I only torrented one game, and the cd key generator that came with it had a virus attached. So I didn't do that again. Needed the cd key to play online. But I used to:

i always experience something like that. thats why before i download anything i browse user comments if the file is legit. i am currently killing my time playing Empire: Total war, and it is just downloaded!

Here is a moderately interesting interview on the guy that was used as a consultant, and the lead character in the soldier of fortune games.

http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/interviews/mullins_a.shtm

I'm really suprised the first 2 are not on any top fps of all time lists. It was the first shooter that allowed you to blow arms legs and heads off, shoot people in the neck foot croth etc and they acted realisticly. It was great fun >< and they claim on wikipedia it still has a strong online gameplay following.

I really used to enjoy the simulated war games that take a week to do anything (lol) but I just don't seem to have the patience anymore. I barely got through the last command and conquer campaign. I want to play sins of a solar empire, I bought it..and never got past the tutorial /yawwwwwwn

Some games, like this aliens vs predator I got, annoy the shit out of me at the end. It's fun and all then at the very end it changes, you have to jump around like mad on some tiles surrounded by lava, shoot and jump and run, it's annoying. A lot of games do that though.

Well we differ on the dungeon games, I am enjoying Risen immensely. It's pretty hard to play for a rpg though, the combat is tricky. I don't know if it is really a dungeon crawl game actually, I guess it is kind of an fps rpg. But there are dungeons!

I'm hoping some others here will play apb when it comes out and we can start an atheist gang LOL. Actually it would be more fitting to play on the law enforcement side I suppose, hmm.

Yea, the storyline wasn't all that awesome but the way it played (besides just the gore) was fun for it's time too. Shame they borked part 3, total bug fest.

I remember the long nights on goldeneye, shooting people in the feet on purpose, lol. Awesome goldeneye vid here:

Maybe you have seen this one already, but certainly it fits this thread.  

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/04/12/wal-mart-expanding-christian-games-sales

ya hearin that funny sound @ the first page? wheres that coming from? LOL

I though after I posted that this thread would completely stop and everyone would just play frogger. Trying to get the high score and unlock the secret level. Instead everybody started talking about lame ass bullshit that nobody wants to play. So now we see who are the gamers and who are the...

Uh oh, what is it boy? Trouble? Trouble at the old mill?

There are many stupid games out there. Games that test 'reflexes' and (so-called) 'skill' do little else but score a player's ability to exploit and (sometimes!) even hack into the game's executable file. MMORPGS practically do the same, although instead of 'reflexes' and 'skill', they test willingness to invest time. And some actual money, meaning bids on Ebay! I don't care what Answers says about this; it is infinitely more rewarding to start a game up with all the nice toys then to simply GRIND your way there, during which you may not have the first clue wtf your doing NOR will you necessarily be having fun "grinding" your way to the top. And unless any of you have played UO (from 97-98), Dark Sun Online, NWN via AOL, or Telnet MUDs (all from mid-90s)...

...I dare suggest I have a good bit more experience with Online Gaming than most of you.

Once you get in to the competitive realms... it is STRICTLY about "e-penis" length; nothing else. (Not unlike many other things on the internet...) It caters almost EXCLUSIVELY to the 15-35 male audience with nearly every release, and the further back in chronology you go with Online Gaming... the more readily apparent this becomes. Very little effort has been made on behalf of Game Developers to keep the "prats" of Online Gaming from playing with the "non-prats".

(Props to Lum_the_mad AKA Scott Jennings for the phrases I've used previously)

This means grief players and opportunistic PKs are given broad reign over 'unsafe gaming area'. Let's also not forget how many whiners there are in online gaming, as well. Nobody's being paid to listen to everyone's BMGing, but the youngest audience of online, subscription-based players... don't seem to give a shit. NOW....

...<rant="off">

The only "fun" games for me have been of the "Sandbox" variety... open, nonlinear game environs that don't "rail" a player into 'two or three choices' at any major structural turn-point in the gameplay, and naturally, the game's design in general.

Iwbiek, B166ER, Magus and Normunglisted some interesting choices for favorite computer games.(I love the classics, myself) These games were, in fact, Sandbox type games, like:

Sim City, Caesar, Civilization, Colonization, Capitalism, Settlers, Seven Kingdoms, King's Bounty/Heroes of Might & Magic, The Sims, Masters of Orion, Galactic Civilizations, Oblivion, Second Life, Gaia Online.... and of course, SPORE are essentially  Sandbox Games. You decide how to master the challenges presented by these titles, for the most part. And for a few assorted screenies from the games I like to play:

I wish someone had been there to tell me "DON'T DO IT!" back when I got interested in playing classic Everquest. What a hurdle that game was on release... @verant.

Spot on with  mmorpgers.  But they can be fun playing with friends, but other than that .....

Im going to have to butt in here.... spore? really? Look I was expecting the world from that game and it was just a huge let down. Dancing to make friends? the hell man... what the hell. Those begining stages  needed to be better thought out. It felt like playing a kidies game until the space age and then it turned into a single player mmorpger, just grinding making and taking planets, the same procesess over and over. It could of been great but needed to be thought out more. Now if the civilisation stage had been like the actual game civilisation and the space age just as awesome. it would of won best game ever ever in my books. But it feels like 5 badly made games stuck together. But maybe its because I built it up to much in my mind that is why i didnt like it.

But for the most part I agree sandbox games generally the most fun. Although I do like a good old fashioned go there and kill everything game now and then.

I enjoyed leveling characters in WoW. To an extent it did take a bit of skill to pvp in wow. Of course some classes were easier, but try face rolling for real and see if you actually win, lol. But I will agree it is MOSTLY a timesink. I enjoyed my time playing WoW, and then I enjoyed $350.00 when I sold my account, I pretty much got all the money back I had invested and got to enjoy the game for over 2 years. I have a lvl 47 and a few lvl 30's on aion, kinda thinking about selling that, I wonder if it's worth anything ><

But as far as levelling on a mmo..the original EQ was freakin fun, well untill you got to 50, then it became a lame ass grindfest, camping a spot for hours on end killing the same mobs over and over and over .....But then again I had a couple of friends playing with me. I remember once when we were n00bs I spotted a griffon, told my friend "check this out" he gets close and asks, "will it kill us?" and about that time, smack, he died. I got a ss and laughed my ass off and torment him to this day about it. Good times. No mmo since has captured the fun and drawn me in like that one did. A few have come close, at least pvp wise, EQ pvp suk'd.

I played ao off an on, I had an adventurer, I think I got him to lvl 112 or some such. I still think leets were a good idea and may yet buy a stuffed one on ebay lol.

The sheer amount of stuff in ao is amazing, though I still got bored of it. Choppy laggy game even on a good system.

edit: actually I have played most of the well known mmo's, I never played daoc, prolly the biggest one I never tried. I have played them since the pre trammel days of UO.

Another words... TDS's account is linked to more than 1 individual.

Any BIG gamers here, with expensive rigs? I'm just usin a 289$ compaq with a vid card that is almost as big as a toaster lawl it barely fits, 4 gigs of ddr3, athalon2 x2 240. Vid card is the nvidia geforce 260 o/c. The comp is cheap and I wouldn't reccomend this model, I didn't even realize it has no media slots and no jack for an extra harddrive, but I guess thats what ya get for 289$. It did come w/ windows 7 64 bit. Seems ok but I was actually happy w/ xp as far as gaming goes.

I have a friend that has a relatively new alienware, but my cheap ass comp seems to play games as good as his 1500$ thing.

Vista home edition? ugh I heard it was pretty bad.

It sounds like a setup I had, I ran crysis on a rig like that, it ran fine till it started snowing on the island, then it chop chop chopped out.

Just get a couple more gigs of RAM and a new video card and you'd be set for a while IMO. Also, I'm loving Win7! And your processor is better than mine!

Im currently playing assassins creed. anyone here played that?

it has an interesting plot by the way. they were talking about a "piece of eden" in which if obtained can give you anything you want.

it is said in the game that the creation story, the flood, and the bible were only believed by people because a person who once possessed a piece of eden wanted

the story to work out that way. the game had a knack on religion so it was pretty interesting. the piece of eden deludes people!

... wait... assassins creed has a plot? i thought you're just supposed to run around slitting the throats of crusaders and beating the crap out of beggars o_O

assassins creed 2 fixes that. they make u play as an itailian that cares more about style than anything else. really what amour has flair collars and that many stylish   little extras.

assassins creed 2 to is exeilent though. assassins creed 1 one really sucks in comparsion. The first one really doesn't have that much of a story more of a go there and kill him because i said so type vibe. The second game impressed me, the length is exeilent, the story, well they did there best to rescue it from the first game and did a decent job. gameplay much the same as the first with a few improvements.

a little spioler

And my fav part in the second game you kill the pope. fantastic. except that you don't

well yeah i found it suprising too. then i realized thats why theres this warning before you play the game that it was developed by people of different religions and beliefs to avoid angry ass criticisms about the game.

Trust me on this the second they fix 90% of the problems of the first game. And imo really don't create any new ones.

The gameplay in the first was always the best thing for me, but it got repetetive after abit. The rest of the game was just lame, there werent enough assassinations, you had to do random meaningless tasks between them that were boring etc etc etc. The second game makes those random meaningless tasks and makes them optional. They introduce a money system were you have to buy and upgrade weapons and amour (and don't make it so you have to spend all your time getting money). In the first game there is like 5 assassination in the third there are closer to 20 and there is more of a story., the combat is improved but still too easy and the runny jumpy climby bits are just as good. you get some really cool new weapons which spice up the gameplay. if you played the first and thought it was good i cannot see how you wouldn't love the second. I thought the first was ok but the second really impressed me.