I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
Any ideas?
Dwarven Fortress? Nethack?
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I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
Any ideas?
Dwarven Fortress? Nethack?
Not a fan of roguelikes, sadly. Plus, I'm more in the mood to shoot stuff than to stab stuff.
Bonus points if the game makes it easily for me to just do whatever the hell I want once I've earned stuff the right way, such as with being able to choose the guns I start with by unlocking them or something.
I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
Any ideas?
Dwarven Fortress? Nethack?
Not a fan of roguelikes, sadly. Plus, I'm more in the mood to shoot stuff than to stab stuff.
Bonus points if the game makes it easily for me to just do whatever the hell I want once I've earned stuff the right way, such as with being able to choose the guns I start with by unlocking them or something.
So, Cod4 or BF2
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I find myself craving games with hardcore freedom of choice. Preferably either insanely replayable, or with some kind of deathmatchy mode so I don't get bored as readily.
Any ideas?
Dwarven Fortress? Nethack?
Not a fan of roguelikes, sadly. Plus, I'm more in the mood to shoot stuff than to stab stuff.
Bonus points if the game makes it easily for me to just do whatever the hell I want once I've earned stuff the right way, such as with being able to choose the guns I start with by unlocking them or something.
So, Cod4 or BF2
Issues: CoD4 only does that in multiplayer, and...Well, actually, I can't think of any reason BF2 wouldn't work, since I haven't played it.
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Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
Issues: CoD4 only does that in multiplayer, and...Well, actually, I can't think of any reason BF2 wouldn't work, since I haven't played it.
I think BF2 has a single player. Don't know why you would ever play it though. What is wrong with multiplayer? Why would you ever want to play single player on a shooter?
If you want to play single player shooters HL1 is only 98 cents on steam right now.
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Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
The only benefit to console is that everyone is on an even hardware platform. Nobody is getting a boost because they are rich and can afford 2 500$ video cards. Control and aim is better on pc.
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Issues: CoD4 only does that in multiplayer, and...Well, actually, I can't think of any reason BF2 wouldn't work, since I haven't played it.
I think BF2 has a single player. Don't know why you would ever play it though. What is wrong with multiplayer? Why would you ever want to play single player on a shooter?
If you want to play single player shooters HL1 is only 98 cents on steam right now.
Because I hate my fellow man.
Also, more importantly, my tastes wax and wane. I avoid multiplayer with actual humans(bots are okay) because everybody else's tastes DON'T. Which means they kick my goddamned ass. Especially when the game's kind of old.
Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
The only benefit to console is that everyone is on an even hardware platform. Nobody is getting a boost because they are rich and can afford 2 500$ video cards. Control and aim is better on pc.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. I LIKE playing them on consoles more than on computers. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to help me.
Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
The only benefit to console is that everyone is on an even hardware platform. Nobody is getting a boost because they are rich and can afford 2 500$ video cards. Control and aim is better on pc.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. I LIKE playing them on consoles more than on computers. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to help me.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. And sometimes I state them with reasons in internet chats without malicious intent. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to chat with me.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
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Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
The only benefit to console is that everyone is on an even hardware platform. Nobody is getting a boost because they are rich and can afford 2 500$ video cards. Control and aim is better on pc.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. I LIKE playing them on consoles more than on computers. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to help me.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. And sometimes I state them with reasons in internet chats without malicious intent. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to chat with me.
You're right, I'm sorry. I was the one at fault. I'll go sit in the corner or put the dunce cap on or something.
Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
Thank God. I seriously feel... I feel so much better about everything right now.
Why does this remind me of the Balkans?
Oh come, I can make it on my own.
Say, know where I can find some cheap, second hand armaments with which to wage a plethora of religious and land based territorial conflicts?
One might try the Balkans.
But seriously, my mind read Wachovia, but my mind thought Wallachia, and I was confused for a while as to why an American bank reminded me of the Balkans.
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
Any game that is meant to utilize a joystick is meant for a console. Just about any platformer ever is meant for a modern console. Know why?
Keyboards are binary, analog. They are on or off. It is fucking stupidly difficult to accurately judge in-air movement or any sort of platform movement when your only movement options are ON or OFF.
Joysticks allow much better precision in that regard.
And that "even hardware footing" is not to be underestimated. Although Micorsoft when and fucked all that up by making the harddrive optional. So no game developers have to choose between making a game that doesn't use it silly or making a game that alienates all the players who don't have a harddrive dick move
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
Really other than RTS games I have never found a genre I enjoyed more on PC than on a console. I mean, I'm not a 'serious player' in these arguments, don't get me wrong, I'm not a big gamer in the first place. The 360 controller just feels perfect, to me. A mouse feels ridiculously awkward and imprecise in comparison, to me.
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
41 games? Somebody got married, oh-ho!
So what do you expect that I look like?
Can I go out on a limb here and say "Peter Fonda"?
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
Really other than RTS games I have never found a genre I enjoyed more on PC than on a console. I mean, I'm not a 'serious player' in these arguments, don't get me wrong, I'm not a big gamer in the first place. The 360 controller just feels perfect, to me. A mouse feels ridiculously awkward and imprecise in comparison, to me.
Well, I take it seriously in a light-hearted kind of way.
I'm studying/working to be a video game programmer, with aspirations to participate in the design of video games one day.
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
41 games? Somebody got married, oh-ho!
So what do you expect that I look like?
This guy was a 6' white guy with somewhat shaggy brown hair. I probably just made a goofy mental leap from your avatar.
Yeah it was cool too because he had such a steady progression. His games were very easily 'trackable' and not all over the place- about 30 oXbox games, 10-11 360 games. All really good games in fairly tight genre niches. I was like: "man you didn't receive any of these as gifts did you?"
His total was like $193 in credit, then he bought three new games and there went his $193.
Any game that is meant to utilize a joystick is meant for a console. Just about any platformer ever is meant for a modern console. Know why?
Word. For shooters though ive always just felt more comfortable with computers. I feel that I can fine tune the aim and control the movement much better.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
41 games? Somebody got married, oh-ho!
So what do you expect that I look like?
Can I go out on a limb here and say "Peter Fonda"?
Really other than RTS games I have never found a genre I enjoyed more on PC than on a console. I mean, I'm not a 'serious player' in these arguments, don't get me wrong, I'm not a big gamer in the first place. The 360 controller just feels perfect, to me. A mouse feels ridiculously awkward and imprecise in comparison, to me.
I find some RPG style games to work much better. I mean, WoW would just be unworkable on console.
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James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
41 games? Somebody got married, oh-ho!
So what do you expect that I look like?
This guy was a 6' white guy with somewhat shaggy brown hair. I probably just made a goofy mental leap from your avatar.
Yeah it was cool too because he had such a steady progression. His games were very easily 'trackable' and not all over the place- about 30 oXbox games, 10-11 360 games. All really good games in fairly tight genre niches. I was like: "man you didn't receive any of these as gifts did you?"
His total was like $193 in credit, then he bought three new games and there went his $193.
Moral of the story: never sell to Gamestop. 41 games for three? Ouch. It almost doesn't matter what 41 games and what three games, that's just... wow.
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I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
Ah, with shooter's it's different. First Person is something much better suited to a mouse.
Halo's success was almost solely because of how tight and great the controls were. The dialog and characters were over the top and generic "imprint badass here."
But that level of shine on the controls made the multiplayer as fun as it was, and probably singlehandedly launched the Xbox into stardom.
All because someone got FPS controls on a console pretty tight.
And yet FPSs are still better on a PC. I even liked Shadowrun and thought it did that fairly well.
James I thought of you today at work. Some really cool dude traded in tons of games (I support my 'cool' hypothesis with this: while processing his 41 games we chatted and he seemed quite cool) and for some reason I thought: "hey this guy looks just like what I expect James to look like."
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Till they come down with inherited ball trauma cancer.
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Lamarckist. :P
Thank God. I seriously feel... I feel so much better about everything right now.
Any ideas?
Dwarven Fortress? Nethack?
but they're listening to every word I say
Dwarf Fortress.
Fallout 2.
Not a fan of roguelikes, sadly. Plus, I'm more in the mood to shoot stuff than to stab stuff.
Bonus points if the game makes it easily for me to just do whatever the hell I want once I've earned stuff the right way, such as with being able to choose the guns I start with by unlocking them or something.
Why does this remind me of the Balkans?
So, Cod4 or BF2
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Issues: CoD4 only does that in multiplayer, and...Well, actually, I can't think of any reason BF2 wouldn't work, since I haven't played it.
I was about to suggest The Sims
Sorry.
Paradoxically, I'm more of a console gamer than a PC dude, so if a game has a console port or is made for consoles, that is far better than needing to rig something together to play a PC title.
I think BF2 has a single player. Don't know why you would ever play it though. What is wrong with multiplayer? Why would you ever want to play single player on a shooter?
If you want to play single player shooters HL1 is only 98 cents on steam right now.
but they're listening to every word I say
Oh come, I can make it on my own.
Say, know where I can find some cheap, second hand armaments with which to wage a plethora of religious and land based territorial conflicts?
The only benefit to console is that everyone is on an even hardware platform. Nobody is getting a boost because they are rich and can afford 2 500$ video cards. Control and aim is better on pc.
but they're listening to every word I say
Because I hate my fellow man.
Also, more importantly, my tastes wax and wane. I avoid multiplayer with actual humans(bots are okay) because everybody else's tastes DON'T. Which means they kick my goddamned ass. Especially when the game's kind of old.
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. I LIKE playing them on consoles more than on computers. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to help me.
Then what better way to express it than by shooting them in the face?
Also, if you play BF2 you could just toss around engineer satchels and blow at least a few people up.
but they're listening to every word I say
You know what, dude, I have my preferences. And sometimes I state them with reasons in internet chats without malicious intent. If you have a problem with that, you don't have to chat with me.
but they're listening to every word I say
a fight
a black guy
and a white
You're right, I'm sorry. I was the one at fault. I'll go sit in the corner or put the dunce cap on or something.
The Sims has a PS2 port, I know.
*sulks off*
One might try the Balkans.
But seriously, my mind read Wachovia, but my mind thought Wallachia, and I was confused for a while as to why an American bank reminded me of the Balkans.
S'alright. Just sayin its expected that in the debate forum there may be some debate about what is better than another thing.
What about the asian?
And what about Naomi?
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Not enough makeup. :P
Keyboards are binary, analog. They are on or off. It is fucking stupidly difficult to accurately judge in-air movement or any sort of platform movement when your only movement options are ON or OFF.
Joysticks allow much better precision in that regard.
And that "even hardware footing" is not to be underestimated. Although Micorsoft when and fucked all that up by making the harddrive optional. So no game developers have to choose between making a game that doesn't use it silly or making a game that alienates all the players who don't have a harddrive dick move
41 games? Somebody got married, oh-ho!
So what do you expect that I look like?
Can I go out on a limb here and say "Peter Fonda"?
Oi, that was a one time... two time thing!
Well, I take it seriously in a light-hearted kind of way.
I'm studying/working to be a video game programmer, with aspirations to participate in the design of video games one day.
I take it all rather seriously.
This guy was a 6' white guy with somewhat shaggy brown hair. I probably just made a goofy mental leap from your avatar.
Yeah it was cool too because he had such a steady progression. His games were very easily 'trackable' and not all over the place- about 30 oXbox games, 10-11 360 games. All really good games in fairly tight genre niches. I was like: "man you didn't receive any of these as gifts did you?"
His total was like $193 in credit, then he bought three new games and there went his $193.
Word. For shooters though ive always just felt more comfortable with computers. I feel that I can fine tune the aim and control the movement much better.
but they're listening to every word I say
You are false my little gerbilly friend.
I find some RPG style games to work much better. I mean, WoW would just be unworkable on console.
but they're listening to every word I say
Halo's success was almost solely because of how tight and great the controls were. The dialog and characters were over the top and generic "imprint badass here."
But that level of shine on the controls made the multiplayer as fun as it was, and probably singlehandedly launched the Xbox into stardom.
All because someone got FPS controls on a console pretty tight.
And yet FPSs are still better on a PC. I even liked Shadowrun and thought it did that fairly well.
And you looked dashingly good.