The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

J-Man wrote: ^ That's what happened for me in the Duke Nukem 64 rom. I could see the enemies through walls,  so it kinda defeated the purpose of most of the game.  And yeah, I use my Xbox 360 controller when I do roms as well. It also helps to be able to configure your own control scheme.

 yeah, i cant remember if you can save controll scemes as files in p64
if so, i might write a little script that links those files with the rom files so i dont have to switch up my controls for different games.

Duke Pukem you say?

J-Man wrote: Quake II just arrived for the N64. I played the first few levels earlier today and they were awesome. I can't wait to play the rest - I love retro FPS games like this.

I beat this game today. Excellent stuff!!

Also started playing this:




Edited by J-Man - 04 Mar 2012 at 5:22pm

Wilytank wrote: Tonight: Final run through for a while. Because tomorrow:

SKwid wrote: ok so i bought it today, have been playing infiltrator a lot,  QUARIAN IS SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST GETH, ive just been sabatoging the higher level ones (hunters, pyros, prime) and letting them kill each other.

Wilytank wrote: SKwid wrote: ok so i bought it today, have been playing infiltrator a lot,  QUARIAN IS SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST GETH, ive just been sabatoging the higher level ones (hunters, pyros, prime) and letting them kill each other.  I've started out with the engineer line again.  Having overload in one hand and incinerate in the other is very handy.  The geth enemies are probably the easiest to beat.  The Reaper enemies are probably the hardest.  Fucking brutes, ravagers, and banshees (their scream freaks me out). Been playing single player too.  Cool to see what happened.  Even the small stuff like telling that asari to stay in that relationship with Charr (the krogan spouting poetry on Illium).  She opens a store on the Citadel called the Blue Rose.

iv almost beat the game, as i have said elsewhere, im on what appears to be the final mission (i got the final speeches thing, ala. speeches before the me2 suicide run)
i decided to postpone that (wich will probably be until monday with me doing this assignment), because i wanted to sleep

It's certainly the most influential game of all time.

Yeah, I was raised on that shit.  I can't do the "dumb" variety of modern shooter because of it.

I love how 90% of "advanced tactics" in shooters these days come from Quake.  Unfortunately, nowadays games are becoming more and more slow-paced so that experienced players won't have a huge advantage.  Personally, as a new player in a game I'd rather lose than be BORED OUT OF MY MIND.

When Valve ported Half-Life 2: Deathmatch to the orange box engine, mostly breaking strafe jumping, bunny hopping, gravity gun jumps etc basically the entire game community died.  It's sad, really, that kids these days are too pussy to just suck it up and practice something


Another awesome part of DOOM was the par times for levels.  I think that was the only single-player game in which I've ever been motivated to memorize levels


Edited by Triceratopsoil - 14 Mar 2012 at 9:53pm

I want Bethesda to make a game featuring the stuff from the SCP Foundation. I think it would be epic.

Edited by Sheavy - 15 Mar 2012 at 8:10pm