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i love the game freelancer. i've played it through probably five or six times, tried most of the big universe-replacement mods, high-def texture mods, etc. i tried one of the X3 games, but the learning curve was so steep i wasn't even able to start moving once i started the game. i lasted about five minutes. should i give it another go? what are some good games that are similar? i'm thinking about trying the Flatspace games, and probably DarkStar One. i should point out that i found the combat in freelancer to be enthralling, and enjoyed the commerce aspect, as well. the graphics in-game (not necessarily the on-foot sequences) were bloody brilliant for the age of the game, too. i have a kick-ass computer, so i don't need to worry about performance. haven't found a game to max it yet. well, OCRers, what do you think?

i really, really like halo wars. i think it's the best console RTS that i've ever played. but that's me =)

has anyone heard anything else about it? i was considering picking it up just because it's Halo, and i'm an xbox freak, but the animation style - as in, it looks like anime - turned me off. i'm not a fan of anime.

i'd highly suggest dungeon seige: throne of agony for relatively simplistic d2-style dungeons and gaming. crush is a weird puzzle game that's relatively decent. kind of hard. dungeon maker 2 is cool for the concept, somewhat limited in implementation but i spent a lot of time in it. the GTA games are similar to Vice City in gameplay. the legend of heroes are direct knockoffs of the dungeon seige games - or the other way around, i forget. edit: and look what popped up in my feeds today! http://www.gamingunion.net/news/hidden-gems-dungeon-siege-throne-of-agony--1068.html

bernstein is one of the best at mahler's works. really powerful stuff.

it's a more strategic form of that system. you set up three-character sets of classes - like, mage, berserker, healer, or anti-magic, debuffer, defense - and switch between them. you can't make your own party setup on the fly, but the strategy it implies makes it almost a metagame in and of itself. sounds like fine.

this is everything i was thinking. the chrono cross-like 'heal after battles' thing is brilliant - i'm SO glad they're bringing it back. means a dungeon consists of all enemies that can beat your ass, and none of this 'wear you down' crap.

agito and versus. not ten years worth of content, though - that's kind of ridiculous for any game. D2 and SC are the only big games that have lasted that long, really, and they lasted because of cooperative and competitive gameplay, not because the story was cool or something.

the 10-year plan's on the ps3 itself, not the game. i'm interested to see how it turns out. they chopped a lot of what makes an RPG an RPG out of the game, so i wonder if what's left can hold it up.

well that wasn't too hard. seems these boss themes lend themselves to metal pretty easily. do i just pm you an mp3, bahamut?

XVII is seventeen, not thirteen.

i'm hoping to finish a remix of a song from FFXIII before the game launches, but i'm not sure i'll have time =( is anyone else pissed there isn't a Collector's edition coming to NA?

i saw money and came running. i'll try my hand at either X8, lumine's second form, or X7, vs. sigma's 1st. i might be able to mash them, dunno.

updated to current.

fewer exclamation points in forum titles, moar mixing!

there are some services-offered things in the sale/want thread, near the bottom of the second post. admittedly, there's not much. i've thought about running a thread of similar style at some point and never got around to it.

i show skryp's music to people when i'm telling them about ocr. they could care less if it's game music, all they care about is that the beats are awesome awesome.

i'm still interested in seeing either a 'gear review' forum for those of us who enjoy the overclock.net hardware list, or a 'gear review' tag. if it's the latter, it'd be even better if there's a quick and easy way to only show a certain topic, or hide one, without going into the search function.

so, i'm the guy.

i'm still trying to figure out drivers, too. the presonus and saffire both work with xp 64-bit, but i can't seem to find anything on focusrite's website about w7 compatibility (seems shady, since the beta's been out since last year). presonus says that they're going to have w7 support 'soon'. the profire does support w7 64-bit, definitely? if so, then that'll be the one i go with when the money's in hand. i'm not looking to buy tomorrow, i'm looking to buy when i've got the money from a composing gig i'm doing. might be a few months, might be six or more...and a lot changes in six months on the software front.

maybe i'm not reading something right. i want to be able to take eight inputs into my system and spit at least two out (for my monitors). i was under the impression that, in order to be able to hook up eight mono mics or four stereo mics to that, i'd need eight preamps. is that a mistaken idea, or am i missing something? if that's such a big issue, would going down to four inputs/preamps cut the price by enough that i could still get something quality and not have to worry about cutting corners so much?

neither are preferable, honestly.

his last email to the team was supposed to be a quick response to one question and it was six thousand characters.

huh. i was under the impression that you couldn't use usb for real-time recording, and that firewire was the only way to reduce your latency down to easy levels. i wasn't saying that the mobilepre was bad for what i've got, i was more saying that i just didn't want to use something as basic as that for my interface. mainly, i want more recording channels and a midi i/o on a system that wasn't bus-powered. i completely forgot about a 2x2 interface. they're cheap, i'll look into one of those. 500$ is ultra-budget range? =( =( =( i thought i was going mid-line or so. i'll look into the ionix and the profire 2626. so now i've got four options, with a black mark on one. anyone else have opinions of the presonus, saffire pro 40, ionix, or profire? initial thoughts: the firestudio and the saffire pro allow you to assign phantom power per two-channel sets. the profile's got it in sets of four. not a big fan of that...ok, carry on.

in other words, no, i don't need it right now. awesome, thanks for the good explanation, man.