Dr Acula
Mini-Mutant
I don't get mad, I get stabby
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Post by Dr Acula on May 22, 2006 14:58:03 GMT -5
Just checking for signs of life.
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Post by PoolMan on May 23, 2006 16:42:37 GMT -5
COMPLETE flashback to 1997, when the Interweb was a wild and untamed place, overrun with animated .gif graphics. Ah, those were the days when we didn't think anyone would ever become irritated by repetitive motion! Ooh. Maybe don't mention that to Hucklebubba. Or do you not remember when ALL of us signed our posts with Street Fighter gifs?  |
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Post by Head Mutant on May 23, 2006 20:04:24 GMT -5
Some of us had restraint. Others fell victim to the jiggling bosoms.
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Post by Hucklebubba on May 23, 2006 20:33:36 GMT -5
I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam.
I was going to say something about how my gif wins out over a little dinosaur any day, but then I decided not to. Except that I guess I did just now.
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DTH
Ghostbuster
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Post by DTH on Jun 16, 2006 11:26:58 GMT -5
X-Wing (campaigns 1 to 3) were simply amazing. I absolutely adored that. Sure, there were moments where I was tearing my hair out from sheer frustration but I worked at that game and completed it. And doing the Deathstar run in an X-Wing is a truly harrowing experience! You can do a 'simulated' Deathstar in the B-Wing and it is just SO easy in comparison. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries was equally engaging experience for me. I've oft-mentioned the time I beat the last round of the Solaris VII trials to poor former-mutant Rich. BORING ANECDOTE ALERT!
In the last round, you have to take one mech versus three others. The trial takes place in arena, seperated in to four other areas where each combatant begins. The three other mechs range from a light mech all the way up to the massive Atlas.
I'd tried this level many, many times over because it is just that damn hard. You had to be careful which order you fought the opposing mecha: go straight for the Atlas while you are undamaged and (should you win) you are likely to be sandwiched by the two lighter, but undamaged mecha. Take those on and you would be too injured to stand a chance against the Atlas.
I'd eventually worked out how to get to the big bad Atlas mech by taking down the other two first, in a specific order. Invariably, it would always end up being a slug-fest between the Atlas and myself, with him winning out every time.
How did I beat him? Sheer luck ;D
The Atlas blew the legs out of my mecha, sending me crashing to the floor. He advanced on my crippled robot, firing shots in to my mech, all the while the computer repeatedly telling me I'd lost various systems. Over and over I heard the words "Critical Hit" followed by some weapon or heat sink.
I had tried to beat this guy over and over and by this time, I was frustrated to hell and this looked like to be yet another in a long line of defeats at this guys hands.
The only weapon I had left was a small pulse laser left in my mech's head. I'd only put it in there because I had the room So as he walked towards me, I fired shot after shot aimed directly at the Atlas' head. Shot after shot bounced off and did nothing.
That was until I scored a critical hit, killing the pilot instantly...
The mech just stood still and I got the victory message...I cheered very, very loudly!Max Payne was an amazing experience and I urge any fans of Film Noir/Frank Miller to play it. Half-Life. I absolutely love this series of games and have completed the first one over and over. Homeworld. This game is what sci-fi is all about. I love it. However, I have been stuck on one level for years. It takes about 40 minutes of play to even get your fleet in to position to have the big battle. The last time I played it, I won the fight to get to the enemy installation, only I had so few ships left I couldn't even dent the DEFENSELESS enemy's shields :S
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Post by famousmortimer on Jun 19, 2006 3:50:11 GMT -5
"Defender of the Crown", "Mercenary" and "Bard's Tale" for the Commodore 64. There's not that many games that I can be bothered to get good enough at to complete, and they were three of them. "Mercenary" especially was a huge great world and tons of fun.
"Moria / Angband / Larn" freeware for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC took up many, many hours of my life when I was a student. Top-down games based extremely loosely on Lord of the Rings, basic as hell but when you had a house full of dole scum all hooked on it it took on mythic proportions.
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DTH
Ghostbuster
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Post by DTH on Jun 19, 2006 11:25:35 GMT -5
"Defender of the Crown", "Mercenary" and "Bard's Tale" for the Commodore 64. There's not that many games that I can be bothered to get good enough at to complete, and they were three of them. "Mercenary" especially was a huge great world and tons of fun. Don't forget your endless, endless hours on Elite! |
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Post by famousmortimer on Jun 20, 2006 8:12:15 GMT -5
Ah, but I never completed "Elite". The third or fourth of the special missions right at the end, but no further.  |
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Post by lupineragdoll on Jun 24, 2006 5:24:46 GMT -5
My fave gaming experience would have to be when Resident Evil Survivor first came out, and my friend lent it to me. One of my other friends slept over at my house that night, and we spent most of the night taking turns playing the game while eating chocolate, and seeing who would get too grossed out by all the gore to eat chocolate first.  |
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Post by Spiderdancer on Jun 27, 2006 14:29:40 GMT -5
Here's a new one for me, from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion -
I go into an Ayleid ruin at only level 4 with about ten necromancers in it. Any one of these guys can take me out if I try to melee, because they just keep running away and throwing powerful spells. (I also have the combat behavior mod, so they're less lemminglike than the original game enemies.) The ruin has a huge room with a ton of smudge pots that are giving off poisonous gas, including a row straight across in front of a door.
I go find one necromancer, throw something at them, and run back to the room. I jump over the smudge pots, use my heal spell, and walk backwards just far enough that the necromancer can only hit me from standing directly in the line of smudge pots. They stand there in exactly the same place until they die from the gas. I repeat this with every necromancer in the ruin.
I love Ayleid traps.
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Post by PoolMan on Jun 27, 2006 15:32:19 GMT -5
Not that I've never been guilty of exploiting dumb AI, but when did we become so dependent on not playing the game, but rather its loopholes? It's actually something I'm quite enjoying about Half Life 2. The AI is much tougher than in most games to fool into suicide moves. Sure, if a guard's only choice to get you is to walk around a corner, he will, but I've had guys pull pretty good positioning on me to try and avoid my fire. |
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Post by Spiderdancer on Jun 27, 2006 17:17:45 GMT -5
Yes, for all the talk about how great Radiant AI is, and it IS great in the towns, it has some shortcomings in combat.
I'm pretty sure the traps are deliberately set up to be exploited, though. Particularly when it's so ridiculously impossible to play straight melee and not get killed. I mean, I'm playing an Orc Barbarian Vampire, for crying out loud. Why can't I take on two zombies without losing sixty percent of my health? It can't JUST be my hand-eye. Some ruins even have doors you can stand behind, close, and shoot through their gridwork (of course, the enemy can too).
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sirgallahad2
Boomstick Coordinator
RUN!! Get to de CHOPPA!!!!!
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Post by sirgallahad2 on Sept 5, 2007 11:44:33 GMT -5
For me.....
Christmas Morning when I was 9 years old. I had been BEGGING for a NES system all year. Mom made me work for it. I had 5 acres of desert back yard that mom had to drive through. The place was RIDDLED with nails. After she replaced her 4th tire on the pick-up truck she told me she would pay 10 cents for every nail that I picked up. I saved up $150.00 that summer. I told her I wanted a NES and either Double Dragon OR Marble Madness. Lo and behold, my sister and I wake up Christmas morning to find Matching 15 inch color T.V. sets AND a big "Santa" present each. Mom gives me the go-ahead and I rip into the big Santa box. It was a NES with Double Dragon AND Marble Madness. My shoutings of joy could be heard for miles. FInished opening presents at 7:10, hooked up the NES at 7:30, didn't stop playing until11:00 P.M..
Ah......... my illustrious youth.
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coccatino
Ghostbuster
whose baby are you?
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Post by coccatino on Sept 5, 2007 14:19:46 GMT -5
sirgallahad- that's a great one! When I was 8 or 9 I begged for an NES, too... and Christmas day there was this awesomely huge box all of the way under the tree... it had been saved for last, and was addressed to me and my sister... we knew what it was and we ripped the crap out of that paper only to find... a globe. I can appreciate now that it was actually a really nice globe and probably not a cheap one... but there's a pretty hilarious home video of our reaction of sheer horror and distress. My parents felt so badly that Santa made a surprise New Years Eve trip to our house with an NES and my sister and I were permitted to stay up until well past 3am playing super mario bros.
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sirgallahad2
Boomstick Coordinator
RUN!! Get to de CHOPPA!!!!!
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Post by sirgallahad2 on Sept 5, 2007 17:05:58 GMT -5
VERY nice. I imagine the looks on your faces were priceless. Man, I'm feeling a LOT of love in the Forums lately. By the way, I'm posting this in "Linkage" but I figure you guys can enjoy it too. It's a Youtube clip of Batman and Jesus meeting at the 2007 SD Comic-con. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5I57uXkIFI |
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