Game suggestions
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
This is vaguely dated advice. It's been a couple years since I've played PC video games, but I highly recommend Half Life 2, as well as Call of Duty (I actually especially recommend it's expansion pack, United Offensive -- I bought both in a set). Both of those were two of the most memorable FPSes I've ever played. Call of Duty has since come out with a second iteration, which are also probably pretty cool. I've also heard great things about Far Cry.
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
Slightly off topic, but good luck man. I hope that things work out for the best.:rose:
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Slightly off topic, but good luck man. I hope that things work out for the best.:rose:
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I don't have any game recommendations for you. I just wanted to say I wish you the best for your treatment.
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I heard that "Stalker" is quite good. If you actually want to THINK, try the Bridge Builder / Pontifex Games. Darwinia and Defcon are very addictive, but only offer "simple" graphics. If you go with HL2, be sure to download loads of SP-mods before. Some of them are really good and take a good day to complete. Also, (at least in Germany) there is a "all in one"-pack containing HL2, HL2 Episode 1, HL2 Episode 2, HL1:Source and something else I forgot, to keep you occupied :)
Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.
Sebastian Schneider wrote:
If you actually want to THINK, try the Bridge Builder / Pontifex Games.
Got C&C for those, unless I get extremely bored I don't think that I'll be able to complete the 8 or so games I've got in four weeks. San Andreas took me twice as long as that alone :~. I've already got HL1 so won't need the "all-in-one" pack, but yes they do have that pack in Britain as well I think.
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No bots are available (at least as far as I know). In MP you can play most of classic modes, like CTF, DM, TDM, Headquarters, S&D. Also there exits tons of various mods changing gaming experience (from simple sound change to complete change in health restoration principle). Good thing is that you don't have to care, all necessary files are downloaded when you connect to moded server (also missing maps). Overall CoD and CoD 2 are very similar to MOHAA, CoD:United Offensive then brings vehicles into the game (jeeps, tanks, APCs).
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
Civilization. That used up serious quantities of time when I was an undergraduate. Civ3 was the last one I played and was, I thought, pretty good.
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So is Half Life 2 much better than Half-Life, or haven't you played the first edition? I've got to say the main reason I got into Ghost Recon was a friend brought it over and we played multiplayer on the LAN against each other and in co-op modes. My sister joined in and that was good fun, picking on her, since she was in a different room. But the best bit was building our own guns, he (my friend) designed one with such a high-rate of fire (he like's those kinds of guns) that it actually froze the game for 5 minutes while all three computers tried to play the sound of half a million rounds going off in 3 seconds. :doh:
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FEAR because everyone loves slow motion, horror, and shotguns. Plus the office stages usually remind people of their own office. Except you can deal with the paper jam in the copier machine with a frag grenade instead of just throwing it off the roof into the nearest dumpster. :) Not... that I ever did that... . . . . . . and miss... . . . . . . and hit the boss's car....
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Ed.Poore wrote:
So is Half Life 2 much better than Half-Life
I hated part 2 compaired to the first one. While it was pretty to look at, it lacked a lot from the first one.
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
I always liked CALL OF DUTY
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
Kill Zone! You can either do separate battlefields or a mission which essentially takes you through a series of battle scenarios. It's challenging and frustrating at times, but I was addicted. Also, Medal of Honor - Rising Sun was great too! I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.
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Kill Zone! You can either do separate battlefields or a mission which essentially takes you through a series of battle scenarios. It's challenging and frustrating at times, but I was addicted. Also, Medal of Honor - Rising Sun was great too! I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.
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I agree HL was an awesome FPS. I had a look on GameSpy but I'll head over to GameSpot for some reviews. Hearing what your son says would be great since I also haven't kept up with games that much, the latest I've played since Half Life was San Andreas and that was an easy choice because the other games were so good. And San Andreas is so much better, the map is bloody huge :omg:
Well, turns out the last FPS he played was DOOM III; which he said was good, like playing a movie (he said there were a couple of times the game made him jump out of his chair). Currently, he's involved in some open source/free MMORPG game (I forget what it's called at this moment). He also recommended the latest Warcraft installment, with all the add-ons. If you never played the Diablo series, while it's not a FPS, the hack-and-slash game play is close enough (and with the various characters and abilities and all that, it will keep you busy for hours/days/weeks on end). How about Halo? Not sure what versions are available for the PC, but I heard that was good ...
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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Well as some of you may know I'll be spending 4 weeks in isolation in Cardiff hospital for a stem cell transplant. This is a bit of extra treatment for the cancer I had since it was a very rare form. Back onto the point, just before I leave for the States (and that's just before I go into hospital) it's my birthday. My sister has decided to give me C&C3 and Mum's sister was asking if there was a game or something that I'd like to wile away the hours in the hospital. Since the intellectual side of things is taken care of, with programming :rolleyes:. The strategy side of things with C&C3 I was thinking of something mindless (FPS violence really) as the other game. Current thoughts are:
- Splinter Cell (whatever the latest one was called)
- BattleField 2
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
- Half-Life 2
The PC I'll hopefully have access to will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 2GHz cores, 2GB RAM and a 320MB nVidia 8800GTS (dual monitors although I suspect I'll only be allowed one). A friend has highly recommended Splinter Cell & BattleField 2 (in that order). I'd heard some good stuff on GRAW but this friend wasn't so sure and HL2 is well HL2. Any other suggestions are welcome, but already have, and completed: GTA I to San Andreas, Black Hawk Down, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ghost Recon, Star Wars something or other. Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Red Alert 2, StarCraft, Tomb Raider (last 2 or 3), and Age of Empires (as well as a couple of others). Ideally it'd have a good set of single player missions as I don't think I can abuse the hospital connection too much :sigh: but reasonable multi-player too for afterwards when it's completed (the thing I like most about the GTA series, plus the fact you can mod them easily). Well that was more long-winded than I'd planned.
Good luck with the transplant. BF2 is not the game you're looking for if you're looking for some single-player action. While you can play against bots in an offline match, they are stupid (walking into walls and grenading themselves stupid) and don't offer much competition. Additionally, there are no goals in these offline games other than the capture the flag rules used for online play. It's a great game! Don't get me wrong; I've logged my share of days playing it. It's just not a single-player game. The strength of BF2 is the teamwork that is required (and encouraged) to dominate the other side.... you just can't get that in the single-player matches.
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Well, turns out the last FPS he played was DOOM III; which he said was good, like playing a movie (he said there were a couple of times the game made him jump out of his chair). Currently, he's involved in some open source/free MMORPG game (I forget what it's called at this moment). He also recommended the latest Warcraft installment, with all the add-ons. If you never played the Diablo series, while it's not a FPS, the hack-and-slash game play is close enough (and with the various characters and abilities and all that, it will keep you busy for hours/days/weeks on end). How about Halo? Not sure what versions are available for the PC, but I heard that was good ...
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTLAh, forgot about Doom III, I did play that briefly on a friends computer (it just scraped the minimum specs), so it was quite fun, you could see the shot passing through whatever beast you'd just shot :cool:. I'd thought about Halo but from what I've heard the PC versions aren't as good as the Xbox versions.
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So is Half Life 2 much better than Half-Life, or haven't you played the first edition? I've got to say the main reason I got into Ghost Recon was a friend brought it over and we played multiplayer on the LAN against each other and in co-op modes. My sister joined in and that was good fun, picking on her, since she was in a different room. But the best bit was building our own guns, he (my friend) designed one with such a high-rate of fire (he like's those kinds of guns) that it actually froze the game for 5 minutes while all three computers tried to play the sound of half a million rounds going off in 3 seconds. :doh:
I was actually disappointed in Half-Life, but that's probably because I played it after Opposing Force (which I really liked), Blue Shift and especially No One Lives Forever. Like all games, parts of Half-Life 2 aren't great, though none are poor (there are some truly awful parts in Half-Life), but other segments are fantastic. The playing experience itself is amazing; only Far Cry has made me stop and gawk at the scenery more. There were only a few times where I felt like it was just a grind. My biggest complain of HL2 is that it didn't have enough mentally challenging things--not dumb puzzles (which Half-Life had too much of), but places where you had to really think. A tad too many scenes were run and gun, though nothing nearly as bad as Doom 3 or even Medal of Honor. (By the way, this is the same problem of Far Cry--at times its linearity became too obvious.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Well, turns out the last FPS he played was DOOM III; which he said was good, like playing a movie (he said there were a couple of times the game made him jump out of his chair). Currently, he's involved in some open source/free MMORPG game (I forget what it's called at this moment). He also recommended the latest Warcraft installment, with all the add-ons. If you never played the Diablo series, while it's not a FPS, the hack-and-slash game play is close enough (and with the various characters and abilities and all that, it will keep you busy for hours/days/weeks on end). How about Halo? Not sure what versions are available for the PC, but I heard that was good ...
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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Never heard of it.
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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Assuming that you aren't a hard-core gamer in the past being a programmer,: I'd suggest Americas Army both 2.6 and 2.8. Those can be ran very fast on slow machines and doesn't take much resources... 2.8 can be as big as 2 GB though. It's the most realistic game there is for FPS (seeing that United States Army developed it). It's not a huge graphics intense game, but fun and addictive. It's more of team-role and reverse-psychology as you try to think of where the opponent's gonna go and things like that... Also, you have level ranks, and that formal stuff... As for Battlefield 1942, don't get the real version... Real version is too bureaucratic with Punkbuster and everything. (AA has punkbuster, but it's little different). instead get BF1942 DEMO. You can TK, you can do just about anything to relieve your stress... Some DEMO servers have great mods. also for the real version, most servers won't have the version your client-side game has... It took me about 20 min just to find a server that was compatible while DEMO takes about one or two seconds. Both BF1942 and Americas Army is not too graphics intensive but fun and addictive. A Two thumbs up from me. Keehun