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• They were announced a few weeks ago at that mac show. : razlebol
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  Battlefield 2142, I might pick that up. Does anyone here still play it? : .sticks.
  • I do. : -efx-
  • yup, great game : moshman
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    It's great that EA decided to port over one of the games that flat-out refuses to support wide screen res... : BlackCat9
    • fucking owned! : razlebol
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      you can hack in widescreen via the command-line, granted this stretches the GUI but the game looks fine : Shadowdane
      • agreed, I've been playing in 1650x1050 since it came out. : festivalman
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        I thought most if not all ranked servers kicked you for that? : mechanicalgrape
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          Untrue. If you're getting kicked from punkbuster servers you probably need to download the Punkbuster ser... : moogle
          • yep, never been kicked for it. : festivalman
        • no they will kick for the spanning if you do something like span across 2 monitors at 2560x1024. : Shadowdane
        • Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. : mrfunky3000
      • UI stretch is normal for some games, but the battlefield games crops the top & bottom of the screen for w... : pyide
    • Oy, I do hate that. I have a widescreen monitor now, so I actually have an opinion about this stuff. I do... : Orange Pylon
  • I do occasionally. : Sylvanus
  • I play it frequently. : mrfunky3000
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    I just got it. Hit me up on Xfire (orangepylon) if you want to play. I'm usually on it in the evenings. : Orange Pylon
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      sup /\? you should play with me some. : mrfunky3000
      • Later tonight perhaps, after the dukeplay has been done. I also want to try out Doom 3 and see how muc... : Orange Pylon
• And as an added bonus, brand new bugs never seen before in the PC versions! : lapskaus
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  Those new iMacs with the bullshit video cards came just in time. : eldersveld
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    honeslty they're barely better than what they had in them before. The real advantage is the unified hardw... : boomstickah
    • Yeah but I doubt a lot of devs are going to jump in the mac bandwagon. The userbase is still very small. : razlebol
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      Any advantages conveyed by unified hardware are totally outweighed by the enormous graphics gap between M : eldersveld
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        They claimed they were "better for graphics" because of the shortness of the RISC pipelines (3-5x shorter : Lunatic Angelic
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          Doesn't change the overall irony though, does it? : eldersveld
          • I don't see the irony, you're comparing two very separate things. : ieGod
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          haha no more RISC though. Guess it wasn't all that great. : boomstickah
          • It was, it just wasn't all that cheap. : ieGod
          • Not necessarily. intel x86 CISC processors actually break down those complex instructions into RISC like ... : qwpeoriu
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  Valve needs to get Steam on Macs : cookblaze
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    For what? Like 5-6 games? : razlebol
    • Yes...every little bit helps : cookblaze
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  Having a new 2.8ghz imac, I'm getting 2142 going today via bootcamp. I'll report back with how well or ho... : festivalman
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    Update: I'm very impressed. At 1680x1050 with most settings maxed out, it runs at a high framerate. Def... : festivalman
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      Which settings didn't you max out? : eldersveld
      • I lowered the effects/geometry/enhanced lighting to half. It went from pretty good to very smooth now. ... : festivalman
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      wait EA is supporting widescreen for the mac versions? : Jayx77
      • He did it via bootcamp and is probably using the command line to change the resolution in the exe. : Fail_Safe
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    Technically, it's not native. It's still playing with Windows drivers via WINE in the Mac ports, so you m... : BlackCat9
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      He said he was running it through Boot Camp. : eldersveld
      • Oh n/m I can't read. : eldersveld
• IM GETTING REALLY PISSED, I KEEP GETTING KICKED FOR NO REASON!, IM RUNNING VISTA AND WIDESCREEN, ANY HELP... : bobakanush911

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  You damn troll, I'm going to set you on fire I swear to god! : AlexXdude
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    HOW GET ADMIN : bradsh
    • sup brad, i love you man : AlexXdude
• open massive worlds, 3rd person vehicles, unique game play elements that are now standard, large outdoor ... : sigpro
• Jethro, git ma torch. : pigvomit
• Pretty much what you said, it's the first FPS for a lot of young console gamers, therefore the FFVII effe... : Matt Burris
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  people seem to forget that halo came out in 2001, yes a lot of PC games did what Halo did, but years late... : n0v4
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    Is this a joke? what exactly did halo do that others didnt? : Unleashed
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      Horribly repetitive level designs, uninspired gameplay, and a mediocre story line? : Bantis
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        Sounds like Red Faction 2 and Deus Ex 2 .... : Matt Burris
        • Sounds like most console shooters : Bantis
      • SP did not create the sales or lasting power for Halo. that much is clear. : mallrice
      • Other than Deus Ex, I don't know if a decent storyline exists on a PC FPS. : Pettytheft
      • bingo! i'm going to check out halo 3 possibly but only for 4 player online coop : dantastic
    • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14338926 : n0v4
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    LOL, the cool aid Halo fans drink is amazing. There was nothing in Halo that hadn't been done in PC FPS f... : Gyruss
    • What PC FPS did the vehicles like Halo? Which one had the regenerative shield mechanic? Offhand grenades?... : tigeN
• It did console FPS very well. Refined it excellently. : crummynz
• Fun and a good story. : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  Been hashed over here a lot. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14338926 : Johnny Law
  • ...although, the reasons in the link above are why Halo is a good game, which is not necessarily the same... : Johnny Law
• Halo is easy to get and it hits for the middle. Space marine fights aliens. That's it. There is not... : Porkasaurus
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  I'm guessing the MP, because the SP was no better than any other game around at the time in my opinion : abrasion
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    I don't think splitscreen or LAN MP really explains its popularity and that was all Halo had. : vigilante
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      Well what the heck could it be? :/ : abrasion
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        Superior game play. : vigilante
        • No, it's definitely not that. : abrasion
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  Multiplayer Console FPS, first one really of its kind. Other than that it was pretty basic. : rastafar1an
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    I'm gonna call bull fucking shit on that. Doom is basic, quake 1 and 2 are basic. I would really like to ... : sigpro
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      Halo was originally supposed to be a PC game, but Microsoft waved fistfuls of cash in Bungie's face. The... : Matt Burris
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        Yes I know it's history very well. I even remember when in 1999 it was supposed to be a mac game and all ... : sigpro
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          Halo started out as an RTS ala Myth. Then it evolved into a third person shooter and finally it's curr... : Fail_Safe
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            yes i've seen that video too. official mac world debut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7-Qg7-IvGI : sigpro
            • LOL I remember that, poor Steve Jobs. : Fail_Safe
            • Wow, that was really cool to see. : crummynz
            • I remember watching that live on the feed. God I wanted to play it so bad, I loved how the Warthog moved... : Halen
            • I remember that one and the second video - that was the only time it really impressed me. : abrasion
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          Well, of course the hate wouldn't be there. If it had come out for the PC, we would've gotten a game tha... : Matt Burris
          • I am talking the exact same game on the pc. The video below is not that special. Almost all of that same ... : sigpro
      • True (well sorta true, depending on whether you believe that Bungie could have survived to actually relea... : Johnny Law
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      I think if it was on PC it would probably be a really different game. I think Halo succeeds because it's... : Boxelder
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        Yes it's slower and has that floaty jumping feel vs most games that were out at the time. I don't see how... : sigpro
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          I was thinking of the reliance on grenades. That's probably more of a personal qualm though. If you loo... : Boxelder
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            Flat in what way? Not geography or level design i hope? : sigpro
            • Looks pretty flat to me: http://halo.snaver.net/files/images/H2_Maps/Tombstone/H2_Tombstone03.jpg : EvilDolemite
            • Sure, take the Halo 3 Beta, because that's freshest. Both Snowbound and Valhalla are really flat and ope... : Boxelder
  • GoldenEye for the N64 Yeah it was split screen, but it was still multiplayer. : Solstice
  • I agree, after years of PC FPS's I saw nothing special about it. I think most consoler's got out of halo... : tree8
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  the combat system is very solid and consistent. melee attacks, off-hand grenades, excellent AI in sing... : gokart.
  • in fact the only game that's had as complete a variety of attacks and combat options was SiN:Episodes, th... : gokart.
• Because it's awesome. After crashing on the ring and looking around for the first time i remember having... : burning eye
• For me it was a compelling story and I love sci fi universes where humans are more or less the same as th... : Fail_Safe
• Years of hype didn't hurt it but it was just fun. How dare it... : rosewood
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  I had more fun playing Halo in co-op on Legendary mode than in any game ever. : EvilDolemite
  • Right there with you. Well... almost, behind the golden quake years =D But co-op legendary was incredib... : paravis
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  Because most Console RPGs suck and Halo doesn't. (unless you like PC FPS games...sorry, had to get my di... : Boxelder
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    I disprove your dig : EvilDolemite
    • I said RPGs and I meant FPS...my posting is going even further downhill. : Boxelder
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    People say this every fucking time, I don't know why. I've been playing PC FPS games since Wolfenstein. ... : Chris Remo
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      As a primarily online PC FPS gamer (Doom II, Quake 1-3) before the advent of EverQuest, I must say that m... : skizl
      • Also big PC FPS player (since doom and RABID quake competitive player), and I was also very frustrated wi... : paravis
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      It's because FPS games were concived of and designed around a PC interface. It's just better (for reaso... : Boxelder
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        intuitiveness? if that was the case, it wouldnt be such a battle to show a friend how to play any PC F... : the city
        • It took a buddy of mine a little while to get used to the mouse and keyboard. When I had him play HL2 a w... : Orange Pylon
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          What? I sat a 12 year old girl down to play Half-Life 2 and she picked it up within 5 minutes. And she ... : Matt Burris
          • COD2 is the same way on the PC. : the city
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          I remember having to make a concerted effort to switch to mouse+keyboard from just keyboard back in the Q... : afty
          • i remember it taking me forever to go from joystick --->mouse KB, haha. (my joystick had lots of buttons... : papaskot
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        FPS games were conceived and designed around the keyboard or gamepad. They evolved to use a mouse. : Judecca
        • hair splitting makes every conversation more enjoyable. : Boxelder
  • Just one question, did you play Halo when it was released (and alll the way through) because most people ... : spdon
• Bungie totally rethought FPS Combat and then polished the hell out of it. Then they added awesome vehicl... : vigilante
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  As a primarily PC gamer at the time, when I first played halo at a friends house I seem to remember it lo... : marmite
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    Yes, thank you. When people say Halo was generic, or an bland Quake ripoff, or inferior to PC shooters, ... : Chris Remo
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      Yeah Halo has lovely art direction, and the enemies are very fun to fight (locational based damage should... : SpaecKow
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        Sure, again, I agree with the complaint about repetitive indoor levels. The main accusation with which... : Chris Remo
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          Ok here's a core gameplay thing: you can tell me how this works on consoles because it sure does suck fif : SpaecKow
          • I don't remember having any particular moments of frustration in that line, but that may be why they twea... : Chris Remo
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        lovely art direction? the game has like 3 textures : judge
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          your name has 2 letters. : paravis
          • His name isn't I.D. : devi| dog
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    We are definitely having a London Shackmeet and playing Halo 3, at least some of us round here enjoy a go : nodebug
    • Sounds good I'll be moved up that way by the time Halo 3 is out. : marmite
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  mainly? Unmatched enemy AI in any FPS to date. : paravis
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    I didn't notice that, at all - HL1's scripted stuff seemed the most immersive to me - more so than HL2 : abrasion
    • scripted events != AI : paravis
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    Nah, F.E.A.R. and Farcry definately did much better. HL1 did better as well (though scripting and good l... : Vorlonesque
    • is it true crack tastes like burning plastic? : gokart.
    • FEAR? Farcry? : Fail_Safe
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      again, scripted IS NOT AI. Has nothing to do with AI. And FEAR was the closest to halo any game has got... : paravis
      • I'd say comparitively on PC's, FEAR has THE Best AI to date. Comparing FEAR's AI to Halo 1/2, I would ... : dedgecko
      • I was talking about enemy behavior in combat...and my mention of scripting was simply to say that perhaps... : Vorlonesque
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  Superbad was awesome, go see the movie. My face was starting to hurt by the end of it from laughing so m... : ant_hillbilly
  • are u drunk and high wile posting this? : Super Sparker
• Co-op. : geedeck
• halo lan parties . . . . : jedi_27
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  When it shipped it was, bar none, the finest fps on consoles to date. Beyond that, it was the first majo... : GeorgeB3DR
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    Also co-op, and it was the first great fps to ship on a real next-gen (at the time) system. Prior to XBo... : GeorgeB3DR
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      ^^ It was the vehicles + coop that made me want it so bad, especially the coop. : bcyde
      • ditto. those two facets made it completely stand out for me. : biskits
  • This is what I was going to write, and I would like to add that Halo 2 really raised the bar in the mulit... : takio
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    with all that, a few cases of beer, some big screen tv's . . . best lan experience ever. : jedi_27
    • who was the beer for you Nancyboy? : Degenerate
    • Playing online was fun with xbconnect : mista mista
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    I've never been a huge fan of halo (aside from halo 2's multiplayer recently) but halo was the first big ... : JINKY
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      Also the recharging shields was pretty neat in multiplayer : JINKY
      • It's the best part of singleplayer as well. It allowed you to focus more on the combat (the strongest dr... : Rag and Bone Man
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    What about GoldenEye George? I know it didn't include vehicles, but I think it nailed the controls (for ... : orgcaptainnemo
    • * There was that tank level too, but it wasn't that great. : orgcaptainnemo
    • I think GoldenEye did those things, but Halo improved on them by a large margin too. Both games were impo... : takio
    • I'd say GoldenEye was the first great console FPS followed by Perfect Dark, but it was done even better w... : K1Bond007
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    A game called Codename Eagle (predecessor to Battlefield 1942) did vehicles very well and it came out bef... : Matt Burris
    • That game honestly wasn't very good, and the vehicles handled like absolute shit : JINKY
    • Haha that game did not do vehicles well, and it was a buggy POS. It was pretty cool for what it was, but ... : datoo
    • I loved that game. It was buggy, but so much fun. : protozone
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    Well, Tribes did do terrain properly and well...and was fun...also did vehicles (but they were limited so... : Vorlonesque
    • Oh I forgot to say I don't completely disagree with you and that Halo was great when it first came out an... : Vorlonesque
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    I agree Tribes was great, oh wait Halo? : gmd
    • I just stopped myself from posting something that would get me flamed into space. Instead I'll post this,... : Orange Pylon
  • I agree with all of that, but in my mind the massive popularity still doesn't jive with those reasons. ... : ^rec
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    It wasn't FUN though. Isn't that what gaming is all about? Who cares about being the first in a video gam... : AgentPothead
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      except most people think it was fucking fun as hell : lakren
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        "Most people" have insanely shallow expectations out of a game then. : AgentPothead
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          Christ, you're a douche. Just because someone disagrees with you on how fun a GAME is, their expectation... : dromo5
          • lol this is what I wanted to type, thank you : klearlyunseen
        • Why don't you tell us a game you think is fun then? Halo was damn fun. The regenerating shield concept... : tigeN
  • agreed. One could view another playing it and be perfectly happy to watch and not participate. To me tha... : cell9song
  • I can't believe what I'm hearing here. Especially since, nostalgia aside, I'd rather play Duke3D than Hal... : avatar_58
  • negative + lol : SlamDunk
  • Tribes did all of those things earlier and IMO better, had better multiplayer, was patched and supported ... : bigimp
  • For anybody saying it wasn't revolutionary at all - I think a lot of people take for granted some of the ... : Begawkiness
• Co-op, I could never finish a Halo game by myself but it's blast with a friend. Kinda strange really. : Haku-Jin
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  George pretty much hit it on the head, but to break it down: 1) It looked great 2) It played great - ... : jason bergman
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    Aww come on, the controller was the best part. It was like doing curls while you played. Great exercise... : SolrFlare
    • People will think Im wierd but I can only play Halo 1 or most Xbox 1 games for that matter with the origi... : Tincan
• CO FUCKING OP : lakren
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  first FPS that worked on a console : filthysock
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    Was Goldeneye! : Judecca
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      Yeah, Goldeneye was actually better than any PC FPS before Half Life (in terms of single player). : spdon
      • what : Halen
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        I've never played it at length, and I'm willing to give it a good chance, but by saying this you're putti... : Orange Pylon
        • I would say it definitely belongs among those names. Goldeneye had amazing level design and replay value. : datoo
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          I never owned goldeneye, but did have fun playing a lot of multiplayer and some singleplayer. About 5 yea... : qwpeoriu
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            Why would you say it doesn't hold up well against time? Is it something to do with the controls? Because ... : Orange Pylon
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              It just wasn't fun to play, and it didn't have to do with the control scheme. It was just one of those mo... : qwpeoriu
              • might have something to do with only having one analog stick : cpt_gloval
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              the n64 is particularly weak hardware. think LOW res textures, LOW fps, no jump button. aside from no ... : cpt_gloval
              • I really liked Timesplitters 2. Apparently they're by the same people? : Orange Pylon
        • For a brief window of time, Goldeneye was better than these. With the possible exception of Blood. : dirge23
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          it is so old, it will be tough to form an objective opinion at this point. : cpt_gloval
          • That sounds like a challenge. : Orange Pylon
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        Not really no. It came out after Duke 3d (PC singleplayer champ of the time) and Quake (PC multiplayer ch... : lord cecil
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          This is a good point: the split screen multiplayer FPS was a key feature, and probably a first. This all... : dirge23
          • Hrm was it a first for FPS games? Gosh it might have been! Playing games with, or against friends, in ... : lord cecil
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          It hasn't stood the test of time very well but it was amazing when it was released. Most of the early 3d ... : spdon
          • That's how good the quality of the action gameplay in Doom was. It wasn't just the presentation like in t... : enyakk
    • Best console fps ever! : razlebol
    • Halo showed everyone how to make PC FPS games work on the console. : byorn
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  Everything was done well except for the repetitititititititititititititiveness of the level design. : Topaz
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    I think the fact that the major complaint about halo stems from one single level in halo 1, shows how ama... : paravis
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      I'll happily complain about the cut and paste job in all the levels, especially the indoors areas. It's j... : Daggoth
      • yeah, but still, halo had some of the best outdoor levels I've come across... : paravis
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  I think most of the "hate" for the Halo series comes from two main issues: 1) Lackluster and/or delaye... : SolrFlare
  • There is also a hell of a lot of people who will say Halo sucks without ever trying it, or giving it a re... : Judecca
• Because it is fun. : spdon
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  sndtrck : deviantpaul
  • I really, really like Halo 2's score. : Omning
• Don't you have any friend? : Enigme
• Console FPS's have been so worthless other than Goldeneye. The controls suck too much. Next. : sekira05
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  It's fun as fuck whether you play solo, co-op, or multiplayer. It's just a lot of bang for the buck. : Rauol Duke
  • DAM STRAIGHT : tiber44
• I still haven't seen a game handle vehicles and terrain combat properly as halo has. : dilutedq
• UGHHHHHHHHH : EvilDolemite
• As a PC kind of guy, I still only begrudgingly accept a gamepad, but controls aside there are a bunch of ... : monofurioso
• Halo was popular because the xbox was aimed at "adult" (to cool to be nintendo fanbois) gamers. The n64 h... : thewindcriesmary

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• http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html eot : crummynz
• http://www.templeofdagon.com/lovecraft-archive/ : CapnChaos
• Poe is probably my favorite. G.R.R. Martin, Richard Matheson, and Harlan Ellison also have good short sto... : mechanicalgrape
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  I, Robot - Issac Asimov "A Study in Emerald" - Neil Gaiman - http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortst... : Zhaneel
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    I have 'A Study in Emerald' in a old timey newspaper front page style framed on my wall =P : MoreVespeneGas
    • GIve it to me!!! OTOH, I've met Neil in person and had to shoo him on stage... : Zhaneel
  • I wish Amazon didn't have "I, Robot" with Will Smith on the bloody cover. It looks so damned tacky, not ... : Rag and Bone Man
• I Sing the Body Electric! - Ray Bradbury : eldersveld
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  Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver. : Orange Pylon
  • Add to that Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. : Orange Pylon
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  I forget the actual name of it but I really like Stephen Kings recent collection of short stories, the on... : -efx-
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    You're thinking of Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. I prefer his earlier, edgier collections, suc : eldersveld
    • His newer ones aren't bad, but yes, Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are some of his best writing. : dirge23
  • yeah - that was really good - there is another short story collection that he did that is really good too... : flagg209
• For s/f, I really like Theodore Sturgeon's short stories. Also, Steven King's stuff is highly entertaini... : bipolar
• The short story collections of Roald Dahl- especially Kiss Kiss and Someone Like You Also I agree with t... : Borzoi
• I think mine is most definitely The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. : Lone Swordsman
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  Greg Bear - Tangents Ray Bradbury - R Is For Rocket, S Is For Space, I Sing The Body Electric! Stephen ... : Zero|DPX
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    "Longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think!" : eldersveld
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      Jaunt. Awesome. : dirge23
      • Doubly awesome because I could imagine both King _and_ Bradbury writing it :) : Zero|DPX
• Philip K Dick has tons of short stories that are great. They can be found in various book collections. ... : grabbie
• Lovecraft : c0bra
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  The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. I've enjoyed just about eveything I've read by him. : zukochan
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a good collection as well. : Nick Breckon
• The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem is a pretty neat, kooky bunch of short "fables" from a sci-fi point of view... : BlackCat9
• flannery o'connor : justsayno
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  Most anything by Harlan Ellison : MoreVespeneGas
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    aye, i have this ancient, beat up copy of "All the sounds of Fear" which is an old anthology of his - can... : eNgram
    • He writes nothing but short stories, all of his early stuff and even most new is great =) : MoreVespeneGas
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  I don't know if this counts - this book came out a while ago, Twilight Zone transcripts. It's all the TZ ... : Porkasaurus
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    The Rod Serling ones? Thats awesome man. : MoreVespeneGas
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      Yeah, his and many others. They tell you the original author and who did the screenplay. I can't find ... : Porkasaurus
      • Yeah it was mainly Serling, Matheson (who wrote I am legend amongst other classics) and Beaumont, althoug... : MoreVespeneGas
• The Jungle Book has some good stories in it, although they are a bit dated : RikiTiki2
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  Burning Chrome by William Gibson someone posted this a while ago, I enjoyed the story "The Belonging K... : mojo the helpr monke
  • Johnny Mnemonic is good, particularly if you pretend they never made a movie of it. : dirge23
• luminous by greg egan : eNgram
• and The Venging by Greg Bear : eNgram
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  Joseph Condrad--Heart of Darkness. Tolstoy--the Death of Ivan Illyich. Kafka--the Metamorphosis. : metralgia
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    Oh, David Foster Wallace's stuff is good too. : metralgia
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=13546364 : sgtsanity
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        most embarassing thing ever http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=david%20foster%20wal... : sgtsanity
        • I feel like the time I spent reading Infinite Jest was mostly wasted life. : dirge23
• the martians by Kim Stanley Robinson (although to fully appreciate them i reckon you need to have read hi... : eNgram
• H.P. Lovecraft Robert E. Howard Arthur Machen : Yabrodan
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  Flannery O'Connor has written the best short stories/novellas that I've ever read. : AssGoblin
  • I remember reading A Good Man is Hard To Find in high school and being utterly bored. I was thinking it w... : Nick Breckon
  • Yeah, she's pretty amazing, but her religion can get in the way. Some of her interpretations fo her own ... : Boxelder
• Absolutely do not, do not miss out on Roadside Picnic: http://www.cca.org/cm/picnic.pdf : Rotten Deadite
• "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no do... : [fry]
• Planetary - Warren Ellis : Sylvanus
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  Someone posted this before, Isaac Asimov, The Last Question http://www.scribd.com/doc/3509/Isaac-Asimov-T... : te[R]ror
  • Yes, this is my favourite. : Vantage
• Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling. : The Key
• Heart of Darkness: Beats Shakespear at symbology\meaning any day. : locater16
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  Nine Stories - J. D. Salinger : capt tripps
  • Yeah I'll second this. It's going to be really interesting when he dies, and all those fresh novels are u... : Nick Breckon
• I really like Robert Bloch. : timmie
• I love reading about the adventures of latestchatty.x. : DOOManiac
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  Robert Sheckley put out mainly collections of short sci-fi stories and I really enjoyed them. They're no... : Kniggit
  • oh, and Nikolai Gogol is brilliant -- Russian author who wove social commentary into his often hilarious ... : Kniggit
• William Gibson and Robert Silverberg, both do excellent shorts. : Fred Garvin
• Italo Calvino, Adam One Afternoon : jcupitt
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  Listen to me, Modica, for I am going to do you a favor. Go stop reading this thread right now and go out : Bean
  • oh God, that post is a train wreck. I shouldn't post about literature anything at 3:30am : Bean
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  I really like "The Burning House" by Ann Beattie, "Barnaby The Scriviner" by Melville and "The Dead" by J... : Boxelder
  • Alice Munroe writes good modern short stories as well, but she can get a little feminine in large doses. ... : Boxelder
• Two of my favourites are alternate history collections: Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg http://www.a... : Vantage
• if White Fang counts as a short story, its my favorite story of any regardless. : spaceless
• The Swimmer by John Cheever is an interesting little read. As is the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek : buroja
• A Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury ... whatever you do, skip the shitty movie which was released a few ye... : laidback

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• hahaha so stupid its sublime : bipolar
• fucking hilarious. you don't happen to have any of the old immy shows hosted somewhere, do you? : thomas jefferson
• lol post more :[ : RikiTiki2
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  who are you again? : creep
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    Host of G4TV's hit (?) show Attack of the Show. : Orange Pylon
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      I guess you missed the whole "why don't you post more" point of my post. : creep
      • Of course not! Read my post more closely! that bought me some time, yeah I did miss the point of your : Orange Pylon
  • He hosts like 4 of the 6 shows on G4. : skitzo
• lol pretty good, nice. : xxiv
• That is pretty funny. Good job. : pyrogen
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  hahaahah great ending : mista mista
  • The ending sold me. : ieGod
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  this shacker version was better: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=155... : erotic sock
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    no, not really. : VegasX
    • lies and untruths! : erotic sock
    • as far as cheesy internet videos go, I prefer shitty police over shitty metal. : aethyr
  • They were both really good : TheArtMan
• Kick ass KP, that was hilarious. : Simulacrum
• needs more growling, but otherwise good. : gmd
• I laughed my ass off when I saw it on AOTS. : Thresher
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  For once I can say, there were sufficient amounts of fire! : Audhuml4
  • barely. could still use more fire : RikiTiki2
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  hey I heard you on NPR's Marketplace last week, good show :) : MikkleThePickle
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    last week? I searched, and only found this: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/06/29/PM200706... : the archvile
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      yeah it was about a week ago, he talked about Guitar Hero and Rock Band with Kye : MikkleThePickle
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        here it is: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/08/06/PM200708067.html : MikkleThePickle
        • (skip to 22:30 on the mp3 to hear the piece with Kevin) : MikkleThePickle
• Bwahahaha. That's gold. I love the high singing parts at the end. : natural born chaos
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  english is not my mother language and "attack of the show" seems like a pretty stupid name for me. for... : doomed
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    http://imdb.com/title/tt0121765/ : Audhuml4
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      or, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! Attack of the 50ft Woman Attack of the Giant Leeches : Prozium
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        Sure, but those are objects.. How can a "show" attack anything ? : doomed
        • it attacks the cable subscriber's senses with televised terror and wackiness : pyide
  • It's kind of goofy sounding : bipolar
• fuckign yes : Carnivac
• That was awesome : Drewus
• Haha, fantastic! : omnova
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  bring back capt immy >:( : Rigor Morts
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    I kind of thought this video did, to be honest. Glad most of you enjoy it, it means the world. I'm ... : kevin pereira
    • haha That's fucking hilarious. You seem social enough; post more! what's the matter, pussy? you scared : lookitzpancakes
    • btw heard you on NPR the other day regarding guitar hero and the like- great job! : celerity
  • i agree ahhh the fun days of pwning capt immy and his little brother at action quake 2 online........ ... : -=kodiak=-
• Ahaha, sweet. : brickmatt
• Hehe, really nice. Thanks. : stygian_whisper
• nice RRoD : xtofuconsumerx
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  lol that was so gay it was funny :) goodjob : supermonkeyballz
  • so gay it fit right in around here. : mavmavv
• And Kevin returns to posting on the Shack in a most glorious fashion. Hoorah, good sir, hoorah. : mrwolf710
• Brilliant good sir. Brilliant :D :D :D : Solstice
• lols : aurealis
• hahaha that was awesome : cap n KRUNCH
• This is phenomenal : Daggoth
• love the ring of death tattoo. also, for some reason, the music reminded me of steven lynch's "D & D" ... : zukochan
• i would like to marry olivia... can this be made possible? : mwasher
• Glad to see G4 at the cusp of the Kabuki Revolution. : skinlab133
• whens the album come out : khaosman
• Fantastic. :D Also, glad to see you back on the Shack. We need more of those latenight webcam shows, e... : DOOManiac
• Haha...good one. : CrustaR
• The writing and chemistry lately on AOTS is so much better than it was 1 year ago. It is actually enterta... : kevp
• I loooooooooove you! : Edges
• Brilliant ! That just reminded me of how great Pointless Audio was back in the day. : peetabix01
• Dude this is beyond awesome. Console hotter than a dragons breath had me lolling :D : nodebug
• That was fucking awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
• i actually laughed out loud at the chorus i am on my 3rd xbox360. "at least now i know they appreciat... : grendel
• You'll know if you've hit it big if you get on Guitar Hero or Rock Band... : sergeon
• Couldnt quite make out the words, but is that a PS3 dig at the end? : Beady
• LMAO! : razlebol
• i think having a 360 that is currently broken has killed my ability to find this funny. :\ : baron calamity
• I was amused :P : phipple
• that is amazing, made my morning : mtgDoofy
• Excellent work... So true. : ihya
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  This song is stuck in my head now : socksta
  • and its totally kick ass! : socksta

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  This is the most truthful thing I've read all week. : pwnage1232
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    what are you? some kind of asshole? : aeg1x
    • oh great i'm surrounded my assholes! : shavenewok
• shutup, you're wrong. halo wins fuck you. : not work safe
• Bungie has a lot to answer for, man. Won't somebody think of the children? : Johnny Law
• This is a sentence about Halo. FUCK YOU. : SwiftyPants
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  Didn't PA do a strip on this? : c0bra
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    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/06/06 : EvilDolemite
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      No there was another one. I think it was about the voice chat in XBox Live. : c0bra
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        http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/06/02 : eldersveld
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          Haha, I love that one. There's another one about Xbox Live being down that's probably my favorite on the... : Chris Remo
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            ahahaha, found it: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/04/21 : eldersveld
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              Hahahaha, yes, every frame is amazing. Even the initial "Oh no, assholes!" makes me laugh. : Chris Remo
              • The look of resigned, but not surprised, dismay on the old man's face is what does it for me. Gabe is gr... : eldersveld
            • The middle frame is so awesome. : Fail_Safe
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          this one fits, though not about Halo: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 : haccess
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            Yep that's the one. How are you guys finding these? Google searches? : c0bra
            • yes, I searched for shitcock : haccess
            • http://www.pipefour.org/pa/ : mechanicalgrape
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          Though I think this one is more appropriate to Remo's point - a classic, to be sure: http://www.penny-... : eldersveld
          • oh shit I might actually have to buy that. : timaste
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  This post is a recursive. : MrAdults
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    owned (Really it's not because I didn't express an opinion of the game, but still I asked for it) : Chris Remo
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      Yeah, it also seemed funnier than it is because I'm drunk on daiquiris. Halo and Counter-Strike both fall... : MrAdults
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        My point applied to both sides of the argument : Chris Remo
        • I know, at the end there I meant to say that people tend to be more likely to spew horrible biased nonsen... : MrAdults
• I SEE THE LIGHT!!! : hamachi
• So, do you like or dislike Halo? : pun][sher
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  lol sounds like someone is new to xbox live to me : -=kodiak=-
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    Is the implication with your post that I am new to Xbox Live...? For one thing, I'm not, and for another... : Chris Remo
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      well yea, if you cant honestly believe the halo zealotism online especially with xbox live, yea, then i g... : -=kodiak=-
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        Okay but like I just said my post has nothing to do with Xbox Live, and even if it was, I'm not new to it... : Chris Remo
        • yea true i guess, pretty sure we both know the stupidity that goes on there. but for shits and giggle... : -=kodiak=-
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  I blame the internet. Period. Most people will express an opinion in a reasonably civil manner in real ... : omnova
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    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ... : mechanicalgrape
    • If so: horrifying. : Johnny Law
    • If so: horrifying. : p4ck3tloss
  • yeah it's interesting to talk to xbox live people that don't "internet" very much and to see how the inte... : wetard
  • Pretty much. If I had to deal with our company's customers--mostly younger folks--on a face-to-face basis... : Ely
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  People disagree about things. The bigger the thing the larger the row. Nothing to get all brooding over... : Boxelder
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    And my post was just a comment on a website. : Chris Remo
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      I BLEED INSIDE FOR HALO : hamachi
      • I HALO TO KNOW I"M ALIVE!!! : p4ck3tloss
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      Right. Well, I've had disagreements with you in the past, about Japan and Halo earlier today. I don't d... : Boxelder
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        If someone presents an argument with some actual thought behind it, that's one thing. I'm happy to engag... : Chris Remo
        • I said that was just a dig in post. And I also presented a lot of points about why I actually think Halo... : Boxelder
• can you write an article about this plz : Mansmells
• Halo and analog sticks. : Judecca
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  Context, Remo? : CrustaR
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    The internet : Chris Remo
    • you really need to let halo go. please fixate on table tennis intead : hamachi
• Who the fuck even cares about Halo I haven't even seen screenshots of that faggoty-ass game : mr.sleepy
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  Oh.. sh*t.... : Sylvanus
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    the average voice chat in halo consists of: "man, dude, maaan, fuck, i just shot that guy with my shotgun : mr.sleepy
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      Sounds like Gears aswell. : Drewus
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        I've seen the worst asshole talk in Gears games. Makes the assholes who play Halo seem like nothing. : Serpico74
        • i've muted at least 90% of the people i've played in random gears games. it's fucking beyond terrible. : pyide
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        Worth clicking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jj72Gg9Ng0 : Sylvanus
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          lol this had me in hysterics : klearlyunseen
          • yea... that's a gears pub... : dedgecko
    • sounds like the voice chat in any game, pc or console : klearlyunseen
• I don't like halo 1 nor 2. I bought it for the xbox (when I had one) and it was boring. Tried it for the ... : TheErlking
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  Dammit my right mouse button is broken... Also I'm feeling pretty (cannot think of word sorry) because I ... : razorblade79
  • lol wasn't supposed to end here : razorblade79
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  Can I ask a question? Why is it people can't talk about games like Halo, Half-life or Doom without settin... : avatar_58
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    Isn't that common sense? Disagreement without legitimate reason results in pointless conflict. There is n... : MrAdults
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      Without legitimate reason? I NEVER make arguements without legitimate reason. My point wasn't about that,... : avatar_58
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        Well, it's fine when people disagree and you want to argue back and forth on legitimate points. That isn'... : MrAdults
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          But does my "meh" comment really send you into a fit of rage? Theres nothing wrong with stating one's opi... : avatar_58
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            That isn't the point. The point is that unproductive statements create unproductive replies. That is why ... : MrAdults
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              Unproductive and personally insulting are two different beasts. : avatar_58
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                I think they are both subgenres of stupidity. Once you open that initial gate you shouldn't be expecting ... : MrAdults
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                  I could have said "Man up and ignore it Remo" but instead I *did* choose to articulate my point. Apparent... : avatar_58
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                    I have no idea what happened with you and Remo, I'm only addressing your initial question on this whole ... : MrAdults
                    • Nothing happened, I enjoy Remo's posts. ;) I just asked simply why he got bent out of shape due to Halo a... : avatar_58
  • amen. : Boxelder
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    Well really that doesn't start a conversation, it starts an argument. Just shitting on something is lazy ... : genjuro
    • The Baron?? What did I miss? O_O Hahaha... : avatar_58
    • This is a crucial distinction. : Chris Remo
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    Freedom of speech? I'm not saying somebody should pass an amendment here. However people are trollish... : Chris Remo
    • Amen. I like halo's setting and mythos, but I absolutely hate it's copy & paste level design. :X But ... : DOOManiac
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      So long as someone has an opinion, someone else shall have the opposite. I do agree there are some morons... : avatar_58
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        You really aren't aware of the ridiculous trolling and attacking that goes on regarding Halo all the time... : Chris Remo
        • I'm aware of it, but I don't see much evidence around these parts. Show me some degenerated arguements, I... : avatar_58
    • Right, it's the justification part that's needed to keep it from being a flamebait, however subjective : d fluke
    • And yet as much as you may disagree with it, you function as a part of this engine of unhealthy discourse... : ayesel
  • I agree with your sentiment on petty internet arguments, but I don't see why you need to involve freedom ... : ayesel
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    i think you misinterpreted. it's not that saying this or that sucks is bad, but the way people say it is,... : pyide
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      Well isn't Remo's post a direct copy of that sort of thing? He just made a sweeping generalization about ... : avatar_58
      • Nope, it's not. He said that Halo brings the trolls out in force, not that everyone who talks about Halo... : Johnny Law
      • more like keen observation. of course it's not everyone, but the assholes doing it are just bad if not wo... : pyide
  • You're expressing your freedom of speech right now. Just like the people that disagree with you are expre... : tyrelhill
  • It's not an issue of free speech, but people thinking you're trolling/threadcrapping the circlejerk threa... : d fluke
  • I think it has to do with big titles like these being nearer and dearer to people's hearts than something... : DOOManiac
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    There's plenty of people on the shack who think Halo is shit. It's not like you're a rebel without a caus... : Drewus
    • Yes but the Shack is also a beacon of reason and tolerance (and NWS) that the rest of the internet should... : DOOManiac
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      I don't recall saying I was. I just said that I'm tired of people complaining about the arguements themse... : avatar_58
      • Disagreement about games happens on the Shack all the time, and none of the staff or mods have ever shown... : Johnny Law
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    There is a difference between "I hate Halo" and "Halo sucks" and internet denizens on both sides rarely m... : omnova
    • I don't think anyone was calling anyone else idiots and assholes before now. : Boxelder
• Yeah it does. I just enjoy the game and only plan to play online with Shackers. Anything beyond that an... : SolrFlare
• Halo is the one game that everyone and their mother has played and everyone and their mother has an opini... : skitzo

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  Unless it's a very, very good game, if I get to a point where I spend more than 10 minutes trying to acco... : Entity
  • Speaking of WoW -- I'm pretty sure that's why I didn't finish God of War 2. I was too busy trying to kee... : ImageOmega
• No, I didn't finish Psychonauts or Stalker because I just wasn't willing to put up with some part of the ... : not work safe
• I'm currently stuck on the last tier of GH2 on hard. With Bioshock and Halo 3 coming out, I doubt I will... : afty
• I dont, but my roommate does. He has serious video game ADD. The guy currently has something like 45 game... : sparkly
• I haven't finished Zelda: TP because I stopped playing for a couple weeks and forgot all the controls/tac... : Vangoghs Ear
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  Final Fantasy XII was junk, didn't bother finishing it. It's the only game I haven't beat :\ : Modica Sol Solis
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    Couldn't stomach finishing ffx or ffxii =\ I give up on that franchise, used to be my favorite. : kelerian
    • I stopped on FFX at the point where the story stops and you get the opportunity to buff up, get ultimate ... : RikiTiki2
    • i gave up on square as a whole a long time ago : qwpeoriu
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      FFX had an awesome ending :( : Ebu
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        I thought FFX was 100% awesome, and it's probably my favorite in the series =X : Modica Sol Solis
        • I don't know if I'd put it at the tip top, but it's Top Three of the main series. : Ebu
• prey was REALLY hard for me to finish. it got so boring (after the first 2 hours) : gyokuro
• Welcome to my Hell. : Sylvanus
• I hardly ever finish games at all. They have to be REALLY damn good to keep me interested long enough. : lapskaus
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  if i start playing a new game while in the middle of one already, there's a lower chance that i'll go ba... : pyide
  • i try to stick to one singleplayer game that is. i'll still mix it up with MP from a bunch of games. i ... : pyide
• Yes. Neverwinter Nights (the first one) - Boring as hell. Deus Ex - Boring as hell (loltomservobbq... : lightly inclined
• Yup, happens a lot. : thejm4n
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  I found that 360 achievements and keeping a personal beaten games list helps a lot : spiderfill
  • The achievements aren't nearly enough for me to finish a game I'm not enjoying. They are, however, enough... : qwpeoriu
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  A lot of games are just too long. : MoreVespeneGas
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    yet gamers still bitch and moan about 'not enough hours of gameplay'. isnt it funny? : kainen1
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      There are two groups of gamers. Those who have the time to play long games, and those who don't. Typicall... : ieGod
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        yup.. I love long games, I just don't have enough time to play them all. And now have a huge backlog of... : Shadowdane
        • if you have time to keep buying and playing newer games, you have time to hold off on those and finish th... : pyide
    • dumb ones maybe : MoreVespeneGas
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    i can't remember playing a game i thinking it was too long, there are a few i felt was too short or that ... : pyide
    • Far Cry sticks out to me as a big offender there. I loved it up until the last 5 or so hours, and I don't... : qwpeoriu
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      I hate seeing so many people post things, especially like the new game recently released "OMG you get 20-... : MoreVespeneGas
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        Give me a kickass 10 hour game that I want to play again and I'm happy. I'm not sure how many times I pl... : Haku-Jin
        • give me a kick ass any hour game and i'm happy. heck even a 2 minute at a time puzzle game is fine by me.... : pyide
      • well when games cost $60, most people are happy to get a decent amount of content, whether it be a long a... : pyide
• I'm the same way have been for a while...biggest problem is I buy most games I see that interest me and I... : Vorlonesque
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  Maybe you should a DS. : capt tripps
  • I've been finishing more DS/GBA games lately than console games- even ones that take 80 hours to finish. ... : Borzoi
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  yea i picked up re 4 again since i screwed myself over the first play through a year and a half ago buy N : -=kodiak=-
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    Oh, I just bought the rocket launcher (I had tons of spare cash at the time), knocked over one of the liq : shyguy74
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      yea, shame that i DONT have that fucking weapon for that clown... thus why it's annoying. : -=kodiak=-
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        i thought there was a merchant nearby that you can buy one from? : shyguy74
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          yea there is at the begining of the sewers, that dont fucking help when you dont have 30k to spend on a R... : -=kodiak=-
          • There was a room just a few minutes before that boss where you can pick up one for free--I'm fairly sure ... : jan0r pants
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    Umm.. that guy's easy... Just run around. : walker270
    • and hit the tanks when he's near them. : barichnikov
• RE4 is taking me forever to finish. I find myself reloading a lot, either because I use too much ammo or : shyguy74
• Yep, that's me for the past few years. I mean, I'm interested in games, but I just don't have the drive/... : BoKnows
• I don't seem to be getting anywhere with The Sims :< : robotsincharge
• yeah i never finished san andreas, i said something like "fuck this shit" when you have to learn to fly. : wetard
• I got bored with Freespace 2 during the torpedo shootdown missions and now my open Freespace launcher is ... : baronzemo78
• If I simply don't enjoy playing a game, I'll stop usually. I frequently lose motivation to finish good ga... : skankcore
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  I've got like this for Twilight Princess. Really enjoyed the game, want to finish, but...pretty much lost... : RevRaven
  • I ran through TP in like 30 hours or so...and never looked back. I am so sorry awesome extra content and... : ImageOmega
• Seems this is more often the case than not these days. This year I've lost the motivation to finish a num... : Ely
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  I have a huge list of games I never finished, and none of them is because of tiredom -- I really liked th... : Bingo
  • My list dwarfs this, it is really sad. Also honestly please don't wait to finish MP2 before buying MP3... : Chris Remo
• Tons, but recently I've been kicking myself because I never got more than a few hours into Odin Sphere an : jan0r pants
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  I just beat BioShock, this is practically a milestone for me. It's been ages since I've completed a full... : Chris Remo
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    How long did it take you? : nomaad
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      I don't know, I wish there was a gameplay timer. : Chris Remo
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        best game ever or the best game ever? : pyide
        • It is completely amazing. To be entirely honest I was disappointed by the plot in the last third or so, ... : Chris Remo
      • Sucks that the Xbox Live "See what this player is doing" feature totally spoils parts of Bioshock. I was... : brickmatt
• no, me. : doomed
• I don't even have the motivation to start games, let alone finish them. : johnsto
• Not sure if busy is the right word considering all this video game playing. : pauk111

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  More like inspired by System Shock 2. : mechanicalgrape
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    Ah really? I don't remember that at all. That makes more sense. Far Cry does the same thing, you pick ... : Porkasaurus
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      Yeah, that chick that's supposed to be the doctor that helps you for the first 5 or so floors of the ship : mechanicalgrape
      • I just know that Atlas will turn out to be SHODAN :( : thaperfectdrug
    • How could you have even played SS2 and not remember the radio? It was a gameplay cornerstone. : rudds
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  "Ads in a utopia? I don't get it, why would you build a city underwater to escape from surface and fill i : SpaecKow
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    yep, rapture is based on the ayn rand version of utopia, which means capitalism capitalism capitalism! : Clay
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      Andrew Ryan : the archvile
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        So close to "New Ayn Rand" :( : Ebu
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          It actually is an anagram for it. : Odoyle
          • too many r's : aeg1x
          • No, it isn't. : Ebu
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    I don't think you need neon billboards to run a capitalist paradise though. It makes a cool prop, sure. I... : Porkasaurus
    • its better than grey and brown crates, though : kevp
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  The game is very steampunk inspired. One of my favorite qualities of Bioshock... : mr.sleepy
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    more art deco than anything really...reminds me of Metropolis (the silent film from the 20's) http:/... : VegasX
    • damn cool : Awun
• Going by the visual hints in the demo, Andrew Ryan seems to have really established Rapture in order to f... : Drewus
• I didn't really like the radio either it killed the atmosphere for me somewhat, it was a mysterious puzzl... : Yabrodan
• The concept of this particular utopia is to take free market to an extreme, where the genetics of people ... : BlackCat9
• the ads don't fight the concept, they fit it quite well, especially the style they use. from the desc... : pyide
• I just saw the last line of your post. Bioshock was inspired by Far Cry? You're a madman. A madman. : SpaecKow
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  I don't think you actually understand what Rapture is. The whole point is that it's the ultimate free ma... : Chris Remo
  • Objectivist utopia : spiderfill
  • BioShock is what our economy will be if Ben Bernanke doesn't step in. : gyokuro
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  i've heard Ayn Rand's name thrown about BioShock's threads before. What would be the best books of her... : shavenewok
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    Atlas Shrugged, but don't put yourself through the pain of actually reading it. Look at a summary online... : pyrogen
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      This is the way to go. I tried reading it - gritted my teeth through much of it, but lost the will to fin... : Kaerof
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        Dude.. the 45 fuckin page shit at the end was so fucking worthless.. and the fact that it turned into som... : sludge vohaul
        • 45 pages? That's worse than I imagined. : Kaerof
    • Don't know why schools make it required reading. No one ever reads it. : pauk111
  • None? In seriousness though, people always mention The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. : Lone Swordsman
  • Read the plot synopsis or cliffnotes version. No point reading anything of hers, really... : walker270
  • Anthem is the short version of all her books. Which are in turn all the same. : SpaecKow
• Now that I've played through the demo a couple of times, the story and setting is starting to grab me har... : thaperfectdrug
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  windows or 360 demo? : TheErlking
  • pretty obvious it was the 360 demo : VegasX
• It's one man's version of a utopia. : EvilDolemite
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  Rapture is actually a CAPITALIST Utopia, as such advertising would be even more prevalent. : stygian_whisper
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    I don't see why that has to be the case. It seems likely to me that a free market would ultimately breed ... : ayesel
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      So why has that not occurred in reality? : aeg1x
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        I think you could easily make a case that it has. Just look at some of the incredibly cheesy, overt comme... : ayesel
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          Head-On, Apply Directly to the forehead : Kaerof
          • Currently I see that functioning as more a gimmick than anything. Give it a few years and I'd be quite su... : ayesel
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          I disagree with that. While you get occasional gems, the vast majority is still crud, asthetically speak... : Arcanum
          • There is no reason that function and aesthetic should be mutually exclusive. Though I don't want to come ... : ayesel
    • I could go into a long post describing why your assumptions don't work, but it's simpler to use this: ... : Arcanum
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      I don't really see any empirical evidence to suggest people are somehow less likely to buy something if i... : Chris Remo
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        You might be right about that. The only real point I wanted to make was that capitalism is being caricatu... : ayesel
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          That's an unrealistic and oversimplified view. In reality, if the corporation or corporations that contr... : Arcanum
          • I agree with that, but you're speaking with reference to monopolies which are the exception to the rule a... : ayesel
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  i want to know why they have guns and explosives in an underwater pressurized living environment, and als... : multisync
  • 1) Because it's a capitalist/Libertarian utopia where everyone is left essentially to decide what's "sma... : Arcanum
• Since the demo I've been trying to find a Pipe Dream game I can download and play on Vista that looks nic... : Fail_Safe

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• I think your problem would be keeping enough inventory, what with how quickly new revisions and stuff com... : RikiTiki2
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  I was thinking about that yesterday actually... It would rock if you could buy DS Homebrew stuff at a sto... : MagicWishMonkey
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    wait...DS? what as in nintendo DS? what are you talking about? : TheErlking
    • Yea Nintendo DS... one of these things: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/first-grope-dsxtreme-ni... : MagicWishMonkey
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    Yeah, I'd love to be able to buy that stuff locally instead of ordering from Taiwan. : Conan
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      I don't really like ordering stuff online in general... I'm never here to pick up packages so they sit in... : MagicWishMonkey
      • I order online all the time - it's just the obvious pirate outfits like you generally are stuck with for ... : Conan
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  I don't know. starting a new, local-only retail business in a market that sees more and more sales go on... : action roommate
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    what might be better, is if he acts as a service instead of a retailer. the shop acts as a middle-man ... : RikiTiki2
    • Also, most importantly, customers can go to him and get reliable information on what's hot, what's coming... : Rotten Deadite
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  As much as I would like to see you succeed I think that would fail. Hardcore enthusiasts know that they ... : redfive
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    the way I see it is, people are impulsive (me included). Usually, if I get a new game and can't run it, i... : TheErlking
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      do you think that the hardcore gamer is going to purchase a game that he knowingly can't run? I think th... : redfive
      • let me rephrase that: I meant more along the lines of "it runs, but runs like shit" : TheErlking
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  you're looking at a very thin market there. as others have said, enthusiasts are normally online deal hun... : gokart.
  • the B&M stores here will take credit cards but will add 2% to your total to offset the costs. : redfive
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  it would only succeed if there wasn't a fry's nearby. Compusa/best buy dont' carry enthusiast stuff at al... : oatmela
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    theres like 2 or 3 frys in the DFW area alone. all his base :( : sexninja!!!!
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      err, make that 4 : sexninja!!!!
      • thought it was 3... : TheErlking
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    well, the closes frys are in east dallas and far north Dallas. If I were to put one in the central part o... : TheErlking
    • I would avoid the downtown area... just look at how much trouble Sprouts is having and they sell grocerie... : MagicWishMonkey
    • yeah, but in the DFW area people expect to have to drive forever to get anywhere. I think most out of st... : mrwolf710
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    I'm going to say this and prolly get a lot of shit for it, Fry's is a shithole. I live near 2 stores and... : skitzo
    • Your profile says Hollywood so I assume you're dealing with California Fry's. I can't speak to those ... : Schnapple
    • this is completely true. : TheErlking
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  id go there instead of newegg if the prices were competitive and the selection good : sexninja!!!!
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    that being said, your biggest obstacles are going to be finding a consumer base large enough to sustain y... : sexninja!!!!
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      Competing with Frys would be just about impossible unless he targeted niche markets. : MagicWishMonkey
      • Bingo - see the homebrew DS comment above. Also, not to rain on TheErlking's parade, but PC enthusias... : Schnapple
• Why would they go to you when they could get it cheaper online? Also people that are into high performan... : mrwolf710
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  I think you'd be better off setting up a storefront where people can drop off their PC's for repair, and ... : bipolar
  • I've looked into that, and the market for PC repair is waaay too saturated. I've thought about possibly a... : TheErlking
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  Margins would be razor thin and you would be catering to a market that is mostly DIY anyway. I don't thin... : Serpico74
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    Agreed. He won't be able to match newegg's pricing, so why would enthusiasts buy from him? : pyrogen
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      So enthusiasts can meet other people with common interests? : skitzo
      • Sounds good, at least if you aren't trying to make a living off of it. : pyrogen
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    but the store would revolve around DIY business, I would sell the hardware (mobo, graphics, etc.) enthusi... : TheErlking
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      Like I said, margins would be razor thin. Add a tiny tiny market to margins that thin and you are looking : Serpico74
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        are you suggesting Dallas is a small market? It is the 9th (arguably the 8th) biggest city in the US and ... : TheErlking
        • The PC gaming enthusiast market that will buy high end gear is small relative to any population, that's w... : Serpico74
• Online > Storefront, seriously : abrasion
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  Open a fitness club. : The Key
  • fitness strip : thaperfectdrug
• Great idea, but I don't think it would work. I know I wouldn't use a local store unless I absolutely had... : SiW73
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  There's no profit to be had there, unfortunately. To make money at anything mainstream these days (compu... : Waverider
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    the economy has been great for the past 4 or 5 years, it's just in the last few days the stock market has... : TheErlking
    • i think the market for this existed a few years ago but now its kind of dead, there is no way you can com... : multisync
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      the economy has been great for the past 4 or 5 years, it's just in the last few days the stock market has : Serpico74
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        Again, I think your best bet is to piggyback that idea on top of something else that will also make money : Serpico74
        • I understand what you're saying, but those things have been saturated...trust me, i've already looked int... : TheErlking
• you'd need to operate an ancillary source of revenue to be profitable, ie lan gaming center, etc. sellin... : brewsterdog

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  play it Co-Op : Shadowdane
  • IAWTP I've only ever played GoW in co-op mode, and it was awesome. We had a blast finishing it. : digital_d
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  that one halo level where it's like a giant maze of shit that looks exactly the same. Never got past it b... : wtf242
  • the whole game? : mwasher
  • They re-used levels. Total waste of time. Just make the game shorter and I'd be less pissed about it. ... : Sylvanus
  • It's called The Library. I really don't understand why people complain about it so much- it's just BORING... : silentw
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  me and my roommate just passed that mission on hardcore a little while ago. took us like fucking ten atte... : gokart.
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    oh, and as far as annoying levels in otherwise good FPSs i have one thing to say: wallhacking shitcopter : gokart.
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      From Half Life 1? : mr.sleepy
      • HL2 actually. i didn't find the ones in the first wallhacked, but then again the first actually has some : gokart.
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    never got past it on insane, but after like 15 attempts or something it just auto-skipped it for us : mwasher
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      yeah we were on insane - maybe the game autoskipped? : gokart.
      • yea that's what i'm thinking.... only heard of a couple of people who claim to have done it : mwasher
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  ravenholm : abrasion
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    OMG you didn't just say that : Drewus
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      I agree with him. Worst part of the game. I enjoyed the driving sections more than Ravenholm. : timmie
      • The driving sections were pretty fucking kickass. Infact, that whole game was awesome. : Drewus
    • Oh I so did, I quit the game for a YEAR and ignored it because of that shitty section. : abrasion
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    Half the time I can't decide whether I hate or love that section of the game. I never look forward to pla... : Orange Pylon
    • it's awesome, like every HL2 chapter. i love the screaming zombies that rattle the downspouts as they cli... : pyide
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    ravenholm was awesome imo : mr.sleepy
    • 2nd that notion. : Sylvanus
  • I like Ravenholm, but I like it less every time I play it. : dirge23
  • Yep, I was just annoyed with that entire level. I wasn't scared and I hate combat against stupid zombies ... : Pettytheft
  • so very seconded : lowpoly
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  Dam level in FarCry : the archvile
  • I forget if thats part of the last level but that mother fucking volcano level is a bitch. Really tedious... : djkenohki
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  Most recently for me, the Vault in the White Tower in the Wheel of Time. Cheap traps and crates EVERYWHER... : Orange Pylon
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    I really need to purchase and replay that game. So many cool parts early on. Then Robert Jordan ticked : Sylvanus
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      The Machin Shin in the game freaked me the holy fuck out. I exited a door too early and suddenly HOLY FUC... : Orange Pylon
      • I had the same reaction when I first encountered them. I need the game again for those moments. :) : Sylvanus
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      C'mon, in an 800 page book, there is easily 40 pages of new content. : tsuba
      • LMAO - That was great! : Sylvanus
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  the middle section of EP1 that was all zombies, darkness, & flashlight use was so much worse than ravenho... : pyide
  • Yeah I'd have to agree. Too much of a good thing fo sho. : thaperfectdrug
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    i actually really liked that part but hated ravenholm, and i think the difference is having alyx around m... : bradsh
    • scary is good though. it was just annoying compared to ravenholm. no tension or anything, just hard to ai... : pyide
  • Yea, especially the part where you're waiting for the elevator to come down. : High-g
  • Oh god, FUCK THAT. I hate sections in games where they turn out the lights for no good reason. : silentw
• every level in doom3 except hell. (and maybe the delta labs) : erotic sock
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  Yes it sucks. I suggest you stop moving when you hear a glass break and immediately start searching for t... : pauk111
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    I got all the way to Raam in hardcore playing solo and I can't down the fucker >:( : thaperfectdrug
    • sniper rifle him in the head a few times then run to the other side as soon as he's pretty much on top of... : mwasher
    • That battle detracted from the single player game IMO. It just felt so out of place and cheap compared to... : qwpeoriu
• Gears of War is an over-rated game. It's alot like the original Halo. I'd give both an 8.5. : Sylvanus
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  The whole Doom3 was annoying. There was NOTHING in it that was challenging or scary in one way or another... : High-g
  • "oh look some armour. better get ready for that imp that's about to jump me" x500 : erotic sock
  • OH NO ANOTHER HIDDEN JANITORS CLOSET WITH AN IMP INSIDE : gmd
  • I liked Doom 3, but I paid more attention to the ambient sound design than the predictable imp-behind-acc... : the archvile
• um, wasn't that one of the easiest (somewhat pointless) missions in the entire game? Gameshark or Game Ge... : johnny nada
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  Xen. :( : GloriousCow
  • ::sigh:: I have to admit, I hated it. : Sylvanus
  • that was going to be my answer! : thomas jefferson
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  how about worst enemies? - Every flying thing in an FPS, ever. That blue/purple blob in the original Q... : GloriousCow
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    cliff racers in morrowind? : erotic sock
    • hated those damn things. : mojo the helpr monke
    • ^^^ this : bipolar
    • skreee! : pyide
    • those things gave me nightmares. nightmares of the annoying and frustrating type. : moe6
  • Robotic Frogs : gmd
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    The poisonous super-headcrabs in HL2 : mr.sleepy
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      ^^^ and the super zombies. : abrasion
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        The poison zombies are too tough. It breaks the realism of the physics when you hit them with an engine ... : dirge23
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          Y'know, that didn't bother me until you just mentioned it. I knew something annoyed me about those guys,... : Enkidu
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            Given the generally high quality of the game, this seemes like a very cheesy way to increase the difficul... : dirge23
            • No, cheesy way to increase the difficulty: Remove the ability to sidestep and/or move whilst aiming. : Ebu
  • Those Grim Reaper things in Blood, until I figured out a way to kill them. : Orange Pylon
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    I'm just going to say Far Cry, and anybody who has played it can pick out a few : qwpeoriu
    • I really liked that game, except for the parts where I absolutely fucking hated it. : Orange Pylon
    • Great engine, shitty game. : Entity
  • My enemy is the swimming level. It takes the basic gameplay mechanics of almost all games and tosses them... : Entity
  • The blobs in Quake win. : Serpico74
  • Crows in Resident Evil. : Super Sparker
  • Medusa Heads...end of thread. : PenicillinX57
  • Eggplant Wizards in Kid Icarus. : dirge23
  • cliff racers......... EOT : -=kodiak=-
  • headcrabs and zombies with headcrabs.... : paravis
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  Right now I'm stuck in RE4 trying to get through the Rig maze with "It" chasing me down. Muthafucking God : shyguy74
  • I hate you tell you this, because it's an awesome game and you totally need to keep playing, but that's o : jan0r pants
• everything in Unreal after you saw the waterfall : sexninja!!!!
• Maybe you should try Casual and not Hardcore? If you're in Casual and it's still too hard, then I recomm... : GeorgeB3DR
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  it's not so bad in co op. i've never played gears single player i don't think. : xxiv
  • it was fun in co-op, but in that goofy, laugh-at-the-silliness, sort of way. : Borzoi
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  MOH:AA - Snipertown. Pure, unadulterated evil. : sgtsanity
  • That's where I quit the game. : Orange Pylon
  • I'd save every five steps. Rough. : Serpico74
  • yup not surprised it popped up. never finished that game, stopped there. : barichnikov
• On everything but insane you can just drive through and never even use the gun. It probably should have ... : Boxelder
• Rainbow 6: vegas annoyances HACK THE COMPUTER FASTER FAGGOT! The shitty save points oh lets not save af... : .sticks.
• Breakdown: there were many tough bits in that one, but I particularly hated the jumping puzzles mixed wit... : Borzoi
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  Half Life 2 - Setting up the Turrets ! : Ra5putin
  • I finished that stupid fucking segment not knowing you can pick them back up after they've fallen. I tho... : abrasion
  • I liked the concept quite a bit, but it lasted too long. If they cut like half the enemies it would have ... : djkenohki
  • This scene was definitely a shade too hard. : dirge23
  • i carried a turret from a much earlier segment too far and it thought the black dude we were saving was ... : imperator
  • I must admit I played that section with god-mode on when I replayed the game. I did it properly the first... : rock elf
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    i had to go to gamefaqs for this to find out that i could set up the turrets in the closet that i found t... : dantastic
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      The easiest way to do it is to build stairs out of boxes and hide on a balcony. : thaperfectdrug
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        easier than standing in a closet to wait for everyone to die? you dont even have to pick the turrets up ... : dantastic
        • i could never get the closet trick to work : thaperfectdrug
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  Do MMO dungeons count? Gnomeregan. : action wombmate
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    but it had the lost vikings in it :< : shavenewok
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      The Lost Vikings are in Uldaman (which isn't all that great either, btw). : action wombmate
      • the last boss of uldaman was fun. : pyide
      • bah, i knew it was one of the more irritating instances : shavenewok
• Me and a friend just started playing coop on insane. This is as close to perfect as gaming gets. So aweso... : NastyJack
• GRAW 2 PC where you storm the dam/power plant thing and 2 choppers come at you after getting picked off b... : mega man
• The Indiana Jones mine cart sequence] in Gears of War. Made me want to run into the street and hurt peopl... : nodebug
• The Rickenbacker and ensuing levels from System Shock 2. The end of that game went downhill fast :( : bigmanwithagun
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  Any games that include a WATER LEVEL. Why the fuck devs need to bother doing 1 water level where the g... : razlebol
  • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG'D : gmd
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  Doom 3 having to read PDA text to get codes for ammo boxes etc... : paravis
  • whoops not exactly about a level but yeah.. : paravis
• Just wait until you get to RAAM. : Arcanum

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  i thought the injecting thing was a bit weird, like hey i wonder what this shit does? : shavenewok
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    I'm betting that in the full version it's explained more, and for the demo it's given to you a bit early ... : DOOManiac
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      Yeah Ken Levine said just that, the demo gave you plasmids and weapons right off the bat. It's not like ... : dael
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        No, it is. You get a second plasmid and weapon earlier in the demo than in the full game, but the initia... : Chris Remo
        • AWWW WTF SPOILED!! i'll never pick this up because of that !!! Boooooo. :) : dedgecko
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  i'm kind of hoping that intro bit was altered for the demo, because yea i sure as fuck wouldn't just star... : multisync
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    I at least expected him to tell me to do it. : Judecca
    • yea and how did he know that you did it! can he see you through that radio? : multisync
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  maybe it's not a 2-way radio? the dude does talk at the very begging, in his head i guess. : pyide
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    Yeah you're right he does, I forgot about that. Why doesn't that continue? : Judecca
    • because you took control and became that character? i dunno. it's generic fps stuff like smacknca said be... : pyide
  • *beginning, when on the plane. but i could see them pulling the silent treatment over the rest of the gam... : pyide
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  Gordon Freeman never once talked either. : EvilDolemite
  • That's because Gordon Freeman is more badass than Chuck Norris. He's like the Terminator +, I can just im... : locater16
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    he also doesn't have a penis. : vigilante
    • Nor any legs, torso, chest, face... It's no wonder he can't talk, he's a floating pair of arms. : nudel
  • A mistake even back then IMO. I don't like completely silent FPS egos and it would have been more immersi... : enyakk
• Please excuse my random commas. : Judecca
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  That doesn't mean he shouldn't have. : Judecca
  • Meant to reply to EvilDolemite re: Gordon Freeman : Judecca
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  dont forget that this level wont be in the full game : TheFatMom
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    Really, you sure about that? I thought it was just the start. : Judecca
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      pretty sure the level is similar, they said some things were changed for the demo so it's not going to be... : pyide
      • I've played the level in the full game three times now and as far as I can tell it's exactly the same; th... : Chris Remo
  • What? it's exactly the same as the final game. : red2lucas
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  thats a general critique of most FPS titles that I have. first mistake i think is not modeling the playe... : smacknca
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    Riddick was amazing in Escape from Butcher Bay. The Darkness was pretty good for character as well. : Judecca
    • yea both excellent examples, both also let you have a body. seems like games that bother to give the pla... : smacknca
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    The thing that bugs me about modelling the player is that NO game has done it convincingly. I look down a... : Drewus
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      yeah, really. the FEAR demo on the 360 was one of the worst. i can't remember if you can see your legs wh... : pyide
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        It's really hard to animate for this because how can you do anticipation of action when the character nee... : ZombieAcademy
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          SOTC used an IK system for the Collossus movement. Someone could atleast come up with something for FPS. ... : Drewus
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            Yeah ik has totally been done. But in an FPS, for just the shadows cast by the player model, that's a non... : ZombieAcademy
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              I prefer having it than not. The animation sometimes looks goofy, but having no body to me just looks ri... : Chris Remo
              • I agree. I could understand not seeing hands reach out to turn wheels on walls (to control valves or door... : nudel
              • The hl2 situation you described bugged the shit out of me. : -efx-
              • Hah, yeah I hated the HL2 no hands vehicle driving. : Judecca
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          yeah it's gotta be almost impossible to do, unless your character moves slowly and dileberately in an FPS... : pyide
          • Nothing is impossible. It could be done with some kind of in-game IK system. I guess the programming t... : Drewus
          • In The Darkness your movement isn't smooth and you don't glide around. It's like you're actually walking ... : nudel
    • Three thoughts: 1) The Darkness did it well, IMO. 2) How is it better to not have anything at all d... : nudel
    • You're pretty much asking the impossible at this stage in the game : red2lucas
• Maybe he's a recovering drug addict and needs the good stuff baby!!!!!!!!!!!!! : Drewus
• This was my exact complaint in The Darkness. You sprout demon heads and you don't freak or ask why? I'd... : Edges
• LOL, I love the way you put that [b]"I don't think that within 10 minutes I'd be injecting strange ne... : TheErlking
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  two things botehred me about the demo. One that the guy knows where you are at all times and two why do m... : mista mista
  • Isn't pretty much everything supposed to be wet? Seems like everything would at least be damp. : dirge23
  • Well, it is in an underwater utopia gone wrong that has leaking water all over the place. : Drewus
  • It's not wet. It's that plastic look that's all the rage these days. : Edges
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    1) I think it's assumed he's watching you on some camera system? Or maybe this is explained in the full g... : DOOManiac
    • He's using 1940's GPS technology duh! : Drewus
• Yea, I kinda felt the same way about the first "injection" in this demo - it felt really unnatural to do ... : High-g
• Totally agree. I was really impressed by the demo from an atmosphere/visuals/sound standpoint, but I tota... : tcs

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• This has already been done to death in other threads. Leave it alone : jbury
• Buy it off of Steam, problem solved. : bipolar
• Welcome to piracy protection 2007. : geedeck
• *click* "Dr. Beady, please report to 2K forums, please report to 2K forums please, thank you" *click* : kingdepork
• It says required for activation, not every time. : snowwolf
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  I DON'T REALLY HAVE ALL THE INFO BUT I AM SURE AM ANGRY ABOUT SOMETHING! : deveus1
  • *Twinsen* ARRG! *Twinsen* : jonin
  • THEY GAVE ME TWO KETCHUP PACKETS WHEN I CLEARLY ASKED FOR FOUR! : yoonix
  • INTERNET!!!! : someWayne
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  Wah wah wah wah wah I WANT IT NOW GIVE IT TO ME NOW YOU ARE NOT GIVING IT TO ME FAST ENOUGH It isn't ... : SpaecKow
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    Would you feel the same way if you bought a DVD but it won't play until a certain date because you got it... : Matt Burris
    • You don’t have to abstract the situation to make it personal. You all will get to play the g... : SpaecKow
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    So you saying spending money on a product gives you no right to use said product? : baron calamity
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      Pretty much. At least according to the terms of the EULA. They own the program, you only own the media. : Fyunch Click
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        So shouldn't you have to agree to the EULA at the store before it is bought? : Matt Burris
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          nope. you buy the media at the store. you theoretically read the EULA before installing. Of course, good ... : Fyunch Click
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            Does the EULA restrict the dates and times which it can be played? : baron calamity
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              no, but as owners of the program they can choose to hold back the executable and are well within their ri... : Fyunch Click
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                Anyone want to be that the pc activation will completely break on the 21st? Has 2K ever done a game that ... : baron calamity
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                  what is with this unbridled hatred of 2k. did they rape your sister and murder your dog after they drune... : ^-SeaWolf-^
                  • This is no was near unbridled. Its just that 2K seems to be doing a lot to annoy pc gamers like myself la... : baron calamity
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      So you're saying the Jews were partially responsible for the Holocaust? : SpaecKow
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        Its waaay too early on a Sunday morning to bring up Nazis. : baron calamity
        • Agreed. We should start with general fascism and move to specifics after lunchtime. : Fyunch Click
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          I wish you replied in a nice, interesting way. : SpaecKow
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            Because crying like a baby and then typing all in caps deserves and intelligent well thought out response... : baron calamity
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              Heaven forbid you should think on the internet, I am strictly against that, but just coming in and throwi... : SpaecKow
              • Yes I did and I'm sorry but I'm not being paid to entertain you. If I was being paid to entertain, you wo... : baron calamity
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    You've ignored the 2nd half of the post. I couldn't give a crap whether people can play the game before t... : nudel
    • I don't care too much if games, media, whatever require an internet connection. I just think companies s... : baron calamity
• Shut the fuck up about it already... : razlebol
• Well with 2K these days, pc gamers are second class so its no big surprise. : baron calamity
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  Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but surely this is the reason why we haven't seen a PC demo yet... : Daggoth
  • From what I gather, two different studios of Irrational...err.. 2k studios worked on the 360 and pc versi... : baron calamity
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  "Thanks for treating your PC customers like criminals 2K" Oh man.. seriously go cry now. Criminals.. lol,... : jane911
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    Well what other reason could it be? They know within hours of the first activation, the game will be hack... : baron calamity
    • so they made a bad decision in security.. i am sure they didnt INTEND to make their customers feel like c... : jane911
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  call the wahhhmbulance. you're entitled to nothing before the official date. : manero
  • That however is not the point of his post. : Jonathan
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  Dahanese should come into this thread and punch you in your vagina. I still don't see what the big deal ... : mrwolf710
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    If the internet goes down I might want to play a single-player game, or a movie or some music... If I can... : nudel
    • It would have been annoying but you'd have gotten over it. This system is in place so that it's harder t... : mrwolf710