Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[Jeffy]

I have L4D2.  I think it's on sale for $9 as well off steam.

[chardrc]

I have L4D2.  I think it's on sale for $9 as well off steam.

have you played the mutation mode recently? they have it set up as all special infected right now.. pretty intense with someone constantly getting punched or vomited on.... or charged.. lol 

[Mozman68]

Kids have been playing Red Dead Redemption, NCAA Football 2011, Baseball 2k 10....Xbox...the football is awesome.  Like watching a real game...same with the baseball.

[Mozman68]

Whew...just did some XBox Kinect...that thing is incredible...good-bye Wii....

[chardrc]

Dirt 2 is $5.00 on steam today so i finally got it. after my brother got it a few weeks ago I've been itching to buy it and figured that steam would offer another great deal on it before new years... now i just have to wait 2 hours for it to download.

[Jeffy]

Won all of the X Games.  Got the Ford Escort MKII.  Finished 95% of the other missions.  Only those that just unlocked need to be finished.  Then there's wold tour or something.  I haven't paid much attention to those challenges.  I think my favorite is China Trailblazer.  It's very fast and you don't have a navigator.  You can't really get much of a peak of what's ahead since you're usually on top of it faster then you can lock back down.  I wish the Baja levels were more open like the China missions instead of that stupid track.  Also, I noticed the stats for the cars aren't always telling you the whole truth.  I like the old Evo IX for the Trailblazer.  The MG is great for the indoor rally stuff.  I'm a bit torn between the old STI and the Evo IX for most everything else.  Baja, I'm usually in the PRC-1 Buggy.  I have the Dodge, Highline, Bowler, VW and H3 as well.  The H3 is pretty good.  I think the Bowler is quicker but it's fighty.  I still haven't gotten used to the way it drives yet.

L4D2, played through the new SP but still wasn't able to get though the last part of the last stretch.  That stupid bridge with all of the tanks.  The AI is so stupid and isn't able to climb up fast enough and they end up getting swarmed at the bottom of the ladder.

[chardrc]

L4D2, played through the new SP but still wasn't able to get though the last part of the last stretch.  That stupid bridge with all of the tanks.  The AI is so stupid and isn't able to climb up fast enough and they end up getting swarmed at the bottom of the ladder.

that one took me a while to beat. ended up having to run up the ladder fast and as soon as the last ai gets on the bridge flip the switch and instantly run down the stairs and hope you beat most of the swarm to the generator before  you get bogged down... i ended up getting to the fence then got bogged down and had to throw a Molotov at my feet to burn the zombies while i had enough heath left to start the generator (almost instantly starts at that stage unlike the first time you start it).. basically you have to get it done before the tanks spawn...

i ended up spending most of the afternoon playing bc2 and fiddling with overclocking my radeon 4800. i about got it down so i can use my new monitor with basically full settings with a playable frame rate. its my first time oc anything so ive been taking it in small steps. but ive been pleased with the improvements so far.
 

[Jeffy]

that one took me a while to beat. ended up having to run up the ladder fast and as soon as the last ai gets on the bridge flip the switch and instantly run down the stairs and hope you beat most of the swarm to the generator before  you get bogged down... i ended up getting to the fence then got bogged down and had to throw a Molotov at my feet to burn the zombies while i had enough heath left to start the generator (almost instantly starts at that stage unlike the first time you start it).. basically you have to get it done before the tanks spawn...

i ended up spending most of the afternoon playing bc2 and fiddling with overclocking my radeon 4800. i about got it down so i can use my new monitor with basically full settings with a playable frame rate. its my first time oc anything so ive been taking it in small steps. but ive been pleased with the improvements so far.
 

I got started up the generators fine.  It's teh stupid bridge where you have to climb the ladder and wait.  Then all the tanks start swarming in and of course the M2 in the bridge doesn't sweep far enough to be any use.  I first tried hitting all the generators in a row quickly but found that instead of just one tank at a time you get all three.  Then when you get to the bridge, you hit the lever and you get an additional 4-6.  So it was better to take out the tanks one at a time with the generators.  Although the AI is so stupid that they get caught at the ladder and by that time they're going down like domino's and the tanks already climbing up the ladder.

I've also tried placing the gas cans near the bridge so I can shoot them from above but that doesn't really work when your AI are too stupid to climb up.

[chardrc]

i agree with your first half.. but the entire point of the bridge is that it goes up like 10 feet after flipping the switch then the closest generator dies and one person (you) have to jump off the bridge and restart it and die after starting it aka why its called the passing.. you aren't supposed to be able to kill all of those tanks at the end.. or that was my take on it and it said i beat the level when i restarted the 1 generator and died.. i kinda had a heads up to this because i played the l4d2 version of it first where you see bill dead....

[Jeffy]

i agree with your first half.. but the entire point of the bridge is that it goes up like 10 feet after flipping the switch then the closest generator dies and one person (you) have to jump off the bridge and restart it and die after starting it aka why its called the passing.. you aren't supposed to be able to kill all of those tanks at the end.. or that was my take on it and it said i beat the level when i restarted the 1 generator and died.. i kinda had a heads up to this because i played the l4d2 version of it first where you see bill dead....

Ah, see I haven't gotten that far.  Now that you say the generator needs to restart that makes more sense as to why you're not supposed to sit up on the bridge.

[chrisfranklin]

Played COD Black Ops on XBox 360 with family I was visiting.  Ended up in the horizontal split screen that lets two players play from the same location on the same screen.  I guess it was ok overall.  Played Havana and a few other locations multi-player.  Couldn't really say there was anything about the game-play that spy-novel enthusiasts would descrivbe as "black."  But it was different at least..


 

[FourbangerYJ]

Played COD Black Ops on XBox 360 with family I was visiting.  Ended up in the horizontal split screen that lets two players play from the same location on the same screen.  I guess it was ok overall.  Played Havana and a few other locations multi-player.  Couldn't really say there was anything about the game-play that spy-novel enthusiasts would descrivbe as "black."  But it was different at least..

I am not totally wowed with it. I have done the whole thing and am now doing it again on a harder setting. Meh, I don't like that you can't bypass some ofthe cut sceens. Kinda weird going from Cuba,to Nam, to WW II, back to Nam.
I feel bad for people who bought the JK Black Ops  edition. There is only one level a Jeep in the game and it was based in 1968 or something like that. 

[FourbangerYJ]

Started Farcry 2.

[Jeffy]

Started Farcry 2.

I got frustrated with that one.  The part I didn't like was that for the general map, the checkpoints would respawn very quickly.  If you walk away and turn around, they might spawn back like nothing happened.

[chardrc]

I got frustrated with that one.  The part I didn't like was that for the general map, the checkpoints would respawn very quickly.  If you walk away and turn around, they might spawn back like nothing happened.

x2 got it on black friday in 2009 and have yet to finish it.. check point respawn way to fast and driving has bad characteristics which would normally be OK in a fps but you are driving so much that its gets annoying as heck.