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I see Emperor Niya is keeping the post count up! It's good to have faith in a reliable emperor.
Yes, your emperor is still going strong though a little slow these days.
What do you mean by this ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I've never favored RPGs....My brother liked them but I never did. I've always had a strong preference for games where character control skills were a requirement. I absolutely hated puzzles. I mean I really really hate games that are puzzle based. I tolerated it in games like Doom because puzzles were secondary to action. You needed mad skills to plow your way through a level on Ultra Violence mode. The feeling you get when you smash through waves of enemies at high speed with a shotgun is euphoric especially when you know how hard it was to attain that level of skill. I donno, it gives you a small sense of accomplishment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Its what makes games like MK and MvC so addictive to me.
The games I've enjoyed when I was young were:
1) The Zelda Series - Up to Oracle of Time
2) Sports Games - Like Home Run for the Atari or NBA 2k12 for the XBox360 or PS3
3) Maze Games - Like Pac Man
4) Racing Games - Like Pole Position in the arcade or Star Wars Episode I Racer for the N64(? maybe an earlier system)
I never really like rpg's for game consoles with the exception of Final Fantasy X for the PS2. I still play that game occasionally. For the most part the rpg games that I like are MMORPG's like Tibia.
I started into RPGs in grad school because somebody asked me to copy a game for him. It was The Bards Tale, which could barely be played by a single person, since there was no in-game mapping, and the levels were sprawling. I made the copy with a buddy, then we tried playing it, and ended up playing it nearly all night. With two people, one was drawing the map while the other ran the game. There were quite a few puzzles, and there was the abiltiy to always be able to reach areas that you weren't able to deal with, but were close to being able to deal with. I've always liked games that allowed you into physical problems that were too tough for you, at the time. Also, all the puzzles were puns and word plays, so I was totally into them.
I never heard of it, was it for a console or for the computer?Quote:
The Bards Tale
A computer, and it was pretty old. It was nearly text-based, to be honest. There was a window that showed a static image, which might be a corridor, a street view, or a monster (generally in a corridor or room). If there were a selection of monsters in the room, you'd see just one of them. So it was nothing like 3D RPG games, nor was it like top-down view style games (which also came later). However, every dungeon level was the exact same size. You didn't know where you were in the level when you first entered it, but after mapping long enough, you figured it out. The advantage to this was that they were able to do teleportation, since you could indicate any point in the dungeon with a simple X,Y pair. We made much use of that. Since it took two people to map out new levels (one could do it only by multitasking, tediously), we generally only did that when we both had time (grad school means that my buddy and I were both living on campus, and we tended to stay up pretty late). The rest of the time, it was possible to level the characters because there were dungeon rooms with constantly-regenerating monsters. As soon as you left the level they would re-spawn. We would find two such rooms in the same dungeon, but on different levels, and teleport back and forth between the two levels blasting monsters in a constant, pixelated, mostly-text, carnage.
We then played the second and third games in the series. In each one you could import your characters from the previous game. Since we had spent so much time power-leveling in the first game, we were pretty awesome in the second one, but we power leveled more in that game, so by the third we were pretty nearly gods. The level of certain attributes was only three digits, but we were at several thousand in each, so the game showed just XXX for those until we finally wore down enough to drop below 1000. That took days, though.
These days, games can be played by a single person, which is easier, but having a driver and navigator is fun, too.
That reminds me of playing Aztec on an Apple II back in HS. There were LOTS of key combinations to control the character in that game. At one point we had three people playing at the same time. One person had the direction keys, another had running and crouching, while the third had some other things like climbing and jumping. I forget how the skills were actually divided up. The game was kind of a side scroller with three levels on the screen at a time. We'd walk into a screen and find a T. Rex, the toughest of all the obstacles in the game, and total panic would ensue. The guy controlling running would start running. The guy controlling jumping would start jumping. The guy controlling climbing would start climbing. The result was that the guy on the screen would begin this funky dance step across the screen. It was much more funny looking than effective.
So how do y'all like the addition in my signature?
Is it a spider? At one point it seems to have 3 pairs of legs the next 4???Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
It's consuming my processing power for no good reason - and I'm going to start hitting my monitor when drinking :)
I think it's a flee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
Great! You're one step ahead of me :]Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I think I killed it this morning - not that I was drinking this morning!!
There it is right now at the top of my upper-monitor which is 26 inches - and a full arms length way at that high corner...
:0
uber secret vb code!
Nah, I don't think fleas move like that, they jump more: "a flea can jump vertically up to 7 inches (18 cm) and horizontally up to 13 inches (33 cm), making the flea one of the best jumpers of all known animals (relative to body size), second only to the froghopper" - Wiki, so I am going to bet on spider.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Wow - I just found what I consider a bug in that code - thanks to your spider-ant...Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Dim strSproc As String = ctrloption.Replace("acssproc=", "")
I was missing the "As String" - how sloppy that was!
Also you should look up flea circuses, unless you meant to refer to "Flea" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
"There are historical reports of fleas glued to the base of the flea circus enclosure. Instruments were then glued to the flea performers and the enclosure was heated. The fleas fought to escape, giving the impression of fleas playing musical instruments." :eek: (Wiki)Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
You are quoting yourself?
Kind of one sided, wouldn't you say?
Sure, it happens on occasion, doesn't everyone? I used to have more of my own quotes in my signature too!Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Not really, I would only call it one sided if you don't give the other person a right of reply.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
If you spend enough time in chit-chat you'd soon realize that Witis ain't too right.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Holy ****!!! Took me a while to realize. I thought something was crawling on my screen for a couple seconds!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I like human and lots of other rights too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
I have a plague of fruit flies, at the moment, so I didn't even notice that the bug was fake. That's a good one.
That's good....if only you were a human....Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
That's good....if only you were a human....Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
.double post?
double post?
Hmmm....Glitchy
Hmmm....Glitchy
Hmmm....Glitchy
Hmmm....Glitchy
Why thanks Niya, I think so too.☺Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
What do you think I am Niya?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
I donno what you are but you're not a human. You're some kind of, I donno, rodent or something. When I see your name I think....."rodent"Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
This is what I think when I see your handle Witis:-
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Screenshot.png
MOAR WITIS!!! xD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rvegicus_1.jpg