Recent content by ballpoint

Yeah my number one peeve with blu-rays is the need to deal with menus. Why they won't allow you to play the movie from the menu by pressing the play button on the remote will never make sense to me.

Your kids are lucky!

I have spent far too much money and more importantly dealt with too much frustration over the years using an HTPC to watch blu-ray. Looking back I should have invested in a standalone player and an HD audio decoder from the start. The frustration and wasted time has been bad enough... but...

I love physical media for the way you sort and display a collection, and then browse through it at a glance with a little bit of randomness. I read somewhere recently that "looking for a movie on Netflix descends into an existential crisis" and I'd agree. I can almost never pick something to...

Putting unskippable marketing on almost every disc is not helping the cause. Nothing irks me like putting in a disc I bought five years ago and being forced to sit through a trailer for Wolverine Origins. I love blu-ray. HD streaming is not good enough and often has frames dropped out on top...

- Fall of Cybertron That's pretty much it.

I've been burned again and again but based on the screenshots, TAKE MY MONEY.

They announce right off the bat that you're going to be shooting at things that aren't ALIENS? This is the first time I can say I am not interested in an ALIENS game on PC. The generic shooting against stock human-shaped pop-up targets is what made me stop playing A:CM.

It's just the music missing. Sound is fine. I'm playing through the game again using Oculus Rift VR headset. The lack of music jumped out at me during the riverboat sequence, since the moment when the music kicked in during that sequence is one of my favourite gaming moments of all time.

I am not getting music when I play HL2. Playing through it again on Oculus. It's incredible. But I'd like to hear the music. Audio sliders definitely turned up. Any ideas?

Does anyone know if BF4 conflicts with overclocking through the combo of ASUS SmartDoctor with ASUS GamerOSD? I had to remove GamerOSD back when BF3 came out because it caused stuttering and instability.

I feel like I'm still getting used to Win7 after Vista. I for one really liked Vista.

Anyone else like me and stopped playing HL1 the minute you got to Xen?

Beg to differ. The COD single player campaigns were a ton of fun up until Black Ops where half the game is quicktime events. . Modern Warfare I and II are some of the best single-player experiences I've ever had. Especially the first Modern Warfare from 2007. Sometimes I just want to walk...

Up until Black Ops I bought every single COD game and played only the single player campaign. Haven't played a decent single player FPS in a couple years.