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Nice Van My Man posted:My dad never played any games but then got really into Warcraft 2 and Starcraft and would just play the single player for hours. Never played the multiplayer. Warcraft 3 came out and he thought it sucked and it broke his addiction. He was right IMO. Warcraft single player was a big disappointment after how fun Warcraft 2 and Starcrafts were for sure, too many guide the hero through the maze with a couple units levels and loot and gently caress you I just want Warcraft 2 ancient RTS gameplay with better graphics dammit
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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is still the pinnacle of RTS gaming, its campaign is a gold standard that makes its own expansions feel like lovely knock offs. Buy all your dads a gift, is what I'm saying.
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Mar 16, 2023 23:46
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my dad has a 3070 while i'm still on a 1050ti, he can buy me a gift
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Mar 16, 2023 23:48
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I kinda wanna play a competitive RTS but I don't even know what's big these days, is it still Starcraft 2 or are there other options?
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Mar 16, 2023 23:50
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AOE2: DE is pretty active, and also a good game. edit: and currently on sale on steam.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:00
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There's still big SC2 tournaments but it seems like that genre is getting more niche since it doesn't fit the typical AAA/esports or long term games with in game purchases like fortnite, roblox or genshin.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:01
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You want competitive action per minutes poo poo? Moba's and FPS games are better for that. You want to be a big brained strategic genius? Turn based games and 4x games are better for that. I liked them and still have fun playing them but it's hard to imagine them ever being a big "thing" again
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You definitely don't need to like football to like Sensible Soccer. Most people of a certain age range still consider it the best SPÅRT BÅLL computer video game of all time. Yeah, so true. Also, for some reason you saying this reminded me that Speedball 2 existed, which was oddly similar, thinking about it. I wanna play Speedball now.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:10
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My dad was apparently really into Pac Man in the 80s but nothing much outside of that. I had I believe one of the NBA2k games on Dreamcast and made a custom team full of maxed out height players and challenged my dad a few times and always destroyed him, but he was always a good sport about it. I also remember playing Ready 2 Rumble with my grandparents once randomly and my grandma actually had a good time. I had one of the Tiger Woods games on GameCube and my dad got SUPER into it and basically 100% it with his custom character.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:12
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I could tolerate the hentai but now Steam is showing me straight up racist poo poo (Elden Bling) now
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Mar 17, 2023 00:35
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!Klams posted:Yeah, so true. Also, for some reason you saying this reminded me that Speedball 2 existed, which was oddly similar, thinking about it. Speedball 2 loving rules and it's incredible that there hasn't been anything better in the genre in 33 years. Deathrow is the only game that even came close and that came out over 20 years ago. They did that horrible Speedball 2 remake on the 360 and oh god it loving sucked so hard. Thankfully it included classic mode so you could play the good version.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:47
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PinheadSlim posted:Oooh this brought back a funny memory. what the gently caress kind of gorilla do you have in your family tree that your little kid brother could shatter a guddamn n64 controller
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Mar 17, 2023 01:54
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Serephina posted:Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is still the pinnacle of RTS gaming, its campaign is a gold standard that makes its own expansions feel like lovely knock offs. It wasn't the best RTS ever but I did really like the Wings of Liberty campaign The coop multiplayer mode has the same level of care, they put some real thought into the commanders and most of the maps are really fun. Or at least they were fun 2 years ago when I was playing, no idea what it's like now. One of the commanders was a short little lizard who you could control like a Warcraft 3 hero, but every time he leveled he got bigger so by the time you hit the level cap he was basically Godzilla stomping around spraying fire breath on everything. He could also eat enemy units like a Yoshi
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Mar 17, 2023 01:55
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Fur20 posted:what the gently caress kind of gorilla do you have in your family tree that your little kid brother could shatter a guddamn n64 controller He's the short one for our family (as far as the men are concerned) at 6'2 so lol yeah
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Mar 17, 2023 01:57
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Wario is better than Mario because Mario is a sexless weirdo while Wario definitely fucks, dude spends every day slamming rear end all across town Also unlike Mario, Wario would never trick his brother into becoming a professional housecleaner
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Mar 17, 2023 08:25
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Who does wario gently caress? The toadstool people? I don't see any female warios running around
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Mar 17, 2023 08:36
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Devils Affricate posted:Who does wario gently caress? The toadstool people? I don't see any female warios running around Waluigi obviously also Birdo
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Mar 17, 2023 08:39
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Devils Affricate posted:Who does wario gently caress? The toadstool people? I don't see any female warios running around Weach.
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Mar 17, 2023 08:42
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I don't think it's established who 9-Volt's dad is in the Warioware series, but his mother is single and Wario is always kinda around so you do the math. Edit: According to the Wario fandom wiki, Mona has a crush on him "due to his nose for treasure and money." Apparently sometimes she even dresses like him. She's also a high schooler so... yeah. Redezga fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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!Klams posted:Yeah, so true. Also, for some reason you saying this reminded me that Speedball 2 existed Sadly John Belushi never go to experience the sequel.
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Mar 17, 2023 09:22
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Devils Affricate posted:Who does wario gently caress? The toadstool people? I don't see any female warios running around samus
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Gwely Mernans posted:My dad was apparently really into Pac Man in the 80s but nothing much outside of that. I had I believe one of the NBA2k games on Dreamcast and made a custom team full of maxed out height players and challenged my dad a few times and always destroyed him, but he was always a good sport about it. I also remember playing Ready 2 Rumble with my grandparents once randomly and my grandma actually had a good time. My dad used to be one of those "em viddyo gams make ppl violent" sorts but later discovered RTSes and got hooked on them. He likes playing Starcraft, AoE, and AoM the most. He also likes the occasional dose of classic gaming from out of the 80s and 90s.
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Mar 17, 2023 09:34
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Captain Syrup. Their battles in Wario land 1 and 2 are all just elaborate role play scenarios
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Mar 17, 2023 12:05
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The Mega Buster ruined Megaman. It caused runaway health inflation that screwed up the finely tuned gameplay. Either making everything take too long or too fast, with the added caveat of having to hold down the charge button literally the entire game because there is no reason to ever not have a full charge whenever possible. It's no surprise 1-3 and 9 are so much better and beloved than the rest of the Classic Series.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Sadly John Belushi never go to experience the sequel. John Belushi never got to experience Final Fantasy X and that's a tragedy
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Mar 18, 2023 08:07
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jokes posted:John Belushi never got to experience Final Fantasy X and that's a tragedy Lighting a candle tonight so Belushi might experience the KH1 intro before the abyss takes him
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He got a prophetic look at what passes for jokes in 2023 and poo poo stopped his heart faster than any speedball.
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Mar 18, 2023 08:18
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John Belushi was shown anime for the first time 2 days before he died
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galagazombie posted:The Mega Buster ruined Megaman. It caused runaway health inflation that screwed up the finely tuned gameplay. Either making everything take too long or too fast, with the added caveat of having to hold down the charge button literally the entire game because there is no reason to ever not have a full charge whenever possible. It's no surprise 1-3 and 9 are so much better and beloved than the rest of the Classic Series. If you are going to have a charge beam in your game, it should auto-charge when you aren’t firing like that pistol Samus has at the end of Zero Mission. It shouldn’t make any sound while charging, but it could have a small sound effect or rumble to tell you when it’s fully charged. Holding down the shoot button would rapid fire. At least Mega Man X let you charge all your weapons, not just the mega buster (or X buster?). You want players to actually use all the weapons you put in the game instead of having the default one be the best option in most scenarios
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mega man x screwed up by having all the special weapon charge attacks suck rear end though
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John Belushi would probably still be alive today if his cousin Marvin Belushi had called him excitedly about hearing Simple & Clean by Hikaru Utada instead of New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones by FEAR.
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Serephina posted:Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is still the pinnacle of RTS gaming, its campaign is a gold standard that makes its own expansions feel like lovely knock offs. I hate to nit-pick but you are wrong here on a technicality Wings of Liberty was brilliant at the time and is the best single player campaign of the three SC2 campaigns. Legacy of the void, the 3rd expansion changed the multiplayer by starting you off with 12 workers instead of 6. It completely changed the pace of the game. Starcraft 2 is still the best multiplayer RTS there is, I could never really get into Brood War although I was too young to really grasp what the game wanted at the time, Warcraft 3 is a fantastic game but again I just didn't ever try to learn how to play it I'd just go Archmage mass sniper every single game - I could only win with Humans. Stormgate has got a lot of promise and will hopefully be worth the wait but SC2 is still a fantastic game
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I hate to nit-pick but you are wrong here on a technicality Oh I'll argue with you on this one! I mean yes I was referring to the single player, Wings of Liberty is such a *chefs kiss* accomplishment. And sc2 multi is currently much better than any WoL patch, for sure. But starting with 12 workers and extra supply? Them's fightin' words. At the price of speeding up the game by just over a minute, it cuts out almost the entire early game! There's a lot of variation of early pools, rax-first etc, but even without super aggressive builds the minute-long skip removes any ability to get across the map and interact with your opponent before economies really take off. What if you wanted to scout on 10? Nope! Send a fast zealot to muck up their wallin? Nope! So on so forth.
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I love the single player campaigns of WC3 and SC2. I've never played the multiplayer, I never got into WoW, but I think Blizzard tells a really fun story with both of those games
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That's not true, I got WAY into the WC3 multiplayer but it was all custom Lord of the Rings maps.
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Age of Empires 2's 10 minutes of nothing at the beginning is an awful component of its multiplayer games and the defenses of it are really laughable like "well, the commentators get to spend 10 minutes talking about both players". I know there's like a 1% chance someone could try dark age shenanigans, but it rarely happens among decent players.
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Don't need to reach for AoE for comparisons, Sc1 is still being played competitively with worker harass and zealot+probe pressure. Sc2 itself had a lot of one-base play before LotV, so we don't even need to dip into the hypothetical: the LotV changes came at a real, discernable cost. I don't like it.
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is it just me or is the epic games launcher suddenly starting up a lot quicker for anyone else? that poo poo used to take like almost 2 mins to properly open and show my library but after an update yesterday it opens almost as quickly as steam. might actually play some of the free games now it's less of a pain in the bum.
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Wings of Liberty may be good but it easily takes the crown for laziest most clichéd title and I can't believe they didn't beat the guy who came up with it with a sack of oranges
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:Wings of Liberty may be good but it easily takes the crown for laziest most clichéd title and I can't believe they didn't beat the guy who came up with it with a sack of oranges IDK stuff like Dungeon Hack and Dungeon Siege had equally lame and cliched titles but Dungeon Siege 2 was at least one of the high watermarks of the ARPG genre of its time I'm still salty that the series is dead.
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