I think I have encountered an obvious hacker in BC2 once. He just stand around automatically shooting people with so little effort. Even approaching him from behind cover is not safe. It was terrifying.
Where's the pink indestructible scorpion from Serious Sam when you need him?
Last Friday I finally learned how to use Paypal (don't judge) and over the weekend I had five tabs running of online distributors - Steam, GoG, Green Man Gaming, Gamestop and Amazon. I was swamped with the numerous discounts each of them offered. What is already low-priced on Steam is having a 75% price discount at another distributor. Strangely enough those discounted games use the Steam client to play.
Not sure if Steam is losing steam or not but there sure are more wor...
FilePlanet was the main source for me for downloading BF1942 and BF2 mods and patches.
I'm sad to see its shutting down.
I once played a terrifying multiplayer map in Arma 2. It was a night map, an extremely dark one, but the whole sky was "burning" like hell! There were flashes of some white ...flashes(?) in the dark sky every now and then. Sometimes there were giant flames filling up the sky as if someone had shown a projector of a camp fire/chimney fire clip onto the sky.
It was also extremely buggy. A team mate had to asked me kill him since he became stuck after manning a Humvee&...
Was it a bug...or maybe the disappearing island is part of the zombie world? Are you sure your character is not infected already? Hallucination is one of the symptoms of zombification.
Console gamers....talking about DX11...that they ridiculed just a year ago for not having enough games to support it...
-Hey, somebody have to say it.
It'll be a part of gaming.
Stop with the ""Is ________ the future of gaming?" type of articles. It's speculative and boring.
Drive/take control of something in a game? That's innovative?
A story that is actually "Terminators : The First Week of Armageddon" (a whole army of robots hacked and then turned on their master). That's innovative?
Zombies....that's innovation?
By the time I'm able to acquire a Night vision scope for my M249, they "fixed" it so no one can see beyond 5 metres with it. By the time I acquired a FAMAS, it was already nerfed. When I acquired IR missiles for my mobile AA, every jet pilots have acquired the fire extinguisher which is better in fooling missiles than flares. When I finally acquired the MAV, I can't run people over with it. By the time I'm interested in using the MASS (I have yet to acquire the DART, I t...
That's a lot of Immelmann turns and a couple of barrel rolls in one sitting. I literally rolled my eyes watching it.
It feel too slow to look around with a controller. I have an Razer Onza controller with adjustable thumbstick sensitivity but I still prefer using the kbm in certain games.
I've tried the Onza in the living room to simply tryout my PC on the big TV. Yes, its comfortable but again the slowww camera view is too atrocious. Especially with monsters (Dead Space 2) that have have glowing weaknesses that you have to specifically aim at without aim-assist. And don't tell me ...
They've always make research about "FPS games = better drivers."
What about driving games or race simulators? The ones where you need a wheel and pedal setups to play with. The ones that F1 driver use for simulation outside racing events?
Tony Jaa. The Jet Li(pre-Hollywood) of Thailand since both of them play the exact same characters in all of their movies : brooding, naive, unsmiling, almost-pious man who really doesn't want to get in trouble but possess the necessary skills to solve it.
Tony Jaa's movies are refreshing to watch since his martial art moves are pretty brutal.
I'm not against online components but I am against the idea of your experience being determined by someone else no matter what you do. I understand what potential multiplayer can offer but we know how humans are. I've played team based multiplayer like in Counter Strike and BF3 so I'm aware what a good team can achieve together. I've also seen one or two players out there who's sole purpose is to grief others when things don't go their way.
Humans are...
Actually I never thought of DX10 when typing my earlier comment. I actually skipped Vista (when M'soft delayed Alan Wake which was supposed to be the new OS's exclusive launch title) and stick with XP until I moved to Win 7 last year. Not even Halo 2's or Just Cause 2's DX10 exclusivity were enough to tempt me to upgrade. Why would I use a dead-on-arrival system (DX10) to make my point?
When BF3 uses DX11 as its main API for the PC version there were still do...
Like I posted in another article of another game: all of a sudden DX11 is sexy after the next gen console announcements/rumors. Before that everyone avoided DX11 like its radioactive or something but now major titles are flaunting it.
Still it's annoying to wait for games that are delayed while there are people playing the console versions. I usually avoided the articles/reviews for the console versions so there wouldn't be any spoilers. I didn't even know Prototy...
So I'm building my city alone, minding my own business, when suddenly I was told that my lack of progress is slowing the progress of other players around me. My city can't grow unless I'm socially networking with other players.
Can't I play the way what I want to play it instead of having others around me dictate what I should I do or how I should progress to fit their need? I had enough of those with real life at work so seeing that in a game filled with dema...
I wish Gears of War, God War, Uncharted and others come to the PC...
Didn't Battlefield 2 have Special Forces expansion pack that rely heavily on infantry-on-infantry action? What's wrong having a smaller BF map? War is fought in both huge open battlefield and in contricted door to door close quarter combat. Battefield 3 have the opportunity to explore both worlds thanks to its name and theme. CoD on the hand have put itself in a corner with its infantry heavy gameplay.
We'll have small BF3 maps soon and after that huge tank-on-tank battl...
So they think ahead by adding a safety net just in case your connection dropped. That's nice, I guess.
But having others determine how you play is still an unappealing aspect of multiplayer. It's bad enough having others shouting "NOOB!!!" at you in FPS multiplayer but having other SimCityzens judging how crappy your town looks might be a tad unbearable for some.