[lordrrr]

	Originally Posted by Phosphorescent To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I'm chugging my way through FFXII right now, and then there's WoW... ever-present WoW... and Halo, can't forget that.

So you like God awful video games?

[AirmanINTJ]

I actually enjoyed the Halo story but you really need to read the books to get an understanding of it all. I like shooters, action adventure and flying games. Anything that has military related stuff usually gets me going.

[Vortex]

	Originally Posted by lordrrr To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	So you like God awful video games?

Yes, clearly long lasting, high selling franchises are "God awful'.

clearly.

[lordrrr]

	Originally Posted by Vortex To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Yes, clearly long lasting, high selling franchises are "God awful'. clearly.

World of Warcraft don't even get me started

Halo: This is good

FFXII: $hit

[Vortex]

God Awful is a special class reserved for games that are truly God Awful. You can claim the FF line or WoW have serious issues, esp. for more seasoned gamers. However, to claim that they are God Awful, terrible, or whatnot shows naivety to just how bad games can be.

You'll also get lovely comments like "Halo sucks" or "why does everybody think halo's a big deal?" And not realize the timeframe of the game, the graphics/control/UI of the time, and how much of a leap that game is. Go back and play Goldeneye, and see how fast you gouge your eyes out. Smash Bros is still fun today, but the low res, one analog stick, "click to aim with a psychotic, mind-of-its-own hand" Goldeneye will *not* impress any longer.

Its still considered amongst the most influential shooters of all time, and many have fond memories of it.

Criticize games objectively, rabid fanboism is ulcer-inducing.

[DeadSpace]

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No kidding, that's why I usually create a class with a major skill for each attribute and reconcile myself to mind-numbingly boring training for the first ten or fifteen levels. I don't know how many skeletons I summon, only to attack them over and over with a nearly worthless fire spell just to be able to win fights later. I also have a ton of mods, though I am usually more concerned with archery. I tend not to directly use spells in combat, I like sneaking up and shooting them with my bow much better To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

heh, sniping is the only way i play oblivion, sneak attack bonus and it's usually one shot=one kill, poisoned arrows for the tougher enemies (marts mod, random lvled mobs instead of everything your own lvl or near it)
also use a huge AoE 30' low dmg spell for flushing out enemies...or just to toss bodies around
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[eMachine]

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Godawful games here. I love these videos.
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[lordrrr]

Originally Posted by Vortex To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

God Awful is a special class reserved for games that are truly God Awful. You can claim the FF line or WoW have serious issues, esp. for more seasoned gamers. However, to claim that they are God Awful, terrible, or whatnot shows naivety to just how bad games can be. You'll also get lovely comments like "Halo sucks" or "why does everybody think halo's a big deal?" And not realize the timeframe of the game, the graphics/control/UI of the time, and how much of a leap that game is. Go back and play Goldeneye, and see how fast you gouge your eyes out. Smash Bros is still fun today, but the low res, one analog stick, "click to aim with a psychotic, mind-of-its-own hand" Goldeneye will *not* impress any longer. Its still considered amongst the most influential shooters of all time, and many have fond memories of it. Criticize games objectively, rabid fanboism is ulcer-inducing.

Fanboyism made me lololol. I have all three consoles, a PC and both a DS lite and a PSP. Fanboys are little kids who can't get a job and can only have one console for Christmas because his parents are too cheap and don't want to become jealous of the other amazing consoles he can't play so he instead bashes them to feel better about the fact that he fails.

As for Halo, I told you, it's a good game, even by todays standards it still is fun. What I hate about Halo is the sequels. Two was terrible, Three was okay but both far lacked how blown away I was by the first. Other than LOLNEWWEAPONSPLANETSSTORYLINESETC there was nothing truly "new" or "innovative" that made the first one stood out. They felt more like expansion packs then true sequels.


And I'll be honest, I'd rather play Mary Kate and Ashley Sweet 16 License to Drive than WoW, and FFXII is just plain stupid- I'd rather have FULL ON STRATEGY or FULL ON COMBAT not some weak half breed blend of the two.

[Vortex]

Where did I call you a fanboi? I said, fanboism as a concept is ulcer inducing, and some of your statements were headed in that direction.

Halo 2 was weaksauce plot wise (and had significant departures from the books), but the graphics are probably still the best on the xbox. Bungie did some serious voodoo hacking to get that working with DX8 on a cut down GF3 GPU. Multiplayer also formed the gold standard for LIVE functionality; many of the innovations used in its matchmaking and party systems are still used in some form or another across many titles.

I'd agree about Halo 3. It was average and was kind of the required finisher for the series (something about "forgetting the ending"), but wasn't really remarkable otherwise. Fun multiplayer, but not worth spending a whole lot of time on.

I've never gotten into the FF games, but they really aren't my cup of tea to begin with. WoW was decent, and is a truly great example of closed loop feedback in gameplay. However, there are significant faults with the game and I won't fault anyone for hating the grind that forms the core gameplay concept.

[DeadSpace]

	Originally Posted by lordrrr To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I'll bet money I'm more of a gamer than everyone here COMBINED!

heh, you'd lose, atarted on pong when it was new, atari 2600, 5200, and 7800. intellivision, colecovision, odyssey2, nes, snes, n64, sega genesis, psx, ps2 <~~just the consoles
also games on c64, c128, atari 65XE, amiga 500 and 1000 with a mac emu for those rare mac games, DOS, win 3.1, win95, and more PC games up to present, including linux games.
And arcades O.O...yes places where you went to play games, tons there too.
nes, snes, psx, and MAME emu's to play everything i might have missed that wasn't released in the states.
Not even going to try and make a list of all the titles from everything above
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suffice to say it would be in the thousands >.> and i still game...so the list keeps growing...i do have an unfair advantage...been gaming a very long time.

[lordrrr]

Originally Posted by Vortex To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Halo 2 was weaksauce plot wise (and had significant departures from the books), but the graphics are probably still the best on the xbox. Bungie did some serious voodoo hacking to get that working with DX8 on a cut down GF3 GPU. Multiplayer also formed the gold standard for LIVE functionality; many of the innovations used in its matchmaking and party systems are still used in some form or another across many titles.

Best graphics on Xbox? LOLNO That right belongs to Chronicles of Riddick. Also, Fable and Sudeki had better graphics too. The graphics were okay on Halo 2 though.

[Vortex]

Fable 1) sucked, 2) didn't look better. VERY limited environments and draw distances, and it didn't have normal mapping.

Chronicles of Riddick also looked good, though I'd have to look it up to see if it featured all the same rendering abilities of halo 2. Even then, it didn't have the environmental size or draw distances.

Not familiar with sudeki, so I can't comment either way.

[sriv]

My favorite series of games is the Super Smash Bros series. It involves constant competition, strategy, tactics, background information, advanced techniques, and intense mindgames. I did not figure that it could be so involved until I started looking at professional level Super Smash Bros melee gameplay. It has recently become five times funner and more challenging. Sadly, Brawl looks a lot easier to play professionally than melee. I am disappointed that they targeted the noobs.

[lordrrr]

Originally Posted by sriv To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

My favorite series of games is the Super Smash Bros series. It involves constant competition, strategy, tactics, background information, advanced techniques, and intense mindgames. I did not figure that it could be so involved until I started looking at professional level Super Smash Bros melee gameplay. It has recently become five times funner and more challenging. Sadly, Brawl looks a lot easier to play professionally than melee. I am disappointed that they targeted the noobs.

In what ways do you think they targeted the noobs?

[Aurelia]

God Of War is one of my favorite games. Haven't played for a while though!

[Blaze2000]

It's been tough finding good games for the PC lately. My all time favorite is Mechwarrior IV.

I played a lot of Guild Wars until I burnt out. Currently, I'm playing Team Fortress II and Sins of a Solar Empire and a bit of Sim City 4. I've also been playing GO(chinese chess essentially) online. That is one deep game.

[SShack]

I've been making my way through Persona 3 on the PS2, which is a rather unusual JRPG import, if you've never heard of it. I just got Fable on the XBOX live arcade, and I'm not liking the interface on that one. Also, it keeps crashing on me.

[sriv]

	Originally Posted by lordrrr To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	In what ways do you think they targeted the noobs?

Well, they made the falling speed slower and the gameplay slower. Those are the biggies. Characters seem to have less traction which makes some things harder and some things easier.

[Tual]

I recently got bioshock and finished it, I have to say I was very impressed. I usually enjoy games because of good back story and I felt bioshock had plenty of it. The great back story is also why I love the half life series so much, I recently finished HL1 again and it was still awesome!
The only other game I play regularly is DotA, a warcraft III: TFT mod that is awesome and challenging in many ways. If you have warcraft 3 and the frozen throne lying around I'd highly recommend it, be warned thought, the game has a very steep learning curve.

[eternaltriangle]

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	I mostly play the grand strategy games from To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. . I have recently been on a WoW kick, as the game gets more fun once you reach max level.

Yes! To Europa Universalis. What is the least likely country you have made into a great power (I prefer Victoria, but EU can be fun too). I played (through the various converters) one game from the beginning of Crusader Kings till the beginning of Hearts of Iron (I prefer the original HoI, part II is too clunky and slow). As Iceland I managed to colonize the New World. Unfortunately Iceland doesn't survive the transition to Victoria and gets lumped in as somebody else. Also, because the nationality of your colonies doesn't become Scandinavian, you can't build factories there unless you get to full citizenship (which is always hard, and I think requires a communist revolution).

[AgentofGaming]

I like how dynamic Crusader Kings can be.
You can be some count of somewhere that no one cares about, with the right inheritences, everything can change. Count of Moskva to Russian Emperor was the biggest I played and the mongol invasion did not make things easier.

I also prefer Victoria, I like how a game can give you so much control over certain aspects and I also really like stats and pie charts which Victoria has in abundance.

[lordrrr]

I hate RTS', which is pretty suprising seeing as I'm an INTJ.


I like strategy games though, but I can give up on them easily.

[Grizzly]

No surprises for the RTS and RPG categories.

[nemo]

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	Suikoden.. Anyone?

Hell yeah.

That era ('96?) was when I went through my gaming peak, and Suikoden was by far my favorite. I've made a point to play all the sequels/prequels too.

FF7 came out about then too, and I enjoyed that.

Otherwise, I mostly played Starcraft. Now I'll screw around with Half-life 2 or Portal, but that's about it.

[azelismia]

I don't get RPG games. I just can't get into them. FF was incomprehensible. Mass effect I TRIED very hard to like... just can't do it. I thought halo was fun, all three of htem but the ending on the third was a head scratcher. total let down. I figure they're paving the way for number four. My all time favorite franchise is Ratchet and clank. I really like the combination of shooter platformer. I wish they'd add more puzzle elements too. Zork was an awesome franchise. i wish they'd make more or convert it over to ps2 or 3 or xbox. Same with Monkey island. there was a very short golden age of PC games Myst, zork, monkey island, grim fandango. journeyman project (I am probably forgetting a few other good ones).. I just wish they'd make more games like that.