Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Isn't that what God mode is for? This *is* a PC you're talking about, right?
> 
>   Cheating is for wimps. It's not honorable. :P

While true, cheating at a solitary (single-player) game and admitting it 
doesn't seem to have any dishonor to me. Now, if you bragged you beat it 
and didn't mention you cheated, that's different.

Is God mode more or less cheating than asking people online how to get 
past the problem area? :-)

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somebody wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote
> 
>> Depends on what your goal is.  If the goal is to see the story, it's
>> perfectly acceptable.  I suck at games that involve any sort of
>> coordination (video or otherwise), but if I want to "read the story", the
>> only way for me to do that is to put the game in God mode.
> 
> You might want to try books instead. Easier to read. Better stories.

Having read the first Myst novel, I'm willing to assert the game was 
better. ;-)

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Darren New wrote:

> Is God mode more or less cheating than asking people online how to get 
> past the problem area? :-)

Hmm.... IDKFA.

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On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:28:32 -0700, somebody wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote
> 
>> Depends on what your goal is.  If the goal is to see the story, it's
>> perfectly acceptable.  I suck at games that involve any sort of
>> coordination (video or otherwise), but if I want to "read the story",
>> the only way for me to do that is to put the game in God mode.
> 
> You might want to try books instead. Easier to read. Better stories.

Thanks; I do read, but I also like other forms of entertainment as well.  
I don't need to be lectured by someone who doesn't know me about what is 
and isn't entertaining.

Jim

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somebody wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote
> 
>> Depends on what your goal is.  If the goal is to see the story, it's
>> perfectly acceptable.  I suck at games that involve any sort of
>> coordination (video or otherwise), but if I want to "read the story", the
>> only way for me to do that is to put the game in God mode.
> 
> You might want to try books instead. Easier to read. Better stories.

So we're supposed to be excluded from an entire medium of story telling, 
just because we're not l337 hax0r 13yo's, but instead we have real jobs 
(not to mention, other hobbies)?

There's nothing wrong with wanting to play through a game for fun, 
rather than for bragging rights (haha, I beat Doom 14 on "Final 
Nightmare Elite" mode in 31 hours, w/o taking a potty break!).  After 
all, it IS a "game".

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Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> Isn't that what God mode is for? This *is* a PC you're talking about, 
>>> right?
>>
>>   Cheating is for wimps. It's not honorable. :P
> 
> While true, cheating at a solitary (single-player) game and admitting it 
> doesn't seem to have any dishonor to me. Now, if you bragged you beat it 
> and didn't mention you cheated, that's different.
> 
> Is God mode more or less cheating than asking people online how to get 
> past the problem area? :-)

http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_PlayToWinPart1.htm

If the game lets you do it, it's not really cheating :)

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:47a426c3$1@news.povray.org...
>> Well, I have Vista, but the graphics cards on prebuilt systems (HP 
>> Pavilion) are usually low-end even if everything else is top-of-the-line.
>
> Interesting. The new Dell laptops we have at work come with... an nVidia 


     I'll do you a swap with my card... Your company won't notice the 
difference... ;)

       ~Steve~


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>> Wait... The hunters in 2 don't have the vulnerability where you can 
>> shoot them in the back to kill them? Useful when you have sniper rifle. 
>> ;) But seriously, at least in Halo 1, they have *no* armor at all in the 
>> lower back, where you can see a patch of orange, sort of V shaped. Mind 
>> you, haven't played 2, since a) I don't have an XBox and b) I don't have 
>> fracking Vista. :p
> 
> Half-life 2 != Halo 2.

Heh. I was confused for a minute there...

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St. wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
> news:47a426c3$1@news.povray.org...
>>> Well, I have Vista, but the graphics cards on prebuilt systems (HP 
>>> Pavilion) are usually low-end even if everything else is top-of-the-line.
>> Interesting. The new Dell laptops we have at work come with... an nVidia 

> 
>      I'll do you a swap with my card... Your company won't notice the 
> difference... ;)

LOL! Unfortunately you can't do that with laptops...

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And lo on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:35:25 -0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull>  
did spake, saying:

> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>
>>> It's the "destroy the hunters" part that I can't pull off. They're
>>> almost indestructible. I mean, I managed to kill one of them, but now I
>>> have almost no ammo left at all. I used all of it to kill just one  
>>> hunter!
>>>
>>  After beating it, I learned that hunters have a vulnerability to
>> automobile tires moving at around 45mph / 72kph.
>
> Yeah - good luck hitting them though. It's almost impossible to drive  
> that vehicle! I mean, it's difficult to hit the *road*, never mind a  
> bunch of nimble-footed metal cylopses...

I have the same problems, but then I'm useless at almost every driving  
game there is.

>> First time through, I spent all the shotgun ammo on the first few
>> hunters, then switched between the crossbow and any grenade/rocket on
>> hand. That took more saves and restarts then I care to admit.
>
> I guess that's what it comes down to. The only way I'm going to complete  
> this thing is by spending several very boring days playing and replaying  
> the same 4 minutes of gameplay until I get lucky. *sigh*

If I had to take out a hunter I used the crossbow and restocked from the  
sheds, mostly I'd try to either swing around and come in from the back to  
plant the bomb on the strider (then let the resistance deal with the  
hunters) or try to lob a bomb on the strider from a distance; not funny  
when the hunters target it mid-flight and destroy it, but when it worked...

BTW am I the only one that's annoyed that when you're in the base you can  
watch a lecture on the use of this great new weapon whose alternative mode  
is designed to take down hunters, yet you don't get given one?

Oh and for the record I too got really bored with this part of the  
episode; repetative and annoying. Not to mention the three crashes on the  
PS3 during this one stage mostly when I was tactically withdrawing from  
the three hunters all firing filaments at me.

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