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Intel E6600 - OC 3.2 Ghz
2Gb DDR1066 C5 RAM
500w PSU
ATI HD4850 @ 700gpu speed - 2216 memory speed.
1x 250Gb SATA (OS)
1x 320Gb IDE (Music/Games)
1x 500Gb SATA (Videos)
1x 160gb SATA (HD Movies)
DELL 2407WFP Rev A0424" Widescreen TFT - 1920x1200
Consoles;
PS1 (Old school version, chipped.)PS2 (Not in pic), Xbox1(with 120gb drive), DSLite with Supercard Lite and a borrowed 360 :D
Love shooting things in the head, driving insanely fast on Burnout and harassing my touch screen often. Tetris DS high score is 2.8million. Currently learning Japanese in order to understand more Jap games and achieve a lifelong goal.
Gaming since 1989 - 5yrs old. First game Super Mario Land on GB(Brickboy).
First computer was Amiga500, first console was a Master System? Yeah, fucked up I know.
Fave games - HL2, Time Crisis series, FFVI, VII and VIII, NSMB, Ouendan! EBA, Guitar Hero, Metal Slug, Megaman 2, Flatout2, Geometry Wars, Sonic 1, 2, 3 + Knuckles, Chaos Engine, Body Blows (Amiga), SSFII Turbo, Marble Blast Gold, Shadow of the Beast, Pushover, Lemmings, Ghouls and Ghosts, Zool, Mario Kart DS, Pitfall, Contra 3, Strider, 1942, Xenon, Streets of Rage 1 + 2, American McGee's Alice, Quake 1, 2, 3 + 4, N (Flash game), HL2 Deathmatch, SSX3 + 4, Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, Wii Sports, Resident Evil 1 + 2, Worms 1, 2, Armageddon and World Party, Requiem, Linerider, Brain Age 1 + 2, Point Blank, Pokemon Yellow, WarioWare Touched!, SMB 1, 3 and Lost Levels, Mario World, Super Mario Land, Excite Truck and still, a truckload more that don't come to mind at the mo!
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PurePwnage - best show evar.
360 is coming soon for HD gaming. I give in, honestly. Wii is okay, feels too gimmicky too often. PS3 = lol - nuff said. Best "next gen" console is DS and the PC ain't a console but it's one helluva gaming machine, for me at least.
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It doesn't make sense to over-charge your pre-installed fanbase whilst opening the gates wide and dropping the prices for newcomers, that's all.
If you're going for the 360 version... that's a separate problem... but not one with HL, Portal, TF2, or anything else Valve does.
Or Jewish Normalism
So I shouldn't have bought HL2 three years ago? I should've waited eh? I shouldn't have bought Episode One for $19.99 on pre-load day?
I don't think so. I don't want to give games away to people either, I'd rather be charged less because I don't want/need them. That's just a shit excuse for not catering to your customers needs.
There should be an update pack for a more reasonable amount of cash without silly "giveaway" schemes which aren't relevant to certain folk.
Who doesn't have HL2 nowadays?
It's called a DEAL for a reason. Either way you're getting more games than you should for that price. If you dont like it then dont buy it.
And like others have said, you pay $50 for Orange Box which also includes TF2, there more bang for your buck right there.
If it isn't worth it to you then don't buy it, it's that simple.
I'm not a fan TF or Enemy Territory or any team-based game like that. My online fragging games are Q3 E+ and HL2DM.
All I want is Portal and EpTwo, as was posted everywhere on the intarwebs prior to it's release.
And I got Peggle Extreme as well...which is short but awesome. Have you even PLAYED Team Fortress 2? If not, how do you know if you like it or not? I hated Team Fortress Classic and Quake Wars but I love Team Fortress 2. Also, stop whining. These are Destructoid blogs...for cool shit. This isn't a LiveJournal.
So nobody wants to even question why the price of an episode has gone up by $10 when the whole point of episodic gaming was to keep the price low and the games frequent?
Is anybody awake or are you all just staring at portals?
EpTwo was advertised as being with Portal. Why isn't anybody remotely interested in this point?
Finished dictating Shadow?
Yeah of course you can give a couple of games away, but I can totally understand being pissed at having to pay a higher cost for a box set with a two "free" games I'd already paid for. They're not free bonuses if you've already got them.
The Black Box was supposed to be $40 remember? Having to now pay $60 to buy what was originally advertised as $20 cheaper does rather take the piss, as does a 5 hour game retailing at $30, which as Tempus rightly points out, is a joke when you consider what episodic gaming was originally sold as.
Ep2 costing more than ep1: point? Newer game. Newer technology. Longer game. It's still cheaper than a full retail console game, by a lot. Seems like episodic gaming. The time issue is something that Valve is looking into, but I personally don't mind a few years for some pretty good stuff, rather than another 6 years for 1 more game.
But to each his own. Quit your bitching and go play something else. Like Shadow said, this isn't live journal. Destructoid blogs and cool shit ftw!
For console owners, it's one of the best buys of the year. For PC owners, it's still a pretty nice deal considering all of these games are fucking phenomenal. Sucks that you don't like 'em, but you don't often find people complaining about the retail price of games they don't care for, do you?
-It is longer than Episode 1.
-It is includes serious Source engine graphical upgrades such as real-time shadows, an expanded HDR option, etc.
-It offers as much game play as some $50 or $60 games anyway.
-More than likely it had higher production costs.
Those are three facts, and one possibility of why it's more expensive. If you don't find them valid, fair enough. I think very few people are buying Episode Two all on its own so I think that such a small amount of people are affected that it really doesn't matter. Why bring out a whole different SKU for a small portion of your audience? That's just bad business and a waste of money. Plus GameStop didn't want to carry multiple SKUs for one game, and I doubt EA wanted to publish multiple SKUs. It would also confuse customers (I know they're stupid, but the majority of people are stupid and they want to make their money). That is no excuse for the PC's Steam-bought versions though. I just think in the end that it wasn't worth the hassle. I vaguely see your point but I really think if you look at the big picture it makes sense and isn't anything to get upset about.