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Originally posted by Project-K yes, but you purchased it recently

haha, i forgot about the "recently" comment, i just reeled off what games were sitting on my box. TF was purchased (again) about 18 months ago...

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I still have my original box with the gazillion floppy discs

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Originally posted by Project-K I still have my original box with the gazillion floppy discs

awesome! my original copy i actually stole. no, not lazy torrents, i walked into the store and walked out without paying haha. then i bought the collectors edition. which stopped working when 95 was the norm

also, i now notice that its actually the x-wing collectors series. with x wing, tie fighter collectors & X wing V TF. cool.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN re: health bars in games- the ironic thing is that the removal of the bar is actually less realistic because there's no way to gauge how damaged you are. obviously IRL, you can look down and check out where your torso used to be and think "rightyo, i might take this corner more carefully.." its fucking stupid. its a game.

In The Getaway, your guy would limp and run slower if he was severely hurt, though I see your point. Keep the health bar I say, but don't let that bitch recharge unless you got yourself a medkit or something.

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Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000 your guy would limp and run slower

Deus ex

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Originally posted by Project-K Deus ex

Didn't Deus Ex have a health bar, though?

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Not quite. The green bar in the hud was your bio-electric reserves. The health system was a diagram of a body where individual body parts had their own hit points and could be damaged independantly. For instance you could have both legs severely damaged and as a result you'd have to crawl until you found a medkit. You could also use the medkits to heal specific wounds - for example, prioritizing a wound to your leg over a wound to your arm.

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Ahhh yes, how could I forget. Deus Ex, considering it IS one of the best video games ever made, introduced some mindblowing stuff, and its unique health system is no exception. Makes me wanna reinstall that ****** right now.

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To be honest... I'll work out whether the games I'm looking at are any good (or get recomendations) from (online) friends. Then go look at gamespot for a really in depth review that won't say anything bad about it.

It's better then going to one of those cynical places and hearing a review that critizises everything and then getting pissed off by small things.

Also PCPP has seriously gone downhill in the last 6 months. Seriously they gave vanilla m2tw a 10!!! I guess they somehow failed to notice the very samey factions... limited replayability (not terribly good gameplay either) and MAJOR GAME UNBALANCING bug. I mean it's certainly no Crysis/half life 2 (I'd give it an 8 on first impressions maybe 7 after time). I bet they didn't even touch EU3 (bad ai is ok... until you play a game with good AI... total war battles [at least with mods like RTR on Ntw2 [[eb was shit]] are great though).

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Last edited by Darkarbiter on Apr-04-2008 at 01:57

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Also PCPP has seriously gone downhill in the last 6 months. Seriously they gave vanilla m2tw a 10!!! I guess they somehow failed to notice the very samey factions... limited replayability (not terribly good gameplay either) and MAJOR GAME UNBALANCING bug.

LOL. PCPP has always been shit.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN LOL. PCPP has always been shit.

Please explain?

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Please explain?

as long as PCPP has been around, they've been the uglier, dumber and less accurate cousin of PC gamer. that's just how it is. you're young, i dont expect you to know.

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