2004

Burr · March 2004

Year of the Gamer? Sure I mean Half Life 2 supposedly comes out this year, but it is also Year of the Major Letdowns, what with the canning of Sam and Max 2 and the "shelving" of Fallout 3....

*sigh*, year of depression more like it..

DOOManiac · March 2004

Oh bah. People say the same thing every year. :P

"OMG? Prey has been cancelled? WTH NOOOoo"

RustySpoon · March 2004

Is STALKERS release public yet?
If not I still have time to buy some hardware and beat all of you to it.

(AND SPOIL THE PLOT BUHAHAHAHAHAAA!!11§)

Starchy · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burr @ Mar 8 2004, 07:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Year of the Gamer? Sure I mean Half Life 2 supposedly comes out this year, but it is also Year of the Major Letdowns, what with the canning of Sam and Max 2 and the "shelving" of Fallout 3....

*sigh*, year of depression more like it.. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Sooooo true, I'm so sad I think I might have to play 'Sam & Max Hit The Road' again! Man I love that game....**cries**...

Shloom · March 2004

I'm gonna get Sims 2 and try and make a grow op thats bigger than the one that was in the molson plant <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Crono5 · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quaunaut @ Mar 7 2004, 09:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Well, if you have a XBox and a extra 200 bucks, I'd get on eBay and buy "Steel Batallion" and its sequel with the special controller.

Lets just say...well, just starting your mech is worth that 200.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I know of Steel Batallion and it's custom 5 bajillion-buttoned joystick, and yes, I've thought about getting it. But what I mean is fast paced thruster light-sword combo action. Zone of the Enders 2 style, not MechWarrior style.

Zig · March 2004

once halo 2 comes out, i will never again see the light of day =\

on that note, i really hope that the improved AI makes legendary mode even harder!!!

god, i love legendary.

Starchy · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Mar 8 2004, 03:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> once halo 2 comes out, i will never again see the light of day =\

on that note, i really hope that the improved AI makes legendary mode even harder!!!

god, i love legendary.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Man Halo is so p00r...

Crono5 · March 2004

I can't even beat the game on Legendary :\ I have beat the first and last levels and a few between, but The Index is the major level that keeps me from beating it. I can do it all on Heroric, but that's not really anything major :X

Geminosity · March 2004

in halo 2 you can jump on vehicles and kick the driver out while it's still moving o.O

Anyways... Run from PSO III! RUN!!! I've seen videos of it in action and it looks insanely boring. Seriously... they took out one of the things I truely loved about PSO (real-time combat with timing... ohhh the boss fights... ) and replaced it with one of the slowest moving board-games with cards I've ever witnessed on a console screen -.-

with the new tekki/steel battallion: front line forces being online I'm severely tempted =3
Just wish they'd stop renaming stuff when it gets outside of japan... tekki is such a cool name, and 'Assault suits vulcan' sounded way niftier than 'cybernator' @.@

Crono5 · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Mar 8 2004, 04:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> 'Assault suits vulcan' sounded way niftier than 'cybernator' @.@  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
LOL
I've never heard of that, though.
Any news on Duke Nukem Forever? Or has that just died out?

Crono5 · March 2004

ACK! OMG! WTH!?

<a href='http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=450941&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1' target='_blank'>http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/show...sb=5&o=&fpart=1</a>

Apparentley they're now just concentrating on the levels!!! <b>SCORE</b> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' />

twoflow · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Mar 8 2004, 09:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Anyways... Run from PSO III! RUN!!! I've seen videos of it in action and it looks insanely boring. Seriously... they took out one of the things I truely loved about PSO (real-time combat with timing... ohhh the boss fights... ) and replaced it with one of the slowest moving board-games with cards I've ever witnessed on a console screen -.-  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Rather that than another sequel with a new level and De Rols / Dragons with different skins.

Zig · March 2004

lol flint

hm..

if i could mod a PC version of PSO, i would make one with bigger levels... slightly more open space. none of this maze crap that gets so tedious.

i would put more enemies in these open spaces. the damage ratios would go down: enemies would die faster, but there would be more enemies. to compensate for direct-fire weapons (not sweeping ones), direct fire weapons would do more damage.

and the final ingredient: increase movement speed 2x!

i hate having to wait like 5 minutes between each combo >_>

Geminosity · March 2004

lol, well I never said ep II was good either did I? ^~

The only saving grace for ep II in my book was the gar griffon and the final, underwater lab level complete with olga falz.
Outside of that it was far too similar to ep I and the training levels are one of the most ill-concieved things they could've put in the game. Generally the whole thing felt rushed and it didn't add enough to justify itself =/
They could've expanded on the combo system, they could've made the special attacks on weapons not suck completely to the point of being laughable, more magic, new bosses, making the mags more interesting... buuut instead we got reskinned stuff and they thought they could cheekily pass off some redone battle levels as 'virtual' levels -.-

<b>edit:</b> actually my goal is to make a PSO inspired mod... but without the mistakes lol. The gun system sucked making the rangers one of the most amazingly boring chars to play in the whole game. The combo system being locked at 3 hits was weird too o.O
And definitely more boss fights... and mags with personality instead of just floating stat boosters with crud magblasts.

twoflow · March 2004

I liked those massive dogs at the Seabed. I didn't like the slowdown when playing that level online. I really, really liked Seaside and Mountain (pretty). I hated that awful Temple, I mean come on, try harder.

Geminosity, I don't understand why you bought Ep2 if you couldn't get online.

I AM BURNING FOR CHALLENGE MODE NOW.

Geminosity · March 2004

lol, like I said I thought I WAS gonna be able to play it online =3

The temple combined with the camera system (which felt a lil more glitchy than it did on the ole DC) was a nightmare. The spacestation levels were boring too.

Seaside and mountain were pretty and I loved looking at them but as actual levels they were too short and small to really satisfy me. I wanted another 'forest' sized level or four (and I mean forest 1 AND 2 plus the boss room when I talk about size here). Instead the 4 control room areas felt excessively tiny and barely lasted. Not to mention that outside of the cloaking robots the enemies for the control room area just didn't seem all that great. The gibbon thingies were more annoying than cool, the gees are a severe annoyance (like claws really but infinitely more irritating to the point of not being enjoyable) and those plants were pretty pathetic =P

Despite being a weird remake Gol dragon was actually pretty interesting to fight =D

baconflaps · March 2004

*sigh* Weekly PSO discussion rears its head, making me feel left out. Oh well, I'll just suggest that all of you BF1942 owners download Forgotten Hope. Easily the most entertaining game/mod thus far of 2004. They've got historical sights for tanks and everything, it's a WW2 bonanza. They've also managed to make Pacific theater maps fun, something that vanilla BF lacked.

Anyways, I'm itching to play with some people that I'm at least familiar with, rather than a bunch of newbs, so please download the freakin' thing and PM me. Now!

Crono5 · March 2004

What is =3 ?

Geminosity · March 2004

think of...

=)

the smiley...
now kitty-fy it...

=3

now imagine my english teacher crying at my insane over-use of elipsis in this post ^^;

baconflaps · March 2004

ogm crono r teh spammarz!!!11

I think a "Geminosity FAQ" is needed, what say you all?

Crono5 · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (baconflaps @ Mar 8 2004, 05:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ogm crono r teh spammarz!!!11

I think a "Geminosity FAQ" is needed, what say you all?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
And yeah, that'd be good... Things like =3, :S, :\/.da241lkyfg and the like confuse me...
And since we're talking about Duke Nukem, or at least I did for 2 consecutive posts (SHHH), are there any decent replacement graphics? Killing those teleportey red-jetpack aliens sounds nice, but looks like a shoe :\ Especially when you try to look up with the new-fangeled OpenGL renderer...

Crono5 · March 2004

Bumpage, before my pointless posts, this was actually turning into a kind-of interesting discussion about newer games.

*Er hem* Does anyone know if a sequel to Oni is in the works? I thought that game had a lot of potential.

Quaunaut · March 2004

Eh, I just wish it would've had multiplay. Then it would've been AMAZING.

As it was though, not half bad. Better than most of the stupid Kung Fu stuff we have now...

Crono5 · March 2004

True, but I would've liked it a LOT more if the fighting system was more intricate, like a real fighting game (More than 3 hit combos...). Imagine being able to pull a 24-hit combo on one of those civilian people. Ha, I don't need your Hypo Spray...

Quaunaut · March 2004

Amen to that.

And just imagine it with post-matrix effects.

Slo-mo, running up walls, and generally making fun of physics. Oni and anime at their best is right there.

twoflow · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Mar 8 2004, 09:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I wanted another 'forest' sized level or four (and I mean forest 1 AND 2 plus the boss room when I talk about size here).  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Ever find the portal to Forest 3 in the hospital? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

Crono5 · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quaunaut @ Mar 8 2004, 11:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Amen to that.

And just imagine it with post-matrix effects.

Slo-mo, running up walls, and generally making fun of physics. Oni and anime at their best is right there.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Oooooooooooooohh...

But apparentley, the new Ninja Gaiden game for the X-Box is supposed to be incredibly similar to this...

Snake101 · March 2004

Meh, I can't wait for HL2. It's got atmosphere up the yinyang... and I experienced that just by watching some clips! Imagine what'll happen when I get the full game....

Birdy · March 2004

w00t weed growing

*buys*

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