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I wonder if anyone here plays this game. It is my favorite FPS because in my opinion, it not only has the best gameplay but is the least realistic FPS I've ever played (not a fan of realism in FPSes.) I don't play online (I just started playing the campaign three days ago and I'm pretty sure it's 99% 20-year olds who played it 10 years ago on the servers.) This game deserves more love.
Also, I don't play any of the other UTs (UT04 takes up a lot of space, and I don't have much of that stuff left, and UT3/UT14 would probably blow my computer up.)
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
(11-19-2014 12:01 PM)Chanku Wrote: I play Doom 2...well a Doom (1/2) source port(Zandronum). Also Xonotic, is a rather recent game so it may not run on your system...
Zandronum is the source port I play (the reason I prefer Doom 1 is due to better Single Player levels.)
When I was browsing Xonotic fourms, I did find out that it is playable on 1GB RAM (I have 3GB) and on my graphics card.
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
Quake live sucks though. Everyone's fucking rocket-spamming shitheads and the shotgun is a standard "cotton candy pellets at anything further than 10 feet" type of gun, they shoulda taken lessons from UT's flak cannon. They also need to turn off alltalktext so that dead players cant talk to living players because it encourages cheating. Plus the fucking stupid "humiliation" soundbyte that fucking plays if someone stabs you, that's fucking stupid. Its not humiliating to die just because someone melees another player to death. No modern game does that. Quake's a piece of shit that should've died a long time ago, vastly inferior to UT.
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(01-15-2015 06:51 AM)Sociopath Wrote: Quake live sucks though. Everyone's fucking rocket-spamming shitheads and the shotgun is a standard "cotton candy pellets at anything further than 10 feet" type of gun, they shoulda taken lessons from UT's flak cannon. They also need to turn off alltalktext so that dead players cant talk to living players because it encourages cheating. Plus the fucking stupid "humiliation" soundbyte that fucking plays if someone stabs you, that's fucking stupid. Its not humiliating to die just because someone melees another player to death. No modern game does that. Quake's a piece of shit that should've died a long time ago, vastly inferior to UT.
Never was a fan of Quake 2 (it was BORING,) and I couldn't even get Quake 1 to run properly (Windows 7 OR Windows 98.) So I'm guessing Quake is a series I should skip?
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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(01-15-2015 11:44 AM)KFC Nyan Cat Wrote: Never was a fan of Quake 2 (it was BORING,) and I couldn't even get Quake 1 to run properly (Windows 7 OR Windows 98.) So I'm guessing Quake is a series I should skip?
(01-15-2015 11:44 AM)KFC Nyan Cat Wrote: Never was a fan of Quake 2 (it was BORING,) and I couldn't even get Quake 1 to run properly (Windows 7 OR Windows 98.) So I'm guessing Quake is a series I should skip?
Listen to more opinions than just one m8!
I already have an opinion on the first two Quake games. and I think that I shouldn't waste my time with Quake 3 or Live.
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I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
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(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
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(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
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(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
Meh, I guess you are right, it doesn't hurt to have another site that hosts abandonware (just don't host in the USA, especially if games that aren't actually abandonware are in the plans.)[/i]
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(01-21-2015 07:19 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: I miss BF1942 Desert Combat... that was still the best Battlefield game ever. /nostalgia
Sometimes I think of starting up some kind of retro gaming server/community for all these old games that nobody plays anymore, but that are actually better than the newer ones.
If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
Open Beta is not complete though. It's not even close to complete software wise. Beta means it is somewhat stable, but incomplete and there is still a good chance of game-breaking bugs. Although again that's only one project...so again not really a 'dime a dozen'
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(01-21-2015 09:36 AM)Chanku Wrote: If you do I'd actually help. Hell I wouldn't mind to start-up an abandonware site as well(something like Abandonia)...perhaps have it linked to SS as well...I dunno Just an idea
Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
Open Beta is not complete though. It's not even close to complete software wise. Beta means it is somewhat stable, but incomplete and there is still a good chance of game-breaking bugs. Although again that's only one project...so again not really a 'dime a dozen'
Right about it in that it's not dime-a-dozen (it used to be but all the others aren't out yet or shut down) but.......while TTR is CALLING it beta, it's only because they don't have all of the original content, game breaking bugs don't happen frequently (only a few times for me since mid-October)
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
(01-21-2015 10:23 AM)KFC Nyan Cat Wrote: Nah, there are enough abandonware websites, and private servers from Battlefield 1942 to Halo 2 to Phantasy Star Online to Toontown Online are a dime a dozen.
I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
Open Beta is not complete though. It's not even close to complete software wise. Beta means it is somewhat stable, but incomplete and there is still a good chance of game-breaking bugs. Although again that's only one project...so again not really a 'dime a dozen'
Right about it in that it's not dime-a-dozen (it used to be but all the others aren't out yet or shut down) but.......while TTR is CALLING it beta, it's only because they don't have all of the original content, game breaking bugs don't happen frequently (only a few times for me since mid-October)
And then it's not complete, again it's still not close to complete and game breaking bugs can still occur.
Also the people playing don't decide when something's no longer beta, those that are actively working on it do. The fact that you are calling it complete can be bit insulting as it insinuates that YOU know the software better than the creators(which I highly doubt).
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(01-21-2015 11:05 AM)Chanku Wrote: I disagree. There are never enough sites. Besides not all sites have the same games, meaning that if we can have a few games that others don't we can gain traction. Plus how many of those are actually like Abandonia? Also IIRC Toontown Online doesn't have any private servers as no one has actually released any form of it after Disney Shut it down.
Open Beta is not complete though. It's not even close to complete software wise. Beta means it is somewhat stable, but incomplete and there is still a good chance of game-breaking bugs. Although again that's only one project...so again not really a 'dime a dozen'
Right about it in that it's not dime-a-dozen (it used to be but all the others aren't out yet or shut down) but.......while TTR is CALLING it beta, it's only because they don't have all of the original content, game breaking bugs don't happen frequently (only a few times for me since mid-October)
And then it's not complete, again it's still not close to complete and game breaking bugs can still occur.
Also the people playing don't decide when something's no longer beta, those that are actively working on it do. The fact that you are calling it complete can be bit insulting as it insinuates that YOU know the software better than the creators(which I highly doubt).
I wasn't saying it wasn't beta, I was saying that they could say it's out of beta and nobody would be mad (I'm not the best at wording things, sorry.)
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
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