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Xocyll wrote:

> Something he'll never understand - his pools are ignored because so
> many people have him killfiled, and those that don't probably don't
> care to reply to his inane polls either.

No people ignore his pools because he keeps peeing in the water. 😉
 
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Toby wrote:

> Have you played Viewtiful Joe? It's a capcom game, and one of the best
> games I've played in recent years.

I played the demo when it came out and did nothing for me. In general, I
don't like Japanese created games. I find the stories odd and don't like the
anime look. Capcom is the worst because they still haven't figured out how
to set up a proper camera. Nintendo and a few games from Sega are the only
exception.
 
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> BTW I'm surprised that
> no one listed Battlecruiser
> 3000AD in their list.

They're too embarrassed to admit having actually purchased it I'd
wager. <g>

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On 24 Jun 2005 01:10:34 -0700, "steamKILLER" <sayNO2steam@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>ps: its incredible how negative attracts so much more than
>positive, just look at the high level of participation your
>post had in comparison to the monthly pc games bought polls

Nothing very mysterious about that. You are comparing a thread
which only covers the last game or two, if someone even bought a game
that month to a thread which covers every single game they ever
played.

It would have been the same if you compared "games bought this
month" to "best game you ever played".

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of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft
 
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"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42BA604E.2175EA1E@internode.on.net...
> And I'm new here so please forgive me if this
> has been discussed before but just wondering
> what people consider the worst PC based games
> they have ever purchased?
>
<snip>

As a "True PC Gamer", all my games are good. ;-)

Check out the games at the bottom of these two lists:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/pc/scores/

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing got the lowest overall score of 8 out a 100.

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=byscore&platform=pc&order=asc&time=alltime
And Big Rigs won again.


BTW I'm surprised that no one listed Battlecruiser 3000AD in their list.
 
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toadie05@sbcglobal.net once tried to test me with:

>>I bought all of the above. And I even pre-ordered DtU. That turned me
>>off to pre-ordering for a VERY long time.
>
> don't feel too bad Knight, i also bought all of the above <hangs head
> in shame>

I feel your pain. :)

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"mattchu" <wintlerpark@hotmail.com> once tried to test me with:

>> no one listed Battlecruiser
>> 3000AD in their list.
>
> They're too embarrassed to admit having actually purchased it I'd
> wager. <g>

I got BC3K but it's the "version 2.0" and I admit I never installed it.

It's for sale if you want it. :)

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Kent_Diego wrote:

> ...
> > My gripe was aimed at the graphics
> >
> >> Blood cries out for an opengl Duke3D treatment to reintroduce it to
> >> modern audiences.
> >
> > Did they do that for Duke Nukem 3D? The version I bought says windows
> > on the box but still has the old DOS version...
> >
>
> Use this Windows OpenGL port:
> http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
>
> Also new high-res textures and new 3-d models are available and more are
> being made as we speak. This is also hapening for Shadow Warrior. Go to the
> 3dRealms.com forums for more info.
>
> -Kent




Cool Thanks very much
 
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OldDog wrote:
> "Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
> news:42BA604E.2175EA1E@internode.on.net...
>> And I'm new here so please forgive me if this
>> has been discussed before but just wondering
>> what people consider the worst PC based games
>> they have ever purchased?
>>
> <snip>
>
> As a "True PC Gamer", all my games are good. ;-)
>
> Check out the games at the bottom of these two lists:
>
> http://www.metacritic.com/games/pc/scores/
>
> Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing got the lowest overall score of 8 out
> a 100.
> http://www.gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=byscore&platform=pc&order=asc&time=alltime
> And Big Rigs won again.
>
>
> BTW I'm surprised that no one listed Battlecruiser 3000AD in their
> list.

Why bother listing an automatic winner? 🙂

And yes, I did purchase it, and actually owned it for all of about 3
hours--long enough to get home with it, install it, discover after about
10-15 minutes it was not only unplayable but incomprehensible, then get back
to EB and return it.

--
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:40:06 +0930, Kissing Lettuce
<sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote:

>And I'm new here so please forgive me if this
>has been discussed before but just wondering
>what people consider the worst PC based games
>they have ever purchased?
>
>I don't normally buy a whole lot of games either
>but of the few that I have bought over the last
>10 or so years the worst offenders for me anyway
>were based on the disappointment at the endings.....
>
>In no particular order
>
>
>Blood
>Retribution
>
>This stupid shooting game which I can't remember the
>name to but it was one very large .exe file and all
>you did was shoot at oncoming spaceships and stuff
>and it had a bit of anime thrown in for good measure
>but was a horrid IMHO game to play. It was made by
>Phillips if that helps.....

Bad Blood
Hillsfar
 
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Thus spake "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com>, Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:33:07
-0400, Anno Domini:

>> BTW I'm surprised that no one listed Battlecruiser 3000AD in their
>> list.
>
>Why bother listing an automatic winner? 🙂
>
>And yes, I did purchase it, and actually owned it for all of about 3
>hours--long enough to get home with it, install it, discover after about
>10-15 minutes it was not only unplayable but incomprehensible, then get back
>to EB and return it.

You're a braver simmer than I CB! ;-)

I tried some godawful demo of it a few years back & couldn't comprehend how
to even get going, much less engage in anything even vaguely resembling
spaceflight or a 'game'...uninstalled & memory wiped with extreme prejudice.
Errr...now you gone & done it & made me remember -
arrrgfggghhghggggg!@@##$%$%^%^^&^&*%^&

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> Btw, IronStorm was fantastic..imo.
> Opinions eh ?

IronStorm wasn't perfect but it was a minor Classic in my view.
--
Grumps
 
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> IronStorm.
>
> It wasn't TOO bad, but there were far too many snipers to deal with that
> it went from funish to an exercise in quicksaving/quickloading.

Thank you! I thought that I was the only one who didn't like this game.
 
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Nostromo wrote:
> You're a braver simmer than I CB! ;-)
>
> I tried some godawful demo of it a few years back & couldn't
> comprehend how to even get going, much less engage in anything even
> vaguely resembling spaceflight or a 'game'...uninstalled & memory
> wiped with extreme prejudice. Errr...now you gone & done it & made me
> remember - arrrgfggghhghggggg!@@##$%$%^%^^&^&*%^&


I'd been looking forward to it for ages--and based on the hype that'd been
floating around for ages, what space sim fan wasn't?

It just so happened that I was in the local EB when they got their very
first deliver of it, and was most likely the first person in this burg to
own a copy.

And also the first person to return a copy.

The only game I've ever come anywhere close to being so disappointed with
was Ultima 9.

The next worst sim I ever bought was a flight sim by the unlamented iMagic
called iF-22, but at least it did work, after a fashion.

--
chainbreaker
 
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Clive Barkers Undying : boring tripe.
Privateer 2 : Buggy, tedious.
Far Cry : boring, repetitive greenery.
 
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Thus spake "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com>, Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:44:00
-0400, Anno Domini:

>Nostromo wrote:
>> You're a braver simmer than I CB! ;-)
>>
>> I tried some godawful demo of it a few years back & couldn't
>> comprehend how to even get going, much less engage in anything even
>> vaguely resembling spaceflight or a 'game'...uninstalled & memory
>> wiped with extreme prejudice. Errr...now you gone & done it & made me
>> remember - arrrgfggghhghggggg!@@##$%$%^%^^&^&*%^&
>
>
>I'd been looking forward to it for ages--and based on the hype that'd been
>floating around for ages, what space sim fan wasn't?
>
>It just so happened that I was in the local EB when they got their very
>first deliver of it, and was most likely the first person in this burg to
>own a copy.
>
>And also the first person to return a copy.
>
>The only game I've ever come anywhere close to being so disappointed with
>was Ultima 9.
>
>The next worst sim I ever bought was a flight sim by the unlamented iMagic
>called iF-22, but at least it did work, after a fashion.

Actually, I could go a good space/flight sim (preferably space). Nothing has
really tickled my fancy since Freespace 2 (though I have played a bit of X2
& Yager but neither grabbed me for long; also Nexus:JI & Star Wolves, but
they aren't sims of course). Any suggestions for a good space sim that'll
utilise my 3.4GHz AMD/X800Pro fully?

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Nostromo <nostromo@spamfree.net.au> wrote:
>Thus spake "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com>, Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:44:00
>-0400, Anno Domini:
>
>>Nostromo wrote:
>>> You're a braver simmer than I CB! ;-)
>>>
>>> I tried some godawful demo of it a few years back & couldn't
>>> comprehend how to even get going, much less engage in anything even
>>> vaguely resembling spaceflight or a 'game'...uninstalled & memory
>>> wiped with extreme prejudice. Errr...now you gone & done it & made me
>>> remember - arrrgfggghhghggggg!@@##$%$%^%^^&^&*%^&
>>
>>
>>I'd been looking forward to it for ages--and based on the hype that'd been
>>floating around for ages, what space sim fan wasn't?
>>
>>It just so happened that I was in the local EB when they got their very
>>first deliver of it, and was most likely the first person in this burg to
>>own a copy.
>>
>>And also the first person to return a copy.
>>
>>The only game I've ever come anywhere close to being so disappointed with
>>was Ultima 9.
>>
>>The next worst sim I ever bought was a flight sim by the unlamented iMagic
>>called iF-22, but at least it did work, after a fashion.
>
>Actually, I could go a good space/flight sim (preferably space). Nothing has
>really tickled my fancy since Freespace 2 (though I have played a bit of X2
>& Yager but neither grabbed me for long; also Nexus:JI & Star Wolves, but
>they aren't sims of course). Any suggestions for a good space sim that'll
>utilise my 3.4GHz AMD/X800Pro fully?

Yager? Like Chuck Yager?
WELCOME TO CHUCK YEAGER'S AIR COMBAT.
IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR FLYING.
 
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Gosh, so many bad games over the years. I always feel old thinking
back even though most of these were less than 10 years old. Let's see:

Fighter Wing (when you flew through a cloud, it got misty INSIDE the
cockpit! Must have left the window down...)

Outpost (so much of it was broken or just plain missing...)

Ultima 9 (not too bad after a couple of patches though)

Battleship Surface Thunder (just terrible)

Command and Conquer Renegade (so much promise wasted.)

Red Baron 2 (totally broken campaign system)

Project One Strike Fighters (it was sold at Walmart as a beta!!!)

Falcon 3.0 (took so many patches to make the comms work.)

Anarchy Online (broken at launch and just too weird)



These are the ones that pop into my mind at this early hour...
Out to tell the world that there is no "e" in the word ridiculous.
 
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Joel wrote:

> Outpost (so much of it was broken or just plain missing...)
>

The worst thing about Outpost was that it worked *just* good enough to make
you think that it *would* work. This game definitely belongs in the top *5*
list . . .

> Ultima 9 (not too bad after a couple of patches though)
>
Along with this one. Even with the patches.

<snip some also-run worst game wannabes 🙂

> Falcon 3.0 (took so many patches to make the comms work.)
>
Falcon 3.0 was broken in many ways for sure on release--but it was so far
ahead of anything else done in the flight sim genre up to that point that it
was worth hanging on to and playing with the parts that *did* work--and
parts of it *did* work for sure. And it was eventually patched into a
*very* good sim. There's no way it belongs on a *worst* list.

Now Falcon 4.0, OTOH, just might. If not for the work the sim community put
in to it, it would have remained one of the biggest stinkers ever in the
genre.

--
chainbreaker
 
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Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:

>> Outpost (so much of it was broken or just plain missing...)
>>
>
>The worst thing about Outpost was that it worked *just* good enough to make
>you think that it *would* work.

It DID work. I finished it.
 
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:50:36 +0200, Mean_Chlorine
<mike_noren2002@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:

>>> Outpost (so much of it was broken or just plain missing...)


>>The worst thing about Outpost was that it worked *just* good enough to make
>>you think that it *would* work.

>It DID work. I finished it.

Heh heh, so did I. Several times. I was so disappointed when I
terraformed the planet and the tiles didn't change to something nicer
than cratered rock (nor, for that matter, did the game waive the
requirements that all buildings be connected by tubes or need for CHAP
(air suppy) structures).

On the other hand, Outpost was the ONLY game that I ever got a patch
SENT to me in the mail. Sierra -in the face of scathing press- sent
out disks and new manuals to all registered users. There've been games
broken far worse than Outpost that didn't get that treatment.
 
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Mean_Chlorine wrote:
> Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:
>
>>> Outpost (so much of it was broken or just plain missing...)
>>>
>>
>> The worst thing about Outpost was that it worked *just* good enough
>> to make you think that it *would* work.
>
> It DID work. I finished it.

So did I--or *got* finished with it, rather, hehe.

Are you saying you "finished" the original Outpost, or the remade second
version that came out a few years later? Wow, if you are talking about the
original, I don't see how. Talk about a half-baked, half-done mishmash. It
did have some of the prettiest cut scenes I'd ever seen up to that point,
though.


--
chainbreaker
 
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Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:

>
>Are you saying you "finished" the original Outpost, or the remade second
>version that came out a few years later?

The original, yes. I got off the planet just before the entire
biosphere crashed.
 
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Mean_Chlorine wrote:
> Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:
>
>>
>> Are you saying you "finished" the original Outpost, or the remade
>> second version that came out a few years later?
>
> The original, yes. I got off the planet just before the entire
> biosphere crashed.

I'm certainly impressed. There couldn't be more than a handful that managed
that.

The only thing I ever managed in the game was a lot of wheelspinning. 🙂

--
chainbreaker
 
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Thusly "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> Spake Unto All:

>> The original, yes. I got off the planet just before the entire
>> biosphere crashed.
>
>I'm certainly impressed. There couldn't be more than a handful that managed
>that.

Yes, I later understood that. At the time I thought it was hard, and
yes quite buggy, but I thought it was quite fun.
 
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