Posts by D3ads

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Teaser

    Quote from JohnC

    Does anyone who wants a realistic game play Call of Duty though?

    Yeah let's be honest, COD is about as realistic as Tetris, regenerating health throws realism out the door straight away. COD is about a semi-authentic cinematic experience with relentless combat. If this sort of scene were to be carried out in say Arma II then it would work a lot better, considering how much that title relies on realism (and at one point in the game

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    Civilians are executed and hung by terrorist militia and mass graves are found

    ). I just don't think it fits in here nor is there any need for it in general, it would be better to make it a first person cutscene where the player doesn't control what happens. In respect to Composite and the rest of IW, we'll have to play the game to see what the context this appears in. I was thinking again about it last night, considering IW's reputation and cult following I doubt they would risk that by doing something so radical without there being a good reason for it. In addition, being able to skip the scene means that those that would feel wrong playing it can just simply look over it. I'll admit like many of you, I'll play the scene to see what happens if I don't open fire or shoot my "comrades".

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Teaser

    I've seen the footage and I'll sum up my thoughts in one word;

    No.

    To elaborate (I'm blacking all of this because putting spoiler tags in each part is a headache)...

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    This is not a good thing at all, I couldn't honestly believe that one minute you walk into an airport with near enough 20 civilians at the gates and then you just gun them down... wtf? Before anyone starts going "Oh yeah, this is no different from GTA" or whatever, well yes actually it is. In the GTA games, you can choose to goto an airport and kill innocent civilians with a machinegun but you don't have to, there's no objective for you to do that. In this, your objective is clearly to mow down civilians, I felt a little sick watching it tbh, the constant screams in the background make for a harrowing setup.

    There's being a bit daring and then there's this... playing as a soldier in a war, you're pitted against enemies that would pose a threat and not to mention a challenge. This is pointless, you're firing at and raining grenades on people who cannot possibly defend themselves, there's no way you can fail to do this level, just let rip with guns and kill all the civilians in sight. Yeah you've got to fight the Spetsnaz outside (it's a Russian airport), but that's irrelevant. Games are supposed to be challenging, where's the challenge here? Games are supposed to be fun, where's the fun here? It's one thing to be a bit daring and contraversial, I respect IW for trying to do something different but this a bit much imho, there's a moral highground where the line should not be crossed and this steps over that.

    My 2 $.

  • Firefox reset..

    Took out one of the sticks of RAM and ran memtest on the one that was remaining and no errors came up at all, it's also booting up fine now without any problems so I think we can deduct that the memory stick removed is the culprit for all the problems. Time to replace it now then, thanks a lot for your help!

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    You imbed with the letters of the link only, in this case it'd be

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    [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRz47yoPVOY[/media]

    Which gives you:

    External Content www.youtube.com
    Content embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.
    Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.

  • Forum feature request

    I think that feature has always been largely pointless, I mean it sometimes works on things like Youtube, Moddb and Gametrailers because the traffic for comments is always high and there are so many idiots that they need people to show them how fucking stupid they are, but here... waste of time imho.

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Teaser

    The building is one thing, personally couldn't care less but when you're showing press screenshots it should look the best it can and something like that is automatically an eyesore.

    The Lego Jesus statue... words fail me, I'm wondering if IW or kotaku have done this diliberately to see how many people notice

    and that "guy" Rick, is supposed to be Mr Soap Mctavish, whom you played in the first MW

  • Firefox reset..

    Update:

    I tried to first burn the CD on this machine and it blue screened, rebooted and tried again and it fucking did it again! One thing that I was told was that when it blue screened another time, the microsoft error report was sent and it came back saying there's a problem with Easy CD Writer (?) which has been installed ever since the machine was built! I ended up burning the image on my own machine instead and then booting from the new CD.

    I ran memtest fully and it came up with 303 errors so I guess that means the RAM is screwed? Would you suggest trying to boot up with each RAM stick to find out which one is faulty? Or is there something else that might be screwed up as well as memory?

    Still think the page fault in NTFS.sys is a suspect too...

    Fuck I hate computers when they go wrong D:

  • Firefox reset..

    It varies, it can be freezing at the windows "loading" screen (with the blue car going across) and then blue screening to almost fully loading icons in the system tray before blue screening. From notes I've written down the file it found a fault with was NTFS.sys, which screams hard-drive fault as the drive is NTFS formatted but other errors keep pointing to memory so yeah... a bitch.

    My dad downloaded memtest 4.0 which is an .exe file, can I run that or do I definately need to burn an ISO? and by boot it, do you mean I need to boot from the CD ROM before the hard-drive in BIOS (which it's already set to anyway) ?

    Thanks so much for the help!

    [edit]Oh it appears there's two Memtests or something, one works from windows and the other runs externally...

  • Firefox reset..

    *bump*

    These blue screens are happening more frequently now, messages include;

    BAD_POOL_HEADER

    IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

    PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED AREA

    Having searched through the net umteen times I found several pages of information including this handy site;

    http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

    The messages point to memory failure or a HD fault.. but which is it? or is it (God forbid) both?!

    Eventually after several reboots it'll load up ok and it will work fine... no problems until you turn it off and try turning it on again another time.

    What happens usually is that the system will start to boot and then a black screen will flash and then it'll come back on and then it'll flash again maybe once or twice and then the blue screen will kick in. Never encountered this before, seems like a very serious problem. When the system recovers it keeps pointing to Easy CD Writer which has been in there since day 1 and has never caused any problems so I don't get it.

    Downloaded the Windows Memory Diagnostic and put it on a floppy (yup, still use those sometimes) and it came up with;

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    Verifying DMI pool DATALoading

    Disk I/O Error

    Does this mean the HD is dying? I'm so confused

    My own computer is fine before anyone comes up with the inevitable "get a new computer already D3" comments

    Would really appreciate it if people more in the know-how can shed some light on this problem, thanks!

    Specs btw, not my machine so no laughing;

    AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1GHZ

    2048GB RAM

    250GB HDD

    DVD ROM / DVD Re-Writer

    XP Professional Service Pack 2

    It's worth pointing out that no new hardware or software has been installed prior to this fault occuring so it's not a compatibility issue with drivers AFAIK.