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That's the nice thing about Age of Empires - you can win by building a Wonder, basically requiring you to go crazy with the building, resource gathering and tech advancements. Or you can go and kick the opponent in the face, it's more or less your call.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
The campaigns in HoMM 2 helped me to partially overcome base-building OCD. Instead, I was restarting each map until I got a good (or, in the case of planned access to artifacts, the best) game state.DSMatticus wrote:I have tried so hard to break that habit. I want to be competitive at strategy games, but I always end up playing OCD perfectionist base/city/empire manager and going for the coolest things I can.
HoMaM 2 was awesome. I just focused on getting access to dragons (which tended to involve building and researching an awful lot, but anything not required was ignored), then making mobs of those to trample the enemy with.
Actually I once made a huge fuck-off map that was all split up roughly like Earth in Risk. So you'd randomly control three different countries in different continents. It was extremely hard, what with being surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Actually I once made a huge fuck-off map that was all split up roughly like Earth in Risk. So you'd randomly control three different countries in different continents. It was extremely hard, what with being surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Dark Souls:
Hey, DSMatticus, got any advice for cutting Kalameet's tail?
I managed a couple of hits. And what's bad is, I could kill him. Easily. If I weren't trying to cut off his tail.
Hey, DSMatticus, got any advice for cutting Kalameet's tail?
I managed a couple of hits. And what's bad is, I could kill him. Easily. If I weren't trying to cut off his tail.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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You're probably hitting too close. It has to be pretty far out. I can't remember the exact attack pattern, but do you recall how sometimes he will lift into the air and fly straight at you? If you are directly behind him when he lands, he will do a tailslam on the ground. Dodge the slam, hit the tail at least at the midway point or further out. Repeat until the tail pops off.Maxus wrote:Hey, DSMatticus, got any advice for cutting Kalameet's tail?
Yeah, I got that worked out.
It's baiting the charge and managing to get behind him when he does it that messes me up.
It's baiting the charge and managing to get behind him when he does it that messes me up.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
So, apparently some maniac let Karen Traviss write a Halo novel.
A major theme of the novel is people calling out Hasley for the SPARTAN-II program. Which people? Well, CPO Mendez, one of the people critical to the whole project, and the head of ONI, whose organization has committed crimes that would earn death sentences in five separate incidents that we know of.
Specifically,
Basically, don't let Karen Traviss write a novel in your setting. It never ends well.
A major theme of the novel is people calling out Hasley for the SPARTAN-II program. Which people? Well, CPO Mendez, one of the people critical to the whole project, and the head of ONI, whose organization has committed crimes that would earn death sentences in five separate incidents that we know of.
Specifically,
two incidents involving treason by violating the Cole Protocol, one of which almost let the Covenant find Earth and the other of which apparently actually did, one incident involving infecting prisoners with Flood and when that inevitably went to hell sending in a rescue ship while intentionally denying them information on the Flood, covering up Forerunner artifacts in human space that can pretty much be held directly responsible for the covenant finding the first Halo and Reach, and now one incident involving both treason and terrorism by arming a faction of elites who oppose the human-friendly faction that the provisional leader of the UNSC is negotiating with. Oh, and the head of ONI specifically greenlit the SPARTAN-III program, which was basically the SPARTAN-II program except with lower safety margins and not using flash clones to cover it up. Because apparently flash cloning is worse than the other things.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
I know this is going to sound like a dumb question, but what games did you have in mind that provide this experience?Kaelik wrote:Other games provide the same thing. But they do it in a less samey and grindy way.Maxus wrote:But yeah. You're more or less playing a D&D Murder Hobo. You just roll around, exploring and getting stronger until you go fight something and open up more places to explore/get stronger. If that isn't your cup of tea, fair enough.
It's not that it is not some people's cup of tea, it is that it is a really grindy samey flavor of that tea.
Also K, have you considered FTL:Faster Than Light, Scifi Roguelike on a ship, =http://www.grimrock.net/Legend of Grimrock? I also recently heard about a good sum of games like: La-mulana, Pid, and since I'm talking platformers, I enjoyed Spelunky. Another super cheap Indie game I've enjoyed is Dead Pixels, and that'll just cost you the investment of One Dollar.
Oh, and Starmaker, I can see why you're quite excited for Primordia, the fact it'll have the narrator from Bastion ALONE makes it curious title to check out.
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What I find wrong w/ 4th edition: "I want to stab dragons the size of a small keep with skin like supple adamantine and command over time and space to death with my longsword in head to head combat, but I want to be totally within realistic capabilities of a real human being!" --Caedrus mocking 4rries
"the thing about being Mister Cavern [DM], you don't blame players for how they play. That's like blaming the weather. Weather just is. You adapt to it. -Ancient History
"the thing about being Mister Cavern [DM], you don't blame players for how they play. That's like blaming the weather. Weather just is. You adapt to it. -Ancient History
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The other new thing to come out of indie gaming.
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The world's most definitive Star Wars Saga Edition Review
That Time I reviewed D20Modern Classes
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Australia is a horror setting thread
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FTL is nice. I have unlocked the Engi, the Rock, the Stealth, the Federation, and the Mantis Cruisers. Still missing the Zoltan and Crystal ships.K wrote:I'm looking at FTL. So far it seems the only new thing to come out of indie gaming.
Take Legend of Grimdark. It's an updated clone of a game I was playing in 1993.
I'd really like to see expansions for the game. Seems like it wouldn't be terribly difficult.
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Yeah, FTL is awesome, but it really needs more stuff. Eighteen or so weapons and the same number of ships is way too few for a proper roguelike, I think. Also, the Zoltan ship is pretty awesome- it starts with Blast Doors, which means it's pretty easy to kill boarders by just venting them into space.
Dark Souls:
As Kevin Hearne once put it, I'm getting an acute case of Smug.
I decided to get the Guardian tail. A quick check online suggested strategies along the lines of "You must bait it into this high-damage, tough-to-dodge move and dodge it and hit its tail when its tail droops"
I said "Screw that noise" and bought 670 arrows and took potshots at the Guardians' tails.
It worked. Just had to be patient and learn their pattern once I'd found a safe spot to stand. Didn't take that many arrows, either. I think I spent 30-40. A lot of them misses before I got the timing down.
As Kevin Hearne once put it, I'm getting an acute case of Smug.
I decided to get the Guardian tail. A quick check online suggested strategies along the lines of "You must bait it into this high-damage, tough-to-dodge move and dodge it and hit its tail when its tail droops"
I said "Screw that noise" and bought 670 arrows and took potshots at the Guardians' tails.
It worked. Just had to be patient and learn their pattern once I'd found a safe spot to stand. Didn't take that many arrows, either. I think I spent 30-40. A lot of them misses before I got the timing down.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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It is supposed to be fairly moddable, but I haven't messed with it. The only mods I'm aware of are new shipsets, and like Korgan said, it really needs more content.FrankTrollman wrote:FTL is nice. I have unlocked the Engi, the Rock, the Stealth, the Federation, and the Mantis Cruisers. Still missing the Zoltan and Crystal ships.K wrote:I'm looking at FTL. So far it seems the only new thing to come out of indie gaming.
Take Legend of Grimdark. It's an updated clone of a game I was playing in 1993.
I'd really like to see expansions for the game. Seems like it wouldn't be terribly difficult.
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Dark Souls:
Aaaaand I got Kalameet's tail. Once I cottoned on to a bit of spacing (when he dive-charges, roll once to dodge, twice to get behind him to provoke the tail-slam) it wasn't even that hard.
Now I can kill 'im.
Edit: aaand killed him first try after getting the tail!
Aaaaand I got Kalameet's tail. Once I cottoned on to a bit of spacing (when he dive-charges, roll once to dodge, twice to get behind him to provoke the tail-slam) it wasn't even that hard.
Now I can kill 'im.
Edit: aaand killed him first try after getting the tail!
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
OH THAT WAS TERRIBLE.Surgo wrote:So you're saying it was a...travissty?name_here wrote:Basically, don't let Karen Traviss write a novel in your setting. It never ends well.
*puts on sunglasses*
MY EYES.
YOU JACKASS.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Greatest. Pun. EVER.Surgo wrote:So you're saying it was a...travissty?name_here wrote:Basically, don't let Karen Traviss write a novel in your setting. It never ends well.
*puts on sunglasses*
I have to sig this.
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Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
I dunno. I was reading a friend's short story--urban fantasy--and had an alchemist who made magic perfumes and candles and junk.Shrapnel wrote:Greatest. Pun. EVER.Surgo wrote:So you're saying it was a...travissty?name_here wrote:Basically, don't let Karen Traviss write a novel in your setting. It never ends well.
*puts on sunglasses*
The aphrodisiac perfume was named "Eau You Are So Hot."
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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