• Xtasy26’s Activity
  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic System Shock 2 looks amazing, better than Concord. on the System Wars board

    Nice! Looking forward to this. Holding off from playing System Shock 2 from my backlog. Nightdive has done a fantastic job on the remasters.

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Warner Bros Shutting Down Multiple Studios (Monolith Shut Down and Wonder Woman Canceled). on the System Wars board

    Sad announcement. Guess we will never get No One Lives Forever 3 now that Monolith is shut down. I thought the franchise had huge potential if done right. But it’s been 20 years. Surprised they shut i...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Are you a GTA fan? Your favorite one?. on the System Wars board

    Yes. Story wise I would say San Andreas was the best. With GTA 5 coming close second. I thought Rockstar did an amazing job with 5 recreating Southern California with amazing attention to detail. If y...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Were PC gamers actually impressed with Halo on release?. on the System Wars board

    Yes, the original on the Xbox not necessarily the release on PC in 2003. When the original came out on Xbox I had Pentium 4 2.0 GHz and GeForce 4 64 MB DDR, while we had good looking games on the PC l...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Are you an old school gamer a la doom/quake/goldeneye/half-life. on the System Wars board

    Old school. Don't give a damn about most of the new so-called shooters like Fortnite. Liked Quake 2, original Unreal, a bit Bioshock, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, No One Lives Forever 1 & 2, MOHAA, Re...

  • Xtasy26 wrote a review of Heretic II.
    User Rating 8
    If Witcher was made in the late 90s.

    The story of Heretic 2 picks up from the ending of Heretic 1. Corvus the main protagonist has killed the Serpant rider D'sparil who has been terrorizing the land of Parthoris. Upon returning to his ho...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Steam pickup thread. on the System Wars board

    @uninspiredcup said: Another year, another Christmas. Steam game prices go higher, Steam sales always go lower. A cynical loop of corporate greed clinically eroding value for it's own unsated greed.H...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Your favorite games from 1998. on the System Wars board

    What can I say about 1998. The greatest year in Gaming over that past 25 years. Some years come close (ie 2004, 2007). But 1998 was a year that from which games I am still playing today (recently Here...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Half-Life 1's 25th anniversary.. on the System Wars board

    @mrbojangles25 said: @Xtasy26 said: I noticed Opposing Force and Blue Shift is for sale too:https://store.steampowered.com/app/50/HalfLife_Opposing_Force/Is it worth playing in 2023-2024?Opposing Forc...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Half-Life 1's 25th anniversary.. on the System Wars board

    @Mozelleple112 said:@Xtasy26: Quake 3 had 512x512 textures?I've recently been on a modding spree for RDR2 and apparently a lot of the textures in the game are 512x512 or 1024x1024. (with mods brining...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Happy 10th anniversary to the greatest GTA game of all times!!!. on the System Wars board

    @davillain said:Time flies when you are having fun indeed: hard to believe this game really stood the test of time during the 7th gen and to this day, the game is still helluva fun if you don't count ...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Happy 10th anniversary to the greatest GTA game of all times!!!. on the System Wars board

    I would say it was one of the best game released over the past 10 years. Really enjoyed in on the PC. Realism and the attention to detail of recreating LA was amazing. I thought the story line was pr...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Cyberpunk is now the most game that mosted you just had to wait. on the System Wars board

    Had it when it came out in December of 2020. Waited year and half later to play it and I am glad I did. It would have ruined the experience and the game had I waited. I partially understood the hate t...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic PC gaming is still too much of a hassle.. on the System Wars board

    @tjandmia said:@theam0g said: @tjandmia said: I've been gaming on pc for a long time. It's always been a hassle. If it's not a driver or poor optimization issues, it's something else. These days I l...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic PC gaming is still too much of a hassle.. on the System Wars board

    Having been PC Gaming on the big screen for over a decade now. Also have Gaming Laptop and gaming on the Desktop. Haven't had any issues. Do yourself a favor grab wireless keyboard and mice and proble...

  • Xtasy26 posted a message in the forum topic Bloom VS 2000's HDR VS Modern HDR. on the PC/Mac/Linux Society board

    Good question. The answer would be what we have today with our modern HDR TVs and monitors and games attuned to that. You are right Half-Life 2 was the one that looked natural back in the day. I reme...