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but this is our house :’(
And John Freeman felt bad for the zombie goasts because it was their house. So he blowed it up.
And they were at peace.
And the pants were dead!
Thanks I could help, bro!
“I’ll get you evil boss!” John Freeman shout from top of lung.
@DrAlligator
>“I’ll get you evil boss!” John Freeman shout from top of lung. “I’ll get you back evil boss!” John Freeman yelled at the top of lungs.
Fixed.
to be continued..?
:( I got it wrong.
The first is the best.
Now, slightly more on topic, I bought the Sims 3, and am now addicted. My sim was a politician who got fired in the height of an expense scandal. :D
/Joke for the British
I got Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee today. And I got Link: The Faces of Evil on Tuesday, but you already knew that.
I got Grim Fandango.
TAKE THAT!
HAHAHAHA! Very funny doc!
Jeni, that game is soooooo old! Seriously! I used to play it like…when I was 9! Is that where the Avatar’s from? ;D
Oh, yeah? I’ve had The Neverhood and The Secret of Monkey Island since 2001!
(although I can’t play Monkey Island anymore because we got rid of our old computer. I just use DOSbox now.)
@MegaB
Um. Yeah. I know. I’m a retro-gamer.
Me too. I have about ten different emulators and too many ROMs, BINs, and DSKs to count.
For some reason, I only need to really use ScummVM and dosbox. A lot of old games work fine on my machine.
Heck, even Demon Stalkers works without an emulator. O_o
A C64 game? I have a hard time believing that you can fit a 5-inch floppy into your 3-inch drive.
I have different phases. Right now I’m on a BBC Micro binge.
Dan, they’re makin’ a new monkey island! It looks so awesome! Imagine if it has Moray the talking scull in it still! How EPIC will that be?!
I loved his ‘rolling’ quips, they were beyond hilarious!
@Jeni: why don’t you tell us what you have so we can give you a hand?
I know; I saw it at the Gamespot E3 page. Hopefully it’ll be better than Escape from Monkey Island (and if Telltale is developing it, it will be).
Ah, that explains it…
Well I’ll have a look!
What genre? Platformer? Shoot-em-up? Adventure? Puzzle?
Precisely. I can’t even remember. That’s why it’s getting so hard. I reckon it must have been a platformer. But I can’t even be certain of that. D:
Hmmm, well Jeni I’ve found a game by the name of ‘Bob’ for the Megadrive. It was released in ’93 though…
After spending far too much time searching Abandonia, I’ve found a few games that might fit your criteria (or, more accurately, criterion):
MegaTraveller
MegaTraveller 2
Any of the Space Quest games
Any of the Wing Commander games
The last two might not have yellow robots, but it seemed likely to me.
Hmmm…..Bob was ALL about a yellow robot though…
Dan, I think that’s the game but let’s see what Jeni says.
B.O.B. was a console game and was never ported to DOS. I should know, being the resident emulation geek.
Anyway, he’s more of a dirty brass color.
Dan’s right. And nope, I’ve been through Abandonia so many times.
I think the problem is, I may have played it later when it was an old game already. So I wouldn’t be surprised if it was from the Apple Panic era.
Oh, I was assuming that you played an EGA or VGA game. I’ll look again with the CGA filter on. No such luck; the CGA games pretty much all use Palette 1, and the ones that don’t certainly wouldn’t have robots in them.
It was a DOS game, wasn’t it? I’m rather skeptical of that now.
ARGH! Alright, that’s beyond my reach. Mayhap Dan can find it?
Was it really good enough to be a collectible?
You’re sure that the robot was yellow? Because Captain Comic was pretty popular and it had a guy in a blue space-suit, who would probably appear robotic to six-year-old eyes. And, it’s a platformer.
Funnily enough, Dan, my memory as a five-year old wasn’t that hot. :P Which is why I’m having such problems finding it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a British game, I’ve searched my lovely British game website so many times. But everytime I go back I think “maybe...”
Edit: most definitely not Captain Comic. I still play that. :P
You’re sure that it was a DOS game?
Nah. It was probably on the sinclair.
Well, why didn’t you say so? I wasted an hour and a half looking for a game on the wrong site!
I never said it was dos. Those are the games I replay now. I’m well acquainted with DOS games.
All I have to go on is a vague memory and a screenshot in my mind. Which makes it unreasonable for me to even ask anyone’s help. But, you talking about BBC micro triggered memories. :P
Edit: which is why I realised, because of the graphics, it must have been on the sinclair. Eesh, I don’t even remember what we had back then.
I figured that if you looked on Abandonia for it, it would be a DOS game. Abandonia is a site dedicated to DOS GAMES.
It is? Oh, I forgot. I haven’t been there for a long, long time. I found a better site for downloading games I don’t have copies of anymore.
Grar, it’s late. Too late to be trawling for old games. I ought to do it during daylight hours. yawn
So what’s your favourite game, Dan?
Space Quest forever remains in my heart.
Asking me what my favorite game is is like asking me what my favorite book or song is (Movies are easier; Blade Runner wins hands-down). There are so many to choose from, and so many good ones, that it’s a futile question.
I like The Neverhood a lot, though. A lot of memories in that one.
Guh. Just because you can’t choose a favourite, doesn’t mean that nothing is up there in the Top Ten. It is a simple exchange of interests: what games you love to play.
Oh, forget it, I need to get to bed.
I’ll sort them by genre.
Adventure
The Neverhood
The Secret of Monkey Island
Rise of the Dragon
Samorost
Riven
Maniac Mansion
Mata Nui Online Game I
Beneath a Steel Sky
Protostar: War on the Frontier
Ween: The Prophecy
Dune
Loom
Beneath a Steel Sky
The Black Sect
Legend of Kyrandia
Probably a few others that I forgot to mention
Too many text adventures to list, although I really like The Pawn and the MST’d version of Detective
Platformers
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim 2
Super Metroid
Turrican II: The Final Fight
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
Cave Story
Tinhead
Shatterhand
Drill Dozer
Gex
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Ruff ‘n’ Tumble
Puggsy
Flashback: Quest for Identity
Star Port
Knytt Stories
LittleBigPlanet
I Wanna Be The Guy
Pitfall II
Jump ‘n’ Bump
Jazz Jackrabbit
Spelunker
Spelunky
Exile would probably be on this list, if the retarded enemies didn’t make it completely unplayable.
Shoot-em-ups
X-Out
Jets ‘n’ Guns
The Steel Empire
Catalypse
Astrobatics
Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster
Disposable Hero
Gleylancer
Eliminate Down
Super Aleste
Firetrack
Over Horizon
Thrust
Scavenger
Platypus
Choplifter
Attack of the Mutant Camels
Simulators and other 3D flight-related stuff
Rescue on Fractalus
Incoming
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation
Comanche: Maximum Overkill
Gunship 2000
Knights of the Sky
Star Fox
Star Raiders
Space Interceptor: Project Freedom
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Racing
F-Zero GX
Mario Kart 64
Road Rash
Wipeout HD
Fatal Inertia
Cyber Speedway
Stunt Car Racer
P.O.D.
Need for Speed
Hypersonic Extreme
Powerdrome
Lego Racers
Star Wars: Episode One Racer
RPGs
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Earthbound
Puzzle
Tetris
BasTet
Atomix
Ice Puzzle
Deflektor
Tangrams (not really a video game, but I love them anyway)
FPS and general action
Any Ratchet and Clank game, except maybe Deadlocked or Quest for Booty. I like Up Your Arsenal and Tools of Destruction the most.
BioShock
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Super Mario 64
Deus Ex
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
S.U.A.V.E.
Doom
Descent
System Shock
System Shock 2
Many more that I cannot recall at the moment
Strategy
Advance Wars
Supremacy
Ashes of Empire
Command and Conquer
Operation Whirlwind
I can’t remember any other strategy games that I like, although I know that there are many more of them.
Miscellaneous
Aquaria
Captain Blood
Death Worm
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Heli Rescue
Gunlimb
Blitz 50
Lemmings
Hunter
Combat
Fat Worm Blows a Sparky
Solaris
Invisible Vision
Sexy Hiking
Thanatos
Deathchase
Aliants: The Desperate Battle for Earth
RunMan’s Monster Fracas
More which escape my memory
Wow, I only wasted two hours typing that up.
You forgot Paper Mario 2!
Never played it.
Wow, I only wasted two hours typing that up.
I approve of your choices. :D No Prince of Persia? And not a fan of the Quests?
I found Earthworm Jim being sold, quite bizarrely, on this sketchy car boot sale in Sydney. For 50cents. And for some reason, their version of the game works on my PC. :D (My old CD doesn’t ;_;). I love Earthworm Jim somuch.
Mmmmm, lemmings. Freakin’ awesome. Paintball Lemmings was made of absolute win, unfortunately that doesn’t work on my PC. >:| Dunno why.
I never got heavily into the text adventures, apart from Zork and Humbug. Which is possibly the hardest game to ever exist. Ever. Curse you Graham Cluley! I love you, but you break my heart! ;_;
PS: Tangram = amazing. :D
How is it that you have System Shock but not Half Life?
Maaan you guys are awesome! Around here,I’m like the only person who was a gamer back then in my age group! To find you lot talking about them is like…Well I don’t know what it’s like since it’s never happened before but I feel all warm and fuzzy!
Did anyone play the Descent series? And Freespace? I remember playing incoming, it came free with my first GPU!
Everyone knows gamers are losers so of course we talk about games.
Ohhh, on my old computer (Windows 95) we had Descent 2. I was terrible at it, but I think I’d be better now that I play videogames more. We also had Fury 3, which I was awesome at.
I omitted games that I hadn’t played.
Ta-dah! I finished HL2:E1 today. Pretty awesome, although not nearly as epic (or long) as HL2. The ending was cool, except for the very very end, which I hated because I don’t know exactly what happens next. I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers for HL2:E2, and even though the REALLY REALLY REALLY big spoiler has already been spoiled for me (I’m still going to cry, though), I still don’t know exactly what happens, especially in the beginning.
Episode 2 is more awesome than an orgasm.
Man, it sucks that that was spoiled for you. Definitely the most emotional scene I’ve ever seen in a game. I always thought Episode 1 was kind of ‘meh’. There were some fun bits, but it wasn’t very memorable. The rest of the series is, though.
More recently I’ve been playing mostly Super Smash Bros Brawl. I bought Final Fantasy IV: The After Years from the wiistore the other day – FFIV is my favourite in that series – and it is a superb game. The story was incredibly gripping – you play as both the protagonist and the antagonist in a race against time. It was a nice surprise as I’ve been growing increasingly pessimistic towards the Square side of Square Enix in recent years. On that note, Dragon Quest tells some of the greatest stories I’ve ever played. DQV was very emotionally engaging.
But that list is silly! FF7 wasn’t all that much better than the other games in the series, it’s just that the fans like to misinterpret the characters and ignore the plot due to never having played the game/to completion.
Honestly, I prefer FF8.
My sister loved FF8, I used to watch her play when I was little.
Oh, Chrono Trigger is easily the best Square game ever.
Still I prefer FF6. It’s my favorite game. Kefka is crazy awesome. And just plain crazy.
FFVII was many a gamer’s first Final Fantasy, even their first RPG. So yeah, I can understand why they think so highly of it. I personally adore FFIX and FFIV the most, they were the two in my childhood.
I like FF6 the most, because of Celes and Kefka. And the original plotting, and AtmaWeapon, who has the most badass introductory quotation ever.
FF7 has Aeris, though, making it second. And I think that FF9 is probably the second/best, because of Beatrix and Kuja and their respective themes. And the Lifa(Iifa?) Tree and Silver Dragon FMVs, and the Chaos Guardians, and all the referencing. But FF4 has Rydia, the Twins and the Fiends, and FF5 has Gilgamesh and his music, and the job system.
Is so hard to choose.
Yeah, each FF game has its own individual merits and flaws. It’s kind of pointless to debate which is better.
Also, Moldorm, you might appreciate this as much as I did.
I hadn’t seen the Chocobo one before, that was great. :) For some reason, I find Hyadain’s music videos way too hard to find on Youtube. The FFIX one was really meh because it was just a different video to the lyrics of Hyadain’s Mario song – which doesn’t make sense, because the song is explicitly about Mario and Bowser fighting for Peach’s love, and Peach rejecting them because they’re ugly. It doesn’t work with any other three characters (four, counting Luigi barging in at the last moment). The FFVII one was pretty cool though, but then again, most things involving Ouran High are.
Also, I absolutely love Legendary Frog. It was nice watching that remix again for the first time in years and actually getting all the references this time.
How come nobody used a Phoenix Down on Aeris?
Why didn’t Rosa cast Cura when the team found Cid hospitalised in the dwarf castle?
Why didn’t the shop-keeping moogle in Burmecia use his stock of phoenix downs, potions and weaponry to save the slayed populous?
How come any character can take a railgun to the face, a meteor strike to the crotch and a sword slice down their body and still be standing, but in cutscenes they will stop if a gun’s placed to their heads?
The gameplay-story segregation in Final Fantasy is pretty bad.
“How come nobody used a Phoenix Down on Aeris?”
Because they heard about what happened to Galuf, and decided to spare themselves the heartache.
Trigger and IV are my favorites from Square. Tried VI and didn’t like it for various gameplay reasons. Never had a PSOne.
Because it wouldn’t have been fun.
Yay, the Cliche list! I like all the Grandia references.
They did give a reason for Tellah being unrevivable, though, suggesting that if he hadn’t done it willingly he could have been resurrected.
Another Grandia fan? Awesome. It was my first RPG. :)
I didn’t play it until only a few years ago on advice from a friend. It wasn’t difficult, but the music and excellent characterisation made up for it.
I’ve just started Grandia 2. Millennia is a fun character.
I haven’t played the other two games. I’m not sure if I can appreciate the characters as much as when I was 9 though. I was going to make a video LP out of it, but Camstudio’s a bitch. It’s not a very hard game at all, but the battles are so fun, and I guess that’s what matters. Enemy encounters should be a joy, not a tiresome neccessity, and it really got that right. Dragon Quest did, too, thanks to its delightful personality. FFIV DS is the only one of the Final Fantasies where I would regularly enjoy fights – thanks mainly to abilities like Pray and Bless that replenish MP (so magic users aren’t kept aside outside of boss fights anymore).
Anyone tried Sims 3 yet?
Yeah, I talked about it before. :P It’s very good. I’d talk more about it if you asked something a bit more specific than that.
This is sheer brilliance. :)
I’ve been playing Sims 3, also. Fun stuff.
Heh, I’ve already shown that link to several people now. It’s great.
I like the cracked story, just because it’s so funny, but it does lack the depth of Alice and Kev.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/
Heh, that was amazingly amusing. I love Cracked. :)
I’m playing Beyond Good & Evil at the moment. That makes me Well Educated as far as gamers go.
I consider a gamer well educated if he / she doesn’t think BioShock 2 will be good, and lists the correct reasons for it.
Why are people so negative towards changes/innovation/etc? Just wait and see. I’m certain it’ll be a blast.
Why are people so negative towards changes/innovation/etc? Just wait and see. I’m certain it’ll be a blast.
I don’t mind innovation, but BioShock 2 could be so much better but we’re being served a load of crap with inlaid gold and truffles.
I have no knowledge of this BioShock 2, apart from its existence. Please, elaborate on its negative aspects, as the original BioShock was beautiful.
I agree with you, the original was spectacular.
If you want total and complete assessment on why they will be bad, read this article and this one. I wrote the second, but the first is a little more complete.
For those tl;dr people, I’ll quickly summarize.
The people who made the first one (2K Boston), very few of which are going to the new studio (2K Marin). Also, the director, Ken Levine, is not in the project as well, and he had a big, big influence on the undercurrents of philosophy and style of the first game. Normally team changes aren’t that big of a deal, but in this case too many things have changed.
It’s taking the most obvious direction possible, which is staying in Rapture and playing a Big Daddy, but not the slow kind with one or two weapons, a fast one that can use plasmids. Any fucktard on any forum could come up with the new concepts being debuted in B2. The story told in B was complete and unambiguous. Just trying to explain the whole deal with the prototype Daddy and Big Sister will raise eyebrows. A true sequel to Bioshock shouldn’t be in Rapture, but it should carry on the same ideals of the first, namely human nature under pressure.
Rapture was also a new shiny toy in B. You didn’t exactly know what it was going to throw at you next and it still had an aura of mystery about it. Staying in Rapture for B2, players lose that sense of wonder. That wonder is further butchered when you get to go out into the ocean. The antagonists in B were actually interesting and had proper motivations and felt like true, unseen villains. Instead we get a cock and bull story about the Big Sister who wants to maintain ‘order’ in Rapture and you are supposed to somehow disrupt this. Plot twists are also glaringly obvious, hopefully someone at Marin will not be retarded enough to make the Big Sister your original sister as a prototype Daddy.
The morality cycle or curve is also the exact same thing. Do you help Sisters or do you hurt them? I mean, come on, some imagination could have gone here. I already didn’t like the black and white, super good or super evil, endings of B, but literally the same thing redone is appalling. While other games like the KotOR series have had similar curves (jedi or sith), that felt more organic and there were different choices to be made.
Thanks to Yahtzee, I just bought my friend an epic birthday present. He better like it.
I love Yahtzee! If you like him, watch GameDamage
Oooh, ok.
Also, would it be wrong to buy myself the same present? It would, wouldn’t it….
What was it?
Am I this friend?
sayyesplease.
>:D
Am watching Game Damage— and wow, it’s actually kinda not funny. Well, it is, in that I know where I should be laughing, but I’m not. :/ I think Yahtzee does need a script… or at least is not the winging it type.
Yeah at some parts it gets unfunny, but I still want to support them. Yahtzee’s reviews are always good though.
Best parts: Duke Nukem Forever, going through the streets of Brisbane and Yahtzee’s adventure game segment. :D