Love C&C Generals. /geekon used to have computer parties and network computers to play C&C and mechwarrior against each other until the wee hours of the morning/geekoff

I've played the DK games (good for their time) and used to be a huge fan of the C&C series, though I haven't tried any of the ones released in the last few years.

I did get back into Diablo2 for a good bit. Blizzard should release 3. that was a good series, they must have made a killing on this game with banning cd keys for using hacks

that's it. i'm making a ridiculous, unjustified, but yet oddly principled stance against all guitar hero/rockband type games. i've never played one (except when they came out years ago on ps2 titled "frequency"), and now i'm declaring that i never will. so there.

i finally got to luigi on mario galaxy, but now i have to go back to zelda on wii and beat ganon for like the 13th time in my life. that ****** needs to learn how to die more permanently. i really need there to be a good baseball game for wii this year or i'm going to have to buy a ps3.


beyond that, i found conquerclub.com and have been playing lots and lots of online risk.

Can I ask why?

hahaha, honestly, it's some combination of:

-i've never played one and will never be as good as all you tards that got a start on it
-if i wanted to take the time to fake learn to play guitar, i'd probably dust off my epiphone and learn for real
-kurt likes it, he's ugly, ergo: i hate it

Cool.

I would just like to point out that I have been playing guitar now for 20 yrs and I have been playing drums for close to a year now and I can play bass and also trumpet.

It's just a video game, but I am mildy retarded.

WTF!

I stop by an old ass thread, and i'm catchin hate over here for nothin. Not that I expect any less, but usually I figure that you wait till I'm watching. You just got lucky on this one.


But you're crazy, Rockband is the best game ever. Not playing it is a crime. And you're not so far behind to have fun with it. I had never played until I got it like 2 months ago. I still can't get through all the songs on medium, but it's still pretty satisfying. You don't need to do it on expert to enjoy it. In fact, I can't ever see myself being that good, but who knows.

you can't get through life on medium, kurt.

1) http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=928518 - it's a HUGE board though. There are currently 17050 threads and over 188k posts. This changes every couple seconds too.

2) I am. Link?



Then there wouldn't be a Zelda series.

Off the top of my head, the only ones he hasn't been in are Adventure of Link, Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Link's Awakening, 4 Swords Adventures, and, if you play them as standalone games, Oracle of Seasons/Oracle of Ages (if you continue from one into the other, you get to fight him, and the two Witches from Ocarina of Time (Koume, Kotake, and also their fused form.)



In other words, Jamie has no musical talent whatsoever. I do, but I suck at Guitar Hero (Holding the guitar is EXTREMELY awkward for me.)



I lol'ed.

is really good, GW2 will be epic.

Final Fantasy Retrospective

It's thirteen parts long, so have a nice chunk of time set for it.

Ever play C&C: Red Alert/Red Alert 2? I played them quite a bit. Most of the others I didn't find as compelling, but I also beat Generals with Allies and China. Haven't checked out Tiberium Wars.


How far are y'all?


Rock Band drums on Hard are apparently equivalent to real drums.

I've gotten this far

Medium at best.

Rock Band
Through the first 39 songs on drums on Expert, 5-stars on the first 15. Easily the best party game ever made for a console. If anyone wants to play Xbox Live my gamertag is fndavid.

Call of Duty 4
Level 40, 2nd prestige. My favorite mulitplayer game.

Rock, Paper, Scissor
Winner of two local tournaments... in my apartment.... vs. my roommate.

How the F do you do drums on expert. I can't even do those on easy. Granted I haven't tried much, but my limbs don't seem to work that way.

Actually Cobalt_Blue, I may actually fish out Red Alert 2 now that you mention it.
It was an excellent game back in the day, the jump from 1-2 was just crazy.

I play Ocarina of Time again it's still a great game. And waiting for Brawl and Rockband for the WII.

BTW, Hello everybody .

As a bass player, I've played in about 5 or 6 bands since I was 14 and have randomly jammed on my drummer's sets. It is all about developing independence between your limbs, speed comes later. In no way does this compare to playing a set WELL, but it does help with holding solid beats.

QFT

I've been challenging myself with 3 hearts/no deaths/minimal items (two bottles, though I guess you can get by with only one. I'll have to make sure I don't pick up Farore's Wind and Nayru's Love next time) challenge files - in two successful attempts, it got a little hairy with Volvagia, but that's about it (Outside of when I played these games when I was younger, it's the ONLY time I've EVER had to use a fairy.)

and hello.

Was a big fan of the FF series back in the day, FF9 being my favourite

Decided to try and run through it again when i was incapacitated with the flu a few weeks ago, still a very good game.

I hated FF9. It seemed like Squaresoft took a few major leaps back when they put that game out. FF7 was a masterpiece...FF8 was a masterpiece...FF9 was a huge letdown.

Yeah, i've heard 7 is the best, never played it though.

9 was the first one I played and the last one squaresoft developed before becoming Square-Enix,

Played 10 which was pretty good but not as good as 9, then X-2 which was horrible and finally 12 with the new battle style (no more screen shattering and fight theme music) which wasn't much better than X-2.

No, 6 is (3 in japan). Just most current FF fanboys didn't jump on the bandwagon until they played one of the FF games on PS.

9: I did too. I tried playing it again in December, it was total suckage.

7: Good game, but the FF7 fanboys are a definite turnoff.

8: When first released, thought it sucked. Didn't think it lived up to FF7. Plot was too confusing. Subsequent playthroughs: Awesome game.



9 is good for one playthrough, IMO. For me, it lost its appeal after beating Hades and Ozma.

10: I have to finish the Monster Arena. I've been on and off with completion for years now (mostly off.) I suppose I'll get around to it someday...

Also, IV and VI > all other FF games IMO.



VI = 3 SNES.

The real FFIII was originally released for the Famicom/NES (though we never got it); it was remade for the DS in 2006.

FFIII NES

FFIII DS - same game, but a complete graphic overhaul, change of requirements for one job class (the Onion Knight, which was the default in the original. You need Wi-Fi or, if you can't use the Wi-Fi, an Action Replay), some other sidequests, new mini-dungeon (it's not even a dungeon. It's a small cave where you fight Green, Red, and Yellow Dragons, and if you go to the back, you get a tough secret boss, the Iron Giant.)

Lastly, FFVI:

FFVI Advance - Adds a new Dungeon, new weapons/armor, 10 new bosses (enhanced versions of the 8 Dragons, the Kaiser Dragon, and Omega), and there's also a Boss Rush mode (though the bosses come in at the end, you fight a lot of regular mobs.) There's some monsters exclusive to it there - Glutturns, but they're just Magic Pots that ask for different items. If you don't give them what they ask for, they WILL kill you.

I play World of Warcraft

Yea I flip flopped it, I own the originals imported from Japan and the American versions. Collecting dust in my storage unit right now.

I'm anal about that, lol. I hate seeing the wrong numbers used, ie:

Some guy: "I like FFIII on the SNES."
Me: Oh, you mean FFVI?

As far as the imports: must be nice.

The only imported Final Fantasy I have is the 3rd/4th (not sure) re-release of FFIV for the DS. I've been playing the hell out of that for about a month and a half.

I loved 7, despised 8, and 9 is my top favorite.

8 had way too much micromanagement for my taste. I just want to play the game and explore the world, not sit in the menu screen and move items around to get the best character. I liked 7 and 9 and even 10 better in that area personally.

Can you read Japanese?

Me neither.

However the characters I have in FF3 are max level 1bout 1/3rd of the way into the game

And at work thanks to SBriand I am playing this - Red Dragon level owns me.

hehehe

I pretty much play Guitar Hero 3 on Hard/Expert, or Madden. Speaking of Madden, what's more frustrating then being able to pwn the AI on All Pro/Madden level, but when you go online you get pwned by that dude whos 10-69?

And they use Denver?!?

No, obv. I didn't need to (though that's not entirely true.)

In the case of FFIV, it wasn't much different for me. I've played through the SNES, PSX, and GBA versions - I know all the menus, I've been looking at the MP costs for years (these were changed slightly, but the learning order for Rydia and Rosa's spells wasn't.) I did have to develop new tactics instead of Fight, Fight, Fight, Summon Bahamut/Leviathan, and have Rosa heal.

For some of the items, there were visual clues in the descriptions (Recovery items: the letters H, M, and P stick out like a sore thumb, and the numbers: for potions, 100 HP (regular), 500 HP (Hi-Potion), 1000 HP (X-Potion) and for MP, 50 (Ether) and 100 (Dry Ether)

The menus were slightly confusing, but this helped when I was stuck and the trial-and-error approach wasn't working: FFIV Translation Wiki pwns j00 - For the most part, I used it for spells and items. The game delivered a lot of ass kickings for that first week though.

I was also interested in playing the Japanese version of FFVI Adv., but I couldn't figure out the Emulator I downloaded and just waited for it to come to the States.

FFIII: My team wasn't 99 until I was headed to the Crystal Palace, lol. Xande's quite a wimp when you're dual-wielding 2 Onion Swords on every character.

15 years ago, there was no translation wiki

15 years ago, a Japanese version of the game would've been well acquainted with the nearest wall.