june gloom on 20/4/2010 at 01:27
Whatever, man. You're welcome to think that if you want.
gunsmoke on 20/4/2010 at 02:18
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Whatever, man. You're welcome to think that if you want.
dethtoll, you didn't deserve all of this 'attention' your comment made. You seem to be a target of sorts these days.
june gloom on 20/4/2010 at 04:14
Yeah, nothing new there.
gunsmoke on 20/4/2010 at 04:54
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Yeah, nothing new there.
Agreed.
Sulphur on 20/4/2010 at 07:10
It's just dethy's (gloriously cuss-filled) past catching up with him. A bit late in the day, considering dethy's left most of that behind for a while now. Does everybody need to take all this internetting that seriously?
Vivian on 20/4/2010 at 08:51
Hey guys! Extreme views are about things like making non-believers explode and the free market, not about fallout 3.
PS I heard dethtoll hates children, and can't look puppies in the eye
Muzman on 20/4/2010 at 23:47
I note that an Xcom thread has been largely derailed into a shit fight over whether Fall Out 3 is any good, even though 2K are involved and 2kLiz has shown up to say hi.
This is some sort of progress.
nicked on 21/4/2010 at 05:47
Well, to get almost back on topic, a friend of mine just bought UFO: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep (on steam I think) - brought back all the wonderful memories.
Of course, there's the small issue of none of the buttons in-game having labels, just blurry pictures, so I promised I'd dig out my old manual for him. And it's sitting in front of me now - 128 pages of retro manual goodness (so old the edges crumble in my hands).
It says that it requires an IBM PC AT or a computer 100% compatible with this model! It also requires at least an 80386 processor and a minimum of 2Mb RAM, a mouse and keyboard (!), a colour monitor with a VGA graphics system, 12Mb of free space, and Microsoft MS-DOS version 5.0 or higher.
Sadly I'm not sure I can afford such a high-spec machine or I'd no doubt be playing it myself now...
There's also some hilarious hand-written strategies in the back, written by my ~13-yr-old self in green felt tip.
Vivian on 21/4/2010 at 08:51
Got TFTD off steam recently as well, and I would say:
It's fucking great.
The graphics are so stylised they've aged really pretty well.
It's HARD and it's nerve-wracking. You know that sniper bit in The Hurt Locker? Expect at lot of that as your favorite sharp shooter hides behind a tree and tries to find the tasoth steadily reducing his cover to ash, turn by hair-pulling turn. (Then the mongoloid type you put on heavy duty because of his strength stat gets put under molecular control and nukes everyone anyway).
It's very complicated.
It's totally engrossing.
Basically, it's better than most games that come out these days, and it was designed for computers that look hand-cranked compared to my goddamn PHONE. I don't want to sound like a luddite, but where's the 15 years worth of progress?
PS 2K person didn't show up to say Hi, they showed up to do grass roots advertising or whatever the fuck shady corporate robots mistake for talking to people
