GuiltyofBeingTrite
Savant
I beat Dragon Age Inquisition.
Sounds like a concept for an indie co-op shooter that could get very popular among streamers. You just made someone rich.I recall another weird thing I did when I was a kid. I used to LARP flight sims (early 1990s DOS) with my brother
This reminds me of my playthrough of Half Life. I was the WSAD guy while my brother was aiming with the mouse. And we were really good, almost synchronized. We've beaten the whole game like that. That was a very unique experience.
This way of playing all kinds of games seems to had been rather popular here in potato back then.Sounds like a concept for an indie co-op shooter that could get very popular among streamers. You just made someone rich.I recall another weird thing I did when I was a kid. I used to LARP flight sims (early 1990s DOS) with my brother
This reminds me of my playthrough of Half Life. I was the WSAD guy while my brother was aiming with the mouse. And we were really good, almost synchronized. We've beaten the whole game like that. That was a very unique experience.
Tit for tat.A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we were playing the shit out of "Need for Speed II se" on LAN with some friends. I dated a girl with very big and nice tits back then. I was leading the race, one of my friend then says "think of your girlfriend's tits !", I did and immediatlely crashed. My friend's car whooshed past me while he laughed like a maniac. Then again, those tits...
OMG! You were on Atlantic?! That was ME!! Holy shit!There was a guy I was in a guild with in Ultima Online. It was mostly a PvP-oriented guild called D*C on Atlantic. Anyway, every time we would kill a bunch of players, there was this one guy who would almost always go hidden so that he could be AFK for a while. Plenty of people go AFK a lot in MMOs, mostly smokers or folks with tiny bladders. But this guy only ever did it after we had made some kills. There was a definite pattern to it. So I asked him about it. And then he explained that he found that killing other players almost always gave him an erection. So he got in the habit of, uh, taking care of the problem. And he further explained that after the first few months he could no longer get an erection any other way. So he then felt obligated to always take advantage of that situation because he was worried that even the stimulus of player killing may one day lose its effect. I was like 13 at the time and this guy's problem really blew my mind. I couldn't even respond.
I always wonder what happened to that guy and his problem. I left the guild when Ultima Online started imposing stat loss penalties on murderers. Did he find another game? Does he continue to participate in Ultima Online's now-limited PvP to this day? Has he just given it all up and suffered from erectile dysfunction for the last 15 years?
This reminds me of my playthrough of Half Life. I was the WSAD guy while my brother was aiming with the mouse. And we were really good, almost synchronized. We've beaten the whole game like that. That was a very unique experience.
I recall another weird thing I did when I was a kid. I used to LARP flight sims (early 1990s DOS) with my brother
This reminds me of my playthrough of Half Life. I was the WSAD guy while my brother was aiming with the mouse. And we were really good, almost synchronized. We've beaten the whole game like that. That was a very unique experience.
So, disregarding instance when you were too young to know any better, have you ever completely misunderstood a game, or not even got past the copy protection?
For me two instances stand out:
1. Not being able to play Leisure Suit Larry due to failing the prove-you-are-over-18-questions. My gaming buddy and I were 18-20 at the time, but being hopeless nerds not experienced in the ways of the world, we failed horribly.
2. Ultima 5. I thought the whole game was in the same scale as the first village (or just a hut IIRC), and back then I was an even more compulsive mapper that I am now. I mapped the entire Ultima IV, for example (I still have those maps, actually). For some reason I thought a new game, set in the same land, would have a more detailed map, which was "confirmed" by the first area.
Just as well, maybe, since the Amiga version of U5 was not very good, from what I've read.
My first Fallout character had Good Natured and Skilled, and my tagged skills were Big Guns, Speech and...Barter IIRC.
I beat the game with that character, which just shows (some of) the brilliance of Fallout 1's design.
1. Not being able to play Leisure Suit Larry due to failing the prove-you-are-over-18-questions. My gaming buddy and I were 18-20 at the time, but being hopeless nerds not experienced in the ways of the world, we failed horribly.
That's hilarious...I remember taking the quiz around 12 and passing it with about a 50% pass rate. That quiz was hilarious. I still use the phrase "a lady with negotiable virtue" to this day lol.
Anyways, for bonus points here's all the questions/answers for the quiz:
http://www.allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html
Good stuff
Never underestimate a smiling man with a rocket launcher.