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April 3, 2009
nutcrackr is playing fallout 3 dlc 8:54PM
March 21, 2009
Nutcrackr had a submission approved for Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason for a total of 523 points. 12:30AM
Nutcrackr had a submission approved for Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason for a total of 523 points. 12:30AM
March 20, 2009
nutcrackr is playing Cryostasis 9:13PM
Jan. 15, 2009
Nutcrackr commented on xruntime's Topic I'm still playing TF2... 1:47AM
I've only played 70 hours. I stopped for a few reasons. Firstly crits. Didn't bother me at first but as I became good I came to the realisation that I could never truly dominate when sometimes new and bad players get extra bonus damage and kill me. Second reason was the achievements. The introduction of the medic achievements was terrible it made 90% of people farm for them. The achievements ...

Jan. 9, 2009
Nutcrackr commented on Scorched's Topic Quick Gaming Update and some crappy poetry 2:24PM
I don't get the second poem at all :Pso gears 2 is gears 1 with more blood?

Jan. 8, 2009
Nutcrackr commented on ElectricHaggis's Topic Alone in the radioactive wasteland unleashed! 3:09PM
definitely the best parts of fallout 3 were the side quests and exploration. I found the main story pretty drab.

They call me Jane - Thats not my name.... 4:59AM
Nutcrackr created a blog 2008 in review 4:54AM
Please note this blog is copied from gamespot, but I thought I'd post it here to see what happens. I haven't been here much, but I know some of you guys came here from gamespot, if you've seen it already don't need to reply. If you haven't, drop me a line and I'll check out your blogs too :)>>>2008 wasn't a bad year, on one hand PC gamers didn't get ...
Nutcrackr commented on biggest_loser's Topic Vicky Christina Barcelona - Film Review 4:48AM
Hell, how many comments did you get for Twilight over here. Appears controversal. I see you seem to have taken over hypebomb with full force. Where can I put the applications in to join your pose?Ahh I see you add Blog Posts to forums now. Now if that isn't asking for some spamtastic stuff I don't know what is.

Dec. 29, 2008
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Nutcrackr commented on Scorched's Topic Scorched's 2008 Awards 4:11AM
nice awards, left 4 dead is very good game, valve did a good job polishing it. Waiting on my content :D

Nutcrackr had a submission approved for Elika for a total of 523 points. 4:11AM
Added by nutcrackr on Jan. 8, 2009

Please note this blog is copied from gamespot, but I thought I'd post it here to see what happens. I haven't been here much, but I know some of you guys came here from gamespot, if you've seen it already don't need to reply. If you haven't, drop me a line and I'll check out your blogs too :)

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2008 wasn't a bad year, on one hand PC gamers didn't get a lot of exclusives, Warhead, Clear sky, Sins to name a few. But we did still get good multiplatform games, Fallout 3, Dead Space, Mass Effect. GTA 4 is not a great running game sadly, I think most agree with me here, if you can get it playable I think you'll find a brilliant game, I enjoyed it more than San Andreas, very long main story.

I think 2007 was a little better than 2008, mainly because of the quality of games, but if 2008 was a "bad" year for PC gaming then I'll take about 3 more bad years thanks.

In 2008 I picked up the following PC games. (Red are 2008 games, Bold are games I finished the story line in)

Psychonauts, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, World In Conflict, Unreal Tournament 3
Tomb Raider: Legend
, Trackmania United, Thief Deadly Shadows, Penumbra Black Plague
Unreal Tournament, SWAT 4, SWAT 4 Stetchkov, Rainbow Six Vegas
C&C 3: Kane's Wrath, Painkiller Overdose, Dark Messiah, Shadowgrounds Survivor
FEAR Extraction Point, GRID, Mass Effect, Call of Juarez
Assassin's Creed, Condemned, Lost Planet: Colonies
, Bionic Commando Rearmed
Audiosurf, Penumbra Requiem, STALKER Clear Sky, Crysis Warhead
Far Cry 2 LE, Dead Space, Fallout 3
, Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Call of Duty World at War, Overlord, Left 4 Dead
Titan Quest Gold, GTA 4, Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil
Tomb Raider Underworld, Indigo Prophecy

Still got a few games to finish, but they will be finished next year! Underworld and Indigo Prophecy were gifted to me by the great man himself [url=http://au.gamespot.com/users/The_PC_Gamer/]The PC Gamer[/url] who's GOTY list is a vast improvement over mine and gamespot's list ;)

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Mini PC Awards for 2008

GOTY 2008:

Fallout 3: Fantastic world to explore, wonderful side quests, better combat than Oblivion, more interesting world (for me).

[2nd Place] GTA 4, not because gameplay is inferior to Fallout 3, it's not. Simply because despite my efforts I couldn't get it running well.

Best Game Character of 2008

Brucie (GTA 4): Well wrtten dialogue and some great voice work sets this character on top of the rest. He's a winner baby, are you?

[2nd Place] Elika (Prince of Persia 2008) getting a companion that follows you from start to finish right is hard, Elika remains helpful, friendly but overall freshens up the PoP experience.

Best non-sequel Game

Dead Space was a great effort by EA, what I liked most about this was the effort they went to creating a bit deeper than usual backstory, downfall, the animated comic. The game wasn't half bad either, great horror sections, good pacing, balance of weapons and enemies and terrific audio.

[2nd Place] Left 4 Dead is just a great product thats had the polish of valve. Great coop multiplayer action, zombies have been done before but who cares this is fun as hell.

Feel Good Story

[url=http://www.gog.com]Good Old Games. www.gog.com [/url] A site that offers old and some newish games with no DRM. The guys involved are closely related to CD Project Red (The Witcher) Great prices, no nonsense, works with XP and Vista.

[2nd Place]: Diablo 3 baby. It will be big, I just hope they don't decide to split it into 10 episodes like starcraft's 3 episodess, then they might charge for content. But hey it's Diablo.

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Some games I am looking forward to in 2009:

Aliens Colonial Marines

Alan Wake

Mirrors Edge

Half-Life 2: Episode 3

Battlefield 3 8)

Rage

FEAR 2

Hope you guys had a good 2008, and all have a great 2009!



Added by nutcrackr on Aug. 23, 2008

In a few months we have some big PC games coming. To give you an idea here are some box shots of most of those top tier games from sept onwards. :)


Not a bad list of upcoming games I must say :D COD World at War could be there, but I'm not sure it will make 08?

Tomb Raider underworld looks good. They announced a new Lara Croft model, Allision Caroll, gymnast :) She fits the role very well, esp her moves. The Red Alert 3 cast trailer rocked, nice to see some great cheesy FMVs are back, some big actors. And I am thankful that they seem to be making cutscenes for the Rising Sun faction.

Which games are you guys excited about? Buying, Preordering even?

As for me I finished Lost Planet, it was ok, not fantastic, had some good boss fights and nice dx10 graphics. I got online and tried some of the GFW Live gold for free. Coming from a PC server background the setup is a bit different, you first join a lobby, then wait (AND WAIT) till 16 players join or the host starts. Then you play, this is not too bad. But what was stupid was as soon as you finish a round, you basically get booted all the way back to the menu, and have to search for servers again. Same goes if connection is lost or server is full. You must refresh them again.

Now the actual MP isn't bad, it has a few game modes, lots of nade spam. But for me it was completely unplayable, Really the best I could get was a Japanese (probably 360 hosted) server, and there was sersiously a few seconds delay when I pick up a weapon. I could really only get kills by spamming grenades. So that ends that escapade. The game did a great job masking lots of the lag, like you could move freely and shoot easily. But I could tell there was a very high latency.

Bionic Commando Rearmed, got it from Direct2Drive, but you can also get it on gamersgate. It's a sidescroller with 3d graphics (good too) and it's a bit of fun, you use a grapple to swing about, good for the price ($15). nice music + sound.

Have fun guys :)

By the way if anybody wants a guest pass to TF2, I have one available :)



Added by nutcrackr on Aug. 2, 2008

Today in Australia, on the East coast they let everybody get the full Spore Creature Creator for $2 with a newspaper, EA pushed it quite big here and I think it will be huge. I got my copy, but may give it away to somebody.

Giantbomb was launched a few weeks back, I was pretty crazy on the editing thing for a week or so then got quite sick of having to wait so long just to do minor updates that were replaced by other peoples edits because of the delay. Once you get to 1000 points you can do as you wish though. It's obviously going to be a bit more detailed than wiki is. The forums are not pleasant to navigate.


--Gaming--

Bought Condemned in THQ's gamers choice range, finished it in about 5 hours. Game had a few disturbing sections and some good shock scares. I was quite disappointed with the ending, basically you have a "boss fight" only the fight is repeated about 6 times where you kill the boss.
[spoiler] You get to kill this demon type guy with these fast pole things, he's pretty tough but you can usually just time your blocks and attack him.


I also finished Assasin's Creed, the last assasination battle was hard, but the boss was pretty weak. The game as you may know features this sci-fi experience out of these animus generated memories, it actually helped it from getting too repetitive. In fact in small doses of 1 hour I thought it held up nicely, the combat improves as you progress and unlock more weapons and items, I think they did a pretty good job with the game really, the game doesn't really end though, outside the memories the game is not resolved at all.

 

I picked up Lost Planet Colonies, played a little bit and actually I don't mind it, It looks good, plays pretty well, some of the voice acting is questionable at times, but it was basically half price of a full new game so it's doing well for me. It has 360/PC play and live too. I don't really know what tweaks they made to this edition, the demo levels were fairly similar to what I remember.


Quakecon brought some cool news, Doom 4 (which we knew about) is going to be more like doom 2. Rage is mutants with vehicles. Sounds a bit like Stalker/Oblivion/Doom 3 mix, sad about the T rating - lucky PC gets mods for blood :D


Saw The X-Files movie, was alright - felt like a run of the mill extended x-files episode, which honestly can't be bad as a fan of the series.


Nutcrackr's Reviews
Does a man require BioShock? Yes, says the man reviewing. (PC)
This game presents itself wonderfully, from the music to the beautiful style of the underwater city and the brilliant voice work, putting this game a class above most. The game feels very polished and you can get a real sense of progress throughout the game. There are a few main ...
Reviewed by nutcrackr on July 22, 2008
Legend is the same, just with less thinking and more shooting. (PC)
After trying Tomb Raider Anniversary and enjoying it I decided to get into Legend. In terms of controls it's much the same, although various strangely situated buttons may need to be reassigned it won't be long before things are familiar. Now Legend does look nicer than Anniversary thanks to the ...
Reviewed by nutcrackr on July 22, 2008
A detailed and atmospheric world with very impressive gameplay (PC)
Last time I played a game with a huge amount of potential I had great feelings about the future of the First Person Shooter genre. The game combined the shooting elements I loved with the choice and character development of an RPG. To my great disappointment the game did not ...
Reviewed by nutcrackr on July 22, 2008
The choice is yours as Geralt in this superbly crafted RPG (PC)
In The Witcher you play as Geralt, a human mutant who slays monsters, set out to recover the secrets of the Witchers. The Witcher is a great Role playing game and it doesn't have hundreds of weapons and armor, it doesn't have a insane amounts of random loot to collect. ...
Reviewed by nutcrackr on July 22, 2008


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