Posts by _LS_

Actor, I suppose?

What do actors have to do with Waifus?

Greek History or Roman History?

^Incorrect. I can be accused of many things, but excessive brevity is not among them.
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V Must reveal the last TV show they watched.

Goth night, pirate Halloween, AND fairy costume. I got em' all.

I actually meant the fact that the axes are labelled incorrectly. There's a "Replies" column, and a "Views" column, but each row also has its individual "Replies" and "Views" line.

EDIT: There's a "Replies" column, and a "Views" column, which are completely useless, because "Replies" and "Views" are displayed in rows.

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.

Pineapple Juice I suppose. I don't really have a strong preference between the two.

Star Trek, or Star Wars.

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.

Ya know all those "Post a picture of yourself" threads we did?

Well I saved 'em all, motherfuckers. I saved 'em ALL.

Quote from Kaltaka

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.

Inhaling is good people, but f'real it's weird how young he is, because it draws attention to how old we are.

He's simultaneously the age we were when we all first met, and he was born right around the time we all first met.

So, yeah. Earlier, we were talking about Guardian from TSR, right? So I thought "Hey, I should totally tell Guardian about ZC!" So I did.

At first she didn't want to come, but then I reminded her about the pictures, and here we are.

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 actually have no idea who Linkachu was. Sheena is a good guess.

the inhaling one

It wasn't actually very difficult.

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...)

Quote from Kaynil

What things are gimmicky about Mario Sunshine?
That's good to know.

So what are your favorite stages guys?
Which ones are of the worst ones?

If this game is overrated. I'd love to hear about more of what other players usually dismiss or minimise in order to put the game in a pedestal.

Well, both water levels suck. They really do. Also, I hate Tiny Huge island.

Also, while the camera is certainly good for its time, and was revolutionary in some ways, it has aged poorly. Really poorly.

Honestly, I think one of the best things about the game is just its engine and the way Mario moves. If one of the levels was a massive empty plane with nothing in it? I think I would still have fun just running and jumping. At least for a few minutes.

Quote from Kaynil

I don't know if it is overrated. I never played it. But I like the colourful palette.
It seems it is pretty glitchy. I think part of the appeal is that it was the first attempt to pass a Mario game to 3D and they did it in a good game. Even with its flaws in platform limits and stuff, it still holds up.

I saw Sardonic Pickle playing a pacman game in PS1 that was so unfair so I am not sure how close M64 is in comparison.

You NEVER PLAYED MARIO 64!?

This is a shock to me.

Also, it really isn't very glitchy. People have found a lot of glitchy exploits, but I've played the whole game beginning to end at least four times, and I've only ever found one glitch I can think of. And it's just a shortcut that allows you to save 0.4 seconds of travel time.

Quote from The Inhaling One

Please play Galaxy. It brings back all the moves Mario had like the long jump, and you don't HAVE to use the Wii pointer if you don't want to. Galaxy is best Mario. It's actually rated as one of the best games of all time by a lot of critics and non-critics.

I do own Galaxy, but at this point it's sealed up in a box. I'm currently playing a number of other games, but with you and Sardonic both telling me how great it is, I will absolutely make a point of trying it when I have the opportunity.

Part of the reason I hate Sunshine is undoubtedly personal. I hate tropical settings. They bum me out. I don't know why. But having the entire game set on a tropical island was like having a foul smell in the room every time I played. Sure it didn't actually effect the challenges or puzzles, but it certainly didn't help.

But I also thought the challenges were kind of a bummer. The only fun thing about the FLUDD was the jetpack stuff. Anytime you had to aim the water jet at a target, or clean something up was lame. Not only was it boring, but it removed you from the flow of Mario's movement. M64 did a great job of making the game feel fluid. You were constantly in motion, running and jumping. Ironically, once they added a water machine, the game lost its fluidity.

I was also really disappointed that the game got rid of several of mario's moves from M64. I don't recall which they were. I think it was the U-Jump and the long jump?

I don't know if the 3D marios have improved since then. I never played Galaxy. The wiimote is annoying to use.