Evening Reading: Celebrity Battlefield

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  wtb stream : Techy007
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    this ones not bad http://www.justin.tv/iccup#r=7Lh017Q~ wish we had a shacker stream though so we cou... : supermonkeyballz
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      I've been live streaming every one of my games. http://www.livestream.com/sothebysgaming/ : pancake humper
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        everytime i load it it says offline : supermonkeyballz
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          because I am not playing right now :( : pancake humper
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            hopping on now so I can get raped through a hole : pancake humper
            • GJ!!!!! watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qa6-BNDSlA : supermonkeyballz
            • i'mw atching you play. : StolenNosferatu
    • they are streaming now. : Metatron85
  • I'll sell you this one: http://www.starcraftmethod.com/livestreams-huskystarcraft-2 : TheVietSpecial
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  You gonna stick this one out ph? You go through games pretty quickly bro! : boomstickah
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22203791#itemanchor_22203791 :( : pancake humper
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      that's awesome, $200 well spent : multisync
      • I hate you it wasn't $200 : pancake humper
    • yo, I'll be first in line to take it off your hands : boomstickah
• I would love to, still waiting on F&F key, dying here. : Serpico74
• fuck you : filthysock
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  my life for hire! : jayares
  • jrs.jrs : jayares
  • Aiur :( : electroly
• )= : shyguy74
• Eff you. : Wikus Van De Merwe
• You piece of crap, I hate all of you. : FrenchVanilla
• ..|. (o_o) .|.. : walker270
• what kind of game is this? : Mr.SEX
• so many people without access... : jayares
• :-( i wish i knew how to get in on this. how did i miss this awesome train? : dahanese
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  Foxhawk.foxhawk : Foxhawk
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    no way will I ever play you in SC2 : pancake humper
    • He's good at video games? I thought he just played them a lot... : mwasher
    • he's not that good, just a guy who knows whats up : boomstickah
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      I'm turrrble at SC. You want to avoid empathe before me! : Foxhawk
      • Mwahahhaahahha. : empathe
  • http://www.shackpics.com/files/IMG_0294resizedJPG_izjmhn7k8ha24ob1dwd8.jpg : Foxhawk
• hate : derelict515
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  So do I assume that if I haven't gotten a Beta key yet, I'm not getting one? Or are they releasing them i... : thetangent
  • They are releasing in waves : pancake humper
• :( : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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  so many haters. : slax0r
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    Not much different from any other thread here, is it? : SigmaDraconis
    • hey man, fuck you : mwasher
• Every time you make one of these threads you're going to have 50 people tell you to go fuck off. : The Grolar Bear
• Metldude.shack I suck but I'll play : metldude
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  Congrats on your win! : bcyde
  • holy crap I actually won! : pancake humper
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  What is the shield around the Protoss Sentry? Not the force field it can deploy, but the shield that enco... : givemesnacks
  • It's like a bubble shield from Halo 3 : pancake humper
  • reduces ranged damage : Senate5000
• abrasion.didntgetakeylol : abrasion
• Fuck all y'all I hope you get RSI from your APM : SpaecKow
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  Are they gonna send another wave of keys or are you sol if you didn't get in? :( : ninjase
  • many more waves to come, no ETA : yAak

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  OH GOD NO NO HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME : ArcKnight
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    can a friendly mod nuke the shit out of this and save me the embarassment :( : ArcKnight
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      olive and learn : aeg1x
      • thanks dru : ArcKnight
      • I love this post. : Duffman8369
      • hahahahaha : RetroRedEyeJr
      • hahahah! : Dschinghis Khan
      • hahahaha :D : virus
      • lol : .frame
      • haahahahahahha : Downforce
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        Backstory? : mlev
        • he's a huge popeye fan : azenmaster
    • I say let it stand. He desrves all the ridicule we can muster! : yosemiteclimber
  • it happened because YOU SUCK : ass-street
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  Good games everyone! What was the quote of the night again? Something about JPB and fat pants and his ... : ArcKnight
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    Good Games 2: Electriq Boogaloo Hard Charger Edition : MeenMunky
    • Cuba > Omar : MeenMunky
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    He said he and his wife each get in one leg of the pants and have sex. : dfay
    • Zipped or unzipped? The people need to know. : MeenMunky
  • "It felt bigger on the way out." : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    "Her vagina looks weird." "Yeah, because it's a cock." : Dschinghis Khan
    • good times : .frame
    • Cock and awe! : MeenMunky
    • oh my god I was dying. : MercFox1
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      Dude from The Crying Game > Lady GaGa : Lightzout
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        I stand by my opinion that y'all a bunch of faggots. I've never seen the crying game though. : RetroRedEyeJr
        • Do you like movies about gladiators? : Lightzout
• 0wned! : Dschinghis Khan
• GGs Dodders! : dfay
• Thanks to everyone who showed up and made that so much fun. I had a shitty day and now feel so much bett... : Lightzout
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  yes, GGS. Now I need to somehow drink off this drunken haze : chungathebunga
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    er fuck, sleep off : chungathebunga
    • lol : Thomas Hace
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  For me one of the best parts of DoD Shackbattles is its a chance for me to air every single random though : Lightzout
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    This is why i like them too. You guys are a fucking great group of guys and i look forward to playing BC2... : Dschinghis Khan
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      I just don't see anything replacing the intrinsic frivolity and mirth that DoD:S seems to have hard coded : Lightzout
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        itdoesn't have allatlk but we have teamspeak server. Which is just as good. Also BC2 is fun, and Arcknigh... : Dschinghis Khan
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          I wish you could at least do full team voice chat instead of squads only. Give us a server option to do i... : sanchez
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            ^^^^ Totally. : TaintedSyringe
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              Since this was not possible in BC1 (iirc) its perhaps my greatest concern about BC2. Not having full com... : Lightzout
              • All the previous BF games had the same, I'm guessing they wont change it :( : sanchez
          • I agree, but I think if they at least get squad chat working, with TS it will be epic. : Arctic Fox
        • Since I trust you like a cell mate, I will follow your lead. BC2 does offer a much broader range of ways... : Lightzout
        • i wish it ran well on my pc :( : ass-street
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  YOU FAGGOTS STOP THIS AND GO BACK TO BC2! And then tell me which server I need to be heading towards. : Crabs Jarrard
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    Gameservers.com Chicago #15 Good games everyone! Arctic Fox is a ridiculously awesome helo pilot, and ... : ArcKnight
    • Maverick, you can be my wingman anytime not gay : Arctic Fox
• I'm pissed i had to leave early, but i'm glad i didn't miss out on the quote of the night. : RetroRedEyeJr
• Sometimes I hate mods >:( just kidding I love you but >:( : ArcKnight
• GG ladies. Good times. : Cliffzorz

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  I don't know about first, but the latest is definitely Brutal Legend. Fuck that game. : -hyroth-
  • Agreed 100%. : CrustaR
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    Virtual Boy. Probably not the first, but that thing sucked. : boarder2
    • Oops. Meant for op. : boarder2
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  Atari 2600 Pac-Man is far and away my #1 I played it for like 15 minutes on Christmas morning and nev... : ThomW
  • i have a copy right here :( in 2008 when i purchased it, i was severely let down : EvilDolemite
  • Buh-duh-BUH-DAH! bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk. Blibbit. Dewr-dewr-dewr. : AxeMan808
• When a few friends and I sat down and beat Mario's Time Machine only to realize that there was a specific... : ateam311
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  Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers. Beat it the firs time I played it. Didn't even lose a life. What a waste... : riptyde
  • it was a pretty good coop game for the time tho : boring gegtik
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    Fun game though, Duck Tales too! : Serpico74
    • Yup both were easy but fun. : bcyde
  • No way, coop was awesome. Plus you would of lost a life that way since your partner would of thrown you i... : jnukem99
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  Heh, NES dissapointments.. I kinda like Wizards and Warriors. For me i'd have to say Deadly Towers by Br... : Tech T
  • I loved Wizards and Warriors, and the music : Mondo
  • I really liked wizards and warriors... it was hard as fuck, but i liked it. Deadly Towers however was an ... : VencieraX
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  Wizards and Warriors was not a terrible game at all. : qwpeoriu
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    first of all, invisibility potion. secondly I remember one level that was purple or red rocks or somet... : boring gegtik
    • Loved the game, hated that level. It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard the name. I thi... : FoodIsFuel
  • I liked it as a kid, but I can see why some people didn't like it. That game also gave me some serious N... : Grimp
  • Agreed. Game is awesome. : Fayk
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  Did you eventually like the NES Ninja Gaiden. I think it's the better game. : Grimp
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    it's probably better but I never gave it much of a chance tbh : boring gegtik
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      Both games traumatized me. The difficulty of the NES game and the continue screen of the arcade game. I... : Grimp
      • Haha! Yeah, that and the Final Fight continue screen (dynamite!) scared the shit out of me. : ChibiJosh
  • Agreed. I was disappointed at first, but I grew to love the game! I can't remember if I beat it, though... : CrustaR
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  Deadly Towers. Rented it with my friend. Worst game of all time : bozer
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    I reserved a rental for Dragon Warrior and rented it on the release date and got the plastic case home an... : boring gegtik
    • have you seen this? i had never heard of hydelide before: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-s... : EvilDolemite
• No save feature on Advent! I mean! What?! : AxeMan808
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  DEADLY FUCKING TOWERS. : GloriousCow
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    holy shit, i am not along in my pain and suffering : GloriousCow
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      It's burned in my memory for eternity. I must of been under 10 years old when we rented it. So fucking in... : bozer
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        i got the fucking thing for my birthday and it was only the 3rd game i owned :( : GloriousCow
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          I got it as a gift too.... never knew what the fuck to do, nintendo power never had shit on it either and... : Mondo
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            I'll add to this pile of sadness... got it for Christmas. I forced myself to play it way longer than I sh... : heartsauce
            • Aw, well good, I wasn't the only kid that got Deadly Towers for Christmas.... :P : VencieraX
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  bubsy 3D is the worst video game i have ever bought : mr.sleepy
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    Holy shit that game was bad. It also had the first prefab game mascot with "tude", so fuck that game twic... : Serpico74
    • He wouldn't shut up either. When I found out you could turn his voice off I was so happy, but the game wa... : mr.sleepy
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      at least it wasn't corporate 'tude. Remember cool spot? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRA9JhK1jqY : GloriousCow
      • Avoid the Noid was the first I'm aware of. : ChibiJosh
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    Uh, hello, you just don't appreciate its depth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bjSoyXlw0 : SiW.
    • The music. : mr.sleepy
    • Oh wow, I never played the 3D version, just the side-scroller. Worse than I imagined. : Serpico74
    • haha knew what this was before clicking : opengl128
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      ulillillia saddens me...of all the games to sperg out on, why Bubsy 3d? He says he has put in 500 hours ... : deathofrats
      • he's Level 80 in Bubsy 3D Level 2 : GloriousCow
    • wtF : MrBig0
    • Great, every time someone mentions that guy I lose an hour navigating the labyrinthine madness that is hi... : dirtboxer
    • oh god.. i lost it when he said 2v... as the height at 4:02.. haha so fing hilarious : rbjester
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  Double Dragon for NES. So disappointing! First, they make you power up your character with an experienc... : Grimp
  • Oh, and the beginning of the game shows the best way to pick up chicks. : Grimp
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    Power up your character with an experience system?? What the hell are you talking about? : Wikus Van De Merwe
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      You had to unlock moves by beating up enemies. In other version (if not all), your entire arsenal was av... : Grimp
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        Yeah I remember that shit, getting the elbow was huge and needing to hit level 3 just for the jump kick w... : bcyde
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          I'm glad someone else agrees. I didn't even know that you could mount and then ground and pound a dude u... : Grimp
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            would you say you are now an expert at mounting dudes? : Jackass1233
            • No, because I still don't know how to. I just know that you can. :( : Grimp
• Not my first but when the 3d iteration of Earthworm Jim came out i was crushed. I loved Earthworm Jim 1 ... : soggybagel
• mighty bomb jack. my friend told me it was the best game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pilNXqb_A ... : EvilDolemite
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  ET on the atari 2600. so awful : X-GOUKI
  • I actually beat that along with Raiders of the Lost Ark. : Derringer
• Quest64 is the first game I can remember being disgusted by. : getfrisky
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  Holy shit, easy. Power Glove / Punch Out. I've never gone from hero to zero so fast. : icon_of_syn
  • the power glove ties R.O.B as one my earliest hardware disappointments : EvilDolemite
  • I've also gotta go with Star Control 3 and Ultima 8 as those were my glory years of gaming. : icon_of_syn
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  E.T. and the Star Wars lightsaber game for the Atari 2600. : jingletard
  • I was so young playing Atari (actually Coleco with the Atari adapter) I think I found every game fun incl... : icon_of_syn
• Devil May Cry 2 was the first real disappointment for me. Can't think of anything else before or after t... : SigmaDraconis
• Not my first but State of Emergency for PS2 - I was so confident in rockstar after GTA3 :( : factor27
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  Pretty much any arcade conversion on any platform in the 80s. : SiW.
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    There were quite a few decent ports on the Atari 800/5200. : ThomW
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      ..any platform that I owned. I had an Intellivision and ZX Spectrum. For example, this is one of the ... : SiW.
      • That background stings my eyes. :( : David Craddock
  • TMNT 2 on NES was awesome. In fact, I'll submit that it was better (but far easier) than the arcade game. : David Craddock
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    I miss arcades being so much fucking better than anything else. It actually made them worth putting a qu... : GloriousCow
    • Really. They were goddamn magical dens of excitement for me. It's slightly different in the UK as the... : SiW.
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  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1) on NES. : David Craddock
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    I was blinded by my love of TMNT at that age that I played that thing for countless hours until I actuall... : bcyde
    • the fucking technodrome is the most frustrating gaming experience ever. I'd like to find the person wh... : GloriousCow
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      I couldn't get past the underwater bomb diffusing stage as a kid. :( Beat it as an adult, then quit playi... : David Craddock
      • Yeah, you showed those fucks! : Crabs Jarrard
      • I STILL haven't beaten that level. Fuck that game : chiisu81
      • I think that's where I got stuck, too! : maddy
  • Motherfucking signed. I did beat it once though. Otherwise I could never beat that spike wall part at t... : kallanta
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  Quake 2. Before that I wasn't "seriously" into gaming. : chungathebunga
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    was was disappointing about it? : EvilDolemite
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      I can't speak for chunga, but as a big Quake player, I didn't care for Q2 nearly as much, though it was a... : David Craddock
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        This is pretty much it. I loved quake, was huge into it. Then the build up of Q2, the "AMAZING" AI that w... : chungathebunga
        • Haha, the crouching AI was either innovative or idiotic depending on if you transitioned to mouselook or ... : Grimp
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  HA! The Ninja Gaiden thing happened to me too! I was so naive. I was expecting the sweet arcade game but ... : Dr_Cube
  • same goes for double dragon. NES port, wtf? the master system port was better. : EvilDolemite
• oh and Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi. Worst fighting game Ive ever played and worst Star Wars game eve... : mr.sleepy
• Ballz 3d. Worst rental from Blockbuster ever. : fleabug
• Superman 64, probably. Before that I would play crappy games on my SNES and N64 but I convinced myself th... : The Grolar Bear
• I completely agree with #1. I remember renting this game when my NES was still factory fresh. If I recall... : reelbk
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  LENGEND OF KANE. That game had badass screenshots on the back and looked like a killer ninja game. The ga... : reelbk
  • Oops, that's KAGE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Kage : reelbk
  • the thing with that game is that it's an arcade port. it's actually a decent port for what it is, but it'... : DeBurgo
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  NES Strider. wtf i wanted the cool arcade version : smackpiece
  • the sega version was good from what I remember although it did have a bunch of graphics glitches it ... : Shai-Tan
  • yeah this was a suuuper disappointing game. I was totally obsessed with Strider in the arcade, and it in... : VencieraX
• Alien3 for the Gameboy. Either I was too young to really make any progress in that game or the level desi... : ieGod
• Not my first, but I almost offed myself about 15 minutes into Carmageddon 3 TDR. : Crabs Jarrard
• C&C Tiberium Sun. I waited for this forever (there was a teaser at the end of C&C1) and it was mostly bor... : Sturm08
• shadowgate nes/can't get that song outta my head : echoinggreen
• Taboo for the NES. I got it as a gift and thought it was a videogame version of the party game, but it tu... : BlackCat9
• Maybe Total Annihilation. I loved the game, but it was my first taste of not enjoying a game to its full... : mojorisen1117
• When i was little, and angry, i threw a copy of cosmos cosmic adventure at my brother and the disk broke.... : thewindcriesmary
• Terminator Rampage "It's just like Doom!" : abrasion
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  Fallout 3. I was a few years late getting it, and by that time the fact that EVERYONE was saying that ... : TheVietSpecial
  • ^^^ Cosigned. I wanted to like the game because as a writer, I loved the dialogue system. But I tried get... : David Craddock
  • that happened to me when it came out, I tried again a month or two ago and managed to get 40 hours under ... : veras
  • I could tell you that you're missing out on a phenomenal game, but honestly it just sounds like the open ... : daVinci1980
  • It took you 2 hours to get through the intro vault?! : sanchez
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  TUROK * : mrseldowski
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    Really? I almost lost my shit when when I shot the first guy and saw him grab his eye spurt blood all ove... : Crabs Jarrard
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      it was like my first game for N64 haha : mrseldowski
      • Honestly though the first 1 (N64) was a lot of fun, I coudn't get into the new one. : mrseldowski
      • See, I thought you meant the latest Turok because of how you typed it. : SigmaDraconis
  • I really liked Turok :( : maddy
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    Turok was so good :( : ateam311
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      Cranial Bore. : krym3
      • Cerebrial Bore i mean. : krym3
  • The first Turok on the N64 was great for the time. Death animations were awesomely over-the-top. : Conan
  • What? That game was freaking awesome. : sanchez
• First? That's a tough one. Probably Final Fantasy. I wanted to like it so badly but I hated wandering... : DerHuhnTeufel
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  Friday the 13th, wow that game sucked : Tattoo Trav
  • First NES game that I can say scared me. That noise it made when you happened up on Jason got me every ti... : Crabs Jarrard
• MARIO IS MISSING - worst game ever : _jon
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  C&C: Tiberian Sun : Ellissd
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    QFT. It's funny how everyone now has such positive memories of this. The truth was, Westwood promised th... : quanta88
    • I was just playing the free release and it STILL chugged for a second there on an i7 920 @ 3.6gHz. : dafugg
  • I just replayed some of the GDI missions an hour ago and I see now how you feel like you're apart from th... : Sailor of Fortune
• first game I remember being disappointed in was Yoshi's Safari I'd thought I found a reasonable use fo... : DeBurgo
• Protostar - as seen in my collection here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3005/3004745277_66ef708322_b.j : biofrog
• Stronghold 2. Stronghold 1 was an insanely awesome game that easily handled thousands of guys on the s... : NinjaRedbeard
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  This one is easy, and embarrassing. It wasn't long after the NES came out, and of course we all know it w... : haiku
  • Thats pretty funny. I remember going into this store called Babbages as a kid and wanting a 3dO so bad be... : Shai-Tan
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  Played a lot of shitty games growing up, but none were more disappointing than Zelda 2 and Mario 2. Ninte... : K1Bond007
  • I kind of appreciate Zelda 2 now, though. I could see myself playing it again since it's not just more L... : Grimp
• RC PRO AM. I know, I'm a terrible human being. : limpossible
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  Poltergeist for the Radio Shack CO-CO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRcRLj6SjU : watcherxp
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    hahah...wow! I guess the third room had something to do with the movie, but the first two? wtf. : deathofrats
    • Well, the main house in the movie was in a neighborhood and it did have a stairway that featured in a few... : watcherxp
• State of Emergency is the one I most remember. I bought that just because GTA3 was so amazing and it was ... : Prozium
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  Deus Ex 2. : SpaecKow
  • me too : alexpr
• Super Mario Brothers 2 and Zelda 2. Both good games, but quite different from and not nearly as good as ... : pyrogen
• lol 1 & 2 are two NES classics and you thought Fabio looked amazing? : MoreVespeneGas
• Warcraft 3. I absolutely hated the emphasis on the hero as opposed to an army. : hoopfam4
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  How about first disappointing gaming experiences? Daedalus Encounter, PC 1995 Took 2 hours to insta : zuff
  • But Tia Carrera! : deathofrats
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  Ghosts & Goblins : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Really? I loved that game and played it through multiple times. : plunkymeadows
• Wizards and Warriors was great. It was Wizards and Warriors 2: Ironsword that was the disappointment. : slax0r
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  Wing Commander 3. I thought the video would look like the screenshots on the box. Power Glove. barely ... : Shai-Tan
  • and I think the last game I was hyped for was Doom 3... although I was looking forward to that Cliver ... : Shai-Tan
• Dragon's Lair, I was really young and thought it was going to be the actual arcade game. I didn't find o... : Octagator
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  Ultima 7. I really wanted to play through a big RPG. So I played it for 14 days but got stuck at some : MatzL.E.
  • That is an awesome game. : kramweil
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  It was Kings Quest 8. It was the first one to use a 3D engine & it basically ended my age of innocents wi... : warcrow
  • This is my answer too. Fuck you, Sierra. : electroly
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    how many innocents did you have : GloriousCow
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      besides Kings Quest VII sucked just as much ass or worse : GloriousCow
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        agreed 100% : electroly
        • at least they stuck with the 2D and they had that cool song at the beginning and the cursor would light u... : electroly
• Some Friday the 13th game for NES. Wasn't scary or gory or good. : dognose
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  oh shit, i thought of another, much later one: Ultima IX: Ascension. Hooooly shit : EvilDolemite
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    I bought that and didn't even bother playing it after reading about the horrible bugs and unfinished sect... : Shai-Tan
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      incredible graphics. for the time it was about three years ahead: http://www.activewin.com/reviews/so... : EvilDolemite
      • oh yeah, I do remember that. I think I played the first section in the real world but our computer sucked... : Shai-Tan
  • To Origin's credit, they later released a huge patch (I think the patch was almost 30% the size of the wh... : quanta88
• CDI (every game, the system itself), ActRaiser II, Sonic Spinball : Conan
• my biggest disappointment of all time and the only one i really remember affecting me is devil may cry 2. : JINKY
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  NOLF2. I couldn't get past Kate Archer being voiced by another actor. : Lightzout
  • You really need to get over that, such a great game! : yosemiteclimber
  • jen taylor's voice is dreamy. : varsindarkin
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    I never got past the mission in India. I got stuck in an area where the guards always spotted me no matt... : IndigoAK
    • Oh man there were some tense moments on that mission. I had to hide a lot on that one. It was incredibl... : deject
  • Yep same here, I literally couldn't get past it - I could only play for 10 or 15 minutes and quit, the vo... : abrasion
• Renegade: Battle for Jacobs Star. I was hoping for another TIE Fighter or Wing Commander... it wasn't on... : Sapiens
• space quest 7 because it never came out : mr.sleepy
• Quake 2. : kramweil
• Some old adventure rainforest game, i got it expecting full voice, but it was all text. severely disappoi... : yautja
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  Xenosaga 2 is a recent one : Mondo
  • Vandal Hearts 2 : Mondo
• Deadly Towers. We waited for that shit to get returned for like SIX MONTHS at the video store. And then i... : Deathlove
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  Star Wars Rebellion. Sounded like the ultimate fucking game of galactic supremecy, turned out to be the ... : bipolar
  • unplayable? hardly, whilst it lacked in certain areas i thought the game was actually pretty good. : thewindcriesmary
  • You must not have given it much of a chance. Rebellion most definitely had a flawed interface, I agree, b... : thetangent
• Commando for the atari 2600. Sooo sooo bad compared to the version I was playing in the bowling alleys a... : Jimbo Ro
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  Cannon Fodder 2. It just wasn't as good as the first one. : marmite
  • They made a sequel?! : sanchez
• Yoshis Island 64 for first real console disappointment and Black & White was my first PC disappointment. ... : SnakeIRye
• Fable 2 was missing something to me, just went in the wrong direction. Monkey Island 4 had that shit con... : abrasion
• Legends of Valor : dael
• Pong, the lack of character development and no free roaming the court was really disappointing. Seriously... : Old_Fart

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• yes, almost always. same with books and to a lesser extent movies. it doesn't concern me. the joy is in e... : dirge23
• well I don't have a photographic memory so yeah, I forget a lot of stuff : derelict515
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  Yep. When I played ME2, I realised that I couldn't remember anything from ME1 except for the ending and c... : NinjaRedbeard
  • yeah, I remember liking the level where you had like the asian-spys penthouse, and u like snuck in and fo... : chilln
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  Not really, no. I played Skate or Die today and I remembered how to do everything. : jingletard
  • Do you remember the names of the guys in the pool joust? : CyCo_PL
• yes, after enough time, which is great. it makes years-past replays much more fun. : EvilDolemite
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  not usually. mike makes fun of me because i always ask him the plot points of games he's playing and i ha... : dahanese
  • I'll never understand people that don't pay attention to that stuff. I mean, it's ok for some games (Doom... : Iazu
• I do that with movies all the time. Which is kind of cool, I've watched D.O.A., Double Indemnity, and an... : bipolar
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  No, but there is a level in a game that I played that I remember, but I forgot which game it is from. ... : dognose
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    i think that was NOLF : EvilDolemite
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      Holy shit, it may have been. I'd replay that but it took me like six months to finish, an hour at a time... : dognose
      • NOLF is such a sweet game except every re-play I hit the stealth missions and quit. They blow :( : abrasion
    • I second this, sounds like something I vaguely remember. NOLF and NOLF 2 were damn good games. : unholydonuts
  • No, I'm sure it was Soldier of Fortune 1 or 2 : Mad Brahmin Disease
• To be fair, DX's story gets super convoluted. Awesome game though. : Beaginator
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  I don't. That's why I have a hard time replaying games. "I've seen this before," constantly goes throug... : mobab
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    but what is left? what a bad idea for bioware games : EvilDolemite
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      Gameplay? : mobab
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        in my mind, gameplay includes dialogue. in fact, like half of bioware games is dialogue! i have as much ... : EvilDolemite
        • Yeah, that's where we're different then. I can play a game of cops and robbers over and over again and s... : mobab
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    ...so you skip the things that makes those games great? : Beaginator
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      It's great the first time around. It's a pain-in-the-ass every time after. : mobab
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        this is why new games always come out : MrBig0
        • That's true for the most part. : mobab
• I don't remember why I kill all those viruses in dr Mario, just that they need to die : rosewood
• honestly, by the time I hit the last level of deus ex, I'd completely forgot what the plot was and what I... : Waffles!
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  i pretty much only remember whether i liked it or not, and maybe a couple mental screenshots. this appli... : electroly
  • Oh. But I always remember the music, almost perfectly, at least in games with recognizable scores and no... : electroly
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    WoW is one of the only games I REALLY REALLY remember because I found it to be so completely engrossing w... : MrBig0
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      WoW memories for me come in and out. ill completely forget stuff, then someone will mention something. an... : chilln
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        I never absorbed much of the lore - all the quests I did, all the places I went, most of the lore just di... : dooberzoo
        • I end up writing about details people missed pretty frequently when I discuss MMOs and specifically why W... : LoioshDwaggie
• I bet if you came back to a good bit of them that your memory would be jogged even if you don't remember ... : Shai-Tan
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  The only thing I remember about Duke Nukem is the overexaggerated tits and the pigs for cops. Did it have... : Koral06
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    if it did then why would dognose like it? : derelict515
    • WHOA. : Dong Patrol
  • There was some shit blowing up in between. I replayed Duke 3D on the 360 lately and had a blast. They jus... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • It's about alien bastards paying for shooting up his ride. : swimteampie
• Also what was the plot in the Atari version of pong? Why was it so popular? : Koral06
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  No but it happens with books which is so frustrating. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • makes re-reading more enjoyable : Old_Fart
• Yes, that's why you play them again, same with movies and books. Only DVDs sometimes have title menus ... : dael
• Aeris ____ : woddemandred
• I don't even remember which games I've played last month, jeez. : DrWaffles
• Mass Effect is the most forgettable game I've ever played, I enjoyed and finished it and could tell you a : abrasion
• Yeah, but honestly that is life. Almost no one remembers every single thing that happens. What did you ea... : Chod
• I recently replayed NOLF and was surprised about how much I'd forgotten. So I'd say that yes I do forget ... : WaterSign
• Not really. A lot of it stays with me. Makes playing a sequel 4 years later considerably easier. I can p... : ZaldronGG
• Sorry, what was the question again? : Thund3rball
• Definitely. I will always remember the big twists, gist of the plot, and usually the end boss fight/last ... : Sailor of Fortune

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  What's this game about? : D45hiz
  • Shooting dudes in zero gravity. : PointlesS76
  • http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Horizon : dognose
  • MP only fps with only one gun. : Klebold
  • a modern day descent : stgdz
• I shall give it a go : wurt
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  aww. I didn't think the game was going to have shooting sound :( : anhero
  • Power down the suit and its awesomely quiet. : Klebold
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  this game needed XP support. It's like killing 2/3 of potential buyers before you go on sale. : grabbie
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    Some people forget to read the requirements, too, which is fun to deal with. : lunarbunny
    • Do you work for the company? If so - tell them thanks! : anhero
  • XP on a gaming rig can die in a fire. I don't even run my netbook w/ XP anymore. It's so...ugly. : jodiuh
  • XP... just let it go alreaydy. Let it go... come to modern times. : vx2o
  • 2001 called, it wants you to move on! : Toraz Chryx
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  i thought it was awful and I loved descent1,2&3 : Unleashed
  • well not awful but really nothing special : Unleashed
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    Awful because you can't kill people and don't know the maps or awful because you don't like the game? : alias
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      i did just fine killing people and the maps were not really hard to learn. mediocre would be a better wor... : Unleashed
      • Not much to animate. Sounds have been improved quite a bit. Hard to do anything else with the sound rea... : alias
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  what do they expect when there isn't a demo released? : dedgecko
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    Call of Duty had no demo and you fags ate it up. (This game not as good as MW2, but is worth $10) : Crabs Jarrard
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      MW2 is derivative garbage. This is something quite different. It has some minor problems for sure but i... : alias
      • I didn't say I disliked the game, just that MW2 is (obviously) a more complete game. Still, unless the pl... : Crabs Jarrard
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      Call of Duty is a series by a previously well respected developer. It's formulaic and based on idTech th... : dedgecko
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        They could spend a week or two to put a demo together - hell even a 60 minute timed demo would likely be ... : dedgecko
        • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22204899#itemanchor_22204899 : Crabs Jarrard
  • Free weekend! : etherboy
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  It looks cool, but w/o a demo I can't talk myself into buying it. With that type of gameplay it could... : InfoBiter
  • Free weekend right now. : alias
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  MC IS AN IDIOT GIVEAWAY!! So apparently in my post-work daze today, I bought the 4 pack for this game : MarkovChain
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    one claimed so far, two left! : MarkovChain
    • You are a true gentleman : Thomas Hace
  • Also, if you're not on steam right now, but still want a copy, send me your email instead so I can get it... : MarkovChain
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    I would SM you, but I don't have a DX10 capable machine. :[ : CrustaR
    • you could have lied, just so someone else couldn't get it :D Good on you. : MarkovChain
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      Windows 7 is cheap CrustyBro. Buy it now! :( : deject
      • mrfunky, not 'til I upgrade my hardware. :| : CrustaR
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    I'll let someone else win these, I just want to say you are awesome for doing this. : dognose
    • If it was physical copies, I'd probably just build a scrooge McDuck vault and swim in them, but Steam too... : MarkovChain
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    Two down! one left! : MarkovChain
    • I'll take it : redfive
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    sm'd! : zerog83
    • poop I just did too :( : quadeh
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    And we're done, quadeh beat zerog by mere moments. quadeh, I sent you an invite on steam since it apparen... : MarkovChain
    • er I take that back, quadeh I can't send you an invite, SM me your email and I'll send it to that instead... : MarkovChain
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      awww... congrats quadeh! : zerog83
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        Thank you MarkobChain :). Sorry zerog :(. : quadeh
        • ... MarkovChain* spelling fail : quadeh
• I got it. I'd like to see more games from the Futuremark guys. They do good work. : Dr_Cube
• Well it certainly looks awesome.. which is exactly why it can't run on my PC. : f1kt1t1ous
• This game is so damn fun. I love the ambiance, and once you get a hang of rolling + deactivating your sui... : quadeh
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  Well, it would be cool if the server list populated, but it wont. I get nothing. : Visceral Monkey
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    Ahhh: "Cause found. This is/was a Steam side issue. It appears that the master servers crashed/were re... : Visceral Monkey
    • Got it working. Holy shit it' fun. I love it. Looks awesome as well. Needs more stuff, but it''s cool. : Visceral Monkey
  • Try this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1452-HCVB-6984 : jodiuh
• This game is confusing as shit :( : ColoradoCNC
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  Game is good times...good times. Really puts a hurting down on my poor old GTX260 though. :'( : jodiuh
  • Disabling PhysX acceleration in nVidia control panel may help with fps. Also, disabling voip in the game ... : Pulveri

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  Bump for awesome looking torture while you wait for SC2 beta :( : Serpico74
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    Did you not get your key yet? : chrisschutz
    • I have not. I have heard rumors that employee F&F keys don't go out until next week, but we'll see. : Serpico74
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  i like to watch these on 360p : TPSReport
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    I don't really see the difference between the 360 and 1080 options. The 360p is blocky, but looks better ... : Crabs Jarrard
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      Weird, looks great here and in full screen, no artifacts or anything : Serpico74
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        yeah, looks pretty good here too - thanks for posting it, the delay on F&F keys this time sucks :( Nice t... : veras
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          The delay sucks, I'm hearing next week now. Hope that's not true. : Serpico74
          • That's what I've heard too :( I think they might be staggering them though, maybe some will be earlier : veras
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      do you have a quality system? 1080p youtube video is a beast : mwasher
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        Full screen my stream and it is like you are playing! (seriously the quality is amazing) : pancake humper
        • It looks fucking spectacular 1080p FS : Serpico74
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          I haven't really watched any footage and don't have a great desire to. Would make me flip out watching y... : mwasher
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            man, just watching this footage in the OP is making me ill. unghhhhghghgh : mwasher
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              http://www.livestream.com/sothebysgaming/video?clipId=pla_91fbaca7-5d0e-4dee-b0ea-3b16f0844f70 FULL SC... : pancake humper
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                that does look fantastic. goddammit ph i am so sad. :( : mwasher
                • fuck this. no more. i'm doing something else. : mwasher
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        I guess not. Do you need a quad for 1080p Youtube? I have some 1080i concert bootlegs that run fine and I... : Crabs Jarrard
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          Also, I know it's not 1080p, but Hulu video is night and day better than anything I've gotten on Youtube. : Crabs Jarrard
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            yea something is up there : mwasher
            • Yeah, the Youtube streams 720 and up all look like there going at 15 fps. I've done everything I could wi... : Crabs Jarrard
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        on my older system i hit full screen and it instantly started, no lag at all : EvilDolemite
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          if 1080p full screen youtube video on your older system was completely smooth then your old system wasn't... : mwasher
          • it's three years old : EvilDolemite
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  beautiful stuff at full screen :D : mwasher
  • cooking dinner tho so i will hold off till i am eating! : mwasher
• What about the part where you tell us how fun it is. : Lightzout
• I only get up to 480p here : Sailor of Fortune
• Looks like part 2 is up in 1080p now, it's listed as a video response : veras
• dammit, I want to play! : jdmSlix
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  pancakes stream http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/299/img0847v.jpg a little pixelated while playing if h... : supermonkeyballz
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    "computer - very easy" lol : Iwannaacura
    • That's the only setting for AI : chrisschutz
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  hahaha whoever is talking(is that you?) is so excited. : tometome
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    Its not me, but yeah, he gets pretty excited. I like it, everyone on the internet tries so hard to be so ... : Serpico74
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      This guy could have been owning if he had just built roaches : Porkasaurus
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        Roaches are crazy. : slax0r
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          I've only watched them a few times so I don't quite get how they are different from mutalisks. Are they j... : Serpico74
          • nm, just googled some info, they can fast regenerate underground. That's cool, but I guess you'd make a b... : Serpico74
• cool music i like it : gyokuro
• Starcraft 2 stuff is becoming painful, I want in on the beta so much :( : Durajim
• I am so glad it seems to be -good-. I mean we all expected it to be pretty much awesome, but it looks lik... : Yanks
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  see i am worried i won't be able to get into this. he knew instantly what to do and understood everythin... : EvilDolemite
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    go play starcraft then! at least the campaigns will teach you the basics. : smax
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      i don't want its nasty 640 * 480 when i can wait a few months and play in glorious high-res with a modern... : EvilDolemite
      • Trust me, it's still good. There's only a couple small things missing that more modern RTSes do... it's t... : Yanks
  • the full game will have extensive tutorials. They talked about doing much more than the usual 'this is th... : derelict515
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    You'll learn how to play the basic game in single player and use some of those skills in mp. I think ... : Porkasaurus
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      i hate MP in RTS games because inevitably i'm paired with some dickhole who instantly builds up a huge of... : EvilDolemite
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        Ok, I feel your pain- Play team games, it makes losing less painful You aren't learning because you a... : Porkasaurus
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          it makes me sad how people refuse to learn to play rtses online. they just assume everyone else is a god ... : JINKY
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            honestly it's not much fun to "practice" at a game, to watch replays and shit. : EvilDolemite
            • ED, I will play with you since I am a complete n00b as well! : yosemiteclimber
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              well i guess some people are gay babies who just want completely disposable multiplayer experiences, rath... : JINKY
              • i don't play games for the thrill of conquering much anymore. i also don't feel like dedicating tons of ... : EvilDolemite
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                what I think is weird is how there's like ten million people who make the complaint, they should form a c... : veras
                • I don't his fears are unfounded. A lot of people share that opinion about MP RTS games. Counterstrike is ... : Porkasaurus
          • I think there's just a huge leap between playing RTS games in single-player vs. online. Bigger perhaps e... : bipolar
          • He should just play with shackers. Shackers have been honest in the past about their abilities and teams ... : Sailor of Fortune
      • this is what the leagues aim to solve. There're going to be 6 leagues of varying skill levels (and divisi... : derelict515
      • I found things were much better if you just played with 3 or 4 friends who you knew well and were roughly... : Wikus Van De Merwe
  • Don't worry, there are more people like you out there, like me for instance. : Bamii
  • ED, I will play with you. I played the first one but it was 10 years ago now and I never could complete t... : marmite
  • There will be more player like you than player like him. You'll probably be in a copper league if you pla... : razlebol
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  I'm hardly going to talk during the game ... yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda... : bad_fish
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    Seriously jesus tapdancing christ I'm 3 minutes in and I think its been maybe 30 seconds of silence I'm a... : Zuchu
    • haha, hes a korean super starcraft addict... "starcraft was the greatest game of all time.. and now im... : chilln
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  WTF is this "Joe McFoo will be revealed" stuff I see when someone is about to win? : SqueegyTBS
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    when you wipe out all of someone's main structures, the game autoreveals their remaining buildings unless... : veras
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      I didn't know that, cool. It was so annoying when a player would lose but have a single zergling or worke... : Serpico74
      • Yeah, Warcraft 3 had the same feature (though not at launch iirc) : veras
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        I had a "friend" who used to think it was hilarious to hide infantry behind trees in the original C&C. :| : DOOManiac
        • This friend is a terrible person. : Zuchu
• That game is more polished now than 99% of other games ever will be. : te[R]ror
• This guy is definetly way too excited. : chilln
• the guy on the video sounds like a shitty radio disc jockey : jarek99
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  Those building cocoons look so sexy its insane. Slurp blup poop! : SpaecKow
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    they look like blisters, with something swimming in the puss...SWEET!!! : OhSnapHighFive
    • Yeah, super cool : Serpico74
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  Looks identical to original starcraft with a new lick of paint... :/ : Pandilex
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    I think you might need to go play the original starcraft again. : mwasher
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      Why? I watched that video for a bit, and I saw identical units, identical gameplay, identical structures,... : Pandilex
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        Zerg units seem to be closest to the originals, the main change being more spell casting units and some o : Serpico74
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          Guess I am gonna have to wait for the game, cos every video I've seen so far has been identical to the or... : Pandilex
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            Blizzard is in a tough monetary spot (lol). They honestly can't change too much because the original has ... : Godhatesfatpeople
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              I'm actually pretty surprised at how much Blizzard has changed things, in that many units from the mid or : Serpico74
              • Well the consolidation was made up like you said with other units. I don't know how streamlined it is yet... : Godhatesfatpeople
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              Ugh, they're probably changing the LEAST when it comes to graphical style. While new macro mechanics, mod... : Felraiser
              • We'll see. : Godhatesfatpeople
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            Units are here when you roll over "game guide", then select a race and then units: http://www.sc2armory.c... : Serpico74
            • That's good then. Did they make it easier to 'cast' stuff? I remember if you had a bunch of ghosts and th... : Pandilex
      • well, there are a bunch of new units, along with the old ones. Plus I'm sure some new gameplay mechanics ... : TPSReport
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        What the hell are you expecting? Do you want only new units and buildings? Why call it Starcraft 2 than? : razlebol
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          Yeah a new game, much like every other rts that ever got sequeled. C&C > RA > TIB SUN > RA2 > GENERAL... : Pandilex
          • Because you make no sense and with what you listed they had just as much similarities as differences as S... : Chod
          • Well you just proved how wrong you are... Those games also had the same units with a few new ones from on... : razlebol
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    ways to have future opinions ignored... : derelict515
    • It's like the reality distortion field ;/ : Pandilex
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    i relate it to Street Fighter 4...same amazing gameplay, better graphics. personally, i'm happy its remai... : OhSnapHighFive
    • That's a very good analogy. That said, the more I watch it the more I see that the Protoss are very diffe... : Serpico74
  • It's really not. Quit posting these completely wrong statements in every sc2 thread until you play it. : Senate5000
• Oh no! Run away zerglings! : jodiuh
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  What does the shield do that emits from the Protoss Sentry (not the force field)? : givemesnacks
  • oh nice vid btw, was a very refreshing break after watching the lower quality TL.net streams all day : givemesnacks
  • There's no protoss in this game : bipolar
  • I just read up on this. In an effort to counteract the simplification of base micro (ie - selecting multi... : Serpico74
• It's ad nauseam by this point, but this StarCraft II is really fucking pretty. : SigmaDraconis
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  I only see 480p max. : razlebol
  • Me neither - I had to force it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-l7YHbafY&fmt=37 : Nitrium
• Wow, its finally coming... : ihya
• HOLY SHIT, I heard the voice over woman for Zerg sucked but now I know! - my god is that terrible. I hop... : abrasion

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  Wow. I'm quite happy to admit I'm probably an Apple Fanboy, but. Jobs even claimed the iPad's battery ... : Durajim
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    Funny but related thing happened two days ago. I had a bunch of browser windows open at once, I was do : Serpico74
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      so we should expect Silverlight support then? ;) : derelict515
      • Hah, not a chance. :) They're going to take open web standards over a closed-end third-party plug-in w... : Serpico74
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      That seems like a Mac issue with Flash for the most part. It can be a CPU hog on any platform of course, ... : Fred Garvin
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        Adobe has dragged its feet with Photoshop for OS X for years now. Their Windows PDF readers suck. Flash i... : Serpico74
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          I don't care who is to blame, but it's not insurmountable. It may just be a market share issue. Not worth... : Fred Garvin
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            Apple is clearly not interested at helping Adobe at this point. All software and standards that Apple sup... : Serpico74
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              Because there is fuck all out there with the tools and accumulated knowledge base that does the same thin... : Fred Garvin
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                Also, isn't H.264 a CODEC that has to be licensed? : Fred Garvin
                • yes. that's the whole reason firefox cannot/will not support it : electroly
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                  Yup, and everything from your Blu-Ray player to your cable/satellite box to your video game console to th : Serpico74
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                    the issue was never getting a license for the decoder on the client side. it's the encoder on the conten : electroly
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                      Theora is a fucking joke. I reallly hope that this doesn't become an issue. h.264 is so ubiquitous, how t... : Serpico74
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                        i don't see any way for this not to be a major issue. no party is going to budge on this, and firefox is... : electroly
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                          Firefox isn't as big a deal IMO. Lack of built in h.264 support is as easy as installing a plug-in. Peopl... : Serpico74
                          • we'll see. flash didn't really become huge until it started being preinstalled on computers. mozilla is... : electroly
                  • Then we are back to a large media player install versus a relatively small and massively supported plug-i... : Fred Garvin
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              You know, the "Apple does open standards" thing isn't all that convincing when Apple's own platforms are ... : Arcanum
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                It makes perfect sense. Apple isn't in the software business, they are in the hardware business. Open sof : Serpico74
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                  Apple's own software is as closed as Apple can get away with making it. Apple uses some open standards, ... : Arcanum
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                    That's really not true. Apple has been a significant contributor to several important open software effor... : maddy
                    • Probably because they're forced to by law if they want to take advantage of those projects themselves. ... : nudel
                  • This simply isn't true. Apple releases lots of code that they could keep closed if they wanted. : vigilante
                  • Aside from the above examples maddy and vigilante gave, and my own example with OpenCL, this also doesn't : Serpico74
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    What he doesn't mention is that the battery life will be 1.5 hours playing any video.* * I don't know : Arcanum
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      I read up on its battery life. 10 hours for video playback, audio playback is closer to 140 hours with th... : Serpico74
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        That sounds...unlikely. Postage-stamp-video-with-the-backlight-at-minimum-or-off unlikely. : Arcanum
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          Why is it unlikely? I'm willing to bet that the majority of the iPad interior behind the display is batte... : Serpico74
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            Unless notebook marketing has changed dramatically in the past couple years, "7-8 hours of battery life" ... : Arcanum
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              http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3580&p=4 Anand's testing actually exceeded the numbers tha... : Serpico74
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                Fair enough, but that makes the "Flash will annihilate our battery life" claim sound even more absurd. : Arcanum
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                  The battery life results in Anand's tests seriously reduced when using Flash. Saying it will reduce it to... : Serpico74
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                    ok now reimplement those flash banner advertisements in HTML5 and see if it can magically pull off transl... : electroly
                    • The client insists! : MagicWishMonkey
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                    I never claimed it wouldn't affect battery life. Of course it would, but pegged CPU is pegged CPU. Clai... : Arcanum
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                      As I said before, performance, stability, and security are only a few of the reasons. Apple clearly has i... : Serpico74
                      • We have yet to see what kind of challenges HTML5 dynamic content will bring. : Fred Garvin
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                      They have nice h.264 decode hardware which html5 will use, the flash player would do the whole thing in s... : jcupitt
                      • Doesn't Flash use hardware decoding on Windows but can't use it on OS X because Apple won't provide APIs ... : nudel
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  I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that supporting Flash would let iPad users watch Hulu and str... : riptyde
  • Apple is all about open things. : Arcanum
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    It won't matter once Hulu goes HTML5. Its only a matter of time, especially since their content is alread... : Serpico74
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      Can they still do the ad overlays and whatnot with the HTML5 players? : MagicWishMonkey
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        as far as i know you can. you just float a div on top of the player : electroly
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          Yea, I figured you could do that but I didn't know if the video element would let advertisers embed stuff... : MagicWishMonkey
          • (like Flash can do with cuepoints) : MagicWishMonkey
          • oh. i'm almost positive that isn't supported by the html5 video tag : electroly
          • Not an insurmountable challenge. : kbaxter
        • And you can block it too : Beady
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        they can (or certainly could via a native app), but the issue is it's just a bunch more work since the si... : derelict515
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          hulu videos are already encoded in an html 5 friendly format though, i would imagine they will just make ... : fletch_
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            right, but the site is like all Flash I believe, in terms of the ad serving/selecting code and whatnot. S... : derelict515
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              It would be a reengineering for sure, but everything from the site layout to the player can be redone in ... : Serpico74
              • yeah it's totally doable. There's just a common perception developing that Flash = video and that with th... : derelict515
      • Loads of free iPhone apps have changing banner ads and overlays in them. I suspect it shouldn't be a prob... : Serpico74
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      Let me know how many years that will take. : Fred Garvin
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        We'll see. I suspect it will be soonish, a beta version in the next 12 months. Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailym... : Serpico74
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          In other words full adoption of HTML5 is years away. I don't think Adobe will be sitting on it's ass betw... : Fred Garvin
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            They need to do something. Everyone is out to get them right now, and IMO rightfully so : Serpico74
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              I am not a huge Adobe fan, I think their software is insanely overpriced, however they moved forward when... : Fred Garvin
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                Things always move forward. What was the awesome savior technology yesterday becomes a hurdle tomorrow. L... : Serpico74
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                  It's not just games I am thinking of, but web interfaces. : Fred Garvin
                  • Bleagh. Flash has many useful purposes but webpage interfaces are IMHO a misuse of the technology. Why us... : Serpico74
          • Sure, it's years away for the mainstream, but don't you think companies like Hulu would be interested in ... : Bamtan
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            Great. I'm sure they'll get right to magically conjuring a working Flash model on a hardware platform the... : Danny5225
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              I'm willing to bet that Flash will be around longer than the iPhone : MagicWishMonkey
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                Heh. To be honest, I wasn't talking about the iPhone. More in reference to the iPad and Apple's future li... : Danny5225
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                  HTML5 is more of a complimentary technology than anything, I can never really understand the people who s... : MagicWishMonkey
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                    i don't really think most people who say that really understand what flash does other than video : electroly
                    • i mean, haiku isn't going to rewrite speedtest.net to use html5 any time soon. because it wouldn't work. : electroly
                    • I know, it's annoying because I know the HTML5 banshees were using the internet prior to 2005 (when Youtu... : MagicWishMonkey
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                    I'm not arguing for HTML5 to be a Flash replacement. In fact, I don't think that even makes sense. : Danny5225
                    • FUCK. I was just typing up a sizable response and accidentally hit ctrl-r. Alright, well. I don't real... : Danny5225
            • Just because they don't have an official plug-in doesn't meant they haven't developed it. All you need is... : Fred Garvin
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              they already have. it's in flash professional cs5 : electroly
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                As far as I know, all they had done was create something that allowed you to more easily move your develo... : Danny5225
                • it's the ONLY way to get flash to run on the iphone; it doesn't just make it easier :P it's not a flash ... : electroly
    • hulu will never use HTML5 until there is some form of DRM built into it. : willardjuice
    • Yes NBC and Comcast will surely lead the way to open standards like HTML5 : kill9
    • LOLOL Where is the DRM with <video>???? Yeah, thought so.. not gonna happen : recoilfx
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  article disregarded because the author thinks "LED" is a type of TV that isn't LCD : electroly
  • Disregarding this post because electroly doesn't have a caps lock key : ateam311
  • Here's the original: http://gawker.com/5474900/what-steve-jobs-said-during-his-wall-street-journal-ipa... : Fred Garvin
• Blaming flash is like blaming c for programs using up memory. : capt tripps
• 9 To 5 Mac is a shit site. It's nothing but wild speculation and Jobs cocksucking. : TastyWheat
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  Sometimes he's alright. : abrasion
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    LOL @ abrasion's Flash hating post. : Fred Garvin
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      Willing at any time to hate on it, any time - although PDF is 10x worse. : abrasion
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        PDF? no. Acrobat Reader? hell freakin' yes. FoxIt makes PDF files an excellent medium. : Korban
        • FoxIt has almost as many problems as Adobe Reader. People only like it because it's not Adobe Reader, IMO... : nudel
      • PDF itself is a gread format. : alexpr
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      Does anyone actually like Flash? I don't feel much animosity toward it, but I'm never like "oh woohoo fuc... : Dave-A
      • Flash is a tool. Sometimes it's useful or fun, sometimes it's stupid, but not having it is still one few... : Arcanum
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        developers tend to love flash once they use it for awhile. i think it's fantastic. html/css/js is barba... : electroly
        • Agreed, no browser hacks with Flash :). I develop on OSX at work so I know the performance is at the bot... : nb-co0kieman
      • I haven't done much with it but true write once / run anywhere is something to love. : SiW.
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        I think it is incredibly powerful and useful technology. It is really like web middle-ware. It is reliabl... : haiku
        • Do you think that Flash will be squeezed between MS and Apple? I mean that specific technology, not brows... : Dave-A
      • Not really, it's more about accepting reality. If you can't display flash you can't display the web. Whic... : uncleanmonkey
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  "We don't spend a lot of energy on old technology until we figure out how to make money from it." Like... : jimmy-buffett
  • The next macbook has no speakers. : thecray
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    who is asking for that feature? : EvilDolemite
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      If "asking for a feature" was the threshold, then the iPhone OS would support Flash. Do you honestly b... : jimmy-buffett
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        The majority of applications on the iPhone are free, which includes a lot things that are otherwise Flash... : Serpico74
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          right, but even free apps help create a moat. If iPhone users become accustomed to consuming most of thei... : derelict515
          • I believe that video will be irrelevant by this point next year. Using non-Flash players to be work with ... : Serpico74
    • Quite a few people since there were 3rd party tuners and other DAPs which had built-in tuners (where I've... : nudel
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  He'll be dead soon enough. : Godhatesfatpeople
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    i sure hope so. cancer fucked up by not taking out jobs. : steaming79
    • it won't make that mistake with you : EvilDolemite
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  funny how flash was the gateway to the web media revolution and now it's SHIT all of the sudden, with eve... : Downforce
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    I think its because people blamed performance issues on the hardware available. Now that uber hardware is... : Serpico74
    • well if it's a "hardcoded" for a certain era of media, and it's not scalable, it should be replaced. It ... : Downforce
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  I don't get all the flash hate. It's allowed me to view countless hours of entertainment for years now. I... : bozer
  • Its up to the developer to write software that doesn't run like crap when everyone else can manage it. ... : Serpico74
• Steve Jobs being opionated? That never happens. : tashtego
• Now if only people would start badmouthing Adobe Acrobat, as well.... : Ride-My-Rocket
• i can get behind that. flash sucks. : arizona bay
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  adobe is positioning flash/air in an interesting way, http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/integr... : harold.johnson
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    is this what java was supposed to solve too? : kevp
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      unlike java, air is actually good : electroly
      • lololol nice one : ventro
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    Except that Apple supports this idea already: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ : ovrlrd
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      there's not really anything for them to support... it's Adobe's workaround for Apple's lack of support. : derelict515
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        The way it was phrased in the root post made it seem like it didn't work on Apple devices, since every pl... : Serpico74
        • well yeah, Air it isn't supported. It's a runtime that the apps normally run against and Apple prohibits ... : derelict515
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  Jobs just wants open standards thats all. : gyokuro
  • His (company's) hand picked standards : rosewood
  • Good lol there, sir. : Godhatesfatpeople

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• this one on hardocp is good too http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1409377 : shakybonez31
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  Awesome thread! Oh man Mirror's Edge is so pretty, I can't wait to see what they do with that style in th... : SpaecKow
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    Is a PC version official? : veras
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      Oh, no, not at all. In fact I wouldn't count on it. : SpaecKow
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        I really hope there is one. I really enjoyed playing it on PC. : Yanks
        • Me too. I checked out the demo on Live and thought it kind of sucked with a controller, it's a game I rea... : SpaecKow
• Makes me appreciate my 30" IPS running at 2560x1600. Firing up older games feels like I've never played t... : kronetic
• I had no idea Stalker could look that good. I bought it on Steam but never actually installed it. : slax0r
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  Max Payne does not look like that one my computer. WTF : Crabs Jarrard
  • Also that thread reminded me that any graphics whores who didn't play GRID officially fucked up. : Crabs Jarrard
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    link to pix I'm only a few pages deep can't find it. : SpaecKow
    • Last page of that thread. 22 or 23, I think. : Crabs Jarrard
• Makes me want to dig out max payne 2. Damn those textures are nice. : baron calamity
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  Yup, looks about right. TF2 looks beautiful with everything turned up (with mat_picmip at "-9") :) : Godhatesfatpeople
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    what page are tf2 shots at? : Iwannaacura
    • oh I didn't see any. I was just stating it was :P : Godhatesfatpeople
• damn there are some awesome shots in there : JuffoWup
• holy shit - some of those ME2 shots are unbelievable. : dedgecko
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  some things look good, but I'm actually surprised how far texture quality has gone down as a priority. I ... : thebigbeefsandwich
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    that surprises you? Many devs don't keep high-res versions of their textures. all of the textures for one... : byorn
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      if you have a high res source, should not be difficult at all. they're focusing on the low-denominator... : anthonybean
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        why does that surprise you, console games are a larger market. : Shadowdane
        • it doesn't. : anthonybean
• <3 mirror's edge and tomb raider shots : Waffles!
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  Mirror's Edge is such a gorgeous game : Serpico74
  • it's a sin that game didn't come out with a supported level editor :/ : Waffles!
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    if they had just let the game be some kind of epic rooftop arcade racer or such it would have been great.... : smacknca
    • I 100% agree : Serpico74
    • the story was retarded. but I enjoyed the disarming and the melee, even though it had a lot left to be d... : Waffles!
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      "You know what our non-confrontational avoid-the-bad-guys game needs? Confrontation with bad guys!" : SpaecKow
      • "Brilliant! Can we add some guns, too?" : AxeMan808
  • Correct, precious few games look better than Mirror's Edge. Most look worse. : MercFox1
  • installing again now. : Iwannaacura
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    I don't get this. The flat colors made it feel really bland to me, did not impress much at all. I appreci... : node
    • Well like all stylistic choices it isn't going to appeal to everyone. I love it though. : deject
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  wow are you shitting me?! http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=840&Itemid=1 : gyokuro
  • Yup, that's the good old CryEngine 2 :) : vx2o
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    Yeah, by far still the best engine. You probably can't really run it at that level of detail yet though. : razlebol
    • Yes you can, in most cases, apart from the high-level "antialiasing" resulting from downsizing the screen... : vx2o
  • Crysis 1 can do exactly the same quality - you have to enable some special mode, it's like 0.1fps >:( : abrasion
• Whoa! Some of these shots are amazing! I kind of wish I had gone PC on Mass Effect now. : Dr_Cube
• GTA IV with 9x9 SSAA http://img11.abload.de/img/gtaiv_0124rc1ka8xkj.jpg : gyokuro
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  I really don't remember this level in MW2 :( http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=iw4sp2009-12-2400-54-05t1... : losimagic
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    That's from specops. : -sk-
    • ah, explains why I've not seen it then, thanks : losimagic
• I've wasted a ton of time now, thanks! : OrkO
• ARMA2 looks amazing. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19118811&postcount=113 : razlebol
• Wow these Bioshock ones are AWESOME http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383744&page=6#293 : marmite

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  Red Dead Redemption I mean of course, long night : Johnnsen
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    It's definitely my most anticipated game. Looks like it's going to be quality. : Haku-Jin
    • I really hope that Redemption handles nothing like GTA IV in any way. I wanted to like it so much, and th... : Dong Patrol
• Supreme Commander 2 (since I just realized it's coming out shortly) Crysis 2 Civ 5 (sort of) : Arcanum
• BC2 is awesome, based solely on the beta. It is basically BF2 but better. Red Dead Revolver has no chan... : kill9
• I don't think AVP is really a bad game. It's not the best game ever, but it certainly is not terrible and... : m0nkz
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  I was excited for Mount & Blade Warband until I realized its just the same old Counter-Strike gameplay wi... : Nighteyes
  • Just like Counter-Strike! : justwr!ght
• If you don't like Red Dead or it gets crap reviews, I recommend Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (the seque... : Sturm08
• Diablo 3. When I see news about it, my mouse clicking finger gets erect then limps down again once I rea... : jingletard
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  Civ 5,,,the game I didn't know I was waiting for until this morning. We all knew it was coming sooner or ... : gimpx32
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    The kicker for me on that one was the Fall release date. I mean, how many developers these days actually ... : limpossible
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      Well, it's not like it can't get delayed. : Vincent Grayson
      • I don't want to think about that right now. : limpossible
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      They've probably been working on that instead of CivFacebook which is fine by me! : NFXFSX
      • maybe... it IS CivFacebook!!!! : J4NUS
• I want Bad Company 2, Starcraft 2 (yum, comp stomp), Splinter Cell: Conviction...I'm sure I'm forgetting ... : Sturm08
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  Star Trek Online a 5.5? Seemed decent from the beta. : pigvomit
  • I'd say thats spot on. : massdev
  • 5.5 seems acceptable from what I've played - I'm still playing, the potential is amazing. : Durajim
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    Thats a reasonable score for the current state of the game. : thewindcriesmary
    • Ouch... But some of the recent posters seem to be digging it. : mattavius
  • I'm playing retail and would score it much higher than that, I really like it : jbury
• God of War 3 PS3 Bundle : sreyes22
• BC2, RDR, and the DoW2 Chaos expansion will be instant buys for me. : Godhatesfatpeople
• Heroes of Stalingrad : shortbuscaptain
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  Hitman 5 : NexusOne
  • This! + Mafia 2, and of course, SupCom2. Johnnsen - I would pick SupCom up, It has its flaws but it reall... : Durajim
  • good call. is there any info at all about this? i know nothing except that it was announced. : dirge23
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  AvP got 73 from Metacritic and 71.13% on gamerankings.com ST:O 63 from MC 58.60% from GR Both a littl... : Sovos
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    The reviews for AvP does seem a bit strange. There is usually a huge difference between a 5.5 and a 7.0 g... : humbleone
    • IGNs video review here http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14322168/aliens-vs-predator-2009/videos/avp_v... : humbleone
    • GT review 7.7 http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-aliens-vs/62074 : humbleone
• Bad Company 2 for sure, can't wait. Also, Starcraft 2 beta. :( : Serpico74
• deus ex 3? : chilln
• I am also looking forward to Mafia 2. I loved the first one. : ozzie_beliard
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  Any shackers played AvP? (besides the MP) : humbleone
  • Yes. It's a bit buggy but the fighting is fun. Just the kind of renewed mechanics the franchise needed. : Marrbe
• I truly hope this is a shit year for games so I can catch up. But it already looks good and E3 will explo... : node
• I am curious as to when The Old Republic will get a release date. BC2 looks like it could be great b... : Lightzout
• Oh I forgot to mention Guild Wars 2. I don't know when it will come out (does anyone know?) but it looked... : Johnnsen
• Max Payne 3 : alexpr
• Bad Company 2 Mafia 2 Rage Doom 4 id software better not fuck up both games : hanged_man

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  I'm in Cancun and too old to go drink and party with hot teenage girls shack, halp! : mwasher
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    I'm here for work. I can't go drink. : RomSteady
    • so you're working right now or you just some kinda sissy? : gokart.
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      What kind of work is going on in Cancun at 10PM at night? : mwasher
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        Coding and testing. : RomSteady
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          Why in Cancun? : mwasher
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            Because an all expense paid resort keeps the wife out of my hair? Really, I have no idea... : RomSteady
            • I mean, look at this view. http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_bnvcsiip6qgldkyu3v0y.jpg How th... : RomSteady
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  You're on vacation and yet you still shack. : Visceral Monkey
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    threadshit failure reversal ownage, no tagbacks : busdriver3030
    • hahaha : yosemiteclimber
    • ooh i am gonna steal this one : Dave-A
    • * T H R E A D S H I T B R E A K E R ' D * : Ride-My-Rocket
  • i had a vacation just to meet shackers. : CoRDS
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  Your only solution is to go belt out a tune : spiffymc
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    Just a small town girl, living in a looooonely world.. took the midnight train going annnyyywhhere : spiffymc
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      As tall as he was ripped, he liked tears as much as he liked tiiits... And if she'd shed some then, he'd : Dong Patrol
      • Haha wow : Moonbase Commander
      • Awesome mace parody for this song. RomSteady - write the rest and make maddog sing it! : anhero
      • Hahahaha, oh fuck. This is awesome. : Rice-Rocketeer
• why the fuck are you in your room? : voodooraze
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  Your bird is really quiet. I think she is scared of me. : dognose
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    Shouldn't be. You won't eat her. She always had to worry I'd get the munchies in the middle of the night.... : RomSteady
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      I sure hope she likes classical music because that's what she's got :/ : dognose
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        Oh and I lost the water bottle your wife gave me and I am out of water so the bird has Heineken. : dognose
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          Beer-battered bird breast is tasty. : RomSteady
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            When we play L4D I always hear that bird going NUTS in the background, but she hasn't said one thing sinc... : dognose
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              is that what that noise is . : CoRDS
              • Yeah, he fixed his mic issues though : dognose
        • hahaha :D : yosemiteclimber
• I stayed there once a looong while ago. It was a pretty cool place, far enough away from the strip where ... : MarkovChain
• I went to the Moon Palace about 4 years ago. It was badass. Other than the noise, how are you enjoying it... : menar003
• Switch your room : peter
• i'll switch places with you! i'd put up with bad karaoke anyday for cancun. : arcane_
• Make sure you go to Coco Bongo. Get out of your room, Cancún is amazing. : davidc02
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  GO SING! Divx plz : anhero
  • Pix only of Cancun http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_2pfcei7iadgmoggm2ty3.jpg : RomSteady

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• Yeah, they're great and the story in the first Thief is top notch so start there. Some of the greatest w... : Haku-Jin
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  Hell yes you SHOULD!! No other game, still today, captures the intensity of a humming guard walking right... : warcrow
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    I never played the third one. After Deus Ex 2 I didn't want to taint my Thief memories. :( : Haku-Jin
    • The third one was really good! You should play it. : Vantage
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      It's not that bad. Certain elements irk me, but it feels like a Thief game in the end, plus it ends the ... : Rag and Bone Man
      • Yeah it tied it up nicely. That's why I am sad they are doing another one. : node
    • Thief 3 was a very, very good game. If Thief 1 and 2 were 10's then Thief 3 was a solid 8. : NastyJack
    • It's worth playing. I have very little good to say about DX2, but Thief III's good points are worth suffe... : Conan
    • Thief 3. The Cradle. EOT : ihya
  • Yes yes yes. This! That was the first game to really ever pull me in and actually make me anxious about w... : ieGod
  • I remember distinctly hiding under tables and stuff while I was watching a guard slowly walk by. There's... : jimmy_legs
  • To play them like it's the first time... I can only wish. So much fun. : Rag and Bone Man
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  The first game was excellent, but the graphics are really gonna be a kick in the teeth by today's standar... : Sovos
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    Cool, I can probably get by on the graphics. I recently went through 'Undying' for the first time and en... : icon_of_syn
    • I loved Undying but Thief is ten times the game. You're going to love it. : Haku-Jin
    • I still have to finish Undying. Been playing on and off since it came out, lost as fuck though, some of t... : node
• That game defined the genre in my opinion your appreciation is incomplete without full understanding of i... : ieGod
• The Thief series was an incredible set of games, especially the first two (TLG games). Highly recommende... : Tripps
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  Is anyone worried about Th{4}yif? :( : warcrow
  • ....yif? Gross. : SigENeaT
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    Urk. : warcrow
    • Th{4}yif 4: H3m4an R3Volution : Dong Patrol
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    I am worried about Thiaf. My only hope is that Garrett is nowhere in the storyline, that way I can prete... : Rag and Bone Man
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      Different character, similar personality, a bit in the future. That's what I'm hoping for. : Robotic Puppy Eater
      • But then it won't be thief without him either. : node
  • Worry is when you're uncertain and anxious, whereas I'm sure it will suck. : SpaecKow
• yes you should, if only i could find myself a copy of thief2 : supaLink
• Thief defined the genre. Play them. : Beaginator
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    Honestly, I like them both. They're different approaches, but both fun. And to be fair, MGS came out firs... : Conan
    • didn't they both come out in 1998? oh, yeah mgs came out 2 months earlier : EvilDolemite
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      One's better than the other. Thief is a sophisticated freeform stealth game. MGS is really more of a puzz... : SpaecKow
      • Which is not to say that I don't dig MGS, it's good fun, but it can be a very shallow, frustrating game. : SpaecKow
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  Yes, you should, and yes, start with the first. It can be hard to get it running on modern systems; the T... : Conan
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19345023#itemanchor_19345023 : EvilDolemite
    • Yeah, I'm actually pretty active over there. I created the icons Darkloader uses. : Conan
• The first one is a great game, but I'm not sure how well it will have aged for first-time players. The g... : action wombmate
• Definitely my favorite game of all time. Nothing's as badass as casing a giant mansion without anyone eve... : blender81
• I played through the first one a few years after it was released. One of my favorites. : dael
• Yes, they are as essential as Fallout and Fallout 2. Start with the very first one. If you play throug... : kramweil
• Very much worth playing! : vx2o
• Do take note of the excellent sound design by Eric Brosius. It's an example to follow. : Marrbe
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  Good luck getting it to run. I tried to get 2 thief games to run on vista/win7 but failed. Tried -everyth... : Pandilex
  • Ddfix and reverting to an old driver? : Marrbe
  • setup with that -ntforce flag? : dael
  • I played T2 on Vista. I think that ttlg.com would be a good place to go for setup help. : zipr
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  Probably sounds strange, but you may wanna start with Thief 3. It gives you a great taste of the Thief wo... : zipr
  • The story and ending will make no sense then. : Marrbe