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Don Carlos wrote:My CPU is aces so I have no worries about that...I am not sure I can spend £200 on a card given the amount of time I actually use my PC for now. I have really gone off the boil on gaming in general but I know it will pick up a little in the winter (as it always does for me)

I think I will end up being a real casual gamer so the lazy factor of a console will be the future for me. I have a stack of games I have not played or not finished.

Also my PC gaming area is a little shody to be fair...hence not spending much time on the machine in general

Eraser wrote:...I like the coziness of sitting in the living room on the couch behind my TV instead of two floors up in the attic all by myself...

Don Carlos wrote:That might be a plan Eraser...I just hope we don't miss the MP boat with the Q3W guys

Don Carlos wrote:That might be a plan Eraser...I just hope we don't miss the MP boat with the Q3W guys

brisk wrote:

phantasmagoria wrote:I dunno, it depends how much content is hidden behind these sewers. If it's a whole new unrelated and decent story arc that's disconnected to the main plot then it could make sense, basically like traditional missions packs (think reckoning quake2 or blue shift for hl etc) but with portals to them ready built into the initial game then that's a decent idea and it makes sense. Say you buy an addon pack for £15 that's got five to ten hours gameplay behind it, it makes sense that it doesn't get included when you sell the first game.

If, however, it's just a small dungeon with a new gun or some shit in that you pay a couple of quid for then that's total bullshit. Fuck that noise.

Call me old fashioned, but if they've spent development time on a segment of the game prior to release, regardless of whether it is critical to the main story, then it should be included with the final thing when you buy it at retail. Consumers are effectively spending money on a game, with content lost unless you pay more for it. DX:HR is doing the same thing for that Augmented Edition with an entire mission to find Tong lost unless you buy it. Gash. RAGE's second-hand thing isn't as shit as Assassins Creed 2's completely missing chapters from the actual main game, but it's still bullshit imo.

It's not like old school expansion packs, because they're developed after the actual game ships and were usually far more significant than a sewer with extra stuff to shoot. Usually a hell of a lot more content than today's DLC too.

Shit like this leaves me with absolutely no qualms in hitting up usenet/torrents to get the "extra" content that should have been included with the retail/second-hand version anyway.

Plan B wrote:

Don Carlos wrote:That might be a plan Eraser...I just hope we don't miss the MP boat with the Q3W guys

Sadly, I don't expect a MP community evolving like with Q3A with any other game ever again.

feedback wrote:Are we a decent community? The Q3W community is now the equivalent of chavs hanging out on a street corner and throwing bottles at people who walk by.

feedback wrote:Are we a decent community?

brisk wrote:His grammar in that sentence was atrocious, but I agree with what he said. Q3A's community in the first few years of it's release was great. I still remember when RA3 was released and it took a full day to download it on my 56k modem... and watching players like Azer go from filthy little noobs to amazing players after every game. Good times.

brisk wrote:His grammar in that sentence was atrocious...

seremtan wrote:it wasn't the grammar i was drawing attention to, more the idea that the last time a decent community built up around a game was 10 years ago

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Or the secret rooms within Quake live.