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:r

Mine is too.

If you haven't playe dthe serious sam series - do that first.

Portal 2 had me rolling in laughter.
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I demo'ed SS and just didn't like it that much. A bit too much zerg rush for me.

I'm stuck in Portal 2 (one of those blue goo levels.) I could probably go find the solution someplace, but I've got way too much going on in gaming to care much.

"I've come up with a solution to our dilema that I honestly think works best for one of both of us."

"We've both said some things you're going to regret."

GLaDOS FTW! :-)

On a slightly different note, I'm starting to warm up to Brink. The challenge missions as "role" tutors are really solid. The CoD:BO single-player campaign is amazingly tedious. (currently at the vietnam stage.)

I've really got to get the machine shop set up so I can tear myself away from this stuff.

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It's worth a play through....parts of it had me :r ....but only parts....

The problem of course is the 12 year wait and A LOT of expectations but they could have at least given more than 8 hours of single player. Some say it's 15, I say that's if you're looking to do everything the first time around.

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Man, this thread has gone quiet.

TF2 is now FREE to play on PC. GO GET IT NOW.

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heh. Steam just brought on the free to plays. Been digging Forsaken Worlds a little and Global Agenda a lot.

Free FTW!

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You play? TF2 is my favorite online fps, my steam handle is Jarcaddy. And yes everybody go get it, it's some of the most fun you can have online!

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Anyone have thoughts on the Wii-U?
I've always been a Nintendo fanboy, but this new system looks like they pretty much dropped the ball. I mean it looks cool and all, but how do you demo a new system without any real games for the hardcore gamer? At least show us a new Mario game for it. All i've seen being played is golf, some pirate game that was geared for 6yr olds, and some board games.

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I'm on the fence about it. I'll probably buy it, third party support looks better, better hardware, etc. It's that controller, I dunno how I feel about that.

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Indeed but for me there's no new PC games I haven't played yet worth a $hit. I tried dungeon siege III lasted like 3 minutes ....AWFUL gameplay.

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Same. You need a gamepad or else it controls like crap. The gameplay I thought was ok, kinda Diablo esque.

Again, go get TF2!

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TF2?

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Team Fortress 2

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You mean Team Fortress 2?

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yeh. lol

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Finished up LA Noire last weekend, and went over to Gamestop to pick up something new. There is absolutely nothing decent out on the consoles right now, and its very depressing with 5 amazing games coming out in November.

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Trenched =]

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Yes. It's free and it's awesome, there's no excuse not too :tu

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Alright I downloaded the SoB but for some reason I hit start server and it's taking forever. I seriously hope it doesn't intend on doing this every time.

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There is a huge influx of players on right now, the steam servers got a little overwhelmed. I haven't had any issues lately though.

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That or you were downloading a custom map from a slow server. I really hate that they made tf2 free. Here come all the damn kids.

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I don't play it online...bots FTW. I see no reason to play games online I cannot stand kids.

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Well its not really worth it then. The fun of it really comes from the multiplayer as it is still so well balanced. And with the game being out for so long before it went free you have a mix of people who are really good, ad a lot who aren't, so it's a little easier to break in to it now. And you honestly should try it multi at least once, the TF2 community isn't really kiddies, it's nothing like COD and the like.

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I'm pretty much with you on this. I've started with CoD:BO playing with other people but it's just an instant death every time. The skill curve just seems to high.

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Steam summer sale going on right now!

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Yeah, I'm not THAT into any game. I just mostly play them for the stories.....an interactive movie. :tu

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I only play online with friends.
A video game can't keep my attention without friends.
I have my settings so I can't hear anybody that is not on my friends list, this makes it a very enjoyable experience. You don't have to listen to the screaming and whinning.

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See I don't have friends who are gamers. I'm entirely solo PvE, with as much crafting as I can manage. Currently I'm a Rift crackhead, though with The Game That Must Not Be Named having just opened up as free to play up to L20, I'll probably go play over there for a bit.

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Picked up a used copy of Madworld on the Wii. This game kicks ass!

Rift is pretty good. I just don't know if I really play it enough to make it worth while (played about 3 days out of my 7 day trial)

WoW is the devil's game. But if you are playing solo PvE it shouldn't eat you away. It is when you start high end PVP or raiding that it becomes a time suck.
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Trine. Damn fine game. :tu

Although I rage quitted on one spot. "Race against the rising (something that kills you instantly)" levels require me to take breaks on occasion :r
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I finished this game up last night...apparently I raged out on the very last level :r. Was fun and a good change of pace from my normal style of game.

Tonight I will try and finish up God of War 2. I was too tired to beat the reflex game a few nights ago.

I also need to start up God of War 3, The Witcher 1 & The Witcher 2, and Sanctum...in addition to the DLC for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood :r

Stupid work getting in the way of my video gaming...
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I'm really digging Rift. Just tagged 41. The class system is spectacular since you can essentially change at will with 8 sub-classes per main category.

WoW I haven't played in the better part of a year. I haven't maxed out and started raiding. Got a couple toons in the mid 50s. *shrug* I end up spending more time running around with a pickaxe than actually killing stuff.

Minecraft is a special kind of life suck too. The 1.8 this fall is going to be quite something.

Then of course there's the grand daddy of all awesome online time sucks.

EvE.

We don't talk about EvE.

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HAHAH. I loved WoW and EVE for a while. Both are like having 2nd jobs now. I've been sampling the F2P stuff. DDO, AVA and World of Tanks. In addition to the time putting into Minecraft multiplayer and StarCraft 2.

Season 3 of StarCraft starting soon. Need to play more 1v1 and get gold this round. =)

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started playing COD Black Ops again. The new maps seem pretty decent.

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DDO makes me want to poke my eyes out. But that's just my Soloitis.

Global Agenda is a solid F2P, as are a couple of the other ones that just were pushed out with Steam.

I'm interested to see what happens when Fallen Earth goes F2P in a couple months. The graphics were so unbelievably choppy it was tough to stick with. Interesting play model though.

I never played EvE. But I played the HELL out of the original Everquest and it's 7 expansions.

I finished up God of War 2 last night and started in on The Witcher 1. These controls are going to take some getting used to. Space pauses the game to let me issue commands and there is no jump. I keep accidently pausing the game because I'm used to jumping like a maniac :r
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Yep. EverCrack. back when the player market was the tunnel between east west commons on Sundays at 1:00 EST.

I remember running from Qeynos to Freeport with a L6 rogue (since I FINALLY had hide & sneak) through Gorge and Eye.

SoW is for wimps.

We used to have GM led raids from nektulos into freeport. Half the time when we hit the zone boundry we'd take down the server.

I secretly want Anarchy Online to hurry up with that engine upgrade.

The memory that sticks with me the most about EQ is Southpaw. That is when I learned that one mob will, in fact, pull other mobs. Those trains were truly epic :r

We had one guy that ran our economy. I mean really - he RAN that economy. He was a really smart and funny guy, too. I don't think I ever saw him anywhere except for Torch #3 in EC. I still remember his character name - Beardo. If you inspected him his character description said "Yay for Diablo-esque economies".

Did you ever do any raiding? Old school plane of fear was hilariously bad. I lost my corpse for a week because of all the crap that was at the zone line...couldn't go in and loot! Hooray for alts :)

Also - taking a bard/rogue at an absurdly low level into Lower Guk to get the mask of deception since they always just rotted. Lots of deaths involved in getting that item. Lots.
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Ah, Fippy Darkpaw and the Southpaw zone. Qeynos will forever be THE beginning memory of my MMO world type experience. When EQ2 came out and I played it for a little while (didn't last long) running through Qeynos' streets was possibly the most nostalgic gaming experience I've ever had.

Beardo, that sounds so familiar...were you on Rallos Zek? I know there was one guy who ran the economy too, literally had millions of platinum, which was absolutely insane at the time.

Me and all my friends played EQ from around release to just a year or two short of when WoW was released. Played Star Wars Galaxies, Dark age of Camelot, and EQ2 inbetween EQ and WoW. We're pretty much MMO junkies and can't wait for Star Wars: The Old Republic to be released, we're done with WoW and want the next big, good MMO. Tried Rift, but most of the group didn't like it (I actually enjoyed it, but once they left it was just kind of so so).

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Scruffy Forever!

I never got to DAoC at all. People raved about it. Agreed about SWTOR. I was really digging SWG before NGE. But that's the old story.

I'll probably go back to WoW sometime soon. The sense of humor is just too great, as long as you can avoid the 12 year olds.

Aside from those rare GM events, I never raided really. I don't group/guild/corp up, preferring to use MMOs as big single player RPGs with giant chat rooms and interesting economies. When I want to hang with other people, I do it in meatspace.

Nah - I was on The Nameless (lovingly referred to as "The Gameless"). I played a couple of different characters - I started as a half-elf bard named "Izinging Azong" but ended up as a Froglok Shaman named "Apprentice Fisherman Ribbuffit Igotslongname" (I was young and your standard jerk online - just hoping to take up as much screen space as I could for hilarity).

And when we are thinking back to towns - Kaladim is where it was at. The dwarven town where no one went (except to turn in that bonechips quest that you could easily powerlevel on). Another favorite zone of mine - Crushbone. Kill Emporer D'vinn! ZOMG HE DROPPED HIS DIRK!

Man - I haven't played that game in 6 years and all of this info just flows right back once I start talking about it. Crazy.
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I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

But I fear that it will be much like going back to your grandparents house. it just won't be as amazing as I remember it.

I played EQ during its golden years. There really wasn't any other competition (DAOC, EvE are the only ones I can think of) and so it was thoroughly saturated with players, the game was complex & punishing enough that the upper end players were almost always intelligent, and the game was in constant development. I played again when they hit their 10 year anniversary just for an afternoon and it felt so...I don't know...sepia toned. It wasn't the vibrant, lively EQ I had known. It had lost whatever the EQ quality was - whether that was the player base, my guild, the real life friends that I had that still played the game, the fact that I knew the game inside and out at the time, whatever.

TL;DR version: Time makes memories awesome until you go back and actually revisit it.
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Yeah combat music is enough to kill yourself by, and it is a slow grindfest. But there's some stuff in there that I've STILL never seen as good. Like some of the crafting mechanics. You just had to know, as a player (not character) a recipe to take a crack at something. Nobody's done that since that I know of. There was all KINDS of weirdness; exceptions to the formulas built in to the game.

Crafting in that game was WEIRD.

At the time, quests didn't seem weird as they were standard MUD format. The PITA part was figuring out what to say if they didn't have anything [in brackets] to guide you. Looking back - that is a dumb system :r.

PVP was hilarious to watch - because the game was flat out not optimized at all for PVP. It was a PVE game through and through :)
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Yeah. Most of the new stuff (yeah, there was just an expansion last year) has a new quest interface. But the quests in Qeynos are still soul-crushingly annoying, doing the binary search of pasting the source text in to see what triggers the quest drop or whatever it was.

REALLY? An expansion?

Damn. Last time I logged on Plane of Knowledge had like 15 people in it at 3pm on a Saturday. I'm amazed they still have the player base to validate an expansion...
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1 a year like clockwork.

Once I finish up The Witcher 1 I may renew for a month and poke my head in. I'm curious now.

(CURSE YOU!)
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