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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 Mar 2010 15:11 On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:03:16 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:20:16 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh >> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> >> To keep on this theme, >> http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/05/mac-games-on-sale-at-direct2drive-until- >> march-11/ >> >> Hands up who plays games on their Macs, or would if there were more? > >I probably would, but then I tend to play a game a year, where a game is >a large thing, unlike something on the iPhone. > >I got 2 this year for christmas on the PC, Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout >3. Both are good in their own way. Modern Warfare 2 lasted over a long >weekend, fallout 3 has lasted.. well.. we are in march now! Fallout 3 lasted about six months here. Splendid thing, it is. For the addons, don't bother with Mothership Zeta but the rest are all good - and Broken Steel is essential. Cheers - Jaimie -- "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity." -- Voltaire
From: Woody on 5 Mar 2010 16:06 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:03:16 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:20:16 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh > >> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> > >> To keep on this theme, > >> http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/05/mac-games-on-sale-at-direct2drive-until- > >> march-11/ > >> > >> Hands up who plays games on their Macs, or would if there were more? > > > >I probably would, but then I tend to play a game a year, where a game is > >a large thing, unlike something on the iPhone. > > > >I got 2 this year for christmas on the PC, Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout > >3. Both are good in their own way. Modern Warfare 2 lasted over a long > >weekend, fallout 3 has lasted.. well.. we are in march now! > > Fallout 3 lasted about six months here. Splendid thing, it is. For the > addons, don't bother with Mothership Zeta but the rest are all good - > and Broken Steel is essential. So people say, I am still wandering around the wilderness collecting things. I never did any of the adventure games like this, but it is really really impressive, the amount of freedom of movement, and how wonderfully non linear it is. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: T i m on 5 Mar 2010 16:38 On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:06:45 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > >So people say, I am still wandering around the wilderness collecting >things. I never did any of the adventure games like this, but it is >really really impressive, the amount of freedom of movement, and how >wonderfully non linear it is. All this talk is reminding how much I miss playing games (since I got this Mini) and not just for the shoot-em-up-ness but also the team play but enjoying the results of the effort and imagination that must have gone into the maps and the graphics etc. The last game I played regularly (Pariah, FPMP) had a reasonable level designer / editor and some of our clan <g> were very good at it [1]. It was during the debugging process (a few of us were given the privilege of testing) you really saw how much detail had to be observed to make a level 'work' well. By that I mean no hole that could trap a player, no height changes to big to just jump or ramps to walk up (unless put there on purpose of course) or a map too big to be still playable by just a handfull of players (we generally only hosted closed games). I would often enjoy just wandering about seeing the sights ... and finding the possible routes and back-doors etc. Cheers, T i m [1] I still chat to one now and again via Skype / MSN who lives in Den Haag. Used to work as a Civil Servant over there, now sells white goods. ;-)
From: Gwynne Harper on 5 Mar 2010 19:34 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > So people say, I am still wandering around the wilderness collecting > things. I never did any of the adventure games like this, but it is > really really impressive, the amount of freedom of movement, and how > wonderfully non linear it is. Check out Fable 2 & Mass Effect for similar endless entertainment. These older games are good value, too. Mind you, Gears of War has it's appeal in a blood-and-chainsaw kind of way... Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line.
From: Gwynne Harper on 5 Mar 2010 19:34
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > Tonight I've got an 8-player Burnout > Paradise session organised, and (going on past evidence) it'll just > work - unlike other platforms without a sane mediating network-games > layer. It's just so easy isn't it? Ideal for purpose is a rare finding, but it exceeded al expectations to be honest. Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line. |