Games

[Swilson]

My favorite computer game used to be runescape - now I'm back into the stupid card games
What is your favorite computer game (new or old)

[Ronjunior]

Forsaken in the day and Unreal. Death to Runescape, my son has this wild idea about making a living from it. Needless to say, we've limited that to 1 hr./day...he's 13!

[Swilson]

A friend of mine that I used to work with led me to the path of Runescape. Can't say I really understood the entire thing,,,so, that was my past time, trying to figure it out. However, my nephew sold his person (or such thing) on ebay for $400. I then realized this was not the place for me. And yet, people are still into it. That was 3-4 years ago for me.

[andy]

World of Warcraft, though I'm starting to tire of it.

[mister crabs]

counter strike....gotta ove the oldie but goodie first person shooter.....i still play every now and again but the new versions out have changed the way the bullets hit and its frustrating....

[spayne]

World of Warcraft, though I'm starting to tire of it.
I've thought about trying WoW to see what the hype is all about. Course, this must wait until we build a new computer that can actually run the game... or any game currently on the market for that matter! I'm not sure I would enjoy people pestering me while playing though. I'm a leave-me-alone-I'm-gaming kind of girl!

We do our gaming on the Xbox 360. At present I'm pretty obsessed with "Viva Pinata," and I say this with a healthy dollop of chagrin as it is a kid's game. But last time I checked my "Horstachio" was number one on the Xbox Live leaderboards pertaining to value. I rule! (rock2)

Course, people keep pestering me on Live, asking how I got my pinata to be so valuable. DOH!

[impur]

WoW on PC. Stacy ppl don't bother you during the game really. Once in awhile you get an invite to a group or guild or a duel. But you can decline and go about your biz. Thats what i do too, mostly solo play.

On PS2 i'm playing Need 4 Speed Most Wanted. Sweet game, i'm half thru it. Some of the milestones you have to pass are crazy. Like you have to tag (ram) 18 police cars in my next one, and then escape capture. Then i have to let the police chase me for 20min and get away!!!

[spayne]

WoW on PC. Stacy ppl don't bother you during the game really.
Then I will give WoW a go when we get the new computer built. So many people love it, I guess I'd better check it out. And probably become obsessed with it like so many others! (laugh)

"Need 4 Speed" sounds pretty fun! Anytime you have to thwart the fuzz (I have several in the family, I can say that!) in a game is a good time. Just don't forget when you're driving around Eugene. I'd hate to see a report about you on the evening news because you rammed 18 police cars then eluded capture for 20 minutes! :D

[SeanF]

Got a Nintendo Wii for my daughter for Christmas. We all know how that really works don't we. It is sweet both because of the interactive game play and the fact that you can download some of the old game system games. I have been playing the first Zelda game and Super Mario Bros. They are still working on getting the old games converted over but they have games from nintendo, super nintendo, nintendo 64, turbo graphix 16, sega genesis and maybe another one that I can't remember. The controllers on the thing are incredible. If you go bowling or play tennis and turn your wrist or anything like that and the controller picks up on it. Now if I could just find a second controller for the thing I would be in business.

[impur]

Stacy LOL my car would be damaged, in the game there is no damage to your car! How can you lose? (laugh)

Wii sounds sweet. I didn't know it played genesis games, there are a few i used to love on genesis. I might have to look into the Wii for sure...

[mister crabs]

i want a wii but i bought a gamecube when it first came out and hated the games available....so i may jsut get teh ps3

[Ronjunior]

Uh oh, all this game talk has got my installing Unreal Tournament 2003 again on the new HHD....had to go looking up their website :). 2004 version is only $10 at ebgames and gamestop website, will have to get the latest. (FYI UT2007 is out in June....but surely will be too much for my pc)
Anybody else play?

[dippin61]

Uh oh, all this game talk has got my installing Unreal Tournament 2003 again on the new HHD....had to go looking up their website :). 2004 version is only $10 at ebgames and gamestop website, will have to get the latest. (FYI UT2007 is out in June....but surely will be too much for my pc)
Anybody else play?

i think i still have my old unreal tourny i can throw to ya.

anyways,, its WoW for me too.. been playing since day 1. Was in one of the top horde guilds on my server, until the BG patch/TBC details came out, then we all gave up raiding until TBC.

anyone ever want to play on a server with someone who knows the ins and outs of the game, has pretty good contacts, and almost full HWL/T1/T2 gear hit me up, and we can roll some alli's :p

Gurubashi server
60 Horde Shaman - Carbon

[Ronjunior]

i think i still have my old unreal tourny i can throw to ya.

anyways,, its WoW for me too.. been playing since day 1. Was in one of the top horde guilds on my server, until the BG patch/TBC details came out, then we all gave up raiding until TBC.

anyone ever want to play on a server with someone who knows the ins and outs of the game, has pretty good contacts, and almost full HWL/T1/T2 gear hit me up, and we can roll some alli's :p

Gurubashi server
60 Horde Shaman - Carbon
You have PM :)

[reefgeek84]

Battle Chess, such a cool game!!!!

[fly guy]

I used to play counterstrike/halflife online many years ago. I havent played in at least 5 years, but just last week i bought halflife 2 and a new video card on my comp to handle it.

It was pretty fun.....and the graphics are sweet........im NOT going to go back online and play deathmatch though...WAY too addicting

[reefgeek84]

I guess if we have to pick video games...I would say Final Fantasy! probably the best game ever created.

[mister crabs]

I broke a few keyboards playing deathmatch and iceworld.....haha

[Ronjunior]

Found a copy of UT2004 Tourn, but no CD Key :(
Watched an interesting movie tonight and figured it must have been from an idea of a game; Silent Hill. Very interesting, but watching how they made the movie is amazing. Must be quite a challenge to take what they create in a PC game and put it to the big screen. (the director said playing the game was the most scared he's ever been in his life which gave him the idea) It made me realize I needed to rent Doom from the library, forget to reserve it last year.

[oldbrownies]

Simcity 4 all the way!!!

[mister crabs]

silent hill is a video game from playstation platform.

[fly guy]

I used to play counterstrike/halflife online many years ago. I havent played in at least 5 years, but just last week i bought halflife 2 and a new video card on my comp to handle it.

It was pretty fun.....and the graphics are sweet........im NOT going to go back online and play deathmatch though...WAY too addicting


ok...i lied.......ive been playing dethmatch the last couple of days...and yes...its STILL addicting.

Difference between now and when i used to play............is i used to be pretty good........now I am getting my @$$ whooped. LOL

11 and 72 last night (laugh) http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/flyyyguy/smilies/smileyshot2.gif



Anybody else here play??

[Ronjunior]

Until I figure out a solution, I'll have to stick to Deathmatch on UT2003..usually what I play....I swear it's like playing with a bunch of people that cheat! I completely suck being out of practice!

(I'm original, I go by Ronjunior in games too)

[Piero]

Last game I played on a PC was Battlefield 2142 demo. Used to play Battlefield 2 a lot. Thank GOD i'm turned off by fantasy themes, or i'd be one of the 8million hooked on WoW. Nomore PC gamin though...I got enough distraction with the Xbox 360 and Wii. MMO's are evil too I tell ye!...:)

[Piero]

Burnout Revenge on the 360 in high def...carnage heaven. Playing Lost Planet currently though.

[mister crabs]

lol...fly which server you play deathmatch on? check out www.texangirlz.com they have a deathmatch server and like 3 or 4 other servers with good ping. PM me if you wanna play sometime.

[Holly]

LOL this gamer chat make me think of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywN5nSJhkA

[Nyles]

Was into Unreal, Unreal tournament, counter strike, call of duty and a slew of others.
Just can't get into them anymore, they all give me the same feeling like I am watching an old movie I have seen so many times and know play by play and the fact the players are getting younger and more immature.

I have trouble even getting on PC at home but when I do I have a few driving simulators like GTR2, Rfactor, and GTL, and have a Force feedback wheel and some wicked aluminum pedals with modulating brake and clutch. Also have one of those thingies that strap on your head so you can look around in the cockpit; TrackIR. Just have a hard time with being on pc these days, I just prefer to spend my time with my kids these days.

[fly guy]

lol...fly which server you play deathmatch on? check out www.texangirlz.com they have a deathmatch server and like 3 or 4 other servers with good ping. PM me if you wanna play sometime.


So you have HL 2 deathmatch??

I dont have any that i generally play on....ive only been doing it for the last couple of nights..........i just look around for a good ping......and then if i cant play becasue i keep getting wasted within 5 seconds of spawn...i will leave and look for one that I can at least get a few shots off before getting wasted. LOL

If you want to play..........i think it would be most fun to find a empty server OR start our own....so we can just kill each other :D

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/flyyyguy/smilies/smileyshot2.gif

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/flyyyguy/smilies/blown.gif






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[mister crabs]

I generally only play the regular old counterstrike 1.6 deathmatch. I have played the Halflife 2 a couple times but i got owned so i sold it to my brother....lol

[fly guy]

So you dont have it installed anymore??

its only ten bucks.........http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=320&

But Im not sure if you have to have HL 2 to begin with......probably :(

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=220&

I know the graphics are so far and above the original HL and counterstrikes that i had to buy a beefy video card for my computer to handle it...i bought a 512 MB geforce to run on my crappy stock emachines. 2.2 mhz with the agp port. It seems to work pretty well though....oh i had to up my ram to a gig of ddr too

I actually think if you bought a retail disk of HL 2 it comes with the deathmatch. I bought it online from steam so i had to buy the deathmatch seperately..............bastards......lol

[mister crabs]

i dunno....i have a brand new dell with the dual processor and its got like 3 gig of ram.....its the xps 400.....not sure what video card it has. maybe i will go get HL 2 again. My copy went to arizona with my brother.

[mister crabs]

its a dual 2.8 pentium processor.....

[fly guy]

Mister crabs..check this out...it confuses me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Dell-Dimension-XPS-400-Dual-Core-3ghz-GeForce_W0QQitemZ110080399553QQihZ001QQcategoryZ75 039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This guy has about a dozen of these things for sale for around $100. Its a far better machine than mine. The video card alone on it is worth $200. From what i read it can handle halflife 2 no prob.

Im not that familiar, but if im not mistaken....that PCI-E video card at 256 MB is quite a bit better than my AGP one at 512.

I just emailed him on this auction that is expiring in 9 hours to confirm shipping. If shipping is less than $50 im going to buy it just to have a good spare computer hanging around. : )

[Nyles]

LOL OMG did you see what category its listed under?, better jump on that! FYI he only has 2 "seller" feedback.

[impur]

holy crap thats a steal!

[fly guy]

Hes got 100% feedback on 50 transactions...only two from buyers though huh??

It says its new and he actualy has ten more just likeit up for sale.

Were you being facetious when you said i should jump on that??

heck...i think for $150 shipped thats a screaming deal. Am i mistaken??

HELP ME : )

[impur]

It would be like stealing its so cheap! 4 gigs of ram! great vid card. Only down side is its a dell and most likely not upgradable. But there are ways around that if your handy ;)

[fly guy]

Hes got 100% feedback on 50 transactions....only 2 of those were from when he was selling...........whats weird is that all of his auctions are set up like he has been doing this often and for a long time............



Alos...am i correct in thinking that the video card in this machine at 256 MB is better than my AGP one at 512??

[impur]

PCI Express in all it's flavors: 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x and 32x all have much greater bandwidth than basic PCI.

Common Buses and their Max Bandwidth
PCI ............................... 132 MB/s
AGP 8X ............................... 2,100 MB/s
PCI Express 1x ............................... 250 [500]* MB/s
PCI Express 2x ............................... 500 [1000]* MB/s
PCI Express 4x ............................... 1000 [2000]* MB/s
PCI Express 8x ............................... 2000 [4000]* MB/s
PCI Express 16x............................... 4000 [8000]* MB/s
PCI Express 32x .............................. 8000 [16000]* MB/s
IDE (ATA100) .............................. 100 MB/s
IDE (ATA133) ............................... 133 MB/s
SATA .............................. 150 MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet .............................. 125 MB/s
IEEE1394B [firewire]....................... 100 MB/s

A 16x PCI Express connection is at least 190% Faster than AGP 8x but this is the connection between the system and the video card. You use the connection the most when your video card is low on memory or when the game you are using uses a Direct X or Open GL feature that isn't supported in hardware.

So, what this means is that in terms of real world performance there may not be a huge difference between AGP and PCI Express if you are talking about identical chipsets. Unfortunately this is very hard to prove because graphics chipsets are designed either for PCI Express or AGP. If you have a card that is available in both forms then you have a graphics chipset that was designed for PCI Express and has a special bridge chip installed to let it comunicate with the AGP bus. The short of this is: if two cards of the same chipset are available in AGP and PCI-E then the PCI-E one will always be faster. On PCI-E you don't have the overhead of the bridge chip so it's faster, and you have the better bandwidth so in intense situations such as high resolution gaming you'll come out on top every time.

The main point here is: If you have a system with AGP on it, it doesn't make sense to upgrade just to get PCI-E video right now. The fastest AGP card to ever come out is likely to be the nVidia 6800GT. If you are at a point where that is too slow then by all means it makes sense to make a complete switch. If your happy with your AGP graphics options, wait until you are ready to upgrade the processor or other components before making the PCI-E switch.

http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html

[fly guy]

Thanks for the explanation impur. : )

Ive got the geforce 7600 GS 512 MB agp on my POS system right now. It seems to work just fine.

I wonder where this guy with no other sales acquired a dozen of these machines that he can sell for as cheap as it appears he is willing to.

Its kind of funny to me that i can buy this entire system for less than i had to spend upgrading my video card. And end up with a better overall system. lol

[Ronjunior]

Mister crabs..check this out...it confuses me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Dell-Dimension-XPS-400-Dual-Core-3ghz-GeForce_W0QQitemZ110080399553QQihZ001QQcategoryZ75 039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This guy has about a dozen of these things for sale for around $100. Its a far better machine than mine. The video card alone on it is worth $200. From what i read it can handle halflife 2 no prob.

Im not that familiar, but if im not mistaken....that PCI-E video card at 256 MB is quite a bit better than my AGP one at 512.

I just emailed him on this auction that is expiring in 9 hours to confirm shipping. If shipping is less than $50 im going to buy it just to have a good spare computer hanging around. : )
Something fishy about that guy IMO. All his items are in the wrong category, he expects you to e-mail him or no sale, and all items end in 8 hrs. or so. Also, everything is $98.
Something smells of stolen goods or BS to me.
His feedback is broken down by 2 from buyers and 43 from sellers.
I'd ask for a photo of the Dell Service tag and call Dell to make sure it's legit.

Dell's support to see a picture of the tag.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/product_support/en/product_support_central?c=us&l=en&s=gen

[fly guy]

Something fishy about that guy IMO. All his items are in the wrong category, he expects you to e-mail him or no sale, and all items end in 8 hrs. or so. Also, everything is $98.
Something smells of stolen goods or BS to me.
His feedback is broken down by 2 from buyers and 43 from sellers.
I'd ask for a photo of the Dell Service tag and call Dell to make sure it's legit.

Dell's support to see a picture of the tag.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/product_support/en/product_support_central?c=us&l=en&s=gen


I agree. Whats also weird is that arent any bids on any of his other ten auctions for this incredible price.

BUT......it will be covered by paypal.



lol...check out the auction now.........its been removed along with the rest of his auctions

[mister crabs]

yep....scam

[fly guy]

yep....scam

so ANYWAYS.........LOL



Go buy halflife 2 so I can KILL you later
(laugh)

[mister crabs]

lol....thinking about it.....wheres the best price around? I will have to hide it from my wife....she hates the original game i have.....

[fly guy]

Im not sure...i bought it online via steam(those links i posted) and downloaded it
But from what i understand...if you buy the retail version on disk it comes with deathmatch so you dont have to spend the additional $10.(like i DID)

It(HL 2) was game of the year so Best Buy or any big electronics store that carries games is going to have it prolly.

I dont knwo how your are going to hide the sound of Deathmatch going on in the office from your wife though......haha

FWIW......i really dont like the Steam downloaded game thing now that ive done it. There are a few PITA issues that pop up every couple of days to enable the game to play. Its not difficult now that i know how to deal with it. But every day or two you have to go delete a "clientregistry.blob" from your program files to get steam to load

Buying the retail package is a better way to go

[Piero]

Battlefield 2 > HL2 :P

you guys can also download the Battlefield 2142 demo and get online together fro free.

[Ronjunior]

There's a few versions of Half-life2, go to ebgames.com or gamestop.com, you can check availabilty at the locals stores on the site (think all ownded by same company since it checks stock at the other stores too). Shows $19.99 episode 1 or $29.99 DVD...don't know if there is any difference in files though. Used xbox for under $13, but don't know about onliine play to PC's. I'm too cheap to pay MS for that when I already pay up the ....... for cable. (plus I can't get used to the controller)

Ooops, I just checked Walmart for giggles, $16.82 for DVD free shipped to store....which may be same at store? Don't know, I don't shop there.

[fly guy]

Get the game of ther year edition. It is the biggest single player (if you are into that)and should come with all of the deathmatch stuff you need. It should also be about $30

[fly guy]

check it out

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Dell-Dimension-XPS-400-Dual-Core-3ghz-GeForce_W0QQitemZ320072902275QQihZ011QQcategoryZ36 020QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I swear to god its the same guy........new ebay username....SAME email address..........trying to sell 10 more of these machines for $100.....along with ONE HUNDRED and FOURTEEN other items(one day auctions) that were all listed at the same time, yet he hasnt sold anything in 6 months

WTF (laugh)

[JManrow]

lol... and it says 100% Positive Feedback.

[Ronjunior]

check it out

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Dell-Dimension-XPS-400-Dual-Core-3ghz-GeForce_W0QQitemZ320072902275QQihZ011QQcategoryZ36 020QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
WTF (laugh)
I clicked the link to report him for at least mis categorizing, hit sent e-mail, but they require an account.
He's probably fishing for valid e-mail addresses to sell.

[impur]

He got caught again, invalid item. What a fool.

[fly guy]

lol... and it says 100% Positive Feedback.

I think hes using real ebay accounts that have 100% feedback to do this from...hes just getting access to them somehow.



He's probably fishing for valid e-mail addresses to sell.

And he got MINE from his first auction i posted. : ( Not my ebay OR my typical internet email either..........i was being careless and i sent him a email from my private email addy.

Out of curiosity....what is a "Good" email address worth??