stay away, I warn you =)

And about Prey, yeah I really enjoyed that game, the whole immortal thing never really bothered me, in fact I would say it removed some frustration from the game in that there were never areas that were too hard and descend into load,die, repeat syndrome that plague some shooters.

The art as well was fantastic imo, the whole living ship idea was pulled off very well and the weapons while conventional in effects were very original in terms of design and feel.

I thought the areas where you fly around in the ship could have been polished up a little more, they were one of the weaker parts of the game but were not crap, though I think if they had pulled the flying maps and expanded the gravity gameplay it might have been worthwhile. 

Space Marine`s landspeeders make a quick job of Necrons
just need to tech to them asap 

I never built Landspeeders! Thanks for the tip. :o 

http://www.autofish.net/clysm/art/video_games/seiklus/ 

imperial guard don't get access to space marine landspeeders but ok 

Registered with Direct2Drive and downloaded Deus Ex, and Rainbow Six Raven Shield.

Well, I bought Raven Shield on disc, but apparently from the forums I've browsed, it's copy protection does not like some RW drives - like mine. So I cannot install it without a CRC error cropping up. Apparently it will install well over a regular ROM drive. Another culprit I read, was bad RAM.

I can't return the retail RS but hey only $10... also $10 from Direct2Drive.

Also got Flight Simulator 2004. Runs generally well on the 6200 LE actually. 

well Lun, you didn't say you only play IG... I guess anything FAST and anti-infantry would work ... hellhounds? or just turret-rush :)


Iv almost beated campaign as marines, only the eldars left alive 

It seems pretty fun even though I haven't passed the first mission.

The reason is I'm playing Lone Wolf, I don't really like tactical/team shooters. So the problem is playing alone is much, much harder. I think this is made even worse with the health system - there are 3 stages: healthy, injured, and dead. Can you guess how many times you're allowed to be shot?

So you're almost forced to play with a team, blah to that. 

iirc my brother bought me this version of Rainbow 6 for my birthday a few years ago, and yeah I just used to play lonewolf all the time :) Dunno why but it was really satisfying for a terrorist to empty an entire clip of Uzi at me and hit nothing, then for me to take him down with 1 shot from my pistol :) Didn't happen often but very nice when it does :) 

I've been playing this for a few weekends now and I am just blown away at the quality of this game. It's really one of the best games I've ever played and I'm about an hour into a level called "Shalebridge" which is without a doubt, the most scared I've ever been while playing a game. This is simply brilliant level design, executed flawlessly. Whoever is responsible for this level should be teaching a class on level design. 

worked on Deadly Shadows. It is a shame it was released around the time Doom 3 sucked all the oxygen out of the publicity mills with its own release. 

Totally overrated.

DS is a good, game though, most immersive I've played in awhile - love the music. 

...so i gave silent hill 3 a shot. i like the idea of it, and it's very wierd and funky. but good lord, i can't stand the controls... a lot of the time i'm fighting monsters and the camera isn't even pointed in a remotely helpful way, so i'm resigned to swinging haphazardly waiting to hear whatever it is yelp. :\

are there other games like Silent Hill series but with good movement controls and camera ai? 

i think all SH games suffer from bad camera positions in some places. SH2 seems to be fairly alright in this respect - at least i can't remember any extraordinary infuriation because of this... also, pyramid head ftw. 

I think I might have to try Thief - DS. Someone recommended it to me as having a really scary level in. And I haven't got much action stuff to play. 

yeah, hellhounds seemed to work but you've gotta tech to them fast, which eats resources you could be spending on a wall of (ineffective) men.

IG buildings should autoheal if techpriests are holed up inside. 

one of the most original gameplay concepts, they just don�t make games like that anymore, though the community is quite split about the third part.(it was developed simultaneously for xbox and pc, so some say it�s dumbed down, there�s no deep water, the levels are short, no rope arrows etc).
Still better than 99% of the stuff out there imo.
But parts one and two are amongst the best games I know.(even spent over 50� for the rare T1 gold edition on ebay :) 

for retail price when it came out just a few weeks after buying the standard addition at a discount. Definitely the kind of game play I like. 

it's supposed to be like this. it is. and that's a good thing even to me, the hater of such things ;).

seriously, you have to play on ps2 though - the controls on pc are shitty - because the game is designed to be played with two analog sticks. iirc it has EXTREME negative mouse acceleration on pc so you can't turn fast.

i guess you already found the button to swing the camera so it points in front of you? 

I have dual stick gamepad, it doesnt help much
- SH4 camera is awfull ~40% of the time.

necros: maybe try condemned criminal origins - mixes SH horror\dirt atmosphere with first person hth/shooter. better combat than SH, but not as creative design\plot wise.
Runs on FEAR engine and has much better location design than fear - so it looks quite nice ... but not enough open spaces
I suggest you get the demo first. 

yeah, the slow mouse speed is very irritating... it's like playing quake with 'sensitivity' set to '0.1' :P i ended up binding some keys to turn to supplement the mouse turning.

i guess the bad camera placement could be a way to add more suspense. but it just seems more annoying to me than suspensful.

one thing: i know there's a key to make the camera sort of pan around a bit but what button to swing the camera so it points in front of you? i don't remember seeing that on the config menu!

one thing i'm not really liking about SH3 so far is that each area is sort of self contained. you walk into an area, and monsters can move around there, but you walk into the next area, and even if it's just a little gate, they don't follow you there, so it really takes the edge off of some encounters because you know you can be safe just by going to a different section. i suppose this was a limitation of ps2 console or something. it's nice to be able to save anywhere though. a console port that got it right!

i will have to take a look at condemned. it's not exactly what i was looking for, although it does look interesting. thanks for the suggestion, speeds :) 

i don't know, it might be a combination of buttons? can't even remember what it was on ps2... 

WTF new games!

gears of war
zelda: twilight princess
final fantasy XII
guitar hero 2

BBQ 

A classmate picked that up last week. He wants to get me into it, too. I don't get it? 

A girl called me on the phone one time, and told me, "Come over, there's nobody home." I went over. There was nobody home.