Haha49 has posted a 10 minute video review of Zeno Clash in the Elite Gamers forum. Zeno Clash looks like an interesting fighting / role playing game. The dark shadow around the outside of the screen looks like it might be a turn off, but the music is kinda cool.
Videos are starting to be posted on youtube about the Left 4 Dead content – Crash Course. In this video the survivors are using a canon to blow stuff up.
Post your comments in the Left 4 Dead Crash Course Video thread of the forums.
In celebration of the release of “Crash Course” – Valve software has put Left 4 Dead – Game of the Year Edition on sale at 1/2 price for a limited time.
The new “Crash Course” map is supposed to fill in the gaps between No Mercy and Death Toll campaigns. That way the game will appear seamless to the player.
Post your comments in the Left 4 Dead half price sale thread of the forums.
How would you like the chance to win a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2? If you like the idea of winning one of the hottest games to come along in a long, longggg time – then keep reading.
The Elite Gamers Forum is having a forum posting contest. The first place winner will win a copy of Left 4 Dead 2.
Certain rules and conditions apply, so check out that link.
If your going to post in a forum, then the Elite Gamers Forum is going to give you a reason to post there.
While I was looking through wikipedia today, I came across an article on the Nvidia TNT2 video card. I bought that card shortly after it came out. It had 32 megs of video memory and made half-life 1 look amazing.
At the bottom of the article about the TNT2 article was a link going to the 3dfx VooDoo2 video card. Hey, I had that card as well. But it only had 8 megs of video memory.
For a little while I ran my computer in SLI mode with the VooDoo2 and the TNT2. For the time period, the graphics were amazing.
Before the VooDoo2 I was running a 4 meg video card that I can not even remember the name of. It had replaced the on board 2 meg card that had came with my packard bell computer.
Currently I’am running a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4650 512 MB PCI-Express video card.
Video technology sure has come a long way in the past 10 years. We have gone from a TNT2 32 meg video card, to cards with 1 gig of video memory.
Oh the memories that TNT2 and 3dfx voodoo 2 video card brings back – Doom, Quake, Quake II, Quakeworld death match, quakeworld team fortress, half-life 1, team fortress classic,,,,, those were good days. When Quake, Quake II, Diablo and Half-Life 1 were the games of the day. When things were simple, games were easy to install and fan sites were simple html pages.
In a way, I miss those good ole days. The days when Quakecon was the hottest thing going and 256 megs of memory was a lot. Its difficult to imagine with todays standards, but at one time there were only 3 or 4 multi-player online games.
Post your comments in the trip down video card memory lane thread of the Elite Gamers Forum.
First impressions of the new Zombie Panic:Source modification – this is one cool mod. The install through steam was straight forward. Just find Zombie Panic in Steam, use the search feature to do this. And then click the “Install Game” button.
The total download size is around 2 gigs – 2,006,974 kb in the GCF file and another 52 megs in a Zombie Panic! Source folder in steam apps/ profile name / Zombie Panic! Source.
When the player first joins a game, they start in a room with three exits – spectate, survivors (humans) and the zombie team.
When I played on the survivors team, I started out with a keyboard and a pistol for weapons. Personally I could think of a lot better weapons laying around the office, such as a mop handle or even a drawer from a metal desk. My team and I quickly ran into a couple of zombies who were finished off with a few rounds from the pistol. When I ran out of ammo for the pistol, the player did not automatically switch weapons and go to the keyboard.
While playing the zombie, there are some blood vessel looking things that go around the screen. Only one zombie can infect the human players. This seemed to go against the classic zombie movies. Zombies attack, eat and infect human players. It seems strange that only one zombie out of a whole group can infect the humans.
Overall, the Zombie Panic! Source modification is a well worth downloading and playing. The amount of time and effort put into this modification is staggering. The attention to the little details truly adds to the overall effect of the game.
Post your comments in the Zombie Panic! Source thread of the forums.
The people over at the Elite Gamers Forum have opened a new Clan Forum. If you have clan news, updates, request to join a clan, looking for members,,, or anything else, go on over there and post your stuff.
Also, if you are looking for a free forum for your clan, read that thread at the Elite Gamers Forum
What does SOCOM have to do with Left 4 Dead 2? That was the question that came up last night I was in a game of Left 4 Dead while playing Dead Air. The entire survivor team was using the famous noobtube. To be curious, I asked what they were going to do if valve takes the auto shooty out of left 4 dead 2. It seems that a lot of players do not know how to use any other weapon besides the noobtube. I dont know what they would do if they had to actually aim a rifle.
One survivor replied back, “use a another weapon”
I replied – “like the ak47?”
Survivor – “no, there are going to be better weapons then the AK47″
I replied – “have you ever played Counter Strike?”
Survivor – “have you ever played socom?”
I replied – “is socom made by Valve software?”
Survivor – “no”
I replied – “counter strike and left 4 dead were made by valve software”
I replied- “if you had ever played counter strike you would know why I said AK47″
At that time none of the survivors would make any more comments.
Having never played socom I decided to go to youtube and watch a couple of videos. Lets just say that there is no real comparison between socom and left 4 dead
socom is a third person point of view
left 4 dead is a first person shooter
socom is a military style game
left 4 dead is a zombie invasion type of game
socom was made by ????? Doing a couple of google searches I saw several different companies listed – slant six and zipper being 2 of them.
left 4 dead was made by Valve Software (yea baby!!!!!)
socom developed for playstation
left 4 dead developed primarily for the PC.
Socom might be a good with lots of fans, but there is no comparison between socom and left 4 dead. They are 2 entirely different types of games,
Does anyone want to explain to me how left 4 dead and socom are alike? Maybe tell me what socom weapons are going to be in left 4 dead? Because I just do not see a comparison. Or maybe the survivor that posted that stuff was just a dumb ass.
Fallen Earth, which is an FPS/MMORPG has been released on Steam. This is a pay to play type of game that requires a monthly fee.
Post your comments in this thread of the role playing game forum.
When you see a dead dog on the side of the road and say “hey, thats a dead dog.” Does someone ask you “why do you think the dog is dead?” Lets see, it smells like a dead dog, it looks like a dead dog, its bloated like a dead dog – so it must be a dead dog.
If something looks and acts the part, it usually is that object.
Lets take a rock as another example. A rock just sits there, it does not eat, it does not sleep, it does not drink, it does not pee, poop, move, talk, walk, reproduce or anything else that says the rock is anything but a rock.
In my opinion – Team Fortress 2 is like a dead dog, its bloated and it stinks.
tf2 is a team fortress game in name alone. It has departed so far from what “Team Fortress” is supposed to be about, its no longer a real team fortress game.
Its like calling basketball football. Basketball is not football, its basketball. tf2 is not team fortress, its some whole other game that is loosely based off of team fortress.
One of the points of Team Fortress is that each class has a strength and a weakness. This forced the players to work together as a team. The characters in TF2 are so over balanced their is no need for team work.
Team Fortress 2 is becoming more and more like a role playing game. When developers introduce unlockable weapons in a game, that adds a touch of role playing.
Valve should rename Team Fortress 2 and stop bringing shame to the Team Fortress community.
The first name that comes to mind is “Team Fortress Wannabe Bloatware. Yea, I think that name pretty much sums it up.
If you want to play a “REAL” Team Fortress game, go play Fortress Forever.