oh.. for those of you who like addictive video games - Page 2

Guyute · 02-25-2005, 09:31 PM

Proximity is neat- it's an adaptation of Othello.

Guyute · 02-25-2005, 09:34 PM

http://meph.eu.org/ <-- try this link- all of the games listed as Yestisport games are hilarious. The toss the Penguin game almost got two guys fired from my work.

BigV · 02-26-2005, 12:59 AM

warning--nostalgia alert

Are any of you Amiga-philes? I have one, A1000, with the most ahead of its time psychedelic music/video morpho-matic: MindLight7. Am I the only one who lost hours of my life watching the sychronized moving music on the screen?

/crickets chirping/

Ahh, o-k. I even piped it out the composite video out into the vhs vcr and captured it. Trippy, man.

BigV · 02-26-2005, 02:13 AM

Age of Empires
Age of Kings
Age of Mythology
Age of Titans

I'll never get those hours (days, weeks) of my life back. Had to uninstall it or .. I'd still be playing it!!

jaguar · 02-26-2005, 07:44 AM

Age of Empires 3 soon.
CounterStrike from beta 3 to 1.0, Day of Defeat for a while, Transport Tycoon, OpenTTD for OSX almost caused me to fail a subject...in fact I might just go see if I can finish that coal interchange yard now....

richlevy · 02-26-2005, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar

Age of Empires 3 soon.
CounterStrike from beta 3 to 1.0, Day of Defeat for a while, Transport Tycoon, OpenTTD for OSX almost caused me to fail a subject...in fact I might just go see if I can finish that coal interchange yard now....

I like Day of Defeat and still play it. I still won't play as a German, even though they have the better equipment, (stick grenades and MG42). Of course the solution is to drop your weapon (press G) and pick up the one your opponent will no longer be needing.

This was absolutely essential if you were stuck playing a British soldier (Bren machine guns, bolt-action Enfield rifles, and Sten 'grease gun' submachine guns that were the military equivalent of the 'zip guns' used by street gangs).

Counterstrike was interesting, but the game is very skirmish oriented, with a time limit on many missions. In untimed missions, Day of Defeat can take over a half hour until one side wins.

Undertoad · 02-26-2005, 10:00 AM

I'm returning to Civ 3 for a while and also playing Madden XBox and UT2004 while waiting for Ghost Recon 2 for PC.

jaguar · 02-26-2005, 10:10 AM

I liked the way DoD often had a 'front' that moved back and forth, it encouraged much more team playing, truly playing as a team in CS required a clan and even then it was fairly rare to really pull it off. MG42 is nice but you're sniper bait as soon as you set down.

richlevy · 02-26-2005, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar

I liked the way DoD often had a 'front' that moved back and forth, it encouraged much more team playing, truly playing as a team in CS required a clan and even then it was fairly rare to really pull it off. MG42 is nice but you're sniper bait as soon as you set down.

That's what I loved about the game. They balanced the weapons by assigning tradeoffs. In order to use a heavy MG effectively, you had to lie down and deploy the bipod. In order to move you had to retract the bipod and stand up again, even if an enemy was standing over you with a sharpened shovel or if a grenade was rolling towards you.

cowhead · 03-02-2005, 05:32 AM

.[QUOTE} Is that damn game produced under a corporate sponsorship from some carpal tunnel syndrome surgery center or something?)[/quote]

uh you know I am begining to think so..sad thing is I got my first bonus pet today...(and got excited!) and also have it set to be my screen saver.. gurk! I need a new drug!

mrnoodle · 03-02-2005, 09:59 AM

Ghost Recon was the shiznit. Right now I'm on an Everquest kick. Even bought a decent graphics card for it. I was heavily in to Wolfenstein ET for awhile but I just can't play the fast action games online until I move somewhere that has broadband.

I'm not EVEN going to look at insaniquarium or any other web game. That's all I need, is another distraction. I feel guilty enough for the number of times I come to the cellar at work.

Hey OC, what's your name on Lavastorm?

Undertoad · 03-02-2005, 10:44 AM

GR is the real thing to me because if you get shot in the head you die, if you get shot in the leg you limp around. You don't lose "75% health" after getting socked in the chest by a rocket.

Plus most of it is strategery. You don't run around shooting the first thing that moves, you plan an attack with hiding spots and cover fire and stuff. In UT a lot of the time your best option is to run in and fire because it doesn't matter so much if you die.

mrnoodle · 03-02-2005, 11:09 AM

And GR did a good - at least better - job of making fireteams necessary for mission success. If one part didn't do their job, completing the mission is next to impossible.

Now if they would only get smart AI. You'd think that gunfire and grenades would have every tango in the map on edge, behind cover, and ready to shoot anything that moves. Not so. All you need is a couple of walls between you and they're completely oblivious.

wolf · 03-02-2005, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cowhead

. gurk! I need a new drug!

Big Kahuna Reef. (which is basically bejeweled/jewelquest/candyswapper)

It is entrancing.

It has fish.

You get new fish for your reef after you finish every so-many levels.

Oh, and the net is possibly the best game accessory I've ever earned. (Okay, it is NOT better than the Chainsaw in Doom)

Bastards.

wolf · 03-03-2005, 02:21 AM

ha ha ha!!! I did it!!!!

02-25-2005, 09:31 PM	#16
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	Proximity is neat- it's an adaptation of Othello. __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

02-25-2005, 09:34 PM	#17
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	http://meph.eu.org/ <-- try this link- all of the games listed as Yestisport games are hilarious. The toss the Penguin game almost got two guys fired from my work. __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

02-26-2005, 12:59 AM	#18
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	warning--nostalgia alert Are any of you Amiga-philes? I have one, A1000, with the most ahead of its time psychedelic music/video morpho-matic: MindLight7. Am I the only one who lost hours of my life watching the sychronized moving music on the screen? /crickets chirping/ Ahh, o-k. I even piped it out the composite video out into the vhs vcr and captured it. Trippy, man. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-26-2005, 02:13 AM	#19
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Age of Empires Age of Kings Age of Mythology Age of Titans I'll never get those hours (days, weeks) of my life back. Had to uninstall it or .. I'd still be playing it!! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-26-2005, 07:44 AM	#20
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Age of Empires 3 soon. CounterStrike from beta 3 to 1.0, Day of Defeat for a while, Transport Tycoon, OpenTTD for OSX almost caused me to fail a subject...in fact I might just go see if I can finish that coal interchange yard now.... __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-26-2005, 10:00 AM	#22
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm returning to Civ 3 for a while and also playing Madden XBox and UT2004 while waiting for Ghost Recon 2 for PC.

02-26-2005, 10:10 AM	#23
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I liked the way DoD often had a 'front' that moved back and forth, it encouraged much more team playing, truly playing as a team in CS required a clan and even then it was fairly rare to really pull it off. MG42 is nice but you're sniper bait as soon as you set down. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

03-02-2005, 05:32 AM	#25
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	.[QUOTE} Is that damn game produced under a corporate sponsorship from some carpal tunnel syndrome surgery center or something?)[/quote] uh you know I am begining to think so..sad thing is I got my first bonus pet today...(and got excited!) and also have it set to be my screen saver.. gurk! I need a new drug! __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

03-02-2005, 09:59 AM	#26
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Ghost Recon was the shiznit. Right now I'm on an Everquest kick. Even bought a decent graphics card for it. I was heavily in to Wolfenstein ET for awhile but I just can't play the fast action games online until I move somewhere that has broadband. I'm not EVEN going to look at insaniquarium or any other web game. That's all I need, is another distraction. I feel guilty enough for the number of times I come to the cellar at work. Hey OC, what's your name on Lavastorm? __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-02-2005, 10:44 AM	#27
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	GR is the real thing to me because if you get shot in the head you die, if you get shot in the leg you limp around. You don't lose "75% health" after getting socked in the chest by a rocket. Plus most of it is strategery. You don't run around shooting the first thing that moves, you plan an attack with hiding spots and cover fire and stuff. In UT a lot of the time your best option is to run in and fire because it doesn't matter so much if you die.

03-02-2005, 11:09 AM	#28
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	And GR did a good - at least better - job of making fireteams necessary for mission success. If one part didn't do their job, completing the mission is next to impossible. Now if they would only get smart AI. You'd think that gunfire and grenades would have every tango in the map on edge, behind cover, and ready to shoot anything that moves. Not so. All you need is a couple of walls between you and they're completely oblivious. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-03-2005, 02:21 AM	#30
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	ha ha ha!!! I did it!!!! Attached Images __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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