So it turns out there's a whole community of gamers dedicated to play the old original DOOM.
There are 3 engines they currently use to play Doom Online: Skulltag, Zdaemon, and Odamex. They all root back to the development of the Zdoom engine which basically grants Doom quake-like features such as a full console, jumping, ducking, looking up and down, as well as graphics smoothing options for those with video cards (OpenGL goodness).
Servers are best found with a server browser/game launcher known as IDE - Internet Doom Explorer. Which supports all 3 engines at the same time, no need to choose between them. Just install em all, run IDE, and play.
Of course you -techinally- need to own Doom/Doom2/Final Doom/Master Levels in order to play content from each of the said games... but IDE comes with a app called the GetWad which upon attempting to connect to a server for which you do not have the game resources, it will find and download them for you.
Skulltag (The best in my oppinion) takes the Quake3/Ut2004 approach and really pours on the Mutiplayer action, giving players achivments such as first blood, dominating, so on. It also sports various modes besides Deathmatch and Co-Op (COOP, Cooperative, singleplayer game /w mutliplayer.) such as CTF (Capture the Flag), Invasion, and their own little gem named Skulltag.
Zdaemonwas really the first GOOD attempt at making doom with good netcode for the whole client/server deal-ly. They are very strict on banning cheaters and sport the Doom Tourniments between players.
Odamex... I don't really know much about it except that it works, and the servers are stable. It dosn't seem as popular as the other two.
The new expansion will include an in game cinematic for completing a certain quest. They ripped a bit from Return of the King, but it's okay because adding an epic story like this was a must.
In the great Japanese tradition (when addressing their animation), the folks over at Code Geass managed to create great potential for a developing story within whatever setting and then utterly destroy that potential within 5 episodes. Yet at the same time they manage to make the events and plot twists epic enough to make people still want to watch it, even if they turned great potential into fecal matter.
Episode 21 is no different, they've utterly destroyed any potential brining back the main character's mother had and yet created potential in the main character becoming the new ruler.
Awesome example of a plot twist is the main character's mother who was supposed to be some grand innocent victim of the Emperor. Not so innocent as the earlier episodes made her out to be.
Then there's the matter of the main character, destroying everything and becoming what he hated. I foresaw the last scene since episode 1 of season 1. That sort of power could lead him only to one path.
Killed his Mother and Father and embarked upon total and utter conquest. The entire royal court going from "Stop joking around kid." to "Yes your Majesty! All Hail Lulouch! All Hail Lulouch! ..."
Are we going to see a Death Note finish with the main character becoming the defeated villain? Or will his older brother Schnitzel be the villain? We shall see. (I'm betting on the Japaneses ability to reduce potential to feces)
Team Fortress 2 went and did it again, another massive update is here. This one centers around the Heavy Weapons Guy class. Details can found here.
The patch also includes a new game mode and several new maps, adding quite a bit of life to the game. They could have probably charged a subscription for this game considering all the content they are pouring into it.
Well I finally found something to trump Code Geass in viewing priority, Slayers Revolution. Although a bit thrown together at first, it really starts to pick up after episode 4.
I've been displaced for a little bit. Once I'm solidified somewhere I'll get cracking but for a few days or weeks I may not respond to your private messages, use email if it's urgent.
Just to see if I could, I tried playing 3 mages at the same time in World of Warcraft. For a wile I was playing two characters at once, an arms warrior and shadow priest... to be totally honest, they aren't that fun to dual-box. 3 mages on the other hand are all kinds of fun, if you like equal level mob fights lasting less than 4 seconds that is.
The attached file shows how my screen looks wile tri-boxing 3 characters. Here are a couple random screen shots to show off the characters as they where at level 4:
Got them to level 8 in roughly two hours of work, now I have to work out Sheep macros and timer displays in order to get it all right.
After some pretty big cat related misshaps, the rug was in dire need of cleaning housewide. To that end we rented the famed cleaning product named The Rug Doctor. All it really did was get the carpet wet. A wet paper towel has superior cleaning power.
My awesome 24” wide screen full keyboard notebook/portable gaming station one day refused to boot. It's just a good thing I've already backed up most of the sensitive information to my primary computer.
Diagnosing is a bitch when the BIOS is nonstandard. I've ruled out hard drive failure already.
That just leaves the ram, processor, and video cards (one or both of them). I don't know how long it'll be down, but it came at a really bad time. Grrrr.
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