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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1360 on: December 27, 2008, 01:26:33 PM »

So, KISS: Psycho Circus.  Lemme check the big list of red flags, here:

  • Enemy spawners, a la Gauntlet.
  • A FPS based on KISS.
  • A FPS based on a comic book by Todd McFarlane based on KISS.
  • LITHTEEEEEEEEECH  :MENDOZAAAAA:
  • Little to no music by KISS, despite how apropos it would be.
  • Horrible weapon balance.
  • Shit Teleporting In Behind You-itis.

It was kind of fun in the beginning in an "I'm playing a FPS based on a KISS comic book" sort of way but after that it sort of goes downhill before tipping over the cart of poor design and getting crushed by the load of mediocrity it was carrying.  To the... marketplace of bad analogies.

Next up: Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza!  I remember when they were making this for the Build engine!
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1361 on: December 30, 2008, 01:14:33 PM »

Bought the Prince of Persia pack on Steam.

Sands of Time:
You want me to jump WHERE?

COULD YOU POSSIBLY MAKE ME FIGHT MORE GUYS AT THE SAME TIME?

I'm just a little frustrated with some of the not-so-obvious bits, but to be honest, I totally love acrobatic puzzles.  I know it's an older title, but something like this done through the Mirrors Edge first-person view would rule.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1362 on: December 30, 2008, 03:19:32 PM »

I finally got it running on my computer, so I am trying to actually play to the end of System Shock 2 for the first time. Last time I played it I got to the big SHODAN reveal and didn't make it much past that. I am playing a purely psychic hacker, though am getting worried that a character with no weapons outside of psi may actually gimp me pretty hard endgame.

I am amazed at how good the quality of the voice acting for this game has been, for the most part. The little holotape disc things with messages all over the place do a good job of adding to the creepy atmosphere and revealing the story in a non hamfisted way. My only real complaint is that I think I could do without any of the Engineering deck. It has been the least enjoyable deck so far. Even the Mecha Mall deck with all the resources it eats was more enjoyable than Engineering.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1363 on: December 30, 2008, 10:14:53 PM »

Finally found a copy of Chibi Robo for the Gamecube; I'd been checking the Gamecube rack at every Gamestop I passed since I played it at a demo console, but I finally found one, and it's pretty awesome so far. It's got a very Katamari vibe to it, in some regards, but in other regards it almost feels like a sandbox metroidvania.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1364 on: December 31, 2008, 08:07:53 AM »

Holy shit, Call of Duty 2 is the best FPS I've played in a good long while.  It actually feels like I'm accomplishing something and my squadmates are actually kind of smart and it's challenging and tense but not retardedly difficult and it looks great and it sounds great and it's basically everything that was missing from a ton of other games I played.  Seeing all the battlefields (roughly) first-hand really drives home the sorts of hell people went through, especially considering that my reaction to getting orders to do most of the things people actually did in real life tends to be, "are you fucking INSANE? D:>"

I'm surprised that the moon wasn't pulled out of orbit by the gravitational field coming from an entire generation's enormous brass balls.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1365 on: December 31, 2008, 09:55:12 AM »

  the Call of Duty 2 love. It's like playing the action sequences of a good war movie. I just got CoD4 on the Steam sale, and it's more of the good stuff, only your equipment is outright better than your enemies' equipment, instead of being slightly better or worse, depending.

especially considering that my reaction to getting orders to do most of the things people actually did in real life tends to be, "are you fucking INSANE? D:>"

OMG Russian campaigns. Daaaang. Is CoD2 the one that drops you off a boat and has you running an uphill charge with your only weapon being a single clip of rifle ammo (and by that I mean, literally just a clip, no actual gun)? Might be CoD1, can't remember.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1366 on: December 31, 2008, 10:36:41 AM »

I dropped everything to start playing the Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden translation that is floating around /rs.  A few minor graphical glitches on pSX emulator, but my god this is giant robot awesome.  I've only just finished mission 3, and I have two robots that are sentai teams.  And now I start collecting Gundam Wing brats and their Endless Waltz 'bots.  I dunno, I get a cheap chuckle each time I see Quatre shout 'DAAAHHH' as he charges into combat.

Dear lord, sentai-bots have TONS of attacks.  Combatter V has about 3 pages of attacks.  It's like being presented with a keyboard and each button is a different doomsday weapon.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1367 on: December 31, 2008, 10:53:53 AM »

So I learned last night that the counter of hours played on Pokemon does not reset when it hits 999:59.  It just stays there.  Forever.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1368 on: December 31, 2008, 11:22:58 AM »

Good lord. Are you trying to max out one of each Pokemon?
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1369 on: December 31, 2008, 11:52:51 AM »

I got Mount & Blade at Stush's recommendation, and I'm finding it pretty engaging. Here is a mediaeval game with a Frontier: Elite II level of freedom, and at the same time this very personal and realistic level of power.

Two things so far impress me about the game. First is its great flexibility. You're not tied to a role; you're simply a man on a horse with a sword, and from there you can do whatever you feel like. You might travel from village to village and raise a peasant army, or trade spices and furs with distant towns, or enter the service of a local lord as a mercenary captain, or protect the land from bandits, or become a bandit yourself. If you take defeated bandits prisoner you can ransom them off, sell them into slavery or recruit them into your own army, and so on.

The second thing I like is the combat system. There's no Total War style point-and-clicking, no pausing the game to examine the battlefield and issue orders. You control one man, fight by aiming your sword, block by raising your shield, and issue orders by shouting. Your army is made of whoever you can find by yourself and pay for with your own gold. The combat system is cumbersome and challenging, but plenty of fun, and this makes it incredibly rewarding to get a handle on.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1370 on: December 31, 2008, 11:59:52 AM »

OMG Russian campaigns. Daaaang. Is CoD2 the one that drops you off a boat and has you running an uphill charge with your only weapon being a single clip of rifle ammo (and by that I mean, literally just a clip, no actual gun)? Might be CoD1, can't remember.

I think that's CoD1, which I've only played bits and pieces of.  Mostly in response to my father not being able to beat certain sections of it when I was available during Christmas.  In CoD2's Russian campaign you actually start with a gun (two guns, even!) and overall it's rather tame, relatively speaking.  The beginning of the American campaign, though...
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1371 on: December 31, 2008, 12:52:39 PM »

So I learned last night that the counter of hours played on Pokemon does not reset when it hits 999:59.  It just stays there.  Forever.
Kazz, you take that game away from her and you get help, now!
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1372 on: December 31, 2008, 01:34:02 PM »

1 month, 11 days, 15 hours, 59 seconds.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1373 on: December 31, 2008, 01:44:25 PM »

1 month, 11 days, 15 hours, 59 seconds.

Duke, just because the song says you need to be the best there ever was, doesn't mean you have to go and do it.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1374 on: December 31, 2008, 01:49:57 PM »

To be fair, I am sure there are people out there who have literally played the game for a month and a half without turning the damn thing off.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1375 on: December 31, 2008, 01:55:22 PM »

I'm sure there are many people - even on this forum - who have put much, much more time than that into various MMORPGs.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1376 on: December 31, 2008, 02:43:32 PM »

So as a joke, I got a hand held SPACE INVADERS game for Christmas.

Ships increase speed, descend and reverse direction!  :THATWAY:

The sounds are all original I believe, and its actually been pretty fun to play.  ::3:
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1377 on: December 31, 2008, 02:50:45 PM »

I'm sure there are many people - even on this forum - who have put much, much more time than that into various MMORPGs.

My sentiments exactly. It sounds like a lot when you read the 999 hour thing, but it is no biggie if you put it into the perspective of the World of Warcraft player who raids hardcore, I would bet.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1378 on: December 31, 2008, 03:52:34 PM »

Next up: Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza!  I remember when they were making this for the Build engine!

Take the Lithtech brand Twitchy-Ass Mouse, crank it up to eleven, combine it with unarmored human enemies that can nonetheless take half a clip of MP5 ammo to the chest before dying, profoundly retarded AI that's just as likely to stare at you dumbfounded or roll to the sides (just because it can) as it is to pick you off at fifty feet like Carlos fucking Hathcock (or consistently miss you at twenty feet, amazingly), an absolutely arcane health system (three meters for fatigue, morale and health that are pretty much just the same as the regular single health meter elsewhere) and after you get killed there's a three second delay where you're on your back and enemies are still firing at you like you're standing up before it goes to a "GAME OVER" screen in big red block letters for another couple seconds.  You are not allowed to quickload the game at any point during your death.

Oh, and in the beginning?  You're supposed to run from the guys with guns.  Because they're invincible and can kill you in half a second if you try to stick around and shoot them in the head.  Obviously.

Total time played: Ten minutes.  All with the mocking voice of Not Bruce Willis coming from the main character's lips.

I'd move on to F.E.A.R. but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't change the fact that NOLF2 is the best thing to use the Lithtech engine.  Heck, it would be the best thing just for the chase scene in India.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #1379 on: December 31, 2008, 03:56:39 PM »

the Call of Duty 2 love. It's like playing the action sequences of a good war movie. I just got CoD4 on the Steam sale, and it's more of the good stuff, only your equipment is outright better than your enemies' equipment, instead of being slightly better or worse, depending.

And being ghillies in the mist!  Shit was totally awesome.  :perfect:
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