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| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19      Posts: 21/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerQFT I like some degree of challenge and some sense of accomplishment from figuring things out for myself. However, I dislike gaming as a chore. I have limited time for it, and I don't want to waste said time banging my head on the game for too long. When I'm getting frustrated and annoyed, I'll look for help or go do something else. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 22/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Dead Silence, a horror movie that started out decently and then crapped a giant corn turd. I liked the ghost story, and I really liked the "background noise slowing to a halt" effect in some of the ZOMG GHOST ATTACK! scenes. But the execution devolved into some godawful live-action Scooby Doo horseflop that took itself way too seriously. The hero was quite possibly the most flagrant moron I have ever seen in a movie. If you go back to your house and hear your wife sweetly calling from you from inside a dark bedroom - and you step in a giant blood smear on the floor nearby - do you run like hell and call 911? Or do you bumble in there like the Keystone Kops? And if you suspect that the weirdo ventriloquist doll you got in the mail that day was behind certain lethal events, would you drop it off a bridge? Torch it to a crisp? Or haul it around in your passenger seat while you play detective? And, after you should be well aware that you're dealing with a supernatural entity that can mimic voices...why in the name of all that is sensible and prudent would you believe a late night call from the old undertaker instructing you to meet him at the abandoned theater where the evil ghost lives? I should mention that said theater is in the middle of a lake with two convenient boats - one for Captain Cretin, the other for the gratuitously asshatty cop following him around. Seriously. Big budget live action Scooby Doo. Only it had no Velma, which is a shame. Velma rules. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 23/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| In Addams Family Values (SNES), Uncle Fester has a variety of random animations. He waves, makes a funny face (which made me jump the first time I saw it because he stretches his mouth WIDE), and does a dance (I think). I can't remember if there are any more, but I do remember asking a Nintendo Game Counselor about it when I wrote them a letter with a bunch of other questions about the game. I also remember that they sent a personal response and didn't know of any animations other than the ones I'd seen. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 24/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| I'm almost in second grade! The Challenger disaster scared me. The news kept showing the same clip of the shuttle burning up. I wondered why fighter jets had eject systems and space shuttles didn't. My cousin has Nintendo. Sometimes I get to play it, but I'd usually rather watch him play because I'm not very good. It's a lot more fun to watch than to keep falling down the pit in Super Mario. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 25/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Gomez does the foot tap in The Addams Family (SNES). Given that you don't rescue Morticia until the very end of the game, I can't really blame him for being impatient. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 26/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| After playing the shit out of Dynasty Warriors 5, I still can't figure out a reliable optimal strategy for the Battle of Wu Zhang Plains, Wei side. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, DW5 is a beat 'em up game with strategy elements. You're a general in an ancient Chinese army, and you run around and stomp hundreds of peons and sack bases and beat up enemy generals. It isn't necessary to keep every one of your allies alive, but it helps, and I enjoy gameplay better when I do a Good Job (tm) on a level by saving all of my people and bases. On this particular battle, it's a pain in the ass to do so without resorting to rushing all the enemy generals with a godly character. Morale affects how well generals and their armies fight offscreen, and there's one particular ally who starts with crap morale and usually dies early on no matter what I do. There's also a base that sometimes gets overrun even when I babysit it as well as possible. And the entire enemy army gets a morale refill midway through the stage. As a result, allies can get their dumbass selves killed just by fighting small numbers of enemy peons. The game also has ultimate weapons for each general. The hardest ones to unlock are for some of the worst generals in the game. (By worst, I mean weak, slow, difficult to kick ass with.) I don't know how well I'm going to do with that, but I may not even bother. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 27/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Dynasty Warriors 5. Crack in beat 'em up form. We unlocked all the items, got max level items whenever possible (many of them have a level from 1 to 20, and you just have to be lucky and find better ones) and all the ultimate weapons for all 48 characters. Some of the characters were maxed out just because I played them so much. During our house renovations, we moved the PS2 downstairs. It only came back up recently. I felt like playing DW5 because it had been a while, but I didn't know where the memory card with our saved data was. So I started from scratch. I got the ultimate weapons for most of the characters I like to play, but I don't yet have all max level items. Fortunately, I don't get tired of running through difficult levels with hilariously powerful characters in order to challenge my speed records or just have fun smashing metric pantloads of enemies. And the difficult levels are where you find level 20 schwag. I also like to play my favorite characters' story modes over and over and over again. It's a fun way to kill 45 minutes, and I only have to play for about 10-15 minutes at a time because battles don't last very long. Edited to add agreement with the above post about not finishing games. I usually don't care about beating games any more. My main interest is having fun. Too many games burn through the happy fun exploration doing stuff part early on, and the later stages become boring and tedious. Thus, the appeal ends for me, so I move onto something else. I expect the challenge to ramp up throughout the game, but there should still be that underlying joy of experiencing and playing. Ratchet and Clank 2 is an example of an excellently designed game that held my interest to the end (and I was replaying that one for a while, too). The later levels made me work to complete them, but they were consistently fun and interesting, so I found them rewarding to play. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 28/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| I was hella psyched for this movie. I saw it when I came out. It had its moments, but I left disappointed. The beginning came off like a quality ATHF episode. And then the movie wasted good characters (Carl), way overused characters who bore and irritate me (the Ghost of Christmas Past), and devolved into randomness for randomness' sake. It seemed that the writers had trouble extending a plot to movie length. ATHF works best when it is based on characters who produce consistently funny dialog and gives those characters time to interact with one another. Good ATHF episodes often include random ideas, but those ideas actually go somewhere. Case in point: Revenge of the Mooninites, one of my all-time favorites. The Foreigner belt was randomly silly, but it led to amusing situations and character interaction. It wasn't like "Here's a Foreigner belt! It's random! Laugh!" The movie, on the other hand: "It's a chicken on fire! It's random! Laugh! The chicken is actually Dr. Weird! That's totally hilarious because we haven't been overusing deus ex machina character switching throughout the movie! For reals!" |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 29/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| I'll take any excuse to whip this thing out. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 30/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Dynasty Warriors fangirl here. 5 is my favorite by far. We got Orochi Warriors on Friday. It's definitely in the upper half of the Warriors games I've played. I'm mostly through the Shu and Wei stories, and I'm looking forward to many more hours of fun. I like the balance between encouraging gameplay with a variety of characters and making it easy to bring lagging people up to speed. A character's weapon proficiency is leveled by fighting with them, and each character can only earn 3-4 equippable abilities. There are quite a few abilities, so you will have to play as everyone if you want to catch (and buff) 'em all. On the other hand, weapon boxes contain schwag for everyone on your team, and growth points (generic experience) can be distributed to level up characters. Difficulty is way up from DW5, but it makes sense because your guys heal up when swapped out and you have abusive new special attacks. Still, I can't yet kill fast enough to have fun on normal mode, which feels rather weird. At least it isn't that difficult for me to build up good third weapons on easy. I am having way too much fun with the weapon leveling system.  My main complaint (more a matter of personal preference) is certain aspects of the battle engine that apparently come from SW2, which I've read about but not played. Some of the SW2 inspiration is a nifty change of gameplay style. I like having to do (fun and interesting) objectives like luring enemies into an ambush, and I also don't mind having to advance with one army instead of just running around and beating up generals to get the stage over quickly. This play style is reminiscent of Destiny Mode from DW5:XL, in which you have to hang out with your mentor general until you get the requisite attacks and abilities for solo asskicking. I love Destiny Mode. However, I wish the battle pace was as fast and frenetic as DW5, and I prefer the DW morale system as well. Battlefields in WO are less populated, peons take longer to kill, and peons seem to have the morale of their entire army, not that of their commander. A bunch of random peons screwed over my commander on a one-star stage even though the rest of the area was blue and I'd beaten all the generals and sealed the gate before advancing. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 31/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Many hours of gameplay, most characters unlocked, and a slew of upgraded abilities later, I'm kicking some serious ass. Battles get far more smashy smashy when your attack ability is leveled up. My best guys (Wei Yan, Zhou Tai, Guan Ping) can do well enough on hard mode for me to farm fourth weapons. It looks like the difficulty is scaled so you are intended to start on easy and increase as your characters get stronger and need more of a challenge. I'm afraid of chaos mode, but at least it's unnecessary for any of my gameplay goals. I should mention that I highly appreciate the return of infinite interim saves. It makes objectives with tough time limits or unforgiving criteria much less frustrating. My idea of fun does not involve repeating a long stretch of gameplay over and over and over because i messed up one thing or an ally got the last blow on a general I was supposed to kill. Now to finish unlocking all the characters and getting as many fourths and personal items as I feel like bothering with. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 32/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| So, being the Dynasty Warriors fandork I am, I signed up at the Koei Warriors board. And I posted my favorite picture of my Zhang He cosplay in the personal images thread. Turns out I was featured on Destructoid a few days ago. Trunxy, if you're still here, thanks for the compliment. As for the rest of the comments, I wasn't planning to reproduce anyway, and I don't make a habit of telling my parents the details of my sex life. You'd think people could come up with insults other than the Internet equivalent of drawing male genitalia on dorm hall white boards (because a random penis is like seriously total burn/10 and nobody ever thought of it before). |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 33/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| I'm still playing Warriors Orochi with the goal of improving my solo chaos difficulty skills. And making fun gameplay videos. I just finished my first today. I played with the music off and added Mega Man tunes later on. YouTube - Cao Ren vs. Wei 6-X I'm happy with my gameplay apart from occasional klutziness and one epic cheap shot that threw me off for a bit. At least the cheap shot makes for good video.  |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 34/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Sorry, guys, wrong thread. Though we are looking for an Xbox 360 copy of Rock Band, so I should be able to contribute something other than a mis-post. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 35/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Is anyone else playing Warriors Orochi? That game is still my personal crack. I made another chaos solo video featuring my most favoritest character ever. It'll be up in the next day or so if anyone cares. We got Super Mario Galaxy, but I haven't touched it yet. I am a bad bad G-funk. Hell, I still haven't finished Paper Mario.  |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 36/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| WAZZZUUUUUUP I've been shitty about online socialization. Time to fix that. How are all y'all doing? I'm still addicted to Warriors Orochi and picking up heavy crap. I've been a dookyhead about my other hobbies (writing music, writing novels, redecorating). We did get a fuckwin HDTV, though. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 37/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| I've always been Rydain - or some variant of Rydain Darkstar when some hoser took the short version. *cough YouTube NeoPets damn it cough* I have a Delphi account - Twinrova - from a fit of Ocarina of Time fandom, but other than that... |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 38/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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Here's the wallpaper I made last month to cheer up my apeshit work self. It's Cao Ren, my most favoritest Dynasty Warriors character EVAR. Link goes to my LJ gallery entry for the image. My background at home is still the same Flooded Motel tiling background from the Propaganda wallpaper site. I've only been using that for, like, the past 6 years. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 39/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Yay, now I feel better about being obsessed with smashy smashy craziness. How far did BMF get? I got to the 8-2 boss, had trouble, called it a practice session, and haven't picked the game up since. 'Tis a shame because I was addicted to it before. Then again, world 3 was my favorite by far, so maybe I'm not missing THAT much. Ogre started Super Mario Galaxy, but he hasn't played it since last weekend or so. I haven't even picked it up yet. |
| Rydain Member The Rockman of Bel Air Level: 19 Posts: 40/76 EXP: 34005 For next: 1772 Since: 08-01-07 From: State College, PA Since last post: 1713 days Last activity: 1577 days |
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| Keep playing. Level 5 is fun. I can't remember much after that, especially because I've just had a few beers. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE At least my Warriors Orochi obsession has produced a ridiculously detailed character FAQ and gameplay video(s). (I need to split and compress my latest.) And for once I figured out character tactics that HELO WE R AWSUM BECUZ WE GOT TEH GAEM LAST YEAR people never got....and I recorded them. BWA HA HA HA HA |
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