Recent content by aarmenaa

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    173: Aggro Management

    Hostility between the two factions in WoW is at least partly due to the somewhat broken PVP system. In WoW, there is no penalty for killing a low level or defenseless player, nothing to discourage it. Let's start small: there's a debuff on players who have recently landed from a flight path...
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    de-rez: Team Fortress 2

    Fun fact: In TFC (the HL1 version at least), there were actually two hidden teams in addition to red and blue: yellow and green. They were only playable on some custom maps as far as I know. I particularly remember a snipers only map that had 4 battlements arranged in a square. It was...
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    Sniping

    I used to snipe TFC (the old one, not TF2) all the time, and was very good at it. It was all practice, though - I was awful at pretty much any other class. Also sniping in some games is easier than others. Counter-Strike sniping seems hard because everyone has been playing that game for so...
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    New Command & Conquer FPS Rumored

    Renegade wasn't a bad game, but it launched full of bugs and was promptly abandoned by the developer, which was as shame because the game held on to it's small community for a very long time afterwards. It only proves that C&C fans love this universe and there's demand for a well-made FPS in...
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    NCsoft Announces Carbine Studios

    I've come to really like what NCSoft puts put. Guild Wars and City of Heroes both get high marks with me, and I'm looking forward to Tabula Rasa as well. Here's to hoping for great things from this group.
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    The Great MMOG Purity Test

    Colorful-Disciplined here. Actually, most of the guilds I've been in are started by friends I know locally, and aren't serious about the game at all. We cut up, make jokes at each other's expense, and so on. But, we can all play well and get things done when it gets down to it. I hope to one...
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    The Escapist Game Circle: Halo

    I played Halo: Combat Evolved on PC for about a year 3 or so years back. I think I did the single player through once, and then ignored it for multiplayer after that. The thing that got me was the unique style for a shooter. While Quake and UT were trying for insanely fast combat, Halo is...
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    Review: Team Fortress 2

    I played TFC for years and loved it; and after spending just a little time with TF2, I'm sure I'll love this as well. I haven't played the game in years so I'm currently not the most amazing player. That respawn timer is truly a painful thing when I die so often. That's really my only gripe...