Video Game Life-Wasting Thread 3: Snake Eater

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I'm still playing Vampire: Bloodlines, getting near the end. My guy is currently getting mauled by a 12ft tall werewolf.

anyway, In This Thread, We Natter On About What Games We're Wasting Our Precious Essences Away On. Volume Three.

― kingfish muffminer 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Also, the fact that Troika Games(who put this game out) might be going out of business soon does not make me happy.

― kingfish muffminer 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Final Fantasy 7. I fear I may be behind the times.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Also Resident Evil 4 is easily the best of the series and probably one of the 5 best games I've played for this generation of consoles.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

the minish cap (still)
super mario bros. 3
street fighter 2 turbo
advance wars (omg!)
excitebike

and reading my new copy of 1-up zine. has anyone else read it?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

kozyndan rocks.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

RE4 is totally gonna be my next purchase. I was down from day one!
I bought the original the day it came out and played it ten hours straight to complete it, haha.

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Advance Wars 2 (Just a quick go... oh it's 5am. Aieee!)

At the risk of forgetting all about:

Zelda Four Swords
Wario Ware GC
Mario Advance 2

I also found a copy of Splinter Cell on the other computer, and I played that for a bit. I wish the games would leave me alone, I have no willpower... ooooh, Resident Evil 4! At least I can leave that until March.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

yesterday i bought used copies of megaman x5 and x6 for ps1. wtf is going on in these games? nightmares? people you have to save? earth destroyed? i just want to shoot up some evil robots please.

― a banana (alanbanana), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

there used to be an article at toastyfrog.com going into how progressively fucked up the plots of mega man games were, but i can't find it right now.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

http://toastyfrog.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3137850

Surreal Fighting Games.

Odd.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

The only mega man I like is the croaky voiced little midget from the awesome Captain Nintendo cartoon! Yeah!

Oh man, I wonder what Captain Nintendo's awesome belt would be like now.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

and here, the Climatic Battle of Metal Gear Solid, rendered in Lego.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm playing ESPN College Basketball, and it was 50-50 with 25 seconds left. I'm Grambling and the computer is Texas A&M. I foul the computer intentionally so that I'll have time on the clock coming back. The computer makes the first one, but misses the second and I get the rebound and call for a time out. Nine seconds left. I make a few quick passes and find my SF about 10 feet out. He plants and shoots... it curls around the rim... AND DROPS! PANDEMONIUM!!

Video games are cool.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

WoW!!!!! And KOTORII!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

i took a break from resident evil 4 to play smash TV via the midway arcade treasures collection.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 31 January 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

smash tv!!!!!!!! though i like robotron better.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

omg WoW roll-call guys!!! I'm on Alleria, but i sort of want to re-roll on a pvp server

― ade (Adrian Langston), Monday, 31 January 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I played Tron2 all day Saturday, the save game feature is awful and a couple of times after being killed saw me having to redo huge parts of the game again.

Eventually gave up after hitting a part which is just impossible to get through due to having a crap weapon against zillion of bad guys.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 January 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I played a huge chunk of City Of Heroes at the weekend, the final time available on the Beta test of the EU servers. It's OK, but I don't see me signing up for it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 31 January 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

is anyone playing CS:Source with any regularity these days?
i wouldn't be averse to shooting some ilx0rz some day...

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 31 January 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

X-Men Legends is fun, but it seems like it would be more fun with other people to play with. Poking around the X-mansion and playing trivia games is great, you should be able to do that for the whole game.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I've turned on X-Men Legends, I hate the camera angle and when there are a lot of characters on the screen it's impossible for me to tell the difference between team members and enemies.

That doesn't matter though, because Resident Evil 4 is the best game ever!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Half-Life 2.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I finished RE4 yesterday. So so so so so good.

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Minish Cap. Stuck in the mountains.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 February 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm almost finished minish cap. you like it, tom?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I finished the third or fourth dungeon in Minish Cap (the one where you get wind teleportation powers afterwards) and then set it aside, I like it though. I have to get back to it, this not finishing games thing is a bad habit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm on the last dungeon! unless it pulls some 'a link to the past' otherworld / nether-region bullshit on me.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

secret of evermore on the snes, it's by squaresoft and like a cross between zelda and ff if you know what i mean. like, you can hit monsters with your weapon zelda style and do magic and stuff ff style. it's not that good, but it's ok. the music is really nice. especially at bugmuck village, it's a weird clicky bongo beat, sounds good when you're leeeaaan.

― in sharky water, Monday, 7 February 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

is minish cap the new zelda on the gamecube where you need a gameboy advance or something?

― in sharky water, Monday, 7 February 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

No, it's just on Gameboy Advance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

kotor 2 comes out on pc tomorrow. huzzah.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

xpost - That's four swords, which the previous thread suggests can be played with a Gamecube controller.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

apparently (gamefaqs.com!) I missed out on the light arrows gah!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend is playing a lot of Harvest Moon while I'm playing RE4, it's a great parallel. RE4 is like the dark zombie mirror world of HM, at least in the beginning. There's the same cows, chickens, jumping jauntily over fences, running around, etc. RE4 is what happens if you don't take care of your farm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

The shotgun in Harvest Moon is way less fun than the shotgun in RE4.

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

What, you didn't get the shotgun in Harvest Moon? n00b

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I felt bad when I killed a cow in RE4.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

That's fucked up, Jordan. I didn't kill any of the cows. Also I only shot the merchant once. Me = good person.

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

It could have been a zombie cow, you can't tell! Don't judge me you bastards!

(You can shoot the merchant?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I have a $25 gift certificate to the video game store but I wandered around in there on Saturday but couldn't get excited enough about anything to get it and there were all these 12 year old kids running around and talking in funny voices.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

You can pop the merchant but he comes back (not in that same spot but in the later merchant areas).

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Sweet. Should I upgrade my handgun or just buy newer, more awesome weapons?

(Nick, what video game system do you have?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

ds Vs. psp, soon.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Don't upgrade the handgun and shotgun, wait til you get the next-gen versions and put all your money in those. Also remember that you can combine certain treasures and sell them for a hell of a lot more than you'd get individually.

Also: MINE THROWER. It's almost useless but the most fun weapon in the game (besides the shotgun).

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Do you get a chainsaw? Please say yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I am still on Dantooine! I think I screwed up Telos and Nar Shadda.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I cannot ask about which KOTOR characters return without spoiling which ones _can't_ come back! The dilemma is delicious!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I finally beat Vampire: Bloodlines, and am playing thru it again, only as the batshit-insane Malkvanian

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

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I didn't play FM4, but my memory of every Front Mission game I tried is one of pure tedium. They LOOK fucking wicked, but they always end up as total abortions. Metal Slug is always awesome though, I probably pumped more quarters into Metal Slug 2 arcade than any other game ever.

I'm still busying myself with WoW (I'm on the same server as Dan Perry, but he plays horde and I'm alliance. brothers torn apart by the tides of war~~~ ;_;!!!!!!) and, uh, I'm playing Final Fantasy VII, bcz I never beat it. I just bred a gold chocobo. :[[[[[

― you cannot have progress without ogres (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ps.

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-5-1102364554.jpg

― you cannot have progress without ogres (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

That's Awesome.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I also like the hitting things and jumping, but my friend who loves the LucasArts games doesn't deal with all this reaction shit (which is partly why she didn't like the last Broken Throne as much as me).

The Gold Chocobo in FFVII is definitely "you're clearly not playing this game for fun, so here's something that will let you win every battle from here on."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

PSYCHONAUTS IS 100000000 PERCENT PURE AWESOME

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the Art Design and the Art DIRECTION, i should specify.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395252/

Plus, the main character is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz, who also did Invader Zim.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

The Gamer's Manifesto posted on pointless waste of time is a forehead-slapper to anybody over 16, I would think, but it got me thinking that Sony + MSFT haven't REALIZED ANY OF THIS, which is more than a little depressing.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Shall we have a thread for the next generation of consoles?

Come anticipate the Next-Gen Game Consoles with me!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

the game store was out of psychonauts. :(

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

booooooo

try it. you'll love the Lungfishopolis scene alone.

i don't want to spoil anything for anybody, but i'll just say two words: "Irish beat cop."

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Lungfishopolis was pretty amazing. I woke my girlfriend up so she could see it and marvel.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Also the sound is flawless--makes me glad I hooked my Xbox up through the stereo.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

game & watch.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I want to be playing "maple story", "katamari DS", "advance wars DS" and "kirby DS" as well as "half-life 2, aftermath" and finishing the cute but difficult "advance wars" / "doukutso monogatari".

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

is anyone actually playing "snake eater"?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

im still trying to get out of the first level on splinter cell. i totally suck at this stealth shit

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

is there a good place to buy games cheap online? I want to support my local store and everything, but they're always out of shit!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

check yahoo shopping. they link to several different sites.

also, megagamestore.com has cheap imports, usually.

also, check the used games at your local EB

― kf, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

THIS GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME AND I BEAT IT TODAY AND THE MEAT CIRCUS LEVEL IS FUCKING HARD

http://playmagazine.com/index.php?fuseaction=SiteMain.showInterview&Game_Interview_ID=56&page=1

play: If anyone states they wish Psychonauts was laid out like GTA, do we have permission to schedule a lobotomy?
Schafer: But it is laid out just like GTA 3. You can totally drive around and kill hookers and steal money. Except for the hookers have all been replaced with squirrels, and instead of driving, you are rolling around on a psychic thought balloon, and instead of stealing money you’re digging up arrowheads. Oh, and I should probably mention that you can’t have sex with the squirrels. Gotta save something for the sequel, you know!

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

NO PSYCHONAUTS SPOILERS PLZ

I just beat the Gloria's Theatre level--least fave so far but the Napoleon dude looks promising. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this game. Laughing out loud at video games makes me feel like a total loser though.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the theatre one is meh. the napolean one has some pretty innovative gameplay for a platformer.

still, it's all about Black Velvetopia.

the paranoid suburbs one had some fuckin' awesome design...

fun fact: Dwight Schultz, a.k.a Murdoch from the Ateam and whathisname from Star Trek: TNG does the voice of the british orderly.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Check also the used games at Gamefly.com!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

does this count as video games? - I just bought a PSP and lumines has stolen my brain and will not give it back. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmboxes.

― spontine (cis), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

it would be NICE if Kotor2 would stop CRASHING on my pc

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded a demo of Typing of the Dead due to a mention on another thread. It's so great, although the demo doesn't seem to have a 'quit' option. I'd imagine I could get the real game for pretty cheap these days?

I also downloaded (for the nth time in my life) the shareware version of Doom for some quick nostalgia, but gave up because of the keyboard configuration of my laptop. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm currently playing/beating 3 games:

1) Psychonauts. PLAY THIS GAME. IT'S THE BEST ONE OUT THIS YEAR. DO YOU LIKE INVADER ZIM OR PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE? THEN PLAY THIS GAME.

2) Restricted Area: german sci-fi Diablo 2 action rpg thing. It's fun!

3) KOTOR 2: done by the Planescape: Torment guys, awesome characters, and IT WONT STOP FUCKING CRASHING.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Sunday, 5 June 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

okay, i installed the latest ATI RADEON drivers. it only crashed once in two hours!

i will say this. star wars is improved IMMENSELY with the addition of kung fu.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

lego star wars
prince of persia: the sands of time
metal gear solid 3: the snake eater

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Boiling Point a sort of cross between Deus Ex, Morrowind and GTA.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

ok, anyone who has played mgs3 through, does it always feel like the camera puts you at an awkward disadvantage to the baddies considering how you now don't have a radar to use or do you get used to it as you learn how to work it?

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

also, prince of persia and lego star wars are both gems.

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I can't see beyond Zangband anymore.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Two months in and nowhere near.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I actually stopped playing with my level 31 character 'cos I knew it'd hurt too much when she died.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

have you played maple story, greg?

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

maple story

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Downloading now!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

This is the article about Zangband that nearly ruined my degree, incidentally.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

What world are you in, on MS?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I am "on a mac" and so I can't play it : (

you should download doukutsu monogatari ("cave story") while you're at it.

― teeth montrose (Cozen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I can't get cave story to work! I tried before, I get some stupid error.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

the frequency in which KOTOR 2 crashes is fucking criminal. It did the same for the first game, and I dont know htf the developers didnt fix it. I tried fucking with my drivers like a thousand times and it still didnt work, but I shouldnt even have to go through that kinda shit in the first place..

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

apparently, they're being held up from issuing another patch due to delays from Lucasarts...who wanted them to push the game out the door before they were ready in the first place.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I am getting angry because I can't find my copies of "resident evil 4" / "pro evo 4" and I think my little brother has swapped them while I was in aberdeen.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

BF2 demo fun, fun fun.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

ok, i'm playing KOTOR2 thru again, this time as an evil chick, dubbed "Sith Ann-Margret".

― kingfish, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I was bored the other day and debated playing through KOTOR2 for the third time, trying to do a better job as a sith since I fucked up last time with my attempts at being everyones friend. Fuck em.

I also started playing Final Fantasy X-2 after my old game got scrapped. A game I invested like 40 hours in. Not sure if Im up to putting in another 40+ hours on that shit.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

okay, to be up with the times, and 'cuz no one's playing MGS3 anymore,

let us continue here:

Video Game Thread #4 - Summer 2005

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 18 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Actor Sizemore ordered to stay at public hospital

― Marco Salvetti - world moustache champion (moustache), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Yay, videoga---wait, wtf?

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

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