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X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« on: March 21, 2010, 05:58:29 PM »

In this thread we talk about games which are at least five years old. For example: I recently played a game of Jade Empire. I decided to go with a randomly generated character name for my female character: Misty Meifang. That is an awesome name.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2010, 06:23:58 PM »

I remember playing the huge buff guy and that he was called Bear Qing, but I can't recall if it was random or if I typed it in. Good times!

Well, reasonably good times. Okay times.

I still think that IP would have had more potential if it hadn't been saddled with a Godawful Bioware Ethics SystemTM. But then again they started making Mass Effect instead so we can't really complain I suppose.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2010, 07:19:39 PM »

fuck, hold on, threadsplitting
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 07:40:07 PM »

I still think that Jade Empire is the most interesting IP that Bioware's produced, and the story probably their best.  The Ethics system wasn't implemented perfectly, but the principles behind it are a lot more interesting than a traditional Good/Evil or Mass Effect "vague differences in how frequently you yell at people except for when it's blatantly good/evil" system.  I enjoyed Mass Effect 2 a lot, but I'd still gleefully see the entire franchise junked in favor of more Jade Empire.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2010, 08:45:56 AM »

more like the up up down down left right left right b a start select thread
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2010, 11:55:31 AM »

The one time I played Romance of the Three Kingdoms (uh like... 7 or something?) my characters names were Gonrong Wei, Longfar Chuk, and Futon Slut.

Racist and sexist?
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2010, 11:38:13 PM »

Since I've been feeling the pinch monetarily, I've been spending a fair bit of time playing games I never finished the first time around. The last couple days I've found myself kind of fixated on the Deadly Rooms of Death games Journey to Rooted Hold and The City Beneath. The games themselves are US$20 apiece, but each one has a free demo.

The games play like nothing else I've ever encountered. They're turn-based, one-hit-kill dungeon delving: you occupy one square, your fucking enormous sword occupies one square adjacent to you, and (most) enemies occupy one square as well. Whenever you move or rotate your sword around your body, every enemy gets to move one square closer. If you can push your sword into the square they occupy, they die; if they step into your square, YOU die—but there's an undo function, as well as the fact that each room is self-contained and you can just restart the current room whenever you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9PI04JSnw
(This is an earlier version of the game—DROD itself first appeared in 1995, if not earlier; the version depicted doesn't have Undo. Also the existence of this video kind of makes the Frocto version unnecessary.)

As horrible as the character designs and art is, I actually think the new versions are pretty gorgeous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdRFu90hTs

Combined with the online high score system, help system integrated into the forums (which I've been a member of since 2003—making that one of my oldest active online accounts that I still use, from back when I posted under a different name), in-game chat, automatic replay-saving and the ability to import or export demos for any room, and a comprehensive level editing suite—well, the games have given me a lot more value for my money than pretty much anything other than Tetris.

Their "The Greatest Puzzle Game of All Time" claim might actually be true.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2010, 08:53:51 PM »

I've long been a fan of James Howell's work; his DRIVING OFF THE MAP: A Formal Analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2 is probably the single piece of writing that convinced me MGS2 wasn't just a phenomenal waste of everyone's time. He and (I'm assuming—I know it's a collaboration, but an actual author credit's kind of hard to find) Jerel Smith just completed a similar breakdown for MGS4.


Read it. Click the links and pictures. It actually undid my regret at owning that game.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2010, 01:27:13 PM »

Does anyone own Company of Heroes? I bought it a year ago for 5 bucks after hearing that it was a pretty good RTS game. Of course, I totally suck at RTS games, so I get stomped even by the CPU. I'm wondering if anyone here has the game and would maybe like to play against me.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2010, 06:35:19 PM »

I actually wanted to give this a go, I'll try to remember to pick it up later.
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"And it is because they have fallen prey to a weakened, feminized version of Christianity that is only about softer virtues such as compassion and not in any part about the muscular Christian virtues of individual responsibility and accountability."

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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2010, 02:37:40 PM »

I remembered that I never finished Baldur's Gate, so I gave it a shot. (Oh my god a 6CD install what the fuck is this the fucking stone age?) The game iself has aged far better than I expected, and it's reasonably pretty in 1280x1024 with the widescreen mod. It's 2nd Ed that's a right effin' mess in retrospect. Daaaaang.
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Re: X'd-Gen Dump Thread
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2010, 06:56:32 PM »

I picked up Knights of the Old Republic off of Steam. After a couple hours of playing the old "Try to figure out what seemingly insignificant deviation in my computer is keeping me from playing this game" game, I finally managed to get it running (perfectly and smoothly, at the highest settings). So far, I'm having fun -- not with the combat, which is a pile of garbage. My lady looses all of her health really fucking quickly, really before I even have a chance to realize that she's about to die.

Also, I'm particularly baffled by the apparent exclusion of gamepad support.

ADDENDUM: "The game works perfectly!" he said, before he walked into the glitchy mess that is the undercity. Sewers so bad, they make my game shut down.
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