The Random Thread - Gaming Edition

Any good free mmo's?

 

There are quite a few listed in the free games thread.

From personal experience though....

Dungeons & Dragons Online was pretty fun for a while. I like how the combat and leveling system is based on DnD rules and how everything is instanced. But a free account has a few annoying restrictions like limited auction house activity and limited character creation options, and by about level 10-12 you'll get to the point where you've run out of new content that you can play without becoming a monthly fee member (and getting access to just about everything) or a microtransaction member (and being able to by access to content one dungeon/zone at a time).

Runes of Magic reminded me a lot of WoW and you can do quite a lot with a free account but I'm sure by the time you reach the end-game content you'll probably have to bust out some cash to buy access to the best instances or whatever.

Aces Online takes a pretty unique approach as an air combat MMO with a heavy focus on PvP. You can play a fighter, a bomber, a flying siege tank, or a caster type plane that can heal and summon. I played the flying siege tank type and it was pretty fun for a while but I found the PvE content to be very reptitive and there were a lot of cheesy tactics in the PvP.

Drift City is another unique one, this time with a racing theme. It has a lot of car customization like what you'd see in a game like midnight club. PvE content is mostly things like delivering a package, patrolling some checkpoints, or some other form of get from point A to point B and/or C/D/E... within a time limit. But there are also missions where you have to hunt down and ram enemy vehicles to death. You get bonus exp and rewards based on time taken and for things like doing stunts or driving through oncoming traffic. Pvp is, well, racing.

 

I was playing Crysis Wars and downloaded a custom map. Unfortunately it was a clan map and I'm not allowed to join. Is there a way to find this map and delete it? I'm using Steam by the way.

 

I just beat the KF_Manor map in Killing Floor all by myself.

 

Now try it with it set to fleshpounds only.

 

Anyone want to play the killing floor with me?

 

Why do FPS games are so popular? They all seem mostly the same to me...:S

 

They're quick, flashy, don't take much skill or involvement or the little they do is easily assessed and acquired by the young and inattentive. That being said I still enjoy them as much as any other game

 

But there is no strategy, no way of overcoming others with numbers, no micro management...only moving around and not getting yourself killed following a pre-defined path with enemies following a predefined road and the same actions always.

 

Agreed. They don't take a lot of thinking, but on the rare occasion I need a break like that from something as complex as Sins of a Solar Empire or the like. Some people that (a lot of people) just aren't very good at thinking to start with, so they find the FPS niche to be appealing. I think of the relationship between FPS and strategy games like that between beer pong and chess. I find both fun and you can be skillfull at each, but one takes a heck of a lot more brain power.

 

I have seen friends playing games like COD on the hardest, and they go like "wait here for x seconds, there is the bad guy coming from the left, aim at this location and shoot, and when you do that, another one dies" and "there are bad guys here, here, here, and there is a sniper, and you go this way to bypass them, and there are secrets here" and you see them play, and it is always the same, not even some emotion on the game. Just moving the fingers and doing all automatically. When online is the same, its not even fun, they know all snipping posts, how to get to a unreachable place, where to find x weapon, etc.

On the other hand, an RTS and 4X or even an RPG are different, as in there is a little more thinking and more "what if" and the thinking of what to do and how to do it.

 

Anyone know how to connect a wireless xbox 360 controller to my pc so i can play games using it on windows 7?

 

You need an Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver (there's a black version too to go with black controllers).

You can probably find one for $20 if you shop around, or less if you get a good deal on ebay.

There is no cable you can use to make it a wired controller, the charging kit cable is just for charging, not data transfer.

A regular old wired xbox controller will work just fine too and you can get those for $20 or less if you shop around and buy used. It doesn't have to be the kind that says "for windows" on the packaging, just make sure it's an official microsoft controller and windows will be able to automatically install it when you plug it in to a PC.

 

Yeah after looking it out I found out I need that receiver, I'm probably just gonna get the modern warfare 2 combat controller.

 

Man I can't wait for Black Mesa to come out. When it does I am going to marathon play through the entire half life storyline with the help of the Half Life 2: Update mod to bring HL2 and Ep1 up to the orange box engine as well.

 

I'm down for that also. And no updates yet, right? I'm ready to play through the whole HL2 saga again with Cinematic Mod 10 and of course, Black Mesa too.

 

I think I'll go get Mirror's Edge today, I've been seeing some videos and looks nice... should play well on my 8600...

 

It was on offer a couple weeks ago, came to around £3/$5 on Steam

Good game, so worth it

 

nah, I'm not into buying downloadable games, I rather go get the whole thing, discs, box and stuff.

 

Here's a teeny little half life 2 shotgun shell mod I made. Compatible with just about any game that has the half life 2 shotgun in it.

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Basically it lets you change your shotgun shells to all kinds of different types, make sure to read the readme for instructions. Most of them do 64 damage if all pellets hit, which is 8 more damage than the normal shotgun shells. The ones with lots of pellets make lots of gore. Oh and it sets your max shotgun ammo to 60 and has a command to spawn a shotgun and lots of ammo.

Shell types
Crabshot: 64x1 (64 pellets, 1 damage each)
Lionshot: 32x2 (32 pellets, 2 damage each)
Zombieshot: 16x4
Combineshot: 8x8
Huntershot: 4x16
Guardshot: 1x64 (slugs)
Defaultshot: 7x8 (the normal values, 56 max damage, also sets max ammo to 30)
ThousandNeedles: 1000x1 (may cause slowdowns)
ElephantGun: 1x256 (2 hit kill an antlion guard)
Boomstick: 32x64 (slaughter everything)

 

Any excited for razar xbox 360 controller? I am because I don't have a 360 and their controller looks great and has improve dpad.

 

Eh, why mess with perfection? (I never worry about the D-pad anyways since I dont play fighting games except SSB)

 

I laughed for a full minute after seeing this.

 

After a long haul on Borderlands yesterday my vision went all crazy, seeing real things as if they were in Borderlands. Cool, but a little worrying at the same time :laugh:

Razer's 360 controller looks pretty neat, will the extra shoulder buttons all you to make macro's or something?

 

What is that?!>!>!

 

You should try adjusting the FOV, as it defaults at 65, while our widescreens are more natural at FOV 90.

I get dizzy if I play at the default field of view settings.

 

Oh no, I adjusting the FOV (to 101) within the first hour, makes it so much more enjoyable

I used the Borderlands Config Editor, lets you adjust quite a few things:


On another note, does anyone know if any good SimCity-esque MMOs?

 

Oh nice, I didn't even know of this BGE. I'm going to download it right now.

 

Sweet, I always find it annoying when games dont give you enough config options in the default menus to really tweak it well.

 

The zoom toggle didn't work for me, but this fixed it.

 

Have you tried Cities XL?

 

Downloading the demo, it requires a monthly payment so it better be good

EDIT: Demo no longer available. Thanks Monte Cristo, you missed out on a potential sale

I'm really looking for a free one, it doesn't have to have flash graphics and all...

 

I've just re-played HL1 and played Opposing Force for the first time (not as good as HL1).

Now playing Blue Shift, hopefully it's good

 

GRRR C&C4 didnt download well...I'll have to retry...

 

Hi guys, I have some questions regarding processors since I´m looking to renew my laptop. I apologize it is obvious but I have been disconnected of the latest news:

The processors i5 are much better than the core 2 duo? For example: an i5 of 2.26GHz would handle better GTA4 than a core 2 duo of the same speed?

Thank you beforehand.

 

Annon 1404!!!

 

that would be a pretty good assumption i guess. Intel tend not to replace old models with slower models.

 

It is likely to be faster due to the improved architecture of the actual chip but but how much, who knows.

 

I recently used Rivatuner to show physical RAM usage on screen during gaming and noticed some games using more than 3.2GB's, other modded games used more RAM due to modded high textures and recently the Just Cause 2 Demo recommends 3GB of RAM. I remember many saying that 4GB was all you needed for gaming.

 

Well it's only natural that RAM recommendations increase as performance demands go up.

 

thats why get a laptop with 4 memory slots like asus G73 or envy 15... so u can get 16GB RAM although 8GB is more than enough.

 

Question. Will a 8-9k 3dmark06 laptop be enough to play the last game in the Mass Effect trilogy (due 2011)? Just a rough estimate (on nearly no data, I know, but still).

Will Unreal engine 3 be outdated till 2011?

 

Unlikely since Mass Effect are console ports and they will probably use that again for the consoles. So unless they plan on creating or using a different engine for PC, expect your computer to play the last of the trilogy

 

The answer to your question is definitely yes, but I'm much more interested in knowing what GPU is producing this 8-9k 3dmark06 score.

UE3 will run maxed out on anything as fast as the 9600M GT GDDR3.

 

As far as I know, an i5 Envy 15 (Ati 5830) gets around 8k+ 3dmark06.

 

Okay, well as long as you play 1280x720 or 1366x768, you should be able to pull acceptable performance.

 

Pretty much true. UE3 runs so well on a vast amount of hardware. Props to Epic.

 

but don't expect great performance at full HD res.. that's where ATI 5870 comes in...

 

Hey, no offence, but how much are you getting paid by Asus to promote their laptop? I see at least one reference to the G73 on every one of your posts.

 

as well as the GTX 280M, GTX285M and even the GTX 260M in some cases.........