Your very first post

[Fappy]

It was a thread about your top WRPGs and JRPGs:

Western:
Mass Effect
Morrowind
KOTOR
Oblivion
Dragon Age

JRPGs:
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario RPG
Final Fantasy VII
Pokemon Red
Don't really care about any others...

Yeah... I was a JRPG pleb back in 2010, wasn't I?

DX

 

[PsychicTaco115]

On the day I joined:

Fellow Escapists, has there ever been a small feature in a game, that if removed by the developers, just takes away a small bit of fun?

For example, the emblem creator in Call of Duty:Black Ops was a really neat addition to the game, that was scrapped in MW3. I don't know why, but I just enjoyed being able to create a personal logo, it gave me a sense of ownership.

So what small features in games do (or did) you like in games?

...

Eh, not terribly interesting

It could have been worse, so there's that

Ah well, I hate my past self anyway, so no bothers to give

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I don't think anyone takes Yahtzee that seriously. Like, there not reviews, just funny. Funnier than this was. If you took his word for everything you would be playing CoD4 and nothing.

On a De-Rez video mocking Yahtzee.

Well that's embarrassing. 'Like there not reviews'-I was dumb as shit, but then I was 14. 14 year olds should be banned from the internet, for their own good, they just embarrass themselves.

 

[mrhappy1489]

I hope that either Jacob or Kaiden, Miranda or Ashley are in the game, as well as Wrex and Garrus. Maybe thane or legion, some of those guys have to be there.

I think this had something to do with who would be on the squad in Mass Effect 3. At least Garrus was there.

 

[ffs-dontcare]

Oh man, looking back at my first post makes me cringe like hell.

Spoiler: 14 August 2009

By this I mean a complete lack of self esteem.
I hate myself. When I was a child I had an IQ test and was told a minimum of 140, but I have severe dyslexia, and it really fucks me up. I recently looked in the riddles thread and found myself utterly unable to answer any of the riddles at all, save for those that I had heard before. It made me feel like a complete intellectual failure and utterly depressed me.
Anyone else get like this? I feel this way nearly every day and often am left yearning for death.
Am I the only one this fucked up? It really seems this way considering the fact that I have to take Zoloft in order to keep from snapping in a massive anxiety attack and killing so many of the assholes around me.
And a quick preemptive note to all those why will inevitably say that this is just a desperate plea for attention - NO SHIT!

Well, how do I put this...

Yes. As long as I can remember, I've been the odd one out. Other students would literally be like, "eww!" whenever I was the subject of conversation, regardless of whether or not I was there to hear it.
Real Example 1
"I wonder what it'd be like if she went to the ball with him."
"Eww, haha."
Real Example 2
"I went and saw The Matrix Reloaded last weekend. So did Daniel."
"Yeah, but you wouldn't want to talk to him about it. I mean, eww."

And whenever I gained any self-confidence at all, it wouldn't be long before someone'd take it away from me. Even my friends were like, "You need a girlfriend".
Real Example -
Me: (walks into the classroom) I feel like shit.
Dave: You look like shit.

And my dad didn't help much either. His idea of a good solution for me is pills. I'm not taking pills for that problem. Ever. Also, thanks to him I can literally no longer tell real compliments from sarcasm. I'm not used to receiving compliments. It makes me feel... weird.

Sure, I may feel like dying every now and then. I wonder if the fact that I actually want to plan my own death makes me messed up. But that's because I'm tired of being controlled. After 20 years of being completely controlled by my parents in every facet of my life, including having to be in bed with the lights off at 10pm (at 19 years of age with a full-time job), I want to control my own life and my eventual death, which I hope will be suicide and not something accidental or stupid. I plan on it when the time comes and when I'm ready to leave the world, but overwhelming self-pity won't have anything to do with it. I'm way better than that.

That being said, while I am often yearning for death like the OP, I do sometimes feel it would be better if I could just take my immense rage out on the Stupid People(tm) that I have to deal with. I'd start with that white supremacist midget who repeatedly approached me (even on his own while I had friends walking with me) in high school despite the obvious fact that he was four years younger than me and half my height - I could have literally kneed him in the face. He was that short. I'd love to commence long psychological (and eventually physical) torture on the idiot. He deserves no less.

I do hate people sometimes.

I'm still not sure if all of this means I'm fucked up in the head though. Maybe I am. And I'm okay with it. I'm not hurting anyone.

Yet.

That being said, I'm not exactly sure how long I can hold back if my dad does yet another thing to make me want to cut him. He doesn't have anything against spurring me on, either. Whenever he pissed me off to the point where I actually pleaded with him to just shut up and stop having a go at me because I was scared of what would happen if I just completely lost it and hurt him, he considered me to be threatening him and just added more punishments onto the punishments he already gave me. He wouldn't ever stop. He wouldn't ever shut up.

And you think you're fucked up? To be honest I think you're lucky. Lucky that you're not me.

I'm surprised I haven't killed him yet. I'm glad I eventually moved out, it was only a matter of time before someone got stabbed.

This has "2edgy4u" written all over it.

But still, thank goodness I'm not in that situation anymore. Considering how it was back then, I had every right to be pissed off.

 

[Olas]

My first post was in a thread asking us to relate our crazy conspiracy theories.

I don't believe in abortion.

It was intended to be a joke, I don't think many people got it.

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

It depends on the type of game, I think. In FPS's they work better as human sized because fighting a huge boss from a first person perspective can be really awkward but they're better as giants in games like DMC, because the acrobatics in those kinds of games suit larger scale enemies.

It was in a post about whether giant or human sized bosses are better. Having played both Dark Souls and SotC since then I can say I prefer the big ones.

 

[Strazdas]

Zero punctuation STALKER Clear sky review

One thing this game has is bugs. This is one of two games i could not complete due to bugs. and boy i tried. after finishing half of the game i managed to save in a position where the game crashes 3 seconds after loading the game no matter what i do, then at the last area i managed to save the same, except this time it took couple minutes to crash. and i dont even mention the crash of sunset in swamps. So after many hours i eventually gave up on it. I like the general idea of the game, but this is the buggies game i have seen.
Oh and the other game that was too bugged out to finish was Fallout 1. Crash at the final boss room.

Yeah, i registered here to complain about Clear Sky.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Mine was from a "Game Soundtracks" thread from 8th June 2010

Alan Wake had a pretty good soundtrack to it with Poets of the Fall to David Bowie in it...Children of the Elder God is brilliantly placed

I always liked the majority of the songs on the Burnout soundtracks as well

As for original music...Halo's is pretty awesome as is the Sonic games - in my opinion anyways. Anytime I hear Green Hill Zone or Starlight Zone it takes me back til when I was about 4 playing Sonic 1

Huh, I still agree pretty much all of that.

 

[Aedes]

Magic Eye Tetris!

I could never see those images when I was young.
Now, after all this years, I still can't. >.<
But hey, just scored 23! Beat that!

And I still can't see a bloody thing. <.<

 

[Teoes]

Ha! Join Date/Post Date 1st Jun 2010 - this was, bizarrely, what tipped me over from lurker[footnote]So I've no idea when I actually started coming here..[/footnote] to poster; although I'd still go months between posts. It was in the "The 2010 Community's Top 100" thread.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Hello, Escapist!

Kudos and good luck to the OP for this undertaking. In no particular order, because that's even harder than narrowing down a near-lifetime (so far) of fantastic games into just a Top 5:

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Fallout 3
Metroid Prime
Deus Ex
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

Argh, there are so many other games I wish I could vote for too..

I would perhaps now revise that list a bit, but I don't know. There's now even more games to consider and I'm way too lazy.