Hey, I remember that one too. BG2 also gave you helpful tips, like reminding you to eat every now and then, because "We don´t want to lose any dedicated players."Kilo24 said:
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When you're playing, this one is really annoying, especially if a grenade blew up before the danger indicator showed up. However, when you're watching someone else play, this one somehow becomes absolutely hilarious.Danny Ocean said:
This one isn't a loading screen tips, but begs mentioning, I'd have to say whenever you're running around on Mercs 2 and Fiona insists on saying, "If you're lost or don't know what to do, come to the HQ and I'll point you in the right direction." every five fucking minutes. Honestly, I got so pissed off I went and blew up the HQ.
This. It was from Warcraft 2. Starcraft was: "tell all your friends to go out and buy Starcraft!"GloatingSwine said:
Liked the game, hated the lie in the first message there, thought the second one was hilarious.Incredible Bullshitting Man said:
A bit contrary, but I liked the tips in Fallout 3 even though most of them weren't helpful (Hold the Pip-Boy button to turn the Pip-Boy light on or off (NO EFFING WAY? REALLY?)) they added background.
"It sounds obvious, but slow down at corners to take them better"
-if anyone guesses what game that's from, ill give them a cookie
-if anyone guesses what game that's from, ill give them a cookie
Why I didn't like TS3?Shycte said:
I loved Timesplitters 2. I loved the single player, I loved the multiplayer, I loved the challenges - it is, to me, the absolute pinnacle of the console FPS. And when it comes down to it, most of the reason I loved it was the subtlety and simplicity of the whole package.
Timesplitters 2 has no plot. It has a background of sorts, if you read the manual and don't skip cutscenes. But when playing the game it has all the narrative complexity of the average beat 'em up. Alien "Timesplitters" bad, humans good, Cortez and Hart trying to save world by entering a range of brilliantly pastiched scenarios and completing some pretty arbitrary objectives. I can't really emphasise enough the genius of the humour in TS2, it was wonderfully understated - the parodies of different film genres and characters down to the music choices.
Timesplitters 3 by contrast tried to have plot. It tried to have comedy, turning Cortez from a mere mute Vin Diesel lookalike to a camp jokey moron. The deliberately cheesy dialogue went past being genuinely funny and into the region where you expect there to be a neon light mounted on your TV with "LAUGH NOW" flashing on it whenever a bad joke was made.
Game design suffered too: the level design appeared bland, co-op was utterly crocked (it teleports the second player around at the whim of the first player - with a friend we found P2 could get jumped from room to room by P1 walking along and back along a short corridor) and some twat decided that what it really needed was vehicle sections. No FPS needs vehicle sections, but somewhere along the lines it was decided that all FPSes should and so now they do, TS3 included.
Essentially the difference between TS2 and TS3 is similar to the difference between Worms 1 and Worms 2. Both Worms 1 and TS2 represent a more stripped down, simplified experience - both reward taking some time to learn some actual skill but the options aren't dazzling, what those games do they polish very well. Worms 2 and TS3 are both bloated by the success of the previous incarnations, cramming in more features, more weapons and brasher jokes for the sake of cheap laughs.
Timesplitters 2 has no plot. It has a background of sorts, if you read the manual and don't skip cutscenes. But when playing the game it has all the narrative complexity of the average beat 'em up. Alien "Timesplitters" bad, humans good, Cortez and Hart trying to save world by entering a range of brilliantly pastiched scenarios and completing some pretty arbitrary objectives. I can't really emphasise enough the genius of the humour in TS2, it was wonderfully understated - the parodies of different film genres and characters down to the music choices.
Timesplitters 3 by contrast tried to have plot. It tried to have comedy, turning Cortez from a mere mute Vin Diesel lookalike to a camp jokey moron. The deliberately cheesy dialogue went past being genuinely funny and into the region where you expect there to be a neon light mounted on your TV with "LAUGH NOW" flashing on it whenever a bad joke was made.
Game design suffered too: the level design appeared bland, co-op was utterly crocked (it teleports the second player around at the whim of the first player - with a friend we found P2 could get jumped from room to room by P1 walking along and back along a short corridor) and some twat decided that what it really needed was vehicle sections. No FPS needs vehicle sections, but somewhere along the lines it was decided that all FPSes should and so now they do, TS3 included.
Essentially the difference between TS2 and TS3 is similar to the difference between Worms 1 and Worms 2. Both Worms 1 and TS2 represent a more stripped down, simplified experience - both reward taking some time to learn some actual skill but the options aren't dazzling, what those games do they polish very well. Worms 2 and TS3 are both bloated by the success of the previous incarnations, cramming in more features, more weapons and brasher jokes for the sake of cheap laughs.
On Baldurs gate's 2 loading screen it said " you can load your character on Neverwinter Nights " . too bad that not only did Black Island went bust shortly after that game, and Neverwinter Nights wasn't even developed by them, but the game's systems were not even compatible.
Man, just went on nerd rage there...
Man, just went on nerd rage there...
