A sad moment for me in gaming is I keep trying to get in on some PA halo games, but nobody invites me so I am stuck playing with prepubescence kids on matchmaking
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Also, the death of Shmups like R-Type and Gradius and Axelay. I miss some good old fashioned shmups, nothing too crazy hard but nothing extremely easy either.
Amen, brother! I keep wishing R-Type would show up on one of these old arcade-compilation disks, or on XBLA... That game robbed me of I don't know how many quarters back when I was a young 'un.
The 3-D shooter is cool and all, and 3-D in general is quite slick. But there's still room for your good, old fashioned 2-D side scrolling shooter. I think my saddest gaming moment has to be the day that seemingly every developer simultaneously decided that "everything must be 3-D!!!"
I know that I liked the art style of R-Type 3 better than Final, except maybe the particle effects and explosions, 3 was tons better in the art department.
Amen, brother! I keep wishing R-Type would show up on one of these old arcade-compilation disks, or on XBLA... That game robbed me of I don't know how many quarters back when I was a young 'un.
They did. "R-Types." For the PSX.
Are you a bad enough dude to even find a copy of 'R-Types' for the PSX?
Seriously the PAL one is like gold-dust, and insanely overpriced in most gamestores.
when i realized that the Force Unleashed was going to suck donkey balls on Wii and I'm going to have to buy the 360 version. I got access to a 360 thru undesired randomness, and have managed to keep myself from buying a "game" if you can call the shiny brownish monstrosities games and buy Wii games like NMH and Galaxy instead of "insert FPS garbage here" 3 or 4...
but now I'm actually going to have to buy a 360 game...
my soul will never recover
So, you're not playing good games like Dead Rising, Ace Combat 6 and Mass Effect?
Catan, Carcassone, Bomberman Live, Uno... god I hate these FPS.
As others mentionned before, your post was a pretty sad moment in gaming, as it represents the opinion of many, but not only about the 360. Some say the same ignorant BS about the Wii or the PS3.
when i realized that the Force Unleashed was going to suck donkey balls on Wii and I'm going to have to buy the 360 version. I got access to a 360 thru undesired randomness, and have managed to keep myself from buying a "game" if you can call the shiny brownish monstrosities games and buy Wii games like NMH and Galaxy instead of "insert FPS garbage here" 3 or 4...
but now I'm actually going to have to buy a 360 game...
my soul will never recover
So, you're not playing good games like Dead Rising, Ace Combat 6 and Mass Effect?
Catan, Carcassone, Bomberman Live, Uno... god I hate these FPS.
As others mentionned before, your post was a pretty sad moment in gaming, as it represents the opinion of many, but not only about the 360. Some say the same ignorant BS about the Wii or the PS3.
Even if he does hate the FPS genre there are tons of other great games out there.
Amen, brother! I keep wishing R-Type would show up on one of these old arcade-compilation disks, or on XBLA... That game robbed me of I don't know how many quarters back when I was a young 'un.
They did. "R-Types." For the PSX.
Are you a bad enough dude to even find a copy of 'R-Types' for the PSX?
Seriously the PAL one is like gold-dust, and insanely overpriced in most gamestores.
Amen, brother! I keep wishing R-Type would show up on one of these old arcade-compilation disks, or on XBLA... That game robbed me of I don't know how many quarters back when I was a young 'un.
They did. "R-Types." For the PSX.
Are you a bad enough dude to even find a copy of 'R-Types' for the PSX?
Seriously the PAL one is like gold-dust, and insanely overpriced in most gamestores.
Amen, brother! I keep wishing R-Type would show up on one of these old arcade-compilation disks, or on XBLA... That game robbed me of I don't know how many quarters back when I was a young 'un.
They did. "R-Types." For the PSX.
Are you a bad enough dude to even find a copy of 'R-Types' for the PSX?
Seriously the PAL one is like gold-dust, and insanely overpriced in most gamestores.
I have a sad moment in gaming every time that first 18 years with no internet makes me miss a body shot on DoD. I've tried my best to catch up in a year, but I've got some serious gaming experience lag.
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When LucasArts stopped making games itself and decided to farm out their IP's instead... we used to have X-Wing Alliance, Jedi Knight, Monkey Island... now we have shitty, console-ised, watered-down versions of those classics, such as Battlefront, Force Unleashed and all that other crap. They used to lead pc development, now they completely ignore it while developing stuff that could only work on the X-Bawks.
The Halo games are seen as the Holy Grail of game development, yet they seem exceedingly average to me.
FPS games based around WWII. For fuck sake, how many more must they throw at us? There was a glimmer of hope with Call of Duty 4, but it was too short and guess what? We're going back to WWII for the next iteration. Fuckity fucking fuck! There were wars before and after WWII, you know!
The continuing focus on console development which means that those games which do come to the pc are so fricking badly ported that it appears to be too much to ask to change my controls or resolution. Titbags.
MMORPGS's seem to capture everyone else's interest but my own. Let's take WoW as an example... I'm supposed to be having fun questing and grinding in my quest to reach level 70, but nothing could be further from the truth. I want to join friends who are already at that level so I can go on raids with them, not kill a trillion fucking animals just to notch up another level on the long road to level 70. Do you want my money, Blizzard? Then elevate me to level 70 and let me play with my friends. This questing and grinding bullshit is just that. How many variations of "kill x amount of beasties" can you handle before things get dull?
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
I heard someone at a Target checkout line say that there was a new company called Nintendo making this system called the Wii once. If I had reacted at all on the spot, I would be in Juvenile detention right now for mass murder.
EDIT: Also, I'm 14 and I feel depressed whenever I try to talk about gaming with most people my age about classic gaming. This is because most people honest to god just don't know the old school stuff.
I feel so nerdy saying this, but this thread makes me miss arcades.
A sad moment for me in gaming is I keep trying to get in on some PA halo games, but nobody invites me so I am stuck playing with prepubescence kids on matchmaking
I totally tried to hook up with you the other day, but my router is being stupid or something. Up until I read this I thought you were somebody I met on matchmaking, too. I'll hit you up next time i'm on.
whywhywhy was this top page'd? I'll actually have to contribute now...I'll just copy bathtubb and say playing game invite tag and ending up going against randoms is a sad thing.
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I heard someone at a Target checkout line say that there was a new company called Nintendo making this system called the Wii once. If I had reacted at all on the spot, I would be in Juvenile detention right now for mass murder.
EDIT: Also, I'm 14 and I feel depressed whenever I try to talk about gaming with most people my age about classic gaming. This is because most people honest to god just don't know the old school stuff.
I feel so nerdy saying this, but this thread makes me miss arcades.
No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Edit- Damn, I'm not that much older than you, but saying that makes me feel old.
And making me feel sad, I used to be a Wiz at Time-Crisis 2. I got through the whole game on 1 credit a few times, but when my local arcade got rid of it for Time Crisis 4 I was a sad person. I just can't get used to the changing weapons.
No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Yeah, I'm actually a bit curious about what kind of arcades you went to, considering that you were born during the last real "golden age" or whatever for arcades - the fighting game boom.
And on that note, I have never felt so old in my life :P
No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Yeah, I'm actually a bit curious about what kind of arcades you went to, considering that you were born during the last real "golden age" or whatever for arcades - the fighting game boom.
And on that note, I have never felt so old in my life :P
No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Yeah, I'm actually a bit curious about what kind of arcades you went to, considering that you were born during the last real "golden age" or whatever for arcades - the fighting game boom.
And on that note, I have never felt so old in my life :P
No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Yeah, I'm actually a bit curious about what kind of arcades you went to, considering that you were born during the last real "golden age" or whatever for arcades - the fighting game boom.
And on that note, I have never felt so old in my life :P
Are you talking to me or Mortal Sky?
Mortal Sky; sorry.
Well, there's always the slim, slim chance that his region still had one. It's rare, but occasionally happens.
Alternatively, he, like me, just wishes they remained long enough for us to join in on it before they went the way of the dodo.
I'd take it over internet gaming anyday.
The Wii has potential, but so far its no match for either the gamecube or 64 as a party console.
I know what you mean. I have many fond memories of 4 player split screen in Goldeneye, and later in Timesplitters 2/FP. So far, there's just nothing this generation that I've found to give that kind of experience.
Before anyone mentions it, no, Halo doesn't work. It's okay, but the shooting feels too detached, if that makes any sense. Anyone who's played Goldeneye and Halo probably knows what I mean.
Free Radical really needs to make a game in the way of one of those for the Wii and/or 360. I know they're making something for the 360, Haze or whatever it is, but it just doesn't look that promising.
Ahh, the good ol days, when a quarter held your place in line.
As for sad moments in gaming...
I havea niece who is 12, she beat metroid prime over a weekend. Called me to ask what game she should get her parents to buy her next. Her dad had joked about getting her pac-man, she said. Then (and you will tear up here), she asked me what that was.
To top it off, I explained pac-man and she called it stupid. And that the name sucked. I cried for the rest of the day.
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As a pinball enthusiast, the day Williams left the industry was a sad one for me. Then again, after the failed Pinball 2000 machines, maybe this was a good thing.
Ahh, the good ol days, when a quarter held your place in line.
As for sad moments in gaming...
I havea niece who is 12, she beat metroid prime over a weekend. Called me to ask what game she should get her parents to buy her next. Her dad had joked about getting her pac-man, she said. Then (and you will tear up here), she asked me what that was.
To top it off, I explained pac-man and she called it stupid. And that the name sucked. I cried for the rest of the day.
Well thanks for ruining my day there.
That is pretty sad, I have to say.
My gf's little brother thought that Mario 64 was the first Mario game. I showed him SMB, and he said "No, that's a gameboy game (I guess referring to when they released the NES classics on GBA), and it kind of sucks". That one sentence was a huge punch to the face of my childhood.
I remember the good ol days, buying floppy disks of shareware games from a full-fledged store in the mall. Back then, there was no "EB"...it was "Electronics Boutique", and they didn't stock a single video game console, game, or accessory.
I had Doom II on Floppy, anyone else? yea stop making me feel like a geezer I've already had gray stress hairs :P
On a semi-related note I haven't played Counter Strike before but a friend of mine is buying the original over steam for me so we can play, so that's pretty cool and I'm looking forward to it.
I had an Amiga 1200, which died in 2001. I was still buying games on floppy up to that point. I actually used the computer for most of my GCSE Graphic Design product.
I'm 24, there's still plenty of arcades where I live in the UK, I just have to take a trip to Southend and go in Electric Palace (or something liket that) and they have UMK3, SFII: Turbo, MK2 (Albeit some thug has stubbed cigarettes out on the buttons) and quite a few retro driving games like Cruis'n USA and Lucky N Wild.
If you want other retro arcades, on Canvey Island you can play Streetfighter Alpha in the little pub across the road which always has the seats outside, further down the road past the cinema there's another arcade with various arcade machines in, some really good oldies too, and then one there has a Space Harrier machine which I was always terrified of as a kid because it used to go 'AAAAAAAHHHHH!!' when the guy died, and it would make me cry
Theres a sit down Chase HQ machine as well there somewhere and a stand up one.
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Taking a cue from another thread...
A sad moment in gaming is the day I realized there's no possible way to play every good game coming out. I love videogames and want to play all the best ones, but it's impossible. There's just not enough hours in the day between school, work, a social life and girlfriend with which to play games.
King's Quest 7. Sierra abandoned the tried-and-true "touch/talk/walk/inventory" cursor system for a single cursor. Moreover, it sparkled whenever you placed it over what you are supposed to interact with.
It required no thinking, no puzzle solving, just playing metal detector with your mouse.
One thing I find really sad is that the Shareware "movement" of the 90's which brought us such kickass games as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem (1 & 2) and a whole bunch of other games is now dead.
The last nail in its coffin came when MS released Doom for XBLA and had the demo only let you play through the first map, when the original free shareware version gave you one complete episode.
One thing I find really sad is that the Shareware "movement" of the 90's which brought us such kickass games as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem (1 & 2) and a whole bunch of other games is now dead.
The last nail in its coffin came when MS released Doom for XBLA and had the demo only let you play through the first map, when the original free shareware version gave you one complete episode.
Shareware was awesome but disappeared for a reason, even ID almost went under because people were just playing the shareware Doom and not buying the full package.
Shareware was awesome but disappeared for a reason, even ID almost went under because people were just playing the shareware Doom and not buying the full package.
Where did you hear that? From the way I understand it, iD wouldn't have existed without shareware, and their "give away the first episode, sell the full game" model revolutionized and was largely responsible for the PC gaming boom in the early-mid 90's.
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I know that I liked the art style of R-Type 3 better than Final, except maybe the particle effects and explosions, 3 was tons better in the art department.
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Are you a bad enough dude to even find a copy of 'R-Types' for the PSX?
Seriously the PAL one is like gold-dust, and insanely overpriced in most gamestores.
So, you're not playing good games like Dead Rising, Ace Combat 6 and Mass Effect?
Catan, Carcassone, Bomberman Live, Uno... god I hate these FPS.
As others mentionned before, your post was a pretty sad moment in gaming, as it represents the opinion of many, but not only about the 360. Some say the same ignorant BS about the Wii or the PS3.
Even if he does hate the FPS genre there are tons of other great games out there.
I found 13 copies, but I think they're NTSC
http://www.amazon.com/R-Types/dp/B00002STPS
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UK ones are all USED or have surface marks, also £16.99 is the cheapest, that works out at $30+ for a USED R-Types.
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The Halo games are seen as the Holy Grail of game development, yet they seem exceedingly average to me.
FPS games based around WWII. For fuck sake, how many more must they throw at us? There was a glimmer of hope with Call of Duty 4, but it was too short and guess what? We're going back to WWII for the next iteration. Fuckity fucking fuck! There were wars before and after WWII, you know!
The continuing focus on console development which means that those games which do come to the pc are so fricking badly ported that it appears to be too much to ask to change my controls or resolution. Titbags.
MMORPGS's seem to capture everyone else's interest but my own. Let's take WoW as an example... I'm supposed to be having fun questing and grinding in my quest to reach level 70, but nothing could be further from the truth. I want to join friends who are already at that level so I can go on raids with them, not kill a trillion fucking animals just to notch up another level on the long road to level 70. Do you want my money, Blizzard? Then elevate me to level 70 and let me play with my friends. This questing and grinding bullshit is just that. How many variations of "kill x amount of beasties" can you handle before things get dull?
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EDIT: Also, I'm 14 and I feel depressed whenever I try to talk about gaming with most people my age about classic gaming. This is because most people honest to god just don't know the old school stuff.
I feel so nerdy saying this, but this thread makes me miss arcades.
whywhywhy was this top page'd? I'll actually have to contribute now...I'll just copy bathtubb and say playing game invite tag and ending up going against randoms is a sad thing.
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No offense, but being 14 means you never knew Arcades.
Edit- Damn, I'm not that much older than you, but saying that makes me feel old.
And making me feel sad, I used to be a Wiz at Time-Crisis 2. I got through the whole game on 1 credit a few times, but when my local arcade got rid of it for Time Crisis 4 I was a sad person. I just can't get used to the changing weapons.
Yeah, I'm actually a bit curious about what kind of arcades you went to, considering that you were born during the last real "golden age" or whatever for arcades - the fighting game boom.
And on that note, I have never felt so old in my life :P
Are you talking to me or Mortal Sky?
Mortal Sky; sorry.
Oh and Mother 3 not coming out in the fucking US is insane.
I'd take it over internet gaming anyday.
The Wii has potential, but so far its no match for either the gamecube or 64 as a party console.
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Well, there's always the slim, slim chance that his region still had one. It's rare, but occasionally happens.
Alternatively, he, like me, just wishes they remained long enough for us to join in on it before they went the way of the dodo.
I know what you mean. I have many fond memories of 4 player split screen in Goldeneye, and later in Timesplitters 2/FP. So far, there's just nothing this generation that I've found to give that kind of experience.
Before anyone mentions it, no, Halo doesn't work. It's okay, but the shooting feels too detached, if that makes any sense. Anyone who's played Goldeneye and Halo probably knows what I mean.
Free Radical really needs to make a game in the way of one of those for the Wii and/or 360. I know they're making something for the 360, Haze or whatever it is, but it just doesn't look that promising.
As for sad moments in gaming...
I havea niece who is 12, she beat metroid prime over a weekend. Called me to ask what game she should get her parents to buy her next. Her dad had joked about getting her pac-man, she said. Then (and you will tear up here), she asked me what that was.
To top it off, I explained pac-man and she called it stupid. And that the name sucked. I cried for the rest of the day.
"This is where I say something profound and you bow, so lets just skip to your part."
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Well thanks for ruining my day there.
That is pretty sad, I have to say.
My gf's little brother thought that Mario 64 was the first Mario game. I showed him SMB, and he said "No, that's a gameboy game (I guess referring to when they released the NES classics on GBA), and it kind of sucks". That one sentence was a huge punch to the face of my childhood.
On a semi-related note I haven't played Counter Strike before but a friend of mine is buying the original over steam for me so we can play, so that's pretty cool and I'm looking forward to it.
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If you want other retro arcades, on Canvey Island you can play Streetfighter Alpha in the little pub across the road which always has the seats outside, further down the road past the cinema there's another arcade with various arcade machines in, some really good oldies too, and then one there has a Space Harrier machine which I was always terrified of as a kid because it used to go 'AAAAAAAHHHHH!!' when the guy died, and it would make me cry
Theres a sit down Chase HQ machine as well there somewhere and a stand up one.
A sad moment in gaming is the day I realized there's no possible way to play every good game coming out. I love videogames and want to play all the best ones, but it's impossible. There's just not enough hours in the day between school, work, a social life and girlfriend with which to play games.
It required no thinking, no puzzle solving, just playing metal detector with your mouse.
The last nail in its coffin came when MS released Doom for XBLA and had the demo only let you play through the first map, when the original free shareware version gave you one complete episode.
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Shareware was awesome but disappeared for a reason, even ID almost went under because people were just playing the shareware Doom and not buying the full package.
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Where did you hear that? From the way I understand it, iD wouldn't have existed without shareware, and their "give away the first episode, sell the full game" model revolutionized and was largely responsible for the PC gaming boom in the early-mid 90's.