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Topic: F.E.A.R. 2 demo up (Read 5640 times)
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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Anyone interested in this game? I never played the first one, but played the multiplayer freebie they had a few years back. At the time, I thought it was a good shooter, if the maps were a bit cramped. I've heard that this time they're emphasising story more, and incorporating mechs. Ghost girl vs Mechs. How can this fail?
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I'll probably give it a pass. I enjoyed FEAR but I think straight-up shooters are just too one-dimensional for me. But as far as FPS goes, FEAR met one of my main requirements: fun and adaptable enough to play through an area multiple times to try different things.
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Tarami
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I tried the demo. The endless flickering lights and shaky cam, along with the forced widescreen mode with unnecessary drivel around the edges, pissed me off so much that I didn't get farther than 15 minutes into it. I recall the first FEAR as a little scary, but this was just frustrating.
Really, there's a point where you paraphrase Danny Glover and just go "fuck it, I'm too old for this shit."
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- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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I will probably get it even though I can't work on such games with the wife and boy in the house.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Baldrake
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I tried the demo and really liked it. It has far more variety than the original FEAR, which mainly took place in a concrete office block. I was chortling when I got to climb into a mech and start blasting away like crazy.
The one (big!) caveat is that the game at times brought my quad core, 4870 gpu system to its knees. Now that's a feat.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Definitely interested in this, but going to wait until there's plenty of decent reviews (preferably on this board, heh) before getting it. Loved FEAR, enjoyed the scary a lot and have a special place in my gaming heart for the ending.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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rattran
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I was interested, but the demo crashes on my machine in Vista and Win7. Guess I'll give it a miss.
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Azazel
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I'm going to do what apocrypha is doing.
Also, I should install and play FEAR. Probably next, after I finish the clusterfuck that Far Cry 2 has become...
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SnakeCharmer
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The one (big!) caveat is that the game at times brought my quad core, 4870 gpu system to its knees. Now that's a feat.
Odd. I cranked everything up to maximum and the only hitches I found were the load points that cause about a 1/4 second delay. FWIW, Q6600 OC'd to 3.2Ghz, 8800GTS(G92) in SLI, and 4GB of RAM. |
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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Odd. I cranked everything up to maximum and the only hitches I found were the load points that cause about a 1/4 second delay. FWIW, Q6600 OC'd to 3.2Ghz, 8800GTS(G92) in SLI, and 4GB of RAM.
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SnakeCharmer
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I thought the new ATI's were supposed to be on par or better than the Nvidia equivalents?
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rattran
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Depends all on which one the game is optimized for. And if one of the companies got early access to tweak their drivers.
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