Hobbies/Stuff
So, in your off-time, what kinds of stuff do you guys do?
I play Left 4 Dead (360), Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP), and Tales of Destiny (J-PS2). I also read books (real ones!).
I play Left 4 Dead (360), Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP), and Tales of Destiny (J-PS2). I also read books (real ones!).
UI have discovered a new radioactive isotope which is so volatile that it does not have a half life, but quarter life; so we must observe with hasty.
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| So, in your off-time, what kinds of stuff do you guys do? |
Photography, Wargaming (I include learning to play Go in this), Playing XBox games (FPS and RPG)...
WoW (I'm not paying for it of course)
Playing poker for some pocket money.
You play Go too? I've been playing for more than 5 years.
Playing poker for some pocket money.
| I include learning to play Go in this |
You play Go too? I've been playing for more than 5 years.
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I'm just starting out with Go (only a few months). I'll consider my self as being able to play when I can come somewhere close to beating my computer on a 9x9 board. At the moment I am just embarrassing. :0)
Have you tried playing online ? Try this :
http://www.gokgs.com/
KGS is the best Go server with thousands of players on every level. I play here too.
Playing too much against computers gonna teach you bad habits (although it could be interesting for a programmer).
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http://www.gokgs.com/
KGS is the best Go server with thousands of players on every level. I play here too.
Playing too much against computers gonna teach you bad habits (although it could be interesting for a programmer).
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I have seen that site, read the getting started section etc, when I have a bit more experience I will probably play there.
I have a friend who plays very well, he gives me lessons every now and then but he is a Post Doc Plasma Physicist and travels a lot because of it, he is now out of the country until next year.
I have a friend who plays very well, he gives me lessons every now and then but he is a Post Doc Plasma Physicist and travels a lot because of it, he is now out of the country until next year.
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| Playing XBox games (FPS and RPG) |
What games in particular do you play?
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Fable II
Rainbow Six Vagas
Fallout 3
Ghost Recon 2
Halo 3
and I'm thinking about get one or more of the following
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Assassin's Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Rainbow Six Vagas
Fallout 3
Ghost Recon 2
Halo 3
and I'm thinking about get one or more of the following
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Assassin's Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Fable II is cool, not played Fallout or Rainbow Six Vegas (cba to buy it; didn't like the old ones very much) I hate Ghost Recon 2 (the original is good, though), love Halo 3 (2 is better though).
Have you played ODST? I played it on Saturday; I thought it was excellent. The campaign was good; bit too much story line for a Halo game. You'll love fighting hunters as a human. Firefight is excellent. Me and my friend couldn't get past 3 rounds (you fight 5 waves of covenant with limited ammo and 7 respawns (regardless of how many players there are); every 5th wave the game adds a Skull to make it harder and you get your ammo and respawns back. The third skull causes you only to regain your stamina when you melee an enemy; so it gets really hard. Add that to skulls 1 and 2 which causes the enemy to dodge grenades, needlers and rockets and throw more grenades... it's alot harder.
Luckily there's no Flood in this one; I hated them (the level Cortana in Halo 3 made me want to die; it was awesome looking around High Charity but it was really hard on Heroic and Legendary (on Legendary I failed to complete it; I couldn't get to the Artbiter with his flame thrower! I kept getting killed on the way back).
I wonder what Reach will be like... if this ( http://i38.tinypic.com/2r3ed8y.jpg ) is real; it should be good...
The only problem I have with Bungie is that they're going the same way as infinity ward -- the "red screen means hide" health system and including "perks" which is stupid.
Edit: they're over simplifying it, in short. I like the Halo attitude of "if you can't find <insert object here>; have fun looking at the effort we put into drawing the scenery," where you get at most a compass telling you where to do, vs. almost every other FPS' "Go over here, go there, now shoot for ten minutes." However Halo isn't a tactical game; which is good. You can play tactically though...
I hate infinity ward; you can tell they just want money... I think MW2 will be boring and I didn't buy MW for the same reason. I played the campaign at a friend's house and it was extremely dull. Multiplayer was too; it seems to "same old". Not saying Halo 3's is revolutionary; but it is fun to splatter with Mongooses (Mongeese?) and fly the Banshee around...
Have you played ODST? I played it on Saturday; I thought it was excellent. The campaign was good; bit too much story line for a Halo game. You'll love fighting hunters as a human. Firefight is excellent. Me and my friend couldn't get past 3 rounds (you fight 5 waves of covenant with limited ammo and 7 respawns (regardless of how many players there are); every 5th wave the game adds a Skull to make it harder and you get your ammo and respawns back. The third skull causes you only to regain your stamina when you melee an enemy; so it gets really hard. Add that to skulls 1 and 2 which causes the enemy to dodge grenades, needlers and rockets and throw more grenades... it's alot harder.
Luckily there's no Flood in this one; I hated them (the level Cortana in Halo 3 made me want to die; it was awesome looking around High Charity but it was really hard on Heroic and Legendary (on Legendary I failed to complete it; I couldn't get to the Artbiter with his flame thrower! I kept getting killed on the way back).
I wonder what Reach will be like... if this ( http://i38.tinypic.com/2r3ed8y.jpg ) is real; it should be good...
The only problem I have with Bungie is that they're going the same way as infinity ward -- the "red screen means hide" health system and including "perks" which is stupid.
Edit: they're over simplifying it, in short. I like the Halo attitude of "if you can't find <insert object here>; have fun looking at the effort we put into drawing the scenery," where you get at most a compass telling you where to do, vs. almost every other FPS' "Go over here, go there, now shoot for ten minutes." However Halo isn't a tactical game; which is good. You can play tactically though...
I hate infinity ward; you can tell they just want money... I think MW2 will be boring and I didn't buy MW for the same reason. I played the campaign at a friend's house and it was extremely dull. Multiplayer was too; it seems to "same old". Not saying Halo 3's is revolutionary; but it is fun to splatter with Mongooses (Mongeese?) and fly the Banshee around...
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| The only problem I have with Bungie is that they're going the same way as infinity ward -- the "red screen means hide" health system and including "perks" which is stupid. |
And how dare you sir? COD4 is one of the few good FPSs since Deus Ex, the best one being Painkiller.
I play Nazi Zombies for the most part. My friend has a PS3 and CoD4, so I sometimes go over to his house and play a hacked game against other players. Infinite grenade launcher ammo with no reloading is pure madness.
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| Fallout 3 |
Nice. I play that, but I haven't bought any of the expansions (I'm a cheap person :P).
I find CoD4/WaW and Halo dull at best because all you basically do is "kill guys, spawn camp, hide when dying, repeat". Hence why I like RPGs more. XD I only like FPSs like L4D because they actually require more strategy than your typical shooter IMHO.
@helios,
That's not what I said. I like Master Chief's regenerating shield. My point was that I don't like this system of "when you get shot too much your screen goes red and you have to hide." I think a health bar is the best way; it may not be realistic, but it's a lot simpler and makes more sense. As if your eyes go red when you're shot in real life... I also don't like the method of "yeah our health goes down but we can find health packs." As the Chief, your shield recharges and you don't bother with picking anything up but the grenades and guns of fallen enemies. That's another thing; in Halo you never find weapons that are put somewhere by the developers and not explained. You'll find the dead bodies of allied soldiers with guns next to them (which also adds to the atmosphere) so you can get the ammo, but you never find guns that don't make sense being where they are.
The problem isn't the game, it's the people that play it. I don't know about Argentina but over here the players consist of a bunch of 12 year olds who think it makes them skillful to use the rocket launcher for everything; then say every other game isn't as good because the graphics suck. Tbh, COD4 hasn't got amazing graphics, they're decent. Halo also has decent graphics, particularly for a company who makes everything themself. And I've always loved the music of Halo games, Martin O'Donnel puts alot of effort into his work... COD4 has no vehicles... vehicular combat is the most fun. I love jumping in a Ghost and blasting people's faces...
That's not what I said. I like Master Chief's regenerating shield. My point was that I don't like this system of "when you get shot too much your screen goes red and you have to hide." I think a health bar is the best way; it may not be realistic, but it's a lot simpler and makes more sense. As if your eyes go red when you're shot in real life... I also don't like the method of "yeah our health goes down but we can find health packs." As the Chief, your shield recharges and you don't bother with picking anything up but the grenades and guns of fallen enemies. That's another thing; in Halo you never find weapons that are put somewhere by the developers and not explained. You'll find the dead bodies of allied soldiers with guns next to them (which also adds to the atmosphere) so you can get the ammo, but you never find guns that don't make sense being where they are.
| And how dare you sir? COD4 is one of the few good FPSs |
The problem isn't the game, it's the people that play it. I don't know about Argentina but over here the players consist of a bunch of 12 year olds who think it makes them skillful to use the rocket launcher for everything; then say every other game isn't as good because the graphics suck. Tbh, COD4 hasn't got amazing graphics, they're decent. Halo also has decent graphics, particularly for a company who makes everything themself. And I've always loved the music of Halo games, Martin O'Donnel puts alot of effort into his work... COD4 has no vehicles... vehicular combat is the most fun. I love jumping in a Ghost and blasting people's faces...
Bah. There's no realistic way to represent health, simply because health is not a realistic concept. If real life, you're either OK, slightly hurt, disabled, dying, or dead, and in a combat situation outnumbered 100 to 1, you're more likely the one of the last two. The only semi-realistic health system I can think of is Rainbow Six's, where a shot is incapacitating half the time. That works in that game because a) your units heal between missions, b) you're encouraged to not get shot, and c) you're not overwhelmingly outnumbered. In a more classical FPS, that system would just not work. So if we're going to abandon realism like that, I see nothing wrong with the occasional strategically placed medkit that heals you instantly by walking over it. It sure as hell beats the regenerating health system that has plagued games since Halo.
I'm more of a single player, myself, so I judge games by their single player campaigns alone. By that standard, COD4 is far superior to Halo, and I need only two words to explain why: The Library. I haven't played 2 or 3, but I can't imagine they've changed their level designer.
But if you're talking multiplayer, it doesn't get any better than Q3A.
I'm more of a single player, myself, so I judge games by their single player campaigns alone. By that standard, COD4 is far superior to Halo, and I need only two words to explain why: The Library. I haven't played 2 or 3, but I can't imagine they've changed their level designer.
But if you're talking multiplayer, it doesn't get any better than Q3A.
| There's no realistic way to represent health |
I like Ghost Recon's one shot -> injury, two shots -> death.
I didn't like COD4's campaign. I found it dull and repetetive. At least in Halo 2 you play from the other side's perspective for a while. Albeit true that Halo 3 is equally as repetetive, it's much more fun to fight aliens than humans. I think COD4 is a bit too realistic...
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| The problem isn't the game, it's the people that play it. I don't know about Argentina but over here the players consist of a bunch of 12 year olds who think it makes them skillful to use the rocket launcher for everything; then say every other game isn't as good because the graphics suck. |
Yeah, all the games I have played online (GTA4, L4D, etc) all have had crappy communities. Fortunately I generally have a couple of friends or something on to play around with and not get TK'd...I also like getting my friend on splitscreen on L4D and showing people that not all splitscreeners are TKing idiots.
I like to splitscreen with my friend on Halo 3; I never bought XBL so I go round his house on Saturdays to play it.
I got the L4D2 demo from Valve; I might play it at some point.
I got the L4D2 demo from Valve; I might play it at some point.
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