martinovic

The low sales of cod4 and crysis can be explained in simple: common people using pc dont have the hardware required to play them unlike console users. You sound like there isnt piracy in consoles. That is far from the truth. Go check a torrent site and you will find everything that has been published to consoles as pirated versions also. No, CoD4 runs on my computer perfectly fine at low and medium settings. I only have 512 MB of RAM, CoD4 runs on a turd of a computer. That isn't an excuse. I torrented it because i'm not a fan of the series and i was right, i deleted it anyway. But still i know lots of people who dled it and love it and play it. They would've probably bought it. Games are overpriced, since most people who play them are around 13 years old and have to ask mom and dad to buy them anything. 60 dollars is a fortune for a 13 year old... CoD4s quality is not the excuse, since the game runs perfectly fine and is high quality with lots of polish. It's also not a lack of interest, since the game got dled and is being played by millions on the PC, but only a few hundred thousand bought it. Explain that! Dling games for a console requires hardware modifications to the console, welding stuff onto it is not something most people do. You get banned off of Xbox Live if you do such mods anyway. The game sold millions on consoles and only a fraction on the PC, because people got the game for free. I don't mind, this isn't about some moral high ground here, but lets just fess up to it. Buying PC games is a rare thing. I don't even know anyone who does that.

Yea, CoD, RS, Ghost Recon. These are all called realistic... But they aren't, not by a long shot. I even heard Need for Speed Most Wanted called realistic... So them using that word hasn't eased my fears one bit... If OFP2 is to OFP as Colin McRae DiRT is to Colin McRae Rally then the game will be BF2...

COD4 sold like ass on the PC, maybe a few hundred thousand copies, meanwhile millions of copies got downloaded. The game sold millions on consoles. How can you guys still argue about piracy not effecting anything? It's often the publishers fault if we're talking about EA games and such, but most of the time the people who dl don't want to pay, it's that simple. Anyways, you can argue against it all you want, the fact is most devs are going to consoles and canning their PC versions.

Yea how about you do that? "Research" isn't watching the TV like a zombie. It's called the lie box for a reason. Its a pity for you then that my research was more than just watching TV. This week, I just happen to have talked to a number of people who have been to Afghanistan in the past 6 months, including one who was an intelligence officer, and multiple combat officers. I talked at legnth to them, and they said, no matter where they went, the Afghans were not hostile to them at all. It was all from elsewhere. I'd smile at an invader too, afterwards i'd plant some bombs. When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.†-Churchill Sure afghanis are going to smile at a bunch of armed dudes giving them some supplies. Go up to Pushtun Country along the paki border without guns and food, then ask them again. The "northern alliance" supporting afghanis are the minority non-pushtun tribes that are really happy that you guys allowed to to get rid of the pushtuns...

You can love it all you want, it doesnt change the fact that it is true. Before you start claiming stuff, do research on it. All you need to do is watch the fucking TV and it'll tell you all you need to know to see that you are horribly wrong. And whats with this whole force change onto them? 90% of Afghans hate the Taliban. All the Taliban do to do with them is use their land to fight, and use the afghans to belnd in and support themselves. Most Taliban come accross the border from Pakistan. Get real, do some research before you post or form your opinions. Just because you cant see something, it doesnt mean its not there. And considering what you said to your "friend", I dont even want to debate with you anymore. I'm sorry to go further off topic here, but i just have to wade in here... That's a load of bullshit you just posted there, quite frankly. The Taliban are Pushtun, they are the organized extension of the Pushtun tribe, the Pushtun tribe is the majority of Aghanistan. They support the talibs. They want the talibs. They want them to rule. The pushtun also live in Pakistan, yes. But to say the taliban are not afghanis is horseshit. Not everyone thinks like you, not everyone wants to live like you. Until you understand that you will just keep getting stuck around the globe trying to spread Coca Cola and abortion rights. Now i would just like to refer you to your own words: Yea how about you do that? "Research" isn't watching the TV like a zombie. It's called the lie box for a reason.

Last time i checked the Catholic church doesn't tell you to give money, it asks. But you can decline to give and noone is going to think less of you. The Bible, Quran and Hindu teachings and most others are given away for free, dianetics (scientologist book) is sold for thousands of dollars after thousands of dollars worth of investment. Neither does any other church to my knowledge drive people into financial ruin and/or suicide. Neither were other religions made as a money making schemes, but as genuine efforts to give answers, provide support or somesort of moral fabric. Comparing scientology to any genuine religion is not mocking the religion itself as you would have it, but rather shows your own lack of understanding or flexibility.

Those blasted romans are infringing on scientologist copyright!

I thought Left 4 Dead was going to be released.

This thread is filled to the brim with Flame Warriors! http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/ideologue.htm

Now i sincerely doubt that this will lead to WW3, since in a war there are two sides and here you see the firepower wielding western armies bomb the crap out of terrorists, terrorists who were going to school in a suspicious manner or were celebrating their wedding a bit loudly or a terrorist who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm sorry, i think i meant civilians... Anyways, that is not war.

Its definitly not Godzilla repackaged. I will admit it was inspired by Godzilla but it is definitly something totally different. Your loss though if you don't see it. I think its one of the best movies to come out in a long time and I tend to see everything or atleast hear about everything since I work at a theater. I dunno it's probably a nice movie, i just don't seem to enjoy any recent movies at all, i can look at older ones i used to like and still like those. But most movies past 2003, i hate their guts... Must be the overuse of post processing filters or something. Everything looks so fake and clean in these highly stylized movies. Cloverfield is the same, a bunch of effects, i already saw star wars ep 2 and 3, effects don't even phase me. Now for some ridicule: What's with the Sinspawn coming from Cloverzilla anyway? Did the monster make a trip to Spira or something? And that Hud guy must've been through some things already in his life to steadily keep filming vicious monsters that are about to kill him.

Blair Witch meets cheap monster flick? I'll pass on that one... I outgrew my sarcastic phase where i watched bad movies for a laugh. ... and how is this innovation? It's Godzilla repackaged.

Whoa that freaks me out, no plugging into the matrix for me you crazies! O_o

No it wasn't, i set it to the lowest and it would still give me LOD problems after half an hour. It was still an improvement over getting LOD problems after 10 minutes mind you. >_>

Haha! Even the original was prettymuch unusable on anything but the highest end of hardware and you're telling me that this game will be even worse?

Guys, look at the Steam hardware survey, most people own GF7600 series video cards, single core pentium 4s and 1 gig of RAM. So if ArmA 2 can't run on those BIS are just shooting themselves in the foot. Look at the sales of Crysis.

That's 100% tribalism... one tribe making the economy shitty for another is tribalism...

Perhaps, but 5% of 10 million XBL gamers is still 500k:) Last numbers i read about Xbox 360 owners was that only around 6 mil ever logged in online with their machine and that 2 mil of the 360s sold are "secondaries", to replace bricked ones. That would be hilarious though, no? Microsoft actually selling more 360s because people buy a second one in case their original breaks. The original Xbox was a failed platform however, that lost tons of money and had a small following. Well just look at salefigures. Plus looking at games themselves is also an easy indication. Compare Bioshock's lack of depth to System Shock, or compare Deadly Shadows' levels to Thief 1 and 2. Deus Ex 2 to the original. This isn't a hardware issue, another example; Richard Burns Rally was also on consoles and it played just as hard on those as it did on the PC. But it only has a following on the PC as far as i know. On the flip side of that: Colin Mcrae DiRT sold well on consoles and not so well on PC, it's the polar opposite of RBR. No, it's simply too stiff for todays customer. How can you have realism without proper physics? It's inexcusable, make the game have battles between only 20 soldiers on each side max, fine, but don't give me 500 stickmen flying around firing laser tracers without any arcing. And don't come to me with viewdistance because i could see that tower in the middle of the desert in Shadow of the Colossus from everywhere. O.o

Guys, a custom map called Ctf_quarry just got released, it's friggin brilliant. Check it out, if anyone is a server admin then please host it some.

Actually the characters have these automatic taunts when you go on killing sprees. Gives them a lot of personality imho, even when the person playing them has none. Soldier is my favorite for that (although i don't like playing as him as he's kinda too strong right now). "If God wanted you to live, He would have not created ME!" "I joined this team, just to kill maggots like you!" "You're all weak, you're all bleeders!" "You are in my world! You are not welcome in MY world!" Then there's the heavy, he's my second favorite loudmouth! "I am amused, by an entire team of itty-bitty people!" "Ruuuuun, ruuuuuuuuun! I'm coming for you!" And with the heavy you can make some really funny moments, i once had a pyro retreat from me on 2fort and he was waiting behind a corner to ambush me, thinking he'll win. I started slowly walking towards him and started the heavies cheer, the one where he starts singing "dam dam, da-dam, daaam daaa, da-da daaam da daaaaaaam!" and he heard me slowly approach spinning the gun with the signing and everything... He was cornered with the big bad heavy coming at him. Then once i saw a vid of a guy killing an entire sentry farm as a spy and backstabbed atleast 6 people, including the 3 engineers that were building stuff, then once he was done he proceeded to take a smoke. I love roleplay moments like that... But the game can get old quite fast, too many rockets and pipebombs everywhere. Another Valve game i am psyched about is Left 4 Dead, it's going to be a lot of fun too!

So ? I guess there´s little to loose and lots to gain. Once the people will stop dying, being driven from their land, hunted by governmental attack helos or foreign camel-militia and find out that the foreign troop presence is a direct benefit for their life it´s the time when new friends are made. Who´s business is it ? The business of a starved population or the business of ethnic cleaners ? According to your approach europe and big chunks of the african continent plus eastern europe and more would have the swastika as their national flag and the jews would have been erradicated. While I do agree that foreign military influence should be thought about better twice than once I guess it´s clear that once an ongoing genocide is happening and diplomacy can achieve nothing it´s about time to think about the hard way and conduct operations to stop it. This is what the UN troops are for. That's bull. Don't even try to bring WW2 into this, this has nothing to do with WW2 on any level. If you want to compare this then compare to resemblant conflicts. Like Iraq. The big boo boo there was the kurds and their gassing... and torture. (Remember? Back when you were "above such things"?) You didn't invade Britain when Churchill did the gassing of kurds, oddly enough and now the US are employing torture happily themselves. Less iraqis died under Saddam then after the invasion. There was a working infrastructure and more regional stability. So ironically you made Iraq a worse place and lost your moral high ground that you so value. Not to mention the debt you've gotten into asa result. Another one. The kosovo albanians deaths were grossly inflated and the massacres of serbians were hardly ever reported. Now albanians are blowing up bridges, burning down monasteries and other assorted niceties that the US or UN doesn't give two shits about. That was another case of high quality bull. Or the poor widdle baby killing, drug trafficing chechens who wouldn't hurt a fly. Big bad Russia must be stopped! Sad little afghans anyone? Now you want to go in with the same excuse into Sudan? The mystical G word seems to have this effect on westerners that they lose all rationale. It's like when a dumb brat calls the police on his parents. "He can't lie, he's a kid!" Oh no, the darfur residents would never lie about militias now would they? Ofcourse you would never assume that about these guys, cause you think they're just silly brown people that need rescuing. That part of the world is already batshit crazy, even in peace time. Female circumcision, man eating and the burrying of kids under buildings' foundations to give them more stability. You're not going in to rescue the Brady Bunch. The west obviously wants a feel good story about africa. But you would just be considered colonising bastards and half of the place would go to war against you, making the sudanese goverment heroes i the process. "We will be greeted as liberators!"

why, there is no islanmic consensus on whether it is ok or not ok to call an inanimate object mohammed. not all consider it idolatorus (sp?) What are you talking about? There is an absolutely clear consensus on it. It wasn't just an inanimate object, it was a depiction of an animal which is already forbidden by Islam. an article i read was quite clear on the matter, after interviewing various muslim groups/bodies around the world there was divided opinion on whether it was in idolatrous to name a teddy-bear Mohammed. Some groups think yes, other no, there is no inscription saying "thou shalt not name stuffed animal icons Mohammed", so it is a matter for interpretation. There is no consensus. The consensus was good enough for Sudan to actually put it into it's law that naming any depiction of an animal Mohammed was against it.

Attacking Sudan would be a great way to get yourself even more hated. Fuck off of other people's business.

why, there is no islanmic consensus on whether it is ok or not ok to call an inanimate object mohammed. not all consider it idolatorus (sp?) What are you talking about? There is an absolutely clear consensus on it. It wasn't just an inanimate object, it was a depiction of an animal which is already forbidden by Islam.

Teddy bears are statues = idolatry. Mohammed was against that i believe, so it was really a bad choice.