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Offline General Battuta

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #20 on: November 04, 2009, 11:45:31 pm
I'm hearing this. I'm really relieved. A few of the reviews have pointed at things I was really worried about (i.e. horribly clumsy dialogue writing), but the overall positive reviews are nudging me towards trying it out, and apparently the actors are pretty good.
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #21 on: November 05, 2009, 12:11:39 am
Battlefield 2, 2142.
both are really awesome.
 

Offline Fury

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #22 on: November 05, 2009, 01:04:19 am
I ordered Dragon Age Origins, should arrive on mail tomorrow.
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #23 on: November 05, 2009, 02:02:10 am
Quote from: General Battuta on November 04, 2009, 11:45:31 pm
I'm hearing this. I'm really relieved. A few of the reviews have pointed at things I was really worried about (i.e. horribly clumsy dialogue writing), but the overall positive reviews are nudging me towards trying it out, and apparently the actors are pretty good.
As it turns out the dialogue's probably some of the strongest BioWare has written - the inter-party banter is particularly snappy. And yeah, at times the acting is really quite impressive for a video game. Claudia Black's delivery is a highlight.

At this point it's safe to say the woeful marketing was nothing but a sales gamble.
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #24 on: November 05, 2009, 02:19:19 am
FORT ZOMBIE...only 10$, but it's fun, addictive and has a lot more depth than you'd think.
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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #25 on: November 05, 2009, 03:58:41 am
Real time strategy...
You can't find a better way to waste time. ^_^
 

Offline Titan

Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #26 on: November 05, 2009, 10:14:24 am
How about free games? I'm bored...
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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #27 on: November 05, 2009, 10:21:02 am
Quote from: Titan on November 05, 2009, 10:14:24 am
How about free games? I'm bored...
I just have to say it...

Tyrian is good. :P
 

Offline Fineus

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #28 on: November 05, 2009, 10:56:25 am
On the subject of free games - whilst not *full* releases - the new Left 4 Dead 2 demo is out on Steam for the PC, as is the demo of Gratuitous Space Battles (http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/). I'd advice caution with the second one however as it crashed my system when I tried to quit out of it (though it ran just fine up till that point).
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #29 on: November 05, 2009, 11:20:13 am
Quote from: mxlm on November 04, 2009, 08:24:51 pm
Quote from: Thaeris on November 04, 2009, 07:32:11 pm
The only downside is that the licence still costs $30 USD.
I got it for $20 off amazon.

$5 on sale from Direct2Drive . Booyah!  :D

And yes, Mount & Blade is good. It's rough around quite a few edges, but where it's good, it's VERY good. It's word-of-mouth reputation is well deserved, and playing the demo should give you enough of a taste so see what's up with it. And it's very moddable: the modding community reminds me of how Freespace's looked in the early years (lots of mod-spam, a good number of great ideas in half-implemented form, and a handful of solid, professional total conversions). It's eaten my gaming life the last few weeks. Be sure to get the battlesizer mod for more epic combat.
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #30 on: November 05, 2009, 11:34:22 am
Quote from: Titan on November 05, 2009, 10:14:24 am
How about free games? I'm bored...

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=63406.0

I also recommend the mods I mentioned earlier, if you have played the games they're built on. TNM in particular is better than almost all of the commercial games I've played in the last few years. A few design decisions are questionable, but the sheer amount of content and level of polish in it is something for the FS community to aspire to.
 

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #31 on: November 05, 2009, 05:22:22 pm
DRAGON AGE ORIGIN!! BIOWARE GAME PRODUCTION AT ITS FINEST (and largest)

Seriously, I might not be able to run it at full bore, but I'm still gonna get it.
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Offline Locutus of Borg

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #32 on: November 05, 2009, 05:42:00 pm
I would say Oblivion

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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #33 on: November 05, 2009, 06:18:57 pm
Nooooooo.... Oblivion is scaleable :p



Dark Brotherhood for win.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
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Offline Stormkeeper

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #34 on: November 05, 2009, 06:27:35 pm
Meh. I'm Dark Brotherhood Black Hand, Champion of Cyrodill, Knights of Nine Grandmaster(forgot the actual rank), ArchMage of the Mages Guild, Grey Fox, Master of the Fighter's Guild, Brother of the Order of the Virtuous Blood ... blah blah blah, you get the idea.

I finished the game, and am now attempting to find every location on my map. I finished mapping out North Cyrodill. I hope. Flying dragon back makes things easier, but not by much.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #35 on: November 05, 2009, 06:41:31 pm
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Dragonback? Rawr! I didn't know they existed in Oblivion. . . Firespawn has it on Xbox.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
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Offline Scotty

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #36 on: November 05, 2009, 07:11:16 pm
Technically they don't.  Not in the "creature" sense.  Akatosh is a dragon when on the material plane, but that's about it.
 

Offline Stormkeeper

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #37 on: November 05, 2009, 08:32:41 pm
Maybe I should mentioned that it's a mod, my good Colonol. A dragon, well, really a drake, riding mod. It's based off the Akatosh model, and the modder did it quite smoothly. And there are several versions, and mine just happens to be a Frost Drake. It's faster than Shadowmere by a fair bit, and it ... well, flies, so you can avoid insignificant things like trees and hills. And it has a breathe attack, and is summoned, with an Alteration spell.

Link if you want it.
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Offline MP-Ryan

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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #38 on: November 05, 2009, 11:00:33 pm
Borderlands is well worth the money if you have the buddies that play coop.
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Re: PC Game Recommendations
Reply #39 on: November 06, 2009, 01:58:31 am
I will ask that you explain yourself. Please do so with the clear understanding that I may decide I am angry enough to destroy all of you and raze this sickening mausoleum of fraud down to the naked rock it stands on.
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