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Quick note: GTA IV is crippled by many things.

Spyware isn't one of them.

Dawn of War 2 on play for 9.99

Might have to order it.. if it is that good

Hmm, I'm fairly baffled then. I do know there WAS a performance hit when they patched it to be compatible when Opposing Fronts came out, because they added extra effects and stuff. Enough to make it look slightly nicer but knock a nasty chunk off the frame rate. The latest patch was supposed to have fixed that though.

You might want to reinstall and patch to 1.43, that's a balanced, stable, faster-performance, all round lovely patch and everyone seems to agree.

RE: Dawn of War 2.

Eurogamer gave it 8/10. From what I've played I really like it, but I'll admit I've only played a couple of hours and only on the single player mode. But it does seem like my kind of RTS - fewer units, and overall less defensive in terms of map defense.

If there's anyone out there who's played it more, it'd be better to listen to them. Until I either sort out my desktops connectivity problem or my laptops refusal to play the full game at a sensible frame rate, I can only go on first impressions which are very good. (Or, of course, you could get the demo off steam and try that)

DoW2, I've only done the first few maps, but I like it. Grim... has played a lot more I think. The RPG elements I think work really well -- it's perhaps better compared to Diablo than anything else.

I would kill for them to redo Final Liberation, with all the races.

Well, with a certain amount of playing with computer settings (Most notably a few settings in the NVidia control panel) I do seem to have scrapped together a fair amount of performance. Both games now much, much better, but still not as good as the demos.

I have ordered ut on your recomendation..

For a tenner from Play, you would be mental to refuse it. Or have a Mac. Actually my first statement fits that scenario too.

My Macbook plays DoW2 alright, although not great.

And if there are any PC gamers out there who still don't have Trials 2 : Second Edition, or, haven't even played the completely free demo, free of DRM and all that shit then you deserve to be hunted down and slapped with a large rotten kipper.

http://www.redlynxtrials.com/MediaDownloads.action

Further play on DoW2 (but without performance issues):



Certainly worth £10 in my book.

Toldyer.

I am all excited now....


Not getting Crysis yet as it is not cheap enough..

All I have to do now is persuade you into some co-op shenanigans.

Oi will! No voice chat though... OR! YES! XBOX chatting at the same time!

Using of course, 2nd xbox accounts.

I ("borrowed mine from my dad" -Ed.) and so immediately had Rush Hour. It's not quite proper 3D - I think all the stuff has to be built as proper 3D objects but it's not like the super swooshy 3D that suggests it would be.

At the same time, anyone remember the preview of Simcity 3? Full 3D! Watch crimes as they happen! Wow! And after that... nothing, and then Simcity 3000 was revealed as just nicer 2D in the end (and not very good)



Easy money, though, especially the bus driving missions.



I remember when TobyHiggins, TheEgg and several others all convened to have a LAN party. All our PCs hooked up together, let's rock.

We spent the entire afternoon patching and updating and installing the various mods and such that enabled our various copies of Unreal Tournament, Half-Life and Quake 3 to talk to each other. I think in about seven hours we played for maybe one and a half.

If we'd just switched the Xbox on we could have had seven hours of Halo.

Partly though, we could have been a lot more organised and done that in advance. And partly, Xbox Live isn't an always-working playground either. I've lost count of the number of times someone's voice doesn't work, or parties drop out, or there's voice echoes, or the host ends the CoD4 match after 15 seconds, or we lose people when going into the game lobby in CoD4, etc etc.

Everyone seems to have dads with cool games in this thread.

I haven't. It's 61.

Four player split screen is, which is what playing Halo in those days would have involved.

I aim to be a cool Dad

It's always good to have pipe dreams, I guess...

Four player split screen on a 28" CRT can get to fucking fuck. I like to be able to see what I'm doing.

Oh man, Goldeneye four-played ruled!

Yes, it would now. Back then it was amazing.

No, it always sucked. I can only just now tolerate splitscreen on my 40" HDTV.

Pfft.

My PCs have a minimum of two screens each, and over the years I've had three and even (briefly) four. Why on earth would I settle for 1/4 of standard def? Ever? 360x288, for pity's sake! My iPhone has more pixels than that!

Split screen was never ideal but it was just fun for a laugh with mates sometimes, whether or not it is lower resolution than a telephone is neither here nor there.

Except, clearly, it is.

Well if you never enjoyed playing Goldeneye or any other split screen games then I can't argue with that. Lots of us did, though.

ISWYDT.

I agree with markg. Again.

I certainly did. It was far from an ideal setup, but it was incredibly fun, and the best thing we could manage in that age.

Yup. I hate to think how many hours I logged on Goldeneye through university - it brought everyone together, even girls who didn't like any other games would have a laugh with Slappers Only or Rocket Launchers.

So the rumours that all Canadian girls are slappers is true.

I still do loads of split-screen co-op. If you can't see what's going on, you're clearly just rubbish.

ISWYDT.

I only met one Canadian girl at Cardiff University, and she never played Goldeneye with us.

Welsh, then.

All the girls in my residence were English.

Your accent brings all the girls to your residence.

English, then.

Cause damn right, it's better than yours, eh?

Sure. But is it as good as a system link? No way.

Aside: With the amount of co-op you do (and the amount you complain about the lack of split-screen), have you ever considered just getting another XBox? Oh wait, then you need two copies of the game...

I could teach you, but I'd have to charge 'cos Canadian Dollars are worth aboot fuck all, eh?

Usually due to router problems.In a LAN situation, it wouldn't happen.



Hardware misuse. See also: LAN situation.



i.e. CoD4 netcode is shit. See also: LAN situation.

My point is, my experience as a user of Live isn't all the everything's-wonderful picture it's often painted as. Whereas reinstalling Windows, Steam, and a number of computer games on my PC last week wasn't as hard as it's often painted as.