Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[FourbangerYJ]

My son is hooked on Plants VS. Zombies.

[chardrc]

if found that l4d1.5 gets annoying. the swarms keep on coming which isn't al bad. but there is always that one zombie that is clawing at your back slowing you down that you don't see until you have turned around 1.5 times... ive found it to be way easier in single player than online thow as Ive yet to get a real good set of teammates..

[Jeffy]

if found that l4d1.5 gets annoying. the swarms keep on coming which isn't al bad. but there is always that one zombie that is clawing at your back slowing you down that you don't see until you have turned around 1.5 times... ive found it to be way easier in single player than online thow as Ive yet to get a real good set of teammates..

Yeah, I've cleared what's in front of me to find that one is chewing on my leg and my health is dropping fast.  It's a limitation of having a monitor and not being able to see a true 180*.  I'll keep playing and maybe my nephew will get it for PC.  Although I think he's going to like ArmA since he's into FPS's and more so into wanting to learn how to make missions.  I wish it was sold as an addon to L4D so you can play the combined series instead of having to start up a new game if you want to switch.

[chrisfranklin]

I was looking around for a well-reviewed game that might give my desktop a decent workout.  I picked up Battlefield Bad Company 2 since the reviews were pretty good.   

I've been playing it multiplayer, so I don't know who I am playing with.  But the gameplay is basically COD meets Beirut or former Soviet republics or conflict areas near the equator in the 21st century. 

Overall pretty good, graphic detail and audio is superb, with the resolution at 1900x1200 you start thinking you are looking at CNN footage or something.  A little disappointed with the  game play in terms of what it takes to kill an enemy.  You can dump all these rifle rounds in to an opponent at point blank range -- every player has some kind of body armor -- and it doesn't even slow the guy down.  Finally dies if he takes enough hits -- seems like enough to take out an army. 

But a decent game once you get used to the limits.

[chardrc]

i preordered bc2 so i got to play the bata. i love the destructible environment stuff. fun gameplay (online) as long as you get on a balanced team that will work together. i gave it up for lent so haven't played the full version more than installing and opening to make sure the full version worked on my computer (i have been having vary bad luck with ea customer service (they garinty a response in 24 hours and it took them a week to reply let alone being useless )and wish i had gotten it through steam)

[chrisfranklin]

What you are talking about chard with EA sounds like my deal with DVD/Blu Ray playback software.  

I was laughing, impressed with the realism driving the hummers and quads in BC2.  You can drive the hummers up over rocks at pretty steep side angles.  

Had this one game where I was driving a quad and a dude on the other team was on one on the same road going the opposite direction.  He sees me coming and it looks like its going to be head-on.  He slows down before we contact and jumps off so he can start shooting and I just keep speeding past and get this text saying something like -- enemy kill +50.  I guess the game had him jump off right in front of me     That must have pissed him off

[chrisfranklin]

And like you were saying about teams, the side that is coordinated has a huge edge over the opponent. 

[bammerman]

I have found the holy grail of PS3 shooter games and it is BC2!

[jfrabat]

Anyone try God of War III?

[bammerman]

Yeah it seems pretty fun, haven't gotten to far into it yet.

[chardrc]

any one play battlefield heros.. it s the free online battlefield game.. kinda reminds me of TF2 with its graphics but not a fun.. but having vehicles and considering that it is free makes up for its short comings. ive been getting more into heros as i wait for Easter to come so i can play bc2..

[chrisfranklin]

Let me know your username when you start playing BC2 Chard.  I've been going by "resort security."  We should put a group together.  

[chardrc]

ill be starting bc2 on Sunday most likely.. i think my user name is chardrc.. or chard... 1 of the 2...

[chrisfranklin]

Not to jack the thread, but with BC2, I think EA is still working out the game's kinks.  

When multi-player you tend to have too many snipers (the sniper rifles, the pump shot-gun, and the 40mm grenade are one-shot, one-kill or close to it).  

People seem to select recon/sniper since it can start to piss you off emptying a clip from an assault rifle at close range in to an enemy without killing him.  The guns available as you progress are significantly higher powered -- I've been offed in short order by more than a few higher ranking enemies with M60s

This kind of rolls in to my argument implied by my last few posts that the rifles you have access to in the lower ranks are underpowered as they stand.  

And then you get in to the punkbuster issue and heck-knows how many cheats there are for the game.  I've long since started playing solely on servers with Punkbuster in effect.  

[bammerman]

Is the pump the first one?  I have pointblank shot a guy up to 3 times to make them die. I do agree with the snipers though on team Deathmatch.  To counter that though the 40m doesn't work if they are to close - you commite suicide or it doesn't explode and the shotgun has no range whatso ever so if you are in range (50yards) they should pretty much die on impact.  With the sniper I have had to shoot them many of times to get them to die.  If you hit them in the head though it is a 1 shot but same goes with all the others I have noticed.  Just harder without a scope.  I have been working on my assault and am about to get my red dot (FINALLY!) I am normally a medic but it is maxed.

Now are you playing on PC since you are using punkbuster?  I haven't heard of anyway to install that on a ps3