What Video Games Are You Wasting Your Life Away on Now? (Vol 2.)

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I've been playing plenty of Black Isle games, the folks who put out Fallout & Fallout 2. They've just announced that the Morrowind guys over at Bethesda are working on Fallout 3, so this in very good news.

So, I'm playing about 4 games concurrently: Fallout 2(almost beat), The Longest Journey(featuring too-skinny norweigan heroine), Icewind Dale(D&D DORK IS I), and Lionheart(what happens when you try to clone Diablo II using higher production values)...

how 'bout you?

also, anybody wanna buy a slightly-used gamecube or ps2? i need to sell my consoles & games in preparation of moving...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Onimusha 3, Vice City, Mega Man Collection

Looking forward to Street Fighter II Collection.

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

currently trying to unlock shit in my two player games:
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Def Jam Vendetta
NBA Street vol. 2
etc.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Replaying Halo in anticipation of Halo 2.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 July 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also,

Fantasy Zone II and Penguin Land. Always.

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 23 July 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

chrons of riddick

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 23 July 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

is that game any good? all the reviews were shocked that a movie-licensed game wasn't total shite...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Castlevania and Perfect Dark for N64 (the most hi-tech system I own)

― STINKOR™, Friday, 23 July 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

playing Burnout for PS2 with regularity. checking www.gtagaming.com every day for more GTA4 news.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

pro evo soccer 3 obv.
need for speed hot persuit 2
trying to unlock latter stages of time crisis 3

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man halo 2, mgs3, new zelda gc, half-life 2... anticipation. oh oh and pro ev 4 (coming august)!

I'm playing mario kart: super circuit (even better than the snes); mario kart: double dash (amazingly, amazing); shenmue; pandora tomorrow; XIII multiplayer; counter-strike, finally; um, other games.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this is pretty much all I do all day.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

how much for the gamecube?

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

MVP BASEBALL thats it.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Civilization III

― fcussen (Burger), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

NCAA 2005, Tales of Symphonia, the Mega Man collection. I am considering purchasing a new PC purely to play Doom 3. Which comes out in like a week and a half. Which looks awesome.

― adam (adam), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

SSX3, i think it is. i pretty much hate sports games, but for some reason snowboarding games are an exception. i think i just derive some visceral satisfaction from the sound of the board whooshing down the mountain. also been getting my "vice city" reflexes back in preparation for "GTA: san andreas." and just finished doing everything in "sly cooper." to unlock the extras. loser.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Far Cry, Counterstrike, Pro-Evolution 3, Mafia (forgot how good it was) and another attempt at Call Of Duty.

Also resurrected Timesplitters 2 for my PS2 - didn't give it nearly enough attention when I bought it. Most intuitive controls for a console shooter ever.

Bought Starky n Hutch DVD for a friend yesterday and got a free Starsky n Hutch PC game so I might try that over the weekend. Given that it was 'free' I don't have high hopes.

Currently trying to decide whether to upgrade in anticipation of Doom3 & HL2.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to play Hitman:Contracts last week and ended up getting all frustrated when I couldn't make it past level one after 12 hours of playing it.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished Far Cry (which has a damn near impossible part right near the end), and it'll probably be the last game I play before Half Life 2.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

From what I understand, Onimo, if you have a decent enough system to handle Far Cry and CoD now you probably won't have to upgrade for Half Life but you will for Doom 3. I mean, just to play these games; making them look good is something else.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend had me hook up an old NES over at her apartment. So, I've been playing the classics. She's been going through SMB 1-3, while I've been playing Bionic Commando, Metroid and Kid Icarus. I am now living out my boyhood dream of NES and BJs, and it is everything I thought it would be!

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm stuck on the last level of THUG, I just can't get up on top of the bridge and grind across :o(

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anybody picked up a copy of Thief 3? I liked the first, loved the second and want a report on the third before plunking my loot down for it.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I need opinions on Silent Hill 3, Prince of Persia, and Beyond Good & Evil for PS2. They are all pretty cheap at my local store and I need something fun. PoP looks the best, but I remember people saying it started out awesome and then went downhill fast.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no it's awesome all the way through!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

really, get PoP, it's great.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The last level of THUG was a nightmare, it took me ages. Odd, because the rest of the game was so easy (completed the first part in less than a week, with only an hour or so a day). I think there's only one task I didn't complete (one of the challenge ones from the second {third?) last level - the THPS 1-3 challenge).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I did the thps 1-3 quite easily, it's all about doing manuals and racking up the points. I haven't done last level (getting up on the wires is just so random) but the Vancouver challenge where you have to hit 30 spots in 18 combos is a pig of a challenge, I only have that and the last left to do.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince of Persia looks great and the wall-running-jumping-grabbing-spinning-thingummy stunts are as smooth and intuitive as anything you've ever seen in a platformer. Where it falls down is in the combat sequences which are tiresome, repetitive and too easy.

If you liked Silent Hill 1 and 2 you'll love 3. Gobsmacking graphics and sound. Improved control. Silly puzzles. Terrifying creatures. Best survival horror since...Silent Hill 2.

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Bbbbbbbbut... you can't manual on the THPS1 section of that challenge? (Yes, manuals are the way to rack points up in THUG though.)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

is that game any good? all the reviews were shocked that a movie-licensed game wasn't total shite...

yeah, i haven't even seen the movie but i think the game is brilliant

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i am still mad addicted to Medieval: Total War. i had a demo of hitman contracts (just the 3rd level) and it was impressive.

i'm near certain my box won't run HL2 when it arrives and that makes me :(

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

STREET FIGHTER II COLLECTION?!

Please tell me this will be out for Xbox.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

j e r e m y
The new Thief is nice. Good level design and very clear objectives and missions. Good atmosphere and lighting if you have the hardware to show it off. It does get a bit repetitive however.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

also, this is my garage sale thread. here's what i'm selling:

gamecube w/ one controller
memory card
metroit prime
zelda: wind waker

you can have it all for $125.

or!

ps2 w/ one controller
memory card
dynasty warriors 3: xtreme legends
ssx tricky
final fantasy x2
xenosaga vol 1
gta3
robot alchemic drive (BIG STOMPY TRANSFORMING ROBOTS)
ring of red (RETRO STOMPY ROBOTS)
fantavision (DUDE I'M SO HIGH)
ico (BEST GAME EVER)

email me if you're interested in any of the games or the system.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks Ico is overrated? I mean, it's awesome, but the endless and obnoxious fighty parts ruin the game for me.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I read that as "endless and obnoxious party fights", which sounds, you know, awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

soon to be playing total war:rome

― kephm, Friday, 23 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That Mega Man Collection is such a fucking soul-destroyer, it's like INFINITY MEGA MAN GAMES IN ONE DISC. Gamestop is supposed to call me if they get a copy of Tales of Symphonia in used. That game looks purdy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

if i started playing the mman collection i would be homeless in a matter of weeks

― kephm, Friday, 23 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too, except I would just be playing 2 & 3 over and over.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tales of Symphonia is pretty nice. The story sucks which I suppose it be expected for a Japanese console RPG. You can do the combat two-player which makes it good for those of us with semi-gaming significant others.

― adam (adam), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if i could get any money for the PS1 games I still have: Castlevania:Symphony of the Night, Front Mission 3, Chrono Chross, Un Jammy Lammy, Xenogears, etc.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO STOP PLAYING COUNTERSTRIKE FOR TWO YEARS NOW. sOMEONE PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THIS HELL.

― adam king (mangA Kid), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHA just wait till CS:Source comes out or whatever the hell they're calling the next evolution...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

let me know how rome: total war is pls!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

they're doign a show on the History Channel using that game for visualization..

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Mario Sunshine, but the fact that I'm already frustrated on the second world doesn't bode well.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

rome total war looks awesome. however, alot of those combat simulator games where you have to wheel your formations and rally them and all that shit gets tedious.

ive been wasting my life playing CIV 3 CONQUESTS. its grebt. its kinda interesting how it seems like a majority of the add-ons in conquests is alot of little things that they eliminated from civ 3 that they had in civ2. and the scenarios are awesome as well. i cant wait to get my new pc to replace my 6 year old piece of shit that has trouble processing the large maps.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

vice city.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

+ doom, a bit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

mario sunshine yeah! I've picked tht up again recently. menacing difficult.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what up with sudeki. time to download.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

As always, Simcity 4 has me hooked. I mean it's getting ridiculous. I'm even signed up to simtropolis.com so I can download custom lots and buildings and stuff. I added more RAM to my laptop so it'd run better.

Argh I need help!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It always seemed to me that the SimCity games hogged more resources than they should rightfully have. I mean, how many objects are in a typical first person shooter level? and how many variables are there in a typical simcity?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah it uses a lot of memory - but its because it has to do so many calculations. Its a simluator after all. When you have a really large city it has to continually work out trip times, population, jobs, do animations, desirability etc. It will chew up 100s of MB of ram if you let it.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

omg does rome:tw look out of hand! there are some in-game clips about; the one with the elephants had me gasping.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

siege engines dude, siege engines.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i know! ah but my computer will not run it, i know. like one's bubbly out-of-state cousin, it's best to just put it out of mind, sigh...

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

need opinions on Silent Hill 3, Prince of Persia, and Beyond Good & Evil for PS2.

silent hill 3 - according to my gf - is good for atmosphere, but the gameplay falls off a bit when you realize you can run past most of the bad guys without ever getting hit.

prince of persia is GREAT except for the combat, which basically ruins the whole game. definitely repetitive, and instead of being able to kill off your enemies and move on with your life, they respawn several times. feels like a cheap attempt to add to the length of the game ("over 15 hours of gameplay" or whatever).

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 24 July 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ghost recon, mac, online, anyone?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP ME FROM BUYING MORE GAMES

anyway, fuckin' Far Cry doesn't want to play with the AA turned on. Bleah. WHY MUST I BE SUBJECT TO THESE INFERIOR THAI IMPORTS

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

just mod your xbox dude.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, too much effort

don't have one, anyway

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

teeny:Ok-i will let you know

rome total war looks awesome. however, alot of those combat simulator games where you have to wheel your formations and rally them and all that shit gets tedious.

there are ways to speed this up. custom games, troop grouping and the time slider thing, etc

― kephm, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Bbbbbbbbut... you can't manual on the THPS1 section of that challenge? (Yes, manuals are the way to rack points up in THUG though.)

sorry Aldo, oon the thps1 bit, find a convenient lip and trick off that, mega easy

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyond Good and Evil = grebt. a sort of adolescent Zelda but without the bad connotations of adolescent. it feels like a 2000AD story with Zelda structuring and a nice potboiler sci fi story. At 25 quid great value.

Prince of Persia = rub rub rub. A great "USP", some good graphics and some good camerawork, but a 1 dimensional and thoughtless game. i v nearly lost patience with it, except you can finish it in 6 hours or so. And when there is no replay value, pff. at 30 quid a rip off. buy it for a tenner and you won't feel cheated.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

halo four player. I'm not as good as I thought.

counter-strike: condition zero. I suck.

ghost recon. on the mac / gameranger servers I am being roundly pwned.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

has anybody else played Far Cry yet? what do you think?

i finally got it to work, and the game is totally killer. a bit overly-difficult in places, but still fun. imagine a game where you can go anywhere you see on a map at anytime to go shoot things.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Spider-Man 2 sucks, frankly, but it's fun to swing around Manhattan. Or crawl to the tippy-top of the Empire State Building and swan dive to street level. Then you die.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

who loves viewtiful joe?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

it was fun for a few levels then got HARD AS FUCK

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it is so goddamn hard already and I'm only on like the second level. it's kinda amazing though.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Far Cry is fun. It has this sorth of learning curve where you don't even realize you're getting better. You just find yourself playing with a different mindset and it's easier.
The most important thing is to scope out every inch of an area with your binoculars before you go there. Make sure you have every enemy appearing on your radar in this way, because there's nothing worse than having the "they see you" bars jump up when you don't have a clue where they are.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me when you get to the "impossible part" near the end of the game (you'll know it when you get there because you'll die like 30 times trying to beat it) and I'll tell you the trick to pass it.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm surprised that Far Cry doesn't have more mods. It'd be perfect for one that would insert a Predator into the mix, for example.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to play video games

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

and so you shall, just buy my gamecube off me

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

velveteen bingo OTM way upthread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah and I heard that even Doom 3 will be playable with surprisingly low-end hardware. Like, Athlon 1800+ with Geforce3. I am shocked.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick... Beyond Good & Evil is definitely good fun for the price you can get it most places. That is, if you like 3D platformer style adventure games that are kinda like but not as good as the N64 era Zelda stuff.

Fans of other Silent Hill games will like Silent Hill 3. If you didn't like the others you probably won't like 3. That said, I think 3 is the best in the series up to that point hands down.

Haven't played Prince of Persia, though all I heard negative about it was that it was very short.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been playing Ratchet & Clank lately because it's mindless and relatively engaging without really being challenging. Maybe a week ago I finally finished Tony Hawk 4 100%, so I switched to something less frustrating for a bit.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My regard of Beyond Good & Evil noted in that other thread.

I just spend a week or two playing Pikmin. Some crazy stuff!

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i was reading that doom3 has a ultra graphics quality mode that consumes something like 500MB of vram.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

512MB, yup.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

so that the monsters will glisten EVEN MORE

and you'll be able to clearly EACH DROP of snot that drips from their faces

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing that annoys me about Silent Hill 3 is the lack of control you get compared to the first one within the town like wandering around the streets to the different locations. For instance in SH3 it just suddenly takes you to the tube station directly from the mall.

Plus the plot actually made sense in the first one and the point of you being alone in the town was kinda understandable. In 2 and 3 it's all just a bit baffling and silly.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, Far Cry has hangliders that you can use to crash into bad guys -- THIS GAME FUCKING ROCKS

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 30 July 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone seen the collector's edition for madden 2005? looks insane. can't wait.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing Sleuth. It's free. It has a little happy face detective for a protagonist. You can investigate the murders of other ilx0rs. It rules.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Silent Hill: Plus the plot actually made sense in the first one and the point of you being alone in the town was kinda understandable.

The plot made sense??!

My favorite thing about the first Silent Hill is the random Sonic Youth references in it.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

really? where are the refernces?

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The names of the teachers you find in the notebook at the school are K. Gordon, T. Moore and L. Ranaldo. Also, the house Harry has to go through to get to the other side of the block (to find the church) apparently belongs to K. Gordon. (The name's written on the key he finds in the school's boiler room.)

Yeah, I've played that game far too many times so I remember details like where some things are found, but the name references are so obvious that I noticed them the first time I played. I'm still wondering why the game developers left out S. Shelley though.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 30 July 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe they are obsessive and resentful Richard Edson fans.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought NFL 2k5 for 20 bucks. First game saw my beloved Browns beat the hated Steelers 13-10 in OT.

Apparently you can rip your own music to play during kickoffs, sacks, TD's, etc.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 30 July 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome back to 1986:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/pqtrailer.html

"PEASANT'S QUEST!"

be sure to click on the upper-right-hand corner when it's all over, too.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Links 2004 on the xbox.
Don't know why, but I've become totally addicted to it. Online play is great too.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, i've been playing Planescape: Torment over the last week, and it's a great game. It's about 5 years old, put out by the Black Isle/Fallout/Baldur's Gate guys, and even has Sheena Easton giving a sultry brogue to the hot thief chick.

One of the characters in your party is a floating skull named Morte, who, when asked what he is, will just reply "Me? I'm just un petit Morte" and other such smartassery.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing Ms. Pac-Man on Gameboy for at least an hour daily all summer. it's really bad how obsessive I've gotten. but I'm about 1/6th of the way toward the world record high score!

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

MVP Baseball 2004 still. I hate all other games.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Planescape: Torment is fucking fantastic. Right now (not right now but when I get home from work)...

DOOM 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely the greatest work of art ever created by man, beast or alien. It runs like molasses on my computer but it's the most lovingly detailed zombie shooting game I've ever played. Fuck a zombie.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

recommedn me PS2 games!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too! I'm going to the grocery store tonight and the video game store is right next door. None of the games I mentioned above sound exactly what I want. I've been thinking about getting Sly Cooper because it sounds like something I would enjoy but I'm only worried about it being too short (re: reviews that I read of it).
Adam: Did you ever get Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando? That game is fun.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuff I have liked in my lifetime (cross format):

GOLDENEYE
THE SIMS
EARTHWORM JIM
VICE CITY
POLICE QUEST
FIFA
OLD SCHOOL ATARI ST PLATFORM GAMES
SONIC

Stuff I don't "get"

GRAN TURISMO
TEKKEN (maybe)
RPGs (though "The Dreaded Rear Admiral" gave me a little tutorial.

I want COP GAMES, actually. GRIT. And cute wacky things that aren't repetitive (sorry jak & dexter). And STRATEGY.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought the first ratchet & Clank. it plays like J&D but it is funnier and better.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like NOIR

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I LIKE SYPHON FILTER

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I watch hit FX show THE SHIELD compulsively.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i also realize now that I like surfing and skating games.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

COP GAMES! YEAH! That would be bitchin'.
I should probably just download Police Quest.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I did! It is very frustrating.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I need to just BECOME a cop.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

But a moustahce doesn't suit me.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

N.A.R.C. (for the NES)!

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't decide if I should get a baseball game.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Leee, SF2 didn't work so I got a refund.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Then I got the official EB mag in the post!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Base Wars!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

That Psi-ops game looks fun...but is it?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not. Just get the Mega Man Collection.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean for PS2.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you going to spend that money wisely or did you get another game? : )

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

So...are most games bad?

(I will get another game, maybe)

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

check IGN.com and gamespot.com

their reviews can sometimes inflate the game's worth a bit, but if they give it a high score, odds are the game is worth playing.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gamestore.ign.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=280866

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Metacritic's video game scores too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, IGN jizzed over that Bond game. It will be mine.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

buy some of my used PS2 games. I need to get rid of them

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

how? where?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my email.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

am emailing you presently.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i read on metacritic that you can beat doom 3 in 2 days. wtfisthatshit?

im waiting until i find a new apartment so i can setup my pc so i can continue killing bitches with my lightsaber in jedi academy.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So someone tell me what game to get in the next 10 minutes.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Vice City.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Syphon Filter:Omega Strain.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Megaman, which i know nothing about, but everyone reps.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to start ordering components for my new Doom3 capable PC!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've already got Vice City. Is Syphon Filter all about sneaking around? Because I get tired of that.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

sneaking around and then blowing the shit out of people.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like a Def Jam game.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

All the screenshots for San Andreas look like Tahoe or Yosemite.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the death of urban?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a Def Comedy Jam game.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do they keep delaying SFII Collection?

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"they"

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm slowly becoming CHEESEMAN SUPREME of Soul Calibur II. So get that.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a def jam game..

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/defjamvendetta/

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a rasslin game though. (w00t!)

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

made by the folks who made The Greatest wrasslin' game ever: WCW/NWO Revenge for the N64(Aki/THQ), which had Raven on the cover for some reason.

oh, the power of crazed japanese wrestling fans/programmers...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

so...it's good?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been reviewed fairly well and if its interface is anything like the N64 counterparts, it should be fun. (I've never played it.)

The appeal of RPGs is the vicarious thrills nerdy boys get whilst dabbling in the black arts.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Recommend games for someone who can often only play in small increments often as short as 5-10 minutes.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh, I said "often" twice in one sentence.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard good and bad things about def jam.. but the only bad thing they said about it is that it didnt have enough different kind of matches and whatnot.. i noticed they have a sequel coming out soon that should be pretty sweet..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Advance Wars? Wario Ware?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Those are both great games! Anyone who hasn't played Wario Ware yet needs to right now; it's like a two year old meth addict designed it.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

great!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Wario Ware is brilliant! Advance Wars 2, however, I suck at. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever's hold up SFII Collection, they should stop.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also looking forward to Midway Arcade Treasures 2. Mortal Kombat 2 & 3! Rampage World Tour! Gauntlet 2! Arch Rivals! Primal Rage! Spyhunter 2!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Rampage World Tour!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Advance Wars 2 is way harder than the first one.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever's hold up SFII Collection, they should stop.

FOR REALS.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I would kill for a 3D version of Rampage with huge maps and techno music.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

halo.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

My Doom3 torrent should be done when I get home tonight. Yay. I hope I don't get in trouble for it; I usually wait a couple months to d/l new games, but this one was impossible to resist. (as always I am too poor to consider purchasing ("but then how do you have a computer that can handle doom3?" argh your logic is irrefutable)).

― Dan I., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

at this point, we should probably de-google this thread.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Why, has anyone admitted to illegal activities but me? I'm not too worried about the heat coming from ILX, honestly.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait you mean just cause of all the D3 talk, right?

― Dan I., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yup. D3 + Trrnt is probably a bad word combo right now.

never hurts to be paranoid.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2004/db040804.gif

― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I would kill for a 3D version of Rampage with huge maps and techno music.

I remember playing a demo of something similar on the PS2 about 5 months ago, not sure about the techno music though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so i have found the game for me and it's name is RATCHET AND CLANK OMG.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so i have found the game for me and its name is RATCHET AND CLANK OMG.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The FBI are so gonna get you

― Frank Swedehead, Monday, 9 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Not while I have all of these BOMB GLOVES

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought Half Life and MVP Baseball 2003. The former KICKS ALL ASS and the latter is pretty fun but too hard for me on "pro" level and too easy on "rookie" level. It needs more skill levels.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

St Nicholas don't you like RATCHET AND CLANK?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am buying 4 games from kingfish.

*excited*

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, you like video games! yay!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, cutty! I stayed up until 2am last night! Wow!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. playing ratchet and clank?!

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

And drinking cranberry juice. And listening to Fennesz.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

so terse.

adam: wht console(s) do you have? cs I'm the only one who recommends good games round here.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, you're kinda turning into me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I have newish ps2,

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not scottish.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the internet, on a computer.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you sound OK with that.

newish ps2 plays same as oldish ps2, as well.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

stay away from def jam vendetta!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I like modern Scandinavian cinema, too.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thus I cannot be c*zen, howver much i would like to be. And I do.

yancey, don't say that.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

thus I cannot be c*zen, however much i would like to be. And I do.

yancey, don't say that.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

echo

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

recommend me some games, then.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm the only one with a modded xbox? getting my games for free? watching divx straight from my 160GB maxtor drive? are you people mad?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking about modding.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so i have found the game for me and it's name is RATCHET AND CLANK

I have been playing this one for a while myself. Almost through with it though I haven't had time to finish beating the last level and the big boss.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Just finished the main quest in Morrowind, after roughly 200 hours of play. Now all I have to do is finish all the Guild quests, and all the millions of miniquests and shrine/plundering, and the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansion packs. GAAAH.

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I need

a)A Driving game
b)Some kind of weird, unclassifiable game
c)Some ridiculous puzzle game

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, scan up to see my love for Ratchet & Clank: GOING COMMANDO, which is one of the funnest games I've played for PS2.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

driving game, get Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 for out and out racing with lots and lots of cars and courses.

avoid Need for Speed Underground though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Gamecube pwnz both b) and c)

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I played Warioware for GBA again last night, that game pnwz. I mean, it's not enough that it's one of the most fun games ever, but it comes with a complete version of Dr. Mario (THE most fun game ever)!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the most fun racing game for Xbox? Burnout 2, or maybe one of those Project Gotham games I see around?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

project gotham is the best, i believe?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally have a decent regular SC2 opponent! Yay yay yay.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

isnt pikmin a pretty good puzzle game for the GC?

ive been playing lots of red dead revolver on the ps2. its like crack that game.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Pikmin *is* good for a couple weeks, but the replay value is very limited.

Also, someone remind me to do a "tricky strategems for getting to sleep" thread because Pikmin had a calming, therapeutic effect on me that helped to get me to sleep.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally got PRINCE OF PERSIA and I am convinced that it is the only game which truly translates the joy of the 2d platform aesthetic to this new generation of gaming. Also, it is good!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean like REALLY good!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still playing Planescape: Torment. Sheena Easton's thief character is great.

also, Gamecube + Zelda & Metroid still for sale.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm playing return to wolfenstein on ps2, which i'm loving because there's no stealth required, or beating timers, or excessive ledge-walking and ladder-climbing, or other overly frustrating stuff that makes me quit other games. just keep shooting nazis. i am not good at video games.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-but ledge walking! And ladder climbing!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

and bass fishing!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

waitwaitwait - sheena easton??

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

is anyone into wolfenstein enemy territory?? d00ds we could totally make an ilx clan

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I impulse purchased Final Fantasy Chronicles used over the weekend and it's the most boring game I've ever played. :-(

I've been craving Civ III for the past two months.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Civ III on my laptop, but I haven't played it (or any other Civ) yet.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I in for a treat?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still partial to civ 2 but yeah it's good.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I impulse purchased Final Fantasy Chronicles used over the weekend and it's the most boring game I've ever played. :-(

Which ones are on that again? Have you played the originals?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

waitwaitwait - sheena easton??

as mentioned upthread, Sheena Easton voices the sultry thief chick.

and Rob Paulsen, who voices Yakko Warner from Animaniacs, does the smart-ass flying skull.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

with a tail? off to amazon!

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ive been playing the civ games somewhat regularly for about 12 years now. best. game. ever.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I love the old SNES originals, but I haven't really followed the franchise since SNES. Well, except for FF8 (I think) when my girlfriend had a PlayStation. But yeah Crystal Chronicles completely blows and it was nothing like what I expected.

Civ III is fantastic.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

is anyone into wolfenstein enemy territory??

I am, me. And I'm good at it too (in a public server kind of way). What name do you usu. play under?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

good luck finding it on Amazon. Torment is a Black Isle game, done by the Fallout 2/Icewind Dale guys, and word has slowly spread about how great the game is.

since Interplay is on the ropes and Black Isle(their internal RPG studio) closed down last year, the game is now out of print.

on a positive note, some of the Black Isle guys(incl. their leader, Feargus Urquhart, who has the coolest video game guy name ever), went on to found Obsidian, who are now working on the sequel to Star Wars: KotOR.

The other Black Isle/Fallout went off to Troika, and are working on the Vampire: Masquerade rpg called "Bloodlines".

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

er well i took it off my machine during finals. i usually pick fluffy, wimpy names when i play online, i think i was "fancypants" or something.

i wz never that great, and i liked playing medic.

xpost thx kingfish, i'll see what turns up.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It can easily be found "not in stores"...

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i played castle wolfenstein on the pc until i got stuck in one part and ive been meaning to look up hints ,but ive been playing battlefield vietnam and its ace. ive learned how to fly helicopters.

but i am still waiting for totalwar:rome to come out

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

omg 39.98 lowest price!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i found my copy thru the SA forums for far less than that.

you can get a deal on eBay for twenty odd bucks or so.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

rrr i really don't want to dick about on ebay.

SA forums??

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I guarantee that whomsoever buys the Gamecube/Zelda combo will not be disappointed. I will put up 50 Leee Bux to back my word!

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

SomethingAwful

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It costs $10 to get a membership, but I hear it's worth it for the private Bittorrent tracker alone.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

not to mention the Photoshop/FYAD fun. Also, their trading and video game forums.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have torment. The CD quality might not be the best (I find a way to scratch the shit out of my stuff) but I cant confirm that. my pc games are in storage right now, too. but email me and I'll ship it to you in a couple weeks if you like..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

But yeah Crystal Chronicles completely blows and it was nothing like what I expected.

Oh, CRYSTAL Chronicles. For some reason I thought you were talking about that comp of SNES FF games that they put out for PS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

wow thanks bill! but i just dropped the $40 at amazon :(

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

also for sale:

Playstation 1 games:
Un Jammy Lammy (the guitar sequel to Parappa the Rappa)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (BEST PSX game evah)

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hi everyone! this message is for adam:

1) prince of persia so rules
2) i am hooked on civ3 again, it is pretty awesome (though after a while it gets boring)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I WANT MARIO GOLF

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone tell me in Prince of Persia how to get past the three guards who keep coming back to life? I've just gotten the dagger, so I guess I'm pretty early on.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing a lot of Virtua Cop for the PC. You can download it at www.the-underdogs.org. Just like the arcade.

― chrisco (chrisco), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

can't you just run by those guards?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks s10cki!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

If you got the dagger, then you have to stab the guards with it and suck up their sand to kill them for good.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm playing original D00M multiplayer on NIGHTMARE mode. we got to e2m7 so far. it's fucking TOUGH. anyone interested in joining, let me know. we need reinforcements.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Prince of Persia for Christmas and stopped playing it for no reason on Boxing Day and now my Playstation works again and I keep telling myself I'm going to go back and finish the last quarter but I know I'll never get round to it.

I have also been stamping on the legs of Japanese men until they fall over. I am not a dangerous criminal, however, I have an import of King of Colosseum.

― Fergal (Ferg), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

civ3 fans should check out the conquests add-on. some really great scenarios on there including feudal japan, mesoamerica, and the middle ages. theyre all pretty tough and are on some large, detailed and historically accurate enough maps for a geek such as myself.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

kicker is that i never played Civ for its wargame aspects. my empire was almost designed to focus everything upon research.

similarly, i was always the "Mentats"(or whatever) scientist race in the Master of Orion, mainly so that i could completely outclass the tech of everybody else.

oh, tis fun being a geek.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ok i got my copy of PLANESCAPE, and it's great! i'm not that far into it, and i pissed off an abishai who killed me, and he's pretty much stayed pissed.

the city seems to have a harlot-based economy.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yup. be sure to follow these tips to speed up the game.

also, make sure you have Morte have his own whore experience, too, cuz it boosts his stats a little

also, become a mage

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i have been playing super mario advance 2: super mario world like a man possessed, obsessively trying to unlock every secret, someone please stop me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wow jd thx!

i have a pretty good walkthru from gamefaqs but i'm trying not to look at it. the non-linearity of the game is slightly annoying, in that i now have like 10 quests open from just the first half-dozen areas and i forget where the fuck they're all supposed to happen. still, very well written.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 30 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the game is weighted more towards wisdom, intelligence, and charisma. I re-did my character with most of the points favoring those skills, and it opens up more options.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 30 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Madden 2005. Gets better every year.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

PLANESCAPE IS AWESOME.

I need to replay that game as a bastard.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Madden 2005 has the "hit stick" this year. Which means you can basically decapitate a WR coming through the middle.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiderman 2 is great, you can jump off the Empire State building, and also kidknap criminals, webswing around the city and then piledrive them all the way to the ground from several stories up when you get bored.

― Fergal (Ferg), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Metroid: Zero Mission would be over when I, you know, destroyed Mother Brain BUT NO, your escape ship gets forced down by space pirates and you have to infiltrate their ship armed only with a unitard. It's pretty thrilling.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

also, if you do some looking around, you can find the holiday patches/desktop that Black Isle put out. one of them turns Morte into an Easter Egg, and the other changes Annah into a slutty leprechaun.

which is odd, when you think of it, since her voice actress is Scottish...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY DUDES WHERE IS MY STREET FIGHTER II COLLECTION?!

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 30 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Dear Rome:Total War,

Thank you for destroying my will to do anything but play you. My work and love lives are jealous and shriveling to nothing but you know what, I don't really care.

Thanks,

Tyler

― tylero (tylero), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Simpsons Hit & Run.

Yesterday I realised I'm only 1% of the way through GTA III, so that too.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago)

fable sucks

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago)

So I heard. That makes me unhappy, but renders me cashed up.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Sexual, i just recently finished GTA3 100%, my god its harder than vice city

hit and run is even harder though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

KATAMARI DAMACY I LOVE YOU

― adam (adam), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Hit & Run has way too many timed missions. Very frustrating.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago)

MORE KATAMARI DAMACY TALK PLEASE

― adam (adam), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to play Katamari Damacy. Does it ever get any bigger than "pulling stadiums from their foundations" size? Like, at some point do you grab up tectonic plates or whole planets?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago)

It has a great commercial, too.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:31 (twenty years ago)

TS: GTA3's "headshot 20 columbians" vs VC's "stupid remote control airplane"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

or GTA3's Paramedic mission after you've already got the Mafia and the Yakuza after you on the first island, so you have to do it on the second which has a stupid hospital with a stupid entrance for the ambulance.

But yeah the rampages on GTA3 are way harder than VC's.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Not Yakuza I meant Triads

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I might get Animal Crossing now that it's finally out here.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

CIV3 IS KIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLING MEEEEEEEE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I am currently taking a break from Simpsons Hit & Run (halfway through the second Bart plot which is 6 of 7, I think) mainly because, as people have said, it's getting very hard indeed. Too many timed missions with no spare seconds unless you take every short cut possible.

To fill in the time before I go back to it, I am playing Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour. I need to get much better at it, I think, before I get more out of it.

Of course, all of this is just passing time till Tony Hawk's Underground 2 comes out.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I went back to give Transformers a blast, and killed the plane guy who was proving really hard to do.

I think taking a break from some games can be essential.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:56 (twenty years ago)

Burnout 3. It is the most intense racer I have played in aaaaaaaages.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing Burnout 3 round at my sisters, it's awesome. Especially the Crash levels.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:53 (twenty years ago)

grr someone told me that if you went through a Season on WWE Smackdown here comes the pain with Shawn Michaels at the end Bret The Hitman Hart will attack you during Wrestlemania, and unlocks him. So i spent 3 days playing that and then realised that it was all a lie.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 September 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I love Burnout 3! And I don't even usually like racing games. The races are fun, but I can't stop playing the crash circuit, it's an addiction.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing Final Fantasy X-2 but I don't really like it so far and it annoyes me when they do that lots-of-different-endings thing because it's clearly not interesting enough to play through more than once unless you're one of those kids who takes the piss out of people's spelling mistakes on GAMEFAQS and does shit like that.

I'm looking forward to the new Mortal Kombat game quite a lot. If you lose a fight you can press a button combination to commit suicide and deprive your opponent of the satisfaction of finishing you off.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago)

WAITING FOR TOTAL WAR ROME TO RUIN

― kephm, Monday, 27 September 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm still only playing Half-Life. It has a great level of difficulty: hard enough to be interesting, but easy enough that I make some progress each time I play.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

would it be really dumb to get a playsyation2 right about now? is the new one coming out in the spring? mabe i should just go for xbox

― kephm, Monday, 27 September 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago)

far cry

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)

just got a new PC with one of those new PCI-Express cards, but only the x300. Seems to run midlevel games just fine though.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Playing at the Monarch level on Civ III, my civilizations survive to the end of the game half of the time but I haven't won yet -- although I have a good feeling about this plucky little Japanese civ I have going now...

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Athens 2004 (specifically the pole vault, women's archery, men's 800 and 1500 metres, and the pretty-much-impossible showjumping).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)

OH NO what's wrong with Fable????

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to play Katamari Damacy. Does it ever get any bigger than "pulling stadiums from their foundations" size? Like, at some point do you grab up tectonic plates or whole planets?

I haven't beaten it yet (I'm trying to take it slow and savor it or whatever) but people that have say their katamaris top out at about 850m in diameter. Which is pretty fucking big. Also the soundtrack is a thing of great beauty. I've been sidetracked a little by X-Men Legends. Nightcrawler = awesome.

― adam (adam), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm at the same place where Aldo is in Hit & Run. I second or third or whatever the sentiment that that game needs to be less difficult. Usually anymore I only play that game when I drunk and then I just drive around jumping off of things and giggling.

I've almost completely wrapped up THUG, just in time to go buy THUG 2. Something about these skateboarding games is like CRACK to me, too addictive.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

i managed to reach the last level in hit & run when the town becomes zombified, i'm finding it difficult to find cash lying around to pay for the race games or buy extra stuff.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I've just finished THUG. w/NO CHEATS. I gave up on it a couple months ago, that dumb last board following ERIC....SO ANNOYING.

WAITING 4 THUG 2, VERY SIKED.

I've wanted HIT AND RUN forever, but CUTTY says it's LAME.
And he is a GAME DORKER, so...FOOLISHLY I LISTEN.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I think the worst thing about Hit & Run is when it deliberately puts you in shit cars on difficult missions (see the school bus one at the start of the Bart level I'm on just now - wtf? Also, 'blow up the armoured car with Snake's car' - what, when four good hits destroys the one you're driving?) or the sheer frustration when cars swerve to hit you FOR NO GOOD REASON WHATSOEVER.

I thought THUG was a little too easy, mainly because I finished it. (I love skateboarding games, but I could be better at them)I've only got a couple of gaps to hit left, and can't muster up the enthusiasm to go and find them just to unlock pedestrians, or whatever it is. That said, I think the THUG file is corrupted on my memory card, which is a good excuse for playing the whole thing again. I'm hoping THUG2 lasts longer (but will be happy if I finish it).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

What the hell is Katamari Damacy? It sounds like mentalism.

Dan, check Penny Arcade from sometime last week for the bad news re: Fable.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I thought THUG was a little too easy, mainly because I finished it. OTM.

So is THUG 2 a totally new game, or is it like an add-on or whatever? Didn't THUG just come out like a year ago?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission. You're right about the low replay value, but with this you get another game where you climb a tower and reminisce. Some more. Still, I don't think I have the patience to labor for another 70 hours to get 100% just to see Yuna hug Tidus.

― Laura E (laurae55), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, X-Men Legends. I'm tempted by this, but I know I don't really have time for another RPG style game (never did finish KotOR). What's the combat like?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

(Have I mentioned lately that Penny Arcade sucks?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, that website can suck a gigantic dick for its loading times.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha, no. Do you mean the comics or their views on games?

(x-post, oh is that all)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

How is Rome: Total War? Is the battle mode rediculously cumbersome? I have a tough time with some of those strategy game battles w/ all the camera modes, wheelings troops left right center blah blah..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Still, I don't think I have the patience to labor for another 70 hours to get 100% just to see Yuna hug Tidus.

IS THAT ALL YOU GET? God damn it.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

THUG 2 will apparently have the same kind of format, but two opposing teams - Tony Hawk and Bam Margera.

Who are we kidding, we'll buy it irrespective.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Katamari Damacy is a game in which one rolls a ball around collecting shit. It starts out small, rolling over thumbtacks and shit and eventually gets real big so you can pick up cats and people and cars etc. Awesome. Also only 20 bucks.

X-Men Legends is way more beat-em-up than KOTOR. Very similar to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance except fun.

― adam (adam), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

That sounds amazing, because I was getting very, very bored by the combat in KOTOR. Also, X-Men > generic Star Wars characters.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Am now in the final parts of Planescape: Torment...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Kingfish, would you recommend Planetscape?

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

would it be really dumb to get a playsyation2 right about now? is the new one coming out in the spring? mabe i should just go for xbox

Well, the PStwo is coming out in a couple of months - much smaller, built-in network adapter, and still $149 - so you might hold out on that if you care about online play. As far as PS2 vs. Xbox, the Xbox's graphics are a little better, but it really boils down to game choice. Do you want to play Halo 2 or do you want to play GTA:San Andreas?

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Kingfish, would you recommend Planetscape?

hell yeah. see other comments involving it upthread.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago)

It's Planescape.... grrr

and yes it's great.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

GTA:SA should be coming out for Xbox within a few months, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Madden 2005.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I played Burnout 3 on Crash Mode for two and a half hours last night, and I've still only done like 50 out of 173 stages.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago)

There's no noise or video or even screenshots of an Xbox San Andreas. I imagine Rockstar's exclusivity will keep it from Xbox until Christmas next year.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Okay, someone explain why everyone treats GTA like it's crack. I mean, it's fun and all but COME ON PEOPLE.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Fable's fine. That PA article's a weeeeeee bit cranky. (Granted, I'm speaking as an Innocent Bystander watching the Actual Gamer progress through the game, but it's fine, really.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago)

GTA is a driving game which uniquely suits my skills (IE for most of it you can drive like a drunk lunatic).

Also it's (mostly) a set of tools and a set of challenges. Most of the time there's a set of tools that best match the challenges, but there are other ways around. The classic example of this is that there is one example in VC of the sort of thing I hate in driving games: you have a car with a high top speed and alright acceleration, and you have to beat someone with a lower top speed, but who gets there quicker. Fortunately if you've finished all the car-theft missions, you can park the fastest car in the game around the first bend in the race, switch cars, and VROOOM. So, you see, it's just like Planescape! Also, driving around shooting up people and making stuff blow up is cool.

Incidentally, Dan, you have an Xbox, right? Have you tried Knights of the Old Republic? It's quite reminiscent of PS:T in lots of ways, including your party members's fighting and bickering (and reacting to choices you make through the game). And some of the darkside choices feel a lot more real and troubling than running over people, blowing stuff up etc.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I've got KOTOR on my PC (and yes, I was absolutely addicted to it and am in the middle of a darkside game).

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Cool. You probably already know that the sequel was given to Obsidian, specifically a team headed by the designer of Planescape, but I figure it can't hurt to remind people: this game will rock.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I knew that and I'm INSANELY EXCITED ABOUT IT OMG OMG OMG

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I fucking live for GTA, have done for the past 3 years or so. I have no idea why, perhaps it's the freedom of involvment it gives the player.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)

MADDEN 2005

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i found GTA's replay value pretty low (3 and VC). i think cos there were two settings for missions, easy and fucking impossible. about the only thing i liked doing forever was tooling around in the attack helicopter in VC.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)

That Katamariwhatever game looks cooler than shit!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

been playing burnout 2 a lot... burnout 3 looks very interesting...

also aroused by the idea of star wars battlegrounds - is this any good?

have replayed GTA many times, just roaming round the cities fucking shit up. cannot WAIT for SA...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

No one likes the sports games much huh? Im waiting for San Andreas to come out. Im also interested in Shellshock: Vietnam 67. I like the war games.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I have KOTOR on my pc and the fucking game crashes like every 10 minutes. needless to say, Ive slogged through it and passed it on the light side, now Im in the middle of a dark side game w/ a female scoundrel. An effective time waster if there ever was one.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i have to shed a tear for all this stuff, my computer is now of an era that can't handle new games. no farcry, no KOTOR, :'(

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Dude, if you can set aside even $50 a month, you can buy a new kickass computer within a year that CAN handle these games! You can get a decent Dell for $500 (and that's BEFORE going to their refurbished site)!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Or you could just buy a console in like two to four months that will play games without thinking twice!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

thats true, but farcry isnt available on consoles.. or other greats mentioned on this thread like civ3, planescape, and rome: total war.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i know... i got the computer i had on one of those dell loan thingies. i should do it all over again, or something similar; but i'm in school and should spend the money on a laptop first. and i'd REALLY like to get a hot computer for MUSIC before that. anyway this is all OT.

So, games, yeah.

planescape is so good. I kinda fucked up halfway thru, so now i'm going thru it to that point with a walkthru and i'll go to the end from there. seriously, breaking into your own tomb, with traps that REQUIRE you kill yourself, meaning you're the only one who could ever get in. so so good.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

seriously, how fucking amazing does rome: total war look? aahh i could take out another loan, or start a meth farm, or or or...

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

the video of the elephants tossing spearmen to and fro, my jaw just hung open

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Take out a loan for a meth farm.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I really didn't care for the Rome: Total War demo. It seemed to authentic-y. I like my games ridiculous (cf Katamari Damacy and Disgaea).

I don't remember if I've already said this but shooting Ewoks in Star Wars Battlefront is really, really satisfying.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Civ 3 works fine on my prehistoric computer -- you just have to turn the music off and be patient.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i am/was so addicted to TOtalWAR mideval. and now with TotalWAR ROME & the all new graphics engine, sleep deprivation will be the norm. it doesnt get much more authentic. & i am a fool because this has been out for a few days and i havent picked it up yet

― kephm, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I played fucking PIKMIN 2 at one of those dealies in the store the other day and holy crap that game is funner than hell. I predict that it will be the next game I buy and lose days worth of living time to.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Cool. You probably already know that the sequel was given to Obsidian, specifically a team headed by the designer of Planescape

actually, i didn't know that Feargus Urquart(sp) was heading it up. Most of the Fallout 2 crew is onboard for the game, tho.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Cool. You probably already know that the sequel was given to Obsidian, specifically a team headed by the designer of Planescape, but I figure it can't hurt to remind people: this game will rock.

I did not know this and it is amazing and awesome.

(All this is making me wanna rego play Planescape right now)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Diablo II mods, mods, mods!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing Star Wars: Battlefront on XBOX, frequenting going online to wage war online. The levels are BEATIFUL, especially (funnily enough) the prequel trilogy ones.

My favorite one has to be Hoth, though. I was playing on the Empire team last night and coordinating an assault on the shield generators with a whole bunch of people is awesome. Especially when you're driving the AT-AT.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend is discovering Planescape for the first time. Awesome.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago)

as mentioned elsewhere, if not upthread, when Interplay closed down Black Isle(its internal RPG division), most of the remaining guys were working on Fallout3 jumped shipped and wound up at Obsidian, who are now working on KOTOR2. Guys who left Black Isle earlier wound up at Troika, who are working on the Vampire: the Masquerage RPG.

this is what their version of Fallout 3 would have looked like, btw

so, yeah, the guys who did Fallout 2, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment & the like are now working on KOTOR2. Should be interesting.

rumor had it that the mechanics of KOTOR1 were based on Planescape. Bioware developed it, and had previously had some association with the Black Isle guys on Baldur's Gate.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)

also, Planescape's Lady of Pain was based on Lorraine Williams, who gained control of TSR in the 90's. she hated gamers, told the world that she knew how things should be run, and promptly ran TSR into the ground(and thru the floor, to the tune of $30 Million). This is how Wizards of the Coast wound up buying TSR in '97 or so.

oh yeah, and here's the voice cast of Planescape. Mitch Pileggi, Sheena Easton(!), Keith David, John DeLancie("Q"), Rob Paulsen(Yakko Warner/Pinky from Pinky & the Brain)...

Suffice it to say that i like this game.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

i beat Planescape tonight. Jeez, one of the best game endings I've ever seen.

Also, there's a hint in this file, near the end, when you're in Carceri. In the warehouse, Look for the Ancient Scroll under a plank in the northwest side of the room. Put the Scroll in Dak'kon inventory. Now you can Use it, but it never gets used up. Max out all your stats, get extra bling-bling rings, max our your wealth, whatever you like.

is it cheating to exploit poorly-implemented code?

Anyway, the end of the game is great.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Specifically it has the same Lead Designer, Chris Avellone, as Planescape. Though he was also the designer for hack-n-slash-athon Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance = I must track him down and throw myself at him. After KOTOR2 is released.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Sims 2!

am i the only one? i'm on the 3rd generation of the Chavver Family already.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Tony Hawk's 4.

Boght ut just after it came out, didn;t play it, leant to a friend.

Got it back a couple of weeks ago and now I'm really getting into it again.

Mmmm...liquid mercury....

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Im tempted to pick up the sims 2. Is it worth the $50?

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Make sure your computer can handle it first (there was a thread on the game around here somewhere).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

am now playing Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscrua, done by Troika(Fallout 1 guys).

nothin' beats steampunk.

see here

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago)

I fired Simpsons Hit & Run up again over the weekend and had some tremendous success - got to the final level at last, and completed the first two missions fairly quickly. Have only had a couple of tries at the Professor Frink mission, but looks do-able; I was about to enter the school when I got caught by a Hit & Run.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Burnout 2 - Custom Championship proving difficult to ace...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I have MYST 4. hurrah. already put up with child actress intro, but that's all i could do before i realised i had WORK to do and everyone was gathering around my monitor going "oo, pretty" and stuff

Key question: do I buy Animal Crossing OR Harvest Moon for my gamecube?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I think Harvest Moon is more of a game than Animal Crossing (which as far as I can work out is just a whole pile of unexplained stuff happening to you, and non-vocal interaction with game characters). I'm only three or four days into Harvest Moon, and it's OK - I need to spend more time on it I suppose.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago)

definately RENT both games first, just to see how you fit into their vibe.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I sold my life down the river and bought the sims 2 game. my god thats one spectacular waste of time.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

The first reviews of Half Life 2 are starting to filter out. They're ecstatic.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago)

they announced the soundtrack for the new Vampire: the Masquerade RPG:

Aerial – Pound
Chiasm – Isolated
Daniel Ash – Come Alive
Darling Violetta – Smaller God
Die My Darling – Needles Eye
Genitortures – Lecher Bitch
Lacuna Coil – Swamped
Ministry – Bloodlines
Tiamat – Cain

and the game is rated M, for extra titty/blood action, i guess.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago)

"The first reviews of Half Life 2 are starting to filter out. They're ecstatic."

I'm crying, my Radeon 9700pro has bitten the dust.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago)

That PC Gamer review of HL2 is disgusting. They said the same shit about Doom 3 and is anybody still playing that?

Also I would like to note that Super Monkey Ball 2 is now one of those $20 Player's Choice things and is well worth it. Monkeys are fun, balls are fun (cf Katamari Damacy), monkeys in balls are even more fun.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Though still not as good as Katamari Damacy.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Well i'd given Doom 3 was out a while ago and is pretty much a single player experience thats not really a fair criticism.

x-post

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, I bought Animal Crossing. I kinda get the impression that people are just using me. And this woman totally dissed the cool outfit I designed, and made me wash her car! I smashed it up good and proper with my spade! haha! I really could do with a fishing rod. Also, I sent this cute frog a parasol and not a word of thanks, hmmphhh!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Well i'd given Doom 3 was out a while ago and is pretty much a single player experience thats not really a fair criticism.

A game that retails for 55 bucks (ie $5 OVER the already ridiculous standard price) better be interesting for longer than two months.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Do they make 2d platformers for the PS2 anymore????

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Viewtiful Joe? Metal Slug?

also, they're apparently working on Metal Slug 3D. Fuck these guys.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I came to this thread because I'm getting a new computer this week and could actually run recent games now. I'm going to try to continue not to, so that I'll get work done instead.

Anyway, video games wasting my life continue to be Gameboy games, especially:

Pokemon Leaf Green, the GBA remix of the original Pokemon. I never played Poke-anything until Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, and compared to that, the graphics and interface are slightly but noticeably improved, and I'm getting many more cool Pokemon like Pikachu and whatnot. (They might just be cool to me because of the novelty; I've played Ruby and Sapphire through three or four times each.)

It comes with a wireless connector, but currently the only games compatible with said connector are Pokemon Leaf Green and Pokemon Flame Red -- so that's not as cool as it could be.

Super Mario Bros and Zelda! The original ones, finally available for the GBA. The first Super Mario might still be my favorite -- I've never played 3, though; the girlfriend's got it but isn't done with it yet.

Star Wars Trilogy -- side-scrolly action! Luke vs storm troopers! So far, this is pretty cool, although running around shooting storm troopers so that you can get to the next stage of shooting storm troopers is a little repetitive. I dig the cartoony graphics, though, they remind me of that Clone Wars thing on Cartoon Network.

Mario/Luigi Superstar and Metroid Fusion are still far and away the best GBA games other than the above, for my money -- I'm just stuck on both of them, at the moment.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

We don't even have to bring multiplayer into the equation. I got bored and stopped playing Doom 3 about 1/3 of the way through it. I can't imagine this happening in the single player mode of Half Life 2.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

OMG that Katamari game looks incredible.

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

This thread has made me install Planescape again. This is not good considering my recent resolution to cut greatly down on gaming time.

Also where the fuck is TFC:Source?

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't get Planescape. I've been playing it for four or five hours now and its no NWN.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 7 October 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago)

i got mario golf! it's great!!

so what was the deal with doom 3? i thought it was supposed to be so super-duper and stuff, did it turn out really boring or something?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago)

the new Vampire: Bloodlines came has a site up: http://www.vampirebloodlines.com/

Still playing Arcanum. Some of the Diablo aspects are starting to piss me off, mainly b/c my character is underpowered for that many monsters.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that doom 3 was ever going to be super-duper. It's incredibly atmospheric, and scary like that shot in Alien where the cat jumps directly at the camera. And it has a few nice setpieces (okay, one so far). But the story is back-of-napkin, and the game play is "Things appear and run at you. Then things appear behind you and run at you. You've got the red key!"

It's much as expected: technically groundbreakng, and a reason to look forward to the next generation of games built on the engine.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Red Dead Revolver. Has anyone else played this? Seems okay so far, a bit irritating on occasiona though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago)

David, the mid-to-later stages of Planescape are kind of staggering. Also, unless you puimp up your intelligence/wisdom, you don't get all of the fantastic dialogue choices/philosophical discussions that make the game special.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I ordered Katamari Damarcy yesterday on the recommendation of other adam.

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Bitchin'.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

am i kinda late in seeing this around ??! http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/74/27/25/24/0074272524495_500X500.jpg
just bought it, its got to be ace!

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

ambrose, please tell me what that is like when you've played it.

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Is the new Mortal Kombat game going to be the first one since MKII that doesn't suck?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

you ask for too much..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I know, but it's gotten amazingly positive reviews from what I've seen.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't care, because I think Midway Arcade Treasures II comes out soon, w/Mortal Kombat II & III and assorted Gauntlets, Primal Rages, NARCs, Arch Rivalses, Spy Hunterses, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago)

yeah, in Planescape, the main state for your character is Wisdom. Wisdom & Intelligence are key for the main character, since you can surround yourself with enough NPCs to take some of the damage. I made my character a Mage & it worked out quite well.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago)

MK: Deadly Alliance was really good too.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

My house plays Age of Mythology but right now we're focusing our manic energy on Red Alert 2.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Just put my deposit down on San Andreas yesterday...Oct 26 bitchez

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 7 October 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

tell me more about Animal Crossing. i'm intrigued by the idea of it (like the video game equivalent of community service!) and the whole non-competative aspect. is there a future to this kind of stuff?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Which of thses should I get/avoid?:

RATCHET AND CLANK 2
HOT SHOTS GOLF 1,2, OR 3
APE ESCAPE 2
MIDNIGHT CLUB 2 OR 3
SIMPSONS HIT AND RUN OR ROAD RAGE
VIEWTIFUL JOE
MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURE 1 OR 2
X-MEN:LEGENDS
SYPHON FILTER:THE OMEGA STRAIN
WORMS 3-D

I also need:

1. A decent beat 'em up. I have a Tekken and it is crap.
2. Some kind of racing game that does not involve cars. i like the hoverboard races on Ratchet and Clank
3. Anything Japanese and stupid and cute that isn't Katamari Damarcy.
4.ANYTHING with monkeys in it

FOR PS2

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago)

R&C2 is great fun. I highly recommend it. I also have Ape Escape 2, which is fun but a little too easy. Simpsons Road Rage is dumb, don't bother.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Nick A, how far did you get in the original R&C? I am OBSESSED with it at the moment!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm interested in Midway Arcade Treasures II (came out today!) and X-Men: Legends, but I haven't played either. For a beat-'em-up though, get Soul Calibur II.

It's only a month to HALO 2.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Do I need Halo? I feel that I have had my fill of walking around corridors and shooting things games.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Do you have an Xbox? I thought I was sick of 1st person shooters too, but Halo just makes it happen. It does have its flaws (repetitive level design), but there are some fantastic set-pieces (usually involving vehicles and wide-open spaces) that make up for it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

No, I have a ps2.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Then your decision is made for you.

Get Dance Dance Revolution instead.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Don't I need Eyetoy for that?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Hell naw, you just need the DDR pad that comes with it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Ooooooh.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Is this sort of thing absolutely necessary?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)

My beat and worn copy of MVP Baseball 2004 died. At first I thought it was my PS2 but it's just this game. What should I do, return it? Or just trade it in?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

get one of the hot shots games adam!! i'm totally into mario golf which is made by the same people and is apparently very similar.

MARIO GOLF ADVANCE YEAH!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Would I like MGA if I don't like golf?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

do you like golf video games?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't know!

I've never played the ones they have in bars, but I do like miniature golf. If that helps.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)

it does. you might like it then! i have never played "real" (read "rockist") golf anyway, and i find golf video games immeasurably soothing and fun.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I guess it seems like I could be into it as long as it's not hung up on being a golf sim.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Why haven't there been more golf hybrid games, like 1st Person Shooter Golf or 1-on-1 Fighting Golf? I want to see a game do for golf what Base Wars did for baseball.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Rockist golf!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago)

I like soothing games. I think i need a bass fishing game or something like that.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

gygax, get THUG 2

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I am going to sleep on THUG 1 because it was too easy. I'm gonna wait for my THPS skillz to diminish and then still manage to destroy it with ease.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

they need to remake super dodgeball. so many teenage wasted afternoons..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

You do know that most places run a basic check on things before they let you trade them in, right?

Adam - Ratchet & Clank 2 is sweet sweet music for the soul. They improved the stuff you didn't like in R&C1, and they improved the stuff you did like. 3 should be out in the next month or two as well.

I understand that The Simpsons Road Rage is rubbish. Hit & Run is great, like GTA with platformy collecting things, and jokes.

Viewtiful Joe is a really good old-school platformer (with ratings for each section cleared), but it's only recently out on PS2.

Beat-em-up: yeah, Soul Calibur 2 is the shit.
Non-car Racing Game: Has to be Wipeout: Fusion (though honestly Wip3out for the PlayStation is probably better)
Japanese & Stupid: How about Stretch Panic?
Monkeys: Well, Super Monkey Ball is being released on PS2 at the end of the year...

And they don't fit into any of your categories, but Oni & Rez are still completely brilliant.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I've returned to Diablo II LOD (after losing my rad chars and stuff to the 90-day no-logon deletion). Am I the only person that still plays this?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 11 October 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have X-Wing Trilogy for PC??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

OMG TIE FIGHTER (drools)

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

i was playing Diablo II LOD earlier this summer, but switched into Fallout 2 & likeminded RPGs.

speaking of which, I'm still playing Arcanum. this is the first rpg i've ever played deep enough so that your character can resolve a labor dispute, if you like.

unfortunately, the combat system is off, and the tech vs mage is unbalanced, but the writing is some of the best. they even included certain social aspects, like applying late-Victorian ideas about race & class into a Tolkien society. Half-orcs, orcs & ogres used as lower-class workers, given their own ghettos in some of the towns, etc.

also, your character gets increasingly sarcastic & smartassed as the game goes along. Fun

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago)

I never got past the first screen of Arcanum. After playing Baldur's Gate and ICewind Dale it just seemed... staid and boring. Ditto with Fallout.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago)

PRINCE OF PERSIA 2 and METROID PRIME 2 for Gamecube, both released in the next month. GAAAAAAAAH.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Wasting my life away just ANTICIPATING.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone got an xbox i cd play FABLE on k thx bye?

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago)

adam, I just rented the first R&C, so I didn't get that far, but the whole "cute animals running around and kicking ass" genre is one of my personal faves (see also: Jak & Daxter). R&C2 is fun because there are like 5 different games crammed into one: the running around and shooting bad guys game, like 3 different racing games, the spaceship blasting game (which was the most frustrating for me), and best of all, the "giant robot trying to destroy other giant robot while simultaneously trashing large city" game.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

And the arena(-na-na)!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago)

i just got Skies of Arcadia cheapish on eBay. num num.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)

when do pro ev 4, halo 2, and mgs 3 come out?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Halo 2 comes out on Nov. 9th, and as of today I'm starting to get stupidly excited about it. As in contemplating taking off work that day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Jak & Daxter seems a bit...trad compared to Ratchet. At least, the original does anyway. I got that first and it bored me. I have just completed the metallic boots part of R&C and now I am shooting ships out of the sky with a cannon, but I'm not sure what to do.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I installed Rome: Total War, and then uninstalled it a half hour later when I figured out that strategy games more complicated than Advance Wars are definitely not my bag.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Madden 2005

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll get that. Now that I enjoyed Friday Night Lights I might like your American "football".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

its a great game. and i hate football.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wesnoth.org/

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)

who's got FIFA 2005 and who's got XBOX LIVE and who wants a game???????????????????????

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

My friend's brother has been working on this game for years and years, and it's actually coming out soon (and looking cool!):

http://www.vendetta-online.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

suggest me a mac os x game that is free and fun... no action games

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Has anybody here finished Far Cry?

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Manhunt, Evil Genius, Mashed.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I have finished Far Cry. There's one part towards the end that's basically impossible. The way to beat it couldn't exactly be called cheating, but it's definitely unusually creative.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

does someone want to trade your PS2 for my gamecube? i have zelda wind waker, mario kart dbl dash, resident evil 0, and viewtiful joe. plz

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

i'm at the part in Far Cry where I just picked up the chick.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently in the middle of plowing through the 10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition - http://www.ifcomp.org/ - only 36 games. I might get done in time for the judging deadline...

I'm not s'posed to talk about them 'til the voting's over, but I can head unqualified praise upon last year's winner, Slouching Towards Bedlam (go to http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2186 for the z-code file). It also racked up four XYZZY awards including Best Game of 2003. Mix in a few doses of steampunk, kabbalism, Victorian England, insane asylums, free choice, and stir.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Slouching Towards Bedlam was too damn short! There need to be more tremendously huge IF games like Curses.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago)

bah. i think i might have fucked up my game where i need to go back & do something if i want to enable certain later subquests. i hate backtracking, especially since it means losing several hours of game. then again, i don't think that i need to do the extra things if i wanna beat it, so we'll see.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago)

What did you forget? I don't think there's anything in the game that would require you to backtrack through several hours worth of game.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago)

In Arcanum, there's a bit where you need to fix the Halcyon altar using a hunk of stone. Thing is, i already visited the place where the stone was and, thanks to the AI code for your underlings, one of them wandered by it and automatically picked it up.

when i found this out, i made him drop it. I go back to the same location later to find out that all dropped items have been wiped out. Poof. there's goes the altar stone, meaning i can't get the Big God Blessings.

oh well. i'll still beat the game, and try it again later as a mage.

sloppy code aside, this game is great from the fact that your mates can be fighting a bunch of orcs or whatever, and you can run around and mow them all down with your mechanized rifle. TASTE MY HOTCHKISS, YOU TOLKIEN BITCHEZ. Also, it has pirate treasure, the aforementioned labor disputes, and overt _Fallout_ references.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Trailer for GTA San Andreas. And I think Eazy-E is in the fucking game.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)

That seriously gave me an erection.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

re: Half Life 2 - watch the "Traptown" in-game video clip here >> http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/productpage.asp?productcode=RM00327&title=Half%20Life%202%20-%20DVD%20Rom

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago)

rest of message :-/

That gravity gun thing looks great fun.

CS Source _looks_ good but appear to be nothing more than a paint job with some extra touches like...moving boxes(! omfg how do they do it? :-/ )

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Yo Kingfish, I'm at the same part. My least favorite part of the game is when you're just stalking along quietly, and all of the sudden a ROCKET comes and annihilates you, fired by some guy in a tower really far away, and it's super dark out. Some parts of the game were so cluttered with enemies like this that I just had to make a mad dash for it to get to the next save point.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I played Katamari Damacy all night and had a dream about it, although suddenly I wasn't sure if I was playing KD or watching The Incredibles!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Jesus god those Half Life 2 videos.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

the fun thing about Far Cry is how they coded the AI line-of-sight aspect. if you crouch/lay down in the bushes, the view is blocked and no one can really find you. plus, if you have the silenced MP5, you can shred each guy who comes close, and his friends won't know what happened.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

Katamari damacy is that doubleplus good shit.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 October 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago)

so no one wants a game on fifa 2005?????

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago)

today's order came in!

Star Wars Battlefront
Divine Divinity
Baldur's Gate II box
Neverwinter Nights Gold

oh yeah, these should last awhile.

and i finally beat Arcanum(which is GREAT, but buggy), and have been trying to beat Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic. Man, what a shitty game.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 October 2004 07:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamerankings.com/screens4/919279/1.jpg

I swear that i'ma name the next thread "Snipin' Ewoks for Fun & Profit". this game is FUN, dammit. Anybody else have it yet & wanna have a go?

have a looksee here

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 October 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamerankings.com/screens4/919279/1.jpg

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 October 2004 07:51 (twenty years ago)

I am mostly playing Conflict: Vietnam. It's swell.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 23 October 2004 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Battlefront does look fun, I've been resisting because of the impending Halo 2 era. Is it mostly action then, and not strategy?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 23 October 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago)

well, it's a definately an action game, but you have to apply some strategy whilst playing or you're just going to be continually cut down.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Sanitarium.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have Railroad Tycoon 3? It looks interesting and I've hinted to my wife nonstop for a month that I'd like to have it for the b'day. Or is this thread about the twitch-factor games?

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago)

this threads about all of 'em, thus me endlessly promoting Black Isle RPGs...

i haven't played 3, but i did like RRT2 a lot...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 October 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

FUCKING GET STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT! THIS IS GREAT!

AND REALLY GOOFY

Using snowspeeders to mow down stormtroopers, setting mines atop Gonk droids so that they have a jaunty explosive hat, stomping on ewoks with a chicken walker!

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago)

This week I have been mostly playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike, it is good.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

street fighter III!!!! wow i never thought i'd see it.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I keep forgetting I have SFIII:3rd Strike! MUST HOOK UP DREAMCAST.

Also I just got a package of used games from EBGames.com that includes:

Wolverine's Revenge
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
GUILTY GEAR X2!!!!!
New Legends

All for $42 inc. shipping. YAY ME.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

SFIII first came out in 1997, I think. It's only come out on PS2 recently though. I had to import it because the PAL version of SF Anniversary only has a ropy all-in-one version of Street Fighter II, whereas the American one has SFIII as well for the same price. It's a bastard to get it working on a PAL machine n'all.

Prince of Persia is really good.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

1997!! really? but wasn't that still when they had all the crazy like SUPER STREET FIGHTER II and STREET FIGHTER II ALPHA BETA FRIENDSTER EDITION etc?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

GUILTY GEAR X2!!!!!!!!!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/data/3593.html

I think they were up to Street Fighter Alpha 2 by 1997. And Street Fighter EX. Then they did Street Fighter Alpha 3 and rewrote the entire storyline to have all this shit about Bison making armies of underage schoogirl clones for him to possess and being a clone in Street Fighter II and stuff.

Uh.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

that bison sure knows how to have fun!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Total War: ROME owns me.

― kephm, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

well, katamari damacy (the bonus thing you get to do during the credits is great). and sly 2: band of thieves.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago)

WARNING! WARNING! The Sims 2 is complete and utter HEROIN

I got it to "have a look" and have spent the last two nights sorting out my lovelorn frumpy Sim. She's been hitting the gym, lost a load of weight, practiced her chat-up lines and now I've got her together with the shy intellectual dude from over the road.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/lynskey/frumpybruhahaha.jpg

I don't know if I'm happy or "sad"

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I've been wondering why they don't try and sell The Sims 2 to the stalker market more. You can make a sim that looks like you, and a sim that look like them, and then the game will show you what your kids ~~would~~ will look like. An opportunity overlooked, if you ask me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I've said many a time that its the darkest, most twisted thing humanity has ever produced. The Sims Online especially.

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago)

OMG Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time COMPLETELY RULES.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah it completely rules... THE LAND OF SUCK

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago)

does the Sim 2 let you make lesibians yet?? boys never kiss boys and girls never kiss girls in the old Sims. (They go as far as flirt and "adore" each other but try and make them kiss and one would push the other away)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh the Sims2 will full on let you have gay families I think. Certainly samesex couples can have a "union" kind of thing. They could snog in the old game too, I had it happen.

In fact Ive had sims who gravitated towards a samesex partner when I didnt want them to, more than once in the new game!

Mike Daddino is the one to ask about this, he had a really nice gay couple with child thing happening in my Sims2 thread if I recall.

Im a terrible sims/simcity addict. I just havent got massively into sims2 yet because my p4 laptop has a shite graphics card, I need a new desktop pc.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago)

This was my attempt at a me and my bf sims thing. OK I know its sad. Laugh at me.

http://www.memorygongs.com/menicksim.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago)

It looks like us, that. Creeps me out.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago)

nice bum, trayce!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

i've been playing Rainbow Islands on MAME emulator like the twee fucker i am. last night i actually managed to beat the Nightmare Island boss with only single rainbow power tho!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago)

THAT'S FABULOUS NEWS

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

quite

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I love saying that at random moments

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago)

IIRC, the official guide to The Sims 1 had a brief passage implying that, in the beginnings of a relationship, homosex romantic moves were slightly less likely to succeed than heterosex ones, but in reality, I had no problem at all developing gay and lesbian relationships between Sims.

The same with The Sims 2. In fact, it's even easier. When creating a family from scratch, you can specify that two people of the same sex are already "married" prior to any gameplay. (I put "married" in quotes because when it's between two people of the same sex, they call it something euphemistic like "entered into union" or whatever.)

FWIW, in both Sims 1 and 2, same sex couples also have the option of adopting children. In fact, in the Sims 2, the adopted son of the two gay parents I created shared much of their "DNA" (looks, behavior, etc.), just like the non-adopted children of heterosex couples do.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Edge just gave Half Life 2 10/10. OMGOMGOMG I CAN'T WAIT!

At least (ha!) I haven't been able to get Steam working on my machine yet, so I'm spared having the files just sitting around waiting to be activated.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

"I put "married" in quotes because when it's between two people of the same sex, they call it something euphemistic like "entered into union" or whatever."

Do they?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago)

10/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

oh, and steam is awful.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

It seems quite nice in the brief period between me reinstalling my operating system and Steam deciding it hates it's life.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

playing Baldur's Gate II. Just found out that the british stentorian voice of an early villian in the game is David Warner, who played "Sark" in _Tron_ and the bad guy in _Time Bandits_.

he goes a great job in his role in this game. classically-trained british actors should have the majority of all voicecast roles...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Do you have the expansion pack?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

yup. bought the 2-game pack last week. i like how the fighter/druid/barbarian guy pretty much channels The Tick through-out the game:

"Butt kicking for goodness. "

"Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging BLINDLY ON"

"I trust those who prey on children no farther than they can be thrown, even if I manage to throw them pretty far! "

"I won't cry for the dead! I won't! Well, maybe a little... but I will staunch the tears with righteous fury!"

and the line about "chopping up foes into little foe-shaped bits"

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Minsc is GODLY in that game.

Who's in your party so far?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

my paladin, minsc, the half-elf cleric/druid chick, yoshimo the asian thief, the elf-wot-got-no-wings mage chick, and the little scrawny emo-looking mage/thief chick whose family got eaten by trolls.

i'm still pretty early in the game, after blowing most of my time since getting it on friday playing SW:Battlefront and ramming snowspeeders into imperial walkers & whatnot.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so you've got Jahiera, Aerie, Minsc, Yoshimo and Nalia. That's aprety decent initial party (very similar to the one I played with the first time through).

I wouldn't blame you for sticking with them but don't be afraid to experiment with party composition as some of the other NPCs are very, very cool (even the ones that suck) (you'll know who I mean when you find him, he's got a side quest that's kind of heartbreaking and seems like it would be totally out of character for him until you go through it).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Argh, I really want to play Battlefront, but it will have to be AFTER I finish Halo 2.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

did BG2 or Everquest come out first? I'm trying to divine how/when drow elf chicks first became fetished.

(...'cuz i'm bored at work, that's why)

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Do they?

Not sure what the question is, but when I search through my gay sims' memories, "entered into union" is how they label a sim's memory of being married to someone of the same sex.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

BG1 came out before Everquest IIRC.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

By the way...Myst IV: Revelation is TERRIBLE. Rather building upon the fully-rendered 3D environment of 2003's Uru, they went back to the quasi-3D of 2000's Exile, which means clicking from panorama to panorama. And my machine meets all the system requirements, the drivers have all been updated and the thing STILL runs fucking slow.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I see no-one's wasting their life on GTA:SA.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 October 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Ahem.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 29 October 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago)

I am now completely, totally infatuated with Prince Of Persia: SOT.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I read that as 'infuriated' at first. I still have to rent that some weekend (it's short, right?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait until you get to the very end of the game and that infatuation turns to BITTER RAGE AND FRUSTRATION ha ha. I heart that game too, though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I need to get DONKEY KONGA. Like MOST FUN EVER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Reading previews for POP2 has pretty much informed me as to what's going to happen.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I finished Simpsons : Hit & Run over the weekend. I thought I would feel more fulfilled than I did.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Not only did I not know there was a Sonic the Hedgehog compilation coming out for PS2 & Xbox, but apparently it's out right now. Maybe I'll get it after work, I could use some nostaglic comfort today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Something like 10 days to Half Life 2. Damn it, I need something to cheer me up right now.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Six days to Halo 2.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

(btw the Halo bit on the Daily Show last night was funny)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought the Sonic title that was out for PS2 and XBox was Sonic Heroes - I wouldn't get excited about it, it's utter shite. Has gone for complexity and variety over playability and has ruined the gameplay as a result.

The Mega Collection is NGC only, I think.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I think I may need to get sims to distract me from politics.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Mega Collection PLUS!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)

San Andreas, obv. but I am constantly ALMOST there fighting the end-of-game boss on Ratchet & Clank. I went to the Metreon yesterday and watched a huge screen with Up Your Arsenal on it for aaages. It looks tough!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I just bought Going Commando yesterday, the camera controls seem kind of ass but the Chopper is crazy fun.

Also I love San Andreas like I love cake.

― adam (adam), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I got a Spongebob Squarepants game that was surprisingly enough, not total ass. I also got Tales of Symphonia, which is kinda hokey and predictable, but has the absolute dopest battle template of any RPG I've ever played.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

There is a Sonic Mega Plus game for PS2 which looks to have a little more than the Gamecube one does. (xposts?)

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Btw: four days to Halo 2.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

more much love for Baldur's Gate 2. since all the dialogue has good cop/bad cop options, it affords the writers some leeway in being funny. If you like, you can have your character ranting that he is the God Of Murder and all must be his slaves.

another fun bit is when your samurai thief(this game's version of Sabotai from _Conan the Barbarian_) starts hitting on the female halfling that you pick up along the way.

Halfling chick: (something about not wanting to be patronized)
Yoshimo (samurai dude): "I can't help it! You're like a Miniature Prophet of Doom!"

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 8 November 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago)

San Andreas. But eventually the novelty will wear off and/or I'll get 100%. Already finished the main storyline and only have a few side missions and the usual odd-job stuff (races, ambulance/fire/vigilante missions, stunt jumps, etc).

But then. THEN.

Halo 2? Half-Life 2?

No.

THIS.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 8 November 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago)

8 days to Half Life 2.

I dont understand racing games.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 8 November 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago)

YOU DRIVE VERY FAST ON TREACHEROUS, WINDING COURSES IN A CAR YOU CAN NEVER AFFORD

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 8 November 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago)

And there are few things that compare to a photorealistic depiction of going 195 MPH

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 8 November 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago)

HALO 2! TONIGHT!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 8 November 2004 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Just received Football Manager 2005...

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 November 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Halo 2 reviews in "not the best game ever!" shockah!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, single-player = meh and multi-player = whooh! seems to be the consensus. I won't get to really play it until, like, Wednesday night at the earliest since I agreed to have dinner with my dad tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I think I need a new video game for PC, I'm thinking about sims 2 because I am a girl and don't like first-person shooters. Does anyone want to recommend me something? My favorite game ever I think is Dungeon Keeper, but I also like things like Age of Empires, which is kinda the same thing anyway but less cute.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I like cute, my favorite console games were mario 2 and bubble bobble and shit like that.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

BALDUR'S GATE (you will not regret it)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Mr teeny already has it! Maybe I should just try that then. Is Grim Fandango good?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Grim Fandango is very good; I never finished it but it wasn't by choice (it was on a roommate's computer and I moved out before finishing).

BG1 is very classic and BG2 takes everything that's classic about BG1 and magnifies it by 1000.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I think I like individual NPCs better in BG1 than in BG2 (some of the really fun ones appear as non-playable characters in BG2) but the overall character interaction is LOADS BETTER in BG2.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

any adventure game from Lucasarts would work well. Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, any Monkey Island, etc.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Definitely Grim Fandango, if you can find it. (and what kingfish said, but you might already have them)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

no, I don't have those, thanks for the suggestions!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Lucasarts keeps all of their games in print. you can either get one of the "Archives" packs or find 'em used/cheap from Amazon...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

wow i wonder if i can still get the old x-wing for the PC.. i bet it runs 284893 mph now on the pentium 4.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Rebel Assault!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Lucasarts reissued all the Xwing/tie fighter games in Win95 versions. apparently they work a bit better, but the great music of the old versions is gone.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago)

HALO 2 FUCKING PWNZ

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

is it midnight already?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago)

i've had it for a week

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I just bought a new PC boxen - it has a GIG of RAM and a 256mb Radeon 9600XT card.

You may never see me again... *rubs hands together in glee*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)

still waiting for Vampire Bloodlines to hit, even tho i probably won't have the extra cash to afford it for another month...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago)

I just downloaded Zork 1 for mac (run under classic) and the degrees by which it beats all those games in mind-boggling.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

I saw an ad for KOTOR2 in a magazine today. yay.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago)

The first release date I heard on GRAN TURISMO 4 was early March '04. Then it was pushed back to May, then late summer, then early November, then December, and NOW January 4th. WTF I want to piss violently into the mouths of all those responsible.

Dan I, what's there to understand about racing games? VERY fun to race against your friends if you have any competitiveness in you and with a simulation-type game like GT4 there's a lot of skill involved and learning/knowing the course.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago)

I guess I just don't like cars. All my friends were crazy about GT3, but the few times I tried to play it I just ended up doing stupid shit like running around the course backwards or trying to do doughnuts. It was very boring to me. Maybe it's because I'm a horrible driver in real life.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago)

why not try throwing grenades at innocent people on the street instead?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago)

I finished Ratchet & Clank last night!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

midway arcade treasures 2

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

and of course: halo...halo...halo...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

WWE Smackdown vs Raw and Champions of Norrath.

I become about 800% geekier as soon as the weather gets colder.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

how is smackdown vs raw michael? did you have here comes the pain? are they different enough for me to buy it???

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I starting doing a little better at Halo online, finally, ending up in the middle standings at the end of a match rather than at the bottom. It's all about headshots, isn't it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I think it's really good but a lot angry internet dudes seem to think it's worse than the Holocaust. The season's much better but much more rigid, it has voiceovers and set plotlines so you can't sub your own wrestlers in or alter the brands.

I like all the little cool stuff like being able to hold on to submissions in the ropes and shout at the referee after a two-count, if you act like enough of an asshole you get a Flairlike super low blow thing that can win the match. I've had some really good long matches as well but I dunno if it'll get too easy once you get the countering down properly.

There are some good new reversals and Bret Hart's in it. He has the proper guitar-squall music and gives his cheesy-ass shades to an offscreen fan in his intro. Lots of borderline sinister dating-sim type stuff involving lady wrestlers.

Lots of HCTP stuff taken out, like they just stand around after the match instead of having a big outro sequence, and the Rock doesn't have his mind-blowingly over the top helicopter flyby/organ intro entrance anymore (not that he should, really). I rented it first but was quite pleasantly surprised. Not sure I'd want to get an online adaptor just to get beaten up by the rampant leather jacketed, tatooed Id of some goth kid, though.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

HALO 2.

OMG!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

If anyone's playing The Sims 2 then here's a Lynskey t-shirt for da men
http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/porl/MaleLynskeyTop.package

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Tiger Woods 2005

And of course, "Nobody punches CJ!"

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I just finished POP:SOT! And am considering playing the original POP now! YAY!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

If anyone wants a Ned Raggett "In Ned We Trust" top for your male adult Sims . . .

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/porl/simsraggetttop.jpg

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

still playing BG2...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I am still working my way through Vice City so San Andreas is collecting dust on the shelf. Hopefully Thanksgiving will be a San Andreas fest. I've also been playing the Sonic Mega Collection for PS2, which is pretty great. Also, for $20, it has about 12 Sonic games. Where are my Metroid and Zelda collections?!

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

KF, what point of BG2 are you at??? Have you made it to Spellhold yet?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago)

i haven't even left Chapter 2 yet. i'm doing all the different subquests in all the towns, first. i've beat two of the stronghold quests, tho, and am in two more.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago)

DEDICATION!

Who's in your party now? I assume you've found Viconia?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:31 (twenty years ago)

lynsky isn't getting enough appreciation on this thread.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

yup, found her, but haven't used her yet

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago)

BEST HEALER IN THE GAME!!!!!

(btw if I Simmed I'd be downloading Lynskey's creations in a heartbeat)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago)

I just realized that I have to buy Metal Gear Solid 3 tomorrow. I didn't enjoy Metal Gear Solids 1 or 2 but I felt like I really should, kind of like William Gaddis. Also it is called SNAKE EATER which I assumed was a bad pun but according to a review I read part of the game involves EATING SNAKES. I think this is a great development, moving game titles away from melodramatic crap like Killzone back to simple, descriptive stuff like Asteroids, Millipede, or Snake Eater, the game about eating snakes.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm not implying that William Gaddis feels the same way I do about Metal Gear Solids 1 and 2, more that I feel the same way about MGS1+2 as I do about William Gaddis.

I don't know how William Gaddis feels about the games in question.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Also Snake Eater would be a bad pun (or something) because the main character's name is Snake.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

OMG a Ned tshirt!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

I just got this email from my boyfriend:

Subject: I may be home late tonight...

HL2 just finished installing. ^_^

*crawls into hole to play*

Well, I guess that saves me making dinner.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago)

For a week, probably.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Lynskey can you make a tshirt wot sez FUCK WASHING A HAT ?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to the joys of ebay, I picked up THUG2 for under £20...

Turned up on Saturday morning, it got about 3 hours on Saturday, another 3 or so on Sunday and about an hour yesterday.

Actually quite easy to progress through the story mode (I'm playing on Normal), you only need to do half the goals. I'm at the final stage already (of 9).

Positives: There's more off-board gaming this time, or more use of off-board skills such as climbing (which I quite enjoyed in the last one, and adds variety). Classic mode is almost a whole other game, but I'm saving it for after I finish Story mode. The levels are well laid out, on the whole, and (pending the final level, which I only opened last night) are quite easy to find your way around. The cut-scenes are kind of fun, I guess.

Negatives: No driving this time. The additional characters concept is OK, particularly since you can do (almost) any goal on that level as any character, but the 'driving' ones (you'll know what I mean when you play it) are very hard to steer successfully, or with any real effect. There's nothing obvious about where goals are any more - you can open the goals menu for a hint about where they are, and sometimes how to do them, but the downside of this is that you can't 'switch to goal' like you could previously - and this can sometimes be confusing. The goals are very, very new-skill-centric. A couple of the characters have gone for design rather than playability, and it can be hard to see what they're doing because of the design.

But it's a lot of fun, as ever. The engine hasn't really been improved much - although I understand the physics does change with some of the unlockable characters, but it doesn't really need it. Worth buying if you like all the others, and probably with more repeat play value - the Classic mode apparently lets you play THPS2-4, and THUG1, levels using all the skills you have in THUG2 but having the THPS3 time limit of 2 minutes. The time limit adds to the replayability of THPS3, and going back to that I missed hugely THUG skills so this mode may be an absolute blessing.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/porl/simsfwahtshirt.jpg

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/porl/FemaleFWAHTshirt.package

Download to MyDocuments/EAGames/TheSims2/Downloads

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Well, I guess that saves me making dinner.
-- Trayce (spamspanke...), November 18th, 2004 3:48 AM. (later)

Are you going to Eat Quick Dinner instead?!??!!??!?!?!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I think I might buy World of Warcraft today. I am a loser.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Halo 2. Mostly on Live. The Campaign's pretty good, but it's much more fun online.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago)

i picked up Call of Duty at Best Buy during their current Black Friday sale, fer $10. this game is GREAT, but i can see why everybody says it's so short...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago)

KATAMARI DAMACY and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG MEGA COLLECTION

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

beat Call of Duty on saturday. great game, short game.

beat Baldur's Gate 2 yesterday, am now on "Throne of Bhaal" expansion pack.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Who was your final party?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Live is definitely more fun for Halo, but it's a relief to retreat into the campaign where no one can see me die.

I still have to get that Sonic collection.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

At the video game store, they had a deal where if you got two games that were priced at 19.99, it was two for $25. Hence, KATAMARI DAMACY and SONIC for $25, boo-yah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Did you say "boo-yah" in the store?

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago)

final party: my paladin, drow elf chick, minsc, imoen, half-elf druid chick, edwin(a)

i did like his non-plussed reaction when you wind up in Hell.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago)

imoen?? dude, ditch her, she's horrible.

viconia is the shit, jaheira and minsc are sorta essential, tho i've read some guides that recommend taking out all the b-list ppl. except for the werewolf guy, he's crap period.

I have a soft spot for the gnome. god i love this game.

(throne of bhaal was kind of a letdown, i'm afraid. i was hoping for more strategery type-stuff, like heavy decision-making plot type stuff about fighting a war, but it's just fighting more and more well-nigh impossible creatures. it's not as well written.)

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Why do I suck at Counterstrike so much? WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!1111

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Judging by the voices of the other players, it is because I am an old, old 22-year old man.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Next time I go through this game, I'm doing it with Viconia, Mazzy, Jan, Cernd and Edwin.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

some of the chars i kept around for narrative purposes. Imoen & Jaheirathefuckever since i was in a romance with one and the other had plot significance.

after i beat this one, i'm either gunna go back and completely finish Fallout 2 for good, or continue my long-abandoned Fallot/Ice Dale 1 games.

i have yet to touch my copies of Divine Divinity or Neverwinter Nights. i like the troika/black isle/bioware games, so i'm probably getting Vampire: Bloodlines next.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, and Lionheart, too, but i'm not expecting too much from that one.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)

it's probably too late to help, but apparently the jaheira romance is buggy, there's an unofficial patch out there that will fix it. it won't corrupt your game or anything but some of the timed events were way off or impossible or something.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i found out about all those, and d/l'd all the patches. I think sorcerors.net or somesuch had a big collection of patches.

what i didn't like is the fact that after my guy lost his soul, he lost most of his special abilities, and after capping the endguy, he ostensibly receives his soul again, but no returned powers.

also, Planescape had a better "Hero merges with his own estranged soul" bit.

still, much of the quality of this game, like in Planescape, is in the writing of the characters & their banterings. You can even buy extra mods that'll increase the number of NPC vs NPC banterings.

altho, i hope in future games, they get away from the standard combat model of "here, let's cast every single defensive spell we have before this skirmish" which you then rest, and repeat.

i curious to play thru the game as a monk, just to see how much shaolin-flavourings they added. I want an RPG character who insults enemies based on the weakness of their kung fu.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago)

World Championship Poker

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

right then. where were we?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

OK, so my other half has been playing HL2 on my new machine, and it, and FarCry, both crash heaps. As in, the machine just reboots.

I have heard tell the Radeon 9600/9800 cards are a bit shit for this, or its their drivers, i dont know. whats the deal?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm also about to buy him a PS2 and GTA:SA. I might buy GTA: VC as well so I can have a go.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago)

try the omega drivers for it.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I *think* Nick's already downloaded those but I'm not sure so I will check that out.. ta!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago)

GTA: San Andreas
MGS3: Snake Eater
Halo 2
Katamari Damacy
Ikaruga
Fable
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
Viewtiful Joe
Soul Calibur II

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago)

I have heard tell the Radeon 9600/9800 cards are a bit shit for this, or its their drivers, i dont know. whats the deal?

Clean your drivers (get Driver Cleaner), and install the latest Omega drivers. If all else fails reformat your machine. This problem isn't confined to Radeon cards, though. NVidia drivers can be just as bad.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago)

i wanted to get sucked into an rpg so i downloaded neverwinter nights and played it for a bit. now i'm not so sure i want to get sucked into an rpg.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago)

oh it's too late to back out now

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm working through ViceCity still. These were the missions I had to do:

collect 3 briefcases for "auntie poulet"

drive van to and from gang war between cubans and haitans

get plates from female counterfieter gang

pretend to be cops and blow up cafe in mall

blow shit up to prove to the biker gang that yer a badass

all really difficult!

Then my dear wife saved her game on top of mine, so I had to start over again.

freakiest bit so far = vague tie between the sunken ship near the stilt houses, which really spooked me for some reason when I saw it through the water, and flying the sparrow helicopter to the ruined stilt house to do the rampage & pick up a hidden pax0rage. The rotor got stuck so I was trapped! I got the ph34r, but then I realised that I could just reload the last saved game, like this isn't real life, right?

Plus, there's a company office near the ammunation with the firing range out the back called "rox0r"

Plus, I pinched this guy's motorbike, and he took it back, saying "hey i wrote the book on 'jacking, buddy" so i got mad, got into a car, ran him over and shot him, fucker. Heh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago)

ratchet and clank pt 1

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago)

still battling my way through the first Halo so I can play the second one.
Men of Valor, is a bit ropey graphically but for some reason I keep picking it up.
I have almost given up on Burnout 3 because of the stupidly fast and impossible race in the Formula 1 car.
and of course San Andreas gets played more than anything

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Then my dear wife saved her game on top of mine
OMG, grounds for divorce!

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago)

halo 2 (anyone tried legendary yet? hey zeus!)
pro evo 4
nfl 2k3
mgs 2 (in anticipation of MGS 3!!!)

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago)

god I didn't realise thr ws such hate fr halo 2 amongst the leet.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:09 (twenty years ago)

I finished THUG2 during the server downtime, and have moved on to Classic Mode (which is bloody hard).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago)

KOTOR II

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

god I didn't realise thr ws such hate fr halo 2 amongst the leet.

Really? I haven't played it lately, mostly for time reasons. Normal in the campaign seems a bit too easy, heroic a bit too hard, and I still kinda suck at online (though not as much as I did at first). Heroic on Halo 1 was PERFECT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I recently finished Final Fantasy I, the reissue for the GBA. I was going to save it for an upcoming plane ride, but I accidentally beat it because I had no idea that the Temple of Fiends/Chaos was going to be so easy. The whole game was much easier than the original, actually, but it was still a nostalgic 16-bit graphic wonderland.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

So, World of Warcraft. Not quite to the point where I'm sacrificing friendships but it's dangerous all the same.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago)

World of Warcraft is my Nu God.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Final Fantasy Tactics is my old one.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago)

gta3:liberty city (working for the yakuza)
EA mvp baseball 2003 franchise mode (my mvp 2004 crapped out)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm playing through the original Zelda on my GBA. It's fantastic.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah jordan well I ws only reading around the ign forums and halo2sucks.com but thr seems to be some pretty major issues abt the weapon balance and the new (necessarily) crappy multiplayer tactics. as fr difficulty, heroic is ok, just hard enough, normal too easy (you can basically run through most of the levels). the jump from heroic to legendary in halo 1 was perfect, it had that whole goldeneye 'perfect difficulty curve' down pat whereas the jump from h to l in halo 2 is so massive. legendary is wicked difficult. even in co-op, since they've made that if one of you dies you both (!!!) go back to the last check point.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I ws only reading around the ign forums and halo2sucks.com but thr seems to be some pretty major issues abt the weapon balance and the new (necessarily) crappy multiplayer tactics.

Any time there's a sequel to any multiplayer game, thousands of people whinge about weapon balance and multiplayer tactics. This is especially prominent with Halo 2 because most of the dedicated Halo players hadn't played other FPS' with any degree of seriousness before.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm about to haul out the Gamecube and have a crack at Zelda: windwaker, it looked sooooo beautiful when I watched Nick play it. I just have to be patient with the start of the game, which is boring ass. Except for those cute pigs that oink when you run carrying them! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah I figured tht'd maybe be the case andrew.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

TAIKO Drum master. They completely messed with the beat to some of the songs though, like "My Sharona" and it makes them impossible to play.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm really looking forward to Charlie opening up Donkey Konga on Christmas Day.

So I can see the look of joy on his face, and not so I can play it myself, obviously.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago)

halo 2 on legendary is fricken bananas. impossible.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)

KOTOR II!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago)

TAIKO Drum master

OMG I have to play this.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to take Neverwinter Nights with me to my folks house to mess around with for a few days, and Call of Duty just to show my dad what his computer can do.

also, tyring to convince my brother to bring his ps2 down to the folks' house, so's we can rent GTA:SA and spent the holidaze the proper way.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

why can't I put it down?! it's so difficult.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

You should Jordan! It has oni (demon) mode, which is just crazy. Esp. on things like the William Tell Overture.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago)

What's the controller interface? Do you use sticks?

I might receive a fun Xbx game for the holidays like SW Battlefront or X-Men Legends, but the next game I'm really looking forward to is Zelda: The Minish Cap next month (and I'm not even a Zelda freak, I only played Link to the Past for the first time last year on GBA!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

It's for PS2 and it has a "special" drum with two drumsticks, instead of a controller.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Fable. Every choice a dissapointment. sadly.

― Chip Shop (Danny), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Half Life 2 demo is out, finally.

www.ati.com has a direct link, as do the usual places.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 24 December 2004 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I just played X-Wing: Alliance again this week. It's really amazing. Some enthusiasts did a whole bunch of new and more detailed models and it really looks amazing. Tie Fighter was still the best - those sims have just the most satisfying dog fighting ever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 24 December 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Today has been all about Donkey Konga. Essential purchase for anyone with a Cube...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 25 December 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I think katamari damacy might be as perfect for me as I thought.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago)

ok i'm kinda into neverwinter nights in a "might as well" kinda way

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago)

oh shush. you know you LOVE the fact that you can summon a "dire badger" to attack your enemies

Look out! rabid glowing attack badger!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I bought Mario Kart Super Circuit for the GBA the other day, it's awesome. Even more so since I never really got a chance to dig into the 'real' Mario Kart games.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago)

kingfish what kind of character are you playing?

and what assistant did you hire?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago)

i downloaded that game and played it for awhile, but got really bored of it. neverwinter nights, that is.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago)

i liked baldurs gate 2 a lot better

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago)

i finally starting tinkering with the game as a sorceror. my portrait guy looks like david copperfield, but my actual character has the best set of chops between here & Waterdeep

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago)

actually, i think that NWN was Bioware's inbetween game. going from the isometric d&d to the 3d over the shoulder look of SW:Kotor.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 08:35 (twenty years ago)

killzone!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

NWN has its charm but BGII is still really, really amazing and excellent.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago)

*Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (which might as well be called HOLY SHIT CHOP THE FUCK OUT SOME ZOMBIES OR SOMETHING)
*Viewtiful Joe (I finally just got this, it cracks me the fuck up, and is one of the best stoned gaming experiences ever)
*Cell Damage (a fun cartoony drive-fast-and-kill-everybody game, great fun with four players and a shit ton of beer)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Also...

MY URGENT REQUEST FOR THE MAKERS OF KATAMARI DAMACY: PLEASE RELEASE FOR GAMECUBE PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

i just realized that the prince of persia games were made like four blocks away from my apartment!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

i was so happy i gracefully ran around my walls for a while.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

You could have been an extra henchman or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm still just playing Katamari Damacy and the Sonic the Hedgehog collection. I beat StH 1 and have started StH 2, and on KD I got up to Make the Moon yesterday and almost made the moon, I was up like 260 meters but I was rolling around in the middle of the ocean looking for something to roll up when I ran out of time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

my god tiger woods pga tour is like crack covered chocolate

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah btichs!! Darklands is now abandonware!! i've been waiting to play this game again since i was 15 years old.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I stopped playing Katamari after I made an 865-meter moon and unlocked the three eternal levels. I have only the final mission on San Andreas left to do, apart from all the side missions I don't care about.

I started playing Sega College Basketball 2K5 and I'm getting addicted to it after being initially unimpressed.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and, of course, Burnout.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

MLB 2004, Halo 2 and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time -- where I'm stuck.

― Remy Snush The Night Away (x Jeremy), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I too have been wasting my life away on mlb 2004. I feel like once I get the hang of managing my team, etc mlb 2005 will be out.

Im just about wrapped up with Halo 2 as well.. I was looking for a new game this weekend to occupy my free time, but didnt see anything great..

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Why are you guys playing MLB 2004 when it's the worst baseball game on the market?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Capcom Fighting Evolution. This game seemed like a big disappointment when I first started playing it, but now I play it too much.

― Lingbertt, Monday, 10 January 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

beat Half Life 2, took a break from Icewind dale, will probably mess around with NWN until i get the used copy of Vampire: Bloodlines i ordered in the mail... woooooo bring on the goth tittays!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

neat. this game has actual indie/goth bands in it:

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― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Resident Evil 4 looks worth buying a Gamecube for.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

And this is what you want to buy to control it with, admit it...

http://image.lik-sang.com/images/large/gc-re4-chainsaw.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Just had a shed load of new games installed on my xbox hard drive including some emulator stuff so that's keeping me busy this week.

Still playing San Andreas of course, now at 95%.

and just ordered Resident Evil 1 for the playstation as I haven't played it for yonks.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Animal Crossing. Oh lord. Animal Crossing.

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Animal Crossing is fucking evil. I deleted those little bastards. They were trying to run my life.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Finished Half Life 2 last night.. WHAT A SHIT-TASTIC ENDING. I mean the game is great and all, but when you finish it up, its like wtf was that for anyways? Im sure all will be revealed in an add-on in a couple months.

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

oh, I guess I should mention that I finished MGS3 Snake Eater last week. AWESOME ending...

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

actually, i liked the ending of HL2. it fit in with the rest of the games and pretty much meant that the followup was coming.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Well all PC games end on the 'BUY THE NEXT ONE' note, but damn. There was hardly anything interesting about it. Plus the last 'stage' or 'boss' or whatever you call it was so fucking easy.

SPOILER(?)
Once I was stripped of all my sweet gunz and had to deal with the super gravity gun I lost all interest.

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

oh, I guess I should mention that I finished MGS3 Snake Eater last week.

The intro video for Snake Eater was so terrible that I just took it right back to Blockbuster after it was finished.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming all the other World of Warcraft fans aren't posting because they've collapsed over their keyboards.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Warhammer Dawn of War I'm liking muchly - it's incredibly silly and not too hard to get into.

The problem is, as with all these things, that the people playing it aren't incredibly silly. "The problem with online games is online gamers" etc.

Also - Red Faction, an outmoded FPS, which is nice 'cos the usual dicks don't play it, there's only a few servers and they're mostly full of polite and civil people.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Alzosprakt - for all you WOW fans and other MMMORPGOGOP fans, this is pretty interesting:-

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=39309975&m=931009705631

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Good article, and I'm not surprised that Final Fantasy XI is one of the first games mentioned. Even the single player Final Fantasy games hit the sweet spot as regards "nearly at the next level". Square is like a Willy Wonka factory for digital crack.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

what, did you want a long, drawn-out production number with G-man tap dancing for you?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

does anyone have 'zelda: four swords'. it looks awesome. I'm working my way through the minish cap.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

i should start a new thread. I need a good title, tho.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

no-one?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I'd definitely have it, except I don't have a GBA :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

I've got it! But I only have one GBA. Waiting for my friend to get his act together and FIND his...

It is still a lot of fun one player though, and you don't need a GBA to play it that way (although it is more fun). But mostly I'm just going to keep it around until GBA's are dead cheap, and then in the future be able to get it out at oppurtune moments. It's a keeper, in that sense.

In the same way that Mario Kart still eventually comes out when friends are round... but with Zelda, obvs.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

and you don't need a GBA to play it that way

(Zelda surprise flash!)

Right then, I'll be seeing about that, then.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Starting play Deux Ex part 2 last night on xbox. Seemed pretty good and I liked the style until it became a little unnecessarily complicated with the biomods.

So are there any decent cyberpunk style adventure games out there? for ps2 or xbox. or perhaps even PC? I'd even settle for a text adventure game at the moment.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

deus ex 1?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

DE1 was PC only.

Would you believe that the majority of complaints about Deus Ex 2 was that it was too simple compared to Deus Ex, people suspected it was "dumbed down" as it was an X-Box release as well as PC.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

why the fuck did anyone ever rate Viewtiful Joe????

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Because they like games that look well, and are completely nails. I assume Edge loved it to death.

http://shop.game.net/ViewProduct.aspx?cat=10246&mid=308600

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

viewtiful joe is heaps of fun too. it looks great and is utterly hard. edge loved it.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

cheers, i will try out the Deus Ex one for ps2.

Finally got Res Evil 1 last night and great game. Classic old skool character grafix my house mate pointed out he thought he was watching the Dire Straits Money for Nothing video.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

VJ isn't hard - it's just dull. pretty, but dull. i guess i don't like platform/beatemups much then. not much i DO like, really :-(

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I just need the casino heist and the final Sweet missons on GTA SA, not counting all the side mission crap.
I also need to finish Halo 2 one of these days...

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

I thought VJ was pretty nails, the bosses!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

i bought VJ only last week, intrigued by the graphical style, and it was only a tenner, secondhand from Game so it doesn't really have to provide much more than a couple of evenings entertainment to be VFM. same was true of Rez.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

After I beat FF Dawn of Souls or whatever what do I get next?

1. Fire Emblem
2. Zelda: Minish Cap
3. Metroid: Zero Mission

HELP

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Still playing Vampire: Bloodlines

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

tom, minish cap!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

soul caliber II
way of the samurai II
omimusha 3 ( i had to return it to the video store though)

― come on sock it to me (kephm), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played Minish Cap, and it does look cool, but man, Zero Mission rocks hard. All of the Metroid games seem to have this damn spot where I get stuck because the solution is simply "do what you just did better, faster, and with more health left when you're done," and ZM's no exception, but it still kicks ass.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

After reading Alan's post I have "Paninaro" stuck in my head.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

kingfish, how is that game?

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I picked up mercenaries over the weekend because I felt like blowing up tons of shit. I still havent engaged in as much full scale destruction as Id like to, but Im a patient man.

― Juan, the Magic Don (jingleberries), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm gunna get zero mission next! but not from hong kong no!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

i like it a lot. check the thread i made on it:

Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Balance of power 1990 Edition.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=91
cold war fun.

― qbert (Danny), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

more like Minish CRAP

I just bought a gamecube, so i have teh joyous Metroid Prime/Wind Waker experiences ahead of me. i also bought the zelda collection so i could play ocarina of time and majora's mask.

I shun anyone who actually enjoyed Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. it's the kind of game that turns me into a frothing racist (BOMB JAPAN AGAIN)

― ade (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I just purchased Civilization II. I will be busy for the next 3 years.

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Trade it in for Civ III. You'll be done with the whole franchise within weeks.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

more like metroid shite.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I shun anyone who actually enjoyed Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. it's the kind of game that turns me into a frothing racist (BOMB JAPAN AGAIN)

W
T
F

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I shun anyone who actually enjoyed Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. it's the kind of game that turns me into a frothing racist (BOMB JAPAN AGAIN)

-- ade (adelangsto...), January

why don't the USA bomb themselves for Lost in Translation?

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend is buying me a PS2 for my birthday, mostly so we can play DDR and Katamari, but what other good PS2 exclusives are there (GTA:SA need not apply)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

MGS3: Snake Eater, fuck the haters.

― bprofane (AaronHz), Thursday, 27 January 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

i caved in to the hype and bought resident evil 4. it's great fun! also minish cap and donkey konga.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

koogs i need your mailing address!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

i just got a job as a video game trend editor, but i dont even have any video game systems!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Jordan: Res, Ico

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Rez, even.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

MGS3 is the most BATSHIT INSANE GAME EVER. For perspective consider the ending of MGS2, which I don't think really sank in to the game playing world; at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, you kill a former president of the United States by cutting his spine in half with a sword, on top of Federal Hall. MGS3 easily bests this by maintaining that World War II was single-handedly won by a guy made of bees.

There's an extremely extended telephone cutscene between LBJ and Kruschev talking about THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS NUCLEAR EXPLOSION AT A SECRET RUSSIAN FACILITY when it's nuked in the first part of the game by a guy with electricity powers. It starts with actual audio of LBJ, who is actually LBJ and not "President Ross" or some shit like that. There are portentious scenes with dramatic music behind this boring scene, as live action video of American flags flutter dramatically.

At the very beginning, Snake is named "Jack" like Raiden from MGS2, and has a mask and wig to look like him. For no reason, in case you were wondering. He jumps from an aircraft at high altitude and parachutes into the jungle, then removes the mask to some dramatic music. After The Boss defects (why did she defect? she didn't) and joins Team Evil Deformed Obvious Bad Guys, there's an INCREDIBLY GAY intro sequence straight out of James Bond except with incredibly godawful gay Japanese elevator lounge music filling in for actual music, where Hideo Kojima's name scrolls across the screen as many times as humanly possible. Then after that, you get briefed for the recovery mission where you're supposed to clear America from wrongdoing in this nuking. Then you are fired from a Blackbird straight from the upper atmosphere of the planet, as if jumping off a plane was just a warm up, and the game is like, "wait, let's try this again but try to make it MORE XTREEM." You even land from the parachute in the exact same way.

The commander code names himself Major Tom at the beginning, but then when you start the REAL MISSION FOR REAL THIS TIME REALLY, he says, "well I named myself Tom because it was the tunnel they escaped from in The Great Escape and the tunnel names were Dick, Harry, and Tom, but it turned out that the tunnel they escaped from was Harry, I even ordered a print of the movie from the film company so just call me Major Zero." Yes, he really says all of these things. And yes, he named himself Major Tom BECAUSE OF THE MOVIE THE GREAT ESCAPE. He might as well say "I also named myself after a David Bowie song that doesn't exist yet," and then Snake will say "David Bowie, I've never heard of him." Then a long discussion about pop music, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, an interesting up and coming band called The Doors, then Elvis, then jazz music, and then Snake will say "I wonder if David Bowie will write a song about someone named Major Tom."

Instead of changing your camoflagesfd for you, it makes you do it manually. The purpose of this is to draw the game out by going into pause menus. Switching to a nice camo for some area and then having to change to another one because you left the grass makes you want to give up hope on the whole camoflage concept and just go in cutting necks. Which is at the very least satisfying, but apparently not stealthy so they try to punish you as much as they can for it.

The save chick in this game is more annoying than ever, some preachy medic girl who talks about movies, including Godzilla which "is mostly fantasy but has a strong anti-nuke message!" Apparently she makes some reference to a movie about cloning, and Snake says "I wonder if that will happen to me." Wow how subtlely they edge these anachronistic references in there. Because Solid Snake is a clone of Big Boss/Snake, get it! Every single character from MGS1 and 2 have grandparents or other relatives in MGS3.

There are many scenes where characters talk to themselves or talk to characters who have left the scene entirely. The Boss says "DRIFT AWAY, YOU WERE NOT READY YOU DID NOT FIND YOUR EMOTION FOR BEING A SOLDIER" to Snake after he's a mile down stream. After Boss kicks your ass, throws you off a bridge into a river, and then says this shit, you get a huge CODEC call with the medic showing you how to use the CURE MENU. For lacerations first you must select the laceration in your body system menu, use antiseptic, then styptic to stop bleeding, suture to close the wound, then bandage it (then close the menu of course). You have to do all these things in the menu by selecting the area you want to "cure" (and by cure they probably mean heal?) and select each of these items and use them then move to the next item, apparently in a specific order. Why the game doesn't just say "you wanna heal this?" and then uses all these things itself is unknown, much like how it doesn't just change to the optimal camo by itself is unknown. Or hey here's a novel idea, just make a health bar that goes up and down when you use curative items.

At the end of the game, Snake is getting the Medal of Honor and President Johnson goes to shake his hand, but Snake refuses. I guess Snake is a staunch Nixon republican. (after the end credits, Snake walks into a voting booth and votes for Nixon.)

I like how there is a black dude as your equipment specialist, who mentions that he doesn't get hired by a lot of places even though he is an expert, probably because he's black! And then perhaps racism will still exist in the 21st century. Wow, that really makes me stop and think. Jump cut to Volgin groping Eva's tit and then zapping her directly in the booblage with electricity while holding her in the air by her throat. Special zoom in on her nylons as they rip open. There's another scene implying that she likes that sort of thing. Much like Meryl being juggled through the air by sniper bullets. Aside from that, every time Eva is alone with Snake she's unzipping her jump suit or changing clothes or bobbling her tits around in some way. Hold R1 to go into Snake's view, as he stares at her ass or tits or legs.

One of the last dudes of the Cobra Unit (the bosses you fight) is named The Sorrow, and is dead. You walk down a long boring river full of the people you've killed in the game as they try to spirit your health away and shame you from killing so many people in the game (even though all of them tried to kill you at some point), until the end when you find his skeleton and a cutscene about how The Boss killed him, which apparently made him sorrowful. So is this why he's named The Sorrow? Does that mean he only joined Cobra Unit AFTER he died and The Boss killed him? Or was he named The Sorrow before being killed by The Boss? Apparently, it's just a lucky coincidence that he was named The Sorrow and then The Boss (a.k.a. The Joy) killed him. WOW THIS IS GREAT WRITING, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE INSPIRED BY SOME DIVINE HAND!

Throughout the game, Japanese food (and general culture) is mentioned as being superior to all other food. If you find a packet of instant noodles, GOD HELP YOU if you ask Para-Medic about them (her name is Para-Medic, WOW!). She will drone on and on about how THEY'RE A NEW INVENTION IN JAPAN (America invents radar, microwave, space rockets, the internet, TV, thrust vectoring, while Japan invents... instant noodles), and how they're so delicious, and Snake is like WOW I HAD SOME AND THEY ARE DELICIOUS, MMMMM and then the game insists that you love them in the description of the instant noodles. I've had noodles before. Noodles are the kind of thing you eat with boiled chicken and a Miracle Whip sandwich while in England. They aren't really that good. Anyway, Snake is eventually like WOW JAPAN SOUNDS INTERESTING. Follow this up with every character eventually mentioning some awesome thing in Japan or THERE'S THIS NEW MOVIE IN JAPAN and so on. Eva wants you to take her out to a real dinner "after all this is over" (I haven't finished the game yet but I assume that she dies now, since she said this). She wants perhaps sushi. SUSHI? Yeah, it's all the rage in Japan! It's supposed to be made of raw fish! WOW RAW FISH THAT FITS IN WITH MY SURVIVAL TRAINING (HIT X TO SKIP). This kind of dialogue comprises half the game script.

A crocodile. You mean... like the reptile? Wow Snake and game writers. Just.......... wow. Every time a character makes a statement to Snake, Snake then reasks it as a question. If the character then answers that question might depend on what kind of camoflage you're wearing.

In a further attempt to shame you into not killing anyone, you get special camoflage items from defeating bosses by draining their stamina instead of killing them. Even though everyone in the game will shoot you with everything they have on sight with guns or rockets or grenades or missiles or flamethrowers or machine guns or knives or shields or punches or magic electricity powers or ghosts or zombies or mean words. While they're at it, why doesn't the game request you give your enemies a stern talking to as well?

When you're in prison, the Johnny guard, who is apparently such a great character that he has to be in every single game, asks, "why do we have to have a Cold War?" Yes, I'm sure that prison guards in the early 60s all over the planet were going around asking their prisoners, "why do we have to have a Cold War?"

PS. At the end of the game, you kill a giant flying George Washington, the leader of -THE PATRIOTS-, made out of water vapor who flies around as a giant sentient cloud and reforms made entirely out of mist. You use the codec as a weapon to call a therapist and help George Washington talk out his problems. Which kills him.

― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

he named himself Major Tom BECAUSE OF THE MOVIE THE GREAT ESCAPE

Um, could it not have been after the actual real-life escape, not the movie?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

(oh, ok. reread. possibly not.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

So, you're saying the VIDEO GAME was not BELIEVABLE.

Cuz all that stuff in Zelda and Metroid really happened, you know.

― bprofane (AaronHz), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh, well touche.

― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Phil, that's the best excuse I've ever heard for spending your nights on video games and beer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

who has completed ico? I should go back to my copy, I'm glad I was able to snag one before it got too rare in the shops. REZ, you really need to run your ps2 through a good sound system to appreciate. but it's really fun.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

i got 1/2way thru Ico, then got Diablo 2 for my PC, and that was that.

then i sold my ps2...

good write-up of MGS3, too

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Finished Ico twice or more (it translates ghost lady's word if you beat it once). Damn, I wish I had a copy right now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

apparently, the japanese version gives you a pseudo-lightsaber if you beat it once or twice

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Please say you're talking about MGS3!!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait for MGS3. march 25!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I remember the ending of MGS2. That shit was goddamn retarded.

I need to find the script for Xenosaga somewhere. There really is some absolutely priceless bullshit going on in that story.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

"MGS3 is the most BATSHIT INSANE GAME EVER. For perspective consider the ending of MGS2, which I don't think really sank in to the game playing world; at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, you kill a former president of the United States by cutting his spine in half with a sword, on top of Federal Hall. MGS3 easily bests this by maintaining that World War II was single-handedly won by a guy made of bees."

THAT IS WHY MGS IS AWESOME! Fuck Splinter Cell and its Clancy/Fascist "realism".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

You obviously have no sense of fun or absurdity, the hallmark of a philistine.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

AND THANX FOR RUINING THE ENDING!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

did they ever make a screwball scramble video game?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

The gameplay is better and more fun in the splinter cell games than in MGS 2 (and I assume 3 from the sounds of it) too.

I'm not playing anything right now, just waiting for KOTOR2 and GTA:SA to come out on PC (I know, I have a long wait for San Andreas. Video games rot your mind anyway, right?).

― Dan I., Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Gamespot has an interview with Amon Tobin up right now, talking about composing the soundtrack for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Frankly I think that alone would make me much more inclined to enjoy SC than any more MGS nonsense. Though the point is moot since I've always found those kind of games nauseating and dull as dishwater. So fucking tiresome!
What is it that makes those games so fun to people?

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

WILL SOMEBODY PORT SUPER ROBOT WARS AND/OR SD GUNDAM G-GENERATION TO STATESIDE ALREADY OKAY?!?!?

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Haha (jadakiss laff), I wrote a follow-up post earlier about the twin atrocities that were Xenosaga and MGS2, but there's so much strangulating badness between these mighty fonts of artistic humiliation and poisonous stupidity that I can only sum it up with this:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/mevsxenosagafans.jpg

I'm pretty sure that the dudes who made Xenosaga were trying to communicate that they fantasize about raping little girls, and that probably still wasn't the most offensive thing about the game. And it didn't even have a hilarious Chu-Chu crucifixion scene ("he died for chu sins")

― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, now that I'm going to be PS2-enabled, which Ratchet & Clank should I get?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

I've heard the MGS-as-camp thing before, and it doesn't work because it's still too marginal and leaden to be funny or good-stupid. Though I do cherish the funniest (prob. unintentionally) exchange from mgs2;

Solid Snake: During those two days, he survived by feeding on the blood of his family to quench his thirst. That was how he acquired a taste for blood...
Raiden: So that's why they call him "Vamp"...
Solid Snake: No. Vamp isn't for vampire. It's because he's bisexual.

― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

"So fucking tiresome!
What is it that makes those games so fun to people?"

BUT DON'T YOU WANT TO FIND OUT IF LOVE CAN BLOOM ON A BATTLEFIELD????

― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

BUT DON'T YOU WANT TO FIND OUT IF LOVE CAN BLOOM ON A BATTLEFIELD????

best part of MGS1. 10 minute long death soliloquoys!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Jordan: all the R&C's are great, it's one of those series where each one improves on the one before, like they took all the gripes that anyone had and set to fixing them, and adding more fun stuff. If you're definitely only going to get one, get R&C 3, otherwise I'd go through them in order. The thing being, if you finish R&C 3 and want more goodness, the earlier games might well annoy you.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/582/582938/star-wars-empire-at-war-20050126040909727-000.jpg

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I've finished Ico, but I didn't know about the translation thing. I'll have to dig it out and play through again.

― bprofane (AaronHz), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

wtf MGS2 was and still is awesome! and because of the great controls and animation a million times more fun than the tiresome annoying tomb raider-sludgy splinter cell nonsense.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

as ronan says, never before has crossing an empty room been so enthralling!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Okay my girlfriend did NOT get me a PS2, but a GAMECUBE instead! We've already got Harvest Moon and X-Men: Legends, and I'm getting Res Evil 4. What else do I need?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 30 January 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Eternal Darkness
Ikaruga
Metroid Prime
Zelda Wind Waker
Soul Calibur 2
Viewtiful Joe
Resident Evil Zero

― bprofane (AaronHz), Sunday, 30 January 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

also, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

― kingfish muffminer 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

"I've heard the MGS-as-camp thing before, and it doesn't work because it's still too marginal and leaden to be funny or good-stupid."

yeah, the game where the hero runs around in a cardboard box takes itself too seriously.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 30 January 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Thread continued here:

Video Game Life-Wasting Thread 3: Snake Eater

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

prince of persia is great people!

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

So anyone else picked up the Battlefield 2 demo? I had a blast at the weekend could be fun to squad it up on a public server with the VOIP.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I just beat Jade Empire last night. It was real good, better graphics and more polished than Knights of the Old Republic. Still, not quite as epic or detailed. Also felt a little shorter, I think. Definitely doesn't deserve some of the insane ratings it got (9.9/10 on IGN!?), but a fun and impressive game nonetheless.

Next I need to finish KOTOR 2, Halo 2, and get going on San Andreas. Unemployment is horrible.h

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

It's about time for a new game for me, even though I never finished KOTOR or Halo 2. I'm thinking Psychonauts, but my girlfriend is pushing for Karoake Revolution.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Psychonauts is also on my list. I've never really played a "modern" platformer, not even Mario 64. Oh wait, I did get through Sonic for the Dreamcast.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I just bought super monkey ball deluxe, my husband got mercenaries. He really likes his, so I haven't played mine much.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

just beat Death Gate, a Legend adventure game from the early 90s.
now playing deadly rooms of death user maps.

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Playing Secret of Evermore for the nth time

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

*ahem*

Video Game Life-Wasting Thread 3: Snake Eater

and more folks need to play Psychonauts. It's coming out for PS2 very soon, tho it's cheaper on PC.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

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