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    Quote from D3ads

    System Shock 2 owns Doom 3 when it comes to atmospheric PDA's...NP: Tomb Raider - Anniversary

    Spent most of yesterday pissing about in Lara's Manor, finished it but I still can't get that final artifact where you have to jump backwards onto the slopes with the grapple.. far far too hard

    lmfao that whole level was fun but it was so frustrating I don't feel like going back and playing that game

    oh well

    Quote from Bl1tz

    Doom 3 I bought it when it came out, played it half way through, got sick of it and stopped playing it. My internet was down yesterday and I was looking through what games I had installed and said "eh why not finish it up"

    Then I remembered exactly "eh why not"

    Doom 3 has the most unfair fights of any FPS ever. 9 out of 10 fights it spawns at least 1 enemy behind you without any indication it's done so. The prime example being that you'll be engaging a somewhat tough enemy in front of you while strafing backwards or sideways and run right into the unfairly spawned guy behind you, resulting in an assrape sandwhich that you can't get out of. It's the definition of frustrating gameplay.

    It's a shame the battles are so lame because it excels in almost every other respect. Even the snippets of story you get from the PDAs and what not are pretty well done -- it's a very polished game. Just a damn shame about the combat encounters.

    Just finished it too now actually and I gotta say I really agree with what you are saying. Really irritating... I lost count on all times I tried to back into cover and the doorway was blocked by some enemy spawned behind me.

    But yeah the story I found nice and as you said if you take the time to read all the extra in the PDA's and on some computer screens it really adds to it.

    Another big plus is some of the areas which were extremly good looking. Especially most of the clean labs. Some of the lower grungier parts were quite ugly tho. Looks very polished and believable. Great attention to details in every little bit and I love all the curvyness.

    If it wasn't for the repetitive fights and very irritating spawning it could have been a truely awesome game. But I still found it really quite enjoyable.

    Doom 3’s problem is it tried to go down two different routes: realistic, atmospheric, horror (lol jump scare), while also including bits of the older games where you didn’t question why there were 5 Imps enclosed in some wall panel and proceed to circle strafe the shit out of them.

    Anyway, I'm still playing the Mountain of Faith demo on loop, and still failing hard on anything higher than Normal difficulty. But to be fair it does go fairly batshit insane. I’m trying to think of a way to word this in a persuasive manner but just download it and ignore the animu title screen. You'll enjoy it.

    Playing Guilty Gear XX again with Jam instead of May.

    Quake 4 picked up where Doom 3 failed..

    Played the first three levels of TR:A, it's ok but some of the jumps can get rediculously hard for a n00b like me (well I played the original game when it came out back in 1996 and the second one.. that's about it though and not for any great length). I wonder if they'll remake all the Tomb Raider's? I'd die if they redid The Last Revelation.. ancient Egypt FTW!

    You know that there IS an egyptian tomb in TR1 / TR:A too, right D3ads? That's exactly where I got in TR:A before I heard there is a 360 version coming out, and so put it down to wait for that

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    You know that there IS an egyptian tomb in TR1 / TR:A too, right D3ads? That's exactly where I got in TR:A before I heard there is a 360 version coming out, and so put it down to wait for that

    Yeah I haven't got there yet, just into Greece now. The thing about TLR is that it's set entirely in Egypt and is pretty damn lengthy from what I remember.

    Phew, The Lost Valley was fucking gigantic in comparison to the other levels, took me hours to finish it, especially with that stupidly hard T-Rex battle, crappy controls + bad collision detection = Lara dying a lot. Finally managed to get the twat to ram his head into one of the spike traps. Those interactive cut-scenes are amazingly gay...

    I've unlocked the old Lara model from the original game, I don't remember her looking that bad

    GTA: San Andreas

    Finally got into it recently, having been sitting around ever since I bought it when it first came out. Man, I can't get over how friggin huge the game is.. I mean I knew it was big but not THAT big.. and all the things you can do in it, Rockstar are Gods!

    I'm really enjoying skate as well, although I wasn't so much at first. I played the demo to death, but the full game initially felt vast yet bland. Not to look at, mind you - its probably the most realistic in-game city I've ever come across - but bland to skate. At first I was a little "oh...miles of pavement and road, how exciting". Once you explore a bit and learn the good spots it gets better, but even then I was left feeling that the community centre is arguably the best spot going.

    Still awesome though, I'll definately be spending a lot more time with it.

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