Timewaster's Guide Archive
Games => Video Games => Topic started by: Entsuropi on November 15, 2004, 07:51:23 PM
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In exactly 489 minutes, Half Life 2 will be unlocked on my copy of steam. And then I can, finally, play it.
/me wets himself
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note that wetting himself has little to nothing to do with playing halflife. He just wets himself a lot
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To be honest, I don't think he's toilet trained.
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So far HL2 is getting better reviews then halo 2, which dosen't surprise me.
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Hmmm, I can wait another 4 years. That may be around the time I have a new computer that won't be all pissy about installing and running games by then.
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Uh....
Woah.
/me wets himself. Twice.
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in fact, most of the ENglish-speaking world outside of the US is incontinent. Or in-continental. Something like that.
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Finished it. Sooooo good.
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Nice for those of us who don't have to work. And I have to tomorrow, leaving precious little time for games.
Still, I'm up to Highway 17, and I don't want to rush the game -I'd rather savour it.
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I was close. So close to buying it. I had his face in my hand, staring at me. Looking at me so deeply I felt my soul touch my heart as I ran my fingers across the box. I looked back and forth, between him and Space Ghost Vol. 2. I paced around the aisles for a while. Saw the new DS on display and played around with that as my soul and heart raced around with each other on an unforgetable one night stand.
I then walked back to where I found him. I set him back down, looked a little further south and found IT. The "Editors Choice Edition" of UT2k4. I pondered, long, hard, thoughtfully, about it. I finally grabbed it, and my soul was crushed as my heart had found a new love.
I still had Space Ghost however. And for some reason I couldn't let the two coexist at the same time with myself. So, I took him back to his rightful place, knowing full well that he'll still be around when I have the understanding to return to him, a better and stronger person.
I checkout, leave, and later at home I install. I play a few rounds and I enjoyed every minute of it. I am now a happier person. I am not at all belittled by the fact that I do not indeed, have Half-Life 2. I feel like I am doing a deed to myself.
//Ended story
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Uh...
Didn't you already own UT2004? If so, the Editors choice edition has some upgrades... all of which you can download freely from the Epic site.
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No, no I didn't. I have had UT2k3. I have only just today finally picked up a copy of 2k4. However my computer is the biggest jerk ever. If computers could have a nerd/geek/jock hierarchy as most high schools do, it would be the jock and I the nerd.
My anagram is in relation to how it handles anything new I try to install on it. It will, at some point in installing it, just fail and completely screw it up. Right now I am just copying/pasting the files from the DVD onto my hard drive.
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Ok.
Quick review: HL2 - greatest single player FPS experience ever.
Half life 2 engine - most shiny games engine ever.
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Entropy's review = Underrating the game
Seriously, the one thing that's missing form the engine is the ability to pick up bodies. Apart from that, it's so shiny and awesome
Gemm, that's an analogy, not an anagram.
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Seriously, the one thing that's missing form the engine is the ability to pick up bodies. Apart from that, it's so shiny and awesome.
That's always very silly. But you get that ability later on.
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You get it later on? What in the world. Is Mr. Gordon just unable to do so with his own two hands? I'm guessing its with the help of that anti-grav gun thingy. Does that thing work off of any sort of limited amount of "ammo?"
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Nope. No ammo. You can fling cars off cliffs, just make sure it isn't your own one. Explosive barrels are good with it as well. Just try to make sure they don't get shot while your angling the shot up.
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Sigh... I thought I'd wait until after Boards. But I couldn't do it. It's downloading on Steam now...
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One of us! One of Us!
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/me steals Mr P's brain.
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/me steals Entropy's brain.
Hang on, that's not an improvement! Gyp, gyp, I want my money back!
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I'm like a cranium rat. Stupid by myself, but proximity to smartish people (*points at SE*) gives me the ability to cast Magic Missile. Now if only Gemm would come in range...
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If Gemm came into range, you'd gain the ability to cast Confuse Person.
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(12:20) * Topic is 'Half-Life 2 has been released! Mass suicides have been spotted, RAL has been quoted to, "i dont care lol"yet he still bought it thanks to Entropy'
Harharhar.
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Well, so far the game is awesome. My system just sucks. I meet or beat all sysreqs...but my 256 Ram is really showing. Load times that should be fast take almost a minute and new textures cause some creeping. It's a little annoying. I've turned most of my settings down even under the recommended and still get this.
My drivers are a bit behind though. I'm updating them now. Hopefully I'll see improvement.
Man, this is frustrating
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256 megs of ram is what's causeing most of your problems MR. P, updateing the drivers won't do much. I'd go spend the $80 on another 256 megs if I were you.
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I've actually been looking (just in the past hour) and can't find any for less than around $120.
I'm obviously looking in the wrong places. Can you link me to where you can get it for $80?
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comp USA, though you might need a rebate to get below $100.
http://www.compusa.com/products/products.asp?Ntt=ram&N=200454+10&Ne=500000&Ntk=All
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Thanks!
Wow, RAM has gotten a bit more complicated since the last time I had to buy. I'm not even sure what I need.
For example, can I just get another 256 so that I total 512 or do I need to buy a 512 and swap my 256 out? Do they go into PCI slots?
My comp is a Dell Dimensions 8250, btw. Any help guys?
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they don't go in the PCI slots, there are slots for ram on your motherboard by the prossessor. Most motherboards have at least 2-3 RAM slots so you should just be able to buy 1 stick of 256megs and throw it in, of course you could by 512 megs and add that too.
I beleave you should want SDRAMM DIMM RAM being the most efficient type for the money. I'm not sure that the PIN number is for, but I'm assumeing the higher the better.
There are lots of How Too guides out there, here are a few I googled
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,62183,00.asp
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Thanks again.
I bow to your google-fu
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Load times take about a minute for me too, and I have 512 RAM.
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They took about half a minute for me, I think. Enough time to lose the kill frenzy and start a new train of thought. And then get confused when the game starts again.
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the pin number is the number of pins. It describes the size of the slot for the chip. Make sure it matches what's on your motherboard.
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Hmmm... you sure it's an 8250? Not some kind of 8400? I haven't been able to find any "8250's" on Dell's website. If it's some kind of 8400, it may be DDR Ram you'll need.
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I have good news and bad news.
After visiting Dell's site I've found that my comp was one of the few installed with RD RAM which costs a small fortune to upgrade. So I'll have to suffer through the hiccups of single player.
The good news is that the multiplayer runs like a charm. I'm still pleased with my purchase because of this. The mp is what determines the longevity of a game and I think this is going to run just fine.
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Oh, and speaking of mulitplayer...shall we all 'friend up' over Steam?
My username is Pleasington.
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I go by JamPaladin, and I'm up for some CS source sometime if everybody else is. Just give me the signal.
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I'm up for it if you guys can find a humane time to play at :)
My username is Entsuropi - if that doesn't work, look under Entropy for 'Charlie Mitchell'.
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Sprig, thanks for the Omega Drivers tip!
These things work like a charm. Not only is HL 2 runnable w/o hiccups now, but I was able to bump up the detail level a few notches. Thanks!
Now, what exactly do Anisotropic (sp) filters do? When I turn them on they don't seem to effect anything, good or bad.
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Think this paragraph from a gamspy article will explain somewhat:
Where both bilinear and trilinear filters are performed on square areas, an anistropic filter applies what is essentially a trilinear filter but not on a square area. For example, when you're running on a tiled floor through your favorite game, the floor is not square in shape. Instead, it's larger near you and smaller as it extends away from you, making a trapezoid shape. The anisotropic filter (which essentially means "filter from any angle") takes your point of view into account and then performs the filtering on the textures and all their irregular shapes. This takes a lot more computational power and can cause performance hits.
Full article here http://archive.gamespy.com/hardware/june02/hardwareweek/vcards/index3.shtml
edit: Oh, and I'm glad those drivers worked for you.
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So Half Life Deathmatch was released today.
Let me just say that in all the games I've ever played, all the deathmatches I've ever participated in, nothing has ever been as satisfying as a double kill with a grav gun accelerated toilet.