Video Game Confessional & Soap Box

[Riotsword]

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You didn't feel strange or anything doing that Valk? I felt wierd killing a character in Blood Omen 2 just because he had my real name.

I dunno, but if I ever found an NPC named Kirk I'd probably dislike him based solely on personal experience. It seems that every other person I've ever seen named Kirk is either a tool or a douchebag(Kirk Cameron; Kirk Maltby, Detroit Red Wings hockey player; to name a couple)

That was great. I have to admit that the 7th Saga rocked my ass sideways, but not in a good way. I hate that game.

Word. The last time I played that, I had that priest as my ally, and I accidentally allied with another guy, and couldn't get the priest back, and ended up having to kill him later on.

And that game's not really enjoyable even when cheating.

[marcus]

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It seems that every other person I've ever seen named Kirk is either a tool or a douchebag

I know exactly what you mean. I knew this game named Kirk from 6th grade who was the biggest douche I've ever met in any of the dozen or so countries I've been too (and I've met a lot of douches).

I might actually purchase Kings Field JUST to find Valk's character and murder him good.

[Kefka Jr.]

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-I actually got Justin all the spells and skills in Grandia.

Get this. I learned Time Gate... but I never had enough MP to actually use it.

[tjoris9]

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I too have a confession... I love stealth games, but I hate Splinter Cell! I'll say it again, I hate Splinter Cell!!! I feel better now that I got that one off my chest. I've heard nothing, but how good it is for the longest time (not from the pavvies, just people in general.) I played it, got bored with it, then got ****ed at it.

I agree. I think mainly it's because Tom Clancy can write a good book about international intrigue, but he can't make a good stealth video game. I loved Rainbow Six 1 and 2, because they combined semi-realistic tactical planning with FPS combat. Rainbow Six 3 sucked because you only had the one team and the levels were so goddamned linear.

There should be a kick ass pirate game for consoles. You'd think the recent success of a pirate movie might get some people thinking about that.

Sid Meier's Pirates needs to be put on consoles.

Even though RPGs are my favorite genre of game and first person shooters one of my least favorite genres, I despise most RPGs but like most FPSs.

I don't like RPG's much at all anymore either. I like to MAKE them, but I just don't have the patience for all the sidequests and bullshit that Square and other companies use to recycle maps. I think my favorite genre's are in order from most to least favorite: flight sims, Contra-style shooters, Geopolitical simulators, driving games, and FPS's. My only beef with FPS's is that they put you in places that are so ****ing DARK you can't see anything anymore.

While we're on the subject, I hate tactics games and real-time strategy games. Tactics games just feel so artificial, and RTS's usually kick my ass unless if I put the difficulty on easy.

I actually enjoyed Terminator 2: Judgement Day for the Super Nintendo. It is one of my favorite SNES games.

Ditto. Alien 3 is also one of the best action/adventure games ever made. Those two games prove that movie games don't all suck.

I made a demo on XP that details some of what happened before Fatal Insanity Episode 3 a week before XP was legally released. (I did spend my $60, though, to make it legal)

I played a woman on Guild Wars once. Mostly because I made a hottie, partly because I was curious how people would react to me. If you want people to pay more attention to you, play a female.

I spend way too much time posting here and playing other games, and too little time working with RPGM. If I actually took RPGM more seriously I'd have at least 10 games on this site.

I wrote a short story in grade school based on part of FF4. I had to read it aloud in front of the class. When I got to the part about Edward's girlfriend dying I burst into laughter.

In Superpower 2 as the U.S. I nuked Iraq with at least 50 bombs and nobody did anything. I didn't even lose a single trade agreement. I even had a positive approval rating. It wasn't until I started annexing northern Africa that World War 3 broke out. Europe didn't get involved till I nuked Paris, Berlin, London, and several other cities. It was awesome, and I never really did get to see what the end result would be. It looked pretty bad for the home team, though.

I sold a ton of NES games to pay for a prom date with a girl I liked in High School. It was easily one of the biggest cataclysms in dating history. Dinner plans fell through, she avoided me most of the night, and she told me at the end of the night that she was engaged to some guy in the navy. Seriously, I have lots of luck with women... bad luck.

I think RPGM3 has quite a bit more potential than anybody here is willing to give it credit for. And I intend to prove it.

I think KOEI was one of the best strategy game companies out there until they decided that they were only going to make Dynasty Warriors and Romance of the Three Kingdoms games. I'm holding my breath for a new Uncharted Waters game. *dies*

*returns from grave to edit this post*
Also, my favorite thing to do in GTA 3 is to put in the codes that give everyone weapons and makes them shoot at each other. Then I survive as long as I can starting with no weapons at all. The other GTA's just don't do this right. The civvies don't get enough molotov cocktails, grenades, and rocket launchers, and don't use them enough.

[DarkwingChuck]

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I've just recently started actually playing GTA San Andreas and I'm thorougly enjoying it. I pretty much suck at it and have to do missions a dozen times to complete them. And I still can't figure out how to turn off the siren when I steal a police car or fire truck but somehow I'm having a world of fun. One reason is that Ryder looks and acts exactly like a cousin of mine and Big Smoke reminds me of Cedric the Entertainer. I got CJ to max muscle and never put a shirt on him because... well, yeah.

[Crimson Knight]

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I don't see why Halo is regarded as a great game, mediocre even. Wow, it looks a few pixels better, big deal. I mean, no one cares that the LEVEL DESIGN BLEW, or that YOU COULD BE MAKING POT ROAST WHILE THE GAME LOADS. And the arsenal and multiplayer was unbalanced and meager. And you know, the vehicles are useless.

And FFIV/II/WTFE... I hate that game. It would've been fun if I didn't have to level up to SIX BILLION just to progress in the storyline. Leveling up for 3 hours straight, just to do it again after a plot point is not fun.

I don't see why online play makes everyone have an orgasm, then people mark the developers for death for not putting it in, because it's pointless. Online serves as a great multiplayer fix for those with friends, and kind of empty for those without. People cheat, rank whore, and generally make having a headset vulgarity theater.

I also don't see why people are praising Midway for their MK fighting games, those after MK4 in particular. These games have an elaborate fighting system sure, BUT IT'S DAMN BROKEN. Not broken as in, after a year people find awesome tricks to execute bold moves, but broken as in YOU CAN SPAM A MOVE JUST BY SIDESTEPPING. The games have more obvious bugs than their old games. I'll give you an example.

In MK Deception, you can easily win a match by doing this with Bo Rai Cho:

Hit the opponent once, vomit, SS, vomit, SS, repeat until the clock runs out. Easy win. You can do the same with Scorpion. And probably a host of other fighters. Not only that, but their combo system is counter-productive, giving you leeway to do ridiculous combo damage by actually making unorthodox combos(with less hits mind you) that are difficult to do because of the way the system is designed. Newbies can do infinites with almost any character, just memorize a minimum of 3 moves. These exploits and more... were discovered a few weeks after Deadly Alliance and Deception's release. Midway's public response to this? "Every fighting game has problems". No, just yours. Major problems.

Oh, and let's tackle their animation problem. After you do an attack, you get an input delay time of probably 3-4 seconds. Why you ask? Supposedly, it was because so people couldn't do infinites and better combos than the ones Midway canned. As you can see by the various exploits for Deception and Deadly Alliance, IT DIDN'T ******* WORK. Even with cheat codes to make animations faster, you get an EVEN LONGER INPUT DELAY. Deception made the gameplay slightly faster. How? By making animations faster(duh.). They didn't even touch the input delay. Now, you'd think that by Armageddon, they would've gotten rid of such a stupid thing. Nope, it's still there by the looks of the gameplay videos. What, Midway can't find a good enough programmer that can fix it!? Pitiful.

And now thanks to air combos, I bet Armageddon will have more exploits than the previous two games combined.

And you know? I'm tired of people assuming they know everything about game development, when they probably haven't even touched a RPG Maker game. These certain people(not anyone at the RPG Maker Pavilion), think that the developers can add an extra, unique move to a character in 5 minutes. While development has gotten easier over the years, it's not by that much.

These same people in question also whine too damn much about the insignificant faults in games. Tales of Legendia US had a few voice clips omitted compared to the JP version and importers whined about it. Now that the game is released, EVERYONE AND THEIR GRANDMA is complaining to the staff. It's not that bad. It takes away from the experience somewhat. But seriously, it's nothing to write back about.

And the ungratefulness ticks me off too. I think people need to appreciate the jobs people in the industry do more. I mean yeah, some games are badly done, but what about those that are done well? But wait, THEY'RE TOO SHORT, SO THEY'RE NOT DONE WELL HUR HUR.


*sigh* I'm done.

[Magus]

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I'm either in a horrible slump or I'm absolutely terrible at MGS3.

[Loki]

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Sid Meier's Pirates needs to be put on consoles.

Seems like someone is out of the loop.

[highwind]

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I've been scared to play MGS3 because I'm afraid that I won't like it and that it will confirm that I don't really like videogames anymore.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Yeah. Snake Eater is supposed to RECONFIRM your love for videogames. If that doesn't work, it's all over.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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I just bought Subsistence a week ago and thats happeing with me.

I can pop in 2, and RAPE soldiers left and right at gun point. But when it comes to MGS3, I just cant do it right, and they see me, and I have wait ANOTHER 90+sec until they leave. Thereso many parts of the game where Im just running past guards not caring if they see me because I dont ****ing feel like waiting for them to go away so I can sneak by. Most of the time they cant even hit me anyway.

*rambles on about MGS3 including spoilers*

























Whats with the easy ass bosses in MGS3 anyway. I also dont have the same emotional ties to them that I had to the MGS2 crew, so Im not sad when I kill them. With Fortune going apeshit with the rail gun in that storage room, was traumatizingly cool. Dont even get me started on Vamp. He defines Badass. Fatman was freaking cool too.....but these MGS3 guys.....

The Pain.....please "OH HE SHOOTS RED BEES NOW! I DONT EVEN HAVE TO CHANGE MY TACTICS AT ALL!" Easy.

The Fear took me a few times, but once I noticed that I could see leaves falling from where he was jumping, I followed the leaves around, let him shoot at me exposing his position, THEN HE JUST SITS THERE WAITING TO GET SHOT. Easy.

The old Sniper guy(cant remeber his name) beat him on my first try, took me half an hour. At first I saw a small glimmer from his sniper lens, so I zoomed in and hit him once, and he ran off. I saw his freaking foot prints and started tracking him around. I just came up behind him and blasted him 3 times with my shot gun. Shoot him, he gets knocked down, assoon as he reaches fora grenade, shot him again, and again, etc. He tosses a flash grenade thing, and runs off. Followed his foot prints, rinse and repeat. A couple times I lost track of his foot prints so I just stood in the open waiting to get shot. Whatever direction I fell in, he was obviously in the opposite. So I ran over there, found him again. If his shots actually did major damage to me and not just drained my stamina, he would have been harder. I got shot quite a few times. EASY.

Im really hoping they all come back for revenge fights(even though they all exploded WTF), where they are all ****** off and 100x times harder.





























*Ends rant*

[Crimson Knight]

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I only like MGS3 for the multi, I couldn't care less about the SP game, it bored the hell out of me. Everytime I'd get spotted, they go to alert and I'd have to wait too long for things to go back to normal, at that point reseting is a good option, because you'd just be running around getting shot. I liked the way it was in the last 2 games.

[Maijo]

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Let's say that good 'ol Maijo has never played a Metal Gear Solid game, heard good things and wanted to try one outn not being a big fan of stealth or shooter games of any kind.

Would old Maijo like?

[Crimson Knight]

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I say you should start with good ol' MGS, especially any of the VR based games like MGS VR missions and MGS2 Substance. MGS is basic compared to the other games, but it gets you into the MGS groove.

[Maijo]

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But what if ol' Maijo were only going to attempt to pick up one.