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From: T i m on 6 Mar 2010 04:06 On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:44:28 +0000, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > May have to try >replaying it, but this time going for all-out balls-to-the-wall evil. > 'Gung-ho' was my style most of the time (as I was playing it for the action) so I'd generally play a single player level where the bots were actually beatable using that approach. Ok, I'd do a bit of sneaking about to get to say a good sniper position or lob nades over a wall etc but if I wanted 'tactics' I'd play chess (but I don't). When playing (Pariah: Halo alike) against humans I'd generally act as a taxi, driving the sharp shooters - sneaky bomb planters / flag getters to their destination. Even the vehicle dynamics continued to entertain me ... how a stream of 1's and 0's could look so good. Cheers, T i m p.s. I haven't actually tried any of these games on the 1.5G Mini as I was working on the assumption that they were only just ok on the higher spec PC the Mini replaced (especially graphics)?
From: Woody on 6 Mar 2010 05:17 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > 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. > > I _still_ play Populous:The Beginning from time-to-time, on the PS1. > Love that game. I used to love it at the time but last time I tried I got a bit bored! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jim on 6 Mar 2010 05:17 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > I _still_ play Populous:The Beginning from time-to-time, on the PS1. > > Love that game. > > I used to love it at the time but last time I tried I got a bit bored! It's no longer a challenge but it's ideal for me if I just want to take my brain offline for a while. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Peter Ceresole on 6 Mar 2010 06:09 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > It's no longer a challenge but it's ideal for me if I just want to take > my brain offline for a while. Surely it's just simpler to go to usenet? -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 6 Mar 2010 08:53
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:57:04 +0000, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: >As an aside, it also lead to one of the more dramatic crashes I've >seen. When Populous was new, I was working part-time in a game store in >Sheffield (weekend/summer job. Enjoyed it). Two of us reckoned we were >The Best(tm) at Populous, so of course the only way to settle the >matter was an after-hours match-up. I grabbed the Atari, he grabbed the >Amiga, and one serial cable later we had a two-player Populous game >going. And going. And going...we were both pretty good, and it took an >age for even the slightest advantage to emerge. Eventually I thought I >had tiniest, tiniest edge and declared Armageddon. The populations >merged and our two heros battled it out to the bitter...well, almost >end. With both of us on the last dregs of energy, the game glitched and >we lost serial connection. About an hour of gaming lost, result too >close to call - we never did find out who was best. Damned tense at the >time though, as evidenced by the fact I still remember it about twenty >years later. Oh, how this reminds me of hours spent trying to get home-crimped 10baseT IPX networks in University digs running reliably enough to play networked Doom, Descent and whatnot... games falling down whenever someone got excited enough and wobbled the table! Cheers - Jaimie -- I like my coffee how I like my women... but I can't get coffee that's independent, intelligent and has a career of its own. - Eric Jarvis, urs |