Video Game Thread (Officially Unofficial)

[Doomcifer]

[man as robot]

street fighter still owns you all.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by Doomcifer

ID LIKE TO INPUT MY GAME PAK INTO HER CONTROL DECKIF YOU KNOW WHWATIM EAN

[Doom]

That is a SNES, right? My SNES doesn't look like that, the actual unit itself I mean. The controller pads are the same though. They must have released different versions in different regions. I assume that's American.

Mine didn't have a naked woman attatched to it either

[Erik]

Yeah that is the American version. Euro PAL versions and Japanese NTSC versions look the same (better) and the American version for some reason is boxy and ugly and doesn't have proper colours on the controller buttons

[AsModEe]

Originally Posted by KILL TULLY

Just in general its anoying how a lot of people will just disregard all modern gaming as a whole, only playing oldschool stuff.

I agree 100% with you Tully, but it seems to only happen on RC, people I know enjoy the new stuff.

So, some gaming reviews? Here goes one:

Rome: Total War

Graphics: 8/10, but considering there are 6000 person on a single battlefield, you can't go into fully detailed graphics or your comp will explode
Gameplay: 10/10, you conquer cities, make big ass fights, assault cities with siege towers, rams, catapult, sap points, planify your attacks, assassinate generals of opposing factions, force them to surrender cities. Great gameplay
Sound: 9/10, nothing bad about the sound, you just wish more dialogues would have been recorded
Story: 10/10 well, you have to conquer the World then come back to conquer Rome and kick the ass of the Senate, hard to be more metal than that?
Multiplayer: Never tried it, but I heard it only involves battles and no strategie map, so 5/10
Replay value: 10/10 You have 3 ways to create the Roman Empire and then, you can choose any barbarian faction you want, pretty neat huh?

[Thanatopsis123]

Rome: Total War does indeed rule. I just wish the campaign and battle A.I. was better.

I have very high hopes for Medieval 2: Total War.

Edit: Have you ever beaten that one historical battle in the desert? I forget the name. You play as some Romans and have little but basic infantry with maybe two cav units. The enemy is totally cav with a bunch of horse archers. Fuck that is hard. I wish you could save replays from those battles. I've only beaten it once on the normal difficulty and it was only barely.

[Doomcifer]

i need to get ROME TOTAL WAR...but then again, I'd either play it nonstop for a few days then never come back to it again, or I'll lose my job over it.

edit: FUCK my job.

[AsModEe]

Originally Posted by Thanatopsis123

Rome: Total War does indeed rule. I just wish the campaign and battle A.I. was better.

I have very high hopes for Medieval 2: Total War.

Edit: Have you ever beaten that one historical battle in the desert? I forget the name. You play as some Romans and have little but basic infantry with maybe two cav units. The enemy is totally cav with a bunch of horse archers. Fuck that is hard. I wish you could save replays from those battles. I've only beaten it once on the normal difficulty and it was only barely.

yeah I know which battle you're talking about, I only watched the video for the beginning of the battle but then I had to stop to do something else. It looked pretty intense though. Like in that battle, I chose the Brutii to do the campaign but I noticed it's probably one of the hardest because of the greeks and their pretty amazing military organization.

Btw, you know what pisses me off in this game? I had the unit size set to huge, but because my computer can't handle too many units at the same time, I, or the enemy, never get reinforcements, which kinda fucks up some battles, especially when you want to quickly capture a city by forcing the garrisoning army to reinforce another army. Anyway... I'll beat the game with units size set to huge, then I'll do the Barbarian Invasion campaign with units size set to large, which should allow reinforcements to come, I hope. Still, this fucks up the gameplay in an annoying way.

[Thanatopsis123]

I was looking into the F.E.A.R. expansion not long ago and found this hilarious video of a guy playing F.E.A.R., Doom 3, and Half Life 2 and screaming he's so scared. http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=13933



I'm also pretty pumped about M2:TW coming out next month. The demo should be out pretty soon as well. I can't wait to assassinate the Pope. http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?fs=1&id=2767

And Asmodee, I don't know if you're stilling playing any Total War but that thing where you aren't getting reinforcements during a battle has nothing to do with unit sizes. If you attack with another unit stack nearby and they have a general you can allow the A.I. to come in and and control it or to just send in one unit card at a time as yours are lost if you don't want the idiot A.I. to get themselves slaughtered.

[dorian gray]

Doom 3 got me a few times, especially when I played it in an unlit room. I tried playing HL 2 on PC and had too many seizures.