Neat little touches you've enjoyed in videogames...

[capncnut]

This thread should've been called 'Silent Hill questions answered' . Hellz, just a little question. What are the differences between Inner Fears and Restless Dreams, does Inner Fears have the UFO ending?

[Danny]

yeah one was on the xbox and got that born from a wish ending and something about using a stone in certain locations to get a ufo ending but the it was released again on the ps2 with that new content, cant remember which is which though they should have just called it "silent hill 2" and have done with it not all these different titles.

[Tricky]

Back in the day i thought it was a neat touch when you had to run after your bike if you came off it on road rash 2,we were so easily pleased back then download it here for a re-cap http://www.games4win.com/games/road-rash-2/ And FarCry,that game is loaded with neat little touches,from the ragdoll physics to the fancy lighting,AI & awesomely huge levels thats another one im going to have to blast through again!

[Danny]

yeah to bad its the most glitch filled sombitch i have ever played.

[MinionZombie]

Glitch filled? Which game, FarCry? I admit it isn't the most generous engine to various systems (Doom 3 and Half Life 2 were very good on a wide variety of specs, but FarCry is rather fussy). I've never really considered FarCry to be a buggy game, I take it you played a console version? Tricky - fudge yeah boyeeee! Road Rash 2 - I've got it for the Mega Drive, sitting on my shelf as I recently dug my console out of the cupboard, will have to give it a blast through sometime soon. It was a great game, I remember getting so pissed off when a car pulled out in front of me from a side road and I was going like a million miles an hour, so it took ages to get back to my bike again. How was I going that fast? ... Remember the cheat that gave you that beast of a black bike? Oh man ... it was like porn it was so good! hehe, I blasted through FarCry a few weeks back, not quite as good as I remember, the generic story and piss poor acting put me off a bit, and the indoor areas are fairly "meh", it's the outdoor areas I love. If it had just been mid-day sunny, tropical island outside only, with just merceneries I'd have been fine with that, those are the levels I've played over and over and over, some of the monsters just get annoying ... that said, it's still an awesome game. Ahhh memories ... I remember autumn semester 2004, going back to uni and installing my fresh and new Radeon 9600 Pro and playing FarCry, I was blown away - then it was onto Doom 3 and I was again utterly blown away, I almost creamed my pants ... meanwhile one housemate who was on mushrooms when I was playing one day almost sh*t his! (I had to take a break from laughing at them all hopped up on shrooms, but he came looking for me as I was the only sober one and he was terrified that I wasn't there to protect him from ... get this (seriously) ... killer strawberries and toilet rolls ... I kid you not. He almost had a heart attack when an Imp burst out of a door at one point in the game!

[Danny]

i was pretty much the same the first time i turned on my 360 with oblivion in, cus my pc is an emachines and the best they can play is like direct x7 level graphics without screeching like a banshee then givinjg me the blue screen of death!!!

[MinionZombie]

lol, aye it's great to have that significant step up and be all "oooh ... ahhhh" ... unfortunately I'm currently in the decline that comes before either the "ooh" or the "ahh". I've gone back to Hitman Blood Money ... which I need to play on 800x600 resolution *grumpily grumpily groo* ... still, stonking great game! Gotta love shooting doors open while holding a civilian hostage at gunpoint, walking away slowly from a cop with their gun drawn and then tossing the innocent down on the ground and capping them in the ass. Ahhh virtual videogame violence ... how it calms one down.

[Tricky]

Well minion,if far cry is starting to seem a little aged now (as does the first call of duty which i LOVED!) then fear not,as this puppy is just around the corner This will be one of my first purchases when ive afforded my new rig!

[MinionZombie]

*fills pants with joy* If only I had a rig that could handle that baby ... mind you, this Windows Vista sh*t doesn't fill me with joy, their Nazistic control over what you can and can't do is pure facism ... and I duno ... the potential change in PC gaming with this "games for windows" idea, although it's not really clear, makes me feel a bit uneasy. Still ... Crysis looks freakin' ball bustin' ... *power dip ... * They're after me!!!

[Tricky]

Ive been playing medieval 2 most of the afternoon,& ive found out if you leave it when it says "start deployment" at the beginning of a battle,you get a rousing pre-battle speech from your general,and it differs everytime,depending on who your fighting & why another neat touch in a game thats full of neat touches!

[MinionZombie]

I've got another one from Hitman Blood Money - when you've got a "human shield" hostage and you're shooting, but need to reload, Agent 47 will kick the person forward, slam them on the ground, and kinda straddle them as they lie face down so they don't escape, then once the new mag is in he picks them back up and resumes. Also, knife play - not only can you throw them at people, but sneak up on them at you can either: 1) Stab them in the back, thus pushing them forward. 2) Grab them and shove the knife in their head, blood spurts forth. 3) Grab them and slice their throat, blood spurts forth. It's also hella fun to shoot someone in the head with your silenced/red dot sighted Silver-baller so that their brains splatter all over something behind them. Also of course, the "natural cause" assassinations you can pull off, shoving someone over a balcony, or into freezing water or replacing the replica WW2 pistol with a real WW2 pistol so that you don't kill the target, but the actor aiming the pistol at the target does it and you get to sit back and watch - brilliant. Also, I've been playing it through while being really lax about identity security - so now when I enter a level there are newspapers with my image on (captured from video cameras I didn't steal the tape from) and people say things like "Don't I know you from TV?" ... "aren't you a celebrity?" ... or flat out knowing - "it's him!!! It's the [insert previous mission] killer!!!" and they all run off. Also, one more, if a civilian picks up a gun to shoot at you, sometimes you get them to surrender by shooting at them nearby - at a wall, at their feet etc, and they'll drop the gun and re-surrender.

[Tricky]

Another one,on metal gear 2 when you could shoot the enemys radio that was clipped on their belt so they couldnt call for help You can do similar on far cry as well,when you come across a platoon of mercs,make sure you take the radio guy first,otherwise all the bad guys in the area will be down on you!

[MinionZombie]

Cool tip for FarCry there, never knew about that one. Another HMB one - a little touch indeed - when you walk down stairs his head tilts down and to the right a little - he's actually looking at the steps! A nice little touch that I rather like and swivel the camera around for, especially when I'm descending into the belly of the casino in Vegas with a pump action shotgun 'on hold' in my left hand and a handgun (silverballer/desert eagle) in my right ... noiiice.

[capncnut]

Just thought of one as I was playing Oblivion today. You know the bit in the Imperial City where you grass up the corrupt officer? If you stalk the watch captain after, he will move on foot from place to place and ACTUALLY nick the guy, read him his rights and (after more stalking) escort him to prison. Ten days later (when you've totally forgotten about it) the corrupt officer comes back to kill you, no matter what part of town you are in. I've got that to look forward to in a couple of says, hehe.

[Danny]

yeah theres loads in that game, which i started again today, damn that first dungeon is boring. i liked the mini quest were a womans daughters been captured by a town i passed through early on that was half burnt and they had mutant cultists in caves under the town and a cult religion and they were planning to sacrifice here, and i love how you can either be the hero, which i allways do without thinking (which means you miss a lot in the elder scrolls) or take part and be a bastard yourself, it'd be like GTA but being a cop OR a gangster.