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Hal-9000
01-28-2011, 11:32 PM
New or old, tell us about the games you like to play :thumbsup:

Feel free to post screens, news on upcoming titles, technical problems,
video card chat...Try to keep the discussion limited to PC gaming only,
as there will dedicated console threads in this section as well.

KevinD
01-29-2011, 03:27 AM
NOLF rules!

samarchepas
01-29-2011, 04:31 AM
Does farmville count...:oops:....:lol2: (just kidding...Hate that thing with passion)

Noilly Pratt
01-29-2011, 05:52 AM
I have this old laptop that now I find won't update its virus definitions, because it's win98 - Nobody makes an anti-virus that'll run with it anymore. Plus it can't take more RAM but it's still going fine (NEC Versa VX).

So I found this program that'll turn it into a clock/alarm that looks like STTNG. Ultra geeky, but fun!

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-computer-star-trek-clock-lcars-24/
http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/lcars3.jpg

It had a few bundled DOS games in there and Trek trivia.

Hal-9000
01-29-2011, 07:43 PM
Geeky is fun :thumbsup:

Hal-9000
01-29-2011, 07:47 PM
There are a million flight sims out there.I'm currently playing IL-2 Sturmovik 1946.It features planes from WW2, primarily German and Russian.

There's a campaign, quick mission builder and tons of single player missions.The real cool part about this game though, is the full mission builder.
With perhaps the most confusing and quirky interface I've ever seen :lol: The full mission builder is the shizzle.

You can put everything from stationary AA to moving trains and each AI component can be tweaked, right down to the time it does particular actions.

Building a full mission is a labor of love, but oh boy...the results are fantastic.

DemonGeminiX
01-29-2011, 10:30 PM
I fucking rock at Solitaire.

:headbang:

Yt Trash
01-29-2011, 11:18 PM
Angry Birds! Found a Pc version.

Godfather
01-30-2011, 09:04 AM
There are a million flight sims out there.I'm currently playing IL-2 Sturmovik 1946.It features planes from WW2, primarily German and Russian.

There's a campaign, quick mission builder and tons of single player missions.The real cool part about this game though, is the full mission builder.
With perhaps the most confusing and quirky interface I've ever seen :lol: The full mission builder is the shizzle.

You can put everything from stationary AA to moving trains and each AI component can be tweaked, right down to the time it does particular actions.

Building a full mission is a labor of love, but oh boy...the results are fantastic.

Any good new flight sims come out in the last year, or coming out soon? I'd love a new MS Combat Flight Simulator or something with awesome graphics.


I was in Futureshop today... they had a 500$ 'flight control system.' This Saitek company makes a ton of really cool, really expensive avionics gaming gear. :lol: that'd be a blast

Hal-9000
01-30-2011, 06:56 PM
Any good new flight sims come out in the last year, or coming out soon? I'd love a new MS Combat Flight Simulator or something with awesome graphics.


I was in Futureshop today... they had a 500$ 'flight control system.' This Saitek company makes a ton of really cool, really expensive avionics gaming gear. :lol: that'd be a blast

I'm not sure...once I started playing Sturmovik I quit looking at other flight sims

I'm playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 again...I just love the scenario when you're back in North America at the strip mall and defending Nate's and the Burger Barn :lol: It rocks

Godfather
01-30-2011, 07:06 PM
I'm not sure...once I started playing Sturmovik I quit looking at other flight sims

I'm playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 again...I just love the scenario when you're back in North America at the strip mall and defending Nate's and the Burger Barn :lol: It rocks


Soooo good. There's something so eerie about fighting a war in a video game that looks like your neighborhood as opposed to some jungle in Cambodia. The post-EMP part of the campaign in DC is awesome. One of the most memorable games I've ever played

Funny, people get uptight here when the Japanese or whoever don't want US bases near their towns anymore. I don't think most of us understand what it's like to have you home utterly annihilated. To have had your home become a war zone - even active army personal haven't had that. Those people near bases on Japanese Island who have lived it just don't want to be near a target. Not surprising it pisses them off. We just cannot understand how strong a sentiment that is unless we lived on Okinawa in '45 or something of the like.

Anyways... I'm off on a tangent as per usual :lol:

Great game, think I'll have to throw it back in. I hope MW3 comes out in the near future and is just as good. I'm still disappointed Infinity Ward has been kind of pillaged. They were IMO far superior studio to Treyarch

Hal-9000
01-30-2011, 07:14 PM
I like CoD Black Ops and didn't like it....there was sooooo much drama :lol:

I swear, at one point there were about 5 cutscenes in a row and I got to shoot for a grand total of 27 seconds throughout.


Don't get me wrong, the CoD franchise excels at creating mood but c'mon! If I wanted to watch a movie I'll throw in Saving Private Ryan.

Hal-9000
01-30-2011, 07:19 PM
I fucking rock at Solitaire.

:headbang:

You would love the full mission builder in IL2-Sturmovik.There are about 10 main categories for planes, buildings, lights, fires, artillery and within one category...'Objects'...there are 622 choices :lol:

My friend has the game and I thought he was a total noob at creating missions (the interface is brutal).I went to his house this past Friday and he says -
Hey hal, wanna see my mission? I thought he'd have a few planes attacking or some cargo ships floating around as targets.

OOOOOH NOOO :lol: I take off from his airport to be greeted with a scene like the opening of Saving Private Ryan.He has AA trains firing at tanks, planes shooting
at each other, AA emplacements shooting at observation balloons, convoys of trucks shooting at trains....and us in our little plane flying through all of the carnage.
It was amazing.

PapaZ
01-30-2011, 08:54 PM
I fucking rock at Solitaire.

:headbang:

That's my game of choice.

Hey, let's get together an play a hand or two! :shifty:

Godfather
01-30-2011, 11:30 PM
I like CoD Black Ops and didn't like it....there was sooooo much drama :lol:

I swear, at one point there were about 5 cutscenes in a row and I got to shoot for a grand total of 27 seconds throughout.


Don't get me wrong, the CoD franchise excels at creating mood but c'mon! If I wanted to watch a movie I'll throw in Saving Private Ryan.

I know you don't agree but IF's Modern Warfare games are SOO much better than World at War and Blackops

I've stopped playing Blackops all together. Back to Bad Company 2

Hal-9000
01-31-2011, 03:22 PM
I know you don't agree but IF's Modern Warfare games are SOO much better than World at War and Blackops

I've stopped playing Blackops all together. Back to Bad Company 2

I loved World at War...something about the way the graphics were done and the Pacific theater missions.

This past weekend I installed Far Cry, Tomb Raider Anniversary and Links 2003 again :lol:
I'll probably have a few screenshots this week as I now have 6 games installed.

Godfather
01-31-2011, 05:20 PM
All good games!

:lol: I still have a copy of Links 1999. I wonder if it runs on Win 7 :-k

Hal-9000
01-31-2011, 05:50 PM
All good games!

:lol: I still have a copy of Links 1999. I wonder if it runs on Win 7 :-k

I have the awesome Links 2003 with Championship courses addition.
The whole ISO file package is only 2.13 gigs, I'll pm it to you.

Hal-9000
01-31-2011, 05:51 PM
I should throw in Battlefield Vietnam tonight, for old times sake

Hal-9000
02-04-2011, 01:00 AM
The awesome Tomb Raider Anniversary


http://i51.tinypic.com/502mqh.jpg

Hal-9000
02-04-2011, 01:02 AM
http://i55.tinypic.com/2w1ty4k.jpg

Hal-9000
02-04-2011, 01:05 AM
http://i54.tinypic.com/xaqnmg.jpg

Godfather
02-04-2011, 01:08 AM
Oh man I loved Tomb Raider as a kid :lol: I did a LOT of tuck and rolls. Her boobies moved it just the right way when you did *sigh*


Hal you playing any RTS games right now or ever?

Hal-9000
02-04-2011, 01:18 AM
I've tried a few ...million :lol:

everything from C&C to Space to old medieval RTS's...

I've liked very few which is strange because micro management/inventory/economy/move type games are really interesting to me :lol:

Godfather
02-04-2011, 01:22 AM
Strange :-k

Well if you ever find one you love let me know... they're my favorite :mrgreen:

I'm playing Company of Heroes and SC2 with a few friends right now.... lot of fun. And not the typical douche-baggery you find in FPS games online.

Hal-9000
02-04-2011, 01:32 AM
Company of Heroes was a different sort of RTS...if it's the original one I'm thinking of with the 3 different characters who move through a great landscaped background...
I liked that one because each guy had a personality and different abilities, it wasn't 40 billion little feckers battling each other :lol:

Hal-9000
02-05-2011, 07:20 PM
I posted a similar pic elsewhere...I just love the moment.Engine shot up and my dude looks like he's going to walk out of the plane :lol:

IL2-Sturmovik 1946


http://i.imgur.com/IGoS7.jpg

Tank
02-07-2011, 06:25 PM
I should throw in Battlefield Vietnam tonight, for old times sake

im currently playing Battlefield 1942, the road to rome & secret weapons expansion packs.

not such a fan of BF Vietnam tho, theres more online play on 1942 and missions just seem better to me.

i also have COD 4 & brothers in arms hells highway loaded on the pc too. but as my graphics card blows the lagg on them takes the fun out of playing them! it just blows that none of my old racing sims are windows 7 64bit compatible :(

Hal-9000
02-07-2011, 07:50 PM
im currently playing Battlefield 1942, the road to rome & secret weapons expansion packs.

not such a fan of BF Vietnam tho, theres more online play on 1942 and missions just seem better to me.

i also have COD 4 & brothers in arms hells highway loaded on the pc too. but as my graphics card blows the lagg on them takes the fun out of playing them! it just blows that none of my old racing sims are windows 7 64bit compatible :(

Ahhh good old 1942.I used to play the Coral Sea map with only two aircraft carriers.You could be the gun positions on the carriers or take off in a limitless number of planes from each carrier.


I didn't like Brothers in Arms because of the team movement, so I never played many of them.

For racing have you tried Need for Speed:Shift? It's not a bad racing sim and should run on Win7.

Tank
02-07-2011, 09:08 PM
I should throw in Battlefield Vietnam tonight, for old times sake


Ahhh good old 1942.I used to play the Coral Sea map with only two aircraft carriers.You could be the gun positions on the carriers or take off in a limitless number of planes from each carrier.


I didn't like Brothers in Arms because of the team movement, so I never played many of them.

For racing have you tried Need for Speed:Shift? It's not a bad racing sim and should run on Win7.

yeah, i'm not so fussed on the team movement crap on BiA either.


not a big lover of the NFS games, i just cant be arsed with all the modding up crap you need to do all the time to progress. i prefer my cars already set up for racing and able to spank 24+ other cars round the curcuit :banana:

i was a deamon at GTR and all the rally games i had :cheers:

Hal-9000
02-07-2011, 10:03 PM
I really wish they'd make a PC version of Gran Turismo...that game kept me busy for months

Tank
02-08-2011, 12:21 AM
agreed! :tup:

spud
02-08-2011, 11:39 AM
I know you don't agree but IF's Modern Warfare games are SOO much better than World at War and Blackops

I've stopped playing Blackops all together. Back to Bad Company 2

Im enjoying world championship snooker at the moment time consuming though!

Hal-9000
02-08-2011, 05:07 PM
Im enjoying world championship snooker at the moment time consuming though!

Snooker on the pc? My Da bought a real table when I was about 9 yrs old and learned the game young.

I never play anymore (the real game away from the pc) Would like to see a snooker program

spud
02-08-2011, 06:03 PM
Snooker on the pc? My Da bought a real table when I was about 9 yrs old and learned the game young.

I never play anymore (the real game away from the pc) Would like to see a snooker program

yeah you get quite a few versions most recent one is 2009 i used to play aswell wasnt great at it been a few years since played for real aswell.

Goofy
02-08-2011, 08:31 PM
yeah you get quite a few versions most recent one is 2009 i used to play aswell wasnt great at it been a few years since played for real aswell.

We should go for a game some time down the New Yorker, i aint played in ages either :)

Godfather
02-09-2011, 03:07 AM
Wooh!! Battlefield 3 is coming in a few months :mrgreen:

I'm glad they're taking a break from the 'Bad Company' spinoff

DemonGeminiX
02-09-2011, 06:08 AM
G4TV's X-play had a feature on Diablo 3 last night. It looks badass.

DemonGeminiX
02-12-2011, 09:14 PM
Fine. I'm a game thread killer.

:sad2:

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:26 PM
Fine. I'm a game thread killer.

:sad2:

maybe play some first? :lol:

Dude, pick up Tomb Raider Anniversary.It's a redo of Tomb Raider one and I think you may like the some of the process in figuring out what to do, how to get from one side of a room to the next.
It really does have some ingenious levels.You're alone for the most part, it's not really a shooter...more of an Indiana Jones adventure.

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:29 PM
Here's a good example...one of the coolest levels in any adventure game - Saint Francis' Folly


I walked into this large, open room...so far, so good.



http://i.imgur.com/nSjvh.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:30 PM
Then I took a look down and noticed the middle structure is like the 3D chessboard from Star Trek....


http://i.imgur.com/pe4Kr.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:34 PM
then I noticed there were 4 large doors, at various levels and sides going down the outer walls of the room...
Poseidon, Damocles, Atlas and Hephaestus

http://i.imgur.com/qVjWP.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:36 PM
Typical situation she gets into...where to now? :lol:

If you look carefully, there are ledges and poles and rings to interact with all over the place



http://i.imgur.com/1puv3.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:38 PM
So I get into one of the rooms...Poseidon.
And it's amazing.

Multi-level, the room fills up with water two different ways and figuring it out was sublime


http://i.imgur.com/rWRJL.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:43 PM
The Coliseum, another great level.An entire Coliseum buried underground and the pic doesn't really give you the sense of height.I'm about 7 stories up here...


http://i.imgur.com/tVGpn.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:46 PM
The genius of Tomb Raider...this is one room, in one section, part of a huge level.

I walk in and see these weird columns and spikes everywhere that kill me if I bump into them....




http://i.imgur.com/6EeoV.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:47 PM
so I get up higher for a better look...and notice a switch

http://i.imgur.com/f46Lj.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:49 PM
Hit the switch and some of the columns rise.A path becomes clear before me.
until some of the columns start descending when I jump on them...


http://i.imgur.com/WG7XC.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:52 PM
I'm at this room right now...a level called The Cistern.

It's another water level with varying water levels and about a million things to do :lol:
These screens don't do justice to the beauty of the graphics

http://i.imgur.com/T4JqJ.jpg

Hal-9000
02-12-2011, 09:54 PM
this is from earlier on in the game...getting over a simple 50 foot pit by jumping on top of poles, swinging on bars etc...

it's like Mario on heroin :lol:


http://i.imgur.com/Zgmy2.jpg

spud
02-13-2011, 05:57 PM
We should go for a game some time down the New Yorker, i aint played in ages either :)

i think so too gid excuse for a few pints aswell

Tank
02-25-2011, 11:19 AM
got bored of playing the same levels again and again on BF1942 online so chucked Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway for a bit of a change.

gameplay is good, only slightly stuttery, need a graphics card upgrade, but my bigest gripe is the fuggin cutscenes!! with no option to skip most either! :banghead:


its almost giving Metal Gear Solid games a run for its money with them!!

Noilly Pratt
02-25-2011, 03:03 PM
Has anybody played "Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor." Just found out my nephew did some of the art of the game. Here's some of his other stuff if you're interested in that kind of art...


http://www.yellowturkey.ca/

Godfather
02-25-2011, 06:40 PM
Has anybody played "Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor." Just found out my nephew did some of the art of the game. Here's some of his other stuff if you're interested in that kind of art...

Wow really!??! My buddies and I get together and have big dorky LAN parties playing it quite frequently. IMO it's one of the best RTS games of all times. Incredibly balanced and fun. So much to learn. Company of Heroes is an awesome game.

Good for your nephew!!! I'm a huge fan.

I wonder how well he knew the young Canadian man who died in a car accident saving his young family a year back. I believe the guy was one of the lead developers :(

Hal-9000
02-26-2011, 07:18 PM
a moment from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Myself and Cpt Price come across a panoramic view...



http://i.imgur.com/N3E6L.jpg

Hal-9000
02-26-2011, 07:19 PM
Cpt Price screams - MEETYA AT THE BOTTOM!

and does a head first rappel down...


http://i.imgur.com/8LzY4.jpg

Hal-9000
02-26-2011, 07:21 PM
I look over to start my descent and get a slight case of vertigo...Cpt Price is such a daredevil!


http://i.imgur.com/IA2zB.jpg

Hal-9000
02-26-2011, 07:23 PM
then I see two guys standing below...I think Cpt Price is going to surprise them :lol:

http://i.imgur.com/sUeUT.jpg

Hal-9000
03-12-2011, 07:31 PM
I'm playing good ol' Far Cry again (oooooh, look at the water!)

some AI soundbytes during the gunfights that always make me giggle -

YA YAAA!
I'm going to shoot you in the FACE!
Bite my ass!!
It's ...THAT GUY!
It's the guy in the shirt!!

:lol: fun game

Lambchop
04-08-2011, 08:15 PM
Going through an adventure phase at the moment and the Monkey Island games are supposed to be great fun.

http://i56.tinypic.com/volv6b.png

http://i53.tinypic.com/bdozdf.png

:nana: