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bloodychill posted:I beat it back at release doing warps and using a P wing to get through that endless tank level in world 8. One of these days maybe I'll give a full run a try. I think there's just a regular level (the one with the angry sun) that I used to P-Wing through, but hell, if you play through world 7, you've earned those damned P wings.
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Feb 5, 2017 16:35
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Who's laughing now, Father Gascoigne, huh? Who's laughing now?! Not you, cause you're dead!
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Feb 5, 2017 17:34
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TheScott2K posted:Every time I see one of these I'm so glad I'm immune to MMORPGs. At the very least Second Life cannot be shut down. Too many bonds are made there. Bonds made outta hemp, katanas and giant dongs.
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Feb 5, 2017 18:34
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Feb 5, 2017 18:57
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TheScott2K posted:Every time I see one of these I'm so glad I'm immune to MMORPGs. You've been on SA for almost 15 years. Surely you must have at least some empathy for people being sad that a community they've been a part for for over a decade in closing its doors?
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Feb 5, 2017 19:09
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TheScott2K posted:Every time I see one of these I'm so glad I'm immune to MMORPGs. I think stuff like this is really neat actually. It speaks to an interesting aspect of games to be able to become new spaces or dimensions where people who would not have otherwise interacted or connected hang out and build friendships. I remember playing Left 4 Dead regularly with a couple guys I knew from university and even though we ran in different circles in our regular lives, I still have these memories like we used to hang out together. Like, the video game manifestations of characters and being able to control them and interact creates a really interesting sense of presence in my memory. I feel like my social life and friendships in general have only been augmented by the addition of virtual spaces and activities and that's a really cool and real way for people to interact and something about games that I think people brush off or discount too easily. I'm not surprised that people got emotional about the closure of the world they've been hanging out in for 18 years. There's a lot of memories there.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:10
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Yeah, I mean it's technically only a game but it's a game that people have been playing for over a decade and as it's an MMO it's got a heavy focus on social scenes. It's not hard for someone to be nostalgic about it, especially because they were probably literally a kid when they started and it's a good ol' reminder that nothing will be around forever.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:12
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Aye, a game is a place where memories happen, just like a school or a bar you frequent or a playground.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:15
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MMOs are weird like that in that if you get into them you'll play them more than pretty much every other game you've ever had combined, but at the same time they're the only type of games that once they're gone, they're gone. Like sometimes people can set up their own servers but it's still really not the same thing any more.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:20
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Bicyclops posted:Who's laughing now, Father Gascoigne, huh? Who's laughing now?! Not you, cause you're dead!  (Actually Gascoigne has a real sad story so I wouldn't gloat)
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Feb 5, 2017 19:24
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The first MMORPG I played was called tibia and it was v bad but I put probably hundreds of hours into it with my best friend in like 2004
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Feb 5, 2017 19:28
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to be fair, like everyone in every souls game has a real sad story. Doesn't mean you shouldn't dance on their god damned graves when you finally put them down.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:27
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I always took it our protag/self didn't give a poo poo considering how much hosed up crap we do. I mean Demon Souls had a boss going yo leave us alone and you just went nah and killed her in cold blood.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:31
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TheScott2K posted:Every time I see one of these I'm so glad I'm immune to MMORPGs. Guy Mann posted:You've been on SA for almost 15 years. Surely you must have at least some empathy for people being sad that a community they've been a part for for over a decade in closing its doors?
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Feb 5, 2017 19:39
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I wonder what happens to the players when an ancient MMO closes down. Do they try moving on to something modern? Do they move on to the next game which is slightly newer or do they just give up on MMOs in general?
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Feb 5, 2017 19:42
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Grapplejack posted:vgas finished, results are up.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:At the very least Second Life cannot be shut down. Too many bonds are made there. Bonds made outta hemp, katanas and giant dongs.
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Feb 5, 2017 19:52
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Never understood the appeal of MMOs personally, it's like single player games except with worse gameplay and I personally find random gamers to be some of the worst people to socialize with on the planet. I understand that it can be fun to play with friends or maybe if you find a nice guild or something but to be fair almost anything is fun with friends.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:11
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Help Im Alive posted:The first MMORPG I played was called tibia and it was v bad but I put probably hundreds of hours into it with my best friend in like 2004 i also quote unquote played this as a kid but i never got farther than loading it up and walking around for a few minutes before never playing again
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Feb 5, 2017 20:13
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Feb 5, 2017 20:34
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Ekster posted:Never understood the appeal of MMOs personally, it's like single player games except with worse gameplay and I personally find random gamers to be some of the worst people to socialize with on the planet. I understand that it can be fun to play with friends or maybe if you find a nice guild or something but to be fair almost anything is fun with friends. My two favorite MMOs were games that I played because of their story and worldbuilding elements, mostly in spite of their MMO gameplay
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Feb 5, 2017 20:35
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Ekster posted:Never understood the appeal of MMOs personally, it's like single player games except with worse gameplay and I personally find random gamers to be some of the worst people to socialize with on the planet. I understand that it can be fun to play with friends or maybe if you find a nice guild or something but to be fair almost anything is fun with friends. If I didn't have friends who I played the game with for 10+ years then I'd never touch WoW again. Playing an MMO solo sounds horrendous to me.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:38
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CrashCat posted:that's really impressive that No Man's Sky knocked cancergame off the pretentiousness championship. Everyone had it as a lock for years and years of previews I think the fact that the kid actually died during its development takes it from pretentious to genuinely tragic. It's less an art piece and more watching someone cope in real time.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:38
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I think we can all agree that No Man's Sky is a different kind of tragedy.
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Ekster posted:I think we can all agree that No Man's Sky is a different kind of tragedy. That's more tragic on the level of seeing someone beaned in the groin by a soccer ball every five minutes.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:40
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When I saw the first previews of NMS I thought "it's rare to see a project compete so aggressively for Most Disappointing Game of the Year right off the bat" and I wasn't wrong.
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I thought it was mostly the autistic space nerds here that got conned by NMS, but apparently 4chan is full of em too
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Feb 5, 2017 20:44
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My copy of No Man's Sky just came in, looking forward to it!
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At one point during development the No Man's Sky team claimed that they "had to redesign the periodic table to create atmospheric particles that would diffract light at just the right wavelength.". Even if you take the most critical eye possible to the religious significance the creators of The Dragon, Cancer put on the game it's still nowhere near as pretentious as the things No Man's Sky was offering.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:57
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:My copy of No Man's Sky just came in, looking forward to it! Aren't you going to feel foolish when Star Citizen comes out! Guy Mann posted:At one point during development the No Man's Sky team claimed that they "had to redesign the periodic table to create atmospheric particles that would diffract light at just the right wavelength.". Even if you take the most critical eye possible to the religious significance the creators of The Dragon, Cancer put on the game it's still nowhere near as pretentious as the things No Man's Sky was offering. Jesus Christ that is some severe fart huffing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEqu2ITiOPI Sometimes I remember how awesome the intro to Neo Contra was and the rest of my day is a little better.
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Dewgy posted:I think the fact that the kid actually died during its development takes it from pretentious to genuinely tragic. It's less an art piece and more watching someone cope in real time. Regardless, was this game at any point a sound idea? I understand the need to cope with this terrible situation and I realize that people come to grips with tragedy in their own ways, but the creation of this game doesn't seem like a good way to do this. I know that the sentiment is genuine, but the whole thing seems off you know? I personally don't think it's pretension, just misguided ideals. And yeah, NMS is bad. I put a bunch of hours into it (  ) and got to a point where I have no drive to play it again.
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Real sad story, huh? Well what about the mom that lies dead near him on that roof? What about the rights of that little girl?
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Sakurazuka posted:Shattered Soldier is better Shattered Soldier is definitely a better game but Neo Contra is still cool for finding a way to make Contra work in 3d. Also one of the bosses is an evil Spuds MacKenzie dog who can talk and pilot robots and no attention is drawn to it.
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Contra 4 is the only one I've really played but it owns I also watched someone play whichever Contra e: i looked it up and apparently treasure did not make contra hard corps my bad oddium posted:i also quote unquote played this as a kid but i never got farther than loading it up and walking around for a few minutes before never playing again You made the right choice Last year I bumped into the friend I used to play it with and he was still playing in 2016 
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Bicyclops posted:Real sad story, huh? Well what about the mom that lies dead near him on that roof? It's kind of a good thing they died before they went mad like the rest of the townfolks
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El Diablo Bob O posted:Regardless, was this game at any point a sound idea? While I totally agree, it's got kind of a weird outsider art vibe to it. I think a lot of the negative feelings around it stem from that it had to be marketed somehow, which is just wrong for a project like that. "YEAH! CANCER! GET SOME! #OUYA" was... not the best thing for it. It's probably the most art-game art-game ever, if just because I don't think I've ever really seen a video game that was 100% not designed to be entertaining. It's an expression of the creators' grief more than anything else, which is really kind of fascinating. Even other art games are made by people who wanted to make art, TDC was made just because they didn't know what else to do to cope.
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