Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[chrisfranklin]

Betting that Castro's people are actually getting kick-backs from EA for the publicity.  Castro himself has probably had a copy of the game since earlier this year and is probably the top guy, world-wide in Black-Ops multiplayer   

[TrailsLessTaken]

I just cant picture castro sitting around playing video games but then again you never know 

[chrisfranklin]

Been playing Dirt 2 on PC now for a few months and have about 60 hours clocked on it.  I see Amazon's selling downloads of it for 10 bucks these days http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20019047-58.html  (price drop probably due to upcoming Dirt 3 release). 

Never have gotten the steering and other settings dialed in like i'd want and I've messed with every combination and combed the forums looking for answers on it repeatedly.   Probably going to move on to Dirt 3 if the reviews are decent (kind of hoping any kinks in Dirt 2 will have been worked out in the third release)

[sharpxmen]

Been playing Dirt 2 on PC now for a few months and have about 60 hours clocked on it.  I see Amazon's selling downloads of it for 10 bucks these days http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20019047-58.html  (price drop probably due to upcoming Dirt 3 release). 

Never have gotten the steering and other settings dialed in like i'd want and I've messed with every combination and combed the forums looking for answers on it repeatedly.   Probably going to move on to Dirt 3 if the reviews are decent (kind of hoping any kinks in Dirt 2 will have been worked out in the third release)

i got it off Steam for 19.99 - is downloading now (it's 10GB), i hope to get it working tonight with my triple-head setup

I also ordered black-ops online from BestBuy (that will come in the mail) - not cheaper than Steam version but I had a $50 gift card i was trying to use for a while

Anyone got F1 2010?

[aka-justin]

I just bought some classics recently. Game Boy Pocket, Gameboy games Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2, Tetris, Ms. Pac-man, and Super Off Road.  Re-living a little bit of my childhood.  The Game boy was a thrift store find and the games I picked up at eStarland.com. 

[sharpxmen]

ok, so i received COD Black Ops - installed it and it hangs right passed the intro, no errors or anything just no go. I am running XP. that sucks. Could be my NVidia drivers since they are a bit old so i'll try that next.

[lqdtrance]

I have black ops for 360. Got it the night it came out. Started the game and got halfway but then started playing multiplayer online. Anyone else have a 360?

[sharpxmen]

i updated to latest NVidia drivers and the game freezes in the same spot (right after him saying they went in Cuba to kill Castro), so i didn't get to play at all. Read some posts out there that there are other guys having the same issue. Didn't get to play any of it, waste of money so far (and time). oh well...

[Jeffy]

I installed Resident Evil 5 but haven't played it yet.  I uninstalled Fallout New Vegas.  Something's up with my Dirt2 download so I've got to do that one over again.  It's not wanting to extract.

[sharpxmen]

I installed Resident Evil 5 but haven't played it yet.  I uninstalled Fallout New Vegas.  Something's up with my Dirt2 download so I've got to do that one over again.  It's not wanting to extract.

is it the Dirt2 Demo - i had an issue with it on Steam, got it directly off the Codemasters server and worked. I bought the full version from Steam and that works no problem though, you might be able to register the game with steam if you have the key (if that's not the way you are getting it).

[Jeffy]

is it the Dirt2 Demo - i had an issue with it on Steam, got it directly off the Codemasters server and worked. I bought the full version from Steam and that works no problem though, you might be able to register the game with steam if you have the key (if that's not the way you are getting it).

Nope full version.  I think it got corrupt.

[Jeffy]

Got it installed.  Kinda lame that they force you to create a MS Live account.

Did my first lap.  Couldn't figure out the brakes but still got 1st.  Was pretty crappy run.  Cars all screwed up.  Wow, they really dumbed down everything in Dirt2.  You can't change any settings on the cars.  No brake bias, no gearing, no bound or rebound.  You get stupid dash trinkets though!  The game looks great and I like how they have you driving Colin's STi.  Too bad his Xgames car was a different color.  The Baja race is still hokey.  I don't like how they have the Mitsubishi Dakar truck mixed in with the Dakar H2, some Toyota FJ Cruiser and a Dakar Bowler.  Oh and then I'm driving a lifted Dodge Ram 4x4 for some reason.

Still even though it's dumbed down it's still fun.  It's a lot more arcade/ Sega Rally and less technical.

[sharpxmen]

Got it installed.  Kinda lame that they force you to create a MS Live account.

Did my first lap.  Couldn't figure out the brakes but still got 1st.  Was pretty crappy run.  Cars all screwed up.  Wow, they really dumbed down everything in Dirt2.  You can't change any settings on the cars.  No brake bias, no gearing, no bound or rebound.  You get stupid dash trinkets though!  The game looks great and I like how they have you driving Colin's STi.  Too bad his Xgames car was a different color.  The Baja race is still hokey.  I don't like how they have the Mitsubishi Dakar truck mixed in with the Dakar H2, some Toyota FJ Cruiser and a Dakar Bowler.  Oh and then I'm driving a lifted Dodge Ram 4x4 for some reason.

Still even though it's dumbed down it's still fun.  It's a lot more arcade/ Sega Rally and less technical.

there's a setting somewhere in the XML config file where I think you can turn car tweaks on but i didn't play with it yet - had to turn on full screen back as for some stupid reason i couldn't do it from the game. the config is under My Documents/My games/Dirt2... something like that.

[chrisfranklin]

Got it installed.  Kinda lame that they force you to create a MS Live account.

Did my first lap.  Couldn't figure out the brakes but still got 1st.  Was pretty crappy run.  Cars all screwed up.  Wow, they really dumbed down everything in Dirt2.  You can't change any settings on the cars.  No brake bias, no gearing, no bound or rebound.  You get stupid dash trinkets though!  The game looks great and I like how they have you driving Colin's STi.  Too bad his Xgames car was a different color.  The Baja race is still hokey.  I don't like how they have the Mitsubishi Dakar truck mixed in with the Dakar H2, some Toyota FJ Cruiser and a Dakar Bowler.  Oh and then I'm driving a lifted Dodge Ram 4x4 for some reason.

Still even though it's dumbed down it's still fun.  It's a lot more arcade/ Sega Rally and less technical.

You probably found the menus already but -- except for some of the multi-player races where the "host" has disabled it-- you should find yourself able to adjust brake bias, gearing, lift, down-force, suspension, differential before the race.  Then there's the Options menu (you go outside and it's the "table" to the right of the "News" one) ; under one category on it there are "advanced" settings that let you adjust controller responsiveness.   

Try the Kincaid Ford Trophy Truck -- 3 spd and even with gearing on highest setting it's hard to go full throttle without losing traction (unless you're going in a straight line)

[Jeffy]

ANyone rush out and buy a GTX 580 yet?

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=72

Still thinking about doing the 460 SLI.