POLLO FUCKING HATES HALO and other videogame talk

[Swimmy]

Also, EVERYONE BUY MINECRAFT!

[Greg Nog]

SWIMMY TOP TEN LIST GO

[Swimmy]

Ignoring time spent playing, or else bad SNES and PSX RPGs would dominate everything. It's too difficult to separate out nostalgia, my current mood, and what I would normally feel like playing on average. Pretty sure this list would change in as little as two hours, if I remembered other games or was in a different mood:

1) Dragon Quest VII
2) Chrono Trigger
3) Earthbound
4) We ♥ Katamari
5) Secret of Mana
6) Smash TV
7) Blaster Master
8) Bangai-Oh!
9) Gunstar Heroes
10) Ys Books I & II

Oh, this list is so miserably incomplete. I hate it.

PS my most played game of all time is Windows FreeCell.

[Greg Nog]

Thanks!

Incidentally, I keep pushing for top-ten lists, as I'd eventually like to do what blucas does for the year-end music lists, and see if I can make some kind of summary-list that rounds up the commonly-loved favorites.

[Good Intentions]

Time Spent Top 10:

1) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
2) Baldur's Gate 2
3) Civilization II
4) Baldur's Gate
5) Morrowind
6) Quake II
7) Diablo II
8) Morrowind
9) Fallout
10) The Sims

I had an NES which I spent a lot of time on, but that was spread across a whole lot of games -- Nintendo didn't do business in SA, so we played on clone platforms and those 42-in-1 type pirate cartridges.
Maybe I'll give an all-time top 10 in a day or two, but god knows what the criteria for comparison between M

[davy]

Shit I forgot all about Diablo/Diablo II. I think I preferred the first one. That would definitely be a top-10er for me.

I had this linebacker-sized drama dude roommate for my first two years in college. His voice was like the voice of Beorn from The Hobbit. He had intimidating facial hair. But he loved Dragonball Z, was addicted to Final Fantasy 7, and was mostly nerdy like me. We used to log onto Diablo multiplayer and run around being dicks, typing out Cannibal Corpse lyrics in the chat box and slaughtering people with the magic sword we somehow acquired. He would recite the lyrics aloud as he chopped and sliced, in that mega-voice of his, and I swear to god it was one of the funniest things I'd ever witnessed.

[alistarr*]

last night i jetpacked up off a rock outcrop towards the sea as a massive battle unfolded just below (fuel rods flying everywhere), feathered the power to hover in place, then curved up to hijack an incoming banshee in mid-air and fly it off as the previous occupant fell to a watery death. halo is AMAZING.

[Good Intentions]

I've... I've bought Civ V. The deluxe edition. It hasn't launched outside the US yet, so I'm preloading it.

If you don't see me for a while, you know what has happened.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Right as I was walking out the door of my building this guy was walking in on his cell phone and he goes, "Did you hear Civ 5 is coming out today" and I looked at him and give him a fist pump and a yeaeeeeah

[Ah_Pook]

man this weeks bombcast they just went off about how awesome civ 5 is and it made me sad that i cant play it right now. stupid new computers, costing stupid money and being stupid. i curse you!

[Good Intentions]

My laptop just squeezes in at pretty much the lowest end of the required specs.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I'm on a mac but I can still be your friend, right?

Yes lemme figure out

[Ah_Pook]

did any of you dudes buy space invaders infinity gene? and if not... why not?

seriously though watch this trailer and then go buy it

[FreddyKnuckles]

Alright. Fuck this. I'm buying civ v off steam. I can't take this pirating bullshit on a game like this

[davy]

did any of you dudes buy space invaders infinity gene? and if not... why not?

seriously though watch this trailer and then go buy it

Wow, that looks fucking crazy.

Maybe....too crazy for me!

[Greg Nog]

Holy crap, that new Space Invaders does look like a fucking time.

[Ignatius]

How does it play? It looks like it's easy to lose your little guy/have no idea what's going on with them guns.

Related: I think I'm ready to get into shmups. Where does a PS3 owner start, pook?

[Ah_Pook]

How does it play? It looks like it's easy to lose your little guy/have no idea what's going on with them guns.

Related: I think I'm ready to get into shmups. Where does a PS3 owner start, pook?

step 1) get a ps2 or a 360 or a pc. the ps3 really doesnt have a lot of options as far as shmups, sadly



unrelatedly, heres a pretty sweet 45 minute video interview with ken levine about bioshock infinite

also 10 minutes of bioshock infinite gameplay

also i am really damn excited about bioshock infinite holy shit

[Good Intentions]

I played Civ V till 5 am last night, stopped, checked my mail, was about to go to bed, reconsidered, and launched the game again. Bloody hell.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I was about to buy it but I didn't want it to consume my weekend. If a decent rip is up by Sunday, though...

[Ah_Pook]

dont steal civ 5

[FreddyKnuckles]

Unemployed=lots of free time and no moneys.

Odds are I will buy it anyway. I might buy the regular version and pirate the dlc and bonus stuff from the deluxe edition. That shit pisses me off. At 50 bucks sell a complete game. Also don't use fucking shitty boner in a steamy turd Steam because that shit is mega whack

[Ah_Pook]

i dont know if i hate myself enough to finish alpha protocol. its a shame because the cool stuff is really cool, and i love sneaking around as a badass spy... but man the rough edges are so huge you might as well consider the good parts good edges on a giant boulder of crap.

[FreddyKnuckles]

That was def a pirate and uninstaller...

[Ah_Pook]

yea i mean i only paid $22 for it, and ive been morbidly curious about it ever since it got such terrible reviews so i was going to play it eventually. i dont regret having picked it up... but yea. not a good game. its a shame too because you keep catching glimpses of the rad game buried in there somewhere trying to struggle out from under the mountain of crap.