The Gaming Thread

[Belac]

Well Red Faction Guerrilla was not really a great game, but like the rest of the series my main draw was the destruction. It was an average game in storytelling and actual presentation but the detail of the destruction made it awesome for me. I will play any game that allows me to either obliterate a building in one go, or slowly dismantle it with timed charges.

Add on top that there was a kickass jetpack and the nano-cannon that eats everything it shoots including people. I felt I got my money's worth. Also with mods you can regenerate everything you destroy so you can BLOW IT UP AGAIN!! Hexwind would have loved this game.

Oh and I forgot to mention the Hammer! You can smash through everything in the game with a hammer that makes Thor jealous, and it's your starting weapon. On Sale I'd recommend it if you like blowing shit up. But if you didn't find that part of Red Faction to be your main draw then you might find it average.

 

[isolation_years]

i dont remember anything in red faction other than never needing a key cause i could just bust through walls

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Harddrive is dead. Corrupted and damaged. Worst part is, it is most certainly my own fault. Had security essentials firewall down for x reason around a month ago late at night and aparrently forgot to reinstate it...seeing as I always turn it right back on immediately, I never bothered to check and ensure it was the case. Caught some malicious poo. Tore shit up.

 

[isolation_years]

man thats awful. hope you can at least salvage the data



ill keep you in my computer prayers

 

[xX M i A s M a]

I'm going to run a scan right now in memoriam of your hard drive.

 

[RickGSF]

I enjoy my Time Machine on my mac.

Saved my ass a few times.

 

[isolation_years]

i love everything about macs except their (sometimes) lack of support for games.

it would be nice to have a PC that you know.......runs consistantly

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

This pc has been consistent, this was my bad, all the way. Would of time machined but it didnt matter, the malicious software in question caused physical dmg to the harddrive.

All in all the majority of stuff of importance is saved in back up in the cloud. My music is all up in google music, etc. I'll have to reinstall games which is always fun, but oh well

 

[DarkGift]

would have

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

would have

Tell me when I'm not hastily typing in things on my phone.

 

[Belac]

i love everything about macs except their (sometimes) lack of support for games.

it would be nice to have a PC that you know.......runs consistantly

PC runs consistently as long as you're not a retard (or forgetful like Jason ) and download files called "JessicaAlbahardcorePronfuckstranny.exe".

Honestly I'm so tired of people using the "virus" claim against PC's, especially when the root cause is Mac's lack of popularity. Firstly, PC users are far more common so there is a larger ratio of stupid people downloading suspicious files. Secondly Mac's are far less popular in both consumer and especially business worlds so they are not a worthwhile target.

As Mac's become more popular more malicious software is showing up more frequently, because now Mac's are becoming a viable target. When a nasty peice of malware comes along people with Macs don't know what to do about it, like that big one not long ago that infected like 600,000 Macs in America.

If Apples computers ever become the choice of businesses and consumers they will become just as big a target. Apple security isn't special, it's barely had any real experience.

I have not had an anti-virus in about 8-9 years, and I've had two or three noticeable viruses/malicious shit, and only one required a backup/format. I could have rolled back to an earlier date if I wanted but I love a nice clean format. That's called watching what you do. Would you chug a bottle of liquid you found without reading what was in it?

Plus.. GAMES!!!!

PS - Do you think that filename I made up will draw strange traffic to this page?

 

[DarkGift]

word caleb

also, strange traffic is already here, and has been so for the last couple of years

 

[xX M i A s M a]

PC runs consistently as long as you're not a retard (or forgetful like Jason ) and download files called "JessicaAlbahardcorePronfuckstranny.exe".

Honestly I'm so tired of people using the "virus" claim against PC's, especially when the root cause is Mac's lack of popularity. Firstly, PC users are far more common so there is a larger ratio of stupid people downloading suspicious files. Secondly Mac's are far less popular in both consumer and especially business worlds so they are not a worthwhile target.

As Mac's become more popular more malicious software is showing up more frequently, because now Mac's are becoming a viable target. When a nasty peice of malware comes along people with Macs don't know what to do about it, like that big one not long ago that infected like 600,000 Macs in America.

If Apples computers ever become the choice of businesses and consumers they will become just as big a target. Apple security isn't special, it's barely had any real experience.

I have not had an anti-virus in about 8-9 years, and I've had two or three noticeable viruses/malicious shit, and only one required a backup/format. I could have rolled back to an earlier date if I wanted but I love a nice clean format. That's called watching what you do. Would you chug a bottle of liquid you found without reading what was in it?

Plus.. GAMES!!!!

PS - Do you think that filename I made up will draw strange traffic to this page?

No shit. PC users make up about 70% of the market, statistically it doesn't make sense to write viruses or malicious content for Mac.

But mac users are generally so far up their own ass that they wouldn't know what to do if they did catch something. I'm sure my friend would just run in a circle screaming "MY INFALLIBLE MACHINE IS BROKEN!?!?!"

 

[isolation_years]

we had this conversation already. and yeah, my pc is steller, never had a virus (i just stream porn, fuck it, i can wait for it to load). i think qth also agrees


windows however, can be frusterating . i can find out how to change my desktop background in a second, they made it nice and obvious. but if i need to change the maximum frequency output of my sound card, its buried under about 60 million tabs because you will never need it unless you run into an old game that fucks up unless its set to 44khz

that data may not be all accurate, i just remember last month i had a game where the sound was all messed up, and the fix was like oh just turn this down. looked around for it for like 15 minutes before i just googled it

 

[isolation_years]

! and yes, caleb we will have new users every day now


also, i have never formatted my PC. can anyone tell me about this? i have been curious about it for a while, hearing it's a good way to improve performance. i have all my steam games on its own harddrive, so that is not really an issue. all i have on my main HD is music and documents for school. i could probably borrow an external harddrive from a friend.

i guess my question is, is it worth it to do this, and how difficult is it?

 

[vikk]

! and yes, caleb we will have new users every day now


also, i have never formatted my PC. can anyone tell me about this? i have been curious about it for a while, hearing it's a good way to improve performance. i have all my steam games on its own harddrive, so that is not really an issue. all i have on my main HD is music and documents for school. i could probably borrow an external harddrive from a friend.

i guess my question is, is it worth it to do this, and how difficult is it?

If you install and uninstall lots of shit, it might be a good idea to format, often programs/games left files on windows that are useless.

formating is pretty much like any installation Next > Next > Next.... etc (just make sure sure you choose the correct HD to install the Windows)

and make sure you have the computer drivers at hand before formating.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

! and yes, caleb we will have new users every day now


also, i have never formatted my PC. can anyone tell me about this? i have been curious about it for a while, hearing it's a good way to improve performance. i have all my steam games on its own harddrive, so that is not really an issue. all i have on my main HD is music and documents for school. i could probably borrow an external harddrive from a friend.

i guess my question is, is it worth it to do this, and how difficult is it?

It isn't as important as it once was, with modern hardware. A decade ago, pc gamers should ideally completely reformat their pc every year to keep peak performance. It still helps obviously, but rarely is it an answer to fixing performance problems anymore ( unless you're suffering from viruses / spyware that aren't so easily resolved). If you just do weekly scans for disc clean up and the ever so occasional disc defrag when you have gone through a vast, changing file history it is largely unneeded these days.

 

[isolation_years]

i usually do windows cleanup, and i defrag it now and again

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Then you shouldn't have to worry unless you're experiencing performance issues.

 

[DarkGift]

i don't remember the last time i did a defrag tbh