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Author Topic: What games[if any] are yous playin'?  (Read 103367 times)

Dragyn

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #405 on: July 01, 2008, 09:18:00 AM »

I gave in and dubbed one Charmander, for it matters not in the long run.  After Charmander died, I named the next one "Not Dead," and all was well again.

Of course, Not Dead eventually died, and had to be renamed post-mortem, but there wasn't any effort wasted in this.

Though yeah, Pokemon in Exile.
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spookty

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #406 on: July 01, 2008, 10:23:00 AM »

I actually bought Pokemon Diamond a couple of months ago.  Yes, I'm lame.  And then I cheated to get a Darkrai because I don't happen to live in Japan.  Other than that, I'm actually trying to finish Final Fantasy VIII, but It's been a while since I played it and I really have no idea what to do now.  Heh.  So I've just been playing Death Jr II.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #407 on: July 01, 2008, 07:06:00 PM »

Heh.

Heavies?
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bloodreaper

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #408 on: July 02, 2008, 08:26:00 AM »

Thugs. Heavies are enforcer thugs. They are like the criminal equivilent of cops, enforcing the rules and edicts of whatever gang they work for. They're called that because they have to be bigger than the civilians/other criminals that they bully.

I want to pull out my old copy of Sigma Star Saga, but I can't find it. My GBAs are both acting funny anyway, so I guess I should probably emulate it, but that would take too much of my very limited internet time.

Stupid pirates making it hard for legit licence holders to download .gba files. Stupid ESA busting all the sites that offer such downloads, becasue they can't be expected to tell the differece between legit licence holders and pirates. Grrr.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #409 on: July 02, 2008, 01:29:00 PM »

O.o

License holders?
For what?
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Dragyn

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #410 on: July 03, 2008, 01:47:00 PM »

If you own a game, you have a license to download/obtain another copy of said game, theoretically for backup or replacement.  Unfortunately, anybody who offers to let you download a copy of a game you already own will probably get shut down by the ESA, since there's not really any way to tell whether the person downloading something is actually entitled to do so.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #411 on: July 03, 2008, 09:27:00 PM »

Hm...
How do they "shut them down?"
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bloodreaper

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #412 on: July 06, 2008, 06:18:00 PM »

Sue them until they can no longer afford to keep their website online. Most of these guys don't make enough to bother fighting back, so the site just folds

Hiring the ESA is the lawsuit equivalent of H-Bombing the entire globe to kill terrorists. You're not just hiring guys to shoot your enemies, you're hiring guys to shoot everyone, repeatedly, as often as possible. The war on piracy has become a free fire zone and the ESA is the only faction that stands to profit.

Anyway, I managed to get my rom, so I can play Sigma Star again, even if I need to collect all my guns again (of course I've got two of the items for the only combo I really use already, so no biggie.) It's time to see if this thing has an ending where at least one of the female leads survives. Not killing Blune might save me from having to kill Psyme, but I doubt it.

I wonder if I can let the zombies eat Scarlet, and how that would change the story. If she's going to die anyway, I'm not going to get in a hurry to save her.

Unfourtunately, I haven't played much, since I found an old pokemon rom in the emulation folder and I've taken it upon myself to see what the big deal is about one of the most popular RPGs of all time.

Alas, I'm stuck in cerulean city with no Cur HM. Help me out Whipper-Snappers: How do I get out of here? Do I have to do something with this Dig HM? Don't I need two more badges before I can use that?
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #413 on: July 10, 2008, 01:11:00 PM »

Rom?

I don't think I really know the version you're playing... my sister used to play Pokemon games in our gameboys all the time, though... enough to where I recognize the name of the city and a number of characters, anyway.
Maybe I'll ask her about it.
(When I was little, I mainly just drew some of the neater-looking pokemon... it wasn't hard to impress me, then, for I was... <age here.> (I don't really know how old I was... I don't think I knew, then, either, most of the time.   :P  But the main point is that I was younger, then!)

How is it, so far, other than that?
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bloodreaper

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #414 on: July 12, 2008, 07:58:00 PM »

I figured it out. The ship captain gives you one.

The game is actually pretty mechanically sound, even if it is geared toward the kid who can tell you the name of every dinosaur ever dug up and any statistic about it. Seriously, this game expects you to memorise not just what types do what, and who has them, but what every move in the game does to those types and what level each pokemon gains them at. Obsession is the way to get ahead in this game, and I don't want that level of committment.

Right now I'm looking at getting into BESM 3. It's a little different than the tabletop RPGs I know, but that's good. I love digesting new ideas, even if I never use them.

The Anime flavor is largely superfluous. If you're trying to build a system that can emulate any society that ever appeared in an anime, you've got to have a system that does just about anything.

The biggest problem I've had pointed out to me is the possibility that two players will construct characters that belong in entirely different games. Not like a samurai and a space marine, those guys could get along pretty well, assuming their power levels are comparable; I mean like a combat monster with every point poured into making himself deadlier at the expense or taking every possible flavor based disadvantage (genreating a character who is effectively Superman, completely invincible, but totally useless to society because he spends all his time rescuing friends and family without them learning his secret identity) paired up with a street smart investigator with lots of potentially useful skills and resources, but a level of combat power that is negligible compared to his more militant ally.

Unless your GM spells out exactly what sort of campaign you're going to be in, and the players are willing to accept that wholeheartedly, your game will degenerate even faster than normal.

Being a devious murder mystery sort of GM faced with a table full of people who just want to stab orcs and steal their gold, is already a bad position. I fear that this product is not for me.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #415 on: July 16, 2008, 09:53:00 PM »

What's a GM?

And what does BESM3 stand for?
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Dragyn

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #416 on: July 17, 2008, 10:38:00 AM »

GM is Gamemaster, in this case.  That'd be the guy that runs the game.

BESM3 is Big Eyes, Small Mouth version 3.0.  It's a system based on Anime--Japanese Cartoons.

I'll leave the details to someone who understands them.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #417 on: July 22, 2008, 10:28:00 AM »

...

Why is the system called BESM 3? They must've been really bored, to come up with that...
Or is that just a more common name for it?
What's the system of?
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bloodreaper

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #418 on: July 22, 2008, 12:28:00 PM »

BESM was originally developed by a company called Gaurdians of Order.

It was a system that allowed players to build almost any type of character assuming they had enough points. Space wizard? check. Half-demon, half- monkey, ninja with a magic sword that shoots lasers? Par for the course.

The original idea was to make it so players could play as anime style superpowered heroes, but the system has been revamped over a few editions to allow players to emulate western style super-heroes and action movie heroes.

The system is surprisingly simple for one that does so much, but being simple and versitile makes it easy to build characters too powerful of too weak to compete, in the areas that matter to a particular campaign.
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Faith

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Re: What games[if any] are yous playin'?
« Reply #419 on: July 23, 2008, 10:49:00 AM »

Huh...

Well, thanks for the explanation.
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