Alyxx Thorne

Goddamnit, children, you behave now!

Banned for not being as active as the thread. In other words, welcome back!

Yup. Happy birthday to you both!

Watch it, Axel. Don't want you to cause a flamewar here.

Yeah, I guess my expectations were fairly high after Fallout 2. Too high probably.

Losing hope for the human race.

I lost that ages ago.

Well, in HLPrincess' defense, it's hard to understand a joke when there is little indication that it is meant as a joke. Some quotation marks or a smiley would've helped with that. Otherwise you could easily come across as a jerk.

But yeah, I'm sure we'll get an update when there are news on the issue.

Yeah, I suppose you're right. And for what it is, Fallout 3 is a good game. It's just that it could've been a lot better in my opinion.

Yeah, I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone but hardcore DOOM fans like myself or console gamers who wants DOOM 1-3 in one package. Personally, I love it though and I think it's the definitive version of DOOM 3. But it's up to people to judge what they want to buy. I hope my review helps.

Yesterday: Terrible...

Today: Hopefully not as terrible.

10/10 for the joke

More coffee.

Making coffee and chatting with Thadeus.

Since when did the general chat turn into the random thread?

Eh nevermind.

Should I take off my beautiful Chistmass avatar now?

Yes, please... XD

Just don't call him Willie, I think that would only make it worse.

DOOM 3: BFG Edition

Reviewed for PC by Alyxx Thorne

The first person shooter genre is without a doubt one of the most prevalent game genres in the industry today and one of the games that truly popularized the genre and brought it into the mainstream was Wolfenstein 3D. However where Wolfenstein 3D made the genre popular, DOOM was the game that for many years to come would define the genre for good and set the standards not only for the paradigms upon which single player shooters are made, but also the rules for how it would be played on the internet and being released with a much more open structure than its predecessor, DOOM was one of the first game to encourage its players to modify the game's content, to create not only their own maps but even their own games using the game engine. DOOM was in many respects id's first open game engine and it didn't take long before DOOMers all over the world started posting their own modifications to it. This practice was later perfected by id's game Quake, upon which the extremely successfull game Half-Life was based and the rest is history. With such a strong history in the PC gaming market and with such a strong connection the mod community, it is therefore weird to see id's focus shift towards a console audience and while this was definitely evident with their previous title RAGE which had probably the worst launch bugs I've ever seen with any PC game, rendering it pretty much unplayable the day I picked it up, and while DOOM 3: BFG Edition thankfully didn't suffer any launch bugs, it is evident that DOOM 3: BFG Edition is not aimed at the PC gamer crowd. What DOOM 3: BFG Edition basically is, is an excuse for id Software to release DOOM 1-3 in one package onto the XBox 360 and PS3 console, and thus the PC version ends up feeling a bit superfluous. This review will mostly focus on DOOM 3 although I will touch upon DOOM and DOOM 2 briefly.

You can read the rest @ Alyxx' Game Room <3

Having played Fallout 2 extensively and just feeling it not only had better weapons but also much better and more mature content and it actually felt more open and more like an RPG and not just a linear story, Fallout 3 is and always will be a huge disappointment to me.

And I have zero interest in Skyrim because nothing about it really makes me feel like I have to play it. Sure, you have a huge open world to explore but other games offer that as well and more. I guess it's just a matter of taste.

Ouch... that sounds... really unpleasant...

A little over 400 days late and I finally decided to buy Skyrim.

One word: Overrated.

 

You know that there are people who really do enjoy the game, right?

By overrated I don't mean it's a bad game, don't get me wrong. I just think that people give it a bit too much praise and that I personally don't find it very interesting. But overrated does not mean bad or terrible, just that a lot of people seem to think it's the best game ever. And it's just my own opinion.

I guess the main reason is that Bethesda made Fallout 3 and I had such huge hopes for that game and it ended up being a very good game in of itself but it lacked a lot of things that I loved about Fallout 2 and as a sequel to Fallout 2, it was absolutely mediocre. Without mods, it's a terrible game and I just don't feel that if you have to mod a game to hell to even enjoy it, then it's not a good game.

If I can use keyboard and mouse on it, it has my attention.

If they did it right, I bet a good movie could be made from Call of Cthulhu.

Would require a lot of special fx I think.

I voted for Far Cry 3, since I haven't played the other games on that list. I know, I have no reason NOT to play Black Mesa, but I'm waiting for them to finish the game through Xen and/or release the Mod through Steam, since they got the greenlight to do so.

Sounds smart to me. So far it's a great mod though.

Welcome, Cirty. Nice to have you here.

I love your nick... XD

 

Who, mine? :3

Uh huh.