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Now is it scary as in "pop out in your face" scary, "creepy environment noises and dark overtones" scary, or "bloody corpses and gore thrown in bucketloads" scary?Basically comparing something like the old House of the Dead, to System Shock 2 and Doom III or even Silent Hill.... how would Fatal Frame fit in the genre of "scary?"

Yeah, I see a lot more downsides to this sort of technology in the general population than I do for simple scientific research. The whole problem with upgrades and whatnot... it's going to be like starting all over again, next thing you know, they have Windows 95 out and you're still running on a DOS command line It would be awesome if you could just upload books and crap to your memory, but other than that I would be opposed to any other sort of hookups... Cell phones built into your head?? Think of how hard it's going to be for people NOT to think of that! You'll be standing in a Super Walmart somewhere, and some chick walks past you and suddenly yelps because her dumb friend accidentially calls her via her brain because she was thinking of her or something and scares the crap out of her. You think it's bad now with people talkin on cell phones in the middle of a store, suddenly you will have people standing around talking to themselves Or people calling your brain while you're sleeping...Or total submission to unrelenting advertisements these companies will be able to throw at you at any time of day.Or people looking up porn in their head.... while they're standing next to you in line at McDonalds.Or having people sending mental images to you that you really don't want to see... like naked pictures of your mom

Right now I'd say Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, mostly because it's consumed so much of my time, I practically am living in it haha. ...for these reasons: ~Very large and open ended world. I don't want to live in a game that is small and restrictive. ~You can be anything you want to be. Mage, swordsman, thief, etc. (which leads me to the next one) ~You can make a good living by stealing things ~You can make a good living by running errands for random people you've never met before that trust you to find valuable lost items for them (and don't hesitate to risk your life in the process) ~You can buy a house and just sleep all day ~You can take off your clothes and run around the city with the knowledge that no one has a camera cell phone (Not that I'd do it, it's just nice to know it's possible ) If not Oblivion, my next choice would be San Andreas for most of the same reasons, but it's better than Oblivion for these reasons: ~Modern technology (an airplane in SA is faster than a horse in Oblivion ) ~Get money faster without doing so much errand work ~No zombies, skeletons, or other weird creatures to live in fear of ~You can respray your car... you can't respray your horse. My third choice, would then be Pirates of the Caribbean (with the latest mod, because that game sucks without that big mod they came out with on http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) Mafia is another one... Now, games I don't want to be stuck in: Any game made before 1996 hehe Driver ~because you can't get out of the freakin car and cops are insane System Shock 2 ~because it's so freakin creepy (awesome game though ) Doom III ~because it's boring Far Cry ~I'd get bushwhacked from the beginning Half Life ~Just not a good situation, and way too linear

Yeah, I picked up a collectors edition version for the PC, and I must say it has already consumed a good number of hours from my life already haha. I can't imagine carrying around thousands of these replica coins like they let you do in the game, because this thing isn't light... in between the weight and size of a half dollar and a silver dollar.Graphically, it rocks, though the bloom seemed to lower my FPS so I turned it off, but it's still awesome. The textures of the weapons and clothes are incredible.... downright photorealistic.I've been thieving around, working on side quests and whatnot, but the story so far seems good.One of the gripes people have is that they can't make good looking characters, well that's a lot of blah because all it takes is a good eye, and patience It took me awhile at first, because they looked too old and wrinkled until I found an age slider, and that cured everything up.

Hello all. Just thought I'd share my latest "artwork" I've been producing for a local newspaper. Now, I know it isn't the Mona Lisa, but the premise is simple. The comic in question has full knowlege that he's stuck in a comic, and eventually proceeds to attempt escape... It's going to be more of a metaphor for life... you want to escape, but can't. And even if you do, you're still stuck on the newspaper Here's the first episode, and after that is a link to the main page where I have all the current episodes thumbnailed. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Usually updated every Thursday night.

Well I've tried downloading that Goldeneye mod, but I couldn't get any of the levels to load Is there a way to play the multiplayer by yourself with some bots or something, because I don't really get in on multiplayer matches at all.

See that's the thing... I'm not saying "use the model from the box art" because I know that has way too many polygons to use effectively in-game, but rather make the in-game character actually look like the guy on the box! The secret lies in texturing... Just look at Max Payne. That game was no more technologically advanced than any other game in 2001, but they used real-world textures and it made the game look awesome. And, going back to Hitman: Contracts, those FMVs they used were crap in the fact that their lip sync was off!! You'd think if they were going to go through the trouble of MAKING FMVs that they would have made sure the lips matched what they were saying! I dunno. I'm just hoping Hitman Blood Money doesn't come out feeling as rushed as Contracts.

Actually I looked up a listing of all the "G-Man" sightings in the game HL2, and he's in it more than you'd notice on the first playthrough... Wasn't that creepy TV with the weird music totally and utterly disturbing? hahaha. The darn thing wasn't even plugged in!

*Minor gameplay spoilers* Well I've just completed Half Life 2. I can see why some people were disappointed in the ending, but overall, the gaming experience was more than enough to make up for that. I truly felt like I made a difference, as opposed to Red Faction 2, where you fight in a similar resistance that left me feeling ill after playing, rather than anything good like HL2. Half Life two made me feel like a character in many movies... To start off, you feel like you're Winston from George Orwell's 1984 (which was not only a book, but they made a movie of that as well ). The feeling you get from being on the run is invigorating and intense. Then you feel like you're in a horror movie when you have to pass through an "abandoned" city filled with people possessed by headcrabs, and all sorts of terrors. I must say, that level alone rivals the Cradle level in Thief 3 for the horrific atmosphere. For example, a guy is found cut in half by a saw blade, with his upper torso laying on the top of the blade stuck in the wall like a shelf.... Wow. Plus the whole "OOH SH*T" factor when you realize you've started a ruckus and all hell starts breaking loose. The whole horror movie feeling goes from, say, Resident Evil, to more like the movie 28 Days Later (Edit: haha, forgetting the "Later" part of that movie title makes it a drama starring Sandra Bullock ) As you go along the coast-line, you pass derelict cars, that have long since rotted out... the overall sense of isolation and dread really sets in... Until you go up to a seemingly empty house and these metallic balls shooting electricity blow up through the floor and start chasing you as you try to escape Later you find yourself smack dab in the middle of The War of the Worlds trying to evade and sneak past those giant tripods... And at a point, a defense system is shooting lasers at you and your squad members, evaporating them into dust. The last level just plain old kicks *bottom* in that you get an awesome gun, which might have been more fun getting earlier, but better for the last level than never. You are swarmed by a seemingly infinite (but not overwhelming) amount of guards, but with your new and upgraded gravity gun, you can pick up the leader and throw him at the rest and watch them fall like a bunch of bowling pins The ending, though slightly disappointing, didn't leave me feeling unsatisfied like Red Faction 2 did. I went through the whole game (HL2) and at the end felt like I made a difference that changed the world. Other games give you a straight forward epilogue, telling you what your character did afterwards like "and so-and-so became president of the galaxy", which is OK if done right, but in my short time with the Half Life series, the experiences of Gordon Freeman have been my own. Everything I know about what's going on is just as much as the main character... there are no cut scenes, everything that happens does so in real time in front of my eyes. As for the ending, well it only motivated me to want to go out and buy the upcoming expansions Half Life 2: Episode 1, and Half Life 2: Episode 2 to find out what happens to the main characters next. Also I'd like to acknowledge Valve's technology in terms of realistic characters. You really do feel like you can relate to the NPCs, and you feel bad when you lose a team member, even if another one will come along eventually. I remember at one part of the game where I was ambushed by an air raid, and the girl next to me was shot... I actually stopped, knelt down beside her... and proceeded to go ballistic and kill all of those murdering bastards. Lots of unanswered plot questions I had to look up on wikipedia and whatnot, but overall a great game. Heck I wouldn't even pirate it if I could, I encourage you all to go out and support these people for making such a great game.

******************************Mild Early-Game Spoilers****************************************************************For HL and HL2**********************************I just picked up the Game of the Year edition of Half-Life 2 a couple nights ago, and WOW (not world of warcraft, I mean wow as in "wow this is pretty good!" ). I've never played the original Half-Life before, so getting Half Life: Source packaged with HL2 was a great deal. I sat down and played through that first so I had a better idea of Gordon Freeman's background and such. Great game, by the way I thought it was funny having those security guards on your side saying "Boy I'd like to get my hands on the guy that caused THIS mess!" when you know full well that you were the one to push the button I just started playing HL2 last night and was blown away by the graphics. Unfortunately, I had a lot of mouse and keyboard lag, so I found some performance tweaks on the net, and that fixed everything right up with no visible degration in visual eye candy... Man, the physics in the game are great. The puzzles are intuitive and make sense. You're not just running around collecting keys and stuff like in most FPS. The objectives are simple, yet they make sense.I had played Blue Shift years ago, which helped me now when I started playing HL2, because right in the beginning, they brought back one of the characters that I wouldn't have any idea about without playing Blue Shift. The game itself is totally immersive. I feel like Winston Smith in George Orwell's "1984," stuck in an oppressive dictatorship, on the run from the storm troopers and being tracked by flying camera machine thingys Really can get into the character.Yeah, playing the games back to back (Half Life and Half Life 2) really helps. You just spent XX hours trying to stay alive, slaughtering little face-hugger-like creatures, mutants, bugs that shoot out green lightning... and you play HL2 and you see people with those face-huggers as pets, and mutant bugs that shot lightning at you.... talking to you and interacting with humans... It's quite disconcerting. Since I had no idea about anything about the Half Life series before I started playing, I didn't know why some of the scientists mutated like they were in Doom. Well playing HL 2, you can more clearly see that the face-huggers pulled a "System Shock 2" manuever and took control of the people's bodies via ...facehugging. It's creepy to hear the muffled screams of the victims as you are forced to shoot them in the head to save your own skin.Overall well worth $39.99 and some tax. Make sure you have a high end rig though if you have it on computer

Haha, you guys crack me up Onboard graphics cards are crap... These were listed as being supported by the game: GeForce 4 MX420/MX440 So I don't know why you're having trouble. I'm not well up in nVidia cards anymore, so I don't know what the nForce 2 is, but I don't see it listed as being supported, so maybe that's your problem.

Yeah, I have no idea why you had so much trouble with it working on your computer. Had no trouble with it myself. I would recommend just buying it for a console cheap on ebay if you're having that much trouble with it. I gave the Gamecube version to my younger brother and he blew through the first half of the game no problem. Then my parents told me to take it back because it was too violent for him hahaha. He was rather ticked at that. Yeah I agree about the story. It actually has a really good twist to it towards the end that explains stuff. I just got done reading a good called "Improbable" by Adam Fawer that I recommend. You can get the hardcover for the same price as the paperback from amazon. Here's a brief summary I plucked from Amazon.com "David Caine is not only a compulsive (and unlucky) gambler who owes a Russian mobster big bucks but he also suffers from violent epileptic seizures. In a desperate attempt to salvage what's left of his life, he agrees to be a guinea pig for an experimental drug. The medicine acts quickly to control his seizures, but it does have one frightening side effect: the ability to see the future. Thinking he has gone mad and being stalked by avaricious government scientists eager to use his power for their own gain, Caine goes on the lam. Teaming up with his schizophrenic twin brother and a rogue female CIA agent with secrets of her own, he must learn to use his new ability to survive against the powerful forces aligned against him. Although this brisk read is full of seat-of-the-pants and keep-you-guessing action, it occasionally gets bogged down in dry scientific explanations of probability theory and quantum mechanics (which can always be skipped over).This freshman offering from Fawer is highly recommended for both adventure and sf readers." The whole thing reminded me kind of like the approach that the guy who write The Da Vinci Code took. You learn about stuff as you read. The "facts" though aren't as skewed as they were in The Da Vinci Code, but the ideas are interesting.

Seeing a lot more screenshots of Blood Money, I must say it does look like it's going to be one heck of a game... I don't really like 47's "new look." I wish they'd gone in the direction of the high-res CGI version they use for the cover art... I mean look at the difference here: Slimmer face, sharper nose. Not bad, but I prefer the box-art version

Most of them don't grow out of it, sorry dude Seriously though, you know what burns me up? These poor nice girls stuck dating A**holes. I'm sitting in a computer lab, workin on a VB project, and 3 computers down, this (very attractive) girl is on her cell phone, and some guy is SCREAMING at her though it. I should become a Morman so I can save all these girls away from that crap and show then that there are still nice guys around

The game Pirates of the Caribbean has a community-made mod out that allows you to woo and eventually marry a governor's daughter. Yeah, the logic behind it is kind of lame... You say a seduction line, go out and rest for a day, say another one, rest, repeat a dozen or so times, and ask her to marry you and you're done. I downloaded the demo for Singles when it first came out, and had the chick in bed in a half an hour (real time, I'm sure game time it took a little while longer haha). Then I had them go at it with no food, water, or sleep for about 3 game days, and uninstalled the game because I was bored.I agree, on the side, it adds something to a game's believability and fun, but by itself, it doesn't do much for me. I've recently met a very nice young lady I've been going out with and I must say, real life beats the pants off of video games

Now is this released as an opensource thing with a GNU agreement? or is it just copyrighted freeware?

FPS means first person shooter.I haven't played battlefield 2 yet, but if it's anything like it's predecessor, the main goal is to capture key locations, and kill the enemy with really big guns :-D

Every game after and including Doom 3, I find that any FPS shooter/horror game just doesn't do it for me anymore....System Shock 2 was scary

Clockstoppers, if I remember correctly, worked by accellerating the molecules in the person's body. If this were true, wouldn't that make everything go faster relative to the watch-wearer's perspective? Bah, I'm going to re-read my Time books

I heard they came out with a new unofficial patch for Bloodlines, I'm going to probably install it again just to see what they've done with it. I'd say that game is a pure A+, but there were a couple things that bothered me that keep me from replaying it again:Firstly, the endings, though they were alternate, weren't really all that different, and thus kind of takes any replay value out of the game when you find that you end up with only a slightly different scene.Secondly, and this is a gameplay issue, is the system load this game uses. I had to go out and buy two sticks of 512 ddr ram (had 392megs of sd-ram before, just didn't cut it) and I upgraded to an ATI x800 Pro, and it still lagged for me when I first entered an area. And the frequency of the loadings, ugh, pain in the neck... so to speak If the game didn't need to load as much, I'd enjoy it more.

Well I was playing Project Entropia for over a year, though looking back on it, it wasn't really enjoyable... always losing money. So I just picked up The Matrix Online and WOW, I'm not used to getting money for missions anymore Project Entropia you're always losing money when you hunt mobs or whatever... The Matrix Online, you run a couple missions and you got yourself a respectable outfit and awesome guns.... whereas PE, you can't buy a hat if you wanted to, because some types of hair styles sticks out the top of the hats You tell me Matrix......................----------------------..................................PE

I can agree on the motherboard problem.... I had one that just didn't seem to be compatable with my GeForce 4 Ti4200 (I guess other people had the same problem). It would lock the system in a blue screen in Windows XP, which under normal circumstances was almost non-existent for me. At one point, it completely crashed when I was playing Clive Barker's Undying... and completely corrupted the hard drive to the point of it was smoking when I turned the computer on.... And it wasn't the hard drive's fault, because it was the third one that went out on me with that system.I later got an ATI Radeon x800 Pro, and haven't had any problems since *knock on wood*

I'm definitely looking forward to Hitman: Blood Money, but I just hope they don't screw it up... I mean this game has so many fans now supporting it, to do something like they did for Contracts and just redo a whole bunch of old levels for the sake of console people.... I dunno. I'm hoping this game will have all they promise this time. It's gonna rock if they go all out on it (notoriety has great prospects, but if they half-*bottom* it, it's going to be a major let-down.)

Yeah, I agree. I don't think it'd be safe... Even with encryption, there's bound to be somebody that'll crack it. All a guy needs to do is to sit in a public place (such as an airport) with a device to wirelessly sniff for any money transactions with cell phones and perhaps even turn their phone into a clone of the victim's phone, so that they can make money transactions, but not have to even steal the phone.

I just got done playing a 3D "max payne wannabe" game called Dead To Rights, and though it cost me $4.99 at a local Media Play, it's not a bad game. It actually has a lot of cool stuff going for it. The intro movie you see before you start playing kicks *bottom*. The FMV cutscenes are well done. The only thing is the linear levels, and the whole thing with enemies coming out of nowhere like ants. It's a great shootem up game, the bullet time they added works well. You can take people hostage easily. You get to control a K9 (I believe it's a Husky) that pretty much comes out of nowhere when you summon it to attack a bad guy (then you have to let your dog "recharge" before it can attack again).Decent plot.Hand to hand fighting that happens in the most odd places. It gets an A for having a really awesome environment for a final boss battle. You are in a furnace area with flames coming out of the floor and an open door to the furnace you can throw the guy in ...unless he throws you in first Check it out if you can find it. It can be hard as hell, but I found it so cheap, I can give it away if I wanted to (though I probably won't).