Whatcha been playing lately?

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:02 am

Ive been playing Microsoft Jerk-Off Simulator 2.0. It's not bad, but I wish there was multiplayer as I'm tired of playing by myself.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:45 am

Loremaster wrote:Ive been playing Microsoft Jerk-Off Simulator 2.0. It's not bad, but I wish there was multiplayer as I'm tired of playing by myself.

Ah, that made my day.

Post by **Montresor** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:57 am

Post by **balon!** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:58 am

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:20 am

Broached the subject, and as long as I pay for it myself I'm allowed to get us a router and a wireless card for this PC, so soon I'll be able to get back online from my own computer, and I'll be able to install the Orange Box.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:13 am

I have beaten Chrono Trigger!

I have brought honor to mine household, as Frog would say.

The game's shortness makes it very re-playable, as well as the New Game+ mode, which allows you to start a new game with all your stats/items. Plus, there's 13 endings to unlock, depending on when you decide to fight Lavos.

Post by **Nav** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:57 am

Murrin wrote:Broached the subject, and as long as I pay for it myself I'm allowed to get us a router and a wireless card for this PC, so soon I'll be able to get back online from my own computer, and I'll be able to install the Orange Box.

My broadband had a similar modem when I got it so I did a similar thing. I was able to pick up a generic version of the BT Homeportal 1800HG on eBay for under £30, which gives out quite a powerful signal and has a nice GUI which makes setting up nice and easy. The seller was called digidave IIRC.

I picked up The Orange Box and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 at the weekend. The football game was purely so I can play my old mates in Sheffield over Xbox live, as I don't really enjoy football games in single player mode. I've been having a lot of fun with TOB though, played through Portal right away and loved it. I'm playing through again with the developer commentary on now, but it's a bit disappointing as it focuses more on the technical and developmental aspects than the story, setting and voice acting. I've started Half Life 2, as I'd never played it before and I've tentatively dipped in to Team Fortress 2.

I've always been a keen FPS player, but I've found TF2 surprisingly difficult to get to grips with. It isn't very noob friendly and I've been disappointed by the attitudes of some players. When I first tried out the engineer, I was actually shouted at for putting down a sentry gun before a dispenser. A few games later and I'm aware that it's far better to use the dispenser to top up your spare parts but seriously, the game's only been out for two weeks and there's no offline mode to practice with.

I quite like being a medic though and people really appreciate the healing. The maps are confusing at times though, and because you respawn right back at the beginning it can be difficult to find folks to heal. I've had some success with the Soldier (who's background video is hilarious btw), the Pyro and the Heavy, but I'm yet to really click with a class. After some weeks of Halo 3 and now TF2, I find I'm yearning to play Shadowrun again so I might give it a go tonight. I just hope I'm not the only one there!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:49 pm

Finally installing the Orange Box, but... it's taking bloody ages. "Creating local game cache files..."--it took a long time to do HL2, Ep 1, and Portal, but it took even longer (more than an hour!) to get through Episode 2. It's now been sitting on a full progress bar for half an hour, and I'm pretty sure it still has Team Fortress 2 to do after this. Wondering if I should just quit and start over.

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:53 pm

same thing happened to me, but part of it was because I had the game before it was released. It got to the end and hung up, so I just closed and restarted and everything was fine. everytime it launches it will try to update itself unless you turn it off in the Steam options.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:03 pm

I cancelled and opened it again, and it's picked up where it left off, and is now moving along. Bloody annoying though.

Having it run my CPU at 100% doesn't help.

Post by **balon!** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:26 am

YES.

I just found a place to download Freespace 1 and 2. The game company included this disclaimer in the game: ...You may make copies of the Software for your personal noncommercial use and to give to friends and acquaintances on a no cost noncommercial basis...

I've been trying to find this game FOREVER. I'm really glad I found it.

Post by **kevinswatch** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:37 am

Lord Foul wrote:I have beaten Chrono Trigger! I have brought honor to mine household, as Frog would say.

The game's shortness makes it very re-playable, as well as the New Game+ mode, which allows you to start a new game with all your stats/items. Plus, there's 13 endings to unlock, depending on when you decide to fight Lavos.

Congrats. You have completed the greatest game of all time.

And yes, one of the great things about CT is how replayable it is. I think it's the only RPG that I've played at least 10 times all of the way through. Game + is awesome.

Now if only Square would get off their ASS and make a real sequel to this game. Grr.-jay

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:45 am

Yeah, the problem is that both Chrono games were made by a "dream team," whose members are all currently doing different stuff.

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“ 	...it's very difficult to be able to reunite the original team, to be able to make a sequel to the Chrono series...because if we don't try to reunite these people but take other people instead, we will find ourselves at that point with a game which will feel different, since there would be different persons in charge, and we would possibly lose the Chrono spirit. 	”
  	
— Hiromichi Tanaka

Still, I think Square-Enix is talented and powerful enough to have folks who could capture the Chrono spirit. They don't have to necessarily be the original staff--except for Yasunori Mitsuda. He has to make the music for the game.

Post by **kevinswatch** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:52 am

Yasunori Mitsuda is my God.

Seriously. I love that dude.

His music makes me weep of joy.

As for S-E, I donno. They haven't really made anything that has impressed me too much this last decade. And I don't see much on the horizon either.-jay

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:02 am

I kinda agree Jay, though I did enjoy Final Fantasy X, and I hear XII is even better.

Post by **kevinswatch** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:14 am

Yeah, FFX was kinda fun. And FFXII had it's moments, but overall I was disappointed with it. The characters were lame and the plot was nonexistent.

Although I think some of that is just me becoming an old, bitter gamer. Heh.-jay

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:20 am

My new pc specifications:

Intel CORE 2 Q6600/2.4Ghz/2x4MB/1066FSB/LGA775/(GOSLACR stepping)

Thermaltake Blue Orb II (P4 S775, AMD S754, S939, S940)DDR2 4G

(2x2G)PC6400 800Mhz Heatspreader G.Skill

Samsung 20xDVD -/+R/RW Dual Layer OEM Black

EZCool Aeulus CF-22BKS Silver/Black

Asus P5K Premium WIFI S775 QuadCore P35 FSB1333 2xPCIEx16 RAID 2xGbLAN

Antec 850W TruePower Quattro ATX & EPS 12V Power Supply, Modular Cable

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:11 am

Still playing Portal; this time played through with developer commentary. Every part of the game is already commited to memory such that I barely have to think about what I'm doing, but it's not quite lost its novelty yet. It probably will once I've cracked the Challenge modes, the only Achievements I've not accomplished (I can do level 14 in 11 seconds, every time, but I just can't shave it down to 10. And level 14 is the easiest).

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:27 am

I have Crysis.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:21 pm

Loremaster wrote:I have Crysis.

That's the only game that makes me wish I had a new computer. But hey--even the best computers can't run it maxed out.

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