Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 211

I've been playing Ninja Gaiden (NES) all day. I won't rest until I beat it in one sitting, without cheats. I'm currently at 5-1. I fucking HATE these birds!!!!!!!

Next time I see a bird in real life, I swear I'm going to slice its head off, then dance on the carcass to the tune of the boss battles from the game!

Wow... What was I on last night? Oh yeah, gaming high.

Well I had to go to bed, so I'll try again today. Man, I wanna finish this game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZiLLZmz48

Hilarious.

DarkGryphon2048 said:

Leonardo said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZiLLZmz48

 

Hilarious.

Why're you talking to yourself?

I dunno...

* nobody posted anything in between of my other posts

* I was adding thoughts, I didn't want to edit

* trying to beat Ninja Gaiden in one sitting without savestates makes you do that

* all of the above

take your pick, I'll take a shovel :-)

Nice, I love it when threads get derailed pointlessly like this, then get filled with dumb gifs and pictures. Absolutely awesome! But maybe we could try not doing that.

And now for something entirely non-sarcastic.

That is cool you are going to play System Shock 2, Gryphon. A little dated, but a good game none the less. I have wanted to play it on my Mac for a long time, actually found an unofficial port of it, but unfortunately my MacBook's graphics card has issues with it. :(

In other news, in my excitement for Fallout Vegas, I have really been wanting a Fallout fix, and unfortunately lost my save file for Fallout 3 and don't have the heart to start over. So I decided to give the original Fallout another shot, after all, it does appear on just about every top fifty greatest PC games of all time lists, so I had to be missing something in disliking it as much as I did. Now that I have given it a second chance, I am beginning to enjoy it. I am really not a fan of turned based RPGs, so the combat is what really doesn't work for me. But now that I have played far enough to have a companion with me, the turn based combat isn't as bad.

Interestingly enough, even though there is a Mac version of both Fallout 1 and 2, thanks to Apple dropping 256 color support in later versions of Leopard, neither of them work on modern machines (I love my Mac, but it is at times like this when I really have no ammo for argument against obsessive Windows users who like to make a big deal about being able to do so much more on Windows. The reality of the matter is that they are right, and by dropping support for older programs, Apple proves they just really don't care), so I had to resort to hunting down a DOS version to run through DOSBox.

Actually, every time I find myself in a situation where I have to use someone elses PC, I usually run into enough problems that I become extremely thankful I am, apparently, a "dumbfuck" of an Apple user. It just works, and that is what I need. I wouldn't mind being able to play a 10+ year old game on my computer, but not being able to isn't a very big deal when it does everything else I need it to do flawlessly and headache free.

And it has nothing to do with looks. My MacBook is really beat up, and rather unpleasant looking these days, but she still runs as good as the day I bought her. It is also worth mentioning that this is the sixth laptop I have owned in the last ten years and my first Apple, and quality wise it is far above and beyond any of the others I have owned.

Okay, seriously! What the hell is it with you guys? You just jump in here and attempt to derail for no reason. Pretty immature.

Fink, I was addressing Gryphon as much if not more than I was addressing you, but thanks for taking it so personally. Besides, you posted your gif, which obviously pissed Gryphon off and started the mess, before he called anyone a "fucking idiot". You seem upset that I didn't join the fight and defend you, but rather ignored everything and continued on topic. Honestly, I didn't even read the text on either of your posts, I saw there was fighting, I asked if we could cool it, and continued on topic.

It is pretty blatant that you guys just do shit like that now to annoy me. So thanks, I appreciate it.

ChainsawAsh said:

 

But I'm ridiculously excited for New Vegas!  I popped in Fallout 3 earlier today to test out my roommate's new projector and 7.1 surround system, and it was glorious.

That sounds very pleasant. After getting used to playing games on a 50 inch wide screen TV with surround sound for a few months, I am afraid I will be playing New Vegas on a very small TV through a pair of headphones... :( But I am still excited to play it.