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.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I must have this!
Amych, as some have mentioned, the game is 'Burnout'. There are several editions of the game now, 'Revenge' being one of them, but I think the 'crash into shit for points' mini-game is a feature of most of them.
As revenge Pete routinely kicks the living shit out of anything and anybody at Halo. And just to grind it in, he's all gracious about it.
I think being gracious is a knee-jerk reaction to the kind of attitude one is subjected to on Xbox Live all the damn time by the multitudes of birth-control poster-children that foul up the place. Nasty little runts. It also scares the bejeezus out of many of my casual player friends when I explain to them that, yes, I can kick their ass seven ways til Sunday at Halo but I'm probably around average ability compared to the usual online players. Some of them are terrifying and I've come last in many a game.
And here I thought "Pulling a Pete" was being adorably loomy.
You're going on the new List called the Fraggin' List.
He's gonna come in here and be all, "Bloody hell! Adorable in the gaming thread too???"
Nope, you just get added to the Fraggin' List.
Goodness, the Games Thread is a-buzz, isn't it?
Nope, you just get added to the Fraggin' List.
TWO lists, babee! *I'm* on two lists!!
t does the Two List dance
Yes, Aims, but on the Fraggin List, you get to actually meet me in video combat!
Of course, today I am so tired I can barely see straight having just finished 460 odd hours of work in a 38 day period.
As long as I get ta meetcha, sweetcheeks.
t /Mae West
Poor Tired Petey.
Does anybody here play Oblivion on the PC, Xbox 360 or PS3? It's amazing.
I'm about to. It'll distract me from my marking. Anyone like the Silent Hill series? I just love those games apart from Silent Hill: The Room which I don't speak about ever.
Does anybody here play Oblivion on the PC, Xbox 360 or PS3? It's amazing.
Yep, and agreed -- although, like Pete with GTA cities, I'm kind of sad to be about to finish it. It's been an incredibly rich world to play in, so the feeling that I'm running out of things to do and find there is weirdly disconcerting.
I haven't played Silent Hill, but I've long loved the Resident Evil games, and have been told that if I like those, I'd like the Silent Hill series.
I've played a little bit of the Silent Hill games, it was back on the PS1 I think. I really liked the game, but haven't had a chance to get back to the series.
I definitely have a thing for the horror/survival horror genre of video games. I get into them. I get scared. It's fun.
My housemate thinks this is the Best Game Evar, but the theme just doesn't pull me in.
There's a rather similar game called Twilight Struggle that covers the Cold War. I don't have that one yet. Wallybee and I went through all seven seasons of The West Wing last year, so it's actually a theme that interests her quite well.
billytea, we should be co-located. The DH and I have only been able to play War of the Ring a couple times - the figures are irresistible for the toddler. I have managed to lose as the Fellowship, sadly.
I think the Fellowship is supposed to be both harder to play well, and harder to win with. So just to make it even harder to manage logistics, you really should play twice in a row, once on each side.
And agreed that Kingmaker has its issues, though I'd call it stalemate rather than balance. Grab an heir, figure out your base, and stay there.
Yep. But the initial heir grab was heaps of fun.
My brother and I played WotR via email, using Cyberboard, a number of times. I really like the way it captures the flavor of the Lord of the Rings.
Yeah, the thematic details are cool. Both players being able to win a military victory or a Ring victory gives it a great boost. (And means that both players can simultaneously be on the brink of victory and the verge of defeat.)
First and foremost is Civilization. I miss that game SO MUCH. And I no longer have a copy. I have every now and again found copies of Civ and CivII (an expansion game) on Ebay for about $60, but always when I couldn't actually afford it.
See, Sean, you need to move to Melbourne. I have both of them. (And also have a dearth of actual play-possibilities.)
Then there's this game I mentioned called Republic of Rome. It's a lot of fun, too.
I Should look into that. I love the period, studied ancient history at high school and uni.
In Age of Empires II, is there a way to play in "I just want to see what happens" mode without having the computer outbuild me on every single point? I just want to track the development of my community without getting my butt kicked all the time.
The only thing that really comes to mind for me is just to reduce the difficulty level. At the lowest level, I don't think the computer player takes much initiative for itself. But it's imperfect. Alternatively, you could put other computer players onto your team, so they spend more of their time fighting each other.
