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UserX
03-05-2003, 12:58 AM
dunno about u guys but a lot of new games i've downloaded were kinda disappointing. like simcity4 and generals :( . is it just me or these games seems sorta unfinished and rushing out? gameplay isn't as fun as the pervious versions of these game. well that's just me. what do u guys think? :unsure:

NikkiD
03-05-2003, 01:21 AM
I definitely agree about SimCity 4. I was so excited about this game, having played the previous games for over 10 years. There was so much missing from this version. I will admit some of the features are cool, but everything is so expensive! I still haven't been able get a successful city running for more than a few years.

imported_The__One
03-05-2003, 02:07 AM
Totally agree,
in SimCity, for example, I used to play 2000 like crazy, I loved that game...then 3000 came out....lot's of nice features, but not as fun as 2000, and now 4000 has tons of new features and cool grafics, but it simply isn't fun :( Tho Generals is pretty cool, even if it does feel rushed....and Age of Mythology is also not as fun as AOE 2 and AOE 1 (good ol' days :D )...I could go on and on....

pyromonkey
03-05-2003, 04:42 PM
i dissagree with you on C&C Generals. i think its the best C&C game yet! the better graphics, and new engine makes the game run alot smoother!

Ynhockey
03-05-2003, 05:04 PM
Yeah, SimCity 4 sucked compared to my expectations... I'd rather play 3000.

As for really disappointing games, I'd say the original Heroes IV was... a lot... but with the 2 new expansions and several paches it's kind of ok (much better balance, doesn't freeze your comp anymore, more normal heroes)... still no random map generator though :( :( :(

The NHL series is also getting worse every year... I've never had as much fun playing any NHL game as i did NHL 97 or even 98...

The new Cossacks expansion (Back to War) was also not too great... i mean, the first one (The Art of War) had a few major new features (cavalry formations, menu items, a whole new ship system and a map editor)as well as many minor ones. This expansion though didn't have anything new as far as i'm concerned...

Many more disappointing games that i can't care to list... but i do agree with you (if that's what you were trying to say) - game companies are aiming towards graphics rather than gameplay these days and it makes for some horrible games/sequels.

al_birkett
03-05-2003, 05:08 PM
I'd agree with generals , having been a fan of the red alert series generals was quite crap in comparison , generals has better graphics but sod all storyline and like you sed it jus seemed rushed :( dissapointing

emir
03-08-2003, 03:01 AM
yeah good old times like:
aof2,warcraft2,starcraft
:D

maybe
03-08-2003, 03:11 AM
Originally posted by emir@8 March 2003 - 04:01
yeah good old times like:
aof2,warcraft2,starcraft
:D
totally.

but there are some good games out there though.

splinter cell is good, hitman 2, or unreal 2.

but like u said, nothing like the orignals: diablo, starcraft, warcraft, Red Alert.

sigh.

El_Jefe
03-08-2003, 03:19 AM
I completely agree it's not only the quality of the gameplay on current games that's less, but alot of them are also being rushed to release with alot more bugs. Especially some of the games by the bigger publishers and companies.
I think that's some of the reason why we get so many questions regarding crashing to desktop problems and others.

Every now and again, a good quality game comes out, though. So it's still worth downloading and trying to get them. :)

sayl00
03-08-2003, 12:08 PM
When i first played to generals, i was a little bit disappointed, i've been trying to dl it for weeks, and the result is that i don't play to this game anymor.. i prefer red alert 2...........

"The Avatar Man"
03-08-2003, 08:23 PM
I have yet to play sim city 4.<i have it installed but no time or too lazy
but generals has been the first c&c game I&#39;ve liked<is something wrong with me :unsure:

FireATM
03-09-2003, 07:35 AM
in generals i can beat the game in a week but for original c&c took me like a month. SimCity4: no comment.

stoi
03-09-2003, 07:40 AM
all im going to say is

FIFA
FIFA
FIFA
FIFA
FIFA
FIFA
FIFA
FIFA

Bring back the Amiga version of Sensible Soccer, and cannon fodder was better and a lot harder than any of the C&C games will ever be.

njs12345
03-09-2003, 11:36 AM
I disagree with u about simcity 4, i liked it a lot. I can&#39;t comment on C&C Generals cause I can&#39;t find a copy on my SN.

For all of you that like Strategy, Empire Earth is quite good.

LSA
03-09-2003, 02:42 PM
Solder of Fortune&#33; Guys jumping from all locations like that almost made me fall out of my chair, lol. Sim city 2000 was fun, I liked to mess around with the city builder thing...

But there are alot of recent games that are good:
GTA3
Ghost recon
CNC renegade
Red Faction

Explosive Meatball
03-09-2003, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by UserX@5 March 2003 - 01:58
dunno about u guys but a lot of new games i&#39;ve downloaded were kinda disappointing. like simcity4 and generals&nbsp; :( . is it just me or these games seems sorta unfinished and rushing out? gameplay isn&#39;t as fun as the pervious versions of these game. well that&#39;s just me. what do u guys think?&nbsp; :unsure:
Just Curious, what was the file name of the SC 4 you downloaded?

Roberto_BK
03-10-2003, 01:37 AM
Yeah, you are right.

Were are the good old games without heavy images and ordinary fun?

I finished C&C Generals and it was too easy.

High tech sucks.

daveyjones
03-10-2003, 06:48 AM
i concur as well . Games these days just suck , Sea dogs for example , its suppose to be a open ended random world , but when playing it i just got the feeling of "random " encounters , the different pirates in the game can&#39;t even sack the towns . Right right but back to the games sucking these days they spend too much time on the graphics and not enought time on the plot and playablity , i&#39;d be just fine having OK graphics if it ment playing in an enviroment that felt truly alive . I think the next best game out is proably going to be something like morrowind 3 , if you&#39;ve never played morrowind elder scrolls you should its really fun with only a few sight downsides (some of the cities are not very pederstrian friendly) .

GTA was fun (after you kill your ten thousand person thou it gets old , but don&#39;t worry that takes awhile )

ghost recon , nice game as well but a squad of just six feels too small

al_birkett
03-10-2003, 08:57 AM
stoi I agree FIFA has gone from bad to worse to ever worser&#33;&#33; <_<

shenlong_wc
03-10-2003, 09:20 AM
cds ... cds ... cds

what happened to the games that could fit into 5 1/2 inch disks ?

gunship
simpsons
duck tales
treasure mountain
etc etc etc etc

daveyjones
03-10-2003, 07:33 PM
hey if you want all the games that used to be on floppys go here

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

This is where i used to go for alot of games before i found p2p sharing and i have to admit alot of the games here brought me back to the "day" . This site really rocks i think you&#39;ll all like it.

stoi
03-10-2003, 08:30 PM
ive tried that site it sucks, im on broadband and the fastest speed ive seen is 3KBs of the servers, you arnet allowed to use accelorators and i had to switch norton firewall off as well. so it was going to take me 45mintes to download a floppy disk, whats the point of this when i can download a brand new game on an iso .bin in under 3hours. bottom like the underdog site is crap and i wont be visiting it again.

daveyjones
03-11-2003, 12:37 AM
your missing the whole point there with underdogs , there about old CRAPPY games not new relaese , in fact that site is operating legally unlike all the other warez cites that hit you with 20 porn adds all at the same time , i can&#39;t for the record think of ANY other web cite that lets you download games that has been up and running for the past 4 years.i suppose i should have told you first that if you want GTA 3 then underdogs isnt the place to go , but for instance if you wanted orgeon trail or kings quest then there&#39;s the place too look , awww is 45 mintues too long? here are some ideas to make that time go by faster .
1. start dowloading and take a dump
2. decide what you want to download before you go to bed and download it while you sleep
3.Watch a tv and download it while watching the tv show
4 (shocker here ) read a book while you download .
5. (the unthinkable ) start downloading it and go for a WALK .

bla bla bla you hate the underdogs site bla bla bla i hate all the games you like and the cites you also like too , they suck bla bla bla.

arrrg if parrots could spit on people polly would have you covered&#33;

stoi
03-11-2003, 02:04 AM
davey, your a prick do you know that, i know they are for retro games but why tf should i wait 45minutes for a 1.5 meg game to download of a webserver when i can get .iso quicker than that on emule, and im sure with all the p2p filesharing proggys out there, it will be possible to get them at 130KBs which is what i download at now.

also old games are good but not that bloody good, you must be on dial up and never used broadband before, i can remember waiting 45 minutes for an mp3 to download and a week for a decent game, but i dont pay £35 a month for cable, to sit waiting for a retro game from a shit site, if they were so bloody good they would be on fast servers with good download speeds.

i agree with you on ware* sites, they are crap and thats why i dont use them, i use newsgroups, and other p2p proggys and get very fast speeds of these.

also quake is a retro game now and only 22meg, i got that in under 5 minutes of kazaa, if that underdog site had it then it would take me a day.

and by the way, yes i do read books and go for walks, i bet ive read more books and played more retro games than youve had hot dinners.

sorry ppl, but this prick just pissed me off, mods if you want to delete this post be my guest, i just had to make a point.

and you even said it yourself, you used to use it before you discovered p2p, everyone thats a member of this forum has already discovered p2p, so why would they want to go to that site in the first place.

daveyjones
03-11-2003, 02:32 AM
arrrrrrg (pulls out his cutlass )

Excuse me if i&#39;m not the pampered little barncle that you are .I take offense to your badmouthing of a great gaming site , that web site is the only place you can really find the great classics of the olden days, there are THOUSANDS of games on there (4 thousand) and many of them are rich in quality &#33; Just because you can get a fast ISO game off of kazza or emule with faster graphics in no WAY makes the game "better" . I&#39;m not badmouthing ALL new games , but these days they just dont put alot of thought into them .As for the speeds if you had bothered to read ANYTHING about the cite you would know that the person who desgined it pays for it out of her own pocket to keep it running (its also nice that they don&#39;t charge people anything for downloading or even reading the reviews like SOME web cites). The reason the speed is low is too keep costs down because more bandwith=&#39;s more money. I&#39;m sorry but i&#39;ve had broad band forever now as well and yes i also used to have 56k but at least in the transtion between cable and broad band i didn&#39;t lose my sense of patience , you sound like a little snot who wants it "NOW NOW NOW" or else its no good. don&#39;t blame me if it seems like i&#39;m an ass to you , read your orginal post and ask yourself " could i have critcized in a more civilized polite manner?"arrrg if you show no manners none shall be shown to you.

*polly flys over you and poops on you* har har har.

stoi
03-11-2003, 02:44 AM
what do you mean manners, i just made a point that the site was crap, which it is, you like it fair enough im not telling you to boycot the thing but i think ppl have a right to know the downside to the site as well as you advertising it all the time.

and have you got a fetish for parrots or something, because it sure as hell seems like it.

and if you had read my post earlier in this thread, you would know that i like games the way they used to be as well, sensible soccer and cannon fodder, also lemmings and manic miner as well to name but a few, but that doesnt mean i want to wait for ages to play them and i bet most are readily available on kazaa or other p2p proggys at faster rates as well.

and wow she doesnt charge, lets give her a medal eh, the fact that i didnt couldnt have my firewall on for 45 minutes while i downloaded a game was what got to me, sorry but i dont like my firewall turned of while i am surfing the net, especially while im downloading something from a website.

lets just agree to disagree, and stop getting your fu**ing parrot to do your dirty work, wtf are you a pirate.

daveyjones
03-11-2003, 02:49 AM
yes i am a pirate and yes let us agree to disagree, how ever in light of the fact that many thousand of people do like home of the underdogs i&#39;m going to have to disagree with you and say you have no taste because its not crap .

As for shutting down your fire wall i can&#39;t imgine why that would be the end of the world . It&#39;s not like your going to get hacked the very SECOND you let your wall down.

But once again that&#39;s where we disagree so i&#39;ll leave it at that.

(puts the cutlass away and strokes his parrot ) arrrg there there polly take no heed of him.

stoi
03-11-2003, 02:56 AM
ok this is my last post on this, as im not going to get into a slanging match with you davey. As for your point on the firewall it wasnt going to just be for a second it was for the whole download, so if thats 45minutes a lot can happen in 45 minutes on the net, so i dont think im being to paranoid rather just cautious, also if you do manage to get a decent game that comes on 11 disks, beneath a steel sky say, then thats going to be over 3 hours at least without a firewall.

I would rather get the mame emulator with a lot roms of bittorrent, as you can get over 6gig of retro games for that and im sure a large percentage of those will be on the underdog site.

OK PPl, im going to bed and i promise not to reply to anything else on this thread as its turning out to be spam not constructive posts, so im just going to leave it as that.

cooolway
03-11-2003, 06:32 AM
I agree with the one
AOM suck
It very boring
I bought that game for &#036;60 bucks. And then later, I had that same
game on warez.
It was a total pain in the ass.
I gave that game to my little cousin the second day I bought it. :angry:

shenlong_wc
03-11-2003, 08:51 AM
xenon anyone ?

al_birkett
03-11-2003, 11:24 AM
CNC renegade

I&#39;d have to disagree with that one , it was a tarnish on command and conquer&#39;s good name and reputation <_<

NikJosuf
03-12-2003, 07:01 PM
Talkin bout Red Alert here <_<

I downloaded the game a while ago, (liked it by the way).

Does anyone know how to play an Internet-game?
If I try to, it keeps telling me my serial number isnt any good.
I used a keygen, so what can I do?????? :huh:

shenlong_wc
03-13-2003, 12:40 AM
keygen numbers sre not valid on internet multiplayers
unless you searched for cracked servers, that is.

good luck ~&#33;