LOL Ambiguity FTW.

Well, you know what they say...

When in Rome!

I finished it over the weekend.  By far, I'd have to say my favorite weapon is the Bren LMG.  The zoom when switching to iron sights is impressive, and it's easy to pop one shot off at a time, keeping your aim.  Combined with the stopping power and the usefulness in close quarters, I loved playing the Brits.

As far as a sniper rifle, my favorite was picking up the scoped Gewehr 43.  I even preferred the non-scoped to the M1 Garand, which I found strangely inaccurate, even with the iron sights up.

All in all, the action is amazing and the ability to pick up whatever is on hand is great.

One site to get mods and stuff for freelancer is Lancer's Reactor, which has everything from hints, TONS of mods, new ship skins, and other stuff.  The theories abound in the forums about picking up the title and making a sequel, but everyone's pretty realistic about it not happening.

Yes, I do agree...the ease of control let you focus on the fun stuff, whether it was tractoring in an escape pod or blasting ships to kingdom come.  Way fun.

Anybody ever play Freelancer?  I liked it.

Begin flames.

I just happened to be at Best Buy the other day (for completely un-game related reasons) and they had a little sign in their software section that said that though Civ IV is released today, they wouldn't have it until tomorrow...

Okay, so just for the hell of it, I bought and downloaded this yesterday.  I'm a big time Day of Defeat fan, and with some of the great custom maps people have been releasing over the last few weeks, it's getting even better.

Anyway, the learning curve was initially daunting, but once I got the mouse sensitivity where I wanted it, I had a blast.  I'll echo another comment saying that I paid $15 for it, but that's about all I'd pay.  I didn't get the chance to get into the multiplayer, but unless that really increases the replay value, I'll chalk this one up to whimsical.  It's funny more than anything, and the cutscenes are delightfully bad.

[Defender]

I played a game called Parsec on our old Texas Instruments TI99/4A.  1982.  Side scrolling shooter, on the order of Defender.  I found a link with a brief description and some screenies.

http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ti/q1-04/p.htm

Edit!

I take it back.  Same computer as above, but it was a text based adventure game called Pirate Adventure.  You saved your game on audio cassettes!

http://www.if-legends.org/~yois/vault.php?id=889

I played Wake 2007 yesterday both as a Spec Ops invader on the Marines and the Commander of the US forces, and I must say I'm impressed.  I think the map is finally big enough to give the fastmovers room to stretch their proverbial legs, so to speak.  It seems like on every other map if I hop into a Harrier or a Frogfoot I'm flying in wide circles and occasionally twisting to avoid AA fire.  Wake gives us the opportunity to strafe and enough map area to have some decent dogfights.

That being said, I'm by no means a good jet pilot.  I prefer helis and armor.  Playing an enigneer as well (just got my veteran badge) I have the opportunity to booby trap enemy tanks and vehicles with mines concealed in the tall grass.  Ah, the beauty of getting a kill when you least expect it.

As far as the changes, I moved up to corporal very fast, and just got promoted to Sergeant over the weekend.  I've unlocked the engineer, spec ops, and assault most recently, and I'm very impressed by the G3 the assault class gets.  

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Ooooh.  Something to drag me away from Day of Defeat Source.  

I think the patch tomorrow (hopefully) to BF2 will pull me away from WoW and DoD for a few days...but I'm liking DoD.  My clan has some links to Dayofdefeat.net that show some skin changes and (hopefully) some new maps that people have been working on since Valve released the map editor for CS:S.  I'm talking like a crazy person.  Carry on.

Ahoy hoy!  6:07 PM PST and server still not up?  You still chasing gremlins out of the mainframe, Ron?   :twisted:

From an old fogie who played the original tabletop, though the evolution of the Civ games has been slow, it's been great.  When I want a marathon game, I still reach for Civ III.  Good news, I say.

Hot dang, I've been an ATI luser for years, and I never picked up on that. Curse me for a fool.  Ah well, lesson learned!  Thanks, Leo!

Being a BF1942 DesertCombat player, I upgraded DC to its final release the same weekend the 4.10 driver came out.  I would load a map, play for about 5 minutes, and the whole thing would lock on me.  Checking the DC forums, everyone's best advice was to upgrade drivers.  I hopped over to Guru3d, got the 4.10 drivers (I remember thinking, "new Cat drivers?  Already?!?") and hooah, no more freezing.  I haven't noticed much of a performance increase in my 9600 XT with the new drivers, but they made my game work again.