TheGeneral wrote:I play Lord of the Rings Online mostly (almost every night). Also Medal of Honor allied assault and breakthrough, battlefield 2, and battlefield heroes. I used to play runescape, super mario 64, crazy taxi, midtown madness, sim theme park, and just lots of other old things I don't play anymore, but good memories.
I haven't played LotR online, but it looked good and drew my attention. But I've got too much invested in World of Warcraft to just split the scene entirely.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was a
fantastic game all the way through, but the mission that totally blew me away was the Omaha Beach landing sequence. In all of the first-person shooters I've played (which is a considerable amount) I've never had one that made me involuntarily duck in front of my monitor like that mission did, nor has one me saying out loud in an empty room at 2:00am, "C'mon boys, move forward! Go! Go! Go!"
. The game was released not long after
Saving Private Ryan and much of the sequence mirrors the film. The submarine base mission was also well done and quite memorable. That, my friend, was a fine, outstanding game!
And Midtown Madness...
wow. Even years later I'll still play this one from time to time. If I have one vehicle to pick it's the classic 1968 Mustang (one of the ones you can unlock as I recall). That rear wheel drive makes it corner like a dumptruck but the old girl has some serious get up and go! Sometimes I just put it into Free mode and drive through Chicago like a madman with 2-3 police cruisers in hot pursuit and spend half my time just trying to outwit em'. Midtown Madness 2 is even better as it includes a bunch of new vehicles, paintjobs, and lets you drive not just in San Francisco but also London.
As fast as the Panoz Roadster is, do you find it as almost uncontrollable as I do? When you're cranking out 140 mph and make the slightest turn the thing jerks right off of the road, and it has no damage capacity to boot.
A small video game related news tidbit...I'm not sure if anyone here is old enough to remember the old LucasArts adventure games (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, Full Throttle, etc), but I read somewhere that LucasArts is remaking several of them to bring them up to modern standards and will be rereleasing them. Anyone else hear about this?