for the longest time and abolutely loved it. The shape of the mouse fits my hand perfectly and the sensor was the best I have ever used.

Unfortunately the cord got all chewed up by my cat so I was forced to switch to something else.
The Logitech G900 is almost as comfortable but I find the sensor to be not as good as the SteelSeries.

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Dec 6, 2017, 15:46:

Muscular Beaver wrote on Dec 6, 2017, 13:39:

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Dec 6, 2017, 10:56:
Those are the first screenshots I've seen of the new map... I'll definitely be playing it to death (pun intended). Kind of sick of the Eastern European feel the existing map has.

Doesnt feel anything like eastern Europe. Have you ever been there?

Are you serious? You don't think it has a Chernobyl vibe?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=russia+chernobyl&ia=images

CJ_Parker wrote on Nov 29, 2017, 10:13:
Slick wrote on Nov 29, 2017, 09:51:
CJ_Parker white-knighting the practice of community-dividing, pocketbook-lightening season pass DLC.

Now I've seen everything.

Full retard confirmed. Which part of "fucking shitty season pass" or calling it "dog shit" was unclear? In which world is calling something fucking shitty or dog shit somehow "white-knighting"?

Are you fucking insane?

lol.

SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT.

What is your solution oh brilliant well-spoken intelligent one? dog shit or cat shit? brilliant.

See how I'm trying to have a real conversation, and you're just sputtering noises?

Try forming an original thought first, then I'll bother engaging you.

Try tackling the obvious problem of how season passes mean that if you don't pay an additional $50 ontop of the $60 base game, then you're just left behind, and the player numbers for servers you can play in plummet.

TRY.

I DOUBLE DOG SHIT DARE YOU.

Try to make a real point.

Oh man, I played the quake beta for about 5 minutes before uninstalling. I bet it will sell millions of copies.

Gamers are just dumb as fuck these days, don't know what to tell you all. You could get the same experience with QuakeLive, infact a better one without dumb hero classes as a "me too!" cash grab.

Or you could try Lawbreakers, the game that costs half the price, and easily quad-times the fun It really is a "true" spiritual successor to quake/unreal.

I wonder how he'll take the friendly constructive criticism that his new Quake game SUCKS ASS!