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ade from someone who had his special playing-world-of-warcraft AIM away message up for about 72 hours straight that's a bit much

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tom sandbox west (thomp), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

press demo of Dragon Quest 9 on the DS

and a fuller press clip showing Wii action


(both in japanese)

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i recommend u get a Wii like all the other mental children who like getting the mail and popping clouds with a lollypop and chasing marshmallow baddies in a cloud car faggot mushroom face bulshit kirby recycled crap nothing interesing stupid kiddie retard garbage, READING THIS THREAD IS LIKE GETTING A DICK IN THE GULLET

Deep breaths... Your channeling GZeus!

Cheers Michael, I'll check out the Shadow of the Colussus. ICO sounds a little too involved for me.

The questions is: get myself a new PS2 after christmas in the sales or go for a Wii?

kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Shadow of the Colussus is a little more hectic than ICO, though they are both awesome.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

When does the HOUSE, M.D. game come out? Like Phoenix Wright but you're a huge dickhead and you have to argue about congenital disorders that only occur in 0.04% of the human race.

TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

haha ade u just got gzeused in a fanboy backlash beef

TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

(though frankly gzeus is the biggest nintendo fanboy here, channeling him would be exactly the opposite of what ade is on about)

TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Level 3: Swallow as much Vicodin as you can in 60 seconds to avoid clinic duties.

editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

trying to find a wii here in my town but alas no... :-( i really wanna find one so i can give it to ophelia who will look at it, give it back and say (hah!): YOU play with it. ;-)

nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Very cunning :)

kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to Battersea to play with my friend's wii tonight, do you see, I will be getting my hands on his wii, we will both play with it etc etc bdum tish veal blah.

EXCITING.

I was going to do the Animal Crossing friends code on here but it all seems to have gone a bit loco with the menks so maybe not right now...

Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/sirweeze/chrono.jpg

Geza T (The GZeus), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

btw after playing through Chrono Trigger (3 diff endings so far too!) I can honestly say that Robo is totally my favorite. I love his one LaserSpin attack or whatever where he goes all disco ball Death Blossom on everyone.

Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Back when I was renting(yes, renting) that game I used to go to my save(people were pretty civil about that back then) and change all their names to random things, messages...
You
Are
A
Horny
Anal
Probe

Robo was usually name Vibro, though.

Geza T (The GZeus), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

So I'm sure this is total child's-play online flash-gaming to you nerds veteran-gamer masterlords, but I'm totally obsessed with this turn-based chess-style Tactics Online Arena thing, mostly because I can NEVER WIN, no matter what. (Okay I did win once.) Maybe I'm getting too distracted by chatting with the humor-impaired* 13-year-olds who constitute the main audience of this thing ("how old r u" / "29" / "daaaaaaamn"), but it's becoming a major quest for me.

* Humor-impaired = conversations like this, when my opponent has just killed another of my guys and I now have like 2 weak-ass characters left against his six dragons and super-powered witches and he's clearly slaughtering me:

ME: My plan is working perfectly.
ME: You're falling right into my trap.
THEM: okay
ME: I'm luring you into a false sense of confidence.
THEM: beat me, then
ME: The blood of my men will rust your swords until they prove useless.
THEM: i win in 2 moves
ME: You haven't counted on my invisible dragon cleric.
THEM: you can't get dragons without a gold account

nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, me & the man always joke about a House M.D. game. You get extra points if the patient gets anal hemorrhaging. I think such a thing would be best suited to either a text adventure or a wacky series of mini-games about busting into clean rooms with offending parasites mid-surgery.

Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Nabisco, that reminds me of my approximately 8-hour stint with Runescape. I spent a few hours going through the tutorial, then I spent about 4 hours reading a bunch of tips and studying maps online, getting my strategy ready. Then, about 20 minutes into the game, somebody walked up to me and said "How old are you?", and I said "23", and he said "LOL I'm 12"

Game over.

Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

shadowrun!!

another emulator gem: Flashback. downloaded while pulling a bunch of shit from coolrom based on titles alone (of course mostly turning out to be untranslated japanese stuff) and wow! looks really great, really convincing visual style and sense and movement (a little prince of persia-y). i'd never heard of it before.

urghonomic (gcannon), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

sense OF movement

urghonomic (gcannon), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't there a flashback for PC? They had PC versions of Out of this World(a.k.a Another World) and Fade to Black...

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1351

and here ya go

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

New Alien game coming out, done by Obsidian, the Neverwinter 2 guys

put out by Sega

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I just had a whack at Wii golf. Kinda fun! We've set it up in the office with a projector screen on the wall. I do like the intuitive feedback of the controller: it both vibrates and makes noises that totally tell your brain "you just hit a golf ball" or whatever. Quite suprised, I thought it'd feel a bit dinkyshit.

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

And yes, I get away with playing Nintendos at my work it would appear. Aw yeah.

(Mind you, my bf actively HAS to play games all day long, part of his job, bastardface. etc etc)

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Nabisco, that reminds me of my approximately 8-hour stint with Runescape. I spent a few hours going through the tutorial, then I spent about 4 hours reading a bunch of tips and studying maps online, getting my strategy ready. Then, about 20 minutes into the game, somebody walked up to me and said "How old are you?", and I said "23", and he said "LOL I'm 12"

I play Tribal Wars at work and the amount of crap on the forums or I get by email. LOL? Fuck you! SPEAK ADULT grrrrrrr!

I have decided to buy myself a Wii because I was told to. Ah, l'amour etc.

kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 14 December 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure I told this story on real ilx but whatever:

My dad plays WoW. He & some members of his guild were beginning to suspect that one of their members was but a kid. Their suspicions were confirmed when, as a raid went sour, on the chat channel, full of "fuck!"s and "god damnit!"s, that particular guild-member swore "TARTAR SAUCE!"*.

*note: "tartar sauce" is used as a swear word on Spongebob Squarepants (other Spongebob swears include: "fish paste!", "barnacles!", "dirty barnacles!")

has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I play Tribal Wars at work and the amount of crap on the forums or I get by email. LOL? [Future] you! SPEAK ADULT grrrrrrr!

I wish I had this problem. C'mon Kevnol, at least you have the loffles factor!

Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Finding a used DS lite is proving too difficult.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Military Madness will be coming out for the Wii VC.

2. Best Buy is releasing held-back Wii shipments this weekend, rumors are 40 units+ per store that they've been shoring up to boost sales.

TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

haha. i just envision a legion of nerds converging on the stores like violent, junk-sick addicts, beating up store managers for holding out on them.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Update: These Tactics Arena children are little bastards. Now that I'm getting better, they all seem to avoid actually losing or surrendering by disconnecting from the server instead. Or else as soon as you kill one character they like, they just end the damn game. MAYBE I'M OLD-FASHIONED, kids, but where I come from, you start losing a game, you have the damned dignity to play it out a little, maybe learn a thing or two, and give the other guy the fully earned satisfaction of kicking your weaselly little 12-year-old ass.

New conversational highlights:

THEM: my other account has like 1200 xp
ME: My other car is a Ferrari.
THEM: yea right what year and model
ME: It's an 1824 special edition.
ME: From before cars were even INVENTED.
THEM: well if yr driving it then it must be a piece of crap
THEM: if it was worth nething u'd keep it in a glass case
ME: I have four others in a glass case.
THEM: i drive a honda

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

nabisco I need to put these into photo-comics on my flickr account

TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone needs to give these kids a sitcom.

Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

hah nabisco, you have discovered the first law of playing games on the internet

your opponent is an insufferable, spoiled 13-year-old. everything else follows from this:

1. your opponent will disconnect to avoid "actually" losing.
1a. the chances of this are roughly tripled if there is any kind of win/loss record-keeping or ranking system.
2. your opponent will accuse you of using "cheap" tactics. for a short while you will attempt to reason with them and fail 100% of the time.

etc

v (sleep), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, one last, including the thing I'm most embarrassed about:

THEM: how old r u
ME: 29
THEM: omg old
ME: How old are YOU?
THEM: i'm almost 18, 17 now but i'll be 18 in a month
ME: I'm not your Congressman, dude, chill out.
THEM: ???

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally got Viewtiful Joe. Fucking hell, this game is hard.

I Used To Work At Parcelforce in Cricklewood (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't it though? I have never made it past the big shark guy. Ever.

has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I can only dream of reaching the big shark guy. I think I'm still on the menu page.

I Used To Work At Parcelforce in Cricklewood (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

My son loves that game, especially the way it sounds like Joe is saying his own name when he jumps (Joe-HWOOO!).

has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 14 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Good lord, this teenager drama shit is fucking hilarious.
I'm stifling my laughter so my sick niece won't ask why I'm rolling on the floor and choking.

Geza T (The GZeus), Thursday, 14 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Nabisco's tales are exactly why I don't have any interest in online multiplayer gaming. I would rather play my friends or just play alone than engage in any way in a discussion with the hordes of little shits who live there. If that makes me elitist or aloof, then fuck it.

Michael (Oakland Mike), Thursday, 14 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Ding ding ding!

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yahoo games is full of people who disconnect rather than lose. There's a "force forfeit" option where you can declare yourself the winner after 3 minutes of inactivity/sodding off, and it won't let you close the window without forfeiting, but lots of people will go to the trouble of pressing ctrl alt delete and make you wait three minutes out of spite. A few times, before Yahoo thankfully changed things to stop stuff like this happening, I was in canasta games where people were viewing their ratings every 30 seconds to appear active to the server whilst refusing to play and lose a few points on their ratings.

In Runescape I always have the chat turned off, it's much better.

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

while i'm going down memory lane: a game i loved on my family's first computer, a 386. MINES OF TITAN.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=729

the reason being, there was one town in it that was supposed to be more vanilla and peaceful, so the random encounters were more civilian. but there was always a chance that any encounter would turn violent right away, no matter how advanced you were. so you would have to, at some point, fight off a family or group of unarmed bums that jumped you.

TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed MOTHER with AUTORIFL.
SUCCESS.

urghonomic (gcannon), Friday, 15 December 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't it though? I have never made it past the big shark guy. Ever.

I lucked him the first time around after a bazillion attempts and now on the "fight all the bastard bosses again" level I just have no clue what to do with him :(

melton mowbray (melton), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and hello again everyone :) Thanks for noticing I wasn't here!

melton mowbray (melton), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

are there any DS/GBA games with actually good narratives? or are they all merely of the generic japanese "don't worry about a coherent plot" quality?

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY! After numerous calls and visits to shops I found a Wii. I couldn't wait till christmas to give it (to my husband, not Ophelia). But of course I realized soon I should have gotten an extra remote. Tonight we will PLAY TENNIS.

nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Kingfish, you're after Phoenix Wright! Sure, it's more like a book with questions at the end of each chapter than a game, but it sure is brilliant.

Congrats Nathalie :) Did you get Zelda?

melton mowbray (melton), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link


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