I'm playing Mass Effect 2 right now and it is amazing. It's more of an action-drama movie than anything else. There is some FPS content but it's not much. Highly recommended.
I would also suggest you check out Plants vs Zombies on Steam. Great Popcap tower defense game, lots of replay value. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <amar...@charter.net>wrote: > I know my Sony BD player is dog slow...gawd...it got so bad that I ordered > an OPPO 83...and I just got it a few minutes ago...didn't really want to > drop dough on that...but now I can play my SACD and DVD-Audio discs as well. > The Sony will move upstairs. > > Speaking of games...anyone know of a good non-FPS that runs on 64-bit > Windows 7? FPS games make me ill. I just want something to kill time that > doens't take an huge investment of time to learn. Some simulations seem so > serious in terms of learning curve. They then sit in the box. > > > On 2/18/2010 11:05 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: > >> Optical drives are dog slow and that includes the speed of the door >> opening and closing. Plus some games require that you have the disk in the >> drive and did I mention that the door is slow. Swapping disks is such a >> pain... >> >> >> On 2/18/2010 9:41 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> >>> I want to ask this for information purposes only...why bother ripping DVD >>> and Blu-rays? I've done this...and frankly, I've lost interest in doing it. >>> But I get the impression that some here are ripping multitudes of movies to >>> magnetic media...I have a large collection of Blus and DVDs, but I don't >>> watch anything frequently enough to need it online (like in my house). For >>> new content, it does make some sense, though, if you don't want to own the >>> content you an download it...but if I want to watch upstaris rather than >>> down, then I just go get the disc...I'm not too lazy YET to do that...and >>> it's way better than having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7 (it >>> occurs to me that cheap HDs make this all too tempting to do, though, so I >>> can get that). At least to me it is.... >>> >>> On 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: >>> >>>> That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a >>>> BD-ROM. For DVD's I just have AnyDVD rip it to hardrive as an ISO. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/17/2010 6:08 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> www.makemkv.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Maybe one of the coolest tools I've used in forever. Instant, no >>>>> compression conversion of BD and DVD. If your running mce and your used to >>>>> archiving your content to use the movie library (or I use Mediabrowser and >>>>> MyTv) then this comes as one of the best tools I've seen in years. >>>>> >>>>> It just works. >>>>> >>>>> Sent via BlackBerry >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 >>>> 02:34:00 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 >> 02:34:00 >> >> >> >
