Is that Hellgate London?

It looks like a gash game from 5 years ago

have you got the quality turned down or something?

have you got the quality turned down or something?

Yes. Although IIRC that's actually "Medium" texture quality
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my computer is quite near the minimum spec

Cheers,
Rich.

have you got the quality turned down or something?

Yes. Although IIRC that's actually "Medium" texture quality
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my computer is quite near the minimum spec

Seems to me that anyone that has problems with the graphics seems to not have a decent graphics card and/or computer. To which I say, what do you expect?

Seems to me that anyone that has problems with the graphics seems to not have a decent graphics card and/or computer. To which I say, what do you expect?

I expect it to look as good as other games that I can run on my computer at a decent framerate.

Cheers,
Rich.

My machine, BTW, is now so un-leet I have had to buy yet another graphics card after slowdowns in Crysis which made the end boss battle a bit tricky.

My machine, BTW, is now so un-leet I have had to buy yet another graphics card after slowdowns in Crysis which made the end boss battle a bit tricky.

That's just the excuse you gave yourself. You could have lowered the graphics quality a bit if you wanted

Cheers,
Rich.

Is it me, or does this look too much like the sentry guns in Portal?

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/pictures-microsoft-s-portable-pc-theater-sports-built-in-projector

I wouldn't trust it to play a movie for me. It would probably shoot me if I tried moving from my seat!

Lukewarm piss! MTA:SA Deathmatch preview release!

http://www.multitheftauto.com/85.html

Now to wait until tonight, when I'll probably discover that playing it isn't that interesting.

I played a version of MTA:SA a while back.

The biggest problem with it is that the map is so bloody huge you can go for ages without seeing anybody, or spawn miles away from the other players.

I played a version of MTA:SA a while back.

Deathmatch? How?

The biggest problem with it is that the map is so bloody huge you can go for ages without seeing anybody, or spawn miles away from the other players.

I've tried playing SA-MP for deathmatch in the past. But lag/desync seems to make killing people almost impossible, and 90% of servers seem to be running the game with an RPG-like mod - so you have to grind for money to buy weapons. So it's basically not deathmatch. And all the fun weapons/vehicles (rocket launcher, tanks, etc.) are all restricted! (Either because they're too powerful or don't work properly)

The only remotely deathmatch aspect was a last-man-standing minigame where you get teleported to a sealed off part of the map, get given a weapon, and have to kill off everyone else.

Hopefully MTA:SA DM will be better. One of the main reasons it's taken so long for them to release it is that they've spent a lot of time making sure there's no lag/desyncs, and that all the vehicles/weapons work. But they've also spent a lot of time working on lots of different game modes, so I'll have to wait and see whether they're actually better than a plain old deathmatch.

The only remotely deathmatch aspect was a last-man-standing minigame where you get teleported to a sealed off part of the map, get given a weapon, and have to kill off everyone else.

Hopefully MTA:SA DM will be better. One of the main reasons it's taken so long for them to release it is that they've spent a lot of time making sure there's no lag/desyncs, and that all the vehicles/weapons work. But they've also spent a lot of time working on lots of different game modes, so I'll have to wait and see whether they're actually better than a plain old deathmatch.

Yeah, I might give it a try later. I need to install GTA:SA first, though

[Edited by andypoole at 13:23, 4/1/2008]

The rest will be fooling around, just playing it as deathmatch, teamkilling (if appropriate), or swearing a lot and accusing everyone else of cheating.

Cheers,
Rich.

The rest will be fooling around, just playing it as deathmatch, teamkilling (if appropriate), or swearing a lot and accusing everyone else of cheating.

This is why I don't play with people I don't know, even in games that try and force you to *cough*WoW*cough*. On top of the usual spammers, scammers, players that don't know what the fuck they're doing and end up getting you killed, guild recruiters and whatever, trying playing as a female avatar - you have the added fun of "amusing" chat-up merchants and crazy stalkers.

Capture the Vehicle

Nice. Even though auto-detection sets all graphics to "low" and puts me on 800x600 resolution, to be honest, it's a computer game. I don't expect it to look like real life and I'm quite sure that even on the highest-performing machine it wouldn't look like real life. It plays smoothly and the graphics look good even on "low" settings. Yay!

The graphics look good on "low" settings? Are you blind? Maybe they'd look good in 2000, but not in 2007!

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The graphics look good on "low" settings? Are you blind? Maybe they'd look good in 2000, but not in 2007!

You think that because lower graphic settings don't suit you personally that everyone who doesn't want them (because it suits them) is blind?

I've got no problem with people discussing what they do or don't like in a platform game/console game/whatever

I don't like not knowing which path to take to keep hidden in bushes/etc. if half the cover is invisible.

So, in summary, what you are saying that there are actual authentic real genuine bona fide legitimate technical reasons for not playing this game on the low settings, rather than it just being the "I don't like it, so everyone who does is an idiot" type of thing to which Jason objected?

Phlamey is probably one of those types who argue about MP3 bitrates and stuff.

(did you notice almost all of my argument was a cut and paste?).