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Any gamers out there?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:11 pm
by CJ
I've been hooked on PC based multiplayer games since the dawn of Quake, has anyone else wasted hundreds of hours playing 'net based games over the past few years?
I never really got into the consoles as I could never get involved in single player games all that much, each to their own I suppose.

Ciaran

PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:36 pm
by Dean
http://www.alienware.co.uk/gaming_main.aspx

Droooooooooool

Put it up to full specs and it hits €15,000

I want one.

Make sure you put in dual 30inch LCD screens

yep

PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:08 pm
by saoirse32
used to play that asherons call game, used to be a bit of crack to pass the time.
but gets too addictive havent played in a few years now, and scared to start playin again.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:45 pm
by Muad_dib77
Big into the Need for speed games... at the moment it's Underground 2 version..

not so much with th eFPS games ...although I have been guilt of playing a bit of SOF2 and Unreal tournament...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:37 am
by Myfeckin FTO
I've worn the controls off my Playstation2 controller playing GT4 and FPS games like Metal Gear solid series and the Medal of Honour series.

The XBox hasn't fared any better with Halo and Halo 2.

I am now able to get by on 4 hours sleep a night thanks to extended runs on both platforms into the early hours of the morning over the past few years. :lol:

I've had "Playstation thumb" on more than a few occasions.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:43 am
by CJ
Whoa, two year old thread update alert! Since I posted this message, I've pretty much given up on gaming, I just don't have the time, inclination, hardware or skillz anymore!

CJ

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:53 am
by Muad_dib77
LMAO!! I never noticed the posting date! Brilliant!

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:10 pm
by Myfeckin FTO
Noticed the date alright - But it was bumped up by Saoirse so it's fair game. :wink:

As mentioned before this "replying to a 2/3 year old thread" is good craic - most people don't notice esp if its in and around the aniversary of the first post. I'll see if I can land one on some unsuspecting peeps over the next week. :lol:

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:21 pm
by Muad_dib77
Just bought myself a modded Xbox today..picking it up tomorrow..

Can't wait...

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:33 am
by agent s
Myfeckin FTO wrote:I've had "Playstation thumb" on more than a few occasions.


Yup... It's sore alright! Am I the only one having a canary about Ratchet & Clank 4 - Ratchet: Deadlocked?!!!
I CAN'T WAIT :smt026 :smt026 :smt026
Everytime I play the newest game, I always end up going back to play all the ones before it! This Christmas is going to be a long one!! 3 others to play once I'm finished the newbie! Soooo excited :smt037

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:39 pm
by RussMan
Whats the story on that XBOX Muad? Have you pimped it out a bit... is that the new Xbox 360?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:18 pm
by kevinod
agent s wrote:
RussMan wrote:Yup....... no fun till Christmas day for you dear!! :)


I could say the same!!! :smt096


:lol: I can see this battle of wills only going one way... :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:08 pm
by Muad_dib77
RussMan wrote:Whats the story on that XBOX Muad? Have you pimped it out a bit... is that the new Xbox 360?


Actually I ended up getting one with out the USB and Display.. but otherwise it looks the same.
The Xbox is the "crystal edition" which basically means see through case and blue leds :-) we like the blue LEDS...looks like..well..blue really! ;-)
The box has a 250gb harddrive in it...It'll play all my DivX movies and backup rented games - just incase somebody scratches all 100 copies at xtravision..

Amazing yoke..

Was playing Doom3 all night last night...completely messed me up...was all twitchy afterwards.

Can't wait till the 360 is out .. and somebody sticks a chip in it so it'll "play imports" ;-)

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:47 pm
by Damo
They're pretty amazing allright. If you haven't got burnout Revenge yet get it, its absolutely brilliant. Its the fastest car game I've ever played anyway.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:05 pm
by Muad_dib77
:-) Have it..stored on Hard-drive...Didn't try it yet though...got stuck mucking about with Juiced & Doom3..

Doom3 is pretty scary... :-)

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:03 pm
by kevinod
Nearly picked up Doom 3 on my last trip, but trying to keep away, too much work to do! The Mac version is out, right? My Wintel P3 laptop might struggle with it...

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:17 pm
by Muad_dib77
Not too familiar with what's out for MAC and what isn't..I have an old G3 sitting around in Denmark..but I never really used it much..
Pretty sure it would be fairly hard running it on a p3 - it's one of the most demanding games evah...apparently the Xbox version is heavily scaled down and you only really get the full whack on a super-duper-monster pc.

While I'm wating for one of those I'm playing this:

http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/201.php?action=play

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:42 pm
by Ronanc
ah i love those alienware pcs,they took me to court years agobecuase i registered the domain name alienware.co.uk, i lost my case for compensation tho ;-( im abit of a gamer myself, i like battlefield2 :D

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:52 pm
by CJ
Ronanc wrote:they took me to court years agobecuase i registered the domain name alienware.co.uk, i lost my case for compensation tho ;-(


Damn cyber-squatters! How much were you looking for the domain? I would imagine it was a load of money if they took you to court!

CJ

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:12 pm
by Ronanc
well i was looking for 10k irish, but they said no and threatned to take me to court for registering a trademark name, should i have been smart at the time and got advice i would have won, as there was no trademark in europe for alienware, as it was amercian based company, they would have had to pay me what ever i accepted, if i had said it was a site for personal use, they would have had to up up the compensation and up it until i agreed, could have been very wealthy now but ah well, i settled for ameasly 250 irish lol

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:57 pm
by CJ
Ronanc wrote:well i was looking for 10k irish


Chancer ;)

CJ

Hello

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:36 am
by supastu
Hello

Have you tried Forza on the xbox, pure class, although the FTO handling suffers more than some of the cars, when modified.

Halo 1 and 2 are ace, but I reckon the third should be good on the new xbox.

Cheers

Stu

Re: Hello

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:50 am
by CJ
supastu wrote:Have you tried Forza on the xbox, pure class, although the FTO handling suffers more than some of the cars, when modified.

Halo 1 and 2 are ace, but I reckon the third should be good on the new xbox.


I've bought Forza Motorsport and Halo 2, thing is I can't play 'em on my Xbox 360 until I get the hard drive (one on the way to me at the moment).

CJ

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:44 pm
by Ronanc
ah u got the core version cj? :lol:

PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:52 pm
by CJ
Ronanc wrote:ah u got the core version cj? :lol:


Bought it back in early January Ro, full systems were like gold dust at the time, I was pretty lucky to get the core system.

CJ