The Gamer's Quarter

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Yeah, my girlfriend's old roommate was addicted to it for years. She pretty much flunked out of school because she played it so much. The only reason she started was because her best friend got into it, and she's even worse. She doesn't go anywhere or do anything. When she rarely does step out of the house, it's just for a few minutes and she makes sure to call her friend and have her log in for her in case someone needs to reach her in-game. There are three or four other people I talked to for years on IRC or Palace that have completely vanished into WoW the past few years. Strong medicine.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I played WOW for like 5 minutes before I realised there was nothing there for me.

Someone once said World of Warcraft does us a favor since it takes all the dumb people with no taste out of society :O That's a bad thing to say though.

dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject:

i am unnaturally fascinated with tales of people led astray from their lives, be it by cults or by everquest.

it's much more interesting than the usual drugs and hookers --> redemption type arc.

and i do wonder what was missing in their lives that they found there.
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Lestrade · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject:

Me too, actually, as long as it doesn't actually affect me.

A friend of a friend has become a complete stoner burnout because of WoW. He is a complete empty shell of a human being. My wife was never like that; she just used it as an easy leisure activity when she could be doing something — anything — else. Thank fuck we're free of it.

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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

sediment · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

i have to admit, i've been playing WoW too.

mostly this was to see what the expansion's like, and what they've done with the game. I was in the beta. Sad

Like any other MMO it's not bad - in moderation. Doing other stuff, playing other games helps distract you from the generally monotonous quests. Also the undead quests up til the end of Arathi tend to be pretty radical.

The rest of the game feels bland and uninteresting after you concoct a new plague and poison a farmer's dog. <3
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I had a friend who was a beautiful out-going girl who loved life, and then she started to paly WoW and did nothing but sit on the computer and play that stupid fucking game. Fuck wow.
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Cycle Wes is a man

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

that kind of talk isn't goign to bring wes back, james
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

i would be playing space invaders extreme or ouendan 2 a lot but i think my downstairs neighbors keep getting my mail.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

space invaders extreme looks very excellent!

I was playing Dino Crisis 2 earlier. I really like the game until all the old survival horror troupes start showing up. I wish there was some sort of arcade mode version of this game where you just went down a linear path with the occasional boss. As it stands I've never finished it, yet I've started it nearly ten times.
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daphaknee · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:40 am Post subject:

SPACE INVADERS EXTREME IS VERY EXCELLENT god i hate fucking space invaders but that game takes everything sucky and slow and boring and THROWS THAT SHIT OUT THE WINDOW it is like no one is going to pay attention to space invaders anymore, lets add all sorts of colors and techno and lines and pointless graphics that make it look like a new wave party

also the cool like powerups that let you clear HALF THE SCREEN and the bosses are rad and the bonus rounds are so much fun that i pretty much just keep an eye out for the rainbow ship and only half-pay attention to the actual invaders while i play

also i played it with that little arkanoid paddle and i think that made the game super, my friend said it looks amazing in widescreen psp-ness though

daphaknee · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:44 am Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/v/aRh7qHU6LqM&hl=en

she breaks his wow cd ON THE TYRA BANKS SHOW\

wow is shit, but i mean your numbers go up FOREVER so i guess ic an see how people get sucked into that

i guess im only wow-proof because i played gemstone for so long though

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah I can see how it could get addictive. I remember trying to collect every last little thing in Wind Waker. The thing is, once you've done everything there is to do, all you're left with is a hollow feeling of D: . Pleasure is a bottomless basket! They should write that on the box like a cigarette packet warning.

The thing is WoW has the genuine incentive of you being able to sell your maxed-out character for real $$$, so you can even justify your behaviour to yourself! It's ridiculous though, since you could earn all that money and more if you put that much time into something worthwhile.

On the latest One Life Left podcast http://onelifeleft.libsyn.com/ here's a song by a group called " :( " about a man who works in Tesco's stacking shelves and gets no respect, but at night he is a hero within the World of Warcraft. I can see how that's an attractive proposition to some people.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I went with my girlfriend to her cousin's wedding and was shocked to see that the groom's cake was a world of warcraft: burning crusade design. Apparently, he didn't play videogames, just world of warcraft.
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject:

Hey guys! Sorry, I've been gone Sad

I've actually just been posting a lot more at Select Button lately. It's not just WoW, it's also that nobody here really plays the games I've been playing lately.

The games I've been playing recently are Rainbow Six Vegas 2, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Halo 3, and a tiny bit of Smash Bros and Shiren. Today Gran Turismo: Prologue arrives. These are games that I think most of the posters here couldn't give a shit about. Come to think of it, I can't think of anything that's really caught on around here lately. Maybe we need to start a game club or something...

Oh yeah! And I swear I'll update the banners soon! The biggest issue is that I can't access TGQ from work anymore since they banned sites that are hosted outside of the US. I'm posting this from my phone!

-Wes
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Where did you see that? The clip ends prior to the big confrontation. I can't find a part 2 on the poster's youtube site, either.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Oh, didn't watch Daph's whole video, I've just seen the clip before. Here's the part I was thinking of.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

That doctor strikes me as a giant, giant douche. I think it's because he reminds me of some guido dhex has posted pictures of before.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

You know, over the three characters I've made for Morrowind I put over 350 hours into that game. WoW reminds me a lot of the things that I loved about Morrowind, which is mostly the freedom and world building.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Played some Xbox 360 demos.

- The Simpsons Game

- Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream

- Army of Two

- Rez HD

- Ikaruga

- Scene It! Lights, Camera, Action

- Sega Superstar Tennis

- Def Jam: Icon

Sucked, Sucked, Sucked, I don't like it, Great! , Ok I guess, Sucked, Sucked

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That guy's excuse for playing WoW 24/7 and neglecting his family was he 'didn't want to get too attached' to his baby in case it suddenly died! What!

They destroy the game discs on the show, but presumably he can just get another disc/ torrent it and log on to his account, right? I bet that's exactly what he did after the show.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

You can just download World of Warcraft from fileplanet, filefront, or from an official torrent. PC Gamer was giving it away free with each disc for a while. The entire time I imagined him thinking about that night's raid.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I know this guy who runs a game store, and he blames the lack of PC game sales on WoW because people will just play that for months and months and never buy anything else for the machine.
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that guy is a tool. The game is actually very good guys. I understand being upset about how it makes people act, but that's the people's fault, not the game's. If you can't put the game down long enough to do something (like update banners) that says that there's something wrong with you.

Wait. What?

-Wes
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sediment · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

speaking of putting games down, i had to start mass effect again (my fiancee's sister accidentally overwrote my saves).

i don't understand how people can play through this game more than twice or thrice.
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daphaknee · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

ad nauseum 2 is easily cactus's worst game

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Have you played Ted's Wet Adventure, or that galaxian type thing where you have to type the commands?
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Because of Deets' blog about the Japanese rerelease, I decided to bust my way through Phantasy Star II again, considering I never finished it properly. I forgot how goddamn infuriating the game is. At least in the GBA version, which was all I had handy, the probability of enemies getting the drop on you is insanely high relative to other games--something like one in five battles gives the enemies a free turn. Which would be fine if you could garner the same probability in your favor, but at least in this version it's impossible to get a preemptive attack. It's the very definition of cheap. Is it like this in the original version? In the remakes? I just don't know.

All the grinding has made my brain bleed. I'm at the end of the game and can't beat the last boss, so I'm walking back and forth until I learn Megid, and by this point am pretty tired of having to heal so often because all of the free attacks enemies get. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

Edit: Managed to beat it at level 34, one shy of Megid. The ending is. . . something else.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Space Invaders Extreme FINALLY got here! The box art is gorgeous. Very M.I.A.-y but with fewer machine guns. I will play it and probably agree with everyone a little later.

Wes, I care a lot about smash bros., i just don't have a real way to play it yet. Just wanted you to know I care.
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

you guys wouldn't BELIEVE how many times cycle died on the mine cart section while we were playing Gears coop.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

look shut up bleak, it was laggy ok

how many times did i have to save YOUR ass? lots, that's how many!
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

85.131.192.71:27045

This is a counterstrike server

German

Very funny

Homer Simpson, Pink Panther, and other skins (I think).

It's just damn funny.

Get drunk first

edit: no free flight while dead. Sad

good for a novelty anyway
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

Getting drunk is the prerequisite for going on any public Counter-Strike server if you don't want the amount of your braincells to permanently diminish.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hey, I assume every one knows this by now, but Trackmania Nations Forever (they have terrible naming schemes for these games btw) is free for download on Steam. I got it on a lark and you know, it's really good! It has everything I liked about Grip Shift, without all the stuff I really hated (like, oh say, jumping). Apparently there's other ways to get it free without signing up for steam if you don't want to, so I recommend giving it a try!
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Oh yeah, it's pretty awesome. I've always been a fan of Trackmania since the first game.

It was so hard to get people to try it because most of my buddies don't like driving games. When they finally played it they were like OH MAN YOU WERE RIGHT IT'S AMAZING and I was all like TOTALLY and we chugged beers and crushed the cans on our foreheads.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I absolutly understand this, I probably crushed like five beer* cans on my forehead while playing last night.

*soda
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I'm playing Marathon!

I got stuck on the third level and asked Cycle for help. Turns out I didn't need it, the game just glitched out a switch I needed so I had to start over. I love playing on kindergarten because of how ludicrous it makes the whole situation. "Our entire, moon-sized ship has been taken over by aliens! You can kill most of them in one shot. Kill them all I am a computer." I am assured the storyline gets much more complicated, and the series gets much better. Until then I'm still enjoying myself. The levels are compact and easy, and the hi-res texture pack shields me from the motion sickness I normally get with old FPSs.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:15 am Post subject:

mask of the betrayer is fucking hard, yo.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It's kind of weird that Marathon is becoming to me what Portal is to Cycle, just as Portal is to me what Marathon is to Cycle. AND YET WE REMAIN FRIENDS

Seriously what is the deal with Marathon.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

In the chunks of spare time from school and work, I've been able to play some Roma Surrectum for Rome: Total War, Warlords Battlecry 3, and Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis. The latter being for coverage, but I can respect a game that has a main character's best friend as a cat (hey, earl!). I also got in Iron Soldier for the Jaguar the other day and am looking forward to trying it out in a bit.
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Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87