Counter strike, anyone play anymore?

[Mercutio]

We need to just arrange a regular meeting time and that's all there is to it.

Has anyone else played "Kohan: Immortal Sovereign"? I found it at my local supermarket with a $5 price tag on it. I'm not into Blizzard games, and it looked like a Warcraft clone, but it's pretty fun.

 

[Mercutio]

... and while I'm making gaming posts, I watched a couple of the movies from Red vs.Blue after seeing that they won a bunch of awards for Machinima ("movies" made using computer game engines). They're pretty damn funny.

 

[Piyono]

Man, I haven't played CS in months. From 4+ hours a day to zero hours in no time flat. I downloaded the Steam client and it's been downhill from there -- slow, buggy... I don't have time to wrestle with it anymore.
Maybe I'll get around to it but I think my personal CS death knoll has rung out...


Piyono

 

[Mercutio]

Personally I'm highly disgusted that I had to download 500MB of crap just to play CS. The only part of the boxed copy of Half-Life I bought three weeks ago that I actually used was the CD key. Isn't that disgusting. If I had wanted to play CS on my former connection I would've had to download for something like four days straight.

I'm also highly pissed that my $400 AIW9700 doesn't include a free HL2 download, since a working download key is apparently included with all newish R300+ ATI cards.

Also, did you all know the AIW9600 tunes radio in addition to TV?

 

[blakerwry]

FM only I assume?

 

[Fushigi]

Swedish girls playing CS

 

[ddrueding]

rant.

Steam is the biggest POS on the earth. Not only is their registration complete BS; but the fact that you cannot control when downloads (massive downloads) occur, or how much bandwidth they consume, even if they are not for the game you are currently playing!

When CS: Source was in beta we downloaded it and played. Because the CS community are so stuck in their ridiculously outdated ways, source is no better than the original! Only a few very minor eye candy effects have been changed.

 

[Handruin]

No offense to the female team, but to them I say big whoop. Why feel the need to prove something to a bunch of guys, just because you're a girl? Play the game, for the game, and enjoy it for that reason. Unless you compete for some serious cash, why the hell would you train with a coach for a friggin video game?

And I agree with your rant David. Steam is a POS and it made me stop playing CS at one point. I will agree they needed a better way to manage the ungodly amounts of patching required for half-life. I have one of the earliest copies, and at times when I reinstalled me OS< I would spend an hour easily just trying to find all the damn patches for half-life. At least Steam helps in this area...when it's working.

 

[Mercutio]

I did my Steam rant a few weeks ago. It's in some other thread here.

Anyway, girls play games. My little LAN party in my office was 15% Estrogen-american. Y'know what? They were all cute, too.

Anyway, I think the only part of this that's even remarkable is a mainstream acknowledgement of the double-Y-chromosome contingent in gaming, the same way it shows up when the press notices that, for example, girls do "extreme sports" or in fact, do work besides making babies. There's a kind of underhanded sexism to it, and it's stupid.