The Gamer's Quarter

[Shapermc]

Interestingly enough, I just realized/found out that the director of this game is the same as Trauma Center DS (well, also some Hamtaro games, but that doesn't count). This puts the difficultly level into a bit better perspective. Trauma Center is easily one of the best games on the DS.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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

[dessgeega]

compared to a wizardry title i'm finding the game easy so far.
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[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

[dongle]

All this talk of DooM on portables convinced me to install DooM on my PSP. It's a great port and I love the controls. I'm in the process of updating the MIDI patches that come with it.

Edit: done updating. This is now the best controlling, best looking, and best sounding portable version of DooM.

[JasonMoses]

Shaper, get yourself a survivalist and boot out your dark hunter. Level up his and everyone else's foresting so you can take advantage of the wooding spot on the first floor for mad cash money. Also nuke butterflies with magic whenever you get the opportunity, as that causes them to drop butterfly eyes which you can sell for 20 each. Also, you're supposed to avoid the foes on the second and third floors, by either sneaking past or by luring them around.

[Shapermc]

[JasonMoses]

[Shapermc]

[JasonMoses]

You can have 3 people in your back row, so just drop your dark hunter and put in the survivalist.

[SuperWes]

Hey guys, my front line is a Fighter (Wes), Defender (Scott) and Whipper (Patience) with my back line a Healer (Christina) and an Archer (Andrew). Is it bad that I'm going to play through the game like this?

-Wes
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[Shapermc]

[JasonMoses]

Yeah, just. Play the game, see what works and what doesn't. I'm figuring this out as I go along.

[dhex]

man you guys make me feel heartless. i usually name players after goofy shit, not loved ones.
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[Shapermc]

[ApM]

[dessgeega]

you never let me down, apm.
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[dessgeega]

i saw my first FOE. well, i didn't actually fight it, i just slowly backed away. it was scary lookin'. i like the skill system in this game, and the way equipment advancement is based on enemy killing / item selling.

i don't get the hating on dark hunters, though! they are like total little dommes. i just taught mine the "gag" skill (which is followed by "shackles", "cuffs", "ecstacy" and "climax" in that order)! i also taught my medic "patch up" (recover health at the end of battles with no tp cost), which promises to be helpful.

doom gba update: still the best thing in the world.
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[Isfet]

yes! i figured a few of you here would be all over EO, so i've come to join in.

i'm surprised to see how many options you have for choosing what characters look like. it's a small touch, but something about it makes me happy. anyway, i'm slowly making my way through the dungeon, avoiding FOEs (after one completely killed my entire team) and just enjoying the pacing of everything.

i'm using a Dark Hunter, too, and she seems like she'll be good, but eventually. the poison attack is helping a lot, though.

[dongle]

starting EO, finishing Doom2 on PSP

[ryan]

[dongle]

DooMPSP-0.5

I added a much better MIDI patchset to it. I can upload it to megaupload or something. Just unzip in your game150 dir on your OE firmware and add wads and you're good to go.

This is the definitive portable DooM. GBA DooM is cute, but is missing the lighting, runs at a choppy framerate, and has kind of crappy music. PSP DooM is an exact port (based on LSDL DooM) with Timidity support for high quality music. It runs in high res, full screen, full FPS, and controls great with the analog nub.

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

I have been prowling around the first floor for too long. It is time to be a man and kill the FOE in my path, but I fear for my troubador (Chekov), as he is sure to die.

I got to the second floor in Ultima Underworld, and I'm digging the fact that it's pretty much underground, sword-swingin' Deus Ex. I bashed open a door, wasting two (useless) weapons in the process, and found a flying potion inside. I quaffed it above the Dwarf King's vault and swooped in, guiltlessly stealing all of his treasure and fluttering just out of reach of the angry golem that tried so hard but so futilely to protect it. When I get to a high enough level, I'm going to kill one of the Goblin kings to see how the other reacts, and then kill him too.

dhex, did you get Daggerfall running? I've always wanted to try it.

[dhex]

yeah, daggerfall runs under dosbox in win2k pretty ok. the combat is kinda wiggy though. i probably have to tweak it some more.
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[helicopterp]

I almost bought Etrian Odyssey today.

Then I bought Touch the Dead instead.

Quote from the back of the box: "Some games want to train your brain. WE JUST WANT TO EAT IT (tm)"


So I got started on it. I don't have a rich history with light-gun games, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I really like it.

The presentation of the story is really good. I mean, there's not much in the way of story, but so much is told in the costuming of the zombies, the layout of the areas you're shuttled through, and all. I hit the boss at the end of the first chapter and died a couple times, so that's where I am right now. I hope to play more soon!

Anyone else tried it yet?
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Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one.

[Shapermc]

System Shock Pocket causes my computer to freeze

Ultima 5 runs way, way too fast

I hate PC gaming.

Playing more EO still. I'm starting to really enjoy its deliberately slow pace. I'm also starting to understand better the way you're supposed to make progress in the game. It's not as hard as I once though now that i've wrapped my head around the pacing.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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

[Intentionally Wrong]

[dongle]

Daggerfall was the last Elder Scrolls game that I played. I really enjoyed it even though I never got far on the main quest.

[dhex]

dude, moslo was in the zip file. i wouldn't leave you like that!

(obligatory lolz console kiddiez oh noes teh computars is making me thinks savea me marios post here)

[a_plus]

you may want to grab a C64 emulator for ultimas 1-5. the pc versions of them are much worse, audio-visually (4 color cga graphics, no music, etc).
i think there was an update for ultima 4 to add the better graphics and sound, but as far as i know, nothing like that has happened for u5.

ultima 6 and on, of course, are meant for the PC.

[dessgeega]

[dhex]

indeed.

so my attempts to run daggerfall have been not so hot, but it seems to work pretty well up around 80% cpu load, which i think is a bit too much maybe. i've had a few crashes in about an hour of play, and i don't remember the opening dungeon being in this insanely hard.

i'm going to start a new game of stalker and relax.
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[a_plus]

hrm, dess, maybe it's just up to u4 that are awful on pc, then?
does the pc u5 have music/sound?

[dessgeega]

it has sound but no music that i remember. the earlier ones are four-color cga bleah, but i'm pretty sure four has more color. it looks much better with that patch that makes it pretty, anyway.
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[JasonMoses]

Made it to the second strata in EO. The Stalkers on B3F were harder to kill than the boss of the first strata, thankfully.

[dhex]

ultima 4 is 16 color ega, iirc. as is five. five's a bit more shiny.

i dig that kinda palette myself.
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[Swimmy]

I broke down and bought FFXII. Thoughts:

You know how that Pirates of the Caribbean game had an auto-walk feature, where you could just pick a shop and it would warp you there? Yeah, desperately needed here. Unnecessarily large cities. No, "the moogling" isn't it. And you know how you can only talk to a little less than half the people in most towns? I'd be happy with talking to none of them, at all, ever. But about one in fifty will give you a prize! Ugh.

I get an FFTactics feel from a lot of parts, which is good. The battling! is entertaining. The random chests make me feel like I'm playing a game that wasn't designed for its engine.

If this storyline turns into "evil empire unlocks even greater, more ancient evil, news at 11" I'm going to turn it off.

It almost--almost!--feels like a game about adults doing adult things instead of idiot teenagers doing adult things, but thankfully they threw Vaan and Penelo in to piss me off. They game openly recognizes this as their role.

At the very least, it doesn't feel silly and rushed like FFX. I'm expecting it to come together very soon. Then I'm expecting it to fall apart. I really, really hate the towns. Someone needs to go back to that one town in Xenogears, you know the one.
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"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin

[Pijaibros]

[ryan]

Dawn of War was a whopping 10 missions. I had read it was 12, but I guess Relic felt they could wrap things up in an even shorter amount of time. At least the Gold Edition has Winter Assault, which I just started and am halfway through mission two. Winter Assault does a weird flipping during the levels, where the sides of Order and Chaos, two apiece, start off the level as one group and eventually switch over to the other. I'm not sure how much I'm enjoying this; right when I start to get into the groove of one, I'm tossed into the other, and they are often less developed.

I'm still slugging away in Titan Quest. I was surprised to find out that a friend of mine has logged in 6-8 hours less than me but is already past where I am. His hunter can sit in one area and act like a turret, mowing down everything with arrows before they even get close. Watching him play made the game seem like it's not much fun, though my mixture of magic and slugging it out is certainly enjoyable to me. Then again, he did enjoy EVE.

Bust-A-Move Bash kind of hurts my soul. It's still Bust-A-Move, which is a plus, but that damn remote makes it overly difficult to pull extreme right and left shots off. I end up rotating my wrist to pull them off, but that's only garnering a positive on-screen reaction about 30-40% of the time. I own three copies of Bust-A-Move and this copy is the only one I don't have a problem putting down. And, apparently, the classic controller only works on players 2-4, the first having to use the remote; yeah, the game would lose its Oh wow! A Wii game! factor with the classic remote, but at least then I could play it for longer than fifteen minutes.
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[dessgeega]

so how does the control work? you rotate the remote like the pointer onscreen? are there other options? my mother is big on the puzzle bobble and it would be nice to have a furiously multiplayer version to play with her.

finished episode 2 in gba doom. i'm probably going to stop there and wait for my copy of the snes port to arrive.

i managed to reach the third floor of etrian oddysey. i only stuck around long enough to read the message about blood chilling horrors and death. i did get caught by a FOE once on the second floor, but i was able to escape before it could attack. i'm pretty careful most of the time, and i've gotten all my characters up to level 6 now. i like the game but i don't think i'm going to have the time to really dig into it, and probably won't play much further.
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[Pijaibros]

The game really picks up once you hit the 4th floor and have to go hunt down a new quarry.

Also it wasn't until the 4th floor that I've been able to finally mine some pretty valuable and useful things. At least I can afford a few Nectars now and don't have to run to the Apothecary after every misstep.

[a_plus]

i just installed deus ex, again, after deciding to see what what selectbutton.net was all about* and reading a thread about the game.

i downloaded the demo of it years ago, beat it in one sitting and went out and bought the game. i never did make it any farther than the first level! let's hope i can do better this time.






*way more fighting game love and japanophilia and testosterone than i was expecting, though i wasn't really expecting anything? how is that forum, generally?

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

Worse than IC (from an experienced poster's perspective), more accessible, but not bad at all. Toups runs a tight ship (sorry James).

[Cycle]

oh man, i just got sassed.
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[dessgeega]

[dhex]

as much as i have a nostalgic twinge for graph paper maps, teh old skewl really expected you to have absolutely nothing better to do with months of your time. and maybe that was the genre's audience at the time, i don't know. i wasn't really paying attention at the time.

starting bard's tale three from scratch, even now, would take a good 90 days to get anywhere near powerful enough for the endgame. you kill and kill and kill on the last level of the first dungeon for dozens of character levels.
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[helicopterp]

[SuperWes]

I'm pissed that Touch the Dead is $30. It was supposed to be a budget release, but then they started building up some press and decided to bump it up. BS to the M.A.X.

-Wes
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[ryan]

[Shapermc]