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kntfkr posted:Anyone remember Betrayal at Krondor? My uncle had it before my family had a proper PC. I still have the disc. I got nowhere in it and it was probably horrible and looks horrible on youtube but it absolutely captured my imagination when i was like 7 or 8. It's good apart from some very important things being literally invisible.
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Meme Poker Party posted:I said all things change in time but apparently I'm trapped in a loop! They won't let me out!!! They did change. Now instead of being snake tit guy you're snake pec guy. Totally different!
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Meme Poker Party posted:I said all things change in time but apparently I'm trapped in a loop! They won't let me out!!! perhaps it's time to become a... ...Loop Hero
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Meme Poker Party posted:What are some good games you wanna play that don't have enough people? Chromehounds on the 360, though that’s more the servers no longer exist than just low player count. You joined one of three countries in the notCaucasus and every match you played tried to seize or defend territory from the other two. So the “season” or whatever would continue until one faction had taken the other two enemy capitals and then it would start over.
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FoolyCharged posted:They did change. Now instead of being snake tit guy you're snake pec guy. Totally different!  galagazombie posted:Chromehounds on the 360, though that’s more the servers no longer exist than just low player count. You joined one of three countries in the notCaucasus and every match you played tried to seize or defend territory from the other two. So the “season” or whatever would continue until one faction had taken the other two enemy capitals and then it would start over. You know I always thought more games could use meta systems like this where your battles affect or at least interact with some kind of out-of-match persistent system. Although perhaps the reason they don't is that the fantasy is always some cool integrated meta campaign and the reality is usually whatever that bullshit in For Honor was. It's probably a lot harder to actually make than dream up, developers figure this is out halfway through, then shove some half-baked  out the door so they can actually finish the game.
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Holy poo poo Subspace Continuum is still up and running. I KAMIKAZE BOUNCY BALL BOMB BASE WITH MY SHINY RED SPACECAR NYEEEEEHEHEHEHE.
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galagazombie posted:Chromehounds on the 360, though that’s more the servers no longer exist than just low player count. You joined one of three countries in the notCaucasus and every match you played tried to seize or defend territory from the other two. So the “season” or whatever would continue until one faction had taken the other two enemy capitals and then it would start over. loving Loved That Game I love meta campaigns. I wish more RTSes both came out and used the Dawn of War: Dark Crusade meta campaign map
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Meta campaigns are phenomenal. It's a great way to have isolated single battles feel important and impactful. Emperor: Battle for Dune did that brilliantly, which is also probably my favourite RTS honestly.
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THE ANTZ IN DRAQONWHATEVER ARE THE SUPERIOR META GAME AND THEY ALL BE LIKE ANTZZZZZ
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Literally A Person posted:THE ANTZ IN DRAQONWHATEVER ARE THE SUPERIOR META GAME AND THEY ALL BE LIKE ANTZZZZZ Disappointed you haven't stickied this thread, OP.
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syntaxfunction posted:Meta campaigns are phenomenal. It's a great way to have isolated single battles feel important and impactful. Emperor: Battle for Dune did that brilliantly, which is also probably my favourite RTS honestly. Yeah big fan of Meta really bringing the world to the next level. Thanks Mark.
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Duck and Cover posted:Yeah big fan of Meta really bringing the world to the next level. Thanks Mark. Check out this goober who thinks Facebook invented the term meta lol
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I meta your mom last night for dinner and a movie
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Meme Poker Party posted:Disappointed you haven't stickied this thread, OP. This thread is one of my three secret hang out threads because no one would think to look for me in here.
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Literally A Person posted:This thread is one of my three secret hang out threads because no one would think to look for me in here. "Baby are you a video game opinion? Because you're awfully unpopular!"
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syntaxfunction posted:Check out this goober who thinks Facebook invented the term meta lol What's Facebook?
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it's a book for your face
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kntfkr posted:it's a book for your face Not...uh...a best seller.
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kntfkr posted:it's a book for your face It’s a book made of human faces, like the necronomicon in evil dead. 
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galagazombie posted:Chromehounds on the 360, though that’s more the servers no longer exist than just low player count. You joined one of three countries in the notCaucasus and every match you played tried to seize or defend territory from the other two. So the “season” or whatever would continue until one faction had taken the other two enemy capitals and then it would start over. Didn't the matches in Chromehounds immediately descend into players essentially artillery shelling every control point and starting position on the map because some of the weapons had crazy range?
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Some people definitely discovered certain spots they could safely shell a HQ from, and it was the duty of a sniper to destroy them. And then it was the duty of a scout or other similar light mech to zoom over and maul the poo poo out of the sniper. And then it was the duty of a medium- or heavy-armored mech to protect the sniper from the light mech. But look out! Because the artillery mech could also take out slow-moving medium- or heavy-armored mechs. In reality the snipers were usually too busy trying to nail a chicken legged sniper covered in shields, and the artillery mech fires on the HQ unopposed. In the non-HQ maps, especially the really fun and cool city ones, a commander got to see where the enemy was on the map (assuming you had captured a station they were near) and would relay those locations to their dudes who could then shell them with artillery or ambush them. Or the team could forego a commander-style mech in favor of another fighting mech of some sort, which would give them a leg up in an engagement but may be a hindrance depending on how organized the enemy team was. Many times you’d have a commander and some really powerful/heavy mechs escorting it while someone in a very light mech would zoom around trying to cap/uncap stations and gently caress with any mechs caught all by their own. The light mech could get things like incendiary and smoke mortars and piles to just bust the poo poo out of any slow mech by always getting behind them (mechs’ movement and turning speed was determined by your build). A common style of mech was called a “double-double” by the community, consisting of two of the largest artillery guns in the game, each being a double cannon. If you were good at eyeballing trajectory you could shell someone at any range and completely gently caress them up because being hit by artillery both hurt you and often moved your orientation around such that you were essentially stunned until you got your orientation corrected. Many double-doubles would simply shoot you with one cannon, then hit you with the other one, in order to essentially stun lock you while being demolished by the strongest weapon in the game. Chromehounds loving ruled. The fastest mech was not actually that fast, you really just felt incredibly heavy. And because voice chat was only enabled in an area where you had established radio comms it was often very scary just getting around the map. Maybe you’ll be sniped or there’s some artillery headed your way or you stumble into an enemy mech or a light mech is about to burn you/blind you/harass you. Some of the worst moments were when you needed help but couldn’t signal to your teammates what was going on because you didn’t establish radio comms yet, so you survive an encounter or two and get to a radio station to announce that you’re surrounded/under attack/need help. Ideally you’d have a good scout run around safely nabbing radio stations and running away from danger, hampering enemy communications, distracting them, and generally just annoying the enemy while your group made their way over. Best build for sure, though, was a hover scout with a thousand mortars attached and a handful of piles. You can hover in the air a little bit so spot an enemy, you can move fast enough you won’t get sniped, and in an engagement they won’t be able to see poo poo unless they brought the right vision. So you blind them with smoke, the incendiaries cause their power generators to overheat severely slowing their poo poo down, and you come up and use a pile (basically the only melee weapon available) to blow up their poo poo and they can’t do gently caress all to you. Also in city maps you could walk along a road, or destroy a building to make your own path.
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I can't remember the name but there was that top down shooter where it was basically 4 of you that would land on an alien planet and the out of game meta part was the more missions done worldwide the more you'd push back the aliens until one side ended. It was free on ps+ some month so I think it was PS4. I had a lot of fun with it for a few weeks but it was hard to find pubbies to play with. I mostly played with my friends that we could invite to games.
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Helldivers? I think? It was good Big fan of meta maps. I wish there was a good fantasy RTS with a meta map, but the closest thing to it is TW:WH which, frankly, is a very very good game.
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Yeah that was it. Helldivers. I liked it but it was actually a pretty hard game. To me at least.
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for just the slightest moment there i thought another human being had heard of Re-Loaded
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JollyBoyJohn posted:for just the slightest moment there i thought another human being had heard of Re-Loaded You mean the sequel to Loaded
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Yeah that was it. Helldivers. I liked it but it was actually a pretty hard game. To me at least. The part I liked the most even though it was a pain in the rear end was trying to remember the correct directional input for whatever particular support power I was calling in. It doesn't seem hard until you are in the middle of a frantic fight and have to do it in a half second or you die. That game was a lot of fun and turned into a stealth game at higher levels much to my surprise. Getting insta killed by dropships, drop pods, and equipment call ins was always funny.
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They should do a modern Syphon Filter game with the MGSV engine. I wanna tase. I mean cmon lmao: https://youtu.be/N3fZhbMXqk0 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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i finally found her again, the greatest npc in final fantasy 9
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JollyBoyJohn posted:for just the slightest moment there i thought another human being had heard of Re-Loaded ILOVEMYTEDDY Obviously, and I imagine somewhat boringly, I was obsessed with loaded and reloaded. I would draw Cap'n hands on all my school work, despite Bounca being my favourite because I thought his design was so cool. Im utterly poo poo at drawing so you wouldn't know, but I drew The Consumer once and it somehow came out really good, and my teacher asked me to stay behind. I thought I was in trouble because her design is quite risque for a tween, but it was actually to compliment me on improving. That teacher was normally super cold, I think maybe she was worried about my mental health in retrospect. (Which was actually utterly hosed at the time, so, fair). The music from both play in my head, if not daily then certainly weekly. Games where you have distinct asymmetric characters that work together (like the chaos engine, diablo, most MMOs) trigger something in me, to do with having a favourite character? I can't really describe it. Luckily in most stuff the character design is poo poo, but when it's good I get all obsessive. I hadn't really engaged with the obsession for a while, I'm definitely off down that rabbit hole again for a bit.
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Unpopular Videogame Opinions: no this game sucks
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jokes posted:Unpopular Videogame Opinions: no this game sucks iirc her answer to that is "well go buy another one!" so grandma is 100% a goon
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I used to love videogame magazines so I have a passing familiarity with loads of old games. I love that I grew up reading gaming mags, even if I played only like 4 games a year. I also have that feeling of having all these memories of weird games that come only from screenshots/reviews/features/guides. I’d memorize the guides to games I never ended up playing, JUST IN CASE. One of the games I wish I could actually play for real is Irritating Stick. It looked bizarre but really fun. I actually have a little experience with Mr Domino since it came on a demo disc I had
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giogadi posted:One of the games I wish I could actually play for real is Irritating Stick. It looked bizarre but really fun. I actually have a little experience with Mr Domino since it came on a demo disc I had Do you mean "not in a videogame"? Because it was a segment on a Japanese comedy show that they turned into a videogame. Otherwise, it's right there for the PS1 and N64 and IIRC there's a PS2 sequel. Just play it (it's infamously awful).
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Haha right, by “for real” I meant on ps1, haha. Aw man even if it’s bad I’d give it a shot
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giogadi posted:Haha right, by “for real” I meant on ps1, haha. Aw man even if it’s bad I’d give it a shot There was an arcade version too, because of course there was, going by Irritating Maze. Looking at the flyer for it, there were startling lights and jumpscare noises, as well as blasts of air on the player when a wall was touched. I know it's in MAME. Wanna hook up my makeshift cabinet to relay controlled airhorns to make me poo poo myself in fear when i fail at video game 
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I can't remember the name but there was that top down shooter where it was basically 4 of you that would land on an alien planet and the out of game meta part was the more missions done worldwide the more you'd push back the aliens until one side ended. It was free on ps+ some month so I think it was PS4. I had a lot of fun with it for a few weeks but it was hard to find pubbies to play with. I mostly played with my friends that we could invite to games. This reminded me of an old game I used to play back in the days of the dial-up internet days on the SOE network called Infantry Online. It turns out that people are still running free servers for it: http://www.freeinfantry.com/ It's been so long though I don't know how accurate it is to the original.
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