...liking Barney...ever.

Being two is not an excuse.

Playing Alien vs. Predator in the dark as a marine. The beeps of your motion detector would keep me constantly panicky and then suddenly "OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCKANALIEN" and I'd start backwheeling like crazy trying to kill a fucking speedy little alien with my machine gun. Scariest damn gaming experience I've ever gone though (more so than any Resident Evil).

Kalas from Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean.

Irritating prick from the start, "In this world, there are things that people mustn't touch.... WHO CARES?" Ugh, I wanted to force him out of my party the entire damn game (succeed in that during one glorious point). It's really mostly just his voice actor that irritates me, who wasn't needed in the first place because the fucking Japanese version had a better English voice actor than the actual English version.

It is my personal experience and opinion that sex is highly overrated. It's not like there's any extra chemicals in a sex orgasm than a fap orgasm. The end result is exactly the same, people. Sex is just way more of a hassle. The only extra enjoyment I achieve through sex is done vicariously through the lady. Otherwise, I get better results through complete control.

At 7/28/09 08:41 AM, TJoyal wrote: Should I still date her and try to get stuff out of the relationship?

It's good practice.

Though she might end up being super clingy, which would be bad...

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Thar

At 7/26/09 10:13 PM, explodingbunnies wrote: alright, i know FPS's are fun, and i like to play them, but why is FPS/TPS genre dominant to EVERY other genre?

They're not. The three biggest genres are currently action, music, and sports.

At 7/28/09 08:01 AM, sushi13 wrote: Is it just me or does it seem strange that there are people who never played Pokemon until now? I bet forums across the internet were filled with posts like this 10 years ago but you'd kinda expect the whole world to have played the game through by now.

Everyone has some classic games that somehow or another passed their attention. I for one have never played certain classics such as Civilization, Counter Strike, or Chrono Trigger.

You know, that game you have that nobody else owns or has even heard of. The one you break and say "check this shit out, betcha never seen anything like it".

What do I have? Oh, just a little game known as Cho Aniki: Kyukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyo Otoko a.k.a. "the gayest game ever" :3

At 7/27/09 11:53 PM, burrito15 wrote: Wizzrobe (Zelda: Wind Waker)?

Brush up on your Zelda knowledge, Wizzrobes have been around since the beginning (and were such a bitch).

Basically, just played a shitload of multiplayer Dr. Mario yesterday. Solo, I'm working my way through Riviera: The Promised Land.

At 7/28/09 07:24 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote: You can catch Drowzee in the route east of Vermilion.
It's not going to teleport right at the start of the battle, either.

I forgot about Drowzee, mostly because I never used him.

Any Nintendo franchise...rated M.

This thread is about as pointless as asking what your favorite marionette film is.

WAIT WAIT LET ME GUESS

Go catch an Abra (tall grass north of Misty's gym), it's going to be your only psychic for a damn long while.

At 7/28/09 07:09 AM, Crashman wrote: That game, Megaman Legends/64 for PS1 and N64.

Funny, given your name, I'd assume Mega Man 2 as being more important to you.

In terms of sheer awesomeness, there is no debate: the cerebral bore.

At 7/28/09 07:01 AM, Aigis wrote: I'm not going to do a whole list, because the only game that has had a major influence on my gaming habits is Final Fantasy VII.

FFVII was pretty influential for me too. I specifically remember thinking that I was about halfway through the game when suddenly I realized there was a world map. I couldn't believe that Midgar was just the first level. Also, somehow I played the game without any of it ever being spoiled for me, so the obvious part shocked the hell out of me. Playable characters just don't die 3/4ths of the way through the game and never come back, it just simply isn't done. No game has ever come close to having a better twist than that.

I was never a bad enough dude.

What games had the most influence over you as a gamer? Not necessarily your favorite games, but the games that shaped the way you play video games the most.

Here are my top 10 most personally influential games:

#10: Warcraft III - I played this game obsessively for an entire year. The multitude of tricks and strategies was endless, and the ranked matches constantly gave the perfect level of difficulty. Playing over a dial-up connection was such a bitch though, and the number of games I lost due to disconnections forced me to never obtain the rankings I deserved. After a year of not playing, the game became impossible for me to pick up again due to the massive changes in balancing all the patches brought (WTF is with "unarmed" damaged? WTF, gargoyles suck now. WTF, ghoul rush has been completely nerfed.) I never had the time or dedication to relearn what was good again, but I will always remember that halcyon year.

#9: Pokemon Blue - At the time, Pokemon was completely without peer. Here was a portable RPG with more depth than virtually any other game at the time, for any console. For a system with games that regularly could be beaten in an hour, Pokemon took weeks (and friends) for those with a completionist mindset to complete. Clearly, the game was not without its flaws: the types were incredibly poorly balanced (psychic pokemon were ridiculously overpowered; bug/ghost/dragon/normal/poison types virtually useless), most pokemon were simply caught and never used, and the game can get massively repetitive (I've never been able to bring myself to replay it fully). But despite all of that, the first playthrough was incredibly addictive and fascinating to my younger self. Mock it all you want for being "kiddie" (I entirely blame the anime for that mindset), but pitting monsters to battle it to the death (I like to think of "fainting" as a euphemism) is amazingly badass. I've wished for an M-rated Pokemon spinoff ever since.

#8: StarCraft - The game that I still can find sold at my local Wal-Mart over a decade after it was released. If that's not an impressive display of this game's timelessness, then I don't know what is. The single-player was the finest RTS experience I ever experience, the mutiplayer is always grand fun (best done with friends though), and the custom maps offered some of the most fascinatingly odd online experiences ever.

#7: Rez - At a time that I was burnt out on video games and newly experimenting with drugs, Rez completely revitalized the gamer in me with its amazingly unique and entrancing gameplay. Although short, it just makes its epicness all the more concentrated. Very little can match playing Rez high as fuck, music cranked, and with a Trance Vibrator strapped to your heart (that's right, I own the Japanese imported version). If you own a Xbox 360, I insist that you give this game a try (at a $10 download price, the game is an absolute bargain, and there's a demo to convince you if you're wary). Absolutely the greatest example of a video game as art.

#6: Pokemon Puzzle League - Ironically, a game that I never intended to purchase has become the most addictive game I've ever played. Ignore the pointless Pokemon license and focus on the multiplayer aspect. If you can find a friend willing to match wits against you, I promise the most frantic and enjoyable puzzle multiplayer experience to be had. I have logged more hours on this game than probably any other, to the extent that I can literally play the game without thinking about it. Playing against an equally matched friend has never gotten old, and that's something that no other video game has ever achieved for me.

#5: Super Mario RPG - The first RPG I ever played, which is important due to being my favorite genre. Charming, easy but not boring, and wonderfully balanced (I never had to grind), it was an experience that I can compare all other RPGs against.

#4: Yoshi's Island - One of my earliest video games, and the first to completely absorb me with its atmosphere. This game was excellent in every respect: the artwork, the music (I loved so much I manually tape recorded it), the unique gameplay, the level design, and it introduced me to my favorite characters ever, yoshis and shy guys. It was the first game that I was a diehard fan for, and searching out Yoshi fansites in the early days of the Internet still sticks with me.

#3: GoldenEye 007 - For the entirety of my youth, this was the game to play. Every single time me and my friends got together, it had to be played. Some of the game setups will always stick with my as classics: proximity mines in the facility, remote mines in the archives, pistols in the stack, grenade launchers in the surface, power weapons in the complex...and always on licensed to kill. Many of my greatest memories are of playing this game. It is the perfect FPS and simply can never be matched.

#2: Donkey Kong Land - The first video game I ever owned. And for a while, the ONLY one. Me and my Game Boy would go along on every car ride, playing this game endlessly.

#1: Commander Keen - The first video game I ever played (didn't "own" it, it was shareware). Painfully easy by current standards, it was the perfect difficulty for me as a pre-elementary school lad. Without Keen's influence, who knows how I might have turned out?

Boy: Artanis (Art for short)
Girl: Imoen (Immy for short)

The great thing about my names is that they are unique enough to be interesting, but have innocous enough nicknames to pass as more traditional names (Arthur and Emily), thus alleviating schoolyard taunting.

Source of inspiration: StarCraft and Baldur's Gate, respectively.

At 7/28/09 02:00 AM, rubber-dum-dum wrote: in books, TV, and games i just love it when they include steam punk items and people. I don't know why i love it but i do. Anyone else love steam punk, please give your reasons why.....

Name two good steampunk films. You've got Steamboy, and what's next? Wild Wild West?

At 7/28/09 02:57 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: Cyberpunk = better. Who can resist the awesomeness of:

Tetsuo: Iron Man.
Electric Dragon 80,000 v.
Rubber's Lover.
Akira.
A Snake of June.

The man knows of what he speaks.

I'm going to outline a simple format for this thread, if people follow it then it should turn out decently.

a) Start a post with reply-comments to films mentioned in the thread you've seen.
b) End a post with a blurb about an unmentioned film (singular) you particularly enjoy. Include an image.
c) NO LISTS. Lists are just a lazy, egotistical way for people to try and express too many of their personal opinions all at once and bogs down any discussions. One movie per post.

I'm going to kick things off with Watchmen, which was released on DVD recently and I finally got to watch (I was sadly unable to see it in theaters). The IGN review's comment of "It's the Watchmen film you always wanted to see, but never expected to get" pretty much sums it up for me. I've read the comic (which is equally great) and never expected for it to get a proper film treatment. To me, the Watchmen film is as surprising as the Lord of the Rings films, in the sense that they both adapted from works that seemed too long and complex to ever get films that could do them justice. I also found it surprisingly faithful. For a big budget film to be this dark and mature and not be Hollywood-ized for accessibly was very refreshing.
Another impressive thing is that I was engaged for all 2.5 hours worth, even during a second viewing, when I usually tire of films that go over two hours. I'd say it's within my top ten favorite films now and is certainly my pick for best comic book based film (yes, topping The Dark Knight.

At 7/21/09 10:50 PM, BREAKOUT wrote: There's a big difference between saying "This sucks" and "This is not Pink Floyd's best album" .

Idiot.

Indeed there is, and if you had read carefully you would be able to tell that I don't like Dark Side of the Moon at all. I disliked Pink Floyd entirely until I heard Meddle, which is completely redeeming.

I have tried so many times to like that fucking album. I have listened to it sober, stoned, tripping, and synched to Wizard of Oz. It's just no damn good. I defy anyone to tell me that Meddle is not a superior album. The epicness of "Echoes" alone dwarfs anything in the tame and unadventurous Dark Side. Frankly, Dark Side of the Moon is psychedelia for pussies who can't stomach properly interesting experimental music.

At 7/13/09 11:47 PM, BlindShoemaker wrote: This one guy I work with claims that whenever he does "it" it usually lasts anywhere from 2 to 3 hours.

He's just trying to put a positive spin on his erectile dysfunction.

STAY UP! STAY UP, DAMN YOU!

At 7/14/09 08:23 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: If you've ever found yourself tapping your feet and nodding your head to a song, imagine being in a room full of 3000 people with the music chugging from guys playing it right in front of you and you're all instead of feet tapping jumping up and down and having a great time.

Personally, I rarely find myself in such situations. I'm a stoic music listener. Dancing of any sort lacks appeal for me unless I'm really fucked up on drugs. Frankly, I find non-organized dancing to be an idiotic display of having no self control.

At 7/14/09 08:23 PM, Actionkiller wrote: Move out.

"Every time I visit"

Read moar.

Because people are deluded into thinking that seeing/hearing something in real life is always superior to watching/listening to something recorded. People get a kick out of their own sense of bullshit elitism towards reality.

At 7/7/09 12:06 AM, NeverHundred wrote: I wont fall in love until I meet a girl who plays the keytar.

Stop creaming over Freezepop.