User talk:Arnout aka The Emperors Angel/Games

You were mad enough to buy RA 3? Was hardly worth pirating even... Also, we seem to have pretty similar gaming styles :-) (except that you don't have BLOODY STARCRAFT2!!!11!1!oneonetwo!1 shame on you!) --El_Nazgir 07:43, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Meh, I never even played the original. And I had great fun with RA 3. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 09:14, 10 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The best part about RA 3 was the humour. The rest was meh imo. And whatever you do, do not get involved with CnC 4. Ever. And if you do and you like it, I will lose all respect I have for you as a gamer.
 * And no starcraft 1! You're missing out. Btw, if you get starcraft 2, you won't have to get starcraft 1 anymore (and believe me, the expansion is bloody hard to find (legally)), because there are some people converting the SC1 campaigns to SC2, including briefings etc. :-D --[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]El_Nazgir 16:56, 10 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Wait, you DO have cnc4? And not even illegally? Seriously though, what do you think of it? --[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]El_Nazgir 15:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply, I must have missed yours. Yes, I own C&C 4, and no, it wasn't that bad. Well, the campaing was crap, but the story was good, and so was the multiplayer.
 * And RA 3 was guuuuud humor. I mean really, really funny. We (my brother and I) still quote Presidant Ackerman. Saw him last week, as the head of a newspaper in Spiderman. Great typecasting. He also features in the Portal 2 ingame commercials. (my brother owns it). And that classic Russian president, and Tanya, kicking ass. Yeah, I loved that.... Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 07:10, 19 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I guess you never played RA1. Tanya was kickass there, and it was very clear that she was just one person (it was explicitly said that she was a civilian there). In RA2, it was still believable to be the same person, but in RA 3? Hell no, they give it some lame spin in the manual that mentions it being a codename... RA3's tanya is nothing compared to RA1's.
 * While I doubt they'd entertain you in this day and age, but I still prefer the original games before EA's meddling and takeover. CnC 1 and TS had great story, and CnC3 completely ignored half of it (but had redeeming gameplay quality). Kane's wrath made a turn for the worse (seriously, making the tacitus "unstable and prone to explode"? It's the alien equivalent of a DVD...). CnC 4 threw both story and gameplay out of the window. CnC is an RTS. CnC 4 is not CnC. Full stop.
 * RA 1 started gritty, and a lot darker than any other cnc games (Sovjet campaign is prequel for CnC1, allies for RA2), and RA 2 was just a "throw wacky technology around with an excuse plot". RA 2 was already a lot less quality story (but gameplay was still great). RA 3 just went too far with everything imo.
 * Anyway, the discussion is probably pointless, seeing how I'm pretty much a die-hard orig westwood fan :P --[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]El_Nazgir 16:28, 19 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Dude, stop being so hardcore! ;-) No, I never played either RA 1, or CnC before CnC 3 (well, my cousin had part 2 if I remeber correctly, though I'm not sure) so I have nothing to compare too. Sorry for being a nub! Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 18:12, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Free games for you
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ - the original (2.5D) GTA, which is very fun to play (and GTA2 as well); and Wild Metal Country, which I enjoyed - it is basically "Tank Wars" (Worms, Scroch, ...) (you know, where you have a gun and give it elevation and strength) in 3D with actual tank chassis - the landscape graphics are dated, and you'll soon find out whether you love the gameplay - the game didn't sell well, so most people didn't, but I actually completed this game. --◄mendel► 21:08, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll give it a try. I never got further than 25% with GTA, though. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 08:52, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Skyrim doesn't work properly
What's wrong? There are a bunch of terrible bugs, but I doubt that's why you'd uninstall it. --El_Nazgir 22:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It's performance wise. Most games I can't run on my laptop, I have installed on my desktop. Can't be bothered to list the games I got there, and quite some of them are illegal, and or duplicates of games I have installed on my laptop, or already finished. It's not the bugs. Besides, I'm halfway decent with the console, so no bugs will stand in my way. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 23:31, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

time
I was looking at the list of games I own and have finished, and was amazed at how much time I actually spend on videogames. People I have on steam can testify on how much I actually game... And that just besides the 2000 hours I have spend on Guild Wars. How about you guys? Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 22:50, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ditto. I think I game even more on steam than you do. Plus the fact that I actually added GW to my steam menu now because people kept talking to me through steam while I was playing gw :D --[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]El_Nazgir 23:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Serious hardware
I stuck my networkcable in a network port during class today. And I got this:

That is some serious hardware... Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 16:49, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Very nice. The company I work for has a direct fiber link to a primary internet pipe that can transfer up to 1 GB/sec - obviously, this is dedicated to FTP connections for our clients (some of their data files are 100+ GB).  Standard HTTP access from our workstations is on a slower connection that I think is capped at 25 MB/sec.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 16:58, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It was a peak download at a low usage time, but the highest I had ever seen was like 11 mb/s from Origin. Still, the peak capicaty of half a 0,5 GB/sec is pretty awesome. Shame I can't usually download stuff there. Also, wtf 100 gigs in data? Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 18:30, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Eeeyup. Not all the time, of course, but it does happen, especially when we're setting up a new client and they give us a few years' worth of historical data.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 18:59, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I get that at home. :smug: It's the best thing ever, and I'm going to go nuts when I move out and invariably get some average internet connection. --Vipermagi 14:10, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * PFFFFT. 3,0 mb/s at my parents home, 10 where I live now. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 17:16, 27 March 2012 (UTC)