Posts by Rick_D

I bought it on PC, and when that was unplayable on release (crashed after loading the first mission), I bought it on the 360. Never got into the MP, and only played up to the bulldozer mission which was a trainwreck due to the hitboxes for that driver, and playing with a controller and requiring such precise aiming was hard as fuck; I got stuck in a checkpoint-death loop and after about 20 tries on multiple days I just said "fuck it" and gave up.

I really wanted to like the game, I loved the premise but I think it lost it's way pretty early on, I loved the shootout and escape scene, but once I hit the tutorial mission I was getting a bad vibe - then the bank robbery whch had so much potential but seemed to be executed so badly (I would have loved to have entered the bank and interacted, even in a limited way, with the surroundings, in the way GTA4 did it really), it started to turn me off it. And that park mission after the nightclub - oh god that was a nightmare.

I am only being so harsh on it because i really wanted to like it, I bought it twice for fucks sake

I remember one of the IOI guys saying the development was a little "haywire" and that another 6 or even 12 months would have saved the game. So I would love to hear how it's going this time around? I really digged the marketing video that was released (naked men and a dog/pig or whatever), but it doesn't really hint at the game much.

You guys more confident about this one?

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he made a cool 5 mil off of the sale of Pandemic

man wtf, almost word for word what i wrote

also, god damn i hate neogaf - what a shithole filled with faggots

he got a cool 5 mil out of the deal so it makes him look even worse..

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Isn't as bad as MW2, but I have no idea why anyone would be happy with how valve handled both l4d games.

l4d1 was a good experiment with a new ip and a new type of game.

l4d2 honestly has things that just wouldn't have worked with the first game, valve were right when they said they wouldn't have been able to make this new content work with the original game.

it still feels like the core l4d experience but there's a lot of new stuff that is really good fun.

at this rate i wouldn't mind seeing l4d3 next year, because i got bored of playing through l4d1 quite quickly, so new campaigns and features is a welcome move.

and at the same time we get to support a developer that has done nothing but good work, great games, and kept a wonderful attitude towards their customers and fans.

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That video annoyed me because the few things they did shoot (except the blowup doll and cell phone) reacted to getting shot in an interesting way, but they didn't shoot every little thing and I wanted to see them shoot every little thing If that was me playing every single one of those pictures hung on a wall would've gotten a bullet, and GOD HELP YOU Infinity Ward if it didn't fall down and break as a result.

very little has any kind of phsyics

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Heh, just goes to show that you shouldn't put names on the books in games. Blank is the way to go! Btw, speaking of low res skyboxes, the

skybox takes the price. Donno if its much better on PC, but on 360 the icebergs there were eyeopening low res, and it looked like they weren't part of the skybox image but rather piece of geometry in the scene. Just seemed like a weird place to let something like that slide, since I figure most people just took a few seconds to check out the view, at least I did

yeah it was definately one of the worst on PC too.

yeeea bwoy!

I heard things started going downhill ever since some guy called.. "helder" arrived

> says Maggiore, an HIV-positive

stopped reading right there.

Signed my contract yesterday so I guess you'd better add me to Crytek.

Welcome to cry.core, map.tek, or map.cry.core.tek

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so i used the console unlocker and changed the ping back to text based, this is what i gotjesus fucking christ

playing on my pirated copy btw

So, not only do we get assfuck pings, but pirates can just jump right in, and then use the console to get access to all sorts of goodies.

IWNet: solving problems that didn't exist.

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Josh Homme's superband (with Dave Grohl on the drums and John Paul Jones on the bass) has just released their first songs on youtube. Fucking amazing shit!! You can listen to the entire album here: http://www.youtube.com/user/themcrookedvulturesAnd my favourite one of the bunch:

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sounds like Cream. A LOT like Cream.

but.. Cream also sound like Cream, ya know.

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Must resist urge to troll.

troll about what/ you don't think a game can be art? got any actual reasons why it _isn't_ possible for a game to be art? or just some strawman fallacy you read on neogaf?

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Would it help to copy paste your install directory, crack it, create an alternate steam account, and play like that when servers are enabled? Cause as far as I know steam doesn't do ip bans, so never have to worry about mw2 or my whole primary account being banned if bans happen.

best bet would be to copy and use the .exe crack (some cracks out there actually incorporate steam, whilst some don't) that works on your install-type.

vac is only bans you from playing where vac is concerned. so multiplayer basically. you can still buy and play singleplayer games and play on non-vac servers.

cracked servers will not be running vac and will most likely not even use steam. i wouldn't be surprised to see things like HLSW come back to popularity. what a massive step backwards that would be.

i would love to see someone come out and give us that truth though: "matchmaking" is not something that was decided upon to improve the pc experience, but is simply there because they did a lot of work to make sure the console players (aka "frat boys") have a consistent playing experience and never have their opinions of themselves challenged by getting beat horrendously; and it was easier to just compile that for PC rather than working out how to incorporate CoD4's server browser with the new technology.

speaking of which, CoD's server browser has always been pretty shit, there is a lot of unintuitive behaviour, which you really notice when you come from something like valve's server browsers. i almost feel like instead of solving the problem, which was a shitty browser, we were just given a port of the console version. and then charged more. for the priveledge.

the game is now balanced:

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Thanks to AgentGOD and his great work bringing the developer console back into the PC version, a whole new wave of servers are possible with vast amounts of customisation. Things such as unlimited ammo, massive experience points (10000xp for a single kill), Field of View tweaks, speed and gravity adjustments and so much more! The best bit is, this is all ranked and on IWNet!

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":3f9lwdwv]

You still can't customize your class in-game? Damn... I'm sure there's a reason behind it, but still...

innovashun

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i will not buy this game, i will sit on ventrillo listening to rick_d explaining whats happening

i apologise in advance for the amount of times i will say the n-word

that's pretty much most games now. the SAW game on pc does that for everything. shit like "use the analogue stick to walk forward". that is understandable when you have a team of 30 guys making in a game in 9 months but it's another matter when $60 mil has been spent. just makes the pc gamer feel more marginalized; and no, we as a community don't deserve it. if we were all such terrible thieving cunts then CoD1 would have been pirated into non-existance. it's also quite peculiar to see the snub pc gamers have gotten considering most of these titles started out on the pc, gained momentum and popularity through the pc, and then devs/publishers just do a full u-turn and throw us the leftovers.

/cry

here's a nice review of mw2:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/Destruct ... 77/227.509

no spoilers.

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A quick check with TF2, there are several servers with +12 people playing that run at less than 50 ms..

my tf2 filters are "europe, <50, vac, not full, not empty, no password" - and i have hundreds of servers to choose from. literally 200 - 300 servers. and i don't have to wait to join a game. and i can choose what map i want to play. and i can choose if i want a 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 28, 30 or 32 man server. and i can get between 5 and 30 ping. and i know there's an admin on 50% of those servers to remove disruptive players.