Modern Warfare 2: dedicated servers.

Fallout.

It's not that I didn't like the game, but more that I was a dumb kid and didn't know how to play.

At 11/23/09 11:12 PM, LFMconsummates wrote: It probably won't be another year or two before you can finally take on Arthas.

Icecrown Citadel will be releasing within the next couple months.
Anyways, Arthas isn't the biggest villain in Warcraft. He's only existed since Warcraft 3. Blizzard has plenty of material.

The only winning move is not to play.

At 11/21/09 03:37 PM, Sil3ntkill wrote: Modern warfare 2 is out only 20k people playin wow (including me =\) over 1 million people playing modern warfare you make the choice

How is that relevant?
For the record, WoW has 11 million subscribers right now.

1. Diablo III (PC)
I've been a fan of the Diablo games since the first, and I've yet to be disappointed. The third is looking better with each new bit of information released. No release date, as usual with Blizzard, so here's to hoping Torchlight can tie me over until then.

2. Starcraft II (PC)
I loved Starcraft to death. Unfortunately, I was a stupid kid when I first played it and cheated my way through the campaign, though it was impossible to spoil multiplayer for myself. I look forward to the non-linear campaign of the sequel, which is promising to be three times the length of the original game (although in three installments). Also, the Galaxy editor is looking absolutely amazing. In the words of Starcraft II forum mods, "yes, the editor can do that."

3. Battlefield Bad Company 2 (PC)
Playing Battlefield 2 in a squad full of real-life friends coordinating and working together is an absolute blast. I didn't get a chance to enjoy the experience in the first Bad Company since it was a console-only release, but the sequel is looking like BF2 reincarnated. It also looks like the Battlefield franchise will be gaining a fair number of new PC brethren, what with the number of players leaving Modern Warfare 2 seeking more PC-centric pastures.

I'm sure there's more I could write about, but there you have it.

Steam ID: _darkmana
I'm loving Dragon Age, the game draws me in for hours at a time. I'm one of those guys who reads every scrap of lore and will take half an hour to distribute stat points every time I level up. On the other side of the RPG boat is Torchlight, which is probably the best action CRPG I've played since Diablo 2.
I really enjoyed Borderlands right up until I hit level 50 to discover there is no "playthrough 3." Probably helps that I was playing with close friends most of the time... in fact, I haven't even tried getting into a public game.
I can't say anything on Left 4 Dead 2 because I haven't played it yet- waiting on a friend to be available so that we can play together this weekend. For now the game sits on my hard drive, untouched.

Multiplayer:
Borderlands
Call of Duty 4
Garry's Mod
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2
Team Fortress 2
... plus a lot more I'm not actively playing.

Rig:
ASUS P5Q Pro
Intel C2D E8400 @ 3.60GHz
Mushkin PC2-8000 4GB @ 1000MHz
Diamond Radeon HD4850
Creative X-Fi Platinum
Windows 7 Pro x64

Modern Warfare 2 PC.

Get Borderlands for yourself and three friends.

They're not really headshots, but I'm going to say Dragon Age: Origins. It's a rare animation possible when you finish off an enemy, decapitating them. So satisfying.

Seriously? id? They're the last developer I'd expect to drop dedicated servers.

1680x1050 primary, 1280x1024 secondary.
[full resolution]

Accept my friend request, Grubby.

At 10/24/09 10:54 PM, Valjylmyr wrote: Repeating investigations in Assassin's Creed. They could have at least came up with a few different things than "sit and listen, then pickpocket," "listen, punch, then kill," and "climb the big tower."

The Director's Cut edition on PC adds significantly more interesting new investigation options.
- Assassinating archers without being seen.
- Assassinating templars walking around without raising alarm.
- Racing across rooftops to a destination within a time limit.
- Racing through the city collecting a series of checkpoint flags within a time limit.
- Escorting an informer to a destination, killing all guards who intervene.

Completing any one of these missions counts towards your required investigations to access the assassination memory.

They really should have offered this stuff as DLC on consoles.

The final encounter of BioShock. :/

Whenever a contraption "black holes" in Garry's Mod. Surprise! Whatever you thought you were building is now a writhing mass of props that will kill you if you touch it.

Allow me to repost this from an "Elder Scrolls V wishlist" thread I posted in almost a year ago.

+ Dynamic world. I want to see merchants on the roads, bandits stalking in the bushes, packs of wolves hunting down deer. If I clear out a ruin or camp and come back a week later, I want to see it taken over by wild predators, not more of the same.

+ No level scaling. Instead, make the wilderness less safe the further you get from a road/city. I don't want forgiving; I'd rather be torn limb-from-limb by predators in the wild than instantly dominate everything at level 1.

+ Give me incentive to explore. Make the world interesting and the transportation swift. Mounted combat is a necessity as to not bore from dismounting every ten seconds to kill yet another mountain lion. Fast-travel should be available as an in-game service: hire a caravan to take you from one city to another, hitch a ride with merchants, etc.

+ Fix the leveling/skills system. I'd settle for a good ol' experience bar over the skill-based system of Oblivion. We need more combat skills -- handling a dagger isn't quite the same technique as wielding a greatsword. Every weapon type should have a corresponding skill.

+ Make factions mean something. In Oblivion, factions are really just linear questlines, at the end of which you get... what? OH, right. "Guildmaster" title. What does that do again?

+ Equipment crafting. I should be able to salvage stuff to make weapons and armor. I should also be able to sharpen blades, improve armors, etc. Blacksmithing, fletching, all that good stuff.

+ Less generic magic. It's been mentioned, but the spells in Oblivion are just lists of effects, with only a handful of different visuals to represent them.

+ More numbers. Heh, maybe it's just me, but I enjoy min/maxing a character. RPGs like TES are all about numbers, why not let the player see them?

That's about all I have to say.

At 10/22/09 04:07 PM, Makeshift wrote: when playing splitcreen you can't see anything you're doing in the menus. To big. Fuckin idiot developers can't pick that one up?

You should be able to pan it around (with the analog stick maybe?).

FourZeroTwo has responded to the PC community's outrage:

Definitely made a big wave, and the response will not be ignored. I'll ensure everyone at IW sees the petitions and responses to it.

What's that I smell? Hope?

I wouldn't count on the price dropping any time soon. COD4 stayed at launch price for... what, 18 months?

An intuitive interface.
Puzzles that make sense.
A save feature.

Heh, I'm almost there myself.
http://www.xfire.com/profile/darkvizier

At 10/17/09 03:52 PM, DirtySyko wrote: http://current.com/items/91209723_modern -warfare-2-will-not-have-dedicated-serve rs.htm
This is gay mode.

What the fuck is the thought process behind this? Don't they realize how many customers they just lost?

At 10/17/09 01:51 PM, DarkMana wrote: Diablo
Diablo 2
Fallout
Fallout 2

Also, Planescape: Torment.

Diablo
Diablo 2
Fallout
Fallout 2

At 10/14/09 07:53 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 10/14/09 07:46 PM, Jawdyn wrote: 402 just posted that. So looks like a lot of people will be boosting the Spec Ops achievements since one player can just fly through on casual difficulty whilst their friend sits in a corner on veteran difficulty.

You really think they wouldn't make sure that isn't possible?

Indeed, ideally the SpecOps missions will be designed so that co-op action is necessary even on casual difficulty. Also, I'd imagine you would only earn achievements for the difficulty mode YOU are set at, so no free ride.

You pirate software and then rant when things don't work.

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Entirely dependent on the game, though I do tend towards the generic warrior-types on my first playthroughs.

Unless you live in some country where Steam works completely differently, Valve games are tied to Steam accounts. The moment you enter a CD key into Steam, there's no "detaching" it. You can't resell Valve games for this reason. Only that account has access to that copy of the game.

So, unless your friend sold you a completely unused Orange Box, you won't be able to play it.

Mart's Mutant Mod for Fallout 3 is spectacular. It adds diversity to all the creatures of the wasteland, both visual and statistical.