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Earth Defense Force 2017: Happy Birthday Thread, 1 Year

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Shady3011 wrote: »
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    Not the actual thread title, just the blue box that the title is in.

    Yeah, I use Firefox too and I just tested it and it works.

    Could there possibly be a bug stopping me from re-naming the thread, is there a limit to the number of times you can re-name a thread cause none of the usual methods are working for me and that clicking on the blue box isn't doing anything either?

    I just found a thread I started to test it, using Firefox 3.

    Basically, you just want to doubleclick here:

    threadtitle1.jpg

    It should then look like this:

    threadtitle2.jpg

    And then you just start typing.
    When I do that the first 2 clicks highlights the ] and the third highlights everything on the line. But no way of changing the title.

    I'm just going to take a random guess here, but do you have NoScript?

    Not that I know of.
    And you are sure you are double clicking in between the last r and the [

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Every time this thread pops up it just makes me feel sorry for the Americans who never get to play Global Defence Force, as well as curse the developers for not putting the flying chick in EDF 2017, as well as adding all that other shit.

    The game was perfect already. All they needed to do was add a shit load of new weapons, update the graphics, and have new levels.

    Not that I'm saying EDF 2017 is bad. I haven't played it given my lack of 360. But I can't imagine they managed to improve on an already perfect game.

    Centipeed on
  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Shady3011 wrote: »
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    Not the actual thread title, just the blue box that the title is in.

    Yeah, I use Firefox too and I just tested it and it works.

    Could there possibly be a bug stopping me from re-naming the thread, is there a limit to the number of times you can re-name a thread cause none of the usual methods are working for me and that clicking on the blue box isn't doing anything either?

    I just found a thread I started to test it, using Firefox 3.

    Basically, you just want to doubleclick here:

    threadtitle1.jpg

    It should then look like this:

    threadtitle2.jpg

    And then you just start typing.
    When I do that the first 2 clicks highlights the ] and the third highlights everything on the line. But no way of changing the title.

    I'm just going to take a random guess here, but do you have NoScript?

    Not that I know of.
    And you are sure you are double clicking in between the last r and the [
    All over the place, nothing is working.

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Centipeed wrote: »
    Every time this thread pops up it just makes me feel sorry for the Americans who never get to play Global Defence Force, as well as curse the developers for not putting the flying chick in EDF 2017, as well as adding all that other shit.

    The game was perfect already. All they needed to do was add a shit load of new weapons, update the graphics, and have new levels.

    Not that I'm saying EDF 2017 is bad. I haven't played it given my lack of 360. But I can't imagine they managed to improve on an already perfect game.

    You better provide some Youtube video to support this flying chick theory.

    As for the thread title, have you tried just making it short? Still nothing? Oh well. I say just make a new thread when Dynamic Slash actually gets a release date over here.

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  • PemulisPemulis Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    All over the place, nothing is working.

    Have you tried a different browser, just as a test? I had no idea about this function, but it works fine for me in Opera and Firefox...

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Thread is so old the title has ossified.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    but it's still an awesome game.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Well, yeah. It's a fantastic game! Time can't rob this one of its glory. Arcade games don't go to heaven, they don't need to.

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  • mastriusmastrius Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I play this every while when my friend comes over and we have a blast. It was funny, I had to restart my file (I was on Inferno but no...no...it had to be restarted because I lost my memory for some reason or another). and we decided to just do theh ardest difficulties on levels we could right off the bat and got the Grenade gun Alpha and oh my god did we have fun. 1000 damage per grenade and it shoots out like 20 of em. Its hilarious. They just bounce everywhere blowing shit up, killing your comrades, killing YOU a lot of the time. Its so fucking funny. We just die laughing while the game chugs and slows down to a crawl because of all the crazy shit happening on screen. But when it actually works, (the grenade gun) its a great way to fuck everything up.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Centipeed wrote: »
    Every time this thread pops up it just makes me feel sorry for the Americans who never get to play Global Defence Force, as well as curse the developers for not putting the flying chick in EDF 2017, as well as adding all that other shit.

    The game was perfect already. All they needed to do was add a shit load of new weapons, update the graphics, and have new levels.

    Not that I'm saying EDF 2017 is bad. I haven't played it given my lack of 360. But I can't imagine they managed to improve on an already perfect game.

    I've heard the previous iterations were better than the one we got on the 360, but this one has the benefit of not being a total slideshow (still has performance problems, though). I would desperately love a more fully-fleshed-out sequel.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    This thread will last until 2017, when the server is taken down by ants. Not giant, alien ants, mind you. Just ants. The hardest part about this thread is keeping a thread alive for two years and not hitting 2500 posts.

    Good job, storm one

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Pemulis wrote: »
    All over the place, nothing is working.

    Have you tried a different browser, just as a test? I had no idea about this function, but it works fine for me in Opera and Firefox...

    Didn't work on IE either.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why not edit > Go advanced?

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why not edit > Go advanced?

    If you'd been following the thread you'd know that I've tried that multiple times. The title changes in the op itself, but not the thread.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why not edit > Go advanced?

    If you'd been following the thread you'd know that I've tried that multiple times. The title changes in the op itself, but not the thread.

    Sorry? I guess the posts that had nothing to do with killing giant ants and robots just slipped under the radar.

    Logout, delete your cookies, and try again? /shrug

    alternately, double click the thread's table row (not the link itself), with javascript enabled... should it be disabled for w/e reason.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why not edit > Go advanced?

    If you'd been following the thread you'd know that I've tried that multiple times. The title changes in the op itself, but not the thread.

    Sorry? I guess the posts that had nothing to do with killing giant ants and robots just slipped under the radar.

    Logout, delete your cookies, and try again? /shrug

    alternately, double click the thread's table row (not the link itself), with javascript enabled... should it be disabled for w/e reason.

    I tried logging out, deleting cookies, and logging back in, still nothing.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Did you doubleclick an area of the table row that had no text or links on it? And did you verify that you javascript is enabled on your browser?

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Did you doubleclick an area of the table row that had no text or links on it? And did you verify that you javascript is enabled on your browser?

    Yeah I tried clicking to the left, to the right, above and below, nothing. Also Java is very enabled.

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  • MorkathMorkath Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I just found this for $15!
    I hope I was not misled onto its awesomitude!

    edit:
    Hah, "Hey we just encountered an alien race, what should we name them?" "Ravagers!" "Good name, I hope they are friendly!"

    Well played edf, well played.

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  • PemulisPemulis Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Morkath wrote: »
    Hah, "Hey we just encountered an alien race, what should we name them?" "Ravagers!" "Good name, I hope they are friendly!"

    Well played edf, well played.

    Haha, I had the same thought.

    I also like "We're not sure the giant alien bugs are associated with the UFOs"

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Shady3011 wrote: »
    Centipeed wrote: »
    Every time this thread pops up it just makes me feel sorry for the Americans who never get to play Global Defence Force, as well as curse the developers for not putting the flying chick in EDF 2017, as well as adding all that other shit.

    The game was perfect already. All they needed to do was add a shit load of new weapons, update the graphics, and have new levels.

    Not that I'm saying EDF 2017 is bad. I haven't played it given my lack of 360. But I can't imagine they managed to improve on an already perfect game.

    You better provide some Youtube video to support this flying chick theory.

    As for the thread title, have you tried just making it short? Still nothing? Oh well. I say just make a new thread when Dynamic Slash actually gets a release date over here.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E0_YatUBMQ

    Freaking awesome but runs like an absolute pig on the PS2, especially when you start fighting the giant spiders. The night time stages are a nightmare to play as well.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Flying saucers are so much cooler than the mosquito-bots we got in the 360 game.

    EDIT- so how do the characters balance out? A jetpack is a pretty obvious advantage. Is the jetpack chick just an upgrade?

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Shady3011 wrote: »
    Centipeed wrote: »
    Every time this thread pops up it just makes me feel sorry for the Americans who never get to play Global Defence Force, as well as curse the developers for not putting the flying chick in EDF 2017, as well as adding all that other shit.

    The game was perfect already. All they needed to do was add a shit load of new weapons, update the graphics, and have new levels.

    Not that I'm saying EDF 2017 is bad. I haven't played it given my lack of 360. But I can't imagine they managed to improve on an already perfect game.

    You better provide some Youtube video to support this flying chick theory.

    As for the thread title, have you tried just making it short? Still nothing? Oh well. I say just make a new thread when Dynamic Slash actually gets a release date over here.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E0_YatUBMQ

    Freaking awesome but runs like an absolute pig on the PS2, especially when you start fighting the giant spiders. The night time stages are a nightmare to play as well.

    Wish I knew of an easy way to play PAL PS2 games.

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Flying saucers are so much cooler than the mosquito-bots we got in the 360 game.

    EDIT- so how do the characters balance out? A jetpack is a pretty obvious advantage. Is the jetpack chick just an upgrade?

    Its been a while since I played it, so I'm not sure how it goes. If I recall correctly, the regular marine (I don't think hes Storm 1) gets two armour points instead of one for every item he picks up.

    They both have completely different sets of weapons too.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    TeeMan wrote: »
    Flying saucers are so much cooler than the mosquito-bots we got in the 360 game.

    EDIT- so how do the characters balance out? A jetpack is a pretty obvious advantage. Is the jetpack chick just an upgrade?

    Its been a while since I played it, so I'm not sure how it goes. If I recall correctly, the regular marine (I don't think hes Storm 1) gets two armour points instead of one for every item he picks up.

    They both have completely different sets of weapons too.

    Yeah, the Palewing (Chick) has less health overall through the course of an average play-through, although I guess you could grind her health like crazy and it would eventually catch up. She also has energy that can be expended (Bar on the right) and has to recharge whilst you're left helpless, since everything she does uses the energy bar.

    So it's actually quite hard to keep it all under check, but it's awesome as hell.

    And the player in the video was using that auto-aim shit. Manual aim for the win.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Pemulis wrote: »
    Morkath wrote: »
    Hah, "Hey we just encountered an alien race, what should we name them?" "Ravagers!" "Good name, I hope they are friendly!"

    Well played edf, well played.

    Haha, I had the same thought.

    I also like "We're not sure the giant alien bugs are associated with the UFOs"

    Hey, the bugs could have been here all the time. The presence of UFOs was just a coincidence!

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Since there is clearly something wrong here can a mod edit the title to read something like, "Earth Defense Force 2017: 2 Years Later, Still Giant Ants!"

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Since there is clearly something wrong here can a mod edit the title to read something like, "Earth Defense Force 2017: 2 Years Later, Still Giant Ants!"

    I think we ought to get rid of the years, and just go for a subtitle that can be timeless

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ugh, this is getting pretty bad
    I had a dream about this thread. ABOUT THIS THREAD. In my dream, I saw the thread title was changed to the two year thing. How? It was a new thread. I got depressed that they made a new thread to show the thread lasted 2 years. It would defeat the accomplisment of the first thread.



    I also dreamed I just finished PAX09 and missed out on a lot of stuff.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Ugh, this is getting pretty bad
    I had a dream about this thread. ABOUT THIS THREAD. In my dream, I saw the thread title was changed to the two year thing. How? It was a new thread. I got depressed that they made a new thread to show the thread lasted 2 years. It would defeat the accomplisment of the first thread.



    I also dreamed I just finished PAX09 and missed out on a lot of stuff.

    uhm. what the hell?

    That's... disturbing.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I love this thread. It's a painful irony that every post brings it closer to its inevitable death.

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I love this thread. It's a painful irony that every post brings it closer to its inevitable death.

    Maybe, since you love it so much, you'll dream about it.
    HAHA like anyone would be lame enough to dream about an Earth Defense Force thread!

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    *breaths life into thread*

    I had a date tonight, at one point we played EDF, then dropped our controllers and started making out. It was good.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I don't believe you.

    No woman on Earth is worth dropping EDF.

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I don't believe you.

    No woman on Earth is worth dropping EDF.

    He never made mention of a woman. :P

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    No man would stop playing EDF either.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I don't believe you.

    No woman on Earth is worth dropping EDF.

    A. Man B. We didn't do it mid mission, we played a few levels and then after saving...

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Still sounds fishy.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Still sounds fishy.

    You must be new to the concept of mixing games and.. fun. :winky:
    Actually this is the second date I've played EDF with and moved forward from there... 8-)

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Still sounds fishy.

    Well, they might have been dressed as fish... If you get my meaning.

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