Game suggestions
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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
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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.
Ah! The young! ;P Nethack is a single player, "go down into the dungeon, get the treasure (an amulet in this case) and escape again" type of game. Its an extension to hack, previously found on unix boxes and has been around for donkeys years. Importantly it's a triumph of substance over style... the standard version has text graphics (if that's not a contradiction). Play the game for a while and you'll never look at an '&' in the same light again ('&' is the symbol for a demon or Horseman of the Apocalypse). It's open source, so some people have developed graphical interfaces, if you're that way inclined. A commonly used phrase is "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything"... a simple one I can remember is if you try and put a potion into itself, you get the message "That's a potion, not a klein bottle". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack for more.