Sod shame, Faux-Omnis.
No, bugger shame. It'll be mortified!
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
billytea - Jul 17, 2008 5:16:46 pm PDT #1115 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Volans - Jul 17, 2008 5:30:13 pm PDT #1116 of 26133
move out and draw fire
A friend just wrote me the following:
"Hey, X-Factor's going gaga over Diablo 3. You played Diablo 1 and 2, right? They look just like Baldur's Gate, so I'm thinking I might like Diablo. Is it turn-based, or RTS?"
I can't come up with any answer other than "No."
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 17, 2008 5:45:05 pm PDT #1117 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
"Hell no." seems thematically appropriate.
Ailleann - Jul 17, 2008 7:35:34 pm PDT #1118 of 26133
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Is it turn-based, or RTS?
::cackles ridiculously::
Kevin - Jul 18, 2008 1:09:43 am PDT #1119 of 26133
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I LOVE Team Fortress 2! I used to play the first Team Fortress back 10 years from my bedroom as a kid. I was a spy in a clan. I didn't have much sex back then.
Gudanov - Jul 18, 2008 7:06:04 am PDT #1120 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
Diablo is real time without the strategy. You click on stuff until it dies and shop. I haven't played Diablo 2 any, but I don't think it's all that different.
I've had fun playing TF2, but I just don't have the time to play it much. I'm PC though, so I can't join in with the XBox people.
amych - Jul 18, 2008 8:06:26 am PDT #1121 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
This is almost enough to make me wish I cared about chess: [link]
Volans - Jul 18, 2008 10:28:16 am PDT #1122 of 26133
move out and draw fire
Diablo 2 is also a shopping game. They are more "World of Warcraft" than "Warcraft."
Our houseguest's departure for Baghdad got delayed, so we have a chance to pack her off with a copy of Tigris and Euphrates, rather than trying to send it to her later.
Tom Scola - Jul 25, 2008 5:46:08 am PDT #1123 of 26133
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Telltale games, creators of the Sam & Max games, has announced that it will be developing an episodic series based on the popular stop motion cartoon, Wallace & Gromit.
Volans - Jul 27, 2008 5:18:47 am PDT #1124 of 26133
move out and draw fire
We inaugurated the new gaming room yesterday. R won't let me post photos until it's totally done, but it's pretty cool. 5x5 table, comfy executive office chairs, a side table for food and drink, a dedicated sound system, and the Wall O' Games. Yesterday's games were:
- Nuclear War
- Betrayal at the House on the Hill
- Kingdom
- Mille Bourne
- Formula De
We had a couple people who had never played Nuclear War and were curious about it, seeing it on the shelf. Still fun. Still a pointed commentary. Seeing it with modern eyes, I note that the names of all the possible launch systems and deterrents are no longer part of pop culture the way they were in the 60s and 70s.
We've owned Betrayal for a couple years and had never played it. Avalon Hill/WOTC/Hasbro shot themselves in the foot with it by issuing it with a ton of mistakes; you have to download and print off about 150 pages of rules yourself, for instance. I have to say there was a pretty steep learning curve, but once we'd crested it, the entire group thought the game was pretty awesome, and we played it a couple times.
I still really dislike Formula De, but everyone else loves it. It was midnight at this point, so I did the unethical thing of taking a couple curves too fast and getting eliminated (by virtue of flipping my formula race car into the grandstands), so I could go lay down. It turned out to be a good choice, as Mal was up at four with a fever and a conviction there were dinosaurs in his room.