BFBC2:
laggy and inconsistent.
no console
hardcoded negative mouse acceleration

BF3 will be more of the same. 64 players + "destruction 3.0" just means more lag. Companies dont even test these console ports with a mouse before releasing them on PC (see BC2, MOH, FarCry 2, Bioshock 1 and 2, Deadspace 1, JustCause 2, etc). The controls feel horrible in every new pc fps game.

BF3 doesnt even look that great compared to Crysis + mod.

Gaming on the PC is going downhill. Even Steam is releasing an OnLive ripoff. Crytek was my last hope but I tried the Crysis 2 mp demo and when I got to the title screen it said "Push Start Button"...

Everything now is about looks above gameplay and feel.

Looked good until the annoying aliens, which is the same thing that ruined Crysis 1 and FarCry (mutants, aliens: same thing). Pass.

I'm a long time PC Gamer. While I cut my teeth on Colecovision and Atari, PC gaming still remains my favourite way to play.

Traditionally I've been mainly a FPS gamer, starting off on Wolfenstein 3D and moving on from there. Quake II multiplayer (and Action Quake 2) took up good amounts of my time in the late 90s. Even went to a couple competitions. Shit, has it been that long?

My library has gotten pretty big over the years: Doom (Ultimate, II and 3), Quake (original, II, III and 4), Unreal, System Shock 2 (one of my all-time favourites), Deus Ex (don't get the sequel, it sucks), Half-Life (original with expansions, 2 and both episodes), Team Fortress 2, FarCry, Crysis (which kinda sucked), S.T.A.L.K.E.R (one of the scariest games I've ever played), FEAR, Bioshock, No One Lives Forever 2 (fucking awesome, I hope a good sequel is eventually made), WoW with both expansions, Fallout 3, BF2, BF2142, RTCW, a bunch of Star Wars Games like Jedi Knight and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter... and that's just what I remember having and not merely what I have played =P I don't think I want to know how much I've spent on games over the years.

I'm an addict =)

I continue to build custom PCs for my gaming needs. My current system is a AMD 64 X2 4200 + 4GB DDR2 6400 + GeForce 8800GTS 640MB + RAID 0+1 array running Windows Vista (yes, all my games work, even the real old ones), soon to be Windows 7. I've calmed down on the upgrade front and mainly just build a new system instead when the time is right. In this case that might happen in the next year or so. Then again, I may just upgrade storage and video. Who knows?

This is a hobby I don't think I'll ever outgrow. It's cool how PC gaming has gone full circle and is getting back to it's indie roots (remember Apogee and Epic Megagames shareware?). Valve is helping this a ton with Steam, making easier for one-man operations to put out profitable games. I'm considering trying some game development of my own.

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I don't get the "Fuck you Stephen Fry" at 04:21, somebody please explain?

Stephen Fry played the narrator for Little Big Planet, which was being used as an example of the flaws in designing a game around letting everyone create their own content.

Is anyone else sick and tired of the forced artificial 'cover' system dropped into every single console shooter these days? (Mind I'm a PC gamer but I do play console to pc 'ports'.)

Yahtzee appears to be getting tired of it as well. Every game from Halo to GoW to Mass Effect throws in these waist-high walls in the middle of roads, paths, even indoors to give the players cover. It's fake, it's boring and it's old hat. I much prefer shooters that take advantage of true collision detection for their cover. Like FarCry 2, where cover consists of things you would use for cover in real life, like trees. In FC2 if I'm injured I duck behind a tree in hopes of gaining cover for a few seconds so I can put my elbow back in place, instead of ducking behind a low concrete wall in the middle of an office hallway to regenerate ala GoW.

Am I alone in this?

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>> ^daxgaz:
if you like like linear, go watch a movie. I have a brain of my own, and like to develop my own story in the world that a game provides me.


It has nothing to do with enjoying linear storytelling. The developers have more control over the pacing in linear games, letting them craft deeper, richer, more immersive and exciting experiences. I would love to play an open ended game with the same quality, but unfortunately, open-ended games spread resources too thin and ends up diluting the whole experience.

Developing your own story in Farcry 2 is all well and good, but it gets boring and repetitive, and ironically, becomes quite mindless.

>> ^Quboid:
I liked the mods vs rockers reference. Yeah his accent was a bad attempt at the South African accent that is all over the game. It's fine for Brits like me but I guess if you're not used to fluent Brit, trying to understand someone with a British accent butchering a South African accent is just too many weird sounds going on at once, especially as he drops in and out of the South African accent all over the place. Anyway, I'm off to watch Blood Diamond on Blu-ray - I'm sure it's pretty much like Far Cry 2, right? )



I guess that was the idea - crazy-ass inconsistent accent-game => same in review.

>> ^Farhad2000:
>> ^messenger:
>> ^Quboid:It's fine for Brits like me but I guess if you're not used to fluent Brit, trying to understand someone with a British accent butchering a South African accent is just too many weird sounds going on at once
Especially since he's an Australian living in England trying to do a South African accent.

Wait! I thought he was an English dude living in Australia?


You know what he meant!

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As a west Aussie can I just say we don't actually sound like that It's the east guys who do...

But anyway, I love Farcry 2. It might be repetitive, but it's fun. It's fun to hunt guys in the darkness, and it's fun loading up heavy explosives (or strapping them to your car) and blowing everything up. It's a game that lets you wander around and make your own fun, doing missions however you feel at the time.

>> ^messenger:
>> ^Quboid:It's fine for Brits like me but I guess if you're not used to fluent Brit, trying to understand someone with a British accent butchering a South African accent is just too many weird sounds going on at once
Especially since he's an Australian living in England trying to do a South African accent.


Wait! I thought he was an English dude living in Australia?

>> ^Quboid:It's fine for Brits like me but I guess if you're not used to fluent Brit, trying to understand someone with a British accent butchering a South African accent is just too many weird sounds going on at once

Especially since he's an Australian living in England trying to do a South African accent.