General Game Gabbin'

[Gryewolf]

What's an artosis.

[Mr. Mander]

Starcraft Commentator, and a pretty good one

[Madican]

Seven minutes is not nutshell.

[Mr. Mander]

it is for Artosis

[Chaossebba]

Skyrim

Stop throwing good shit my way

I must sleep

[Tatzel]

Hokay, so. Whenever my net's been down and I've tried to start steam, it goes bluh bluh can't find connection, retry or start in offline mode. So I click offline mode, but whenever I do it says steam is unable to connect bluh bluh there may be a problem with the internet connection or the steam servers.

So how do I fix this.

As far as I know, you have to be logged in to Steam first, and then set up options for a game to be able to be played in offline mode. Otherwise it won't work when you want to play it directly in offline mode

[Blitz Walrus]

'member that Nitronic Rush thing I mentioned last page or whatever?



It's out, and it's Intense!
It's no Skyrim, but for a game a bunch of students made at Digipen, it's bitchin'.

[Shoolis]

I'm playing so much Fire Emblem that I'm considering making a RP

[Superior Bacon]

Hokay, so. Whenever my net's been down and I've tried to start steam, it goes bluh bluh can't find connection, retry or start in offline mode. So I click offline mode, but whenever I do it says steam is unable to connect bluh bluh there may be a problem with the internet connection or the steam servers.

So how do I fix this.

As far as I know, you have to be logged in to Steam first, and then set up options for a game to be able to be played in offline mode. Otherwise it won't work when you want to play it directly in offline mode

excellent, thank you!

now how do i do that

[Tatzel]

I don't know, sorry. I guess just look everywhere on the Steam browser, or google for a manual.

[Syobon]

So uh, I've been thinking about why exactly people prefer the CoD games. Sure, different folks different strokes, but that ain't exactly a satisfactory answer. From all I've read about both games, it would seem Battlefield 3 is objectively better than CoD in almost every way. Yet when I play them, CoD is somehow more fun. Maybe it has something to do with the way everything works together then, it's different separately inferior factors coming together in perfect unison to form a better experience, I thought.

I decided to try and translate myself in to the mind of one of my best friends, who is an avid CoD player. He also has purchased and played Bf and I've tried to introduce him to Team Fortress. He still prefers CoD. Of course, that is totally acceptable, but as I've said at the start of this post, I want to know why people prefer games over one another. At first I thought it was because he sucked at these new games. Used to the comfort of his familiar games, he's unwilling to put in the effort to learn to play other games. But that is again an unsatisfactory answer. Why does he have more trouble with these games, when they are all quite alike (being FPS's)? There is also the problem that he didn't suck in Bf and was in fact quite good.

Now I think the answer to that is also the most fundamental difference between CoD and aforementioned other games (and games like them aswell). It has something to with the way these games are balanced. It basically boils down to this: in CoD a more skilled player can (not will) beat another player in any encounter. In Team Fortress, if you for example as a Sniper turn around the corner and there's an enemy Pyro there, you're dead as shit. In Bf, if you run in to an armed vehicle without anti-vehicle weaponry, you're dead as shit. These games balanced on the level of the teams, not on the level of the players.

This of course forces player to work together and opponents of the CoD games call their players out on being egotistical douches unable to work in teams. I'd also like to argue this is not case. Some people don't like to be forced to work together with 8 year olds in order to be successful.

In short, imo CoD is a game for people who like to depend on their own skill rather than the skill of online strangers. Team work based games are for people who like to work in teams, and often also people who don't mind being restricted to a specific role in a team.

[YCobb]

Halo seems to be a similar thing too, which I think is why it seemed to have such a fierce fandom-rivalry with CoD for a while. It's not unusual for one or two exceptional players to carry an entire shitty team against a complete team of competent players.

[Nefarious Bear]

The Binding of Issac is a balls hard game. But its one of those games where once you beat it, you have an overcoming sense of accomplishment. And that's why i love it.

[Doormaster]

Should I do an interactive Civ 5 lets play

[General]

I think people should ask themselves "Will I actually finish this LP" instead of asking other people if they should do the LP.