rottentreats wrote on 04.11.10 at 01:53:40:


Interesting considering Black Ops doesn't come out until next Tuesday   I guess your xbox 360 is really modded....to the point you probably don't want to connect online with it  

Here are my current favorite games that I've invested some time into.  Some are oldies but goodies:

Xbox 360:
Halo Reach - Spent a good deal of time on this one...but it's growing old.  Would probably get back into when the XIM3 get's released.

COD4 - Picked this up for $13....also have it on PC.  Worth a few hours of play to boost my gamerscore

COD5 - Got this for the zombie CO-OP action, but found the campaign to worth the price of admission.

PC:
Blacklight: Tango down - Picked it up from Steam for $7.50.  Multiplayer only, kind of intense gun fighting, cool atmosphere (think Blade Runner).  Would be awesome if it had a single player campaign.

Batman: AA GOTY Edition - Also got it from Steam for $13.  Well worth the super cheap price. 

Gears of War - Snagged this back in July once MS released it as a GFWL download.  Way better than the xbox version.  Single player is worth playing for some cheap fun.  CO-OP mode is decent, but the rest of the multiplayer modes are ho-hum and hardly anyone plays. 

Half Life 2 - I know what you're thinking...WTF?  I've had it in my collection for at least 5 years and never finished it.  Replaying it now to get the steam achievements and to enjoy a classic.

I've also got at least another 100 games in my backlog that could use some attention.  So many games...so little time

Halflife 2 Biggest disapointment in gaming history.

Half life was one of those landmark games, I remember playing it when it first came out and thinking wow. Half life 2 had a lot to live upto and didnt.

I agree. Half Life 2 was much better. But it's quite normal - Half Life appeared in 98 and HL2 appeared in 2004 - 6 years later.

The graphic in HL2 is awesome, the pshysics are incredibly good.

IMO, best games appeared in 96-98, when 3d acceleration appeared.

But they evolved until 2006-2007, then it stopped, almost nothing interesting appeared, because consoles gained too much popularity (XBOX 360 and PS3).

Now we have GTX480, but no games to take advanced of it. We have i7 CPUs, even with 6 cores and 12 threads. We have PhysX. But no game is better in PsysX than HL2...

Crysis was the last game that had very good graphics, nothing else better appeared since 2007

Crysis 2 will NOT have very good graphics. I played the "alpha" version on XBOX 360 and it was quite shitty

Maybe the final version will be better and the PC version will have better graphic, but it will still be worse than Crysis 1 - I can bet anything on that.

As for id Tech 5 ... it will have some nice things, but ... that's all. Last good looking id engine was Quake3, Doom3 was way too artifical - exagerated bump mapping and shadows.

Right now UT3 has the best graphics, but HL2 looks much natural, I remember some maps... you are under a concrete bridge - the graphic looked almost like you were there - the concrete texture, the muddy water looked like in real life.

oldskool wrote on 18.11.10 at 23:07:57:


I just finished it again, it was in my opinion absolutely THE game of the year and then some ie still miles better then most games I've played in my live. Anyway, I'm playing EP1 now and boy it just get's better and better. Can't wait for EP3!!!

Compared to the original, really! I guess you had to be there when Half-life was released. HL2 game of the year, must have been a poor year for games 
Good graphics don't make a good game.