Online Gaming

I noticed a few of you mentioned Online Gaming in your hobbies/interests. What kind of games you into?

Medal of Honour, Call-of-Duty, Brink, Lego Harry Potter, Sprocket and Clank, at the moment Paradise City Ultimate (with Bike)........

Playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Lord of the Rings Online right now. Soon to be playing Battlefield 3 and StarWars:The Old Republic.

All on PC

i used to play call of duty, company of heroes, moto gp,
but then my video card decided it doesnt like 3d rendering anymore so no more games for now.

Red Orchestra 2 looks like it's going to serve the modding community well.
It's only DX9 so it shouldn't tax most cards.
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Pre-ordered ID's Rage, boycotting EA after the BFBC2 fiasco, so no BF3 for me.
CoD is all about DLC these days, so I've gone right off those (they all look the bloody same anyway, the last groundbreaking FPS was Modern Warfare imho)
Bought Portal 2 recently, that was a mistake since they dumbed it right down for the consoles and I finished it in hours, as opposed to a week for the first one.

Downloaded the benchmark for the upcoming MMO World of Planes yesterday, looks pretty good (although DX9 again) and takes me back to the old Combat Flight Sim days.
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Game of the last year or so for me has been Fallout 3 GOTY edition, I've racked up about 150 hours on it and I still haven't finished it.

Got a PS3 but don't game on it much, I bought it for stuff like golf and driving games...the exception being the excellent LA Noir.

+++bzzzz+++error-error-bzzzz+++out of cheese+++redo from start+++bzzzz

Make the bad techy talking man go away

At least I'm not the only one, I can't get any of them to run on my Pye B16T :(

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Wooster wrote:Red Orchestra 2 looks like it's going to serve the modding community well.
It's only DX9 so it shouldn't tax most cards.
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Pre-ordered ID's Rage, boycotting EA after the BFBC2 fiasco, so no BF3 for me.
CoD is all about DLC these days, so I've gone right off those (they all look the bloody same anyway, the last groundbreaking FPS was Modern Warfare imho)
Bought Portal 2 recently, that was a mistake since they dumbed it right down for the consoles and I finished it in hours, as opposed to a week for the first one.

Downloaded the benchmark for the upcoming MMO World of Planes yesterday, looks pretty good (although DX9 again) and takes me back to the old Combat Flight Sim days.
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Game of the last year or so for me has been Fallout 3 GOTY edition, I've racked up about 150 hours on it and I still haven't finished it.

Got a PS3 but don't game on it much, I bought it for stuff like golf and driving games...the exception being the excellent LA Noir.

What BFBC2 fiasco? I'm still playing it now, no probs apart from the EA servers are flakey as usual lol

We were running a server for it and every patch just broke it more.

Hit reg was shockingly bad to begin with and then there was the weapon balance..after a few weeks all we got was a flood of medics with LMG's.
We had login issues, autobalance problems, server disconnects, CTD's, sound issues (War Tapes), rubberbanding helicopters, knife glitches (basically it didn't work) and Punkbuster didn't work (so we ran PBBans on our server)..
..and there's more, but I won't bore you (and Oldcat might have an apoplectic fit )

They've had a year to fix stuff, so no doubt it's improved, but I'm not forking over cash to go through it again.

It's not like I didn't play the game, according to my Steam account I've put in over 200 hours on it.

SteveCat wrote:At least I'm not the only one, I can't get any of them to run on my Pye B16T :(

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Sweet rig.

I currently play TF2, BFBC2, L4D2, Age Of Empires Online, Crimecraft; Bleedout, Section 8 Prejudice, Guildwars and the greatness that is Eve Online.

Awaiting for the coming of Star Wars; The Old Republic and Guildwars 2. I may also consider BF3 and a few others that catch my eye.

All on pc.

Anyone think they want to game sometime?

Does Bubble Shooter count?

0ldcat wrote: +++bzzzz+++error-error-bzzzz+++out of cheese+++redo from start+++bzzzz

Make the bad techy talking man go away

Cheers Oldcat, I read previous post thinking my brain had stopped working as nothing made sense to my brain, then your comment actually got tears of laughter flowing!!
Cheers for letting me know im not only one who didnt understand it

PC all the way.

ArmA II (heavily into mission writing and we host multiple servers).
L4D2 - Gotta be versus mode with friends.
Wings of Prey.

Looking forward to:

ArmA III
BF3
MW3

I read previous post thinking my brain had stopped working as nothing made sense to my brain

Sorry, you get used to using abbreviations and acronyms a lot.

If you want a translation:
FPS = First Person Shooter
DX (9/10/11) = Direct X, Microsoft's programming interface used in most PC games.
BF3 = Battlefield 3, an upcoming FPS
CoD = Call of Duty, another FPS series of games
BFBC2 = Battlefield Bad Company 2, a FPS that was released last year.
DLC = Downloadable Content (a revenue generator favoured by many games developers these days since they can keep charging money for stuff like new maps or weapons)
MMO = Massively Multiplayer Online
GOTY = Game of the year (A game package that usually includes all of the expansions (DLC) released so far)
TF2 = Team Fortress 2 (another multiplayer FPS with cartoonish graphics)
L4D2 = Left 4 Dead 2 (a squad based FPS set in a world of zombies)

..hope that helps to clarify

iam normally on black opps on xbox my nickname on it is Bravesir digby

Might as well do the ad thing.

If anyone fancies checking out a PC Gaming Community (we are not a squad) for mature gamers then come visit us Here

We play a whole heap of games, from Minecraft to Brink and have community members from almost every country so there is always someone playing something.

Looks good.

The last time I joined a 'Mature' gaming community I got banned.
(Some people have a problem with the Scottish habit of plain speaking )
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That was about five years ago, and it's good to see they haven't forgotten me.
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(how very 'mature' )

Wooster wrote:Looks good.

That was about five years ago, and it's good to see they haven't forgotten me.
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(how very 'mature' )

Lol gamer tears are the best. Ragequit. Failcopters.

We used to call them joystick's.

Wooster wrote: . . . . .
..and there's more, but I won't bore you (and Oldcat might have an apoplectic fit )

They've had a year to fix stuff, so no doubt it's improved, but I'm not forking over cash to go through it again.

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JDM wrote:

0ldcat wrote: +++bzzzz+++error-error-bzzzz+++out of cheese+++redo from start+++bzzzz

Make the bad techy talking man go away

Cheers Oldcat, I read previous post thinking my brain had stopped working as nothing made sense to my brain, then your comment actually got tears of laughter flowing!!
Cheers for letting me know im not only one who didnt understand it

No prob jdm

brrr+++out of cheese+++error+++error+++redo from start+++brrr

Wooster wrote:Looks good.

The last time I joined a 'Mature' gaming community I got banned.
(Some people have a problem with the Scottish habit of plain speaking )

Lol, nps there, being truly international we are more than accommodating of national foibles

Pop along to the forum and just hang about for a while mate, there's never any pressure to join or even better jump on TS and say hi.

Oldcat's gone barmy.
(Can someone give Ponder Stibbons a shout and tell him to re-initialise the GBL?)

Might take a pop in sometime Dai-San.
What we did was set up our own forum and drag some of the reprobates with us, so we a have a gaming section ourselves (that was mostly hidden due to a spate of spammers a while back, but visible now).

Wooster wrote:Oldcat's gone barmy.
(Can someone give Ponder Stibbons a shout and tell him to re-initialise the GBL?)

Glad to note I'm not the only Pratchett reader (fan) here

Look up HEX, if you're lost at what we're on about

Cheers for all explanations Wooster but sadly im 36 & havent played any computer game since about 1988 :(

Online poker is about my limit!!

But as say appreciate explanation & opprtunity for right good laugh at start of working day thanks to Oldcat!