Posts by Lace Sabatons

    I loved Contra 3. Chrono Trigger is obviously one of the best games of all time, and I thoroughly enjoy Final Fantasies 4 and 6. (I never really connected with 5 for some reason, even though there is a lot to like about it.)

    Super Star Wars and Super Return of the Jedi were both pretty good. Super Empire Strikes Back sucked.

    So, due to a variety of developments, I've currently found myself without any ongoing D&D games for a bit. And I was wondering: would ZC like to play some D&D?

    Here's what you would need:

    -A working microphone.
    -A google+ account. You'll need to install the hangouts plugin.
    -The ability to set aside 2-4 hours of time that overlap with the availability of the others.

    Here are some things to know about me as a referee, so you know what to expect:

    -I like to take care of the complicated stuff myself. You don't need to learn any rules in order to start playing. Once we get started, you'll pick up on what you need to know.

    -I don't do a heavy narrative focus. I'm not telling a story, I'm providing challenges. When the players overcome the challenges, a story is created by the group, rather than simply being fed to the group from the referee.

    -At my table, characters die. I do my best to create an environment where your death is never cheap, but death is still frequent. Fortunately, I also play a very rules-light game, so creating a fresh character only takes a couple minutes.

    If you're interested, post in this thread and let me know which type of game world you'd like to play in:

    1. Traditional fantasy world. The kind that shows up in every video game ever.
    2. An earth history based world, were monsters and magic lurk just outside the sight of everyday folk.
    3. A science fantasy world, where wizards and mad scientists are pretty much the same thing.
    4. Some kind of exceptionally fucked up fantasy world. Like living in a Dali painting.

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    THANK Christ!!! THIS PLACE JUST BECAME MY FAV. So seriously, on a scale of one to Reservior Dogs, how much swearing is allowed? cause I will run so far with it

    Nobody has put a limit on it, so I haven't been policing myself. But you've got a profane creativity that I lack, you might just be able to set a precedent for where we draw the line.

    Is this the guy who made 5 Nights at Freddy's?

    I mean, there are a lot of reasons to dislike his work, and there are probably some reasons to dislike him personally. But this is the internet, so people always take things too far. They dislike a video game and they think that justifies publicly wishing death on a person. It's fucked up yo.

    I'm wondering if we should have a separate discussion about Nostalgia. I myself have often been accused of being blinded by nostalgia. I contest that the call to nostalgia is a sub-fallacy of the ad homimen argument.

    Anyway, unpopular video game opinions:

    • If story is important to you, read a book, watch a movie, engage in any one of the many storytelling mediums humanity has created over the millennia. Video games are games. They can be enhanced by story, but a good story is no substitute for good gameplay.
    • "Papers, Please" was not fun. It was like having a really really shitty job, and not in a good way.
    • AAA games are dead. Occasionally the corpse will sputter and something decent will fall out of the body, but on a whole the AAA market isn't worth paying attention to anymore.
    • Sandboxes are overrated. Not every game benefits from being a sandbox. Some of the best games ever are linear games.
    • "RPG Elements" are killing every non-RPG genre of gaming they appear in.
    • PC Master Race.

    So, I've always loved oldschool WoW.

    Well, this private server runs oldschool WoW:

    https://en.nostalrius.org/

    1. They're dedicated to keeping the experience accurate to the actual game. No weird private server gimmickry.

    2. It's actually really fucking reliable.

    3. The server is POPULATED AS FUCK. I've seek as much as 7.5k people online at once. You will always have people around to quest with. It's amazing. Even better than when I first started playing the game in 2007.

    4. It's free. They've got a free download of the oldschool version of the game, and server access is free. They don't even accept money in exchange for levels or gold the way other private servers do.

    I'm not sure where this stands in a legal sense, mind you. Certainly, Blizzard doesn't want you to play it. They'd love to get the server taken down I'm sure, but it's in a country where Blizzard's lawyers don't have much power. BUT, since Blizzard refuses to actually sell this version of the game, I don't think they can complain too much.

    (Honestly. Someone asked them at Blizzcon if they'd ever give us Vanilla servers. Their response was to tell the person who asked: "You don't really want that. The old version of the game was terrible." Apparently we're too stupid to know what we want to spend our money on. Except for the fact that Nostalrius is the single most active WoW server I've ever seen in my life, soooooo...)