Keeeeelllll!!!!! 

to the realization three cups of coffee is just not enough to keep me awake, alert and on the look out for typos. Coke is too expensive and speed makes you see shit. Getting older is like becoming one of the living dead. 

Battlefield :strogg?

its not Quake at all :( 

Come out into the cold, harsh light of reality... since the original title was released, none of the so-called sequels have offered anything closely resembling Quake at all.

They should have stopped at one. But hey, the name sells copies! Look at the F.E.A.R farce going on at the moment... sigh. 

I don't have the game so I have nothing to say about it, but surely there's enough fanboy drool (and/or jaded ennui) to justify a Bioshock thread, right??? 

I'm surprised there isn't one yet, the game is fucking amazing! 11.5 Hours into it myself and nearing the end, storyline and characters are really well done, and the atmosphere is just plain classy. 

Anyone playing the demo? If so, what servers? Let's a game going people. So far, it's okay but not fantastic. Not sure if I'll pick it up or not. But if you play let's rock!!! 

I play it a bit, but it just sucks that they removed the friend system that was in the beta.
It's an ok game, will probably buy it and play it online a while until I get bored of each map.
I still prefer Wolf:ET I think, but as far as class-objective-based fps team games are concerned, this is alot better than any battlefield game. 

unfortunately the demo runs and looks shit on my pc, so I'll be sitting out on this one :( 

dunno if anyone here is rich enough to have a PS3, but you might want to give the PixelJunk Racers demo a whirl.

I worked on the game, and though it's far from perfect, it's a lot of fun - particularly if you have a bunch of other people around to play with.

If anyone has tried it, I'd love to hear your comments, good or bad. 

On Quake Wars, its nice but its not as good as Wolf: ET imo. I have played the demo a bit and it does suffer from slow performance on my pc also which is a shame.

Also I think the vehicles may have been a mistake, some of them feel very odd to use and (for me at least) it reduces the feel of squad combat that Wolf:ET had.

Still its a fun game! 

I think the large maps and vehicules have removed the focus of the game, especially on public servers where everyone just seems to be doing their own thing. In wolf:et, the maps where tighter and more linear (that's a good thing in this situation), which made everyone alot more focused on the objective, thus it really felt like playing with a team, instead of just playing some random deathmatch with vehicules.
But when you find some good players in Quake Wars, who are more into completing the objective than getting exp, it can become more like wolf:et and be quite good.

Anyways, still gone back to playing wolf:et at work, people just couldn't get into QuakeWars it seems. =\ 

Yeah I think I'm going to leave Quake Wars alone and migrate to TF2. I hear good things about it, and I was hooked on TFC back in the day. Plus, QW was just... kind of bland tbh. 

DO NOT CALL QUAKE WARS "QW"

WHAT THE FUCK 

I want to fly the Tormentor! 

I'd be free saturday evening... around 20:00 GMT... if you want to kick my ass :P 

Me? Playing a multiplayer game? Wtf! 

so you won't be switching to Quake Wars then inertia? 

I don't usually agree with you Inertia, but this time you speaketh the truth!

While we're at it, don't call "Quake" by the ridiculously inappropriate name "Quake 1" either. There is only QUAKE. That is all. 

its 'classic quake' now :/ 

Err, it.

Anyone totally blown away by the TF2 beta? Probably the funnest multiplayer game I've played in a long time, and definitely better than QWars (I hope inertia notices I used QWars and not QW.) Anyone planning on mapping for this or knows of a TF2 mapping community yet? 

mapcore 

so Ive been playing some Cal of Duty and Callof Duty : United Offensive (mission pack).

Now the only wwII game I've played before this was MOHAA which was quite good even if the autoaim snipers got a bit annoying.

This starts off pretty poorly and about halfway through I was wondering why it was so popular. Then, out of nowhere, there is a huge increase in quality and level of immersion. The level design improves immeasurably, the fighting becomes fun and the squad missions actually work.

And the scale of some of the later levels is staggering, maybe not compared to recent games but it does feel like a war and that you are only a small part fo it. I'm sure q4 and a lot of the recent games achieve the same thing but as I havent yet got to them, this was something new for me. MOHAA still felt like a solo game or at best a squad game, it didnt feel like the player was a small part of the whole.

Anyway, more comments later but for now, the secnd half has won me over. 

Yeah, I really really enjoyed Call of Duty 1, especially the later stages, although the end was a little anti-climactic for me (not sure what I was expecting though to be honest). All the Stalingrad stuff is just awesome though. For some reason, the newer games in the series just don't have the same appeal. 

Agreed 100% starbuck.