Recent content by mooseontheloose

Hardware. Extreme cable management, water cooling, case modding, etc. = hours of fun. I'm huge into games too and definitely love spending time on them, but I find the 'planning and executing' type thing with case work to be quite fun. If you just mean standard installation of parts and...

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Actually, the design of the game is probably its strongest component. The patches geared to noobs, bad networking, bad lobby system, rage-quitting, etc. all make the game a chore to play - but the gameplay itself is very fun.

Still need to get rid of these fans.

L4D is a fun game in theory, but my friend and I are also getting pretty tired of it. The simple fact is: most people suck at video games, period. Unfortunately, L4D is designed in a way that requires your entire team to at least be decent, and weak links make the game a chore. There are...

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Second Clear Sky. Very demanding, and a very good game.

If you played during BC and liked the direction the game was heading, you might still like it now. It's basically the same casual-friendly, ezmode game it was moving towards in BC.

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There's one reason I'm still a big fan of Infinity Ward; they're true to their roots. I believe they've even specifically stated they want to remain true to the PC gamers who put them on the map. COD, and FEAR, was glorified because of PC gamers, period. The original COD was a huge hit and...

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A good way to test is to open a favorite FPS game, place your mouse on the mousepad, and move the mouse left to right - measure the distance required to do a full 360 turn. If this distance is quite large, you're probably picking up your mouse while playing to make turns as this is true of low...

Decided to cancel my pre-order (was delayed for whatever reason). I've read through this thread and others, and watched a friend play his copy; I think I'll wait. When they announced the time period for ETW I was very excited for the campaign map and other elements from the period, but I had...