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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Niteowl on April 07, 2005, 08:52:44 AM

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Niteowl on April 07, 2005, 08:52:44 AM

for only 30 bucks CAD! They are being packaged together now, and hit Owlies Price Point of Dewm! So I might be AFK for a bit :D

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Malevolent on April 07, 2005, 10:51:54 AM

I hear Chaos Theory is hawt. I played Pandora Tomorrow's multiplayer and it is awesome.

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Post by: Mac on April 07, 2005, 11:24:54 AM

I played the first Splinter Cell for the GameCube. I was pretty into it for a while, but I think I got stuck at one point and just stopped playing. FPSers are better for PC, IMO (with the exception of Halo and Metroid Prime).

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Niteowl on April 07, 2005, 12:13:17 PM

Ah, yes, these are for the PC, so if anyone has them, and wants to do MP, lemme know!

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Necrosis on April 07, 2005, 12:21:33 PM

I got the first one with a mission pack for a good price, just waiting for PT to drop to my price point too, haha.


TBH I'm not enjoying the first one, but I feel honour bound to have to get all 3.

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Post by: Ubermaus on April 07, 2005, 12:33:46 PM

Have you played the CIA mission necro? That's the one that sold me on the first SC.

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Necrosis on April 07, 2005, 02:27:52 PM

I didn't get that far into it. Its just totally annoying.

For reference, I enjoy MGS and Hitman, so its not like I can't cope with stealth shooters.

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Post by: 2_of_8 on April 07, 2005, 02:31:04 PM

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I didn't get that far into it. Its just totally annoying.

For reference, I enjoy MGS and Hitman, so its not like I can't cope with stealth shooters.

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Ah... Hitman. One of my favourite games... like #4 or so. That was a great game!

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Post by: Legionnaired on April 07, 2005, 04:54:28 PM

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I didn't get that far into it. Its just totally annoying.

For reference, I enjoy MGS and Hitman, so its not like I can't cope with stealth shooters.

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If you haven't played Thief and Theif II, you don't deserve to call yourself a stealth fan.

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Post by: Manta on April 07, 2005, 07:13:03 PM

Chaos Theory is very fun on multiplayer. It solves some of the problems of PT's multiplayer by beefing up the mercs a bit (melee attack, camera network, etc.) while still adding new stuff to the spy's arsenal. Also, the map tutorials are great for newbies.

Also, I wouldn't call Splinter Cell a shooter in any case. Usually, you'll only enter firing mode when you're shooting out lights or when you're knocking out guards from a distance with sticky shockers/airfoils.

Overall, CT is pretty nice. Single player is fun, but a lot easier than the previous two, since you can easily knock out or kill a guard in one hit. Combine that with tricks such as bashing down doors, and you've got a pretty easy game on the default settings.

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Necrosis on April 07, 2005, 07:55:01 PM

Actually the only Thief game I don't have is Thief III. I have the Gold version of the original, and Thief II. However, I don't play either of them in the third person -so that why I don't count them for the purpose of this discussion.



On ANOTHER unrelated note, perhaps I'll get the third one at christmas... no pressing rush to buy it.

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Post by: Evangelion_2 on April 08, 2005, 04:16:46 PM

I made the mistake of renting the wrong version of SC CT. The playstation 2 version is so horrible. The grahpics are weak and the fps is unstable and the levels are even changed into sections cause it can't handle the maps. I stopped playing it about half way through the first level. Now I did play the xbox demo and that was really good but this was such a let down. -_-

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Malevolent on April 08, 2005, 05:26:50 PM

Yeah, that happens a lot with the PS2, but what can you do? The GameCube one doesn't look that great from screens that I have seen, but it might be a little better than the PS2 version. Of course Xbox is always better looking than them. But why even consider the console when it plays excellent on PC and has the best graphics?

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Necrosis on April 08, 2005, 06:38:53 PM

I generally don't see the point of most PC->Console ports.

I mean the PC version has a chance of getting modded, customised, patched, updated, added maps, etc etc.

The console version.......... doesnt.

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Post by: Manta on April 08, 2005, 07:27:51 PM

Actually, it does have a chance if you own the XBox copy (me), but you have to pay fifty dollars per year for Live service. You can download updates and content, all that.

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Post by: Necrosis on April 08, 2005, 08:18:00 PM

I don't believe XBox Live helps you make/test your own custom content tho. So much tweaking you can do with configs and save files and simple model swaps thats easy on the PC but not so with the console.

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Post by: Loke The Sleek Peruvian on April 08, 2005, 08:18:48 PM

Have you guys tried Minesweeper?

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Post by: Necrosis on April 08, 2005, 10:03:02 PM

8 seconds ftw.

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Post by: A Boojum Snark on April 08, 2005, 11:20:46 PM

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8 seconds ftw.

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Pffffff, I pwn you.

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Post by: Condizzle on April 09, 2005, 12:39:52 AM

You were saying what ABS?

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Post by: A Boojum Snark on April 09, 2005, 12:57:05 AM

Blatent cheating, says I. Bant.

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Diablus on April 09, 2005, 04:44:19 AM

Let's lynch him first before banning!!!

*angry mob forms*

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: Ubermaus on April 10, 2005, 01:07:34 PM

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You were saying what ABS?

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Should have made the smiley into one of these tbh: :p

Title: I GOT MESELF ONE OF DEM NEW GAMES!
Post by: BlaqWolf on April 10, 2005, 05:20:06 PM

i never really liked SP cuz i was never that into the whole stealthy thing... i played SPPT because the multiplayer was a freakin blast (four player lan ftw).

chaos theory, however, is hot. they added so many sweet awesome moves to the single player that it makes you feel like a complete ninja  :ph34r: . then, when you're done with single player, you can move on to the coop (which as we all know, ANY sort of gameplay is boosted 98787765 points when it's coop), which is really cool with all the coop moves you can do with eachother, including timing certain attacks or totally owning a group of 4 terrorists with ambushes. and after all that, you can move on to versus, which is even sweeter than the versus in SPPT because they added so much.

in short, you should get chaos theory when you're done with the first two. i really like it.

no, i LOVE IT  <3