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Just got an iPad, looking for some good games to play. In particular, there was one I remember seeing at some point from this thread, but I can't find it fishing through the posts. It was a first-person old-school style RPG like Eye of the Beholder et al. Anyway, recommendations for anything...

Some of you keep talking about how certain mechanics in EQ were fun for the person doing them, but "boring" for everyone else. Well you know what? In an MMO (a game that you're playing for hours on end at a time), there need to be ups and downs--lulls in the fun. Humans thrive on relativity for...

Oh god Surgeon Simulator is cracking me the fuck up. What the fuck is this game?

Yeah it shortens since they finish before their estimates.

It's reminding me why I never even finished the campaign (first time ever not finishing a Blizzard game). It's just not fucking Starcraft anymore. Looking forward to the Half-Lifes though.

There are never fewer than 2 hero characters, so in a 2 player game, one player plays the Overlord, the other player runs 2 hero characters. The reason I suggest no fewer than 4 heroes is because while it does scale, 2 heroes favors the OL quite a bit, and 3 heroes favors the heroes quite a...

+1 for Descent 2E. A couple of points: 1) Descent is playable with 2-5people, but I would highly recommend using 4heroesat all times 2) The number of classes actually has doubled to 16, contrary to what Vaclav posted

Zones never bothered me in EQ, and never detracted from my feeling of it being an actual world I was exploring. It also has the added bonus, as Mr Creed states, of allowing the designers to quite easily add new content into existing areas, if they design their zones well. In fact, that's...

Yeah as much as universal loot sounds good on paper to help mitigate un-wanted raid drops and such, in reality it VERY quickly makes the game quite stale and soul-less. Same issue with point/badge systems. MMORPG's go hand in hand with seeking specific items off of specific baddies, crushing...

Lol @ voice controls. Such a fucking gimmick like 3D, love it.

Hmm, interesting! I guess I'll try Quelaag's next time around.

Well I have Quelaag's sword, but it's not upgraded I don't think. Would that be much better? My issue will be I've been using a spear the entire game, so I'm going to suck ass with anything else. Good times! haha

I've been stuck on Ornstein and Smough forever now. I've only attempted them ~15 times, but that's been spread across 3-4 play sessions. I'm currently using a lightning spear, and don't really have any magic. Basically my issue is I'll bring in that NPC dude to help me, and half the time he'll...

Yeah, a movie is linear and can buffer quite easily, a game has a ton of shit it has to buffer based on all the possible decisions the player can make. Some games might work ok, but the more complex ones I can't imagine working all too well.

Well I mostly meant IRL, because that's when they lack the feeling of nipples. But yeah, they're also a bummer in pictars

Inverted nipples on a pair of fantastic tits. Man, such a bummer.

And yet they grew their sub base steadily for 5 years. Big fucking deal if some people quit?

Yeah, other than that whole thing that Quaid was bitching about like not being able to afk for 3 minutes to take a shit because he's the healer. Too bad that druid can't take up healing duties for a few minutes while he shits. Oh, wait. It sounds like you want World of Warcraft. I hear...

The so-called "gimping" we're talking about here is a lack of desire for druids in groups, in large part driven by overpopulation, but yes in some part driven by aperceived-by-the-communitylack of fantastic group utility. And yet, you say you had no issues. And Quaid doesn't seem to have quit EQ...

I agree to a point. But as I said in that post, I also very much like to see unequal experiences. So what if the game has a minor subset of its playerbase churning a bit because they find out they don't like what they've chosen, and move on, or something?

Actually, yes, I believe responding with "roll a different class" is perfectly valid in this case. If you don't like what thecommunity-related ramificationsof your chosen class are, then well sucks to be you. Deal with it, or try another one. The great players of those classes (and the...

@Quaid So you're rustled that your Druid, the best soloer in the game (early era), had issues finding groups? Because there were a ZILLION FUCKING DRUIDS ON EVERY SERVER? See this is what I was talking about in my post a page or two ago. Classes with actual distinctions, and ramifications...

Define "sucks balls," please? Do you mean it's too large, and you have to move the stick too far for any input?

Uh, it's definitely one of the key defining aspects. I don't know how you can argue otherwise. It's basically instancing, quest-grinding, and flawlessly smooth combat as the three largest defining aspects.

K, sounds like I'll just buy an X360 controller "for windows" or whatever, if that works best. Makes sense, since they're both Microsoft. What is it that you guys think is inferior about the X360 controller? It has the same functionality (other than six-axis tilt shit), right? Same...

Also, what Muligan said about travelling with someone brings up a good point. If you let them, people will play these games for ALL SORTS of reasons. So give them reasons to do it. I know a ton of Druids, Wizards, Bards, etc who would just exist to facilitate other people's convenience via...

Some people are quoting P99 as some sort of useful point against the old design (open, non-instanced, etc). What they're forgetting is that it's not at all the same, since every nook and cranny, mechanic, anything and everything about the game was 100% known at that point, by anyone and...

Yeah, where it says "Connected game controller(s)" mine just doesn't have one, says "awaiting connection" or something similar. Couldn't figure out a way to get it to recognize it.

I did install MiJ but it's not very user friendly from what I can tell. I can't even tell if it recognizes my controller or not. Mine is supposedly a Logitech DS3 controller. It has a Logitech badge on it, but strangely has the buttons labeled with Egyptian gobbledygook instead of the normal...

Oh, I guess I need to qualify that it needs to be wireless capable. Is there a good solution for making an X360 controller wireless on a PC?

This seems like as good of a thread as any to ask a question I've been meaning to ask: What's the best solution for a gamepad for the PC? I have a wireless (USB) PS3 dualshock Logitech thinger that I bought for my PS3 awhile back, and I've tried using it. It seems to work ok, but there are a...

Oh man, stuff worthy of mapping on graph paper would make me wet. I really miss those days.

And yet, classes/skills/talents etc changing constantly is a relatively new thing. That shit didn't happen nearly as often in EQ, they were quite comfortable having unique classes with strengths and weaknesses, and some classes having anemic player representation. Then along came WoW, where they...

Tanks ARE fun to play, I love them. And considering only roughly 1/6th of the playerbase (or quite a bit less, given some people like soloing, non-combat, etc) need to be tanks, then it kind of works out that you, and others, don't like them.

God, Electro looks like shit.

I don't get the complaints about having to learn the fights. Most of this board has enjoyed progression raiding in an MMO at some point, isn't it basically the same thing? Try shit, probably die, and eventually learn what you need to do? There's even the analogous "how to" youtube videos if...

That brings up a good point. Is there a good source for not-shitty let's play type videos? Most of the ones I've come across involve some idiot spouting nonsense that he thinks is funny throughout the video.

Just finished it. Honestly took me some willpower just to do that, I lost interest about 1/3rd of the way through. Another couple of things that make this a vastly inferior game than the first: As is typical with bigger budget type AAA shit, they went BIG AND EPIC with it, fucking Michael Bay...

I always just plink those guys down with my bow. A zillion times. Because I can't fucking beat O&S for the life of me.

Sounds like you need to look into what exactly patent law is. In short, a patent-holder actually MUST pursue any infringement or they lose their patent. That said, using time travel for something so mundane is gay.