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Mostly because I play through a shit ton of games very fast via gamefly/rcoffcoff4/borrow from friends/buyin' and I don't always care enough to create a whole new thread.
I know, I know: get a blog.

Anyways, at the moment it's been desktop defense on the G1 phone, MK vs DC on the Xbox, Windosill on the PC, de Blob on Wii and Lock's Quest before the DS busted and had to be sent back to customer service.

Wii Music on the way tomorrow.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

is ur name john?

― miniboss of s1ocki (cozwn), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

hope so.
John buys comics

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

do u have a thread like this on every board?

anyway, I am rss'ing this john :D

― miniboss of s1ocki (cozwn), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

lol, I will skip the TMI one. promise.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

You'll be happy to hear that gamefly just shipped sfiv

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

thought u weren't into it?

let's play!!!

― miniboss of s1ocki (cozwn), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

be here in a day or so. and i wanna play it before i say i'm TOTALLY not into it.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

so... ure name is john?

― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

otm

― miniboss of s1ocki (cozwn), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

dude you already have a blog, COME ON

i kid

― Nhex, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

im looking forward to checking this thread often to find out what i am playing

― meh (jjjusten), Thursday, 25 June 2009 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

1 vs. 100 for about three hours. This shit is awesome, but frustrating: I want to know where I rank in everybody playing, not just the four people in my little group! I need more granular stats otherwise (as no one can hang with superpubquiz top twenty) the whole thing feels a little pointless.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 June 2009 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

You gotta play the live games, dude. It makes it less pub quiz, more game show, and even though you're basically in the audience forever, it adds a cool dynamic.

― ㇱ (Will M.), Friday, 26 June 2009 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

still not out in uk :(

― cozwn, Friday, 26 June 2009 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

do you have a thread on ILE called john experiences everything

― gabb 'bag (s1ocki), Friday, 26 June 2009 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

when i start experiencing everything, it's goin' up.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 June 2009 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

i thought this thread was about, a guy, who wasnt str8 forward in his relationships, with women

― Lamp, Friday, 26 June 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

we're getting there; be patient.

― Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 June 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

the guys name is john

― Lamp, Friday, 26 June 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

just fyi

― Lamp, Friday, 26 June 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

for any1 that u know, missed that. maybe it slipped past your notice. not mine, i noticed

― Lamp, Friday, 26 June 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

fight night 4 demo got me feeling that fight night love!
more 1 vs 100; the guy who opted for the money instead of the mob when there are no prizes one way or another= surreal hero
on level 8 of desktop gphone nonsense. I can't imagine wasting my time in a dumber way.
wii music disc is busted.
I am eyeing sfiv like a methhead eyes a bottle of sudaphed.

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 June 2009 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

not playing this but hella whoa
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/24/can-you-make-a-board-game-about-the-holocaust-meet-train/

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 04:37 (seventeen years ago)

wanna play that with cankles

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

coz got me playing sfiihdtdlaksdj again and i need to walk away.
gphone desktop has me killing literal hours. I may need to uninstall.

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 04:40 (seventeen years ago)

hrm. wow. him say...holocaust bad? this new information.

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:31 (seventeen years ago)

wait so you're saying...the world would be a better place...if everyone loved one another?

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:32 (seventeen years ago)

man someone should be bundling and selling these gems

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:32 (seventeen years ago)

g-games as art... ohhhhhhhh sempaiiiii

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:37 (seventeen years ago)

i would play a version of this that sheperded fans of the game BRAID to auschwitz

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:38 (seventeen years ago)

pulled a 180 on SF IV, did ya, john

― Nhex, Monday, 29 June 2009 06:25 (seventeen years ago)

you know, I played sf4 for like ten minutes and a little voice said "let it go" and so i am
watching blanka peel a banana sorta gave me a push.
somehow cankles, I saw you trying to play through the game after the trains get to auschwitz. maybe creating "shower"

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

smth of an idea there

― thomp, Monday, 29 June 2009 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

we can probably prototype it with a copy of thurn & taxis

― thomp, Monday, 29 June 2009 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

'EICHMANN: the game'

― thomp, Monday, 29 June 2009 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

daerest nintendo: thank you for taking my DS that had a pear smashed into it some six months ago and replacing it with a new one and a note that informs me that it had "liquid contamination". You guys are awesome.
Didn't even charge me for shipping! I will not put my ds in a pocket with a pear again.

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

o boy o boy PUNCH OUT is waiting for me at home!

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 July 2009 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

john how r u gettin on w/knights in the nightmare

― cozwn, Thursday, 2 July 2009 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

i'm not; i gave up just before my ds broke. i just found it really overly complicated and not much fun.

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 July 2009 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

helloooooo Treasure world: http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/the-war-drivers-delight-wifi-t.html#more
i will report back.

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2009 05:10 (seventeen years ago)

i thought this thread was about, a guy, who wasnt str8 forward in his relationships, with women

― Lamp, Friday, June 26, 2009 2:50 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still makes me LOL

― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Sunday, 5 July 2009 06:27 (seventeen years ago)

john u shd go back to knights in the nightmare cos imo es ist sehr räd

― cozwn, Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

might try again. the weapon customization thing seemed like drudgework.
Treasure World is neat; very animal crossing + monster rancher by way of wifi.

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

don't understand half the weapon customisation pfaff but know the game is great

atlus have some easy to understand tutorials on their yt page

― cozwn, Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

DS: Started playing the first Advance Wars DS, I think I need to get past the "Golly gee, we're playing a strat game!" story horseshit and get into the meat. There's plentiful stats, but I can't quite get the hang of the "when can i shoot? what's my range?" base questions just yet. Even so, everything in the first eight mission is S or A scoring, so I assume I'm in the right direction. I guess I'm gonna try to see this thing through; it's the story that's giving me pause. Also the icons are so damn small...

Wii: Punch Out is a spectacular nostalgia bomb, just slightly off from the original enough that it doesn't feel solely like a retread. Learning curve on the later guys is wonderfully constructed; my first few matches against soda popinski I couldn't get a punch in even once but I eventually got into the timing. The voices and animations are great; choosing to do indigenous languages for all the characters is a good call. Old school NES controls are super natural, though waggle-your-arms-around action is unsurprisingly retarded. PvP is HELLA FUN though it's more or less just a more complicated series of rock/paper/scissors, so it may get tired soon. Long load times though and no 'BODY BLOW! BODY BLOW!'... and why did they put a gay kid from Brooklyn in this thing as early cannon fodder? Shades of bruno.
I also tried <A href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/roogoo";>Roogoo Twisted Towers</a>, which sucks.

360: 1 vs 100 feels weirdly incomplete, so I drug out the orange box with the intention of trying Half Life 2, which I only played the first stage of about a year ago and then got distracted by Portal. holy fuck this game is good. I lost four or five hours tonight and it was love once I got to the hoverboat. I can't believe I haven't played it before now and I am super psyched to really dig into it. It's a feast!

― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2009 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

girlfriend loves Treasure World btw. we both wish there was a game there, but it's fun to walk around the neighborhood and get tiger heads and chess pieces for your little homunculus to play with. The constant dinging reminds you of how fuckin' wired NYC and NJ really are. We get about 150 new connections on virtually every trip into the city.

― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2009 03:35 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think I even made it to the 8th stage in AW:DS... the story and - I hate to say it - color scheme just sucked all the will I had to play it anymore - this was after leaving it on the shelf for six months sealed and unopened, very disappointed

Punch Out is indeed fucking spectacular tho!

I actually just played HL2 for the first time a few months ago too, so I know the feeling of "wow, why did I wait this long to play this"

― Nhex, Monday, 13 July 2009 06:47 (seventeen years ago)

This is the first AW:DS that I'm playing, btw not the monochromatic sequel

― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2009 11:34 (seventeen years ago)

have u played the gba aw games?

― touch fuzzy, get dizzy (cozwn), Monday, 13 July 2009 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

canks is still alive ain't he?

― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2009 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

but I can't quite get the hang of the "when can i shoot? what's my range?" base questions just yet.

iirc Forks if you hold the B button when your pointer is over one of your units it will show the range of the unit.

― save your lover! (Z S), Monday, 13 July 2009 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

The other day a friend of mine triple surprised me when he i)revealed that he occasionally plays GBA, ii)owned Advance Wars and iii)wanted to play me.

I thought I was all Advance War'd out, but I had never played against a human opponent. Rrrrreally fun.

― save your lover! (Z S), Monday, 13 July 2009 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

perfect pass-the-gba train trip game

― touch fuzzy, get dizzy (cozwn), Monday, 13 July 2009 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

will try the b button trick; would greatly increase my enjoyment.
I just figured out that I've been trying to use artillery as a tank and duh, that ain't working.

― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2009 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

B button is essential, otherwise you'd go nuts remembering artillery/missle/anti-air ranges and stuff

I still have nothing but love for AW2 - maybe I'll go back to Days of Ruin someday

― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 07:55 (seventeen years ago)

never forget

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061238/Internet-gaming-fan-stabbed-death-fellow-player.html

― touch fuzzy, get dizzy (cozwn), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 07:58 (seventeen years ago)

...wow

after some googling - similarly surprised that it actually did turn out to be someone on his AW forum

(86 stab wounds, ouch)

― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 08:10 (seventeen years ago)

i wonder if cankles knows he was unbanned

― thomp, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 08:19 (seventeen years ago)

*squats over ur chest and craps on u*

― mods did ✈ ▌▌ (cankles), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

ok i guess cankles knows he was unbanned

― thomp, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

hahahaha

― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

nice title canks

― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

I'd rate the series aw2 > aw1 > aw:monochromatic > aw:dual screen

100% agree with this. I personally woulnd't even bother with dual screen, it's the only one I didn't complete because I just didn't find it very much fun.

― CraigG, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Trials HD
Civilization Revolution
Professor Layton 2

― sample rants or ?BURNS?. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 August 2009 07:28 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Batman Arkham
Scribblenauts

― bring back all banned legends (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:50 (seventeen years ago)

john me and everyone else i no

― as the hart pants after the water brooks even so my blashphemous soul (Lamp), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:54 (seventeen years ago)

no offense dude but there are active threads for both of those games

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:55 (seventeen years ago)

again, just using this to keep track of my gameplay. I'm putting down scribblenauts for awhile and testdriving Dawn of Sorrow.

― bring back all banned legends (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:55 (seventeen years ago)

its actually code hes really playing an import copy of hero's saga: laevatein tactics

― as the hart pants after the water brooks even so my blashphemous soul (Lamp), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

your daily gamecycle log

― cozwn, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:10 (seventeen years ago)

maybe i should try this instead?
http://backloggery.com/

― ice cube treyz (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

better yet, make it a project
http://www.quicksaved.com/?page_id=2

― Nhex, Monday, 28 September 2009 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

aw, poor guy

― ice cube treyz (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

Beat Dawn of Sorrow; I think I might've beaten it once before? LOLtravania; it's hard to tell them apart.

I'm about halfway through Dragon Quest Slime Warrior or whatever and it is loads of fun, if remedial.

― Take a ride on The Rape Tunnel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

tried the DS kingdom hearts for six "days", found it really difficult for combat... too much going on in such a tiny screen.
gonna try shiren the wanderer instead.

― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

just finished pixeljunk monsters and 7th Wonder II
Currently playing Osmosis, Torchlight, Valkyria Chronicles, Dragon Age Origins and Fossil Fighters, not in that order.
Very likely gonna try Shadow Complex and Pixeljunk Shooter afore too long.

― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

Got nowhere with Osmosis, stalled out on Torchlight and Valkyria Chronicles, never clicked with Dragon Age and never got further than the first ten minutes of Fossil fighters.

Loved Shadow Complex

just finished red dead on the 360

Currently playing Mario/Luigi 2 on the DS (nearly finished and I'm a little tired of it really), Brutal Legend on the 360 (kinda iffy here, feels like everything's there but the game) and PixelJunk Shooter on the PS3 (super awesome).

Uncharted 1 for PS3, Bioshock 2 for 360 and Spectrobes for the DS in the wings

― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 June 2010 04:55 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Beat Mario/Luigi 2; couldn't get into brutal legend; beat pixeljunk happily

Currently Playing: Dawn of Discovery on DS, Defense Grid on Xbox, Critter Crunch on PS3, New Super Mario Bros on Wii, Warcraft III and Machinarium on PC

― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 August 2010 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

So I was thinking about re-purposing this thread to where I add an extra game out on gamefly and take suggestions from ILG of games to play for a day and write a paragraph about
I'm a PS3/360/Wii/PSP/DS owner so I can go cross platform
Any interest in having me guinea pig stuff?

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2011 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

so you'd be revieing gamges? i'd like to hear about.. Epic Mickey

hrm. wow. him say...holocaust bad? this new information.

― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Monday, June 29, 2009 1:31 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lol i crack myself up

― weed hitler poop fart obama (Princess TamTam), Friday, 11 February 2011 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

NAUGHTY BEAR

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

i mean in the grand tradition of jj and fb will drink it i feel like my highest entertainment value is making you play terrible video games so

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

DARK VOID

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

Dark Sector

That's the one with the Krull glaive, right?

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 11 February 2011 23:08 (fifteen years ago)

Slingo

― polyphonic, Friday, 11 February 2011 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

Deadly Premonition!

― Nhex, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

Wait but dude deadly premonition is awesome tho, we are trying to punish forks for our amusement here

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:17 (fifteen years ago)

would like to hear forks' take on DP

― wonder cozen (cozen), Saturday, 12 February 2011 10:41 (fifteen years ago)

okay, i'm gonna do this since there's interest. I'll start with epic mickey, naughty bear, dark void, dark sector, deadly premonition
gamefly very often doesn't have the games available so it may be a bit random
can't do iphone games as no iphone
but I tried slingo online and that shit is straight horrible. can't imagine it improves with parameters or "depth"

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 February 2011 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

i vote Alpha Protocol. i want to be convinced to buy that game.

― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

okay, they sent dark void. Will give it a go.

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry in advance

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 12 February 2011 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

I really wanted Dark Void to be good because I loved Crimson Skies on the original xbox. But all the comments and reviews put me off checking it out.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 13 February 2011 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

this thread inspired me to sign up with a game rental service again.
first thing they are going to send me? Alpha Protocol. haha.

― zappi, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 15:38 (fifteen years ago)

yeah this thread is making me consider doing gamefly as well

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

got dark void! will fuck with it over the weekend.

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

man you must have really gotten into dark void

― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 18 August 2011 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

lol, i honestly don't remember playing it!

um, what am i playing now?
Glitch... lots of glitch. I got an iPad and that has become my primary gaming device. Current du jour there is pathpix, amazing breaker, risk, dice soccer, groove coaster with literally dozens on tap
i have sfiv and Ocarina of time waiting for me on 3ds and a slew of console games but no time to play them!
Preordered dark souls and skyrim. The summer is really about me being out doing work moreso than playing. I shoehorn in whatever time i can.

― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 August 2011 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

lots of glitch though.

― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 August 2011 18:33 (fifteen years ago)


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