melkathi

I am considering setting up a little campaign this holliday season. But am not sure what system would best suit me. The setting would be the faery tale world, which has begun to react to the changes and mostly the cynicism in the real world. As a result, the magic kingdoms are dragged into a sudden and violent industrial revolution. Gameplay wise this would result in both magic and basic gunpowder but also clockwork and steam. (I guess being on this forum I have to admit a certain love for Arcanum ) Tech won't have to really be truly feasible as I do want some more artsy creations such as steam powered horses for the king's guard. I was considering going with WHFRPG rules as I am most familiar with it and just wing it... Any idea would be appreciated.

Trying to remember the specs of my 286. Or what my dad had before the PowerMac (I think a 7100)...

Eh, customer support in the game industry has been suspect since everything moved to internet only. If you need to ask the person who's decision you have a problem with to please forward your complaint, then chances are they wont do it. Why risk it if they can just delete your ticket and move on? With a call center, not passing you up the ladder was less easy, as when you call again you'd get a random other person. My experience with Blizzard has been limited but neutral (good experience with GMs, silly experience with techies). Then again I remember the ban of the GLTB (or in what order those letters go) guild, which was completly out of order. I've had terrible experiences with other companies though. Fantastic experiences with yet others. I wouldn't be surprised if the anti-cheating software mistook whatever linux users use to run windows games as illegal 3rd party software. Kinda like a false positive.

I miss that... when the games were about ridiculous fun and not about balanced armies.

The fun bit was when the player later complained that nothing was happening

But with Orks at least that's part of the fun. They were meant to be a gamble. Did you ever get to read 40k 1st ed rules for Orks? There were two books, Freebooterz and ... can't remember the name right now. You would actually roll dice for every mob to see whether they'd show up or if they were too drunk on fungus beer from the night before

Agreed. My elite chaos marine strike team misses on every shot. The Ork Waaaagh! bearing down upon me hits with every single shot, one-shotting my Great Unclean One with a lascannon to add insult to injury...

I was planning to. Don't know if I'll have the time.

You should channel that alien-killing-prowess and play Space Invaders. Space Invaders isn't turn-based. True. Neither are Dishonored or Boderlands though, so I guess you have no option but to replay XCOM

You should channel that alien-killing-prowess and play Space Invaders.

Players can only be controlled through fear... and surprise. Surprise and fear.... At least those ***** who in my campaign, when confronted with the murder mystery, said "Don't go that way! That's a quest hook, better ignore it."

I wish...

Actually no. I've been mening to look it up when I get some time. Hmm, got a spare copy on Steam if you are interested. (if I remember correclty)

Reading about the X-COM games you guys play makes me feel as if I was watching some sci-fi story unfold where the human commanders escape to alternate realities each time the aliens overrun the reality they were currently defending. Reminds me a bit of Now Wait For Last Year by Philip K. ****. Did you know it's now for Iphones? Hmmm... and I have a Galaxy... buy iPhone for retro gaming or keep the android? Decissions decissions

Used to GM. I enjoy both GM/Storytelling and being a player. Can't ever be a DM. To me a DM is a Deviant Master, leader of a certain cult of Slaanesh in WHFRPG 1st Edition.

Whenever I read the acronym NOLF I completly fail to remember what people are talkign about. I then have to skim through the thread to find the first post (with the nice cover picture), to remind me that this was a stealth shooter called No One Lives Forever and not a Pro-Life Anti-Abortion game called Night Of the Living Fetus (which always has me wondering where that missing T has gone).

It's on my wishlist. Do tell me more

So he folded up, assuming something similar to a standing fetal position, then, very slowly keeling over sideways? Or would that require a stomach shot... Chestshot... Ok I got an image for that as well: As the chest is pushed back by the force, the arms snap foward and legs fold up, causing him to fly backwards in a sitting position, arms extended as if grasping for something in front of him?

We had a tournament going. Both singles and doubles. Took turns playing trying to get the most cash. Or take turns as a team. A friend was extremly good at diving and finding that rare coin that would give you an extreme boost at the start. He'd team with the best pilot in the class... took me a while to get my game to a level where I could compete with 'em. ... kinda strange looking back and seeing what games we would turn into "multi-player e-sports" But what were we to do? Play North and South all day? (ok going to let people get back to XCOM )

I was too busy playing Duck Tales at the time

Can that person still hear?

I was reading an article on massively. Then I looked at the comments. The article was bad enough, blaming once more "fans' expectations" for the failure of SWTOR (in a way the article is right when it comes to me personally: I had no expectations whatsoever of the game and the game lived up to them ) But the comment section. That is tin-foil-comedy gold! It's like a train wreck you can read. One person lashing out at every other commentor and making up the majority of comments. Very fitting for this thread and worth a look if you are bored and in dire need of a face palm: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/hyperspace-beacon-will-free-to-play-save-swtor/#continued

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream

Trashman, did you ever get to play Frozen Synapse? What is your take on that game's approach to Turn Based combat?

Can't remember the rest of the post... are we still talking about the smurf/pocahontas hybrid in space movie?