Jump to content

Gorth

Global Moderators
  • Posts

    12595
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    104

Everything posted by Gorth

  1. Being a fan of turn based goodness, I gave Battlestar Galactica Deadlock a try. Not bad, even if I got my butt handed to me by the AI. I need to play tutorials for a bit I think
  2. Ah, Spy vs. Spy. I already put up a list of the most nostalgic ones, so just some honourable mentions (I mentioned some of my favourite publishers of the age). From Electronic Arts: Archon I+II - chess was never the same again for me, although the second game was a bit different Skyfox - It was like a cold war thriller/war movie/simulation, oozing atmosphere. Alternate Reality - First crpg where I didn't care that it had almost no story and no discernable plot. Exploring was fun! Heart of Africa + Seven Cities of Gold - Similar type games in different settings. Again, exploration was a large part of the fun. My little brother at some point got Mail Order Monsters and I bought Racing Destruction set - Just endless hours of fun. Realm of Impossibility - Take that "Wistrik"!!! From Activision: H.E.R.O. - Something about going underground and rescuing trapped people was never more fun than this. Watch out for the lava! Pitfall - What is says on the tin Trailblazer - A "surreal", futuristic ball game. Fast and furious Hacker - Play it in a dark room. Pull a blanket over your head and monitor. Creates the right atmosphere for this gem of a game. Little Computer People - I didn't have it, but my brother got it as a Christmas present. This was The Sims more than a decade before The Sims. No idea how many years "Alfred" lived in that Commodore 64 Rescue on Fractalus - Early attempts at real, 3d landscape and exploration on 8bit machines. Fractals were a thing back then. Alter Ego - A game that somehow managed to weird me out. Really, really well done for it's time. Several floppies big and that's for a text only game! US Gold: Zaxxon - Side scrolling done right! Chop Lifter - Sort of the opposite of H.E.R.O. open air rescue of people on the surface Beach Head - mentioned in previous post in this thread Fort Apocalypse - Don't want to remember the obscene number of hours trying to penetrate the fortress, shooting your way through enemies and destructible terrain. Impossible Mission - After a few years of trying, it was a relief to finally hear the "Noooo!" (game had digitized speech) Solo Flight - A flight simulator that was FUN to play. Just strolling around in your little plane, taking off, landing etc. Advanced for its time. Nato Commander - Probably saw regular play for almost 10 years. This was during the cold war after all. Silent Service - I still remember dreading the engine sound of destroyers! I could probably list scores of additional games, but those sprang to mind when jogging down memory lane.
  3. That sounds like the government
  4. Ummm, about that *cough* About a year? gw2efficiency says I've played about 2600 hours (and died 2020 times, giving approx 0.8 death per 1 hour played ) Bear in mind, the ingredients on the base ingredient list are the easy things to get. The not so base ingredients are the tough ones to get. But, my Charr warrior is happy to carry his new friend along
  5. Checked up a few reviews for BL3. Not that I was going to install the Epic launcher anyway, just to satisfy my curiosity. Mechanically similar to BL2, but without the story and Handsome Jack as the main antagonist. The latter is going to be a tough act to follow in any case, Handsome Jack being my favourite villain in any game so far Oh, and buggy as hell was something people seemed to agree on. So, still having a lot of fun playing Guild Wars 2. I finally managed to complete my first legendary weapon My very own Quaggan in a bowl https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shooshadoo When not playing GW2, I have a go at the old EU III (I have IV too, but never really got into it). Cheated outrageously, editing the original saved game and gave Byzantium a larger starting pool of manpower, gold and spies. Spies in particular are helpful, causing Cyprus, Rhodos, Kreta and what's their name the islands east of Athens to defect from the despicable Venetians to me. Building up mercenary forces, naval superiority too, meant I could fight the Ottomans in Europe while their army was in eastern Anatolia fighting the Timurids (and cutting off their ability to reinforce their position in Greece). I've managed to change my technology to 'Western'. Trying to reach a point where I can also change unit types to 'Western' Also trying out Monster Hunter World. I find it boring and uninteresting as a single player game, but the team missions with friends are fun
  6. Keeping an eye on the news the last few days. Got friends living in the affected areas in Queensland (Australia has broken all the old records for start of and severity of bushfires and it's not even summer yet). Not sure if this link works outside Australia, but it looks impressive... from a distance that is. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-09/ember-attack-during-bushfire-on-the-sunshine-coast/11494188
  7. I like unusual stuff.... unusual enough for me to like it
  8. A bit of Metallica 2019... because my friend and I are going to see them live in Melbourne end of October Looking forward to it
  9. Trump is like a broken clock, he might accidentally be right about something, no matter how unintentional. Got bored of the Greek Tragedy that is the Trump administration running the economy into the ground and even turned off the news when new fights repeatedly breaks out in Hong Kong. The new comedy series du jour is starring the Johnson family, Farage, and a few other comedians in a 2019 version of "Yes Minister". You have to give a hand to the script writers, even Monty Python would be hard pushed to beat it for sureality and absurdity. Got a feeling that the next *elected* PM will be named Corbyn. (yeah, it's even worse than the circus that is Australian politics, which relies more on backstabbing and nightly maneuvering)
  10. This poll is even worse than a false dichotomy, as neither option actually solves anything. You could add Dungeons & Dragons too to the list for that matter. North American population is too overweight: Ban KFC or Ban McDonald? Same thing, banning either, neither or both wont solve the problem. Presenting no viable poll options is just trying to create an echo chamber for your own perceptions for the problem. Volourn (bless his little kanadian soul) almost got it right, except banning people wont work either. People and society is the problem and fixing the underlying problems need to start there. Addressing things like how are people that are isolated, ostracized, marginalized etc. treated? How is the mental healthcare for the population, especially for the aforementioned groups? The NRA isn't the problem, just a symptom. Cure the disease and the symptoms go away.
  11. @BruceVC the US has spied on the rest of the world and influenced regional politics and toppled democratically elected governments to replace them with puppets for decades. I'm not sure if anyone is *really* surprised when other countries eventually try to return the favour. Heck, for two decades (at least), the US has been spying on European citizens and companies via the Echelon system (google bbc and echelon for a more in-depth art article on it). Couldn't help but burst out laughing when I read the BBC news this morning. Good on you Ms Frederiksen, one woman who is very unimpressed by Trump, there is apparently no limit to how far he will go embarrass himself. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49423968
  12. Being in a nostalgic mood today, I guess this thread got resurrected just in time My first two purchased games were for the Commodore 64 (in 1983). A cartridge with a game of two vs two soccer. Aptly named International Soccer by Commodore. The other game was called Beach Head, published by a big name of the time, called 'US Gold'. Took my a bit to get through all the levels. I remember some frustrating late nights trying to dodge tank traps when getting my tanks off the beach. The game I spent to most time on until the age of MMO's was a game called 'Doomdarks Revenge'. It was a hybrid of a strategy game and a crpg. You started out with 4 heroes and their armies in a "fake" 3D world. No mean feat in 1985 or thereabouts. In my book, the best game ever made. Forbidden Forest was a game that managed something no other game ever did since, not even the Penumbra games, it sent a chill down my spine and gave me bad cases of goosebumps. The pacing of the building up the difficulty, the increasing darkness and tempo of the music was just genius. Elite was a class of it's own. A decent port from the Acorn BBC computer, I spent months doing trading, smuggling, getting chased by Thargoids and cursing the malfunctioning drive that left me stranded light years from the nearest system. Nato Commander by Microprose. My brother and I spend waaay too many nights sitting up and playing this, being complete wrecks the day after at school/work On the Commodore Amiga, the biggest time sink was probably a shareware game called Mechforce. A brilliant adaptation of FASA's (the IP holder at the time) Battle Mech. Turn based combat goodness with environment effects, including destructible terrain. Speaking of the latter, X-Com 3: Apocalypse share the spot with Jagged Alliance 2 in turn based combat done right. Including clever use (and destruction) of terrain and terrain effects. Master of Orion 2. Nuff said. Just my $0,25 In the 1980's, there were so many great games by EA and US Gold, as well as Epyx (Jumpman and the Summer Games franchise), it was just impossible to pay tribute to them all.
  13. A bit of 80's nostalgia. A tribute to the madness of the cold war and imminent end of the world
  14. Looks like the UK got fed up with keeping Iranian oil tankers hostage and let it depart Gibraltar. Mostly of interest because Trump has recently tried bullying the Australia government into joining the war against Iran that he (and the Saudis) wants so badly. I wonder if he wont try to mimic the Prussians who got fed up with the Austrians (not to be confused with Australians, thank you very much) as they kept outmaneuvering Prussia in the game of diplomacy and just went screw it, lets cut to the chase and declare war against Austria anyway, casus belli be damned.
  15. The architecture of Orr. Not for the faint hearted (it's a long way down). Yes, I'm "cheating", using a flying mount to get up there. Surreal skies over the land of the undead.
  16. Shamelessly copying the Bioware wikipedia page (middle paragraph bold faced by me): --- Their first game, Shattered Steel, began its life as a proof-of-concept demo, similar to the MechWarrior games. This demo was submitted to ten publishers, seven of whom returned to the company with an offer. A publishing deal for Shattered Steel was eventually signed with Interplay Entertainment. Brent Oster and Trent Oster left BioWare at that time to form Pyrotek Studios, which continued developing Shattered Steel but broke up a year later, with Trent returning to BioWare to finish the game.[5] BioWare's first game was released the following year. Shattered Steel's release was described by IGN as a "modest success" with "decent sales". Two noteworthy points were the deformable terrain (player weapon damage caused craters in the environment) and zone damage (well-placed gunfire could shoot mounted weapons off enemies). A sequel to Shattered Steel was planned for 1998 but never realized.[4] BioWare's founders and staff were keenly interested in both computerized and pen-and-paper variants of role-playing games. Their next development project, therefore, was determined to be a role-playing game. When Interplay financed "exploratory development", BioWare presented the publishers with a demo called Battleground: Infinity. Interplay suggested that the demonstrated gameplay engine would be well-suited to the Dungeons & Dragons licence which it had acquired from Strategic Simulations. Accordingly, Infinity was reworked in line with the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset.[4] This resulted in Baldur's Gate, which witnessed a development cycle of three years. During this time, the three doctors continued to practice medicine. However, in the final years of the project, the demands of development prompted Muzyka and Zeschuck to leave medicine and move into full-time development. Augustine Yip decided to continue with his medical practice. Baldur's Gate sold more than two million copies after its release, nearly matching the sales of Diablo. Following the success of Baldur's Gate, the Infinity Engine was used for the games Planescape: Torment and the Icewind Dale series. The success of Baldur's Gate was followed by an expansion pack for the game: Tales of the Sword Coast.[6] Edit: tl;dr; what was pitched as a typical (for the time) rts game got reworked into Baldurs Gate instead. Based on memory, may be wrong, but the thinking behind it being that the rts market was already very competitive at the time.
  17. Guild Wars 2... having an "alt account". I've since completed the quest for getting for Skyscalle mount for this account too. I thought it was a nice little touch, that the little critter grows when you feed it and gets happy when you play with it.
  18. A friend and I went and saw Lion King (the new one). It's not that it is painfully bad or anything, it just doesn't hold a candle to the original, animated movie. The CGI offers the worst of both worlds. Not realistic enough to be convincing and not "cute" enough to compete with the old animations. Story was sort of Ok'ish, the songs.... not particularly memorable. The food at the restaurant outside the cinema was good though
  19. Hey, we're talking about a guy with several high profile bankruptcies behind him. Not sure how anyone expected him to manage a national economy any better Anyone wanna bet it's why he's trying everything short of just ordering airstrikes on Tehran, casus belli be damned, to start the war he wants so badly. Hard to impeach a president in the middle of a war, so he need it badly. Maybe he's waiting for Boris Johnson to take over in London, because that guy has shown beyond any doubt that he has neither shame nor spine. He'll be busy wiggling his little bottom in the air, spreading his butt cheeks with his hands, trying to appear as appealing to Trump as possible. Once he's secure in the role as Ttrumps inflatable doll, the UK will jump and lead the charge wherever Trumps points them, because they (the UK) need whatever scraps of trade agreements they can get.
  20. Oh, you mean all 3 countries have oil reserves, but not under control of western powers? EDIT: Disclaimer. I haven't watched the video
  21. A brilliant take on Brexit. Personally, I liked the chapter on Bigfoot Erotica better than Theresa May's Chapter 12
  22. A shame nobody had any feedback for you on Surviving Mars (not familiar with the game), but I recognize the use of Steam sales as a way to try out games I wouldn't normally buy
  23. Consider myself recommended and warned No idea where it came from, but Steam asked me if I wanted to apply a voucher at checkout, reducing the cost from $20 to $12 AUD. That's about $8.5 USD. That's what I spend on two Cappucino's across the street, so, not really any risk involved in that purchase. Bought the base game. I'll give it a try over the weekend
  24. I haven't tried the Battletech game currently on a sale on Steam, but it's kind of sad that the best version of it that I've played so far is an old Amiga shareware game (Called 'Mechforce iirc', runs fine on WinUAE). Complete with clan mechs, drop pods, destructible terrain (set the forest on fire and watch the fire spread depending on wind direction, mechs that suffers reactor explosions creates depressions in the ground etc.) and a computer AI that plays a very competent game. Turn based goodness I would love to see in a post 1990 version
×
×
  • Create New...