I know someone who didn't know his PS3 controller could function without the charging cord. The also had his PS3 connected to his HDTV through composite cables. He fixed this problem by buying an 80 dollar HDMI cable.
That's a lot of wrong.
Must be Monster cable.
WITH PLATINUM BLING BLING CONNECTORS!
Don't forget the power gremlin protection!
On topic, while I've personally never done this due to having too much pride and common sense, apparently it is an extremily common practice in X3 Reunion for people to set up a freighter trade loop or a lasertower array around a jump gate on a border between two races who hate each other and then leave the game running at 10x speed so that they can rack up the cash and the racial reputation, and apparently this is one of the best legit ways to gain money and rep because of how borked up certain factors of the game are.
I am sorry, Egosoft and people who do this, but this is just fucking wrong. A game shouldn't be so conveluted that the best way to play it is to tape a key/button down and leave it alone for 12/120 hours while it grinds up stuff for you.
As for doing it wrong myself, the only thing that springs to mind was a brief period of insanity I had back during the time of the oXbox where when playing Morrowind I absolutly had to manipulate my character stats so that when my endurance hit 100 my health ended with a zero on top of the standard shenanigans and power gaming that Elder Scrolls games brings out in people. Not an action was out of step, not an exploit was left unexploited, not a calculation left undone. Fuuuuun times, those.
This reminds me of Gran Turismo 3, where we used an escudo with a book sitting on the controller to beat the endurance race on the track that's just a big loop.
I play the Metal Slug games suicidally. I sacrifice lives (playing on free play) instead of trying to see how long I can survive.
I don't see how wrong that can be considering how freaking hard that game is.
The most wrong I've been was playing Portal, when to get through one raised hole you blow a hole in a nearby pipe to drop a cube to stand on. Well, for about 2 hours, I tried to use portals to fling myself into the hole in the pipe to move forward. Well you did it earlier, why not now??
One time I played Zelda: Link to the Past without taking a single hit of damage the entire game. It took me a week because I had to be extra careful until I got the Cane of Byrna.
That's what I like to call an "anti-speedrun" and I'm pretty sure I am playing the game wrong when I do this.
One time I played Zelda: Link to the Past without taking a single hit of damage the entire game. It took me a week because I had to be extra careful until I got the Cane of Byrna.
That's what I like to call an "anti-speedrun" and I'm pretty sure I am playing the game wrong when I do this.
One time I played Zelda: Link to the Past without taking a single hit of damage the entire game. It took me a week because I had to be extra careful until I got the Cane of Byrna.
That's what I like to call an "anti-speedrun" and I'm pretty sure I am playing the game wrong when I do this.
Nah, that's just as dumb as a speedrun. :P
Actually that's pretty cool.
I wanted to record it as one long, continuous video as proof but I have no way to record over 15 hours of non-stop footage and I'm absolutely sure nobody would watch it. It's not that difficult of a goal to obtain, you just have to be super-careful. Boomerang the fuck out of enemies so they can't attack you, and once you get the Cane of Byrna, you must always have four magic potions stocked up at all times.
The hardest part was the second temple's boss, those fucking sand worms.
But yeah, just like speedruns, it's doing it wrong. I understand why people do it, but it's just... blah. Why bother? The result of my doing that with LTTP was that now I can barely even touch the game without trying to duplicate my previous accomplishment. I've basically ruined one of my favorite games for myself.
I used to ignore all side quests in RPGs and just try to power through to the ending. Little did I know that super secret optional bosses that take 45 minutes to defeat are the best part of these games.
edit- though I didn't get to fight this one, due to being American scum, and as such unworthy of cool extras in games.
What boss is that anyways? I thought I beat that game 100% but I don't remember ever seeing that.
Anyways, right now I'm playing persona 4 completely the wrong way. My persona are all about 20 levels less than MC because I want to get them all their skills before moving on. And I'm complaining about how hard the november dungeon is...
I know, it makes no sense
Edit: oh, nm. I guess being in the 53rd or whatever state of Canadia I don't get that boss either.
Wait, are you two seriously telling me that the US and Canada didn't get Penance, while Europe did? I distinctly remember Zanmato-ing his ass... although I did take down Nemesis without a Zanmato.
...Mainly because he decided to Wakizashi the whole-fucking-time...
...Regardless, if what you say is true, does that mean the Dark Aeons didn't turn up either? If they did, then it could just be that you haven't faced all 8, thus unlocking the Penance fight.
The dark aeons and penance were added for the international version. The original japanese release and the NTSC release did not have them.
I know someone who didn't know his PS3 controller could function without the charging cord. The also had his PS3 connected to his HDTV through composite cables. He fixed this problem by buying an 80 dollar HDMI cable.
That's a lot of wrong.
Must be Monster cable.
WITH PLATINUM BLING BLING CONNECTORS!
Don't forget the power gremlin protection!
On topic, while I've personally never done this due to having too much pride and common sense, apparently it is an extremily common practice in X3 Reunion for people to set up a freighter trade loop or a lasertower array around a jump gate on a border between two races who hate each other and then leave the game running at 10x speed so that they can rack up the cash and the racial reputation, and apparently this is one of the best legit ways to gain money and rep because of how borked up certain factors of the game are.
I am sorry, Egosoft and people who do this, but this is just fucking wrong. A game shouldn't be so conveluted that the best way to play it is to tape a key/button down and leave it alone for 12/120 hours while it grinds up stuff for you.
As for doing it wrong myself, the only thing that springs to mind was a brief period of insanity I had back during the time of the oXbox where when playing Morrowind I absolutly had to manipulate my character stats so that when my endurance hit 100 my health ended with a zero on top of the standard shenanigans and power gaming that Elder Scrolls games brings out in people. Not an action was out of step, not an exploit was left unexploited, not a calculation left undone. Fuuuuun times, those.
This reminds me of Gran Turismo 3, where we used an escudo with a book sitting on the controller to beat the endurance race on the track that's just a big loop.
I do basically the same thing in Earth Defense Force 2017. I'll choose one of the early maps with the spawn holes for ants or spiders, then tape my trigger and control stick down so my guy runs in a circle constantly firing, occasionally gathering the items and health that has dropped.
Like, she can't turn and have any sort of forward motion in an FPS.
She swears she's good at platformers, but dies like three times in World 1 of SMW.
She apparently had to ask someone how to get the teddy bear in the intro to Fable.
If I'm still living here (please God no) when I get my 360 I'm pretty sure I'm just going to forbid her to play it so that my head does not explode from sheer frustration with her doin' it rong.
Like, she can't turn and have any sort of forward motion in an FPS.
She swears she's good at platformers, but dies like three times in World 1 of SMW.
She apparently had to ask someone how to get the teddy bear in the intro to Fable.
If I'm still living here (please God no) when I get my 360 I'm pretty sure I'm just going to forbid her to play it so that my head does not explode from sheer frustration with her doin' it rong.
But it's these types of people that, even though we may feel that we're bad at games, we can always point to them and think "You know, I'm not that bad."
Like, she can't turn and have any sort of forward motion in an FPS.
She swears she's good at platformers, but dies like three times in World 1 of SMW.
She apparently had to ask someone how to get the teddy bear in the intro to Fable.
If I'm still living here (please God no) when I get my 360 I'm pretty sure I'm just going to forbid her to play it so that my head does not explode from sheer frustration with her doin' it rong.
But it's these types of people that, even though we may feel that we're bad at games, we can always point to them and think "You know, I'm not that bad."
This sounds like my wife when I first met her.
She could play Mario Allstars somewhat okay, but that was about it. I had to teach her.
The first thing I gave her was MarioRPG for the SNES. See how she does with that?
To contribute to the thread.
Doing it wrong: Well, I bought Turok (the latest 360 installment) and beat it...
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I don't know why I still pay for this game.
I haven't hit the cap despite 16 days /played on my "main". I feel your pain.
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I don't know why I still pay for this game.
AFter you quit, you feel liberated.
The problem is, I haven't even really gotten into the game to have that feeling of relief.
That itch to experience endgame just wont go away. I'm waiting for the patch so I can roll a DK on a server some friends recently started playing on.
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I don't know why I still pay for this game.
AFter you quit, you feel liberated.
The problem is, I haven't even really gotten into the game to have that feeling of relief.
That itch to experience endgame just wont go away. I'm waiting for the patch so I can roll a DK on a server some friends recently started playing on.
Your denial betrays you. You keep playing to see the 'end' and yet you never do... You don't know why you keep playing but you believe quitting won't help. And now you want to make a new character and start over.
By WoW standards, you're probably doing it right. And those are some low fucking standards...
I've been playing World of Warcraft wrong for nearly four years. Due to friends joining/quitting, having to roll on different servers, and being distracted by other games, I've never made it to level cap.
I don't know why I still pay for this game.
AFter you quit, you feel liberated.
The problem is, I haven't even really gotten into the game to have that feeling of relief.
That itch to experience endgame just wont go away. I'm waiting for the patch so I can roll a DK on a server some friends recently started playing on.
ITs really not fun.
At all.
It's just people screaming and sweating over a slow-paced RPG, watching 40 people attack 4-5 mobs at a time.
Playing Final Fantasy X up to the last boss without realizing you can customize your equipment.
hi5 for doing the exact same thing.
"Why bother customising good weapons when I'm just going to pick up the ultimate weapons later?"
"Hmm, yes, it'd be good to have armour with HP +10%, but I don't want to use those items to make it, what if those are very hard to come by?"
My first year playing Civilization IV, I tried avoiding wars at all costs. I have a bunch of good excuses for why that seemed like a good idea, but ultimately the real reason is that I was just really bad at the game--I poured all of my resources into R&D, and then when I developed a new military unit I'd refuse to build it because I would be only ten turns away from building the next unit type and I didn't want to slow my R&D enough to save the resources I'd need to upgrade.
That happened to me too when I was playing Alpha Centauri. In fact I only ever built units for defence, and won almost only by Voting or by Transendance.
When I played Diablo II I had no clue what was going on and ended up spreading my skill points evenly over all my skills, so I had like level 1 or 2 in each skill, suffice to say my buffs sucked.
Yeah, and instead of rushing from area to area, I would slowly explore until the automap was filled out.
Wow is addictive bla bla bla bla bla, it's a fun game, try out that deathknight thing with friends, its a fun class and playing with friends is a great way to hang out when you're not actually hanging out. Oh and 40 man raids haven't existed for like 2 years.
Wow is addictive bla bla bla bla bla, it's a fun game, try out that deathknight thing with friends, its a fun class and playing with friends is a great way to hang out when you're not actually hanging out. Oh and 40 man raids haven't existed for like 2 years.
I quit WoW but still have fond feelings for it - am I the only one who isn't afraid of the game? The reason I played and my greatest joy was from PvP but I raided and all that crap. It's your fault if you fall into some self-perceived trap or grind.
I was scared shitless of playign WoW thinking I'd get addicted or something. Having played it to 80 I can say my fears were correct. It's like I want to play these other wonderful games but holy shit I gotta grind these dailies to get that shoulder enchant.
I never fell until a grind, I played it for about two years, got one mage dude up to level 40 somthing, and I got my rogue troll guy up to level 64 before I just got bored of it.
I sold all the Rare Candy in Pokemon Red because I was somehow convinced you get less stats from levelling up from Rare Candy.
You do, actually. I think Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow had some Stat Experience system that improved your stats while leveling by fighting. It was changed for later games to a different system.
I sold all the Rare Candy in Pokemon Red because I was somehow convinced you get less stats from levelling up from Rare Candy.
I still believe that. My Lvl 99 Blastoise beat the shit out of other pokemon that had rare candy glitch'd their way to the top, or been in the daycare their whole game. He was 99 levels fought and earned hardcore.
I sold all the Rare Candy in Pokemon Red because I was somehow convinced you get less stats from levelling up from Rare Candy.
I still believe that. My Lvl 99 Blastoise beat the shit out of other pokemon that had rare candy glitch'd their way to the top, or been in the daycare their whole game. He was 99 levels fought and earned hardcore.
Same here, though it was my Venusaur, Mewtwo, and Dragonite that I fought and raised to 99. My team was pretty goddamn badass.
I sold all the Rare Candy in Pokemon Red because I was somehow convinced you get less stats from levelling up from Rare Candy.
You do, actually. I think Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow had some Stat Experience system that improved your stats while leveling by fighting. It was changed for later games to a different system.
This is correct. Not sure about R/B/Y but later games these hidden stats points are known as EV's or Effort Values.
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As I understand it you get extra points in certain things by defeating certain other pokemon, but these points can be gotten at any time (as you level, or all after the pokemon's lvl 99). So Rare candy does have the exact same effect as leveling up once, but battling gives you these special points on top of experience.
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This reminds me of Gran Turismo 3, where we used an escudo with a book sitting on the controller to beat the endurance race on the track that's just a big loop.
I don't see how wrong that can be considering how freaking hard that game is.
The most wrong I've been was playing Portal, when to get through one raised hole you blow a hole in a nearby pipe to drop a cube to stand on. Well, for about 2 hours, I tried to use portals to fling myself into the hole in the pipe to move forward. Well you did it earlier, why not now??
That's what I like to call an "anti-speedrun" and I'm pretty sure I am playing the game wrong when I do this.
Nah, that's just as dumb as a speedrun. :P
I wanted to record it as one long, continuous video as proof but I have no way to record over 15 hours of non-stop footage and I'm absolutely sure nobody would watch it. It's not that difficult of a goal to obtain, you just have to be super-careful. Boomerang the fuck out of enemies so they can't attack you, and once you get the Cane of Byrna, you must always have four magic potions stocked up at all times.
The hardest part was the second temple's boss, those fucking sand worms.
But yeah, just like speedruns, it's doing it wrong. I understand why people do it, but it's just... blah. Why bother? The result of my doing that with LTTP was that now I can barely even touch the game without trying to duplicate my previous accomplishment. I've basically ruined one of my favorite games for myself.
The dark aeons and penance were added for the international version. The original japanese release and the NTSC release did not have them.
I'm so sorry!
Tube is going to fucking ban you.
I do basically the same thing in Earth Defense Force 2017. I'll choose one of the early maps with the spawn holes for ants or spiders, then tape my trigger and control stick down so my guy runs in a circle constantly firing, occasionally gathering the items and health that has dropped.
The proper way to play EDF is to go to a level with tons of giant robots and play those.
It's been a long time, but as far as I can recall, there aren't any levels with infinitely spawning robots.
Like, she can't turn and have any sort of forward motion in an FPS.
She swears she's good at platformers, but dies like three times in World 1 of SMW.
She apparently had to ask someone how to get the teddy bear in the intro to Fable.
If I'm still living here (please God no) when I get my 360 I'm pretty sure I'm just going to forbid her to play it so that my head does not explode from sheer frustration with her doin' it rong.
But it's these types of people that, even though we may feel that we're bad at games, we can always point to them and think "You know, I'm not that bad."
In short, they don't talk any shit at all and remain dead quiet the entire time.
This sounds like my wife when I first met her.
She could play Mario Allstars somewhat okay, but that was about it. I had to teach her.
The first thing I gave her was MarioRPG for the SNES. See how she does with that?
To contribute to the thread.
Doing it wrong: Well, I bought Turok (the latest 360 installment) and beat it...
I also own Shadow the Hedgehog...
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
I don't know why I still pay for this game.
I haven't hit the cap despite 16 days /played on my "main". I feel your pain.
AFter you quit, you feel liberated.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
I'm going to start playing it today I swear the thread sounds so good.
The problem is, I haven't even really gotten into the game to have that feeling of relief.
That itch to experience endgame just wont go away. I'm waiting for the patch so I can roll a DK on a server some friends recently started playing on.
Your denial betrays you. You keep playing to see the 'end' and yet you never do... You don't know why you keep playing but you believe quitting won't help. And now you want to make a new character and start over.
By WoW standards, you're probably doing it right. And those are some low fucking standards...
ITs really not fun.
At all.
It's just people screaming and sweating over a slow-paced RPG, watching 40 people attack 4-5 mobs at a time.
Epic?
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
"Why bother customising good weapons when I'm just going to pick up the ultimate weapons later?"
"Hmm, yes, it'd be good to have armour with HP +10%, but I don't want to use those items to make it, what if those are very hard to come by?"
That happened to me too when I was playing Alpha Centauri. In fact I only ever built units for defence, and won almost only by Voting or by Transendance.
Yeah, and instead of rushing from area to area, I would slowly explore until the automap was filled out.
When I first played Pokémon, I thought Rare Candy decreased the Pokémon's level instead of increasing it. I was too young to know English so I couldn't read any in-game description, but the manual was translated. However I was stupid and thought the manual said Rare Candy would decrease the level.
Thats the last time I played...?
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
You do, actually. I think Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow had some Stat Experience system that improved your stats while leveling by fighting. It was changed for later games to a different system.
I still believe that. My Lvl 99 Blastoise beat the shit out of other pokemon that had rare candy glitch'd their way to the top, or been in the daycare their whole game. He was 99 levels fought and earned hardcore.
Man I learned English from playing Pokémon games!
No wonder my English is fucked up!
And I put exclamation marks behind every sentence!
Same here, though it was my Venusaur, Mewtwo, and Dragonite that I fought and raised to 99. My team was pretty goddamn badass.
This is correct. Not sure about R/B/Y but later games these hidden stats points are known as EV's or Effort Values.
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It would also explain why you like shorts so much.
They are comfortable and easy to wear, though...