COD4: What is there to say? I play CS:S quite frequently and as far as I'm concerned this is a pretty decent game, I'd like to try mw2 for the same reasons.

Modern Warfare 2: read above^^

Starcraft 2: I'm pretty slow at massing huge ass armies but this looks like it will be a great game. Several delays just to balance the three races, Blizzard knows what they're doing.

And before I get any of these games I'll need a new computer as the one I have now can hardly even run CS:S at 30fps.

At 11/12/09 07:58 PM, Meepster wrote: Neither. Buy the Orange box and the CS:S Pack ("Black Box").

This sounds like a plan here. 60$ seems well worth it.

If I would have to pick one though, I'd definitely go with CS:S. Probably a little biased seeing as I've never actually played TF2, only watched game play of it and whatnot. I definitely don't think it's a bad game and I'd recommend trying it along with CS:S.

CS:S can be a little frustrating when you start out though. It may take you a few months to get decent kill/death ratios. I recommend playing in deathmatch so you get instant respawn and essentially get to shoot more.

At 11/14/09 01:30 PM, Nikenick wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuubrkPYs eE&feature=player_embedded

Jab is the Captain Falcon in the video.

Ahahhaaha... Oh jab.

When was this footage taken Nick?

Also, Crink is awesome.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9963 15

I would like to hear from some of you people "leaving" personally over Skype, this friday/weekend.

What the fuck.

At 10/12/09 01:33 PM, BareNakedMike wrote: I skip every odd step and only touch the even's because the odd ones are lava and will burn if I touch them.

Hehe...

I usually just walk up and down stairs normally one at a time. I like going down at sort of an angle at times, like sideways almost.

When I was at my old house with carpets I would sometimes sort of crawl up (as some people before me have mentioned this method). Seemed faster that way.

Yay, happy 21st NEVR!

Have a good one buddy.

At 10/13/09 01:34 AM, Gagsy wrote: Try these then.

Wow, those were excellent. I actually caught a few of those as I'm re-reading the 5th book right now.

Harry Potter is gr8!

At 10/12/09 08:41 PM, dmansland wrote:

At 10/12/09 08:38 PM, Maverick-Alex wrote:

At 10/12/09 08:30 PM, dmansland wrote:

At 10/12/09 08:25 PM, Maverick-Alex wrote:

At 10/12/09 07:18 PM, dmansland wrote: All games are easy if you know what you are doing, you know.

Obviously never touched online, ever.

I have. It's just very annoying at times.

Because it is on the Wii

PS3 actually...

Then how would you say that it's "annoying"?

Or strategy games

PC shit so I won't bother.

Yeah, you "won't bother"...

Nope, my PC is shit... well, it's a laptop and I don't own a desktop and I don't plan on buying a super computer any time soon. Besides, they don't look like my kind of games.

Right... by strategy, Maverick Alex, I hope you're referring to rts, tps, etc.?

There are tons and tons of strategy games for consoles. Who said they were for PCs? And at that statement: you don't need a "good" computer to play starcraft or many many other games.

Try playing fire emblem or advanced wars. I find them both challenging and fun. On DS or GBA. Or you could always try pc emulators?

Hmm... when I think "hardcore gamer" I think someone who plays games competitively. Play them in a competitive style as in, using rules that actual proffessionals of that game would use. So by that logic, I would consider a competitive smash player "hardcore".

When I think casual I think basically anyone who doesn't do so. But I think even more of people who don't really play games much. As in, the wii fitness mom or something along those lines.

The group of people referred to in this thread just seem to be "retards who think they're cool for bashing certain games/consoles". This person can play halo 3 12 hours a day and completely be terrible at it. But in the end he says to himself "I'm hardcore cuz i play halo and other FPS games and you play nintendo which makes you a casual fag".

And at the OP: You shouldn't let these people get to you or influence what games you choose to play.

At 10/12/09 07:30 PM, Grade-Zero wrote: Well guys, I'll be gone for a long time. Hopefully, I don't suck at smash when I return. Bye bye...

Why...

Though I can't stop you from leaving, I certainly hope you will reconsider. If not, then return soon..

I realize we hardly ever talk about smash here any more, and both this thread and the chat have become stale. I guess we just don't have much to talk about anymore... I blame myself for a lot of this. I haven't been coming on as much as I should. Time zone differences are quite difficult to overcome.

I know things will pick back up again though as we frequently have these short phases of inactivity.

At 10/11/09 02:02 AM, Matt2358 wrote: Wait Phanna goes to NG?

Yes in fact I think he used to post here and he was a mod. He may still be one, I'm not sure. His name here is "Newgrundling".

What's with that picture of.. plateaus?

CS:S

At 10/7/09 07:31 PM, The-Great-One wrote:
Questions of the Day
1. What do you think of Downloadable Conent and Patches?

They are perfectly acceptable. Yeah if you had to pay for these "upgrades" then it would seem like a bit of a scam. Companies shouldn't be able to do that. But patches allows the developer to constantly refine and improve their game.

Take starcraft 1 for example. Blizzard was constantly releasing new patches to continually balance the game. By that I mean, make sure all 3 races (zerg, protoss, terran) were as balanced as possible. Making for better gameplay.

2. What do you think of Video Game Systems working like Computers?
3. What do you think of Hackers in the Video Game Community?

It would kind of depend.

Say, some techy brawl players think that brawl is boring or unbalanced, etc. etc. So they "hack" the game to adjust it. They wanted to tweak the game mechanics a bit and also refine the character balance. They called this new version of Brawl, "Brawl+". Although I have never played this game (as it requires a few things such as the homebrew channel), I don't think this type of "hacking" is bad, or hurts anyone.

Then let's say some wise guys decide to hack mariokart so that they are giant (like if they had eaten a giant mushroom) throughout the whole race. Sure it might be irritating, but honestly with a type of game like mariokart, all I could do is laugh.

Now, I play Counter-Strike:Source on a somewhat competitive level. I play in competitive style scrims and so-forth. Hackers in CS:S is quite a problem, especially online. I'm not talking about the blatant hackers who are spinning around, running twice as fast, randomly spraying, and getting all headshots. Those guys easy to catch for the most part. I mean, the not so obvious hackers. The ones that have "wall hacks" or a slight "aimbot" that isn't too noticeable. When someone resorts to having to use hacks in order to win when it matters, on a competitive playing field where money is at stake, then it really matters.

At 10/4/09 06:12 AM, Nikenick wrote: Wow, haven't posted here in a while. Just that everytime I go to the xat chat, there's nobody there.
Anyways I'm doing great at the AiB ladder, I have 1768 points, spot number 60, and a 16-1 record. I'm going to try to be in the playoffs. I just hate laddering Americans because of the lag =/

Congrats.

And about the Brawl+ thread idea. I'll just go ahead and say it.

I really think that it will hardly get any attention. That's just how I see it though.

Happy 3k posts. You should slow down, you're catching up to me.

Company of Heroes..?

I haven't really played it though, I'll just stick with my starcraft. :)

At 9/10/09 10:37 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote:

At 9/10/09 01:31 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I myself find it fun and challenging trying to be better at some of the games I play. Don't be such a sore loser.

I'm not a sore loser, I just hate it when people assume everyone has to play competitively. When we're not, and you are, you're not being a team player or talking shit for fun. You're being an asshole. I don't want to hear "Haha noob you suck at this game, uninstall fag" just because i'm playing for fun.

No you don't. There are PLENTY of servers where you can simply play for "fun". Fun map servers, zombie mod servers, there's tons of them out there. Try setting your server filter to maps that start with zm, or mg, or fy.

When you're playing in a pub server (which I assume is the only kind you've been playing on) that can't nearly be conceived as playing "competitively". Those are 5v5 matches with specific maps and are usually password locked.

I would agree too that people who tell you to uninstall the game for sucking are assholes. Everyone starts somewhere. When I first played the game I got maybe one kill for every 10 deaths. But if you can find the right configurations (crosshair size, mouse sensitivity, etc.) and play for long enough you can surely improve your aim and get better at the game. Hell, just try to youtube search "css guide" or something. Some of the vids there have helped me.

At 9/9/09 11:59 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: Online FPS, specifically CS, has always sucked due to everyone playing being a tourneyfag.

lrn2playvgs?

I really dislike your attitude about "tourneyfags". Is it so wrong when people like playing games competitively?

I mean, you play a lot of videogames yourself but you seem to absolutely hate the "pros" in these games.

I myself find it fun and challenging trying to be better at some of the games I play. Don't be such a sore loser.

Yes.

At 9/4/09 08:18 AM, Supersteph54 wrote:

At 9/4/09 07:53 AM, Crink wrote:

At 9/4/09 05:41 AM, Supersteph54 wrote:
It's the second time I went online so I don't know any player tactics whatsoever, so I have to admit I'm no master at the game, but a huge gap in player skill?

"I'd beat the hell out of quite a lot of players if I had to be someone who in their opinion is a bad character, unless of course it's Junkypuff, sorry, Jigglypuff, since I'm experienced and know the pros and cons of quite a few characters."

Contradictions much?

I said quite a lot not all. I beat everyone who went against me in my country anyway, so I was referring to them.

And which country would that be?

Oh yeah man, I can beat anyone on my block in this game. But they really suck, so it doesn't make any difference.

Please don't say you beat 1 player modes in an attempt to make yourself "not as noob".

If you lag that bad I would recommend getting a better internet provider.

At 8/30/09 02:14 PM, burrito15 wrote:

At 3/23/08 07:09 PM, DarkSoldier wrote:

At 3/23/08 07:04 PM, PsycoticDemon wrote:

Sonic cant kill shit without his final smash though.

If you know how to use it. You can own.

If you mean spamming the same rolling attacks over and over again, then yes.

...
lrn2playssb n00b.

all items off and on "none".

At 9/1/09 07:46 AM, levusbevus wrote:

At 9/1/09 06:34 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 8/23/09 07:20 AM, solarflare67 wrote: tier whore? who the fuck listens to tiers.

Everyone listens to tiers. It's just purely unfair if you pit a team of Ubers against Standard tier Pokemon, and basically every team you listen is filled to the ears with Ubers.

Tiers are a big thing in Pokemon. OU v Ubers, Ubers would win.

Also, Wynaut and Wobbafett are counted as ubers due to being over-powered.

Go here for the full Tier list and proper ways to raise each individual Pokemon in DPP: http://www.smogon.com/dp/tiers/

This guy knows what he's talking about^

I don't own a DS so I just have a team I made on "shoddy battle". It's just a computer pokemon battle simulator. Choose any pokemon you want from any generation, give them any item, and moves, and customize their IVs and EVs. In competitive pokemon play all of your pokemon are level 100 btw.

So..

Jirachi
Kingdra
Kabutops
Scizor
Ludicolo
Starmie

At 8/27/09 11:20 AM, Supersteph54 wrote:
I have to admit that the characters aren't AMAZINGLY balanced, so some do suck, but I've seen people do very well with bad characters too. It depends on what the user's best at. If he's best at Using people with a lot of speed and a little strength, they take sonic or Sheik, but if they're better with strong and slow, they take Ganondorf or King DeDeDe or something.

Well the majority of top level players use the upper tiers. This is where the tier list becomes a little controversial. Because we think "is it the character that makes the player perform well?" or "Is it the player making the characters better."

Some characters lower on the tier list aren't as bad, they just have poor people representing them. And low tier mains do exist. Yoshi, as previously stated is rated quite low but a few players can represent him very well, beating falcos and metaknights, and so forth.

At 8/26/09 03:41 PM, Supersteph54 wrote:

At 8/26/09 03:21 PM, Crink wrote:

At 8/26/09 01:42 PM, Supersteph54 wrote:
Oh, and please don't get your hopes up. It's no use anyway.

Hmm, one thinks those words have been retracted.

Yes, yes, OK, you're good. Online lags too much for serious brawling, but good job anyways. I guess I'm too used to playing against noobs... By the way, why did you choose Captain Falcon? I thought you didn't like him...

True that. Although yesterday I read an online article that said the japanese have on average internet connectsions 4x as fast as the US.

Because Falcon is lulz worthy. I'm sure crink could have went gannon and still won too. Not that it proves that gannon beats ike or whatever.

Everyone is good with different characters that's true. And characters have their own weaknesses and strengths, also true. However some characters clearly have more strengths than weaknesses or vise versa.

At 8/20/09 11:41 PM, JingoJoe14 wrote:

At 8/20/09 08:07 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: You'll need the proper equipment to kick some TF2 ass.
You'll need a new computer. Alienware is optimal.
Also a new mouse. pro snipah mouses are only around $80 a piece.
and some razor barracuda headsets for $120 a pair.

Good luck kiddo.

hoping that was sarcasm =P

Yeah. It was. I was surprised someone told me to "suck a scout". rofl. I play cs source on a shitty little laptop. I have to use a damn config to turn off any extra shit like corpses, bullet holes etc., and with all settings on the lowest to get a decent fps (20-30) not kidding this time.

Anyway, easiest way to learn is to go out there and do it. Don't play arena, you won't get as much play time. Don't play instant respawn, you'll never learn from mistakes.

Really? I don't play tf2 but i play instant respawn deathmatch before i go into a serious scrim or something just for warmup. There you can simply focus on shooting the whole time rather than sitting around waiting for action after you were instantly owned the round started.

Maybe go watch some youtube tutorials? adjust your mouse sensitivity to your liking. And just play the game to develop some "game sense" if you know what I mean.

At 8/20/09 08:30 AM, squidly wrote: Eerm... KrazyAzn, you just said a lot of things I approve of and agree with... How am I supposed to argue now?

Also, I didn't want Crink to argue with me since I had just finished an argument a few posts ago, I need a break.

yeah... I realize that. I'm actually quite glad that you didn't say "OMFG ALL THE GAMES ARE PERFECTLY BALANCED ITS ALL ABOUT TEH SKILLZ"

you had a few errors but whatever.

Go take a nap :P

At 8/20/09 07:58 AM, squidly wrote: Crink, I don't want another argument, so your reply to this will be ignored:

That's bull shit. You as the TO are responsible for handling all of your counter-arguments. It's like saying "I can say anything to you and you can't do anything back. I'm ignoring you now" Put up a good argument please.

SSB was the MOST balanced of the games, sure Pikachu had SOME balance issues, but you were able to win with ANY character in the game, it was more dependent on skill and utilising your characters advantages.

In Brawl in Melee, the problem was there WAS NO DISADVANTAGES TO TOP TIER CHARACTERS. That's why they were so inpentrable! Strong characters weren't slow, hell, SONIC WASN'T SLOW AND HE KICKS ASS.

eh sonic is somewhere in the middle. He has bad KO power. He simply has a very good game "tricking" the opponent. But he had very good players using him and representing him to boost his tourney winnings. Tier lists can change, they always do. Like... twice a year?

Bowser and other slow characters actually got NERFED (to the point that Samus's powered up blast can't do crap to somebody at 100%,) the balance was thrown WAY off. Mario was shot and killed, his perfect balance of speed and power was lost. Ike and Marth still had the strongest smash attacks, and still were decent speed.

Bowser is better in Brawl. But Samus was indeed nerfed to hell, as with Mario, although he was average at best in melee. Ike wasn't in melee, that was roy. Marth doesn't have the strongest smash attacks even when tippered. Also, Ike is slow.

NOBODY LEARNED ANYTHING. They just kept on screwing it up more and more. I do think you can win with anybody in the game, but in all honesty, it DOES get harder when you go deeper down the tier list. Crink, there's a reason Sakurai hesitated to accept working on Brawl when he was first asked, he KNEW that he would screw it up MORE, and guess what? He was right.

I only hope for SSB4 to fix itself up, not by cutting off all 34 characters (37 if you count transformations) I actually like that, I hope for MORE characters, but I hope that Sakurai invests MORE into the balancing team, they've been doing a shitty job.

I think most of us can agree on this. But it's asking a lot. also, Sakurai said he wouldn't want to make the next smash game. Maybe someone else can pick it up.

Slow characters should be strong.
Fast characters should be weak.
Medium speed characters should be somewhere in the middle.
High jumpers should have a bad ground game.
Low jumpers should have a better ground game.

That's how it's been for the history of fight games, and the balancing team needs to know it.

They just wanted to add in more stupid trivial things like SSE, stickers, stage builder, etc. What balance team? It seems like they tested "balance" by playing 4 player ffas with items on.

Also, to the guy that complimented me about walking out of the Bandwagon, don't worry, I'm used to it, I hate the Bandwagon.

The "bandwagon" on the video game forums is a bunch of misinformed retards. Although that's not to say that people who simply aren't "on the bandwagon" aren't idiots too.

You'll need the proper equipment to kick some TF2 ass.
You'll need a new computer. Alienware is optimal.
Also a new mouse. pro snipah mouses are only around $80 a piece.
and some razor barracuda headsets for $120 a pair.

Good luck kiddo.

I think Crink just about summed up everything I wanted to say.

Also, never ever play the age card, ever. It's ironic how some 16 year old suddenly has more "credential" than a 14 year old because of age. When in reality that 16 year old is a complete scrub and understands NOTHING opposed to a 14 year old who knows what he's talking about and has played the game at a competitive level and knows all there is to know about said game.

tgo, shutup, leave the thread now. You know nothing. Go run a mile.