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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 09-04-2004 at 03:30:
Favorite Games?
What are your favorite games, from old and new systems alike?
Being home, right now my little bro and I are playing a lot of multiplayer games. Particularly fun are Mario Kart (any version), Soul Calibur 2, and Kirby's Air Ride.
Mario Kart, of course, is just your basic zany racing game with a whole bunch of goofy characters and items. I really like the character selection in Double Dash, Toad and Baby Bowser being two of my favorites. A neat addition to the items is a special item for each character that you can only get if one of your team members has that ability.
Soul Calibur 2 provides some much needed stress relief through the bashing of my brother's character. The animation, in my opinion, is pretty nifty. The story is really weak, but it isn't really needed. After all, the point is really to get together with someone and fight them. My fave characters on that one (or the ones I can win with) are Mitsurugi and Talim. When my bro and I are feeling goofy, we play either as Yoshimitsu or Voldo. Voldo is probably one of the most disturbing characters I have ever seen. Each character has a couple of costumes/appearances and tons of weapon choices.
As far as the races go, Kirby's Air Ride is pretty dull. However, the City Trial is a lot of fun, especially with 2-4 people. You drive around the city collecting power-ups and better cars, and then you race/ battle your cars against each other. You can destroy each others' cars in the city, and run over the people searching for new cars (of course it is completely bloodless, Mom ^_^).
Single player games include *deep breath* Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Every single stinkin' Final Fantasy translated, Zelda games, Sonic the Hedgehog games, Mario games, and more. Basically a lot of the classics.
Anyone else?
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Posted by lyon on 09-04-2004 at 05:06:
hmm ... am just taking a break now from Neverwinter Nights, so that's a big fav of mine.
also, like Elvin, every single freaking Final Fantasy game ever translated (my personal favorite being VIII). Prince of Persia is pretty damned cool too, but i'm stuck right now at a boss battle and its frustrating.
anyone else playing FFX-2? understand the dress-spheres? willing to tell me why i have to change costume every thirty seconds? admittedly, the girls look damned sexy in all of the costumes (well, cept for the Moogle Costume) but that seems a little too much like cheesecake factor. and can anyone tell me why there isn't a *Moomba* costume? damn, that would be awesome... i'd never take it off.
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Posted by meridianday on 09-04-2004 at 09:27:
I no longer have the attention span for games 
The most recent thing I've played is Zoo Tycoon, because once I'd worked out how to win every time it was good for my self esteem 
But I used to enjoy Carmageddon. I had the censored version with the zombies, but it was a hoot. Or a groan, for the pedestrians of course. A totally insane driving game though.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by meridianday on 09-04-2004 at 09:29:
Ooh, a silly little online game
http://yeti3.yetisports.org/yetisports2/index.php
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by Cep on 09-04-2004 at 10:41:
hehe thats pretty good, I remember playing the first one where you had to bat the penguins as far as possible. 
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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 09-04-2004 at 17:34:
I don't really like action games -- no reflexes, and with small kids it's a bit hard to actually play them.
Did okay on Age of Empires and StarCraft, though stopped in 1999 -- kid started to be awake.
Hubby and son like Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Just started Midtown Madness. Gauntlet Legends was also good for them -- Daddy would develop a really good character solo first, so he'd be able to keep the two of them alive and give Crackers most of the healing.
Daughter Rocket likes Elmo's Alphabet -- drives around and laughs a lot.
Hubby really likes the Zelda stuff -- Ocarina of Time, Mask of Majora, and Windwaker. Played each of them several times. Son likes them, but only in bits. (He's better at rope-swining than I am!) Hubby also liked Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem; you have to play it three times to get to the final ending (choose a different element each time), and he loved the whole thing, especially the mind games. He plays Rainbow Six online every Friday (OneBitCPU) with his coworkers, although they are looking at other games, too. And he did gobbles up all the StarCraft/WarCraft stuff.
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Posted by CeNedra on 09-04-2004 at 20:32:
Let's see...my list of "favorite games" changes fairly often...but the ones I would have to say still interest me and I still play from time to time:
1. Neverwinter Nights
2. Freelancer
3. Battlefield 1942
4. SimCity 4 + Rush Hour
5. American McGee's Alice
6. Civilization III
7. Staropia
8. Ultima Online
9. Clive Barker's Undying
10. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force / Elite Force II
Posted by Tajiri on 10-04-2004 at 02:20:
It always goes back to one game for me: Final Fantasy 7. Without a doubt in my mind the greatest game ever. Actually I like all the Final Fantasy game from one degree to another. Going back to my Nintendo days Zelda and Dragon Warrior rank pretty high along with many of the other classics which are too numerous to name. To cap it off I must also put in Civilization III as it's always fun to rule the world.
Posted by Cep on 18-04-2004 at 14:19:
To be honest I haven't been an avid gamer since I was 22.
Ultima online drained me 
However I enjoy many games of many genres. I think most notably the Ultima series of roleplaying games, the old Sim city's, GTA1,2,3 Shogun total war, starcraft, warcraft.....lots and lots.
At the moment I have dug up Monkey Island 4 and Return to castle wolfenstien
One thing about games that I like is the ability to hack/crack or edit them legally to create my own version. For instance I have heavily hacked GTA3 to include real cars with faster speeds and more realistic handling.
With the old X-Wing & Tie Fighter games I created lengthy campaigns with huge storylines surrounding them (which I never released lol) but thats were the fun lies for me 
Red Alert! Now thats a game
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 19-04-2004 at 00:31:
I've heard that Ultima Online is a dangerous game to play. Very addictive supposedly, presenting mortal doom for newbies and trained gamers alike.
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Posted by Cep on 19-04-2004 at 11:43:
Not nowadays it was over newbiefied when they released Trammel and all the old school gameplay went totally out the window.
They should have left the game the way it was when t2a was released and just add in the exploit fixes.
Now you just have really greedy, egotistic muppets running around whinging at everything that kills them.
Oh for the old days 
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 19-04-2004 at 12:33:
That's too bad. It's a shame when that happens.
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Posted by CeNedra on 20-04-2004 at 13:15:
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Nah....you are thinking of EverCrack...oops...i mean Everquest
Posted by CricketBeautiful on 20-04-2004 at 15:29:
EverQuest
EverQuest. Yep. Hubby's coworker is in it big time. Seems to be handling it okay, for now.
Morrowind seems to be another big one. Not even online. Then again, the friend who is addicted also considered day-trading to be worth trying.
Cricket
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 20-04-2004 at 17:36:
Doesn't seem to hopeful, then. ^_^
I've never really played the online games. Something about the fact that I really only have time during the summer, during which I have a 26k connection at best. The lag time would be *terrible*. I have heard that EverQuest is pretty cool, though. All rpg's are addictive, so I know about that danger already. Only figures that it *would* be addictive.
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Posted by Cep on 20-04-2004 at 19:26:
Ah morrowind *grins*
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