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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: KS_Al on May 01, 2004, 09:48:18 pm
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Games hm......
OpFlash of course and it's expansions.
Great Game played it for a long time and very realistic compared to BF 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam unlike those :). except the graphics part..... anyways. You can drive, fly and go in boats and shoot down enemies in your helicopter or A-10 or snipe away from a distance or launch a rocket from the javelin into a T-80. It brings ultimate fun and realism unlike any other game.
Rise of Nations: RTS game of the year by Gamespy.com Great RTS hooked on it actually. Very fun multiplayer especially when you have control of nuclear weapons. ( i'm a nuclear-holic and tend to launch one every 1 minute) Fun game and challenging AI. I can't beat AI at moderate they constantly attack and flank you. well it's easier at easy ;) If you guys remember Empire Earth you'll love this game.
Counter-strike and day of defeat: Counter-strike everyone knows that game so that's explainable. For Dod it's allies vs Axis. Play on D-day maps and in Anzio and many places. you play as the British and use the Enfield rifle or Bren or be the Allies and use the Thompson or the infamous M1 garand. or axis Kar98 and STG44 (automatic rifle) or MP40. for info //www.dayofdefeat.com
Soldier of Fortune II
Well one thing i'll say it's damn bloody for those who love gore and pieces flying out and organs spewing out this is the game for you. Fun game using a M-4, shotgun, Desert Eagle and many more guns. You'll have a ton of fun. But make sure you have a decent system to play this to see the guts of one guy to show. Warning: Do not eat when you play. happened to me once and I got sick.
Medieval Total War:
RTS strategy warfare. If you love big battles with 10,000 to 20,000 men army fighting each other this is a great game. You can use artillery, Trebuchets, catapults, archers, knights, Footmen, pikemen, and many more units in these battles. This really shows realistic battles and are big and massive and challenging. AI flanks you and uses reserves for backup. I was playing the campaign map and i was very angry because the Pope kept capturing Rome and I kept sending 5,000 men to quarrel with his army. M TW brings many war stories to tell and is different everytime you play.
The Sims and expansions:
Alot of PC gamers know this game and of course it's one of the greatest games made. It's fun to create lives and watch them florish or bring them to hell and die. Either way it's fun. Either i want my character to make it to the top and be a CEO of a corporation and kept up with his skills or make my character a soccer mascot and own a small house with no TV. There's so many possibilities. I'm sure some of you have played this game. BTW Sims 2 is coming out soon.
Rainbow Six 3 is another game to play on the computer! Killing terrorists is your mission. You start at the briefing screen and you are being briefed by Mr. Clark aka John Clark (did you know Mr. Clark was before known as Mr. John Kelly ex-navy seal nasty history) and briefed by the woman who tells your objectives. Soon you will going to the equipment room to arm your weaponry. Usually i take an MP5 with a scope and grenades and a heartbeat sensor and then i arm my teammates. Then you plan what routes to take either to cover or flashbang or grenade and make plans for other squads (since you can command up to three original RS had 4). Then you go in. And there you go you have to becareful crawl around the corners always peek and don;t rush it will get yourselves killed. then kill the terrorists. Tango down, hostage rescued. of course then there is multi and there is more fun to talk about.
SWAT 3 is another game I love to play. thing is it's not you shoot and kill. You are a SWAT officer you are to save lives not to steal them. Most of the missions are saving hostages. Mostly when ERT is not there SWAT is there (I think) Anyways you go in with your team and either find a way to make the criminal surrender or neutralize him. Normally a flashbang works or smoke grenades work 85% of the time. If he doesn't surrender and point the gun at you, shoot him. Of course if you shoot him in the back and don't say SWAT put your guns down and don't give him warning a penalty goes to you. It's pretty fun and realistic. the only thing that disappointed me was gun sounds.
Well that's not all the games i played but what about you guys?
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Far too many to list....
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Currently playing System Shock 2 since I missed it the first time around. Not bad so far, there are a ton of things you have to keep track of. Nice story, and the atmosphere is cool...
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Nethack. Hideously addicting.
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It's a mix between Space Empire 4 and ADOM (a net hack clone). I also tend to play Scorched3D sometimes, and Homeworld on occasion.
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C&C Generals
Starcraft
Civilization III
Homeworld 2
SimTower :D
Madden 2004
That's all that I've been playing recently...got a whole bunch of others on the shelf though.
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I'm replaying Freespace 2... With SCP!
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UnrealTournament. :D
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i've been playing unhealthy amounts of ut2k4 lately
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KotOR (again, just started again monday).
Descent 3 (when I can be bothered, not often).
And that's it. I hate to admit it, but I don't play games very often. Probably 10hrs a month. :(
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What I'm playing now...
Planetside(till my subscription runs out)
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
Unreal Tournament: Rocket Arena Mod (original pwns 2k3 and 2k4 completely, though I only play it ocassionaly)
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I've got a ton of other games, but I don't play them enough to list them.
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Morrowind. Insanely addictive.
Neverwinter Nights occationally, but since its on my moms laptop, I dont get much play time in.
Alice since I missed it when it came out. A great game with the single best soundtrack i've heard in a while.
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Don't have room on my poor 10GB HD for Renegade, NWN, and Freespace at the same time so I rotate NWN and FS2, but I'm addicted to Renegade multi so it stays put.
You haven't lived until you've blown a Mammoth Tank to hell(by your self, mind) with a Personal Ion Cannon or Rail Gun.
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http://www.wizardry8.com/index1.html
The game was in the making for ~10 years, and it seems it will take near as long for me to finish it :p
(started over half a dozen times now).
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Originally posted by PhReAk
i've been playing unhealthy amounts of ut2k4 lately
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Originally posted by Rictor
Currently playing System Shock 2 since I missed it the first time around. Not bad so far, there are a ton of things you have to keep track of. Nice story, and the atmosphere is cool...
Make sure you get the unofficial model update pack.
I only played it for the first time a year ago, I thought it was very good, much more liekly to play that again than Deus Ex 2.
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PC games? ... does the Xbox count as a PC? It has the size and the weight...
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For me:
Lately Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge, making some maps for it(I currently have 3)
Unreal Tournament 1, some InstaGib matches.
Quake 3, repractising the usage of Railgun(After half a year without any Quake, I forgot it :D )
StarCraft: Testing my Skirmish maps, and improving them.
Jedi Academy: Duel games, when I have mood for a little mowing.
(I also have maps for this game :))
Imperium Galactica 2: When I run out of idea what to play.
Rebellion: When I run out of idea what to play, and I have no mood for playing IG2.
Xwing Alliance: I replay it with my newest Joystick.
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Currently:
Farcry
NFSU
SC: PT
KotOR
schoolstuff (JavaScript)
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currently...:
Neverwinter Nights (multiplayer mainly time to times)
Rainbow Six - Raven Shield
Battlefield1942/DesertCombat
KnightOnline Beta
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lets see here...
Sporadic bouts of Freespace2 (mainly when new things are released)
Homeworld 2 (so sue me, I like the game, unhealthily bad storyline or no)
Command & Conquer: Zero Hour
Aliens vs Predator 2 (doesnt get old no matter how many times i play it)
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (what can i say, its just a plain good game)
and Final Fantasy XI (a new MMORPG that i actually find quite entertaining)
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Civilization III. It's too addictive. I will now establish communism and guide my English Empire to it's righteous path! or something
EV: Nova. Argh. Addictive.
OFP: Resistance, Finnish Defence Forces Mod and everything else 1.94->. Pure sex. I never though killing Russians with a goddamn XM8 (OICW replacement) would be of so much fun.
Steel Panthers: World at War [h2hMOD] and Steel Panthers: MBT with Armour Addon m4 (?).
In the WW2, I will, naturally, be the Germans and arm my Kampfgruppe with Königtigers, Panther Gs and Waffen-SS. In modern war, I just tard around.
Freespace 2, now and then.
Soldat. Oh, Soldat. Thou art the best.
I don't play a lot.
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Silent Hill 2 and 3
Haegemonia
Homeworld 2
Dungeon Siege
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Halo has finally drawn me into it's grasp and I've been playing it a lot (both SP and online).
Before I got it I was playing
Need For Speed : Underground
Grand Theft Auto III (I've finished VC already)
Max Payne
Hostile Waters
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IL2 Sturmovik, a great World War II flight sim set on the Russian front. It's simply a great game but I seem to be the only one who plays it down my way.
FreeSpace with SCP of course.
FreeSpace 1 got it for my birthday.
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Originally posted by Setekh
PC games? ... does the Xbox count as a PC? It has the size and the weight...
wish Xbox live was a tad more flexible in payment options (i.e credit card not required) then i could play you at crimson skies one day ;)
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Originally posted by Turnsky
wish Xbox live was a tad more flexible in payment options (i.e credit card not required) then i could play you at crimson skies one day ;)
Funny you should say that, I've just this minute been playing CS and Rainbow Six 3 on live.
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well X box live is great thing when you also play Splinter Cell Pandora tomorrow i kick ass when i play mercenary i also have it for cpu which the graphics kick ass!
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I do the bidding of my consoles nowadays. the pc is no longer used for games as much as before. basically I use it as dvd player and for internet...
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SW Galaxies
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I just got SW Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast. Pretty fun game, good for the home lan.
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Final Fantasy XI
I-War2
Rise of nation
FS2
and XBOX
PGR2
SC:PT
Ninja Gaiden (very good game
etc.
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When I'm at the university I just play FS2. When I'm at home I play FS1, Quake 2 (when I feel like just blasting things), also Elite Force 2, sometimes Dues Ex 1 or 2.
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PC:
Americas Army (damn fun game for free)
Xbox (live):
SP:PT (pretty interesting multiplayer, still working on getting good at it)
Ghost Recon (had a little fun playing the campaign and multiplayer but I am gonna sell it and get Rainbow Six three)
Mechassualt (its old but nothing is as fun as 8 mechs on a very small level)
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Originally posted by Rictor
Currently playing System Shock 2 since I missed it the first time around. Not bad so far, there are a ton of things you have to keep track of. Nice story, and the atmosphere is cool...
You need to try the texture and model upgrades.
SS2 Rebirth - home page (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/sshock_rebirth.htm)
Shock Texture Upgrade Project beta 4 - direct download (http://shtup.home.att.net/shtup_beta4.zip)
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I'm going through some of the all time classics at the moment...
Playing Little Big Adventure at the time being.
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who plays Rise of Nations here maybe we can get along and fight among ourselves!
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halo, my clan is suffering a severe cold streak due to lack of activity and a server so im practicing alot.
i have Americas armyt and BF veitnam and i hit those up sometimes
i have a bunch of games installed that i dont realyl play, so ill let my c:\games do the talking
(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ksickafoose/images/gamesfolder.jpg)
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I've been playing some DOS stuff recently, System Shock 1 and Syndicate Wars (got to the orbital elevator level but just can't win!), and Crusader: No Remorse. TIE Fighter would have got a look in but DOS4GW crashes now :(
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Age of Wonders 2: been playing it and restarting over and over for ages, but I'm fairly close to finishing it for once, but I haven't played it much as of late.
Deus Ex 2: Trying to finish this one too, not half as good as the first one, but still decent.
Neverwinter Nights: Good game, but I'm a little disappointed with the storyline of the main campaign in the original NWN, Baldurs Gate 2 was FAR better in that section But still a good game :)
Farcry: Tried it out a bit, but I'm putting it on hold for a while until I don't have anything better to do.
Storyline is a little bit to weak to hold my attention atm :(
Graphics are just pure bliss though.
CivilizationIII: Addictive doesn't even begin to describe this game.
My Viking Democracy pwnz j00, technological superiority all the way for me :D
Dungeon Keeper: Awesome game, for once you can be the evil guy and kill the goodie two shoe knights, and throw them in the torture chamber and watch them suffer, and then convert them to your evil cause :D
And the game that occupies most of my time:
Final Fantasy XI
(playing on server: Fairy)
*wondering what servers the people who plays FFXI here are on*
I have a ton of games I should try out but I just can't seem to take the time to do it.
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Starcraft, Broodwar, AOE2, Descent 3
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Halo, I'm a member of the Squirrels clan, it's so much fun being able to talk with my team and stuff. It makes Halo a lot funner than it usually is.
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Originally posted by SadisticSid
.... TIE Fighter would have got a look in but DOS4GW crashes now :(
It does the same for me. But I do not miss it very much, since the campaign was incompleteable.
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Playing Thief 2, Firewarrior and transport tycoon deluxe.
I take my time, I don't even play two hours a month, now...
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I liked Transport Tycoon. Especially the Deluxe version.
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Originally posted by Nico
Playing Thief 2, Firewarrior and transport tycoon deluxe.
I take my time, I don't even play two hours a month, now...
[color=66ff00]Got in a Thief 2 mood the other day but found that my disk had gone AWOL.
Bugger.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]... my disk had gone AWOL.
Bugger.
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Sometimes I do not understand why disks decide to go on holiday without the user's permission. :D
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Too many to list really.
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Originally posted by TopAce
It does the same for me. But I do not miss it very much, since the campaign was incompleteable.
Huh?
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Well, Tie Fighter campaign was really tough indeed.
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[color=66ff00]I found XW:Alliance to be annoyingly difficult, I got bored and stopped playing.
As I've said before though, I'm not a naturally good games player.
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I am just now playing throught the XWA campaign once again. Yes, it is difficult. But I believe I will be able to handle it. ;)
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XWA wasn't too bad difficulty wise, except I absolutely hate the last mission's whole obstacale course routine through Deathstar#2. (just like how I hate the last mission of Halo... ugggh)
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I absolutly hated that mission where you have all the Tie prototypes attacking your fleet, with the suicice Tie. This one got my patience, I turned a couple cheats on and used about 7000 missiles in this mission :p
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A few weeks ago I picked up Deus Ex 2, Independence War 2 and Unreal: Return to Na Pali from ebay; pretty good deal for $35 especially as they were all unopened.
I just finished DX2 and had mixed impressions. The framerate was by far the biggest problem; it is anywhere between decent and terrible, which is hard to understand considering that the game doesn't look all that good. The graphics aren't bad (except for some textures), but a game like UT2004 that uses the same core engine both looks and runs much better on my machine. It definitely feels like it was rushed and the console influence is evident in a number of places (simplified inventory system, no localized damage, unified ammo, etc.). On the plus side, the already great nonlinear gameplay of the original has been made much better and the story is excellent, so it's worth playing through a few times, although I am not going to be doing that with my current hardware.
I probably will be picking up UT2004 very soon as well.
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Not really playing many games at the mo - lack of computer (this is my dad's) and exams being the main obstacles.
Only game installed on this machine is Rise of Nations. Pretty good, but basically Age of Empires 3.
I've got the following games on the shelf to play when I get my new puter next month (if the bastards at the Inland Revenue give me my money back):
Far Cry
Splinter Cell 2
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Operation Flashpoint
Rainbow Six 3
Battlezone
GTA: Vice City
I'll also be trying to get SCP to work, replaying Crimson Skies, and playing lots of Looking Glass games :D
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Originally posted by CP5670
A few weeks ago I picked up Deus Ex 2, Independence War 2 and Unreal: Return to Na Pali from ebay; pretty good deal for $35 especially as they were all unopened.
I just finished DX2 and had mixed impressions. The framerate was by far the biggest problem; it is anywhere between decent and terrible, which is hard to understand considering that the game doesn't look all that good. The graphics aren't bad (except for some textures), but a game like UT2004 that uses the same core engine both looks and runs much better on my machine. It definitely feels like it was rushed and the console influence is evident in a number of places (simplified inventory system, no localized damage, unified ammo, etc.). On the plus side, the already great nonlinear gameplay of the original has been made much better and the story is excellent, so it's worth playing through a few times, although I am not going to be doing that with my current hardware.
I probably will be picking up UT2004 very soon as well.
Deus Ex 2 was way too simplified.
The small things like actually entering the code to the computer systems and the locks in the original Deus Ex is something I miss in the sequel.
Saying that the game is rushed is almost an understatement, with more time working on that game and polishing it more it could have been much better.
But the story in itself, and the atmosphere of the game, those are good parts of it :)
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I don't think more development time would have significantly helped DX:IW. IMHO, the biggest problem with it was the core philosophy-- it was screwed up at the fundamental design level. The designers got this crazy notion that the one thing people liked best about DX was the open-ended gameplay (even though it wasn't really open-ended at all), so they streamlined every other element of the game into oblivion. And then what little was left, they couldn't even get that right! They wanted the player to be free to do whatever they wanted, but they also wanted to make sure the player could never get the game in an unwinnable state. So the end result is a game where you can make tons of decisions, but none of them matter.
To add insult to injury, Alex D is a whiny *****.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
So the end result is a game where you can make tons of decisions, but none of them matter.
To add insult to injury, Alex D is a whiny *****.
Agreed, whatever you actually do in the game just leads to the exact same thing, so the gameplay isn't exactly very open in that manner.
Whiny ***** indeed, I miss the old JC.
Would be much more fun to play him with the Helios infusion me thinks :D
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I agree with ZB and Zul on DX2. I tried to actually like the game, but in the end the "open yet closed" gameplay doesn't work as a whole. Sure individual things in DX2 might be awesome, like assassinating a guy in his apartment using various methods and it's a little more flexible than DX1 in *some* of those situations, but the main plot of the game isn't as flexible as it could have been.
Similarly, I think DX2 is a bit too sci-fish of a setting/cyberpunk as opposed to DX1 which seemed attached enough to reality to be more conspiracy theoryish.
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I played the death out of the X-Wing Collector's Edition cdrom back in the day. Can anyone suggest a good X-Wing game for the PC platform/XP that includes the trench run? There's so many out there.....
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Jedi Academy
Diablo 2
Super Mario World
Freespace 2 (mostly testing my new effects)
Allegiance (ugly freespace with good multiplayer)
and i think thats it, unless photoshop is a game
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Originally posted by Nico
I absolutly hated that mission where you have all the Tie prototypes attacking your fleet, with the suicice Tie. This one got my patience, I turned a couple cheats on and used about 7000 missiles in this mission :p
I basically use unlimited missiles. I play to enjoy it, not to have something to make me mad.
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Originally posted by CP5670
A few weeks ago I picked up Deus Ex 2, Independence War 2 and Unreal: Return to Na Pali from ebay; pretty good deal for $35 especially as they were all unopened.
Nice deal. I'm still scared of eBay... :nervous:
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Originally posted by Turambar
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Super Mario World
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Is that freeware?
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Soldat, and Outer Space, a czech multiplayer Master of Orion kind of thing. Mostly text and one turn every hour.
Someone mentioned Battlezone. I have a copy but I can't get it to run on WinXP. Any tips?
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Originally posted by Setekh
Nice deal. I'm still scared of eBay... :nervous:
Just stick with sellers with lots of positive feedback and no negative feedback. I've bought over a hundred things on eBay over the years and never had any trouble.
On the contrary, sellers are far more likely to be ripped off by buyers.