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What's the first thing you do when you get home with a new game?
Discuss What's the first thing you do when you get home with a new game?
Posted by: Deadmonkey
Rip all the shrink wrap off using any blunt intsrument available, open the cd tray with your teeth, bung in your shiny new cd, install(to any part of the hard drive the installer wants) not bothering to register and play, relying on your experience to play the game without even looking at the manual?
Or is it a precise, controlled process whereby you use a razor blade to carefully slice the shrink wrap, use the eject button to open the cd tray, read the last minute update to the readme.txt, make sure there are no programmes running in the background, select the exact portion of your hdd(which has been defragged in expectation)to install, read the manual from cover to cover, reconfigure all keys and controls, then, after 2 hours, finally embark on your newest journey?
warez excepted of course.
I'm a combination of the two.
What do you do?
Posted by: DMo224
The shrink wrap and all unnecessary papers are removed in the car [U]before[/U] I get home. This saves on time. Push the button to open cd tray, manual and cover are thrown on desk. Slide in the cd, autostart, quickly read last minute instructions, install wherever [I](I can clean that up later)[/I] and try the game out for 5 minutes.
Then shutdown the game, reconfigure the controls to my liking, then play for 2 hours. Pause game, read manual during break [I](maybe let someone else take a turn while I read)[/I], then seriously resume game or start over to have better statistics.
Next day, register... and in severe cases, look online to see if cheats are available. :D Get cheats, but we never use until we beat the game the first time. Then it's cheating time!
Posted by: VirIIx
haha well yeah rip the wrapping off straight away and admire the cd... then i flick or read through the manual while the game is installing and then.. i get right into the game :)
Posted by: FWT-Tim
:) LOL Funny Stuff guys...
Posted by: DMo224
What do you do Tim? :D
Posted by: form
I'm one who opens the packaging slowly then blows through the installation process. I never register nor do I participate in any online surveys. I find most of the manuals next to useless except for the larger strategy game manuals. The next thing I do is set everything up (controls and graphics ) and then launch the game for a test run.
I rarely purchase titles anymore because of the ease of finding ripped titles on the net. It's very hard to spend $80-$200 a week on titles that might not be good. For now I download demos and install the odd rip to check the game out. I only purchase games if they require an original key to play online. Halflife was a purchase because I wanted Counter Strike and a fresh key.
~fORM
Posted by: Deadmonkey
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by form [/i]
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Halflife was a purchase because I wanted Counter Strike and a fresh key.
~fORM [/B][/QUOTE]
lol wish i had done that, i got a copy of it and it took me for ages to get a valid key to play online.:)
Posted by: form
Considering the purchase price was $20 I had to buy it for myself. Actually, one halflife key will support 2 clients so I hooked up my roomate with a free copy. The only catch is you can't be in the same server. So at $10 a piece you truly can't go wrong.
~fORM
Posted by: Deadmonkey
prices r a bit more here in tassie when i went to buy mine. :(:(
Posted by: Shutzey
well i rip that plastic covering off and tear the box open
Posted by: daveppeters
I think whoever invented shrink-wrap should be slowly tortured - it is a pain to get off!!
Posted by: Voldemort
i open it all excited and play it
Posted by: DeMonTeC
oh ****, thats where I have been going wrong - i dont even take it out of the box... i usally just ram the box into the cd tray and pray it unwraps itself... haha. *Visulizes self using teeth to rip of box and wrap while steering car home*. rofl