Bjossi

I never played any Halo or CoD game before. This year will make me buy more games than normally, I started with Dead Space 2 and next up will probably be Crysis 2, depends on how quickly it falls in price. I'm also interested in Bulletstorm.

Did you try to resave them with higher compression? It can be effective to use a test pic and see at which point you start to pick up artefacts. I can go below 80 jpg quality without noticing any difference from 99.

I buy 4-6 games a year, often less.

My avatar is a tenth of that size and looks fine, to me any ways.

That was just mean. No cake for Koach sequel.

My monthly salary is around 190,000 kr., that is roughly 1150 euros. A new PC game is usually in the 8-9000 kr. range while console versions around 10-11,000.

Not quite as bad as in Hungary but still. . .

The best I could find locally was a G500. It isn't too expensive either. My current mouse has been showing its age lately. . . Buttons don't always press when I push on them, to name an example.

My mouse has 3 buttons. I'm too cheap to buy a fancy mouse. Plus most PC games today are lame console ports that don't give access to buttons 4 and beyond, one needs a separate program to work around it.

And EA hardly makes money from that.

Here's my keys for a moderately complex FPS:

WASD - movement

Q & E - Lean left and right

Space - jump

Shift - run/walk

Left ctrl - crouch/toggle crouch

1 to 0 - Weapon selection

Enter - use

F - flashlight (or Use)

I or tab - inventory

Etc. etc.

Looking at your rep you may find out the reason on your own.

Shooters are obviously not your expertise, Alyxx.

I support piracy when the holder of the distribution rights is not willing to make the game available again. Like EA and System Shock 1 & 2, for example. Why is it not on GOG? No reason, they just don't care, and yet they care enough to shut down remake projects relating to these games.

Because the console players are in bigger numbers, and tell the publisher as well as the retailer that they're willing to spend that much money on a game by buying it. If gamers weren't a bunch of sheep they could form a mass protest group and boycott games that are overly expensive. There are many things to protest; uneven pricing across platforms, making currencies weigh the same (On Steam for example, some games cost the same amount both in euros and dollars.), prices not dropping for a very long time only with the blockbuster titles, games that are shipped with DRM and limitations that I'm almost sure are illegal in many countries, etc. etc.

And will any protests happen? No. The sheep will continue to run to the store en masse and buy Medal of Duty: Modern Assault 3 and Football Manager: Copy and Paste 11 for 100 dollars each.

Are you sure it is Archer's fault specifically? I've been going here rarely lately because the discussions have started going in circles, and I'm not all that good at debating the subjects this forum covers. I just give my initial opinion and maybe a few replies, then let those who (feel they) got the knowledge and steam duke it out verbally.

So you're going to filter all the bad things about the former centuries of our history and likewise all the good progress recent decades have brought? Okay.

It is people's responsibility to not start or participate in flamewars, we should not encourage them but stop them, regardless of whether they're in a dedicated thread or off topic in another one. If this happens more often in the future then it will be possible to see if any of the members are the same each time and tell them to lay off the harassing.

That is a very good drawing your brother made, the facial expression reminds me of Ed from the Ed Edd 'n Eddy cartoon.

I think his posts in the Civilization Problems forum are the main contributors.

Yes. Find videos on youtube, they say more than I ever could with words.

I never really noticed the difference between the difficulties in HalfLife, they're all piss easy.

Wait, what? I gave two ideas there, which one do you agree with?

Hm, or maybe you read it as one suggestion: 'Accursed Farms Forums or Accursed Forums'.

can I make a topic specifically for them to flame me so they don't have to do it in other threads? (I'd like to laugh at their insults please)

No.

And from where I stand you seem to want people to attack you and stir up trouble. That is indeed trolling. You may end up being the root of the problem, not your anti-fans.

That depends on what the word 'would' implies in your post. What was he looking for in the PS3 version that isn't present?

System Shock 2 used to be available from the Underdogs but I think it got taken down.

By the way, why do people write GOG as GoG? Both 'Good' and 'Old' are adjectives. This is not like CoD or MoH where the middle word is a preposition.