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Re: Modern Warfare 2... avoid purchasing the PC version...

n...@way.com (Schrodinger) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:07:05 UT

Holy crap, what a bunch of aresholes. To be fair, I didn't play COD:MW
online that much anyway (probably about 5 hours), so I don't think it
will affect my purchase decision *that* much, but this is staggeringly
arrogant.

Re: Prometheus

n...@way.com (Schrodinger) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:01:42 UT

Thanks for the headsup - downloading them now!

Prometheus

noemailforme...@jsjsaiiowppw.com (Mr Rob) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:24:31 UT

This is the second Unreal mod I've come across this week. Prometheus
is supposedly a single player co-op game along the lines of Portal and
Mirror's Edge. It has an interesting time twisting premise involving
your own character from the past, present and future.
Get the demo here (320MB)
[link]

Re: What percent of your net monthly income do you spend on games?

leg...@invalid.com (Legion) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:22:25 UT

Zero

Re: What percent of your net monthly income do you spend on games?

korr...@none.com (Kory) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:59:08 UT

Heh.. it seems nobody understood the question.

Re: Quickie: Risen

nos...@forme.org (Nostromo) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:08:55 UT

Thus spake Static Void <s...@ticvoid.com>, Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:42:13 +0000
(UTC), Anno Domini:
Don't...feed...da...trolls! ;)

Re: Quickie: Risen

nos...@forme.org (Nostromo) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:04:30 UT

Thus spake Spalls Hurgenson <spalls_hurgen...@verizon.net> , Sat, 07 Nov 2009
16:17:00 -0500, Anno Domini:
Lest we forget Descent to Undermountain...*duck*

Re: Quickie: Risen

no-s...@never.spam (Trimble Bracegirdle) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:22:12 UT

There is no Community type patch for FORGOTTEN GODS ..the most recent
official
FG patch 1.08 (last of 4 includes all previous) results in a GREAT
improvement
in all respects compared to the release condition...which was unbelievably
bad...
Its still not very good ...not quite as good graphics as G3 ...

Re: Quickie: Risen

spalls_hurgen...@verizon.net (Spalls Hurgenson) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:17:00 UT

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:12:14 -0800, Elmer Fudd <e...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree there. Despite some minor
performance issues and a few questing bugs, I was generally impressed
with the title on a technical front. It looked good, played fairly
smoothly, didn't crash and the vast bulk of its quests completed

Re: Mass Effect £6.50 on Steam

spamt...@127.0.0.1 (Andrew) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:24:07 UT

Thanks, I have it downloading at a disappointing 1MB/s so it will get
to play it sometime tomorrow.

Re: Mass Effect £6.50 on Steam

n...@way.com (Schrodinger) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:05:05 UT

More or less instant on my setup, which isn't particularly fast at
loading as a rule. Was running with 3GB ram, although also installed
Windows 7 64bit today and it runs even faster.

Re: What percent of your net monthly income do you spend on games?

jlc...@spam.com (JLC) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:57:20 UT

Kory wrote:
To be honest I try and not think about how much I spend a month. I buy a
LOT of games. But I never pay full price. I get my games from three
places. Steam (their new weekly and weekend sales are hard to pass up).
GoGamer (48 hour sales are great) and Amazon, where I always buy from
one of their "Amazon Merchants" I get some killer deals this way.

Re: Quickie: Risen

s...@ticvoid.com (Static Void) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:42:13 UT

JLC wrote:
Yea, I played it after the patch and it ran pretty darn well on a T60
laptop with a measly X1300 ati card I believe (I don't have that laptop
anymore) and it also looked beautiful. The trick is in the careful
editing of some .ini file (i forget the name) since its default settings
will make even the fastest machines slow down to a crawl in some

Re: What percent of your net monthly income do you spend on games?

spamt...@127.0.0.1 (Andrew) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:24 UT

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:20:46 -0800, Elmer Fudd <e...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
Wow, there is more money in hunting Wabbits than I thought!

Re: Quickie: Risen

g...@earthlink.net (Gregory E. Garland) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:32:31 UT

It's not the video card; it's adjusting the values in the .ini files and
similar
tweaks to make it run smooth (mainly increasing cache sizes, reducing draw
distances, etc.). You can still find the references in the community forums
on how to do it. You have to do the same to G3:FG to make it run reasonably