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At 5/14/09 12:18 AM, UltimatBaSS wrote:

At 5/13/09 09:28 PM, Dragoonwing wrote: I hear no one talk about Harvest Moon and it's been around longer than some of the games on your list.

Good call there. Harvest Moon is amazing, you can start playing in the morning then bam its night time already, it draws you in so quickly...

Harvest Moon was a great game, but it was pretty recognized as such, I thought.

At 5/13/09 10:37 PM, X-TERRORIST-X wrote:

At 5/12/09 03:04 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote: Article

I wouldn't mind America becoming more like Europe, to be brutally honest.

Being white, and descendant from German and Italian cultures, I visit Europe a lot and I think the system is much better than here in America. There isn't as many gangs because, let's face it, there isn't as many black people. Don't label me as racist because of that, it's the gods-honest truth.

That is not just racist, but completely ignorant. Your statement assumes that blackness leads to gangs, which is so far from the truth. The reason that the black community in the United States have a gang problem is because of their historical socio-economic position in American society, NOT because they are black. The only relevance that being black has to the topic is that the slaves that were imported into the United States were strictly black, so the idea formed that black = slaves and slaves = black, and that thus blacks are inferior.

This is a relatively new idea which began in the 1500's when the Portuguese started establishing slave trade ports around Africa. For thousands of years before that, slaves were those who were conquered.

So, apologize all you want for not being racist while making absolutely racist comments. It's almost humourous.

While diversity is a good thing, I think Europe has their priorities in order.

Right.

At 5/13/09 02:01 AM, Phobotech wrote: Einhander: an incredibly badass side-scrolling shooter for the Playstation. Few people have even heard of it, and those of you who have and played it? I will blow you for a copy.

I remember this game. I'm pretty sure I still have the Playstation Magazine demo disc that had this on it.

Worms Armageddon: endless fun...I could play that game for days on end.

Great game, I agree here.

and Homeworld 2... Absolutely brilliant space-themed strategy game with spherical, three-dimensional maps and massive fleets of ships at your disposal. I'M STILL trying to buy the full version of this game...and I wish they would make a sequel...

The only thing I liked better about the original Homeworld was the fact that you could view battles from the cockpit of one of the tiny ships at your disposal.

At 5/12/09 07:17 AM, zendahl wrote: the constitution gives states the right to leave. It does not however say that once you leave and form your own country that you are guaruanteed never to have to fight a war with the USA who want to reclaime the land and reunify. It also protects you from being tried for treason when you leave. That is why southern military members were not tried and executed after the war (Bet you didn't know that that tidbit is all thanks to the second ammendment, you know the one that everyone hates).

The second amendment says absolutely nothing about being able to secede, or how secessionist people should be treated. In fact, the constitution says nothing about it, and it does not give the states the right to leave.

Point to one spot in it where it does.

Stretch your wrists a lot, otherwise you could get carpal tunnel.

Well done man. I wish you at least hit the guy harder. Make him ugly.

Ugh, I would hate if America was more like Europe - cheaper, more convenient public transport, more widespread health care, better education...

That would be sickening.

At 5/12/09 12:48 PM, SonicSheep wrote: Well by that, then the French and the British are Vikings!

The Franks came from Norway and went to France.

No, the Franks were a Germanic confederation that formed in Western Europe, around the Rhine. The Franks originally ran almost all of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, and then the Frankish empire were divided into Western (France) and Eastern (German) portions.

You are probably thinking of the Normans - the Normans were viking invaders that conquered Normandy (hence the name), as well as lots of other places (including all the way down to Sicily). The Normans then settled where they went, and then they invaded England in 1066 (William the Conqueror).

The Anglo-Saxons invaded England.

The Angles were from Northern Germany and the Saxons were from more Eastern.

Then Saxons were Invaded by the Normans, who were a Viking tribe, which invaded northern France, then invaded England!

True, you are right about the Normans, but you are not right about the Franks.

And the Scottish and the welsh were pretty much left alone, so then its only the English that are French/Vikings.

The Scottish were actually almost constantly pestered by the Vikings, as were the Welsh, Cornish, and Irish (Dublin was originally a Viking colony).

At 5/12/09 05:37 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote: Didn't a Celtic tribe move from Britain to the Brittany peninsular after the Saxons came.

Indeed.

French and English are complicated mixes.

Everyone is, with a few exceptions.

The Space Quest series also deserves a mention. They were a witty, odd bunch of point and click/text games, as well as the Police Quest ones.

At 5/11/09 08:17 PM, Chiklay4 wrote: I'm seeing a lot of non-underrated games

Which ones do you mean, out of curiousity?

Some discussion of the games would be nice, instead of merely stating a game and getting a +1 post count.

At 5/12/09 02:07 PM, MisterRPG wrote: The only problem I see with these flashes is that they don't appear to belong to the owner, as this comic has apparently been around since 1991. If I had to guess, since I don't feel like hunting down a copy, he scanned a couple, added in his crappy music and voiceovers and called it a flash.

The flash seemed to be done completely in flash, with the exception of the picture of the comic at the beginning.

This might answer your questions.

Install the newest drivers for your graphics card, and perhaps try some patches for the game.

At 5/11/09 01:39 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote: Why England is Bad:

When was the last time you've been?

At 5/11/09 01:47 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote: same as the CIA (which is much better than M15)

If by better you mean better at destroying civil liberties, you may not be far off, although I reckon MI5 will be close in competition.

At 5/11/09 10:02 PM, PineappleWinnie wrote: Placing dictators in Chile and Brazil was bad, very bad. Those countries belonged to the Soviet Union, you bastard. :P

The democratically elected, slightly socialist leaning presidents belonged to the Soviet Union? Just like Sweden belongs to China, right?

At 5/11/09 10:17 PM, RidoKilos wrote: Seriously. The only thing Halo did for FPSs was vehicles... Which I'm pretty sure was started from something else anyways.

Red Faction even had Vehicles before Halo, and you could burrow through walls... But Codename Eagle was even before that, the predecessor to Battlefield 1942: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Ea gle

Halo influenced games, as people say, by mainstreaming the idea of regenerating health. It was not a special shooter in its own right other than that.

Red Faction, by the way, pushed FPS games a bit further, by adding some awesome destructibility, but for some reason it never caught on. Perhaps the new one will be more influential.

At 5/12/09 12:45 AM, Bassz wrote: I'd say Half-Life revolutionized shooters for the PC. As for shooters in general, without a doubt, you can't ignore Doom. However, Wolfenstein topics seem to mingle with Doom a lot.

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS as we now call it, that is, a first person game that isn't restricted to a vehicle.

At 5/11/09 09:55 PM, 51430 wrote: The Homeworld series.

Those games shot life and innovation right back into the 3D space RTS genre, and everybody forgets about good ol' Homeworld. GOD DAMMIT.

Ah, shit, that's what I meant when I wrote "Homeplanet. Woops...

At 5/11/09 08:42 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: ...now that 3D Realms is gone, who do you think would be the best bet? Valve?

That doesn't really seem their style, they seem pretty fond of (and capable of) creating their own franchises. So I doubt it.

Perhaps someone like id, since they are already a similar style.

At 5/11/09 07:23 PM, PineappleWinnie wrote: If the USA signs its surrender in front of Cuba, Cuba will be a lot nicer to the USA.

Cuba 1, USA 0.

Please tell me what opening diplomacy will be surrendering?

We certainly can't say that it will be surrendering to the demands of dictators in Latin America, since we have actually directly placed dictators in power in the past - even during the embargo of Cuba.

At 5/11/09 03:41 PM, DirtySyko wrote: But then again, SOCOM was released before Halo 2, and it had pretty solid gameplay for an online console game. So once again, Halo doesn't really rightly deserve the spot. Halo was more popular than SOCOM, sure, but it's not about what's popular, it's about what game was the first to do something right.

SOCOM was third person, not FPS.

Anyways, for console influence, Goldeneye still wins in my book.

I agree, definitely. Goldeneye for console FPS's, Half Life 1 and 2 for making the FPS a legitimate story-telling game.

At 5/11/09 07:32 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Tomba

Dude, absolutely. Tomba was so creative, interesting, colorful, and difficult. I remember really getting immersed in that game.

Okami
Viewtiful Joe
Earthbound
The Legend of Dragoon

I agree here too, somewhat.

I thought of another one! If any of you know it I will be very impressed: Heart of Darkness

At 5/11/09 06:44 AM, Kuro wrote: When you say 'underrated,' what exactly do you mean?

That the game isn't liked as much as it should be by the people who have played it, or that the game didn't garner as many sales as it should have?

Both, and with the restrictions I placed above.

And no, no pokemon game will ever be underrated unless they actually do something new.

At 5/11/09 10:22 AM, Shinobi13 wrote:

At 5/11/09 01:52 AM, Tancrisism wrote: Legend of Legaia

You just took my heart. First game to come to mind.

Fuck yeah.

At 5/9/09 09:55 PM, scetch00 wrote: Well the game is an amazing experience. Its a great definition of BRAINS over BRAWN.

Recommend +1?

Recommend +2. A great, creative game that pushed the PS2 beyond what I thought it was capable of.

At 5/11/09 02:49 AM, Helogale wrote: I liked it better than Modern Warfare and World at War. Massive maps, big teams, and no fucking perks. Now, all anybody wants is a run and gun.

As well as horrible AI, shoddy game mechanics, bad level designs, and a ridiculous tank level which is somehow worse than the tank level in World at War.

Modern Warfare has some levels which are run and gun, such as the American ones, but to say that's all it is shows that you probably didn't play all the way through it. The American in the game dies at the end of the first third of it, and the British only have a few levels of intense run and gun. Otherwise it's really quite diverse.

At 5/11/09 01:12 AM, MrCrawford wrote: Brief philosophical question.

Schopenhauer opines that Will must be known before Reason, and that only by overcoming and transcending the Will do we attain a higher sphere of being.

One must will to reason.

Do you agree?

I do.

I do too. It goes along with a lot of Buddhist ideas, that one must transcend the material world.

It should be known that Will is a slightly different thing in German than in English. In German, "Willen" is much more frequently used, and is used for "want" as well as to will something.

At 5/11/09 02:20 AM, Helogale wrote:

At 5/5/09 03:30 PM, halfangelfreak wrote: Call of Duty, but I hated the fifth.

Why did you hate Call of Duty 3?

In all honesty, Call of Duty 3 was godawful.

At 5/11/09 02:04 AM, Jin wrote: Azure Dreams.

There certainly are many gems if you look long enough. I've played Legend of Legaia. It is truely a great game.

I'm impressed that you know it. It's quite possibly my favorite RPG, besides Fallout 2 and the games Bioware has pumped out.

At 5/11/09 02:38 AM, GodsBitch wrote: I wouldn't so much say that Mafia was under rated, unless people chose to play it on the console ports which were supposedly "awful" but I still thought they were pretty good for the time. Most people that played Mafia think it was a great game.

The console ports were quite bad because of the glitchiness and the long load times.

Most people who played it definitely think it's a great game, but you'll find that number is drastically less than it should be.

I can't wait for Mafia II.

Same man.

I'm a bigger Starcraft fan than Diablo, but I have been much more impressed by the Diablo 3 videos than the Starcraft. Starcraft seems like it will suck up a lot more money.

Chex Quest, no fucking question.

It revolutionized FPS' that came in cereal boxes.

Well, I guess it was the only one...

Ah, I forgot Rez. That definitely deserves a mention.