Repost your first Escapist post!

[tombman888]

im not sure what game id never like to see. a few go through my mind, but i cant think of any i hate so much as to never see.....

oh wait!!,..... nope i still dont know

And i still can't think of one.....

except maybe Brink now, as that wasted my perfectly good 80 dollars...

 

[Lawnmooer]

i really hope that they introduce a sniper that can penetrate people.... soo many times have i had a perfect shot on an enemy sniper then have a retarded friendly scout jump infront of me just as i click to shoot and then get sniped right after....

Well, it was before the sniper/spy update came out for TF2, they've since added the ability to shoot through teammates with sniper rifles (If I remember correctly)

Also I'm slightly ashamed at the lack of capital letters...

Incidentally this post was about a year before I actually became involved with the forums (As I forgot that I'd made an account)

 

[Fertro]

If only we could make our characters fat, at the sacrifice of some stamina. I could truly create myself!

Hmm. That wasn't too long ago. I did have another account registered around 2009, I thought, but I'm not sure if I actually did anything. I would check, but I don't remember anything about it D:

 

[James Crook]

While I do admit the combat was improved in brotherhood (and Eizo feel like he has an actual sword like altair), whoever thought you had not to get hit once (it say don't loose any health but really its dont get hit once) the time you fight the wolf guys in sequence 2 need to be punish!

and yes that grab thing is a pain

I just blasted through these guys in a matter of minutes and I got full-synch on my first try
Guess I got VERY lucky!

My very first post on The Escapist's forums... on <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.300680-So-this-morning-I-finished-ACII-for-the-second-time>this thread.
If I remember, I was bored and decided to sign up via my Facebook account after months of watching Zero Punctuation and then lurked on the forums, lollygagging and stuff, until I smarted up and decided to post a meaningful, informative reply with great discursive value /sarcasm

 

[repeating integers]

My first post was actually in March Mayhem, but oh well:

Having never paid attention to any ads at all (ever), I had never heard of this game either. I was surprised at the start, because he seemed to be praising it all over the place. Then we got to the bad points, but it still seems as if he didn't think it was all that bad.

Mind you, with Yahtzee, it's always hard to tell.

Indeed it is, younger self. Indeed it is.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Depressive music is usually the most creative, interesting and beautiful. I also think that it works better than happy music as a way of lifting your mood for a lot of people.

I went through a phase like that, and I pulled my curtains closed, put Linkin Park in my CD player, and just stared at the ceiling.

Is Linkin Park depressing? When I think depressing, I usually think of stuff like this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMJNCjxfsPo

God I'm such an emo.
That was only last August, in a thread on "What is the appeal of depressive material?"

 

[thedoclc]

I feel like a dirty, dirty fanboy saying this, but I'd nominate Final Fantasy III/VI/Whatever for an honorable mention. I would love to see the ending of that game on current gen technology with a truly symphonic score, as it neatly closed out the game. Not the game, mind you; I've lost interest in the JRPG genre but will always have a soft spot for that one.

Bioshock's 'good' ending was touching, but perhaps a little bit of a sucker punch and certainly not that effective when the protagonist is a faceless stand-in for the player. Frankly, he has the personality of a broom.

Halo 3? I've found every aspect of the Halo series overrated, the ending no exception. No part of Halo was bad, and most were good, but it most certainly isn't the great FPS savior to which all other FPSes should be compared. Still, the finale of Halo 3 was good, though predictable.

I'm going to go on a limb and say Torment. The idea of the Nameless One owning up to his endless sins, accepting damnation, with Grace swearing to seek him through all the hells before her rushes off to his punishment? Yeah...

And I found Deus Ex (and DX: Invisible War) strangely compelling in their dystopian visions for each ending.

Just a discussion on endings which were really good.

And quick addendum - I said the dystopian visions were good, not the game DX:IW.

 

[mParadox]

You know, everytime I see this thread. I keep on seeing: 'Report your first Escapist post'. And every single time, I think. 'That's not very nice.'

And then I read the title again. And then all's well. >.>

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Basically, I've been trying to decide which game of what I am now tempted to refer to as the "like God of War but" genre to go out and purchase.

Since reviews vary wildly from source to source, and I'm a total moron who's unable to making even the most semi-important choice by myself, I have decided to turn to the internet to helpfully lend some enlightenment to the situation.

The poll pretty much explains it: out od DMC4, Bayonetta, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders, NG2 or Castlevania, which game would you most recommend me getting?

Bear in mind the 'other' option does essentially mean "other game APART from God of War". I haven't got a PS3, so God of War as an option is out for me.

Damn I was lame. Very first post and I'm just asking generic 'which one should I buy' advice? What a nerd I was back in November 2010...

For the record, I didn't end up buying any of those games. Talk about a waste of people's time.

 

[karloss01]

anyone else feel tha the Gmod in red faction 2 was non-existent? i mean in red faction 1 you could go mining in multiplatying and dig out entire new sections to play in but in 2 it was all just cosmetic damage. i didn't like 2 and i played 1 a lot more then it and now i got 3 and i play that a lot.

looking back on it, 3 still wasn't as good as 1. you could blow buildings to bits but no matter what the ground remained perfect.

 

[D Moness]

Rare, as a company, and their games. They're such a joke now. I'll never forget their incredible N64 titles, but now they're slaves to the Kinect overlords.

Main problem with that is that the team that worked on the n64 games aren't in Rare anymore but yeah their games went downhill after microsoft bought it from nintendo(kind of ironic).

Well to stay ontopic:
Baten Kaitos 2 (probably not played by many since not released everywhere and where it was it was at the deathbed of the cube): They tried to make the combat easier by having one deck of cards for the team and not a deck for each character. It made the game more annoying since your hand get cluttered with finish moves that you can not use since you do not draw any normal movement cards.

Zelda Twilight princess : The dungeons got easier and easier after the water dungeon (dungeon number 3). The few last didn't even take more then 30 minutes to run through and also 2 boss fights that work the same way only one was in the water and the other in the sky. I keep comparing every zelda game to the Link of the past game. Honestly since it went 3d the difficulty went downhill very fast

A topic about "What games do YOU feel were ruined and what did you like about it's older versions and what do you hate about it's newer versions?"
I still stand behind this

 

[Mojo]

Starcraft II is great.
(hooray for blizzard endorsement)

Someone asking for a good multiplayer RTS.
Im also pretty sure I spell checked endorsement.

 

[Captain Pirate]

Megaton, to see what it would be like. But for somewhere nice to live, Sadiz in Battlefield: Bad Company 1. Without the mass bombings, terrorists and general crazy war, i'm sure it would like amazing in the summer ^^.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, it's the fictional (at least, i'm pretty sure it is) place that a hotel resort was being built on, in the final mission of BFBC1.

Ahahaha, looking back I just thought 'What the fuck is Sadiz?' and then was glad that I explained it to myself in the past.

This was on a thread called "If you could live in any videogame city/world...".
Nice to see I put 'like' instead of 'look', and a cringeworthy smiley. Ah, good times.

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

Look, only silly billies who cannot see valid points (i.e. Global Warming's happening, and we're exacerbating it, stop getting offended by being branded a polluter, or: you can't help what governments do, just give up and focus on your own life) think I'm trolling by making up new arguments. I stick to one argument, and spend like 10 posts trying to make the other person understand the damn argument by repeating myself over and over, while they repeatedly say "nyeehhh, this is a dan brown novel, ya fool, the government is always conspiring to come to my house and drop bags of poo on my front step". Can you be smart enough to understand the following scentence?

"You can do nothing about governments, so stop trying to change them, stop caring about them, better yourself instead" It's not even a particularly unpleasant notion - your refusal to understand it, your determination to feel like Neo or something (fashionable, rebellious anti-establishment sexbomb?), is what's making this unpleasant.

You have a very defeatist attitude, don't you? "Don't fight the machine because you can't win." I'm sure that while that sounds extremely nice in your head, it just doesn't seem to work well in the real world.

Let me give you an example. In America, one of our most well known individuals is a man named "Martin Luther King Jr." He is probably the best known man who fought for civil liberties for blacks in the US. If he had had your out look on life then the amazing "I Have a Dream" speech never would have happened. Why? Because you can't change the government. It's something that exists within a vacuum and doesn't change. It simply is. However, he wasn't a panty-waste and, as such, decided to do something about his country. He fought for what he believed in and now, thanks to his marvelous struggles we now have a black man in the Oval office today. You think that would have happened if he simply "stoppped trying to change it?" You think that would have happened if he "stopped caring about it?"

Honestly, I can't understand how you got to the belief that the individual can't change anything when it's obvious all over the place. You really don't think the governments evolve or take on different stances based on individuals who either vote for or become public officials? Really? Because that shows a clear and obvious misunderstanding of what voting is supposed to even be about.

Still, all of this may end up meaning absolutely nothing to you. I know little to nothing about the government in Australia and, quite frankly, I don't really care enough to learn. Certainly not if the populace is so complacent as to believe that their efforts to change anything in it ultimately mean nothing.

The next post in the thread is someone telling me I had a nice first post.

Man, I'm boring.

 

[Lenny Magic]

Used to have a fairly cheap Trust Tablet, which was okay but had very little life in it compared to the Bamboo Fun. I Have only really had mine since Christmas but my god is it useful. I have only a couple of minor issues, though they are more to do with the artrage software that came with it. I would definitely recommend this tablet if you have used one before.

Since then have bought myself a Intuos4, which is really nice. Though I still have one of the same issues that I used to get. Which actually seems to be caused by Photoshop, rather than ArtRage

 

[StormShaun]

all you hide behind are cheast high walls
and its soo manly

A response to ZP review of Gears of War 2.
I look at that and find some mistakes and....WHY WOULD I SAY THAT!

It sounds bad right now...oh well least I ended up here doing 3 RPs and posting a heap...

[small] I still can't believe myself...[/small]

 

[Soods]

In "Most games you have from one series [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.179345-Most-games-you-have-from-one-series?page=1]"

Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2 Special Forces, Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (and I still can't play battlefield so well...)

 

[5-0]

Drug-fuelled sex orgy

Brilliant. It was on a "most epic way to die" thread.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

[to "Your favorite catchphrase"] I have to say mine is "Hah! I win." *stolen from GnatFreak on Youtube*

 

[SckizoBoy]

Annoying bossfights in GD... which seems odd now, considering I spend most of my time in OTD or FG...

KOTOR - made the stupid mistake of not quicksaving before final fight with Malak, incapacitated me when I needed to kill him about twice more... promptly smashed my head on the keyboard (for obvious reasons)

Wasn't that hard a fight as it happens... grenade, FL, run away & repeat =_=

Digression: at the opposite end (sure this has been done to death) are we agreed that AC2 effectively had an anti-boss fight?!