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  Black, the game. Damm, what a disappointing piece of crap. Even worse than Quake 4, actually.... : silentw
  • WHAT!?!? Your roll... you must slow it. Black was hella fun. It did get stupid as hell toward the end ... : NeoMoose
  • Black was a complete POS, so disapointed! Hell I'll even say Quake 4 is better than Black. : bitter ego
  • that game was like thirty seconds of coolness repeated ad nauseum. it was terrible. : gokart.
  • Personally I fucking loved that game. And I thought Quake 4 was a pile of arse. : Drewus
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  wasting $60 on that steaming turd called Splinter Cell Double Agent I ended up selling it back to Game... : MagicWishMonkey
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    Which version? : MatthewPhillips
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      the 360 version. : MagicWishMonkey
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        Are you typically a Splinter Cell series fan? : MatthewPhillips
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          i bought a copy of Chaos Theory for the PC and it was fun, i only played the first couple of levels thoug... : MagicWishMonkey
          • also, I'll admit that I have become pretty picky about games over the last few years... there's >50% that... : MagicWishMonkey
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        I enjoyed it... what were you expecting? : Shadowdane
        • i don't know, I suppose it's just not my type of game. i wish games weren't so expensive so I wouldn'... : MagicWishMonkey
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    yeah, i bought that and traded it in pretty quickly. the shack games were fun but i was TERRIBLE at the ... : FrayLo
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      or maybe it was one of the other SC games. i think it was splinter cell 2, whatever that was. : FrayLo
      • Pandora Tomorrow. Yeah, that really, really sucked in comparison to the amazing first one. : node
  • The game wasn't bad once you got past how buggy it was. It had a pretty neat story too. : ErikTehRed
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  Either Dark Colony or Requiem Avenging Angel. I bought both when there was a drought in PC gaming and bo... : silent77
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    Are you kidding me? Dark Colony multiplayer was so easy to get into at the time. It wasn't the best but i... : dafugg
    • Dark Colony was my first PC game. *sniff* Oh the memories! : TheQuad
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  every rpg i have payed for since Diablo2. : .frame
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    Have you played The Witcher? : Totenjaeger
    • yes i started to but I guess I just don't like RPGs anymore... : .frame
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    lol that's because Diablo 2 isn't an RPG, stoopid : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • ok then any RPG i've payed for since the older Ultima games.... : .frame
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  Recently? Kane and Lynch. It was shit and I paid full price. I traded it in the next day for about a 10th... : marmite
  • I remember looking at that game in gamestop and thinking about buying it and then I asked maarten if it w... : sexninja!!!!
• Morrowind: Oblivion. I thought the same thing as Cockblaze. "Dude, Oblivion: Collector's Edition... it'l... : stelth
• My first MMO. While I have had a great time playing them, they have made me miss out on way too many othe... : Evil Benius
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  Messiah. : Fyunch Click
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    i loved that game! : vassili_zaitsev
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      same here : Mikuya
      • I thought it was good stuff too really. : node
      • same here : Mikuya
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    I've already done it once in this thread but.. is it ok to openly mock people for their wrongness? : dafugg
    • sure go ahead. : Fyunch Click
  • Oh god I loved that shit, such a great concept. : cdbeckman
• Buying Far cry instincts predator @ 20$ : shirif
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  you bought a video game helmet? They sell video game helmets? WTF is wrong with you, toy generation? : jaga
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    You somehow managed to avoid hearing about http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-HALOHEL-Halo-Legendary-Edition... : pyrogen
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      yes. wow. the amount of useless crap that people buy is astounding : jaga
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        In reality.. the only thing really useful thing we need to get - is food. The rest is just.. tja you tell... : humbleone
        • remove 1 thing* word.. : humbleone
        • Food + WoW monthly sub. : royalally
        • Shelter's kind of a big deal too : cdbeckman
  • That's exactly it...the toy generation. I really think that this helmet was enough to kick me in the ass... : cookblaze
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  The Halo 3 "Legendary" editions (with the helmet) are selling for $10 LESS than the "Limited" editions at... : MatthewPhillips
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    Yeah...that's just salt in the wound. : cookblaze
    • Sorry dude :( : MatthewPhillips
  • Didnt bungie at one point say that this was a hugely limited run, and that they were all almost sold out ... : Beady
  • It's a toss up between the arati lynx and the atari jaguar. : ghostmac
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  Most recent I can think of is CoD3 on release day for $70+tax. Fuck that game. : stump
  • Now imagine you're QA for that game......yeah, the developers never listened to us. : thetangent
• Guitar Hero for PS2 instead of 360... I really don't know what i was thinking : kanix
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  Battlefield 2 : action roommate
  • Battlefield "jet-rape" 2 : stump
  • Played it twice then dumped it. : djkenohki
• The special edition of Lost Planet. WTF was I thinking? : Yanks
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  Odin Sphere. Very pretty game, but I couldn't get into it. :( : guido anchovy
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    Want to sell it? : razlebol
    • My bro likes it so I gave it to him. : guido anchovy
  • The deliberate slow downs when fighting got heavy turned me off entirely. : bitter ego
  • same here. I'd sell it, just sm me. : kainen1
• guitar hero 3 - for the PS3. Only because I bought it so I'd have a bass for Rock Band. : flagg209
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  Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers (NES). Beat it the first time I played it. Didn't even lose a life. : riptyde
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    I remember loving that game as a kid, but when I play it now I'm like "WTF?" I think maybe because it wa... : flagg209
    • yeah that game was great when i was little. haven't played it since, maybe it's on youtube for memories s... : xxiv
• I'll take it if you don't want it. :) : kungfusquirrel
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  Sony PSP. : baron calamity
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    mine's actually getting alot of use since i upgraded to m33 3.80. : vassili_zaitsev
    • Yeah, I bought it to put 3.80 (now 3.90-2) on it. Best thing ever now :D : guido anchovy
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      I still have 1.50 on mine. Whats so good with the newest one? : ashkie
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        same? : Pacalon
        • More features and they still have backwards compatibility with 1.5 if you have a Fat PSP. : guido anchovy
  • Yup, fun to fuck around with but I still haven't actually finished a game on it TBH. WipeOut Pure probabl... : node
  • instead of reading some magazine on the shitter, i play my psp, FIFA08 is literally a shit game :) : dfz0r
  • Still with all fantastic games released end of last year? Are you kidding me? Ever played the God of War ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Mine has been revived by my PS3 purchase. Demo downloads and Remote Play have me using the PSP far more ... : SinistarX
• buying an xbox just to get halo 2 collectors tin. i sold both for like 100 bucks to a friend like a w... : xxiv
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  Nintendo DS. I never play it. :-( : Bold
  • What games do you have? : marmite
  • oh man, such a great handheld. Go guy some games man. May I suggest Elite Beat Agents? : cdbeckman
  • I think I play my DS more than everything else combined. Currently Slitherlink + PW4 are eating all my t... : aethyr
  • I regretted buying mine for a while but ever since I upgraded to the lite I've been playing the hell out ... : SatansFist
• 360 :/ : Chepito.
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  Quake 4 : stuka
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    you are dead to me, been playing the sp just now and it's great : dfz0r
    • Yeah, I enjoyed what I played of the sp. (over half) : OmegaRed59
• You'd think it was the Auto Assault limited Edition but the headphones were pretty good... nope my bigges... : Jonathan
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  Black & White. >:( : DM7
  • yeah that was a pretty big let down. : xxiv
  • ^^^^^ : DonkeyPopsicle
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    Oh God, I had blocked that disaster from my memory till you reminded me. : guido anchovy
    • You blocked it until now? B&W comes up almost daily whenever someone dumps on a game. : ThomW
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    It was good for the "villagers need..." meme. Although I guess you didn't have to buy it for that :( : pilgrimage
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      This is where that came from? Interesting. : Evil Benius
      • The villagers would literally shout it at you if things became dire. : Lone Swordsman
  • IAWTP. What a piece of shit. I'll never buy a Peter Molineuiouiyouyroiux game ever again unles it totally : [7]kami
  • Yes. Still bitter. : nomaad
  • haha wow i was gonna post this too. : GonzoRookie
  • No civilization in history has been 1/10th as inept or self-destructive as those fucking villagers. : ChibiJosh
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    i got that for christmas. then i got black & white 2 for another christmas. i haven't even installed th... : jenisthebest
    • The second one was much more playable. Though I have to admit I liked the first one. :/ : thetangent
  • I liked it until my damn titan was taken away from me. : Lone Swordsman
  • Growing my influence as far as I could with my resources, then finding the next village was still too far... : node
  • Ugh. :( : Audhuml4
  • :'( : cdbeckman
  • Me too, and I only payed $10 for it. And it came with another game. And I was STILL ripped off! :( : Orange Pylon
  • Why all the hate? I actually had a grand time playing this game in skirmish mode. : WaterSign
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  Nintendo Wii - I never play it : bozer
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    troll !!!! : Iwannaacura
    • Not really. I'd say the Gamecube too but I played that more then the Wii even : bozer
  • *sigh* I have to agree, at least for now. Honestly, I put maybe 10 hours into Zelda and I've only got ... : SatansFist
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  kingdom hearts : snicker-snack 2
  • LOL I bought it when it first came out and I think I played maybe 30 min total... I think I still have it... : SatansFist
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  I'd say Final Fantasy XI, or whichever number was the MMORPG. Worst $54.95 I ever spent. :( : Home Nugget
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    Loved that game. It would have taken a game like WoW to get me away from it. Years of time invested in it... : royalally
    • My play style was completely incompatible with the game's design. - World server was assigned, not se... : Home Nugget
• i bought splinter cell chaos theory PC for $39.99. i think i played 2 levels and then uninstalled it cuz... : vassili_zaitsev
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  Diakatana : Slowtreme
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    The Shack Consensus said that it was going to suck before it came out. You gotta listen man. : R0CK
    • it was a joke, no one paid money for that. : Slowtreme
• Gonna have to go with the Power Glove on that one : icon_of_syn
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  U-Force for Nintendo. : zerog83
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    THIS! : flagg209
    • thank god someone replied. I thought I was the only one who had this worthless piece of garbage. : zerog83
• Most of the console games I've bought over the last year. They've been some great games, I'm not sayin... : RevRaven
• Gran Turismo 3. I hate hate hate racing sims and I have no idea why I thought this one would be different... : ieGod
• Spending nearly a grand on the wii, accessories and a bunch of games the week it came out : Omning
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  32x. : xxiv
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    don't forget Sega CD : zerog83
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      The SegaCD was completely worth it to me because of Willy Beamish. I fucking loved that game. : R0CK
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        actually I did hear that was a good one; same with Sewer Shark and Sonic CD (one game that I never got to... : zerog83
        • oh! and Mad Dog McCree : zerog83
        • playing Sonic CD Christmas morning is one of my best memories from my childhood. such a great game : dewdman
        • Sonic CD was sooo good. : zakazi
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        I loved my SegaCD. I spent so much time playing shit like Dragon's Lair, Sonic CD, Eternal Champions CD, ... : stelth
        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LULwAjCEUs&feature=related for life yo : stelth
        • Eternal Champions kicked so much ass. Best story an characters in a fighter EVER. Such a shame they only ... : node
        • I wasted a good deal of time on the PC version of Rise of the Dragon. Cool game. : Orange Pylon
      • Thank GOD someone remembers the awesomeness of Willy Beamish aside from me. Yes, one of the best adventur... : RevRaven
      • Willy Beamish, WireHead, that fire-fighting game... : Omning
      • first time I played Monkey Island 1 was on the Sega CD if I remember correctly... well worth it - that an... : dedgecko
      • Instant win for having an english version of Snatcher. Dark Wizard and Sonic CD weren't bad either. : Orange Pylon
  • lol, angry video game nerd reviews the 32x http://www.gametrailers.com/player/19558.html : knepus
  • lol even I knew that thing was stupid and i was like 13! : sexninja!!!!
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    I remember when toys r us had a big stack of those in the open (not even behind glass which showed how mu... : mikecyb
    • That's when I got mine! It was completely worth it for Virtua Racing, I played that game nonstop : Rasnowl
• Madden 08. : dirge23
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  NWN 2. I played like 20 minutes and hated every one of them. Terrible controls, script, just total meh af... : node
  • first bit is a touch slow, and the indordinately linear progression is a bit cloying, but there's some re... : bipolar
  • MOTB fixes just about everything with that one though. : Autocrawler
• i kinda regret wow :) : dfz0r
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  Dark Reign 2. Although I'm sure there are a few others. : Silent Sorrow
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    Really? i thought it was a decent RTS and the music was and still is excellent. : node
    • I had high hopes for it, but, IIRC, the control scheme and camera control was very odd and took too much ... : Silent Sorrow
• Importing a Nintendo 64 from the USA. Mario 64 was good but the rest? Piece of shit. : GodZilly
• Wii bundle that I never touch anymore. : hohoh0
• FFX/2 I didn't think it could be that bad. : Totenjaeger
• like everybody, my wii, yet like most everybody i'm a faggot who refuses to sell it : [fry]
• halo for the xbox, i know this will come off as a troll but ive said this numerous times that halo swore ... : arizona bay
• Motherfucking Unlimited Saga. Saga Frontier 1 and 2 were awesome, I thought Unlimited would also be aweso : Modica Sol Solis
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  Virtual Boy, purchased day of release at $189 + 4 games @ $29 each : dignan
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    But that system is awesome. : MoreVespeneGas
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      not @ $200. : dignan
      • at $500 its awesome : MoreVespeneGas
    • RISC processors baby.... : dignan
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    I remember seeing these in Toys R Us for $25 when they were discontinued and wishing I had picked one up ... : Evil Benius
    • Nintendo recalled all games from Japan and sold them at EB, picked up all kinds of games cheap. I still... : dignan
    • I bought one and a handful of games when they were on clearance like this. Was totally worth it. : DinK
    • There's my regret, I wish I would have picked one of those up. : zakazi
• Brute Force and Advent Rising are right up there for me. What a couple of turds. : wretchedradio
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  Dead Rising... totally shack hyped on that one... : Str8Dog
  • Just started playing this one this weekend after owning it for over a year and not even taking it out of ... : Silent Sorrow
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    :( Dead Rising is one of my favorite 360 games :( : Begawkiness
    • same. I love it lots : R0CK
  • i just got it and i'm enjoying it to a degree, but it's definitely in the top tier of most frustrating ga... : grifter
• Lately? Ace Combat 6 In the history of my gaming experience :SUPERMAN 64... worst game ever made. : conandan
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  The Witcher. I just didn't enjoy playing it at all. : c0bra
  • END YOURSELF : duncandun
• Pirates of the Burning Sea, Madden 07 and 08, DS Lite (only partially because I really like Mario Kart an... : Tommy Toolbag
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  ps2 : duncandun
  • I'll take it off your hands for you! : Chepito.
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16345348 : Frank_Mackey
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  Perfect Dark Zero. It was the only game I got for launch. "OMG YEZ NEXT-GEN....o gawd wtf is this crap?!?... : h o s t i l e
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    when I sold it back in late december, early january I got 15 fuckin dollars for it too. fucking EB... : h o s t i l e
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      have you ever seen how many used copies of that game is on their selves? im almost surprised you got tha... : pandastrong
      • December as in the month after launch... : h o s t i l e
    • I got $35 for it, but I sold it back in like 3 days. : edgewise
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  Max Payne :[ : My Documents
  • WHAT?!?!?!?! : OmegaRed59
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    May you have a thousand yeast infections :( : EvilDolemite
    • oooo burn itch : marmite
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    Why don't you just kick me in the face : dognose
    • srsly, you cannot let this aggression stand! : Postal
  • TBH i kinda agree. Installed, played through a bunch of levels... meh. Same story with Max 2. Same with ... : [7]kami
• I tell myself over and over again to never buy collector's edition. Then I missed out on the WoW CE box. ... : DooBall
• Steel Battalion : cerealSAM2
• NWN2. The only game in recent memory I actually returned. : Arcanum
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  Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. I asked for it for my birthday when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I had alre... : Finestaut
  • The SNES one? Yeah, that's without a doubt the worst FF game out there. It was one of the few games I sol... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Temple of Elemental Evil is the first game that comes to mind. What a waste of $50 -- so many bugs. : pandastrong
• Waiting in line for 6 hours at Wal-Mart to buy a GameCube with Squad Leader, Luigi's Mansion, a memory ca... : ateam311
• Republic the Revolution. It looked so cool, I played for 10 hours straight and got nowhere : pzilla
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  Mario Party for me and the lady friend. It was sweet in college but without the other guys and beers it ... : handofthrawn
  • lol : Cyco52
• Black & White : spigot
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  I bought outpost...... : jonin
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    I thought Outpost was awesome, I was probably too young to recognize the suckage though. : Sapiens
    • Same here - someone bought it for me, and I thought it was really cool. Even had the big strategy guide t... : thetangent
  • Outpost was so good. : zigaroo
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  xbox360 that just sits in my living room and has been turned on once : AllYourBase
  • Heh, nigh the same here, I'll be probably using it for Ninja Gaiden 2 though. : Autocrawler
• NFS: Pro Street.... Someone should have stopped EA from making this Forza rip-off with arcade physics. T... : bitter ego
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  DDR. So lame! : Super Sparker
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    Forgot about that one...I blame that on the lady friend though. : cookblaze
    • DDR is so much fun though :( : oHnOES
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  I almost bought Steel Battalion, close call on that one. Now if it had had MP then it might have been al... : sleepytea
  • It does on XBL. : marmite
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    This is the second time in the thread I see it mentioned. As a guy who slobbers over every big robot he ... : Finestaut
    • It was doomed from the start as a business proposition, but as a game experience, it stands as one of my ... : pwnage1232
    • I played a friend's and it was really fun. But the cost is just too high. I never heard about this MP t... : sleepytea
  • bought this off a coworker for $25 cash. Controller, game, everything. : deathofrats
• Unreal Tournament 2003. What a POS. : serenj
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  The Nostromo N50 speed-pad, I believe it was called. Giant piece of shit. : sinner0423
  • Its really good for creating macros. : ann thracks
• The Witcher, Guild Wars, : edgewise
• Halo PC. I had never really played the game that much before I bought the PC version. I was very disappoi... : Link.
• MOO3 : ShadowRam
• Daikatana : digital_d
• every Mana game since Secret of Mana. : yAak
• Gears of War for the PC. Have yet to get to the 3rd checkpoint without it hard locking my comp. : Wyvern
• Every MMO I bought and played for 6 months except WoW and possibly Planetside when it was hopping. : Fred Garvin
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  GIANT citizen kabuto. wtf was that game. : chilln
  • That game was awesome. You fail. : moogle
  • awesome? : dewdman
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    That game was hilarious and novel. : spazzium
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      It was fun, definitely, though I felt like it overstayed its welcome a bit. The last few levels were pret... : Fayk
      • loooooved playing with the marines, the gal, not so much, never got to the giant bit. : barichnikov
  • loved it.... until the fucking stupid races. : barichnikov
• Dead or Alive 2. or Dead or Alive 3. or Dead or Alive 4. : Dimmona
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  Hellgate London : TastyWheat
  • Same with me. What a piece of shit. : Head Rush
  • oh god, i'd made myself forget this, thanks for bringing it up. : yAak
• Clive Barker's Jericho. : NUZRUB
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  I paid full price for C&C: Tiberian Sun and played it like once. : Zero|DPX
  • C&C 2 was fun and pretty much just like the original. What did you expect? : Totenjaeger
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  MOO3 is the biggest game I regret buying, at full price ($50)...The MOO3 manual was ok I guess :/ : Frozen Pixel
  • Yeah, this. I returned it the next day, thankfully it was before the big "NO RETURN UNOPENED SOFTWARE" br... : Deathlove
  • I was so looking forward to this game. Played it for around an hour, boxed it up, and returned it. : Warrior5689
• ETQW : AlexXdude
• Assassins creed. : hirosushima
• Nintendo DS : dilutedq
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  Vanguard. : phokz
  • I actually just picked this up again... : chungathebunga
• I was trying to find something I really regretted (maybe my GBA SP which I only really used as a controll... : nurglich
• When I was much younger I bought Star Trek: New Worlds, simply because it was a Star Trek game and I love... : thetangent
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  Sega Saturn or the Atari Jaguar. It's a tough call. : bad_fish
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    nuts, the saturn was an awesome system : qwpeoriu
    • Maybe it just joined my gaming library at a bad time. I got almost 0 use out of it and can't think of any... : bad_fish
  • ohhhh no joo deeant just slam the saga saturn heathen!? : greydog
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    Haha you bought an Atari Jaguar? OMG. : riptyde
    • I guess AVP was kinda fun but not worth the price of the console. : bad_fish
• Really hard to say. I would guess WOW just because of the immense amounts of time I wasted playing a gam... : nukewinter
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  I remember impulsivly buying Red Faction because madgrad kept gushing over how awesome it was only to rem... : sexninja!!!!
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    oh and i forgot the biggest one of all: Metal Gear Solid 2 >:( : sexninja!!!!
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      and i'll throw my PSP into the mix. though i did play the fuck out of lumines. i would probably really li... : sexninja!!!!
      • actually i guess ill take that back. i got a good amount of playing out of it. : sexninja!!!!
  • also deus ex, ico, winning 11, and wipeout tags: tomservo, pupismyname, haiku : sexninja!!!!
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  I'm not sure about ever but in the past year, my biggest regret was S.T.A.L.K.E.R I just couldn't get int... : uglysad
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    that sucks. i LOVED that game. one of my favorite in the past couple years. : grifter
    • I liked this game okay but had too many serious technical problems. I lost my save games twice, somehow. : dirge23
  • I can understand this...the game is there, and very cool, they just make you work very hard to get at it. : speon
• GT Legends. : GrimmyD
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  3DO. : mankeroo
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    Yeah, other than the original need for speed, the best road rash (too bad it was so framey), a great port... : Fayk
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      Return Fire. : socksta
      • That too, but I was being a bit sarcastic. Oh, and the second Space Hulk game. The 3dO was ultimately ... : Fayk
• Total Annihilation Kingdoms, and Pirates of the Caribean (sea dawgs 2) : Stoned Gargoyle
• BF1942. No game related, but in highschool (~12 years ago now) I spent ~650 bucks on a drum set and I... : Chunks
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  X360 racing wheel : Mmmmmoo
  • ill buy it off you : arizona bay
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  Helmet? The one that came with the Collectors edition? I want that still :/ : sharkII
  • It shouldn't be hard to find...for cheap. :/ : cookblaze
• Titan Quest. : Sgt_Boomstick
• All those Final Fantasy GBA games I'll never play. : speon
• some deer hunter game :/ : Xhost
• Either the collector's edition of Ultima IX or Force Commander. : Ely
• Z: Steel Soldiers - Demo was excellent, however in the full version it seemed too easy to get deadlocked ... : fen boi
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  Unrelated, but I regret using the ATM on Friday night -- I asked for $300 and it gave me $40 but charged ... : itsjames
  • I asked for $50 one time and it gave me jack shit. They reversed the charge tho. : mancide
• Black & White: Shackhype FAIL : AMikaboshi
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  Trackmania United : yuiwork
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    Wasn't that game free? : riptyde
    • Nations was the free one. : Orange Pylon
• I'd have to say Master of Orion 3 was the biggest waste of my gaming money ever. : pigvomit
• Other than what has been mentioned before, I kind of regret buying Civ IV. I want to like the game, and ... : Rag and Bone Man
• Battlefield: Vietnam : K1Bond007
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  Bomberman? I suck. : Sylvanus
  • I don't *hate* it. I just suck at it and don't seem to play it. I'd get more out of my dollar playing P... : Sylvanus
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  Animal Crossing DS & Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow : Blackdawgg
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    Hah. I did that too on the DS. Returned it saying it sucked ass :P : Malku
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      Eb wouldn't take it back and I got mad at it and threw it across the room and the cartridge opened. I pla... : Blackdawgg
      • find fine : Blackdawgg
      • Very mature, dude. : Super Sparker
  • ugh, i got pandora tomorrow for free with a video card and i still felt ripped off. : grifter
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  guitar hero 3. i should have put that money towards rock band instead. : pyide
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    And then spend all your time RMA'ing the cheap shit they pass as instruments. : Blackdawgg
    • the neck connection is really loose on this les paul and my friends fender has had zero problems while be... : pyide
• I felt good about buying it. $60 not long after the game was released is a nice deal. Brand new. : paravis
• UT2k4. i only played it twice. :( : d0pamine
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  Titan Quest (sorry Sevogajre). I bought this hoping it would take, but now that I have even less time to... : spazzium
  • You're an idiot for not playing the greatest dungeon crawler ever made, Diablo 2, anyway. So Titan Quest... : sevogajre
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  Messiah. Mechcommander. Mechcommander2 (Why did I DO THIS TO MYSELF?) Pools of Radiance (the new one, ... : Fayk
  • You regretted MC2? It had its problems, but it was more than decent. I ended up playing it through severa... : Silent Sorrow
• The Atari Jaguar. I had to have it. I called around for months waiting for someone to get one in stock, d... : Gnowknayme
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  PS3, Hellgate London. : adsriordan
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    how much for the PS3? : pyide
    • I should rephrase that. I regret paying $599 for it. I'll keep it now that Blu-Ray has won. Considerin... : adsriordan
• 3DO. : SinistarX
• Vanguard. I bought the collectors edition :( : shortbuscaptain
• black&white. totally taken in by the shackhype. ugh : beastrabban
• Lands of Lore 2: Guardians of Destiny. Also, Black and White, Halo PC, Gears of War PC. : freshyk
• Battlefield 2 ... owned by shackhype. Hellgate London ... owned by me. CoD4 ... bought it under fal... : InfoBiter
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  either Battlefield 1942, or Soldier of Fortune 2 : MikkleThePickle
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    Bf1942?! wow.. : beastrabban
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      same thing for both games actually... those demos were fantastic and I played them to death, and it turne... : MikkleThePickle
      • you're absolutely entitled to your opinion... but the "demo" was really just a level, so I would argue th... : beastrabban
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        the demo for 1942 was okay, but the full version was so much better. epic shackbattles every damn weekend... : pyide
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          I kinda agree with you, the the demo *performed* so so much better. Sound problems didn't start until the... : geedeck
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            it also had horrible networking compared to the full version. lagged shots and movement, warping players ... : pyide
            • It's funny how the bugs in BF games affected people in such incredibly varying ways. There are many peop... : riptyde
  • Wow yea, add SoF2 to my list. I think that was played for like 3-4 days. The demo got way more use for me... : Chunks
  • what the fuck is the matter with you : feek
• Recently, probably Tiger Woods for the Wii. I thought it would be fun and relaxing like Wii Golf. Quite... : slax0r
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  my latest is the Microsoft Steering Wheel for the 360. Anyone wanna buy it? : prime8
  • Second'd :( : pyros
• Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2. No idea why I bought the second one since I hated the first one. : timmie
• Buying an ATA xtx1900xt for Oblivion would be mine. Not because I think Oblivion sucks, I just got sick o... : lolbotomy
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  UT2K7 Collector's Edition. Its only redeeming feature is that I can cut my wrists with the steel box. : ArB
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    I'm playing UT3 on and off and I think it's great :( : nomaad
    • Oh yeah, I forgot that it's called UT3. I play it once in awhile, but it just isn't as fun to me as p... : ArB
    • Agreed. I fire it up every once in a while to play single-player and every time I wonder why I'm not play... : OverloadUT
    • I really like the game, but there are never many games going online. It would rock if we could get some ... : Head Rush
• Maybe they'll package a cod piece with Halo 3. They could call it the "Ultimate Package." : capt tripps
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  black & white x2. I bought it for a friend. It was so bad i never asked him to pay me for it :( : filthysock
  • Oh god yeah. I bought B&W2. That is definitely my official submission for this thread. : OverloadUT
• cognitive dissonance right there folks : red2lucas
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  World of Warcraft ... i basically said goodbye to my life for like 3 years. : pixelat3d
  • Dark age of camelot did that for me, but I think I'm better for it. I learned a lot about myself during t... : Chunks
• I'm going to say the CD-ROM for TurboGrafix. I bought it solely for Y's Adventures and while it was a gr... : redfive
• Battlefield Vietnam.. played that pos maybe 10 times. and ut2k4... no one played it! : fotografico
• wii. havent touched it since i beat mario galaxy : mr.sleepy
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  Vanguard collectors edition. Thanks Modica and Bantis. : Pettytheft
  • LOL. Me, too. Too bad that game tanked so hard. : geneshifter
• Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor. I didn't actually pay for it, but I got it for Christmas instead of ... : DOOManiac
• Atari 2600 ET & PC Rise of the Robots : capt tripps
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  Pool of Radiance (the newer one) : dionex
  • Is that the one that would accidently delete you're Program Files dir if you uninstalled it? : capt tripps
• my 360, good games, i just never play them. : tension

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  You should have saved it to .doc file. That was pretty silly of you to upload a new format only available... : pancake humper
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    Or Office 2003 users with the free converters from Office Update or the free viewers available from Micro... : RomSteady
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      It's his responsibility for the assignment to be opened by the professor correctly. He should have made i... : pancake humper
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        See now...this is a load of bullshit. I'm dumping dollars and dollars and dollars into their company and... : changejar419
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          Not really. It costs money to upgrade to the latest and greatest every year. We're still on word97 by nec... : mattfl
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            Right, but see this is a school. It wouldn't cost them that much to upgrade everything to Office2k7 and ... : changejar419
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              It's fairly likely that the professor is the one who would be installing the update, and he probably does... : Arcanum
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                That's why I blamed their IT dept. They are the people responsible for getting this kind of information ... : changejar419
                • You're getting pissy because a brand-new, unusual, arguably dead-end format with very little support outs... : Arcanum
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                  Most professors (at least CS profs) use their own personal machines, or even if they use departmental mac... : afty
                  • (at least CS profs) DINGDINGDING Most other profs don't know much more about computers than the aver... : whistler
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          well that's a fine and dandy theory in changejar419 world , but while your going out of business wasting : NoCopy
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            The compatibility pack is free. : changejar419
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              It's also deployable via GPO's : hawkeye
              • Which is what all Unis should have done by now. : Merconium
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            ah ha... so now we are no longer talking about making sure all your users can read "all available formats... : NoCopy
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              First off, you're approaching me with an air of stuffy deuchebaggery because? Second, I never said any... : changejar419
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                I have to agree with these guys though. You should have saved it in a more common format. : sharkII
                • Common when? Now? Yeah, sure. But they will have to push the docx eventually and people aren't going t... : changejar419
              • 1. because the language in your original post is strong and you are the type of people I deal with on occ : NoCopy
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    He should have, but they should also download the compatibility patch. : DarkWolf5
    • they probably use office 2000 though : dantastic
  • He wants to prove that he is on the cusp of present technology. : stump
• We've been getting more people saying they are getting emailed .docx file, I tell them to email back gett... : mattfl
• i would be a dick and give you F and let you know I only accept PDFs... : Str8Dog
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  Why would anyone use .docx anyway? So few people can open it, and it's the prototypical platform-lock for... : Yanks
  • Also, most of my professors who are tech savvy enough to know what docx is print in bold letters on the s : Yanks
  • Often Universities get this stuff for nearly free so they upgrade all their computers quickly. Cost to st... : DarkWolf5
  • No one should ever use docx and frankly I see it dying in the next Office. Why? Well let's see - not all ... : avatar_58
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    Look how wrong you are. It is not a platform-local format at all. Docx is an open format. : rosewood
    • what? no it isn't, and it's about to be redone anyway ... total dead-end : jcupitt
• I think the current docx is (probably) a dead-end. The ooxml format is going through standardization now ... : jcupitt
• you're the nublet for not saving it to doc format : boomstickah
• Docx is a scourge. It should be purged. This I urge. : Home Nugget
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  I would absolutely expect this for saving it in .docx : derelict515
  • Same. Saving it in .odt would only be marginally worse. : Arcanum
• you know you can set word 2007 to automatically save in doc instead of docx, I've done this because its g... : RobFlinn
• You're actually surprised? Good god.. : bamb
• they should have just gave you a zero for using such a craptacular format : ]pm[chem
• We are dealing with this constantly where I work. We've had to load the compatibility pack. : silent77
• duh ? : manero
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  Ok, let me explain a bit more. This is for a TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT : mancide
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    wtf post form... anyway TSM degree. This was specifically for an e-commerce marketing course. Seriously,... : mancide
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      You should probably go ahead and resubmit it. : FlatlineDixay
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        I was going to... just thought this was odd. I mean it's not like it's impossible to buy a new computer w... : mancide
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          IT people care about Office 2007. Nobody else does. This includes professors in computer-related ... : FlatlineDixay
          • In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of IT professors are teaching because they got tired of dealing... : FlatlineDixay
        • You are advocating the use of a bleeding-edge microsoft file format for no good reason other than it bein... : marku5
    • What difference does it make to you saving to .doc or .pdf and guaranteeing they will be able to read it?... : marku5
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      Yes, and I would assume that for telecommunications systems management, the best course of action is to u... : Anti_dentite
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        So then why does he not want it in RTF? I mean RTF would be readable for a vastly wider range of people t... : mancide
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          I got my habit for putting everything into RTF from high school and I haven't budged since. : pwnage1232
          • Even in Fedora/Ubuntu I still use RTF over ODF : chiisu81
        • DOC is support by basically every rich text editor out there. That's a pretty poor analogy. : Horn
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  This is why we need ODF. : theamazingrand0
  • Fuck that, docx is open. I say we use it since office 2007 is the shit. : rosewood
• I use OpenOffice quite a bit and when required to hand in a paper, I would give them the exported .doc an... : mtgDoofy
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  I was considering giving up word 97-03 compatibility mode sometimes soon, but there are too many of those... : melt_core
  • my organization is still on office 2000 with the exception of outlook 2003. : cpt_gloval
• Keep using docx, it is good shit. : rosewood

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  I'm waiting for the single-player beta : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • :( : mwasher
  • roflmao :D : mc-fine
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  is this preorder for kane's wrath only? some people at work were talking about getting letters in the mai... : xsoulbrothax
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    And this is what happens when people dig up games that are 10 years old. The acronyms start getting screw... : Entity
    • oh dammit. so just funny timing haha. HEY GUYS A RED ALERT 3 BETA IS GOING UP in september at the earlies : xsoulbrothax
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  Because I keep getting owned by people who never stop playing and it pisses me off. Threewave CTF inst... : razlebol
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    I thought the fly-by-night shack setups were passworded : Downforce
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      They are but it looks like some of the shackers are really good. : razlebol
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        well a bunch are coming out of retirement. I know my mouse sensitivity and binds were all off, people got... : Downforce
        • Do you have a config I can throw in there? : mp7rox
        • fraps shows that I am only getting 90 fps for some reason. : razlebol
  • FUCK YES. I'm all about 3wave or CPMA, that would be awesome and less frustrating. : Visceral Monkey
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    How much RA3 have you played? It's extremely unforgiving, but you learn to take the pain and become bett... : RyDogg1
    • I used to play a lot and be very good at it but that was more than 5 years ago. I can have fun with a lot... : razlebol
  • I played last night for the first time in 4 years, and did pretty well. I had stopped playing it =( : paravis
• i was just about to join... is no one playing right now? : Break
• I want to so bad. : dilutedq
• You guys playing? Oh shi : mp7rox
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  Rocket Arena 3? Red Alert 3? WTF? : PenicillinX57
  • yah my first thought was Red Alert 3, and I almost had a heart attack!! : Shadowdane
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  Fuck RA3 (still great). Let's go back to RA2/JAILBREAK/QPONG. : DooBall
  • Action Quake II : dmason
  • I can get behind this. : ieGod
  • I'm SO down for RA2. : snagger
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  Because it's not 8 years ago? : mrwolf710
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    I kid. I need to get this installed and start playing. : mrwolf710
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      back in the day weren't you da man? : mp7rox
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        Meh...Rocket Arena I never got into. : mrwolf710
        • And also I just tried getting it to work and my mouse cursor disappears when I load the game up. Q3A wor... : mrwolf710
• are we going to CA? Or one on one? I suck at both. : mp7rox
• Bummed this isn't about some secret leak of Red Alert 3. : aggro crag
• You guys are really making me want to play again.. : re4ctor
• aaarrrrghhhhh, installing. : genjuro
• At my parents right now I'll be playing later when I get home. : RyDogg1
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  holy shit there's a shack server up!? where's the info? : gokart.
  • nero.shackbattles.com : razlebol
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  they are all afraid of ImageOmega and InfoB's hax I know I am : mc-fine
  • you shouldn't be you can rail people jumping through the air. : mp7rox
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  Seriously get in here people. I'm kicking ass. : ieGod
  • I can testify. : mp7rox
  • I can't keep track of these passwords. Is it in the steam group? : reelbk
• Because it's not out yet, silly. : AroundTheFur1380
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  i have a q3 cd. are there mac binaries out there that i can use? : j0nchan
  • here's a trick. download the mac q3 demo and update it to the latest patch. copy over the q3 pak files,... : dopeman
• i';ll be back after i finish this paper : fotografico
• And you had to write it in red, I almost thought the demo for red alert 3 was out :( : lausai
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  I just want something really fun and different yet still twitchy and 1vs1 like RA3. That was really the t... : ovrlrd
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    And speaking about the other game, I would like to try it, but I don't see how it can be as good as the o... : ovrlrd
    • I think UT3 has some kind of Rocket arena integrated in the main game. : razlebol

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• Good luck and god speed good sir! : buzzbat
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  my god you will get owned in UT : Patch-e
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    thanks for the vote of confidence : PapaBoo
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      he's not wrong though : itsjames
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        srsly, it's gotta be one of the more frantic, fast-paced shooters out there. I can just see him moving h... : Patch-e
        • I disagree. The bots in UT2004 scale very well. On the lowest difficulty they will provide a bit of chall... : OverloadUT
• Keep us updated, and good luck PapaBoo! : Demius
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  I've followed your troubles a little bit, and even though I think you should've started with something ea... : Sludgehead
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    I did the same thing. Wolf3D, DOOM, Quake--all keyboard. I even used to do Q2DM with keyboard but defin... : Omaha
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      Omaha, I am shocked. I thought as a member of HARD GAME CLUB, you would be up to the challenge of a mous... : CrustaR
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        With Wolf and Doom though, don't forget that the mouse was used for movement, not freelook - it was a lot... : mn3m0n1c
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          You're somewhat correct to an extent, but you could use the mouse for looking horizontally. Doom was the... : CrustaR
          • Was that looking or turning though? It's been so long I don't remember, myself. I do have Doomsday instal... : mn3m0n1c
      • But I played with a pair of clothespins on the tip of my dick. Doesn't that make the game harder? (AMon... : Omaha
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  That letter is awesome. : Wadmaasi
  • Yeah that's bloody great - what a cool gesture :) : jbury
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  Have people suggested that you start at the beginning? i.e. with doom or some others game that doesn't u... : chazums
  • many times : PapaBoo
  • You are forgetting that plenty of people started gaming long after the +mouselook revolution. You do not ... : OverloadUT
• Let me know if you want someone to walk you through the basics. I'll gladly help. : omnova
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  are you the someorne I am thinking yoou are? or am I crazy and just making things up cause I read your na... : Sebasti0n
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    PapaBoo is definitely NOT Remo hahahahahahah, still laughing. : tashtego
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      hahaha seriously, you need to watch papaboo.wmv. : deject
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        http://degenerate.shackspace.com/Shack/papaboo.wmv : deject
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          Is that really PapaBoo?? : ghostmac
          • yes :( : PapaBoo
        • Haha. That video is still great. : MacemanInTW
  • LOL : felicia
  • Crazy doesn't even begin to describe the thought process you must have gone through to think that! ;) : OverloadUT
  • I got stuck with him on a rollercoaster ride and he's definitely not Remo. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • well that explains why he got fired : aeg1x
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    update: not remo : PapaBoo
    • update: still emo : askedrelic
  • what the fuck? : SockMonkeh
• hahahahahaaaa nice letter : Jayx77
• Arrows4Life : Kerath
• beware of hopping snipers. if it weren't for those little bastards I'd have enjoyed unreal so much more. : beastrabban
• Nice letter. We need to get together and get Papaboo in a UT2k4 Shackbattle. We can take it easy on him t... : jonin
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  Are you using both hands now? WASD and mouse at the same time? : lechuck59
  • working on it : PapaBoo

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  I think you hit the crux of your issues at the end there: not enough people have the time nor inclination... : marku5
  • Fair enough. I don't think this would work for all or even perhaps most games. Seems like the real issu... : ezanga
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  Replays are hard to do. For example, it's because of bugs in the replay system that "SiN Episodes" arena... : RomSteady
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    I thought i fought jetpack grunts in Sin Episodes? Clearly, there are challenges with this concept. T... : ezanga
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      You did fight them in "SiN Episodes," just not in arena mode. In arena mode, we only put in enemies that... : RomSteady
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        Ah gotcha. Interesting. What was the problem? Why didn't the replay system like flying entities? : ezanga
        • Replays in the Source engine weren't really a "supported" feature. We tried tracking down by jetpack gru... : RomSteady
  • Luke Timmins talks a bit about this sort of thing in the latest Bungie podcast. About how the client is d... : Dave-A
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  I would not mind seeing clips of you fighting bosses played in the background during the credits. : Evil Benius
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    ohhh... the final 5-10 seconds before each boss "level" (when you think they killed them then they trans... : sticman77
    • I remember Romancing Saga 3 for the SNES had this where it showed how you defeated each boss during the c... : DHAvatar
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  Wouldn't it take many hours just to watch yourself play through the average-length game? : FlatlineDixay
  • It would. But you wouldn't be watching every death, just the "version" where you live. That would take ... : ezanga
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  Halo 3 comes pretty close to fulfilling everything you want. : rock elf
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    Single player? The whole game? (I've not played H3). : ezanga
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      Yes, films automatically get recorded from all single-player and multi-player games. Films are split into... : rock elf
      • Slick. Have you watched any of yours? : ezanga
• EA's Ncaa 08 lets you rewatch them all and save a small number of them, and even upload a few of your fav... : raspu2n
• I don't think a full playback would be very interesting. Something that dynamically identifies highlight... : Arcanum
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  Do you have a mirror behind your bed? : A Sponge
  • its probably on the ceiling : Unleashed
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    Over my bed <Yeaaaahhhh Baby!> : ezanga
    • I'm sorry, that guild name is taken. : RomSteady
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  It would be nice but not feasible really. However some form of it should be available in certain genres ... : Wombat Woo
  • It seems to me this is not an issue of technical feasibility, but rather an issue of cost/benefit. To ma... : ezanga
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    It's not hard at all, really, technically speaking. You just need to track entities. You could have sev... : CrustaR
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      Recording is easy. Figuring out what's interesting and what's filler, setting up good cinematic camera a... : Arcanum
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        I'm certain you can do that all in playtesting. : CrustaR
        • I don't think you understand the problem. It's not a static thing you 'do all in playtesting.' Figuring w... : derelict515
      • So why not simply record the entire experience and give the player the tools to edit all the frill as s/h... : Modica Sol Solis
    • If oyu've ever seen a TF2 game on SourceTV with the auto director on you'll know it's pretty impossible. ... : Jonathan
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    It is definitely technically feasable. You don't need to record videos or anything, basically just a log ... : famine101
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      The free rotating camera system would not be available "free of charge" performance wise. Consider games ... : ieGod
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        Not hard to apply collision detection to the camera. : losder5000
        • Captain Obvious to the rescue. You're right, fixed perspective games would be a pain. For some reason I... : losder5000
• I agree and I would totally use this feature for games like HL2 or Crysis. I'd love to see a "cinematic" ... : OverloadUT
• I like this idea, Bioshock or Crysis would be good choices to watch! : cjcharv
• Games like Devil May Cry are the only ones I'd like to see replays for, just because I'm too focused to k... : walker270
• I don't get the appeal. Why watch something when you can do it? That's always been my interest in games... : EvilDolemite
• I'd rather all games have a mandatory theater mode for cutscenes, both in-game and pre-rendered. Develop... : David Craddock
• It would be almost impossible to make this anything other than dead boring for most games, : Kerath
• Humm. Well in general, games (especially action games) are bad at dumping you out of the experience too ... : Johnny Law
• Instead, I play through again on easy mode. : Sze Ior
• I would think that the feature you describe would work better in a third-person game because the characte : Ajax
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  Ninja Gaiden 2 is going to have a recording feature...i'm assuming it'll be broken up by level or area. I... : Borzoi
  • 'wish NG had it...i can never get over the easter egg & extra magic orb i got doing a 50-hit combo in th... : Borzoi
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  Myth and Myth II effectively did this, if I recall. It's funny, if you play it through, saving and rel... : Fayk
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    I loved those games. so wish someone would make a decent new one : hamachi
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      The multi-player was obscenely fun. I'm surprised nobody has copied it that I know of. For those that did... : Psigun
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        Company of Heroes is the closest thing I can think of, with its de-emphasized base building and emphasis ... : Fayk
        • I think had Relic been able to do Halo Wars rather than Ensemble it would be as big a hit as the original... : Jonathan
• I'd like to see that. : lplasmatron

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  I dont have any threats at the moment, Ive done almost no trading outside of the shack, so I doubt I have... : mrvandelay
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    Disposition and I are going to get some military might going on a non-contributing/military aggressor ton... : Grezdfez
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      If you have spies in his town, be sure to find out if he has a navy before inviting other shackers along ... : Caboose
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        Hmm...no spies yet. Can i get a decent feel for his navy with a blockade? : Grezdfez
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          No idea. :< : Caboose
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            I sent off a single ship to attempt a blockade. I should know more in about 40 minutes. : Grezdfez
            • My blockade was successful and I am holding his port for the next 8 hours or so. Not sure if this means ... : Grezdfez
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      I went after a non contributor last night and got pwned because he had 20 phalanxes in his city. I hope ... : riptyde
      • my spy just reported 0 defenses in one of the nearby lvl 5 towns... he has contributed a lot to wood but ... : MagicWishMonkey
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    yeah, I think I'm not going to develop much of a military beyond swordsmen and phalanxes until I get my a... : Caboose
    • I've leveled up my warehouse pretty high to the point that if I'm continually developing, chances are my ... : riptyde
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  I just built my first new colony last night. Since it's mostly wood and money you need, I just shut down... : riptyde
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    I saw a thread about that on the official forum. The Palace in your capital is the only one that counts ... : Caboose
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      Dang. Oh well, then I guess it'll be a while before I build that next colony. I've got my capital on ... : riptyde
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        fucking wine doesn't seem to be worth shit. everyone is selling sulpher for like 20-30 gold apiece but... : MagicWishMonkey
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          Wine is good once you get a tavern. I want wine (but I have a Shacker nearby who has it, so we're gonna t... : Nixx2004
          • it might be worth a lot more if i move to an island that doesn't have a nearby winery. : MagicWishMonkey
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          Same here, wine is the only good that seems to sell for close to cost (~10g per), while all of the other ... : Grezdfez
          • yea I'm saving up my wine stockpiles... at the very least i hope i can build an outpost someplace that do... : MagicWishMonkey
        • Well I wasn't thinking of it in terms of a trading resource so much as just to keep my taverns going at f... : riptyde
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  I should have enough money to build my first colony sometime later today... I think I might build on one ... : MagicWishMonkey
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    Where were people settling. I'd like to settle with other shackers on an island. Someone said earlier i... : goatjc
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      i'm pretty far from everyone else I think, at least it took forever for those ships to arrive last friday... : MagicWishMonkey
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        You can found a colony, make it your capital, and then destroy your old colony if you want. : Caboose
        • naa, my place is built up fairly well and I am apparently the only asshole on the island. no one has atta... : MagicWishMonkey
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  I will probably have a colony up by tomorrow - not sure if I want to go for Marble or Crystal (I have sul... : trOmblyj
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    I think Flesh and I are both near you tromblyj -- which island is dahanese's? Flesh said something about... : boofy
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      shes the marble island north of mine. : trOmblyj
      • are there a few people close to you? I'm about to start my first colony and I'm trying to decide which re... : MagicWishMonkey
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  Has anyone written a basic guide to starting out yet? If so, well, I missed it in all the super long thre... : A Sponge
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    Where are you at Abagail? : trOmblyj
    • 41:50. Settling on a Shack supercolony sounds kind of fun. : A Sponge
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    if the other guys on your island aren't aggressive you don't need much of an army, they eat up resources ... : MagicWishMonkey
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      So islands tend not to band together? Neat. Perhaps I will bop a few heads. : A Sponge
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        yea i dont think anyone around me is. i'll probably take the 500 wood i pillaged and donate it to the win... : MagicWishMonkey
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          Someone on my island named themself after a petrochemical industry company. As such, they deserve the wra... : A Sponge
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            the second time i tried sending a spy to check out a city he got busted and i guess they killed him. i... : MagicWishMonkey
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              I managed to pillage 1 gold. My campaign cost 144 gold and a ton of wood to train my dudes. That was a go... : A Sponge
              • yea that happened to me the time i raided someone for the second time in about an hour... the first time ... : MagicWishMonkey
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    Here's a decent starting guide: http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/Beginner%27s_Guide : Haxim
    • Oh okay, I guess I already have the basic setup and am free to do whatever I want. Great, thank you! : A Sponge
• 2 hours away from settling sail to the Shacklands woo wooooo : hardfl1p
• Jesusville will be colonizing on SeaWolf's marble island in about 8 hours. Would've been less time but I ... : ateam311
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  Does anyone have an embassy/Shack alliance going yet? If not, I ought to have an embassy lvl 3 by this af... : chanamasala
  • MommaSaidKnockYouOut : MagicWishMonkey
  • ShackGetsUChixWithDix : ateam311
• OMG. Some turd from Dante-Ville attacked and pillaged my town! :( : Mmmmmoo
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  if your town is really far from everyone else, you might want to consider migrating your capital once you... : Caboose
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    so if you abandon your old town you can re-locate it? : chanamasala
    • you can't pick everything up and move it, no. You get half of your resources back for demolishing buildi... : Caboose
  • see http://www.rocketlan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37 and join in the discussion : Caboose
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    where is the shacker area? i just sent out my first colony ship, I think it's near riptydes place but i h... : MagicWishMonkey
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      I know for sure there's one Shackland coalescing at 10:66 and surrounding islands; I think Ride-my-Rocket... : Caboose
      • I think i might have sent my colony there... i have no way of telling since i forgot where it is and the ... : MagicWishMonkey
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    This has its advantages but it is also advantageous to have contacts spread far and wide in the world. : trelain
    • what's the advantage of being spread out? Resources and wonders are pretty evenly distributed, it's not l... : Caboose
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    Is everyone going to move to shacklands? Not many people there now, curious if I should make the effort a... : shortbuscaptain
    • i'll probably move out there when i can build my second colony. i hope its somewhere close to where i am ... : MagicWishMonkey
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  Anyone want to trade marble for crystal? : FushigiDenki
  • I'm at 23:28 : FushigiDenki
  • One way to check is look at the spreadsheet to figure out who is near you and what resource they have. I... : Nixx2004
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  Sand Shack is open to all members once you get your Embassy. : NFXFSX
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    I just joined! Wooo! : chanamasala
    • Accepted. :) : NFXFSX
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    And by all members... you mean Shackers, oi? : disposition
    • Yes. : NFXFSX
  • APPLY'D. : trOmblyj
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  how the hell can you find the current date/time in this game? i have some boats that are going to be ... : MagicWishMonkey
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    I just use a berlin clock. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=37 : Grezdfez
    • damn... that sounds like a pain in the ass. i really wish it would say "your boats will arrive in 3 hours... : MagicWishMonkey
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  How the heck do you build tradeships? Am I totally blind, I've combed the library to no avail. : goatjc
  • build a trading port then click on it to build cargo ships : MagicWishMonkey
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    build a trade port, build a cargo ship : FushigiDenki
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      Then there must be some sort of glitch b/c that's what I thought they were, but it keeps saying I need 2 ... : goatjc
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        What are you doing that leads you to the "need 2 trade ships" message? : slickdoody
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          Clicking on an expansion spot. So, I get this: "You don�xB4;t have enough trade ships! You s... : goatjc
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            By expansion slot, you mean empty spot on an island, not in your town, right? You need 5 cargo ships to ... : Caboose
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              Gah!!! 5 ffs : goatjc
              • Each cargo ship can only hold 300 units. You need 1250 wood (300 x 4 + 50 x 1) to colonize. It's simple... : yonderboy
• Berlin clock so you can translate game time to your local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/cit... : Caboose
• Building your first colony >9 hours from your capital = stupid idea :( : MagicWishMonkey
• I'm starting to speed up a bit. My towns about to hit lvl 3, and im starting on my military. The only... : great-white
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  Wine = Happy Humping Citizens... http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2844 Got this after upgrading to 8 win... : slickdoody
  • that's pretty sweet... i need to start stockpiling wine instead of selling it : MagicWishMonkey
  • Upgrading my tavern now. Need more income. : trOmblyj
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    Wine is awesome for speeding up your growth. I think 6 people/hour is where it is euphoric. : cltcprd
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      The options were 3, 5 or 8 with no inbetween. And heck yes, my population growth slowed to a crawl for t... : slickdoody
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        Yeah, I know. I have the same level tavern as you but my growth is only 3people/hour (due to my populati... : cltcprd
        • oh, i see what you meant, lol. I really wish I would have researched the wine press earlier, but for som... : slickdoody
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  I just sent out my first spy to a neighboring town, he is lvl 8, he has 2 slingers. That is the only defe... : hirosushima
  • hell yea you will tear him up and get a bunch of phat loot. i need some crystals so i can make another... : MagicWishMonkey
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    potential downside is that the retaliation could be severe at that level. : slickdoody
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      not if he keeps looting him every day : hardfl1p
      • ^ exactly. there's very little difference between level 7 and level 8... right now i am level 6 and i ... : MagicWishMonkey
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      Just sent spy on mission and the dude is not online. We will see how this goes. I just que'd up 3 swordsm... : hirosushima
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        make sure you have a cargo ship available to transport the loot back to your home base : MagicWishMonkey
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          I have 4 cargo ships. 3 are out trading but one is ready and waiting. : hirosushima
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            you're good to go, keep us updated on how much you pillage : MagicWishMonkey
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              so exciting! :) : slickdoody
              • seriously, attacking people is so fucking fun for some reason. mostly because i sit around biting my nail... : MagicWishMonkey
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            wait for some of them to get back! a ship can only carry 300, this guy might have a lot for you in store : hardfl1p
            • 2 just returned so I have 3 in harbor. : hirosushima
  • I'd go in with more troops. Say, 10 swordsmen at least (his wall, if he has one, will still take some o... : trOmblyj
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    hahahaah I lost 1 slinger....1. my ship is going to pillage! : hirosushima
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      congrats, hopefully he hasn't been raped recently so he has lots of loot. : MagicWishMonkey
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        I think I just found a MAJOR glitch in the game....I am able to see his entire town, buildings, and every... : hirosushima
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          Or is it because I have a spy? : hirosushima
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            yea that's the spy ;) : MagicWishMonkey
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              haha wtf, that seems a bit over powered. I thought i could only perform missions, not really see his enti... : hirosushima
              • yea just be careful about using your spy too often or he will get caught : MagicWishMonkey
        • Isn't that the purpose of a spy? : FushigiDenki
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      only got 87wood and 152 marble :( this dude sucks. : hirosushima
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        maybe he was saved by his warehouse : FushigiDenki
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          level 1 warehouse? I guess he was just low as hell on everything. : hirosushima
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            well i just sent 2 slingers and 4 swordsmen to attack one of my neighbors. he never contributes to the is... : MagicWishMonkey
            • damn, got wiped out... shoring up my defenses now in case he decides to retaliate. i should have train... : MagicWishMonkey
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  I've got a bunch of wine and wood to trade, I could use stone, crystal, or even sulphur if anyone wants t... : MikkleThePickle
  • no one? :( I actually just realized I need stone : MikkleThePickle
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    helps if you post your coords : hardfl1p
    • sorry, I meant to do that earlier... I'm at [19:35]. : MikkleThePickle
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    Hey Mikkle, I'm pretty close to you at [19,33]. I could use a little wine but only have sulfur right now... : hiloopy
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      wow, you're really close, that's great... how much wine do you want? : MikkleThePickle
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        also, sulfur sounds good, I'm sure I'll need it when I build up my army : MikkleThePickle
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          Yeah, nobody wants it now but just wait, they'll all be begging for sulfur later. I hope. :( 100 win... : hiloopy
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            same here... how does 250 sound? : MikkleThePickle
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              okie, I'll start loading up the boats now : hiloopy
              • ok great, mine is on its way out to you now : MikkleThePickle
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  Yay, I will be able to colonize by this evening! What island should I colonize on, one with crystal, win... : FushigiDenki
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    I'm a sulfur island and going to colonize marble most likely. I'm making 1632 sulfur per day :) : trOmblyj
    • JESUS CHRIST, STOP ASKING ME TO PULL YOUR FINGER ALREADY!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Head to the Shacklands! : hardfl1p
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      Whoa, where are the shacklands? : FushigiDenki
      • http://www.rocketlan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9 : hardfl1p
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  Anyone have any marble they wouldn't mind selling? I need to upgrade. : great-white
  • where are you? : Nation
  • 67:38 lololtown Ive got glass on my island, but havent researched enough to harvest yet, so all i r... : great-white
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  so i got a colony, and it's listed under my palace, but i can't click into the town. any idea why? : dahanese
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    how long ago did you set it up? It took probably an hour or so (before my popped). It had a little cons... : cltcprd
    • it's working now! : dahanese
  • check to see if you have ships heading to the place or not (I cannot remember the timing of things showin... : Nation
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  will i lose all my shit if i cancel the ships i just sent to found a colony? : MagicWishMonkey
  • bumpity bump : MagicWishMonkey
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    it should get sent back : hardfl1p
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      ok i just clicked withdraw.... the 12k hasn't appeared back in my account yet so hopefully it will when t... : MagicWishMonkey
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        12K what? I'm about to finish researching Expansion and hoping to put it to use soon. The Ikipedia do... : Nixx2004
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          you have to build a palace, 600 ish building mats, and then to establish a colony takes - 5 empty trade s... : judge
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            12k gold? wow : FushigiDenki
            • it didn't take that long to save up, not nearly as bad as i had expected : MagicWishMonkey
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            Ah, wow. Guess I'm not ready. Is this info listed somewhere, or just in game when you get to it? : Nixx2004
            • http://s5.ikariam.org/index.php?view=informations&articleId=10010&mainId=10007 : cltcprd
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  Has anyone found the rules on multiple accounts? Curious if I could setup another operation to support my... : shortbuscaptain
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    It's the expresslane for getting both accounts banned. Just ask Seawolf and a number of other shackers w... : trOmblyj
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      What I thought, was looking through the FAQ but did not see anything. : shortbuscaptain
      • I looked into it more and found some interesting rules. Dual accounts will not be able to trade with each... : shortbuscaptain
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    short bus captain, ah? : Nation
    • uhhh sure, yes. : shortbuscaptain
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  are Workshop universal or only apply to the city they are upgraded in? I want to know if having my mil... : Nation
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    I am wondering about this as well. : FushigiDenki
    • They are cheap (I misread something) so I might try it for the learn'n : Nation
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  I need Wine. I have up to 300 Crystal to offer 64:84 > HAY GUYS : pnkrckjoe
  • I messaged you ingame : Nation
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  Is "I-Game" unsearchable? Nothing comes up when I enter that in. : byorn
  • this link is a hint: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16349297#itemanchor_16349297 : Nation
• just signed up to the forum. Can I get activated? : byorn