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Post by: Tzar-0 on October 18, 2004, 03:37:23 pm
So...I want to know....who's a fan of video games ?
and what is your favourite game at the moment or the game you are waiting for...?


I'm waiting for the game "Black and White 2 " in this game you are a god and you do whatever you want :blink: search more info on google...

I'm a old child lol
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Post by: Sirius13 on October 18, 2004, 10:52:43 pm
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hehe! me too!
I've played Black & White, but I wasn't very good at it.  I am no expert when it comes to video games, but I have enjoyed playing Half Life and Unreal and Deus Ex.  They are all a bit old now, but so am I!!!  :P

I got a PC a few years ago, and before that I hadn't seen a video game in years. I was amazed at how far they'd come since Defender etc.

...I'm a very old child  :D
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Post by: Manolo on October 19, 2004, 12:23:41 am
Well... I guess I'm the video games maniac here :D
Mostrly strategy and rpg. I also enjoy fps (unreal tournament, doom 3 soon, hopefully...)
Fav Game: Metal gear 2.
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Post by: Carlios on October 19, 2004, 07:16:43 pm
I don't know why, but lately I've been into emulators a lot, specially snes roms...
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Post by: Sirius13 on October 22, 2004, 07:06:18 pm
Hey Carlios!

Do you know of anything like that for emulating old arcade games?  Any suggetions welcome.  :)

I once read an article all about this stuff, but because I did not have an internet connection at the time I just forgot all the details.  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Carlios on October 24, 2004, 12:09:33 am
I'm not so much into arcade emulation, but I think this might help you...

www.emulationstation.com

It's one of the best pages in emulation I've seen
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Post by: Manolo on October 24, 2004, 04:14:02 pm
try this www.emumaniacs.com
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Post by: HellWraith on October 24, 2004, 05:58:31 pm
Heya ppl!!

Videogames!!! Of course!!!! Damn they rule!!! Right now, I've been playing like a maniac StarCraft and Starcraft:BroodWar. Even though I had played these a long while ago, damn they rule!! Also, I've been into WarCraft3 and Diablo2 and Diablo2: Lord of Destruction. Those are like THE games!! Yeah, and I also love 1st person ones, like Hitman: Codename 47 and Medal of Honor:Allied Assault and medal of Honor:Spearhead. Also Call of Duty!!! that's an awesome game!!! you get to play with the soviets :lol:  :D  And of course, as some had said around: SNES Roms!!!! they rule!!! I've been playing DonkeyKong Country  :rolleyes: but hey!! it rlz!!! B) Oh yes!! And also CloseCombat:A Bridge too far and CloseCombat:The Russian Front....both of WorldWar2 (I love stuff about WW2!!!) and the last one, you can play with the soviets (soviets rule!!! I have soviet blood!!)!!!!!

Pfeww... that was a lo  :P
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Post by: MegaCharles on October 24, 2004, 10:02:40 pm
I remember when I played..snes..nes..uffff.....so many years...but now I play the same ..jejej but in my computer jejeje...do you know any emulator of snes but where I can play with a control.....?
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Post by: Carlios on October 25, 2004, 10:33:05 pm
I'm not sure... I think zsnes has that option, at least with me, it lets me use my mouse, and a joystick...
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Post by: TheOFFman on November 16, 2004, 10:24:07 pm
I am a big fun of computer games, I have allways loved games.
I had SNES and my favorite games on SNES were Donkey Kong, Super Street Fighter 2 and Super Mario World. I still have SNES.

I got my first PC at December 1999. From then I played a lot of games and I finnished for about 90 of them including UT, Baldur's Gate 1,2, NWN, IWD, Diablo 2 LOD (I am 99th level with assassin and I have Diablo 2 LOD t-shirt  :) ), Grim Fandango, Gabriel Knight 3, Mafia, Max Payne 1,2, The Longest Journey...
Right now my favorite multyplay game is Call of Duty.
I can't put all good games in just one post.

@Hellwraith: Hitman is 3rd person game.  :P
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Post by: Tzar-0 on November 24, 2004, 02:23:25 pm

hehe...as we are talking about video games... do anyone here have Half Life 2 ?

how is it? (I mean I'm suspicious about all the reviews we can find on the net  :ph34r: ) I've heard some fans were disapointed....what is your opinion ?
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Post by: TheOFFman on November 30, 2004, 09:45:39 pm
I don't have Half Life 2 but I'll soon have (I hope so).
I think that HL2 is a good game. I loved HL1 and Opposing Force and Blue Shift.
But I don't think that Half-Life2 is long as HL1.
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Post by: HellWraith on December 18, 2004, 02:57:08 am
Heya!

OFFman, you're right.. Hitman IS 3rd person.... buuuuuut anyway... right now, the leading game IS Call of Duty and all the extensions!! I mean, you get to play the Battle of Kursk with the soviets!!!! What else can you ask for?!?!!? That's just the best thing that could be done... but right now, I'm looking for a 1st person game ooooooooooooonly about the Eastern Front, anyone knows anything about one?
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Post by: TheOFFman on December 19, 2004, 01:10:34 am
I don't know if there is a FPS game in just Eastern front. But there many games with World War 2 theme.
You have Call of Duty, COD: United Offensive, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, MOH: Spearhead, MOH: Breaktrough, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault - all FPS games.

You also have many RTS games with WW2 theme.
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Post by: Tzar-0 on December 21, 2004, 02:51:11 pm
haha cool so if one of you sometimes plays mutliplayer, it would be cool to play together to COD ^_^
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Post by: HellWraith on December 21, 2004, 04:04:04 pm
Heya!

@Tzar-0: when I finally get my PC fixed, we'll have some serial killing to do  :D

@OFFman: I once saw advertized this game that was gonna be released by the same company of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (apparently, the jerks of EAGames didn't think that a game of the Eastern Front would be a hit). I saw it a long time ago, and they were still like making up business crap and stuff... so perhaps it's already out in the market, or never will. It was called Eastern Front I think... very cool. You were a soviet soldier involve in like hm..... 40 missions or so.

FPS and best of all: using soviet and german weapons... not stupid M1A Garand rifles... pls!! Anyway.... it sux how this amaazing part of history has been "forgotten"
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Post by: TheOFFman on December 25, 2004, 01:00:21 pm
Maybe that game isn't released. There were a lot of good games that couldn't find publisher.
If you heard for Runaway: A road Adventude. It's german game and 1 whole year passed until they found someone to publish it on english. And that game is very good. Now they are making Runaway 2.

Do you know for Duke Nukem Forever. Well I guess that game is never gonna be released.
They are making it FOREVER!!  :(
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Post by: TheOFFman on December 26, 2004, 01:54:22 pm
Have you guys played Diablo 2?
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Post by: Tzar-0 on December 27, 2004, 02:21:38 pm
mmm...yes ...I had played...but it is no more installed and I never played in multipayer...
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Post by: Fallen Seraph on December 28, 2004, 09:17:11 pm
Used to be addicted to video games, but now I have been finding them repetitive and boring.
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Post by: TheOFFman on December 30, 2004, 11:13:02 am
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mmm...yes ...I had played...but it is no more installed and I never played in multipayer...
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Then you know how hard it to get to 99. level. I have assassin that is 99.level.  :)
I have T-shirt Diablo 2 LOD. It's great.
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Post by: HellWraith on January 05, 2005, 04:06:43 am
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Then you know how hard it to get to 99. level. I have assassin that is 99.level.  :)
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 Ah man.. I wan't one of those... where the hell can I get one?!?! I need it!! damn you!! blast!! you burn in hell!!  :rolleyes:  :D

And yes, I have played Diablo2 LoD... :P  but when I was raising to lvl 50 Druid... my PC crashed, and can no longer play  :(  Stupid machine *HellWraith kicks it*... crap... mouse doesn't work anymore  :o  :huh:
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Post by: Manolo on January 07, 2005, 03:09:17 am
I have played maaaaaaany times diablo with maaaaaany characters, the most advanced one I think was about level 35 on the second act on second difficult (I think it was nightmare)
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Post by: TheOFFman on January 16, 2005, 05:29:25 pm
:)  One friend bought Diablo shirt in Zagreb (Capital of Croatia). And I wanted to have that shirt so he got one for me.

And yes Manolo Nightmare is second difficulty. Normal is first and Hell is third.
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Post by: TheOFFman on January 16, 2005, 05:30:44 pm
Now I am playing Half-Life2. The game is great!
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Post by: Worby on January 16, 2005, 07:51:16 pm
At the moment I'm really enjoying Ghost Recon 2, I just love sniping and the graphics are so good and there is so many trees! I'm also enjoying playing Splintercell pandora tomorrow as nothing can beat jumping down out of the ceiling and knocking out an enemy when you land on him and then grabbing the other enemy and breaking his neck! So much fun. I'm also into real time stratagy games, really enjoyed the entire Comand and conquer series and red alert too, I'm also into civilatation 2, can't be bothered getting number 3. Got to buy more Therion albums!
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Post by: TheOFFman on February 06, 2005, 03:15:57 pm
Last couple of days I played Syberia and The Black Mirror. Do you like this tipe of games?
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Post by: Wyndrake on March 09, 2005, 06:30:50 am
I love EverQuest 2. All Other games lost my interest, lol...

I am visiting Australia and haven't played for nearly 2 months! Therefore I am still level 23, a half-elf Ranger. (name is Wyndrake on Everfrost server) I will be playing again in about 2 weeks!
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Post by: Manolo on March 09, 2005, 02:25:03 pm
If you want loooooooooooooong sleepless nights, play Silent Hill 4... worked for me...:ph34r:
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Post by: TheOFFman on March 09, 2005, 10:22:53 pm
Silent Hill 4 sux on PC. It has stupid way of moving character. They should done this better. But all Silent Hills have great atmosphere and story.
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Post by: TheOFFman on March 09, 2005, 10:26:38 pm
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I love EverQuest 2. All Other games lost my interest, lol...

I am visiting Australia and haven't played for nearly 2 months! Therefore I am still level 23, a half-elf Ranger. (name is Wyndrake on Everfrost server) I will be playing again in about 2 weeks!
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I never played MMORPG, I have modem and I don't want to pay every month for a game.

DO you know for Word of Warcraft. It's now the most popular MMORPG.
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Post by: Manolo on March 10, 2005, 03:10:55 am
Exactly same here...
Slow connection, too much money.
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Post by: TheOFFman on May 22, 2005, 12:04:45 pm
Last night I finished Fallout 2, great game. Now I am looking forward to Fallout 3.
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Post by: ctrl-x on June 07, 2005, 05:22:34 pm
Man, what a coincidence. All this talk of old videogames, and I have just recently (in the last week or so) rediscovered two of my most favorite games I've ever played. They're both for the PSone and are both RPGs:

Final Fantasy Tactics and Xenogears.

Both have the most inticing storylines you will probably ever encounter in a videogame. Both made by Squaresoft (now SquareEnix), they are both among the ranks of Final Fantasy VII in terms of greatness.

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I love EverQuest 2. All Other games lost my interest, lol...

I am visiting Australia and haven't played for nearly 2 months! Therefore I am still level 23, a half-elf Ranger. (name is Wyndrake on Everfrost server) I will be playing again in about 2 weeks!
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I'm hooked on EQII!! I'm on Najena and I have a level 48 Conjurer. For those who have never played a Massive Multi-Player Online RPG, don't knock it till ya try it! You wanna talk about games where you're free to go anywhere and do anything? EQII is going to be one of the biggest games of all time, let me tell ya. Just wait for the expansions to start popping up...  ;)
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Post by: TheOFFman on August 21, 2005, 01:34:53 pm
Have anyone played GTA: San Andreas?
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Post by: deathdancer on August 21, 2005, 04:09:57 pm
I did, great game, specialy because of more air vehicles (copters, planes) and no loading for every city....
Great game!!!
No words...
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Post by: TheOFFman on August 21, 2005, 07:10:30 pm
This is first GTA in which I am actually playing missions. I finnished about 93% of game. I have a couple of main missions left. Cops missions are extremly hard. Can you play cops missions in tenk?
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Post by: deathdancer on August 21, 2005, 08:11:09 pm
Yes you can! That way is much much much easier!

At the end of game there is police armored viecle with water-canon, i puted one in my garage and brake the mission so I could have it, so I'm wondering can it be found somewhere after you finish all main misions?
Or maybe you get it when you finished all police misions...

Did you also find all grafites and all seashells?
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Post by: TheOFFman on August 22, 2005, 08:01:30 pm
I bought all houses, collected all seashells, horseshoes, I took all snapehots, painted all tags.
I finnished all:

- Asset Missions
- Stadium Missions
- Sub-Missions
- Hidden Challenges
- Street Races
- Gun Range
- Gym Fighting
- Import / Export
- Driving School
- Flying School
- Bike School
- Boat School
- Safe Houses

I just didn't finnish NRG 500 dry dock mission
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Post by: deathdancer on August 22, 2005, 11:32:13 pm
WAW :wacko:
nice job!
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Post by: TheOFFman on August 23, 2005, 09:09:37 pm
Well, that was all that I played this summer.
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Post by: deathdancer on October 18, 2005, 03:12:21 pm
I yust got the pc game: Fahrenheit
(not in any way related to 9/11(I think))
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Post by: Erik on October 18, 2005, 04:43:08 pm
Guildwars is currently on my list of games I'm playing.
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Post by: deathdancer on October 19, 2005, 03:27:31 pm
I'm spending hours and hours with Battlefield 2
Great game
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Post by: TheOFFman on October 19, 2005, 06:48:35 pm
Is fahrenheit working for you? I have some problem with mine. Do you have german menu when before you install the game? I have some problems with tetris driver. Do you have that version? I really want to play that game. I played demo and it was great to me!
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Post by: deathdancer on October 19, 2005, 07:44:13 pm
Doesn't work.
But my friend got the game too and it is working for him, so I will ask him to burn it to me.
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Post by: TheOFFman on October 20, 2005, 10:05:27 pm
But this guy that send me Farhenheit told me that it works for him.  :(  Please get that game before t-shirts comes and try it.

You know what else happened to me. I uninstalled Fehrenheit and got only 1 GB of free space but that game takes 3.5 GB. Where are 2 GBs?? Eaten!!  :huh:  And I checked all stuff that I have and they are gone. I have 22 GBs of used space and I should have 6 more free but I have 4 free!! I mean what teh hell?
And I even checked disc from errors and viruses and nothing. I'll have to format that partition. Good luck that windows are on other partition.
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Post by: deathdancer on October 21, 2005, 02:39:10 pm
After uninstaling, did you delete remaining folder of Fahrenheit?
Also check in "Add/Remove"
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Post by: TheOFFman on October 21, 2005, 11:52:19 pm
Of course I did!  :rolleyes:  There is nothing left I am telling you!  :blink:  I calculated all folders including hidden ones!
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Post by: deathdancer on October 22, 2005, 12:40:08 pm
format your whole hard drive  B)
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Post by: TheOFFman on October 22, 2005, 08:37:50 pm
NO WAY!
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Post by: deathdancer on October 22, 2005, 11:28:24 pm
I know, I was just poking you... :P
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Post by: deathdancer on November 07, 2005, 11:59:37 pm
Finished Fable, finished Fahrenheit.
Time for Call of Duty 2
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Post by: TheOFFman on November 22, 2005, 10:05:52 pm
Finished Fahrenheit and CoD 2. Now, nothing.  :(
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Post by: deathdancer on November 23, 2005, 08:58:23 am
Playing Star Wars: Battlefront 2

mr. OFF, go to your local illegal copyied-cd store and buy something new, or borrow it from a friend
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Post by: TheOFFman on November 23, 2005, 07:05:38 pm
It's not that I don't have any games but I just don't know what to play!  <_<
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Post by: ViruS on January 01, 2006, 08:50:14 pm
Now i am playing Guildwars & Project IGI 2
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Post by: Tzar-0 on March 01, 2006, 02:42:25 pm
Hi,

I bought Black and white 2 a long time ago.
This game is fun at the beginning but finally it becomes boring.
One advice: just don't buy it .
 :unsure:

It was really disapointing a lot of things promised by de developers were not brought into the game it sucks very much. :o

I didn't play any other games anyway, since september. :wacko:

My first post in this thread since december 2004 :ph34r:
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Post by: Krome on March 02, 2006, 06:29:09 am
Right now I'm trying to get my hands on "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth"
It looks great!

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Post by: TheOFFman on March 02, 2006, 09:37:07 am
But that game is not released yet!  :blink:
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Post by: Krome on March 02, 2006, 03:46:30 pm
really?  :huh:
damn! i thought it was  
but there's an xbox version right?
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Post by: TheOFFman on March 02, 2006, 03:49:04 pm
Don't know for Xbox version. I play only on PC.
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Post by: Krome on March 02, 2006, 03:55:39 pm
I see, do you know the release date? :o
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Post by: TheOFFman on March 02, 2006, 04:58:40 pm
Nope, sorry. But it should be released soon I think.
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Post by: Zakath on May 28, 2006, 02:22:41 pm
Just picked up The Longest Journey Dreamfall.

Sort of like the old fashioned adventure games with the puzzles, dialogue and developed story lines. But they have also put combat and stealth in the game as well. Combat is pretty simplistic which is great for me considering that I have the maunual dexterity of a arthritic walrus.  :blush:

Anyways ...  the world seems interesting with rituals, dark forces materializing out of the sky, specteral children  sending messages from beyond, a depressed purple robotic monky and all seeing Big Brother type corporations in the mix.

I just ran into my first major puzzle which resembles an old child's game called "aggrevation" and I can say with conviction that it still has the power to aggrevate me today.

Yet I shall overcome ....

(more  to come later after I have lost more hair and bittnen my nails further down)



Edit: Hail the Walrus !    :notworthy:   for he is victorious over the evil puzzle. And then also in personal combat.   woohoo
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Post by: TheOFFman on May 29, 2006, 10:37:49 am
The Longest Journey was a great game to me. I don't know if I will like Dreamfall cause I like point and click advanture games without action.
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Post by: Zakath on May 29, 2006, 01:42:03 pm
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The Longest Journey was a great game to me. I don't know if I will like Dreamfall cause I like point and click advanture games without action.
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Indeed, it was my search for a good quality "pure" adventure game that lead me to Dreamfall. But they seem to be a dying breed my friend. The volume and general quality has waned over the last few years.

Even the last previous good adventure game (Indigo Prophecy) was a hybrid. I think we'll see more of this trend going forward in order to pull more buyers into this style of game.

On the positive side, strong elements of the point and click are still there along with extended (long) full voice cut scenes that draw you into the story.
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Post by: TheOFFman on May 29, 2006, 09:48:12 pm
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy for you USA people) is an excelent game to me! I really liked it, but it's not classic adventure game.

You should try Black Mirror, it is classic advenutre game not that old and if you like it try Nibiru!
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Post by: Darksong on June 11, 2006, 11:55:52 am
Metal gear solid series
Baldur gate series.

Nothing more to say :iconmi77kl:
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Post by: deathdancer on June 15, 2006, 06:49:48 pm
Yesterday I ended Half-Life 2: Episode One
I took me about 6h to do so.
The game is damn too short, and can't mach original Half-Life 2
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Post by: TheOFFman on June 21, 2006, 07:18:47 pm
I finally instelled one game after really really long period of not playing anything (which is very strange for me) and that game is Half-Life 2: Episode 1. Too bad it's too short!
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Post by: Sirius13 on June 21, 2006, 09:07:27 pm
I recently played F.E.A.R.

This is also too short.  And not enough happens.



So how long are these Half Life 2 Episodes?  I enjoyed Half Life and Half Life 2, but if the episodes are so short maybe I will not bother with them (or maybe I wait until they come down in price)
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Post by: The One on June 28, 2006, 05:06:33 am
Ah.. Short games...That's why I prefer tjose that have multiplayer, or strategy games.
My personal favorites:
Age of Empires I,II,III (and their corresponding expansions, I can't play AoE III though)
Age of Mythology (and The Titans expansion)
Rise of Nations
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II. Jedi Outcast (my action favorite, after beating it, doing some of the missions is real fun, and the multiplayer is just great :D )
Incoming (The 1998 original)
I know these are all games from 1997-2003, but my graphics card is so sucky it can only support that, I have like 5 games that I haven't even been able to install because of this reason.
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Post by: TheOFFman on July 01, 2006, 07:05:00 am
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So how long are these Half Life 2 Episodes?  I enjoyed Half Life and Half Life 2, but if the episodes are so short maybe I will not bother with them (or maybe I wait until they come down in price)
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Too short. Maybe you should wait until they release all episodes. I guess there will be 3 episodes. I am not sure.
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Post by: The One on August 11, 2006, 11:23:49 pm
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So how long are these Half Life 2 Episodes?  I enjoyed Half Life and Half Life 2, but if the episodes are so short maybe I will not bother with them (or maybe I wait until they come down in price)
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Too short. Maybe you should wait until they release all episodes. I guess there will be 3 episodes. I am not sure.
For what I've heard, you are right OFFman, it will be a trilogy. Has anyone here played the Da Vinci Code game yet?
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Post by: TheOFFman on November 20, 2006, 09:14:15 pm
Since August I am playing Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction again BUT this time on internet with my frineds, we installed unofficial mode called Hell Unleashed so we don't need original game to play online! And I also started to play Call of Duty 2 with some friends, interesting is that I am the youngest this time!  :)