Thread: Any Gamers amongst us?

I'll check out ATV Offroad. The last game I played like that was... MX vs ATV or some such. I really like using my wheel and pedals, but for ATV or motorcycle I revert to the keyboard. I'm actually looking forward to when the weather cools off so I can play the new NFS Hot Pursuit. I'm not even going to bother finishing Dirt3; I cannot stand the Gymkana or whatever it is, and I really miss HillClimb. I would rather replay Dirt2, especially with the low grip/weak brake mod. That made it SO much more fun.

Also, has anyone played Metro 2033 and, if so, what did you think of it? I've been meaning to, but got back into Combat Arms instead, and I don't like to jump between shooters.

At the moment I mostly play "Magicka". Great game with a simple concept but soo much variation in the way that it can be played. I play mostly singleplayer.

I'm also waiting for "Space Marine" to come out sometime in the near future but might delay purchase untill the price drops.

Another favourite of mine is Left4Dead 2 I play it with my little brother every now and then. He comes over, I fire up the laptop and we have some co-op zombie blasting fun.

I've also always been a big fan of the UNREAL Tournament games. I own all of them.

Wow! Unreal Tournament just brought back memories! Good stuff.

Originally Posted by FacialDirt

Wow! Unreal Tournament just brought back memories! Good stuff.

I used to love UT, too, but the original Unreal is actually one of my top 10 favourites. Fantastic music, level design, a pretty good backstory if you read everything along the way and the graphics have aged better than anything else I know of.

Originally Posted by MickRussell

Heh, since you don't know I'll tell you.
My network consists of five desktop machines (one running, one cofigured with a custom OS for my Uni exercises, the PPro 200 for the hell of it and two dual socket Xeon machines shoe horned into min tower cases), two laptops, my proxy server (another dual socket Xeon that handles web caching, DNS forwarding, content filtering and in-line virus scanning) and two other headless machines I power up for specific jobs (dual core Opterons). Aside from the laptops, every machine is built with salvaged or donated parts, some almost completely. Currently four of those machines run 24/7 doing humanitarian research, all of which are running customised linux distributions, as are most of the rest excluding the PPro and one laptop which belongs to the wife.
You could say I'm not exactly a typical home user.

Impressive!

Your best one is eons ahead of mine.

But my worst one is way worse than yours.

My best one:

WinXP
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
4200+
2.20 GHz 2GB RAM
NVIDIA 8800GT

I hope to upgrade sometime this year, but to date I seem to be able to play everything I want to play... and provide a secure wireless connection to two apartments in my building... supply us all with Netflix HD programming on their own accounts and beat up on teenagers when they avail themselves to an old man with more experience.

They're never happy when they learn they've been pwnzrd by a guy that could be their grandfather...

Life is good...

Looks like a solid rig to me. That's pretty close to the machine that I run and it does just fine on most games.

Has anyone played Dear Esther? Anyone who hasn't should check it out. Less of a game and more a piece of art, compares to most games the way an indie art film compares to a summer blockbuster. Not for everyone, but I find it haunting and beautiful.

It's a free mod for Half-Life 2, by the way. Supposedly being released on it's own this year (although I'm not sure why) with a major graphical upgrade.

So this isn't exactly a game related note bit I figured some of you fellows might be interested...
I've got two invites to the Google music beta. I just installed it tonight and started uploading my music collection. I installed the app to my phone and listened to a couple songs via WiFi. Seems pretty neat. I'll give it a good test at work tomorrow. If you want DB invite PM me and i'll get the invites sent out tomorrow morning.

How on earth did I miss out on a gaming thread!

I'm not much of a consol person but I do have a ps3. I'm more into the PC gaming and I have one beast of pc to run them

My wife doesn't like me tying up the computer all night so my gaming is mostly on XBox 360. I'm not really that much into online FPS games which are most of what comes out, but do like a few now and then - currently I'm waiting for Gears of War 3 to release in about two weeks and I sometimes play CoD against my wife's brother in Florida, just private games.