October 2009 [ideas]

Benny · October 29, 2009, 07:03:20 PM

How about BF2? :doh:

Armitage · October 29, 2009, 07:22:35 PM

Quote from: Penfold;294524Are there any decent flight combat games out there that are worth a punt?

It seemed to me that some of the popularity of BF2 was that it added a different dimension - vehicles and aircraft. People seemed to like that hence the ridiculous queuing on the flight deck for example.

It would be different and I think could be popular?

Errrr.. Arma2 has aircraft, tanks and a load of other cool stuff

Penfold · October 29, 2009, 09:26:02 PM

I was thinking more along the lines of a dedicated flight combat game but w/e:)

Benny · October 29, 2009, 09:33:31 PM

You are thinking of something like Top Gun.....we've all lived that dream. Well apart from the volleyball bit.

I think we may be getting very excited, very quickly and end up with 300 games and one person on each. Let's take a deep breath and get what we've got going, then step back and diversify.

Penfold · October 29, 2009, 10:19:08 PM

Flipping heck mate, don't be so malefic.

The idea is that we brainstorm ideas see what bites and shake it down to some trials.

I don't care if someone suggests peggle.... it's what it all about. IF we get 100 game to choose from so much the better. 98% of them will be scrapped but I'd rather see them put on the table than just shouted down.

Regarding Arma II - iirc quite a few people had problems loading/playing it. I haven't got it so I can't particularly check the spec but is that a potential issue if a %age of the membership can't play it, or do you think it's such a small proportion that it's no problem??

Armitage · October 30, 2009, 07:38:31 AM

PC Spec is always going to be a problem with new games. I'm not sure there is away around it TBH

Benny · October 30, 2009, 11:55:10 PM

Quote from: Penfold;294565Flipping heck mate, don't be so malefic.

The idea is that we brainstorm ideas see what bites and shake it down to some trials.

I don't care if someone suggests peggle.... it's what it all about. IF we get 100 game to choose from so much the better. 98% of them will be scrapped but I'd rather see them put on the table than just shouted down.

Regarding Arma II - iirc quite a few people had problems loading/playing it. I haven't got it so I can't particularly check the spec but is that a potential issue if a %age of the membership can't play it, or do you think it's such a small proportion that it's no problem??

Point taken, even if I had to look it up.

I wasn't meaning to be negative, but I think we could pick a game from each genre and not get very far. I think it's great we're going in the direction we are, but feel that we can all sit and reel off a list of games. I think it's everyones responsibility to try them and come forward, not just to pass a list to ghost and let him work it out.

I guess I phrased it wrongly. I think 1 or 2 well thought out ideas are better than 50 whimsical fancies (and I'm not saying that's whats here). That said I took the point of the thread wrongly and happily take the jab.

Benny · October 31, 2009, 12:01:09 AM

And back on track...

wrt Arma 2, I can run it on mine and I think the LAN showed I have the crappest PC around. AMD64*2(3800+) - about 2G, running with 2gb of cobbled together RAM and a Radeon 3850. Not big by any standards.

Arma 2 is very slow paced and very reliant on team talk. The server is....fanciful but I'm sure Whitey is working on it. It takes some getting used to but I think it's lining up to be the most tactical/mature game we have. Bear in mind I was it's biggest critic until I played it online.

I think there is room for a racing game (arcade) be it Trackmania or NFS, but again, we've been down the Trackmania route before and it never stuck. Hence my reticence to push 'too' hard on new arcadey ones. Let's not spread ourselves too thinly.

b00n · October 31, 2009, 02:54:37 PM

Must have been before my time when Trackmania was given a try-out, I would definitely have played.

Penfold · October 31, 2009, 04:29:53 PM

No worries and I think your point of spreading ourselves too thinly is an important one. Perhaps not too many games on trials at any one time eh?

T-Bag · November 01, 2009, 11:40:37 AM

I think no more than one game officially introduced every 2 weeks. It gives people a chance to order install and get round to playing before the attention shifts to the new game being played.

If the games are different enough it might be possible to have two side-by side but personally I think it should be avoided. If you look at the rate of adoption of games over recent years it's only really been L4D and Aion within the last year so I'm thinking if we test the games well enough before introducing them to the clan as a whole one every 2 weeks would be a very fast pace only needed when there is a rush of games coming.