It's unbelievable to me the number of people who don't think Valve is one of the top three PC developers. Come on guys, really? Whether you like their games or not - what they have done is nothing short of amazing. They managed to find a successful way to self-publish their own games, *and* publish other companies' games, and still remain popular. They have been able to reduce piracy of games published by them to zero, and yet no one complains about that.They have developed *and* published a good number of the most popular and most highly rated games of all time. They developed Steam, which is Windows Live, except better, and it came out before Windows Live. You don't have to love Valve, but you have to respect them.theragu40

Oh yeah? What are those games? I respect Valve, and they did pretty well for themselves on the business side of things, but as far as I'm aware, aside from Portal they developed ONE game in the last ten years.

Blizzard.

Firaxis.

Rockstar.

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[QUOTE="TryDaBeardON"]I want Skyrim. And NO insta-teleport, and NO loading screens. And bear-riding. And a real story.JP_Russell

Do you mean how you can click on a place on a map and then just go there? I actually like that because it reduces the tedious padding of the game. I mean you can walk there if you want but it just saves a lot of time and confusion.

Unfortunately, some people will blame a game for giving them optional features they don't like just because they don't have the willpower to resist using them.

Unfortunately, some optional features, while convenient and very tempting to use, are detrimental to one's immersion in the game. I guess you, being a strong-willed individual, wouldn't mind, for example, Oblivion having a shotgun one could use to insta-kill every creature in the game, or an armor that made you impervious to any attack, since you would have the option not to use it, but I am weak. I would use these options and in end, feel that the game would have been better without them.

Do alot of clans take part in this game? Im looking for a game with active clans and teamwork.--Rampage--

Plenty of clans out there.

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The Germans know why. They have a word for it. The word is Schadenfreude. Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

GodLovesDead

I used to cheat in multiplayer games, and that's why. Nothing is more enjoyable then ruining other people's time. It's even better when you can get away with it, with them not knowing. I'd probably still hack if they didn't make the punishment equivelent to taking away your game.

Why is that, though? How do you get a kick out of a bunch of people you don't know literally despising you? I mean, even if you don't believe in good and bad energies and all that, even then it sounds completely retarded to me.

And neither VAC nor PB "eliminate" hacks as someone said here. And 40 and 2 as a sniper on IO map is not necessarily a hack. A hack is when someone gets 70 kills shooting a pkm from his hip.

Because it's hilarious. I've probably never had more laughs. A lot of people here are simply ignorant. They think "wow they suck so they have to hack" or whatever. It's not true. Hacks or not, I could probably beat everyone here in Counter-Strike blind-folded. I get acccused if I hack or not. Don't really care. I think it's rooted in having an advantage that no one else has, and they don't know you have it. That's the fun part about it. I get better scores when I don't hack simply because I'd rather not get caught.

Pretty sad stuff really. I mean, if I said and meant it that I "never in my life had more laughs" than while using a hack in an online game, I'd probably be pretty upset with myself a little later after I had a chance to think it over. I'd probably end up blaming my parents or education system or maybe TV. But seeing how you follow that up with "I could probably beat everyone *blindfolded*," which makes ZERO sense whatever way you look at it, I'm guessing that either you don't mean things you say, or you don't think about what you say a whole lot.

Whatever the case may be, I'm not one of those who think "wow they suck so they have to hack." Although I'm sure some of those who use scripts get them because of frustration caused by their gaming inaptitude. But most are, in my opinion, decent players, afflicted by some sort of psychological disorder. Hopefully, it'll go away for most over the years.

[QUOTE="TryDaBeardON"]CoH = 20 dollars. Witcher = 50 dollars. The choice is clear...biggest_loser

I live in Australia - games don't come cheap here. Some retailers have COH pricing at $50 (au)

Does Australia dare defy the capitalist principles of supply and demand? Try online retailers, d2d or steam.