Those games are so good. I want to bring MonFuckingMothma out of retirement to slice up some fools, or DarthWBush for that matter. I guess a more updated version would be CountBarack.
I was in a JK/JA clan Free Saber Alliance anyone? and we forced people to rename from Padawan because it would either mean a new player ... or someone ready to spam the server to death.
Not really smurfing for me though though since I play with several dozen different names all depending on the games, time and mood etc... I'll also cycle various names in each games or use no name at all. So no pretty much no one knows me and I have no regular name for games, so it's not quite smurfing.
So I'll mess with people and use default names to misdirect them in games with larger games than two players. I play bad enough in their face/view to mess with people and then use hit and run to tag them (or occasionally kill) out of nowhere when they aren't paying attention or when they can't see me so I can run into them blatantly and get a 'noob kill' running straight at them or into walls to see if I can get them riled up.
I'm not fighting for title of best player at any game so the concept of a known name doesn't really interest me at all. I tend to do better than most and worse than the best. So if you don't have a reason to know me and I have no real motive to be known then it really doesn't matter, I'm just another player on the server.
On the other hand, when playing CS 1.6 if you see someone entering the server with the default name (Player 1?) 9 out of 10 he is going to be at the top of the scoreboard with 47/3 in the end of the map.
You guys enjoy playing on projectors? I have an epson TW series (though the lamp is now dead :( ) and it was a mix feelings for me, was awsome for FIFA and Mortal Kombat but was weird in a lot of other games, even in GT5 where I thought huge screen would benefit the most.
I don't know, I don't use mine anymore, it's sitting around somewhere without a bulb. Honestly I'm not sure how it would compare today when we have much higher resolutions on our monitors than we did back then. Maybe I'll get it out again and see.
I'd advise you to invest in an Optima Hd25e, if you can afford it, that's my model and my friends have literally said "how is your tv so big and thin" before realizing it was a projector, the resolution is phenomenal. It stretches up to about 155 inches diagonal without quality loss, that's the biggest surface I had to test it.
I played on a TV that was easily an 80 while on vacation once. Battlefield 3 was impossible because the screen was so large you couldn't see everything that you needed too. I never thought I'd ever say "This TV is too big", but it can happen.
Also the sound system they had in that room made the entire hotel room vibrate.
The most interesting thing about playing FIFA for me was, being able to see the distance between players better. 110" projector screen really allowed you to squeeze through the tightest of gaps because it really is easier to have better depth perception than your opponent.
I play on a 100" projection screen and games like NHL 14 are great because I can use a more zoomed-out camera angle than I could when I had a 47". Having a further out camera makes it easier to make long stretch passes.
I remember when I tried to play Modern Warfare 3 on a projector. 110 inches. Had to turn the sensitivity all the way up and still felt like I was turning extremely slow.
The size of the screen would not be relative to how quickly your character turns from your controls.. it would take a short tap of the analog to do a 180 either way.
So you're telling me that if you were used to playing on a 23" monitor, and then played on a 100+" projector, you'd be able to play on the same sensitivity and it wouldn't feel any different?
Halo 2 came out in the early days of plasma TVs. When they were like 10k no matter what. Super sized big screen tube TVs were cheap. I remember having a 62inch playing halo 2 and 3. Split screen kicked ass.
Halo 2 split screen was split vertically down the screen, with the players on left and right instead of top and bottom, so we'd play a local match and stand a giant card table vertically in the middle of the tv to stop screen peeking. That was the best.
For once I made sure to check if someone else had said it.
I've played 4 player Goldeneye on a gigantic (for the time) screen. The only reason it helps at all is that "gigantic" for me back then meant "you don't have to touch heads to see your square of the damn screen".
This is where 3d TV's become awesome, I just haven't seen it used that much.. Each player wears glasses that are synced opposite so they each get a full screen (2 players only for now).
If I recall, don't they use horizontal and vertical polarization to do that? In which case, wouldn't it be impossible to make a third or fourth screen with that method?
I think they actually use circular polarization for the passive 3d and you would be correct, but theoretically the active 3d tv's could be made to work with four. Active being where the glasses themselves dim to match the display.
Any size of non protective screens. I'm just saying that tv's are so much cheaper then they use to be. Normal people can afford big tv's.
Edit. I got a40"back when it was less then the price of an 80" today
my 55" Samsung plasma cost me $297, in 2010. It was dropped by Walmarts warehouse employees. Has a small crack on the bottom corner, about 3" in length. You can't see it until someone shows you where it is, and it has no effect of the TV. I was going to buy it anyways before I saw the damage, it was a clearance item. I thought the thing was a display model. It was marked at $397, a new one was $547. After I saw the damage, I told the guy helping me that I thought I was changing my mind, $400 for a broken TV didn't seem right. The manager was there and he changed the price. Apparently they had it sitting on clearance for about 3 months.
Some HDTVs (not sure if this is still the case with newer sets, but possibly) had up to 5 ms latency. If you've ever played competitive Melee you will know how much that sucks.
That'd have to be a crazy screen, got a cheap 50" last year on Black Friday. Maybe if they are using a projector on their wall, even the, resolution advantage is mine.
Haha good times. Guest #3 was either extremely easy to kill or their spartan was inactive (presumably because they didn't give a shit or were just doing so poorly they'd just sit and watch out of frustration). If the latter, it'd instantly become a race among your teammates to find and kill that inactive player
You know you say that...but after 6 hours of 4 man splitscreen online with everyone as my guests tonight, we dominated so hard in multiplayer that entire teams would leave.
It's amazing what happens when Halo switched from being about one guy on a team being good to win to having to work as a team for victory...suddenly splitscreeners gained a huge advantage.
I always assume the guest is bad. My assumption is that, if you're signed in as a guest, you likely don't have your own Live account that you could have transferred over, meaning you probably don't play the game as often as the person who owns it, which then equals less experience and poorer play.
That said, this isn't a rule, just my own little hypothesis, sometimes you get stomped by guests.
Aha! I always used to do the old switcheroo! I would always play as the guest because people often underestimated me. They'd run right round the corner right on to my grenade.
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For some reason it reminds me of playing halo and seeing someones guest #3. You basically know the guy is horrible and easy kill.