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Off Topic / ! ! !

« on: October 10, 2004, 05:59:30 PM »

The game is fun for me. That's all that matters. I've never been big on MMO's; I havn't had an Everquest account or a Dark Age of Camelot account or an Asheron's Call account or any other long-standing MMO. I played City of Heroes for two months, and that's about all the MMO experience I have. World of Warcraft is fun, even if it doesn't have real-time dodging or 50 million character creation options or the ability to make fresh toast spring from your disk drive.


No matter where I go, no matter who I talk to, people would rather go out of their way to complain about a game than discuss what they like, either in the same game or in any other game. It really gets me down, and it becomes more difficult to remain optomistic when I'm surrounded by pessimists. If you all want to go have your pissy party about how a game doesn't fulfill every desire you have and doesn't have dozens of cool new features, go ahead, but remember there are those of us that can still find it entertaining.

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Off Topic / Ever Hate Your Job?

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:24:15 AM »

Well if I can get payed for sleeping, sign me up.  

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General / A Request

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:22:27 AM »

The voice_loopback is odd at first, but if you use it enough you can adjust to hearing yourself consantly.

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General / Is This Spawncamping?

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:21:10 AM »

That sounds like an acceptable situation to me.

I think we're running into a problem now where people are jumping too quickly to cry "Spawncamp" on situations like this. Although I guess the best we can do to clarify the issue is define which situations are and which situations are not spawncamping as they come up when they're a little hazy like this.

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General / Worst Map Ever...

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:16:22 AM »

ns_ayumi
ns_nancy
ns_agora
ns_metal

I just won't play on these maps. At all. I'll maybe dance around in the ready room, but I've grown tired of these maps, and people like maps for the wrong reasons: "OGM rave room!!!111 OGM Catbus!!!1!11". Secret rooms don't make a map, the playability of the map does. I don't like ns_agora or ns_metal because they're large and clunky to manuever around in; Any map with a giant, 100 foot elevator and/or a single ladder leading into an important hive entrance can't be good.

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Off Topic / Ever Hate Your Job?

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:06:34 AM »

That would be pretty bad, although that doesn't quite follow the "Worst work experience" theme.  :p

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:04:41 AM »

Yea, I heard that was a problem already. People are really screwed up sometimes.  <_<

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Off Topic / ! ! !

« on: October 10, 2004, 11:02:29 AM »

Even in it's current beta state, the game has more content and fewer bugs than games that have already gone retail, and the bugs that are there don't interfere wtih the gameplay itself.

I know the feeling of a bug that "... will be fixed in an upcoming patch..." but never is; As a Scrapper in City of Heroes, there was a bug that would spawn minions and bosses in the instanced rooms that were much too strong for me to take, and I would have to wait until I levelled up a couple times before I had a solid chance of taking them on. They said "We'll be releasing a patch soon that will include a fix for such-and-such bugs (including the one I was having a problem with) as well as some great new content (like being able to modify your costume later in the game)". When they said "soon", they hinted at only a couple weeks, yet a month and a half passed before I decided I didn't like the game any more and cancelled my account. They released the update about a month after I quit, if I recall correctly.

I trust that Blizzard will take care of any issues in better time and fasion; They've been a solid company for so long, they have no reason or incentive to grap out on their playerbase with this game.

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 10, 2004, 12:05:28 AM »

Funny how I don't even have the game but I can already make sprays for it, including ones with transparency.

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Off Topic / Ever Hate Your Job?

« on: October 10, 2004, 12:04:01 AM »

That sounds bad, but it doesn't sound like the worst that could happen.

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Off Topic / New Hl2 Mod In The Works!

« on: October 10, 2004, 12:03:23 AM »

Quite the interesting idea we've got here.

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Off Topic / Happy Bday Borkun Florps

« on: October 09, 2004, 11:56:35 PM »

Happy Birthday, bacon_flaps. You turn 18 as my grandfather turns 70. So remember, be youthful as long as you can.  

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Off Topic / ! ! !

« on: October 08, 2004, 02:21:31 PM »

I'm pretty sure I remember you saying you'd try it out anyway, but for the sake of boredom, I've got a couple reasons. Despite the fact that Gem tends to shoot me down on any topic of WoW without giving it a second thought.

-We're playing, and games are always fun with friends.
-You'll have the opportunity to actually try the game instead of judging it from screenshots and videos.
-You tried the open betas and whatnot for so many other games, why would you randomly decide to skip this one?

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 08, 2004, 11:06:08 AM »

Yea, the ragdolls in UT2k3 and 2k4 don't act as normal bodies; They bend and stretch and contort in ways a body normally shouldn't.

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Off Topic / ! ! !

« on: October 08, 2004, 09:05:54 AM »

Yea, that's what I was thinking. I've seen a lot of the Troll and Orc area, and I don't quite feel like mucking about in the Barrens anymore than I have to. I suggested to Vinnie that we make some Gnomes just for the hell of it, since I know a Gnome is one of the last races I would make.

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 08, 2004, 09:01:29 AM »

Looks like everyone went grenade-crazy in that second screenshot there. I'll bet it was one hell of a firework show.

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Off Topic / ! ! !

« on: October 07, 2004, 09:50:26 PM »

I'm undecided as to if I want to participate in the open beta. As fun as the game is, I'd rather not create another character and spend some time levelling up and all just to have it deleted again. Then again, I've got nothing better to play, so we'll have to see.

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 07, 2004, 06:11:36 PM »

It's not like we'll never get it if we don't get it right away.

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General / Ze Nu Eye-konz

« on: October 07, 2004, 03:49:00 PM »

The penguins are nice, and it really isn't too much of a problem to download the icons, but I get discouraged by servers that I need to download a bunch of small files because in most cases they're stupid sound effects and whatnot.

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General / Favorite Map?

« on: October 07, 2004, 03:45:16 PM »

I've had a lot of great games on ns_nothing, and it's the most fun for me to perma-gorge on it. Granted it is a large map, and the elevators hinder movement more than help, it's still very solid.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have ns_ayumi. I honestly don't beleive anyone enjoys this map for the gameplay; It has a few pretty hallways, like the snow between marine start and AE35 hive, and it has the "OGM CATBUS!!11oneleven!" secret room. I think the gameplay is horrible; Marines have too many easily-defendable seige locations outside of hives (A skulk spawning in AE35 has a 0% chance of survival because of that long hallway), movement around the map for an Onos is a pain because of the many small corridors, and most of the vent systems that could lead to a possible ambush location against marines are weldable. Plus, if the marines set up the node in the gorge's hideout and electrify it, they've effectivly cut off movement through that vent for any passing skulks.