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Title: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on August 24, 2011, 06:45:25 AM
If you could name a video game that influienced you in any way, like changed your perspective over something or taught you something what would that be?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Calavera on August 24, 2011, 06:49:51 AM
Guess.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ProfessorFarnsworth on August 24, 2011, 06:50:01 AM
That is a tough one because every game I've ever played had left a tiny impact to influence my life.

But I guess I must say Sonic The Hedgehog, on the count that I was obsessed about that for years as a kid.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Al Swearegen on August 24, 2011, 07:21:37 AM
I would say Spece invaders because during sex I like to invade spaces.
No I have no idea at all. Influenced by video games?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 24, 2011, 07:26:36 AM
 Pac-Man, though I've never played it.  He and Ms. Pac-Man appreciate their food!  :autism:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on August 24, 2011, 08:05:03 AM
Guess.

Grim Fandango?:)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 24, 2011, 09:07:48 AM
Guess.

hola manuel

/

for me, this game:
(http://theopinionatedgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fallout_2.jpg)
it has inspired many a little turn and twist in my writings
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Calavera on August 24, 2011, 09:08:40 AM
Guess.

Grim Fandango?:)

Well done. Have some karma.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Calavera on August 24, 2011, 09:11:01 AM
Guess.

hola manuel

/

for me, this game:
(http://theopinionatedgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fallout_2.jpg)
it has inspired many a little turn and twist in my writings

Sounds like a simple fun game.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 24, 2011, 09:13:33 AM
Games are fun and I love gaming in my spare time.  No game has ever changed my life or influenced me in any way.  I read books for that kind of thing.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 24, 2011, 09:55:36 AM
I believe the Mario games influenced me the most.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 24, 2011, 10:21:41 AM
Guess.

hola manuel

/

for me, this game:
(http://theopinionatedgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fallout_2.jpg)
it has inspired many a little turn and twist in my writings

Sounds like a simple fun game.

as a person whos favorite games are:
grim fandango
and
fallout 2

ill strongly recommend fallout to you :D
(that image is from fallout 2, which i prefer to fallout 1, cus it simply is bigger, in scope)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on August 24, 2011, 10:50:06 AM
Oblivion was the game that got me back into playing games after not having played much for a good few years.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on August 24, 2011, 11:10:51 AM
Guess.

Grim Fandango?:)

Well done. Have some karma.

Thank you!
And to the posts bellow, I also like Fallout 2, not only because it's bigger, but also because it doesn't have that fucked up
bugs from the first one, like the one that restarted the main quest.
And I also like Fallout NV more than Fallout 3. It seems bigger and more varied.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 24, 2011, 11:43:47 AM
Oblivion was the game that got me back into playing games after not having played much for a good few years.

i just started a new game
AND
listening to this, as i type:
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - Atmosphere 9 (music) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCgHFbjeUQ#)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 24, 2011, 01:09:43 PM
Oblivion is probably the best game I have ever played.  I have high hopes for Skyrim.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on August 24, 2011, 01:21:47 PM
(http://www.onpsx.net/uploads/mediapool/pics/mortalkombat.jpg)

 :zoinks:

Not really , It was probably Crash Bandicoot 2 , that was the first game I ever played. :laugh:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: TA on August 24, 2011, 01:59:20 PM
Oblivion is probably the best game I have ever played.  I have high hopes for Skyrim.

^What he said.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 24, 2011, 02:13:25 PM
(http://www.onpsx.net/uploads/mediapool/pics/mortalkombat.jpg)

 :zoinks:

Not really , It was probably Crash Bandicoot 2 , that was the first game I ever played. :laugh:

my mother, altho otherwise lenient, didnt allow mortal combat in our house :D
at first :D
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on August 24, 2011, 05:46:27 PM
I cant wait for Skyrim either.

11.11.11 I'll be on Pirate Bay first thing in the morning, waiting for the first upload. I just hope my computer can play it, and I dont need tobuy a new one.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 24, 2011, 06:08:17 PM
I cant wait for Skyrim either.

11.11.11 I'll be on Pirate Bay first thing in the morning, waiting for the first upload. I just hope my computer can play it, and I dont need tobuy a new one.

I'd be, too, if there was the possibility of having trucks and guns. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on August 24, 2011, 06:38:15 PM
(http://www.onpsx.net/uploads/mediapool/pics/mortalkombat.jpg)

 :zoinks:

Not really , It was probably Crash Bandicoot 2 , that was the first game I ever played. :laugh:

my mother, altho otherwise lenient, didnt allow mortal combat in our house :D
at first :D

Oh she would have had a fit at that version trust me , I'm not really shocked by video game violence , but there are certain fatalities that make me gag slightly.

This being one :zoinks:

MK9 Kabal "It Takes Guts" Fatality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS69CjM7P3Q#ws)

Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 24, 2011, 06:51:19 PM
Mortal Kombat = :yawn:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on August 24, 2011, 06:57:03 PM
Mortal Kombat = :yawn:

There's lots of half naked women if you don't like the gameplay.  :P

Personally I quite like it , I like the ridiculousness of it , logical games like fallout and etc never really held much interest for me.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 24, 2011, 09:15:29 PM
Great question!

I probably played EA Sports NHL Hockey for Sega Genesis the most. I bought every version each year, but probably played 93 and 94 the most.

Really old school was Yar's Revenge on the Atari 2600.

A little later was Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text-based game for my Commodore 64.

In the arcade I mostly played Tron and Mrs. Pac-Man (fast version) as I got the most for my money and could go very far. I also played a lot of Dragon's Lair and Afterburner.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 24, 2011, 09:51:03 PM
Mortal Kombat = :yawn:

There's lots of half naked women if you don't like the gameplay.  :P

Personally I quite like it , I like the ridiculousness of it , logical games like fallout and etc never really held much interest for me.

I was never much for fighting games. I have the hand-eye coordination of a turtle. :dunno:

Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: renaeden on August 25, 2011, 05:19:03 AM
^So do I.

Star Trek Elite Force was the first game I ever finished and I was pretty happy about that.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on August 25, 2011, 05:38:39 AM
Lemmings. Horribly addictive.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Icequeen on August 25, 2011, 07:00:07 AM
Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Conker's Bad Fur Day (Gregg the Grim Reaper) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7xu3Rd8dYQ#)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Parts on August 25, 2011, 08:23:15 AM
I am of pure soul unaffected by video games :M
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on August 25, 2011, 08:31:42 AM
Mortal Kombat = :yawn:

There's lots of half naked women if you don't like the gameplay.  :P

Personally I quite like it , I like the ridiculousness of it , logical games like fallout and etc never really held much interest for me.

I was never much for fighting games. I have the hand-eye coordination of a turtle. :dunno:

Honestly?

So do I. :laugh:

I prefer MK to say street fighter , the controls are easier and you don't end up with blisters all over your hands for mashing the buttons rapidly.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 25, 2011, 09:50:45 AM
games like Tekken i notice the "combos" are "guessable" often, you have to think "systems"

noobs often click the controls furiously and randomly,
instead, try to randomize a system into it, such as pressing buttons back and forth, up and down,
nothing is more hilarious than when your opponent _knows_ you dont play that game, and still you beat the shit out of him with noob-luck-combo after noob-luck-combo  8)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on August 25, 2011, 01:09:18 PM
It is curious that no one mentioned games like "Planescape torment" or "Pathologic" or "the void".
They're weird.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Pyraxis on August 27, 2011, 12:53:12 PM
I only played the first little bit of Planescape, though it was enough to see that the story was as good as people say. Couldn't get into it more because I had too much going on IRL.

BTW congrats on 10 posts, now you get to see the rest of the board.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Peter on August 29, 2011, 02:41:57 AM
I've only played a bit of Planescape: Torment too, also because I've been too busy with other things to devote more time to it.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on August 29, 2011, 03:24:36 AM
I dont think that video games influenced me. I think the video games I like are because of my personality. That being said, Grand Theft Auto 3 is the greatest game of all time) I also like the Final Fantasy series and The Sims and Sim City. I guess these 3 games have been a reflection of my tastes. Oh, and I used the play Playboy: The Mansion all of the time. It's like The Sims with titties.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on August 29, 2011, 03:46:06 AM
Simcity is good, but I found Simcity 4 onwards to be shit. I didn't like Sims 3 either, dumbed down and bogged with EA money making schemes.

One I'm currently really enjoying is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Really like the art style and it's quite challenging for a modern game (most have been dumbed down to shit as of late). You can't go in guns blazing since it deliberately gives you fuck all ammo, so it forces you to use stealth and other creative methods. If you don't, you WILL die a lot even on easy. I don't like the regenerating console-twat health system though, although in all fairness the regeneration is quite slow and doesn't retract on the gameplay much. I will however consider Deus Ex 1 to be better when it comes to story.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Peter on August 29, 2011, 04:12:04 AM
Battlezone (1998), Urban Assault and Imperium Galactica have stuck in my mind over the years.  They all have serious flaws as games, but something about them just feels right to me, and I loved playing them when I first got them.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 29, 2011, 08:08:39 PM
Simcity is good, but I found Simcity 4 onwards to be shit. I didn't like Sims 3 either, dumbed down and bogged with EA money making schemes.


1. You've obviously never played Simcity 4 with mods (especially the NAM). Cannot be topped.

2. I think the entire Sims franchise is an incredibly shallow piece of shit to begin with.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 30, 2011, 01:57:04 AM
None influenced me, as they weren't around until I was about 17-18. I do howver play heaps, things like Buffy (Chaos Bleeds), Ratchet & Clank, Burnout series etc.

The one I've been playing most, as you can tell by my posts in some threads, is Canis Canem Edit, or Bully. I have the PS/2 version, and don't really need the Scholarship Edition (doesn't exist for PS/2 anyway so ha) but I'm having shitloads of fun with this one. You can even have lots of fun once you complete all 100% of the game, just by mucking around in freeplay.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 30, 2011, 02:49:47 AM
oh great, an hour of oblivion gaming lost to fail to save  ::)
*load autosave, error, save game corrupt [ok]
:'(
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 30, 2011, 02:58:13 AM
oh great, an hour of oblivion gaming lost to fail to save  ::)
*load autosave, error, save game corrupt [ok]
:'(

Bummer. Bully has only manual save at 6 points on the map (General Office, Boy's dorm, Basement Comic Store, Old beach-house, Blue-balls Pool Hall and factory next to Spencer Shipping). The Ratchet and Clanks have autosave at certain points, but if you load a game from the last save, you at where you last left your ship. The only save points in Buffy are at the end of each level. Makes it a pain when the game crashes at the boss area.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on August 30, 2011, 06:46:25 AM
1. You've obviously never played Simcity 4 with mods (especially the NAM). Cannot be topped.

2. I think the entire Sims franchise is an incredibly shallow piece of shit to begin with.

Simcity 4 was the same old shit with awkward bits bolted onto it (such as allowing your sims to live in it etc.) I was also annoyed that certain features such as automatically putting down lanes when zoning and so on, meaning any sort of half decent zoning strategies were thrown out of the window. If mods are needed to make it great, then I'm sorry that's not a good excuse for me.

Sims 1 was pretty good and Sims 2 is alright too despite EA really milking the fuck out of it with useless expansion packs. The issue is that they play on vanity since most players of Sims are female. Sims 3 really annoys me because they're making one pay for individual items AND expansion packs, along with EA's paranoid measures of anti-piracy.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on August 30, 2011, 12:46:04 PM
Loved the SimCitys. Cities XL could be as good, but it just gets sooo slow by the time your city gets to a half decent size. The Tropico series is quite good, but the tiny population cap makes me want to scream. Still, Im downloading Tropico 4 at the moment.

Never really liked The Sims though. Dont think Ive played Sims 3, but didny like the ones I played. The only bit I really liked was building the house.

The Movies has a few similarities to the Sims, and I quite like it, although only in small doses.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 30, 2011, 12:52:40 PM
1. You've obviously never played Simcity 4 with mods (especially the NAM). Cannot be topped.

2. I think the entire Sims franchise is an incredibly shallow piece of shit to begin with.

Simcity 4 was the same old shit with awkward bits bolted onto it (such as allowing your sims to live in it etc.) I was also annoyed that certain features such as automatically putting down lanes when zoning and so on, meaning any sort of half decent zoning strategies were thrown out of the window. If mods are needed to make it great, then I'm sorry that's not a good excuse for me.

Sims 1 was pretty good and Sims 2 is alright too despite EA really milking the fuck out of it with useless expansion packs. The issue is that they play on vanity since most players of Sims are female. Sims 3 really annoys me because they're making one pay for individual items AND expansion packs, along with EA's paranoid measures of anti-piracy.

If it weren't for the mods, SC4 would not really be worth playing at all. Maxis really did fuck it up with their idealistic bullshit (like having rich sims live in ghettos, hospitals in every corner, sims being extremely picky about their "commute times", this and that) and EA with their corporate horseshit (rushing the development, dropping the support after a few patches and an expansion pack), at LEAST they left it mod-able. Unlike any of the other SimCity games. So it can be half-way playable... half-way is only good enough because there are no other viable options at the moment. Nope, the city sim genre pretty much died after SimCity Societies.

As for the Sims... it just plain sucks. It's more of a poorly made digital dollhouse than a game or life simulation. The game is always advertised with the notion that you can build your dream house and you can have a bunch of Sims come over and party or something. Ironically enough, the parties always end up as a bunch of 1-on-1 sim conversations and a few other sims just dancing in weird places (like in the kitchen or bathroom when the radio is in the living room). Or they go play that computer in the bedroom without asking anyone or anything. I've seen a woman (in the Sims 3) walk into a library with an infant. She was nursing it, and then she just lays the baby on the floor and goes to read a book. (Which made me laugh out loud) So much for "Artificial Intelligence"... That's only part of the criticism I have for the Sims series.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 30, 2011, 01:24:52 PM
Quote
If it weren't for the mods, SC4 would not really be worth playing at all. Maxis really did fuck it up with their idealistic bullshit (like having rich sims live in ghettos, hospitals in every corner, sims being extremely picky about their "commute times", this and that)
qft...
without a good old money cheat, i find SC4 to be a complete waste of time.
like a "game" where your supposed to stare boredly and frustratedly at the screen, untill you decide to watch tv instead or something.
if it wasnt for fans and modding communities SC4 would be complete garbage, mods make the entire difference.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 30, 2011, 08:57:51 PM
The only 'mods' I used were different .wad files for DooM and the cheats for such. Games where you needed expansions and patches to run them are pointless, as you want sim(pli)city (excuse the pun) when playing them.

I'd rather a game where you just insert the disc into the console, or click on the icon to run the thing without all the hassle.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on August 30, 2011, 09:06:45 PM

Sims 1 was pretty good and Sims 2 is alright too despite EA really milking the fuck out of it with useless expansion packs. The issue is that they play on vanity since most players of Sims are female. Sims 3 really annoys me because they're making one pay for individual items AND expansion packs, along with EA's paranoid measures of anti-piracy.

The first Sims for Playstation 2 is my favorite of the series I think. I liked 2 as well, and some of the expansions made really good individual games for PS2. I have Castaway and Pets on PS2 and I love them both. The console games are quite different than the PC version. I havent played 3 yet. I dont really play video games that much anymore

It's more of a poorly made digital dollhouse than a game or life simulation.


Agreed. But I like to play with dolls. Especially if you can kill them and make them walk around naked. I also like to make them puke for some reason. IDK. And I like to fuck up their houses too, and make them live in filth and be really unhappy and get into fistfights. And get rid of all the doors and burn the house down, etc. It's cute how if you kiss twice in a row you have a baby. Mine always get taken away by the social worker  because I listen to music too loud and cant hear it crying.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 30, 2011, 09:24:55 PM
Video games, what are they?

I was influenced by playing cards, scrabble and jigsaw puzzles.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on August 30, 2011, 09:52:45 PM
The only 'mods' I used were different .wad files for DooM and the cheats for such. Games where you needed expansions and patches to run them are pointless, as you want sim(pli)city (excuse the pun) when playing them.

I'd rather a game where you just insert the disc into the console, or click on the icon to run the thing without all the hassle.

I have to agree with you on that. If a mod isn't a simple copy-and-paste or install, I'm probably not going to bother. I probably would have played Oblivion a lot more than just a few minutes, were the mods that were needed to make it a half-decent game not so large and tricky to install.

If I want my fantasy fix, then I'm playing Gauntlet IV on the Sega Genesis. If I want my FPS fix, I'm playing Duke Nukem 3D or Quake.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 31, 2011, 12:58:05 AM
The only 'mods' I used were different .wad files for DooM and the cheats for such. Games where you needed expansions and patches to run them are pointless, as you want sim(pli)city (excuse the pun) when playing them.

I'd rather a game where you just insert the disc into the console, or click on the icon to run the thing without all the hassle.

I have to agree with you on that. If a mod isn't a simple copy-and-paste or install, I'm probably not going to bother. I probably would have played Oblivion a lot more than just a few minutes, were the mods that were needed to make it a half-decent game not so large and tricky to install.

If I want my fantasy fix, then I'm playing Gauntlet IV on the Sega Genesis. If I want my FPS fix, I'm playing Duke Nukem 3D or Quake.

Might check out the specs again on the new Duke Nukem, to see if we can run it. Can't remember what we have in the box atm, but I'll do a look-see.

Loved the original DN 3D which I ran in DOS. Humour was brilliant, and kicking the badass on the spaceship levels was a scream.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 31, 2011, 09:32:17 AM
Video games, what are they?

I was influenced by playing cards, scrabble and jigsaw puzzles.

no yatzee!? :O
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 31, 2011, 10:35:14 AM
Video games, what are they?

I was influenced by playing cards, scrabble and jigsaw puzzles.

no yatzee!? :O

Nozee.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on August 31, 2011, 11:40:40 AM
Video games, what are they?

I was influenced by playing cards, scrabble and jigsaw puzzles.

no yatzee!? :O

Nozee.

ludo!? :O
(http://www.mastersgames.com/images/board/ludo-colour-1.jpg)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 31, 2011, 02:19:48 PM
Those were the games that we played most.  We did do Parchesi, jacks, Life, Checkers, etc.  The card games we played most were Battle, Jacks and Gin Rummy.  Bear in mind we were kids under 12, so no heavy betting.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on August 31, 2011, 02:34:45 PM
Those games are only fun if there's more than one person. The good thing about computer games is that they are fun to play by yourself.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on August 31, 2011, 02:37:47 PM
Those were the games that we played most.  We did do Parchesi, jacks, Life, Checkers, etc.  The card games we played most were Battle, Jacks and Gin Rummy.  Bear in mind we were kids under 12, so no heavy betting.

I really dont like card games. But I used to play them like constantly back in high school because that is what my friends did. So, we sat around drinking malt liquor smoking blunts playing spades. boring !
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 31, 2011, 06:24:28 PM
Video games, what are they?

I was influenced by playing cards, scrabble and jigsaw puzzles.

no yatzee!? :O

Nozee.

ludo!? :O
(http://www.mastersgames.com/images/board/ludo-colour-1.jpg)

(http://www.kiddinx-unternehmen.de/en/images/maedn_produkte_05.jpg)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ProfessorFarnsworth on September 01, 2011, 06:37:59 PM
Simcity is good, but I found Simcity 4 onwards to be shit. I didn't like Sims 3 either, dumbed down and bogged with EA money making schemes.

One I'm currently really enjoying is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Really like the art style and it's quite challenging for a modern game (most have been dumbed down to shit as of late). You can't go in guns blazing since it deliberately gives you fuck all ammo, so it forces you to use stealth and other creative methods. If you don't, you WILL die a lot even on easy. I don't like the regenerating console-twat health system though, although in all fairness the regeneration is quite slow and doesn't retract on the gameplay much. I will however consider Deus Ex 1 to be better when it comes to story.

heh, I just bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution because of what you said. It sounds like my type of game. :)

Also bought Brink for the sake of it and hope it's any good.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on September 01, 2011, 06:48:03 PM
Also bought Brink for the sake of it and hope it's any good.

A friend of mine bought that and absolutely hated it after raving on about how much he wanted it and lectured me into buying it (I didnt in the end).

So don't get your hopes up. :laugh:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ProfessorFarnsworth on September 01, 2011, 06:53:04 PM
Also bought Brink for the sake of it and hope it's any good.

A friend of mine bought that and absolutely hated it after raving on about how much he wanted it and lectured me into buying it (I didnt in the end).

So don't get your hopes up. :laugh:

Eh, I like to gamble sometimes when buying games, so that's no problem. :orly:

Usually I leave shit games on the back burner for when I'm desperate.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 01, 2011, 06:58:34 PM
If it's a game I'm unsure of, I'll torrent it first and see what it's like. If I like it, I'll then buy it.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 01, 2011, 07:19:48 PM
If it's a game I'm unsure of, I'll torrent it first and see what it's like. If I like it, I'll then buy it.

Whats the point of buying it, if you've already got it?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 01, 2011, 07:22:48 PM
If it's a game I'm unsure of, I'll torrent it first and see what it's like. If I like it, I'll then buy it.

Whats the point of buying it, if you've already got it?

its often slightly easyer to "deal" w your game, if it is legally bought, such as patching it and such.
i remember my civilization game would often try to automatically patch itself whenever i attempted online gaming, which would simply render the game unplayable (cus it somehow fucked w the exe file to run the game itself)

i guess some also want the cover and booklet etc.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ProfessorFarnsworth on September 01, 2011, 07:28:44 PM
If it's a game I'm unsure of, I'll torrent it first and see what it's like. If I like it, I'll then buy it.

Whats the point of buying it, if you've already got it?

To support the developers and promote a trend of better quality games would be my reason. That is why I refused to buy games with invasive DRM, I only tolerate Steam because I can easily backup/restore my games with it and it auto-updates everything.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 01, 2011, 07:36:38 PM
I won't be buying video games anymore. Or even pirating them for that matter. I'm gonna be a retro-gaming fag and just huddle with my MAME romset (and an Xbox 360 wired controller, ironically) from now on. :autism:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 01, 2011, 07:47:08 PM
I won't be buying video games anymore. Or even pirating them for that matter. I'm gonna be a retro-gaming fag and just huddle with my MAME romset (and an Xbox 360 wired controller, ironically) from now on. :autism:

I had a MAME program and some roms, but since they ugraded the computer, they either didn't connect the drive they were on or made the files inaccesible for some fucking reason. Tried downloading a newer MAME version, but have no roms and no idea how to run the thing.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 01, 2011, 07:54:34 PM
If it's a game I'm unsure of, I'll torrent it first and see what it's like. If I like it, I'll then buy it.

Whats the point of buying it, if you've already got it?

Well if I just used cracked versions then:

- most likely no multiplayer support, which is important to me since me and my friends play together a lot
- no patches, any attempt will mean losing any cracks applied
- no support
- possible bugs caused by cracks (sims 2 comes to mind, no-cd crack disables house building)

I try and buy my games from steam as much as possible, because it's one of the few places that doesn't treat you like some thief. You can download them as much as you like and play them on as many computers as you like once they've steam installed. No need for fiddly DVDs or any sort of stupid anti-piracy checks. The save sync and auto-updates are quite handy too, but only if you have a decent connection.

The only criticisms of steam is the awkward offline mode and it's insistence to auto-patch before playing. It's also pretty useless if you don't have a decent connection with a decent download limit, but then again what is useful with such a connection?

EA really pisses me off because of their tactics when it comes to PC games. Due to companies like them, it's no wonder why piracy is high and PC gaming is slowly dying outside sources like steam.

When it comes to other software, I have no problems torrenting and not buying, especially when it comes to programs like Photoshop. They're fucking expensive otherwise.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 01, 2011, 08:05:59 PM
I won't be buying video games anymore. Or even pirating them for that matter. I'm gonna be a retro-gaming fag and just huddle with my MAME romset (and an Xbox 360 wired controller, ironically) from now on. :autism:

I had a MAME program and some roms, but since they ugraded the computer, they either didn't connect the drive they were on or made the files inaccesible for some fucking reason. Tried downloading a newer MAME version, but have no roms and no idea how to run the thing.

Have you tried MAMEUI (formerly MAME32)?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 01, 2011, 09:38:25 PM
I won't be buying video games anymore. Or even pirating them for that matter. I'm gonna be a retro-gaming fag and just huddle with my MAME romset (and an Xbox 360 wired controller, ironically) from now on. :autism:

I had a MAME program and some roms, but since they ugraded the computer, they either didn't connect the drive they were on or made the files inaccesible for some fucking reason. Tried downloading a newer MAME version, but have no roms and no idea how to run the thing.

Have you tried MAMEUI (formerly MAME32)?

UI = User Interface, right? No, haven't tried that. The version we hyad running is MAME32, from at least a couple of years ago. Downloaded it with the roms using Limewire, and it worked really well.

Then the computer bit the dust in Cyclone Yasi, and had to be upgraded. The fuckers were meant to put everything back as it was, but instead put in another Primary drive, copied everything to e: drive and did something where we need admin access to recover the rest. The partitioned f: and g: drives are meant to be there, which had all the games and stuff, but the CMOS isn't showing them. Fucking computer repair places. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 01, 2011, 10:23:21 PM
I won't be buying video games anymore. Or even pirating them for that matter. I'm gonna be a retro-gaming fag and just huddle with my MAME romset (and an Xbox 360 wired controller, ironically) from now on. :autism:

I had a MAME program and some roms, but since they ugraded the computer, they either didn't connect the drive they were on or made the files inaccesible for some fucking reason. Tried downloading a newer MAME version, but have no roms and no idea how to run the thing.

Have you tried MAMEUI (formerly MAME32)?

UI = User Interface, right? No, haven't tried that. The version we hyad running is MAME32, from at least a couple of years ago. Downloaded it with the roms using Limewire, and it worked really well.

Then the computer bit the dust in Cyclone Yasi, and had to be upgraded. The fuckers were meant to put everything back as it was, but instead put in another Primary drive, copied everything to e: drive and did something where we need admin access to recover the rest. The partitioned f: and g: drives are meant to be there, which had all the games and stuff, but the CMOS isn't showing them. Fucking computer repair places. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Yep, user interface. It used to be called MAME32 but they changed the name to MAMEUI for some reason. It's pretty much the same, just browse through the list of games you have, it has filters and searches, etc.

I would recommend that you download the latest version of MAMEUI and then search for a torrent of a romset for the latest version of MAME itself (0.143 right now). 20 GB, but it's more than worth it IMO.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 02, 2011, 07:11:48 AM
@Schleed. Pirated games are usually easy to patch. It does mean that the original crack wont work, but its easy enough to download a crack that works with your upgrade from a site like Gamecopyworld.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 02, 2011, 06:39:31 PM
That's often fiddly, time consuming and a bit of a hit/miss affair. There is no absolute guarantee there will be a new crack when a patch comes out, and that has happened to me quite a few times. That's one of the main reasons why I started buying games again.

Even then I can't play multiplayer on most of them, regardless if they're patched up or not. As I said before, this is quite important to me since me and my friends do play online a lot.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Parts on September 02, 2011, 06:51:47 PM
Not influenced by it but the first one I remember playing was Breakout. It was in a bar my older brother took me to, he was supposed to be watching me sat me in front of it with a bunch of quarters and a Coke that was early 1977 I was 9 or 10
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 04, 2011, 10:31:56 PM
Just checked the specs on DN Forever, and it looks like we can run it. YAY. EB games has it reduced by $30, so I might get it in the next couple of days. Have a Logitech USB joystick that looks and works like a PS/2 one.

Might go searching for cheats.......
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 06, 2011, 11:04:28 PM
Just bought DN Forever. Fucking product codes!! AAARRRGGGHHH!

Tried registering with Steam, and the product code was invalid. Tried different sequences, and the same fucking thing. Had to swap the book and disk over. Now it's installing, and my Steam a/c is set up.

Hope I can use my joystick, cos I hate keyboard/mouse controls.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 06, 2011, 11:55:25 PM
Just bought DN Forever. Fucking product codes!! AAARRRGGGHHH!

Tried registering with Steam, and the product code was invalid. Tried different sequences, and the same fucking thing. Had to swap the book and disk over. Now it's installing, and my Steam a/c is set up.

Hope I can use my joystick, cos I hate keyboard/mouse controls.

An FPS is best played with WASD+mouse, you know. ::)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 07, 2011, 01:04:19 AM
Just bought DN Forever. Fucking product codes!! AAARRRGGGHHH!

Tried registering with Steam, and the product code was invalid. Tried different sequences, and the same fucking thing. Had to swap the book and disk over. Now it's installing, and my Steam a/c is set up.

Hope I can use my joystick, cos I hate keyboard/mouse controls.

An FPS is best played with WASD+mouse, you know. ::)

A+D aren't movement on this one. Fucking Microsloth. Need an Xbox 360 controller for Windows, as the dickheads didn't support a universal controller, such as Logitech.

Besides, keyboard/mouse are too fiddly, and quick movement results in death.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 07, 2011, 11:08:30 PM
Finally got DN Forever working. had to get an xbox 360 controller (sod Microsloth) but at least it works. Graphics are good, and it kicks ass like the old one. That cycloid was a bastard to kill, tho'.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 07, 2011, 11:53:14 PM
I thought the new one was a bit meh. Glad I didn't buy it, I hate paying for a game and finding out it's crap. Besides personally I think Serious Sam knocked him off the throne long ago, there's a fun game.

Skyrim looks interesting, although to be honest I wasn't too keen on Oblivion before that. Loved Morrowind though, felt there was more to do in it compared to Oblivion, along with better story.

As for Minecraft, I'll probably be addicted to it (again) when 1.8 comes out. The new features look interesting and it's turning more and more into an RPG - something I wanted to begin with.
(If you ask why I lost my addiction, let's just say a friend of mine takes it... a little bit too seriously.)

Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ProfessorFarnsworth on September 08, 2011, 12:19:06 AM
I finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution and playing it again. I love the ability to improvise in situations. Don't have enough ammo? Sneak around and takedown a few guards to steal their ammo (or throw that box, toxic gas canister, explosive barrel at them), can't hack that breakable door? Blast it open with a high powered weapon (and FFS why isn't there a "kick the fucking door down" melee option? Seriously, he's got aug legs), path too guarded? Use a vent or smash through a wall or try the sewers.

I found scarce ammo is only a problem if you're too guns blazing and alert the guards to your presence. I timed my shots so they were almost always head-shots while exploiting cover, and move around to evade guards coming to investigate. The silencer is a must as well as the laser pointer, and strategically taking out the right guard at the right time saves a lot of headaches. Of course you can try the whole evade everyone method, but that's even more time consuming.

It's fun to pop off guards one by one when they investigate the dead body too. "We've got a dead body he..." *BOOM HEADSHOT* :laugh:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on September 08, 2011, 03:31:50 AM
vaginas
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 08, 2011, 08:47:54 AM
vaginas

Did they release that on the XBox 360?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 08, 2011, 09:45:18 AM
I thought the new one was a bit meh. Glad I didn't buy it, I hate paying for a game and finding out it's crap. Besides personally I think Serious Sam knocked him off the throne long ago, there's a fun game.

Skyrim looks interesting, although to be honest I wasn't too keen on Oblivion before that. Loved Morrowind though, felt there was more to do in it compared to Oblivion, along with better story.

As for Minecraft, I'll probably be addicted to it (again) when 1.8 comes out. The new features look interesting and it's turning more and more into an RPG - something I wanted to begin with.
(If you ask why I lost my addiction, let's just say a friend of mine takes it... a little bit too seriously.)

I think Manual Labor: The Game... ahem! Minecraft is shit. Maybe when the newer versions come out, I will change my mind a little bit. But as for now, you're just running around, "mining" materials just to build things out of blocks, and fighting the same few monsters over and over again. The terrain, because it is procedurally generated, is just a bunch of random patches of hills and lakes. Boring to explore.

If I wanted to build shit, I'd get a 3D modeling program. At least it wouldn't crash all the time due to memory leaks. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on September 08, 2011, 11:58:48 AM
I thought the new one was a bit meh. Glad I didn't buy it, I hate paying for a game and finding out it's crap. Besides personally I think Serious Sam knocked him off the throne long ago, there's a fun game.

Skyrim looks interesting, although to be honest I wasn't too keen on Oblivion before that. Loved Morrowind though, felt there was more to do in it compared to Oblivion, along with better story.

As for Minecraft, I'll probably be addicted to it (again) when 1.8 comes out. The new features look interesting and it's turning more and more into an RPG - something I wanted to begin with.
(If you ask why I lost my addiction, let's just say a friend of mine takes it... a little bit too seriously.)

I think Manual Labor: The Game... ahem! Minecraft is shit. Maybe when the newer versions come out, I will change my mind a little bit. But as for now, you're just running around, "mining" materials just to build things out of blocks, and fighting the same few monsters over and over again. The terrain, because it is procedurally generated, is just a bunch of random patches of hills and lakes. Boring to explore.

If I wanted to build shit, I'd get a 3D modeling program. At least it wouldn't crash all the time due to memory leaks. :zoinks:

How about Terraria? It's like Minecraft, but it has graphics!
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 08, 2011, 12:14:31 PM
Terraria is good, but I got a bit fed up with it. It gets too hard when you get down into hell.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 08, 2011, 12:17:23 PM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 08, 2011, 12:43:05 PM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

Is Insanity66 a sockpuppet for you to argue with?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 08, 2011, 01:35:08 PM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

Is Insanity66 a sockpuppet for you to argue with?

Yep. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 08, 2011, 03:04:13 PM
I think Manual Labor: The Game... ahem! Minecraft is shit. Maybe when the newer versions come out, I will change my mind a little bit. But as for now, you're just running around, "mining" materials just to build things out of blocks, and fighting the same few monsters over and over again. The terrain, because it is procedurally generated, is just a bunch of random patches of hills and lakes. Boring to explore.

If I wanted to build shit, I'd get a 3D modeling program. At least it wouldn't crash all the time due to memory leaks. :zoinks:

Minecraft uses a voxel system for it's terrain, a 3D modelling program would yield far different results. You always have a tendency to think apples and oranges are the same though.  :autism:

I think the whole aspect of mining to make your own things is far more rewarding and makes building fun, I also found it really helped me plan out creations. In multiplayer it's much more fun, we can plan things together and do massive creations.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 08, 2011, 03:05:22 PM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

As much as minecraft being a knockoff of infiniminer? :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on September 08, 2011, 05:47:00 PM
vaginas

Did they release that on the XBox 360?

no on the real box




here is a cute little site full of really stupid porno flash games

http://www.funny-games.biz/porn-games.html (http://www.funny-games.biz/porn-games.html)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 08, 2011, 06:08:15 PM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

As much as minecraft being a knockoff of infiniminer? :orly:

Even if we're not comparing Terraria to Minecraft, it still would be an uninspired piece of garbage.

Procedural terrain generation is an extremely poor substitute for proper level design, because it lacks the ability to produce terrain that looks even halfway natural and realistic. No rivers, no oceans, no canyons, no mountain ranges, not on its own. It's just a nonsensical mess of randomly placed lakes and hills.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 09, 2011, 02:42:45 AM
Wow, I never knew minecraft strived to be realistic. You know, punching trees and all.  :lol:

There is little point trying to do the snob act Dook, it's already established you're crap at it.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Insanity66 on September 15, 2011, 06:43:15 AM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

As much as minecraft being a knockoff of infiniminer? :orly:

Even if we're not comparing Terraria to Minecraft, it still would be an uninspired piece of garbage.


OMG, a random stranger on the internet disagrees with me!
I need to prove him that my hobbies are really really really worthy...even for people with a different taste.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 08:23:59 AM
I am not interested in this cheap, uninspired, and pathetic 2D Minecraft knockoff. :orly:

As much as minecraft being a knockoff of infiniminer? :orly:

Even if we're not comparing Terraria to Minecraft, it still would be an uninspired piece of garbage.


OMG, a random stranger on the internet disagrees with me!
I need to prove him that my hobbies are really really really worthy...even for people with a different taste.

Oh, another Minecraft fan. I think I shall see if I've been unbanned from the Minecraft forums yet. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 09:44:52 AM
Oh, another MAMEfag who thinks he's cooler than others for playing games no one ever heard of. Hipsterdook! :nerdy:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 09:47:22 AM
(http://images.encyclopediadramatica.ch/2/28/HipsterParty.jpg)

Minecraft? More like Labyrinth on the C64. That was so obscure and retro.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 09:55:35 AM
Oh, another MAMEfag who thinks he's cooler than others for playing games no one ever heard of. Hipsterdook! :nerdy:

OutRun is better than Need for Speed.
R-Type is better than Mass Effect.
Smash TV is better than Call of Duty.
Gauntlet is better than Elder Scrolls.
Hard Drivin' is better than Gran Turismo.

You know nothing. :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 09:56:19 AM

Minecraft? More like Labyrinth on the C64. That was so obscure and retro.

Never heard of it. Who's the hipster now, Schleed? :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 09:59:19 AM
You were a hipster before it was mainstream. :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 10:03:09 AM
You were a hipster before it was mainstream. :orly:

I'm not a hipster. I'm an elitist. Hipsters play artfag "indie" games like Minecraft and VVVVVV. Elitists consider older games to be superior to newer games.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 10:07:19 AM
Actually a lot of hipsters adhere to more retro things and act like elitist pricks about it. That's you.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Squidusa on September 15, 2011, 10:11:33 AM
You were a hipster before it was mainstream. :orly:

I'm not a hipster. I'm an elitist. Hipsters play artfag "indie" games like Minecraft and VVVVVV. Elitists consider older games to be superior to newer games.

Who cares?

Restricting yourself by one labels , and enabling that one lable to define your whole personality is retarded.
Be that label , goth , indie , emo , punk etc etc.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 10:20:57 AM
You were a hipster before it was mainstream. :orly:

I'm not a hipster. I'm an elitist. Hipsters play artfag "indie" games like Minecraft and VVVVVV. Elitists consider older games to be superior to newer games.

Elitest seems like a silly name to give to people who prefer old games. Elitest seems to imply that old games are superior. I think retro gamer would be more appropriate.

That's not to say there aren't some great great old games. Manic Miner, Jetpac, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Goal, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings, and many others are still great, but I prefer newer games. I hated the way that in older games, once you died, you had to go back to the beginning and start again.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 10:46:01 AM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 15, 2011, 10:49:09 AM
Hipsters.......

(http://www.starsinjeans.com/portals/48/hipster-jeans.jpg)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 15, 2011, 10:52:14 AM
Hipsters.......

(http://www.starsinjeans.com/portals/48/hipster-jeans.jpg)

 I can't wear those, 'cause of my muffin top.  :emosad:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 11:23:25 AM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:

That's between you and Schleed, nothing to do with me.

It is true that todays games are often derivative of other games, but there's nothing new in that. Most of the older games copied other old games.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 15, 2011, 12:03:30 PM
oblivion is a rip-off of lord of the rings :D
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 12:10:49 PM
oblivion is a rip-off of lord of the rings :D

Yes, so are most RPGs. The fact that Fallout wasn't set in a LOTR style world is one of the things that I liked most about it.

I would love to see a bit more variety in RPGs.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 15, 2011, 12:20:01 PM
i wanted to find the first advertisement poster for Fallout
(but whatever i enter, including advanced search, it finds me New Vegas stuff... someone else try, please. my blood pressure cant handle it... )

it explicitly points out being a "classic rpg, without the magic and potions and crap"
its such a good point :D
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 12:32:50 PM
Dunno where to find the poster, but this is the box.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 15, 2011, 12:34:44 PM
Dunno where to find the poster, but this is the box.

heh... i found that one... :]
ive no idea where i found the poster, other than, online somewhere
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 01:49:33 PM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:

That's between you and Schleed, nothing to do with me.

It is true that todays games are often derivative of other games, but there's nothing new in that. Most of the older games copied other old games.

The issue is that the gaming industry are copying Halo over and over again while letting "niche" genres like city builders and real-time strategy games die out.

And Halo sucks ass.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 02:08:43 PM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:

That's between you and Schleed, nothing to do with me.

It is true that todays games are often derivative of other games, but there's nothing new in that. Most of the older games copied other old games.

The issue is that the gaming industry are copying Halo over and over again while letting "niche" genres like city builders and real-time strategy games die out.

And Halo sucks ass.

Yes, I do wish there was a good city builder. Cities XL is a good game, but it gets far too slow as you build a decent sized town. CivCity Rome is crap, and Tropico is not really a city builder.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 06:01:01 PM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:

That's between you and Schleed, nothing to do with me.

It is true that todays games are often derivative of other games, but there's nothing new in that. Most of the older games copied other old games.

The issue is that the gaming industry are copying Halo over and over again while letting "niche" genres like city builders and real-time strategy games die out.

And Halo sucks ass.

Yes, I do wish there was a good city builder. Cities XL is a good game, but it gets far too slow as you build a decent sized town. CivCity Rome is crap, and Tropico is not really a city builder.

Monte Cristo, the developers of Cities XL went out of business, the series was taken over by one of its distributors, Focus Home Interactive (they used to develop/publish Trackmania), they made a Cities XL 2011 version, but it had only slight improvements (like an expansion pack) and it was offered at a 50 percent discount to Cities XL owners. And they're coming close to releasing Cities XL 2012, but that will just have minor improvements as well, it seems like. More buildings, mainly. Whoopee. Still will have major performance issues that many of the players (all ten of them) have been complaining about. Lazy ass developers. Why did they even fucking bother? At least they're promising modability on the 2012 version. Meh.

I'd say SimCity 4 is the only city-builder worth playing. Good thing it can be run just fine on Windows 7 "64-bit" on a newer computer.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 06:22:03 PM
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According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster.

Yes, yes you are. You are also basically a complete hipster when it comes to music, all "I only like obscure bands that rarely anyone heard of". :zoinks:

Hipsters never admit to being hipsters however.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 06:37:36 PM
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was badly botched, and SimCity 5 never got made. Most of these newer games focus too much on being like Hollywood-style movies and are just copycatting each other again and again. Where's this innovation and growth that the execs of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc are bragging about so much? Oh look, Modern Warfare 2.1 3, it's gonna have new guns and modes! YAY!!!! Oh look, Skyrim! It's gonna have a HUGE world and hundreds of hours of gameplay! YIPPEE!!! ::)

Maybe I'm just missing something here? According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster. Go ahead and think that. I don't think they'll be making another game like Rollercoaster Tycoon again. :wanker:

That's between you and Schleed, nothing to do with me.

It is true that todays games are often derivative of other games, but there's nothing new in that. Most of the older games copied other old games.

The issue is that the gaming industry are copying Halo over and over again while letting "niche" genres like city builders and real-time strategy games die out.

And Halo sucks ass.

Yes, I do wish there was a good city builder. Cities XL is a good game, but it gets far too slow as you build a decent sized town. CivCity Rome is crap, and Tropico is not really a city builder.

Monte Cristo, the developers of Cities XL went out of business, the series was taken over by one of its distributors, Focus Home Interactive (they used to develop/publish Trackmania), they made a Cities XL 2011 version, but it had only slight improvements (like an expansion pack) and it was offered at a 50 percent discount to Cities XL owners. And they're coming close to releasing Cities XL 2012, but that will just have minor improvements as well, it seems like. More buildings, mainly. Whoopee. Still will have major performance issues that many of the players (all ten of them) have been complaining about. Lazy ass developers. Why did they even fucking bother? At least they're promising modability on the 2012 version. Meh.

I'd say SimCity 4 is the only city-builder worth playing. Good thing it can be run just fine on Windows 7 "64-bit" on a newer computer.

Yes, it's the 2011 version that I have. 2010 never worked at all for me. I won't bother with 2012 unless I hear that it runs much faster than 2011. Slowness is one of the things I hate most in games.

Shame, because I really do think it's a good game, and if it wasn't for the issue with speed would be a decent successor to SC4.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 06:49:32 PM
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According to Schleed, I'm just a butthurt retro hipster.

Yes, yes you are. You are also basically a complete hipster when it comes to music, all "I only like obscure bands that rarely anyone heard of". :zoinks:

Hipsters never admit to being hipsters however.

I listen to (along with obscure bands) Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, the Scorpions, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, those sure as hell are not obscure. So I am not a hipster. The difference is that I acknowledge the underground scene and am not a complete brainless moron when it comes to music.

And you listen to some rather obscure shit yourself, so you're being a hypocrite. :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 07:16:07 PM
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The difference is that I acknowledge the underground scene and am not a complete brainless moron when it comes to music.
Hipsters usually say that. :LOL:

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And you listen to some rather obscure shit yourself, so you're being a hypocrite.
I don't have that attitude that I THINK I'm better since I listen to music that's obscure (although most of the music I like isn't really that obscure at all). If I went by your definition, then everyone would be a hipster since we all listen to stuff others never heard of.

Although if people want to call me a hipster, then I really don't mind at all. People can call me anything they want. I had people call me an emo before, even though I'm not melodramatic, don't even like the music and I don't have enough hair to sport an emo fringe.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 15, 2011, 07:57:52 PM
Age of Empires is the only decent city building game anyway.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2011, 08:06:44 PM
None (Postwhoring here)
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: skyblue1 on September 15, 2011, 08:10:16 PM
None (Postwhoring here)
LOL, me too
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2011, 08:11:09 PM
None (Postwhoring here)
LOL, me too

Ooh, your place or mine?
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: skyblue1 on September 15, 2011, 08:13:12 PM
None (Postwhoring here)
LOL, me too

Ooh, your place or mine?
took me a minute to catch on to that / or maybe I didnt

I aint making many friends over there of late.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 15, 2011, 08:17:46 PM
Age of Empires is the only decent city building game anyway.

You're kidding, right? Age of Empires is not a city builder. It's a real time strategy warfare game.

Try building THIS with Age of Empires:

(http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m403/Jmixmaster101/Austin-12May211313119656.png)

Or this:

(http://i55.tinypic.com/141nq4m.jpg)

I found these images on a website called SimTropolis.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: skyblue1 on September 15, 2011, 08:19:27 PM
Age of Empires is the only decent city building game anyway.

You're kidding, right? Age of Empires is not a city builder. It's a real time strategy warfare game.

Try building THIS with Age of Empires:

(http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m403/Jmixmaster101/Austin-12May211313119656.png)

Or this:

(http://i55.tinypic.com/141nq4m.jpg)

I found these images on a website called SimTropolis.
my regular Sim City3 does cities that well
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 15, 2011, 08:26:18 PM
Duke: considering AoE was set in the stone age to Roman conquest, I think their cities are more realistic than the cgi of today's modern city-sims. Yes, it was primarily warfare, but to survive you needed to build your cities and keep production going.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 08:30:45 PM
Games like Caesar 3/Stronghold come close, they've both citybuilding and RTS elements.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 08:45:30 PM
Games like Caesar 3/Stronghold come close, they've both citybuilding and RTS elements.

Caesar 3 was good. Never really liked Caesar 4 though. Only played it on an old computer that couldn't really deal with the graphics though. I might try insalling it on my other computer and see if I like it when it's running properly.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 15, 2011, 08:49:17 PM
i cant wait for Magna Mundi.
Paradox allready made one of my very favorite grand-strategy map-games,
and magna mundi will have over 400 playable nations, all of them historically accurate.

its basically a game for history geeks, to play through history :nerdy:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 15, 2011, 08:52:20 PM
Loved Caeser 3 myself but it's an absolute bitch to play it well. The learning curve is steeper compared to games like Simcity since the micromanagement goes right down to the individual citizens. I preferred Pharaoh though, it was challenging but much more understandable compared to Caeser 3.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 15, 2011, 09:44:33 PM
Loved Caeser 3 myself but it's an absolute bitch to play it well. The learning curve is steeper compared to games like Simcity since the micromanagement goes right down to the individual citizens. I preferred Pharaoh though, it was challenging but much more understandable compared to Caeser 3.

Pharoah was great too. I never found these games hard because I always just played sandbox mode. I was never one for playing through missions. I just liked building huge cities on the easy maps :laugh:


i cant wait for Magna Mundi.
Paradox allready made one of my very favorite grand-strategy map-games,
and magna mundi will have over 400 playable nations, all of them historically accurate.

its basically a game for history geeks, to play through history :nerdy:

It might be good. It looks quite good from its webpage. Might be a bit too weighty for me though. That's the great thing about Pirate Bay. I can try these games for free.


I'm looking forward to Ravens Cry. It looks good. It's about pirates :pirate:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 15, 2011, 11:19:48 PM
There was a demo of Pharoah on the original Age of Empires disk.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 16, 2011, 12:26:56 AM
Age of Empires 1? That came out WAY before Pharaoh.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 16, 2011, 02:28:30 AM
Age of Empires 1? That came out WAY before Pharaoh.

Could have been a reissue, or it was a teaser of what to expect with Pharoah.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 16, 2011, 12:22:11 PM
The Age of Empires games are good, but they're not city builders at all. They're standard RTSs.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: ZEGH8578 on September 16, 2011, 01:34:38 PM
whenever i play age of empires, i always wish i could stay in the 1st stage of development "forever", just hunting deer and foraging berries for my tribe.

i want a game where you only do that :( so serene and peaceful.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Frolic_Fun on September 17, 2011, 10:51:43 AM
Age of Empires 1? That came out WAY before Pharaoh.

Could have been a reissue, or it was a teaser of what to expect with Pharoah.

It even came out before Caesar 3, so I highly doubt it.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: eris on September 17, 2011, 12:31:07 PM
Age of Empires 1? That came out WAY before Pharaoh.

Could have been a reissue, or it was a teaser of what to expect with Pharoah.

It even came out before Caesar 3, so I highly doubt it.

Ceasar 3 was a great game.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 18, 2011, 11:50:45 AM
TL;DR

Old games suck.

I am playing New Vegas right now.

That is all.   :plus: me now.  :M
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 18, 2011, 11:54:27 AM
I'm playing Risen just now. Could have been a great game, but a few annoying issues stop it from being great. Still good though.

I couldn't play it without having the walkthrough page open on this computer.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 18, 2011, 05:21:41 PM
I played through Portal yesterday. I have to say, it was quite an enjoyable experience.

I probably would like to play New Vegas, but it will have to wait until I get a half-way decent computer.

Oh, and fuck gamepads. They're for Super Mario Bros, not first person shooters.
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 18, 2011, 05:23:58 PM
TL;DR

Old games suck.

I am playing New Vegas right now.

That is all.   :plus: me now.  :M

At least when I play an old game, like Doom, it loads instantly and there's no stupid cutscenes to slow you down. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 18, 2011, 06:24:55 PM
TL;DR

Old games suck.

I am playing New Vegas right now.

That is all.   :plus: me now.  :M

At least when I play an old game, like Doom, it loads instantly and there's no stupid cutscenes to slow you down. :zoinks:

You forgot to plus me  :M
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: Phallacy on September 18, 2011, 06:50:26 PM
TL;DR

Old games suck.

I am playing New Vegas right now.

That is all.   :plus: me now.  :M

At least when I play an old game, like Doom, it loads instantly and there's no stupid cutscenes to slow you down. :zoinks:

You forgot to plus me  :M

You're lucky I didn't minus you for your blanket statement about "old games". :orly:
Title: Re: which video games influienced you?
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 18, 2011, 06:51:49 PM
TL;DR

Old games suck.

I am playing New Vegas right now.

That is all.   :plus: me now.  :M

At least when I play an old game, like Doom, it loads instantly and there's no stupid cutscenes to slow you down. :zoinks:

You forgot to plus me  :M

You're lucky I didn't minus you for your blanket statement about "old games". :orly:

Minusing is weak.  Plus me now.  :viking: