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**Asherian Command**

Musashi363 wrote:
I agree, Halo. That's one game I can NOT stand...and I love FPSs.

Yeah differing opinions here. I mean I love third person shooters, and bioshock, and doom, but I can't stand the direction halo has gone after halo 1. Halo 1 could of been basically Doom on steriods or an amazing game series, if they had that open world non-linear style to halo 3 or halo reach.

**KingCracker**

BrotherVord wrote:
Halo, all racing's games, all platformers

Whoa we wouldn't get along. Racing games are my bread and butter and I love platformers

**sing your life**

Does call of duty count? It's a popular game series (not sure with who though)

**Leigen_Zero**

FIFA

Football (soccer for you Yanks) is painfully boring in real life, why the heck would I want to sit in my house and pretend I'm playing football?

When I could, you know, go and get an actual ball for what, £2, and find a field, which is free, and my mates, and play real football with real people, while exercising at the same time.

Actually, y'know what, let's just stay I cannot stand any sports games...

**Soladrin**

Mhm, I think I can just add platformers, adventure games (with a few exceptions) and most racing and sports games.

**Pedro Kantor**

Uncharted and Tomb Raider.

I don't know why ( maybe i was just rubbish at them ), but both series made my blood boil.

**Kain**

Musashi363 wrote:
I agree, Halo. That's one game I can NOT stand...and I love FPSs.

Eh don't worry, Halo has been sliding into extinction ever since Call of Duty modern warfare came out. Give it a few years and it'll be so much dust on the wind.

**Melissia**

Halo, because they haven't released a game since Halo 2 even though they keep showing these trailers for later games.

But jokes aside, I am not very fond of the 'craft series of strategy games, or the various clones. Or their spin-offs. Also not a huge fan of the ARMA series.

**thenoobbomb**

I feel very alone actually liking Halo 'round here.

**Melissia**

I'd enjoy halo better with a mouse and keyboard, I don't really hate it. Kind of like it, actually.

**thenoobbomb**

Melissia wrote:
I'd enjoy halo better with a mouse and keyboard.

I fear I'm also one of the few who prefers a console over a PC, in general. Barring mods and the like, of course.

**Melissia**

thenoobbomb wrote:
Melissia wrote:
I'd enjoy halo better with a mouse and keyboard.

I fear I'm also one of the few who prefers a console over a PC, in general. Barring mods and the like, of course.

I don't mind consoles, but I hate console controllers for first person shooters. They work fine for fighting games, platformers, racing games, and the like, but they're just so clumsy and inaccurate for shooters.

**thenoobbomb**

Melissia wrote:
thenoobbomb wrote:
Melissia wrote:
I'd enjoy halo better with a mouse and keyboard.

I fear I'm also one of the few who prefers a console over a PC, in general. Barring mods and the like, of course.
I don't mind consoles, but I hate console controllers for first person shooters. They work fine for fighting games, platformers, racing games, and the like, but they're just so clumsy and inaccurate for shooters.

I guess they are. Can't say I've played a lot of PC shooters, though, and I don't really have any "bad" experiences or any trouble with controllers.

Back on topic, though, I also can't stand Pokemon games. Nor anything Pokemon, but well.

**Kain**

Melissia wrote:
Halo, because they haven't released a game since Halo 2 even though they keep showing these trailers for later games.

But jokes aside, I am not very fond of the 'craft series of strategy games, or the various clones. Or their spin-offs. Also not a huge fan of the ARMA series.

C&C, Total Annihilation/SupCom, and AoE were the RTS genres for me, and I only ever played craft for the custom multiplayer maps. The ones in WC III in particular are great.

There's this one super-expansive metroid map I played years ago, but that was back in like...2007-2008. I don't think I'll ever find it again.

**mega_bassist**

Really, the only popular game series I was disappointed with was Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, and Borderlands.

I've tried to like all three, but they just didn't draw me in.

**Chongara**

Cow of Dooky

**BlapBlapBlap**

Musashi363 wrote:
I agree, Halo. That's one game I can NOT stand...and I love FPSs.

Name all of the XBOX 360 exclusives...

Remove the shooters...

Remove the games set in the near future...

What have you got left apart from Forza?

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Leigen_Zero wrote:
FIFA

Football (soccer for you Yanks) is painfully boring in real life, why the heck would I want to sit in my house and pretend I'm playing football?

When I could, you know, go and get an actual ball for what, £2, and find a field, which is free, and my mates, and play real football with real people, while exercising at the same time.

Actually, y'know what, let's just stay I cannot stand any sports games...

I agree. It's a massive micro-transaction store over a weird twin-stick game. It's awful.

**Avatar 720**

BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Musashi363 wrote:
I agree, Halo. That's one game I can NOT stand...and I love FPSs.

Name all of the XBOX 360 exclusives...

Remove the shooters...

Remove the games set in the near future...

What have you got left apart from Forza?

Chromehounds.

**Soladrin**

Avatar 720 wrote:
BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Musashi363 wrote:
I agree, Halo. That's one game I can NOT stand...and I love FPSs.

Name all of the XBOX 360 exclusives...

Remove the shooters...

Remove the games set in the near future...

What have you got left apart from Forza?

Chromehounds.

Killer Instinct.

**Pacific**

creeping-deth87 wrote:
Pacific wrote:
If you want to play a Civ game HBMC, you are probably better off with 3 or 4. Don't think 5 has been all that popular, they've fixed the hilariously random AI now but it is still a dumbing down of the previous games.

Sasori wrote:
niv-mizzet wrote:
WoW. Played in beta after 5 years of Everquest, and it felt like super easy mode.

Anything after Everquest in the MMO world would be super easy!

The hardest MMO? I would say Ultima Online. When the game first came out especially - the ability to be murdered, then have your stuff that you had spent weeks collecting pillaged from your corpse was probably the most harrowing thing I have ever experienced in a video game.

I had a mining character that was pretty useless in a fight, I would even die against low level monsters. When I wasn't being protected by guild mates, to try and prevent my corpse being looted by PK'ers (player killers) I carried a book around with some text "please don't steal my tools, just the gold". Once a bunch of goons chased and killed me, even killed my pack animals that were carrying the ore I had collected. When I returned to my corpse, I could see already that it had been stripped to its underwear. Every item (even useless stuff, lanterns/oil, food etc.) had been looted. My clothes had been cut to ribbons and deposited next to the corpse. The only thing left on my body was my book, where one of the fine gentlemen had taken the time to write 'No.' inside.

Man that game was tough at times

I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be laughing at your misfortune, but this post seriously cracked me the hell up. Easily one of the best things I've ever read on this forum. Just... wow, that is so sad and yet so hilarious at the same time.

Hehe, well yes I guess it was kind of funny

A few other snippets I remember from that game
- The creator of the game Richard Garriott, made a personal appearance with his character Lord British (he was an actual character in the background of the game) and was speaking to an assembled crowd of players. However, he foolishly forgot to put on his indestructible trousers, and was assassinated by a player during the speech. The guy who did it (and later achieved internet infamy) I believe got banned for the act despite trying to escape the scene. Lord Blackthorn (who was another of the game creators, evil rival of British in the background) then went mental and summoned a mass of mega-powerful demons which killed almost everyone in the area.
Basically a sure sign of PK'ers were naked people, usually with luminous coloured hair and a crap, childish name. They'd take their chances and run in throwing fireballs, and if they died themselves (as happened much of the time) you would have nothing to loot from the naked corpse.
- The GMs were a law under themselves in the early days. Robed characters that were invincible, and would kill you or teleport you somewhere if it took their fancy. A friend of mine got teleported to a 'jail' (room with no doors) for being caught macroing (basically repeated key commands that would improve your skills through repeat use) and then giving one of them lip. The best story I heard was about an army of player killers that was ravaging its way through the countryside killing everyone in its path. A bunch of GMs turned up, killed most of them, and then teleported the leaders to the unreachable tip of the mountain. The players were apparently surrounded by 'Barney' characters (from that terrible children's show) that were dancing around them.

Man that was a game.. you read about so much other stuff, of people's ghosts being perma-killed (possibly the biggest 'pwning' ever!), of entire areas being owned by single players (who owned multiple castles) - you soon learnt to avoid certain areas. I was in an RPing guild called the 'Yew Militia', we used RP a local guard protecting the town, and there were several other guilds (roleplaying undead, orcs, cannibals etc. - basically they were only humans playable in the game so you had to dress up!) One of the guilds actually had the game creators give them a zombie barman in their little town, which was really cool.

Long time ago now though, probably at least 15 years since it was a great game, although I think a lot of players remember it fondly.

**Melissia**

Soladrin wrote:
Remove the games set in the near future...

Devs don't do enough with "near future", even when they have it they aren't very imaginative with it.

**LordofHats**

Devs usually use near future as code for "right now but fictional"

**Bromsy**

Pacific wrote:

The hardest MMO? I would say Ultima Online. When the game first came out especially - the ability to be murdered, then have your stuff that you had spent weeks collecting pillaged from your corpse was probably the most harrowing thing I have ever experienced in a video game.

I had a mining character that was pretty useless in a fight, I would even die against low level monsters. When I wasn't being protected by guild mates, to try and prevent my corpse being looted by PK'ers (player killers) I carried a book around with some text "please don't steal my tools, just the gold". Once a bunch of goons chased and killed me, even killed my pack animals that were carrying the ore I had collected. When I returned to my corpse, I could see already that it had been stripped to its underwear. Every item (even useless stuff, lanterns/oil, food etc.) had been looted. My clothes had been cut to ribbons and deposited next to the corpse. The only thing left on my body was my book, where one of the fine gentlemen had taken the time to write 'No.' inside.

Man that game was tough at times

Hehe, well yes I guess it was kind of funny

A few other snippets I remember from that game
- The creator of the game Richard Garriott, made a personal appearance with his character Lord British (he was an actual character in the background of the game) and was speaking to an assembled crowd of players. However, he foolishly forgot to put on his indestructible trousers, and was assassinated by a player during the speech. The guy who did it (and later achieved internet infamy) I believe got banned for the act despite trying to escape the scene. Lord Blackthorn (who was another of the game creators, evil rival of British in the background) then went mental and summoned a mass of mega-powerful demons which killed almost everyone in the area.
Basically a sure sign of PK'ers were naked people, usually with luminous coloured hair and a crap, childish name. They'd take their chances and run in throwing fireballs, and if they died themselves (as happened much of the time) you would have nothing to loot from the naked corpse.
- The GMs were a law under themselves in the early days. Robed characters that were invincible, and would kill you or teleport you somewhere if it took their fancy. A friend of mine got teleported to a 'jail' (room with no doors) for being caught macroing (basically repeated key commands that would improve your skills through repeat use) and then giving one of them lip. The best story I heard was about an army of player killers that was ravaging its way through the countryside killing everyone in its path. A bunch of GMs turned up, killed most of them, and then teleported the leaders to the unreachable tip of the mountain. The players were apparently surrounded by 'Barney' characters (from that terrible children's show) that were dancing around them.

Man that was a game.. you read about so much other stuff, of people's ghosts being perma-killed (possibly the biggest 'pwning' ever!), of entire areas being owned by single players (who owned multiple castles) - you soon learnt to avoid certain areas. I was in an RPing guild called the 'Yew Militia', we used RP a local guard protecting the town, and there were several other guilds (roleplaying undead, orcs, cannibals etc. - basically they were only humans playable in the game so you had to dress up!) One of the guilds actually had the game creators give them a zombie barman in their little town, which was really cool.

Long time ago now though, probably at least 15 years since it was a great game, although I think a lot of players remember it fondly.

I used to play the bejesus out of UO - I was on Great Lakes and ran with Shadows of Britannia from launch - God we were awful

....
We used to call GMs and then have one person just bug them with long winded questions and then whenever other people ran up to ask them things we'd all pop out of hiding and gank 'em. And I had a GM tamer and I used to go to that area in Wind where animals spawned - but it was under guard protection so these crafters would be running around and I would call guards on them when they attacked my tamed animals and then I would loot all their hard earned crap. Or the good old fashioned tame a few dragons and go tooling around.

God, I remember we were so awful we forced the server to evolve an organized anti-pker movement - when we started, there was nothing. Like 3 guys could just run roughshod over a whole dungeon, and by the time I quit it was just constant large scale warfare.

I think my personal crowning moment was when my guild discovered a dye bug, where you could dye just about anything in the game screen with a dye pot - while everyone else was screwing around in town I immediately went to the moongates, dyed them all red, and stood around telling everyone that they were cross-server now (if you are familiar with Ultima lore, the Avatar uses red moongates to travel between worlds). Plus I am fairly sure that my guild invented tank mages.

**Leigen_Zero**

Kain wrote:
Melissia wrote:
Halo, because they haven't released a game since Halo 2 even though they keep showing these trailers for later games.

But jokes aside, I am not very fond of the 'craft series of strategy games, or the various clones. Or their spin-offs. Also not a huge fan of the ARMA series.

C&C, Total Annihilation/SupCom, and AoE were the RTS genres for me, and I only ever played craft for the custom multiplayer maps. The ones in WC III in particular are great.

There's this one super-expansive metroid map I played years ago, but that was back in like...2007-2008. I don't think I'll ever find it again.

Funnily enough I despise Supreme Commander, every single mission I have ever played/seen played revolves around this:
1. Get to experimental tech stage as quickly as possible
2. build unbreakable shields
3. start building massive horde of top-tier units, leave to build while you go to lunch/a movie/build a lifesize replica of the sistene chapel
4. annihilate enemy

Melissia wrote:
Soladrin wrote:
Remove the games set in the near future...
Devs don't do enough with "near future", even when they have it they aren't very imaginative with it.

Speaking as a dev, usually near future means 'never'

**Melissia**

LordofHats wrote:
Devs usually use near future as code for "right now but fictional"

Yeah, that pisses me off. I want my goddamned lasers!

**H.B.M.C.**

Leigen_Zero wrote:
Funnily enough I despise Supreme Commander, every single mission I have ever played/seen played revolves around this:
1. Get to experimental tech stage as quickly as possible
2. build unbreakable shields
3. start building massive horde of top-tier units, leave to build while you go to lunch/a movie/build a lifesize replica of the sistene chapel
4. annihilate enemy

Yeah I tried to get into SupCom, and aside from the crippling optimisation issues (twin Titans and 16GB of RAM should not have trouble running this game) it just felt... soulless compared to TA. It seemed like they taken the joy out of TA and turned it into a strict set of build order commands, like the game was less a game and more a program that had to run in the right sequence in order to be successful.

**Melissia**

I never had that problem with SupCom? Was always willing to try new ideas... Now, SupCom2, yeah...

Also, someone made a program that helps SupCom utilize multiple cores. The game was made before multicore threading was a big thing.

**Leigen_Zero**

Melissia wrote:
I never had that problem with SupCom? Was always willing to try new ideas... Now, SupCom2, yeah...

Also, someone made a program that helps SupCom utilize multiple cores. The game was made before multicore threading was a big thing.

My housemate in Uni was an avid player of SupCom1, but every game he played was exactly the same:
set up build order, go about his daily routine, come back and obliterate enemy.

He had this thing where his shields regenerated, and some upgrade where any damage would cause the strength of the shield to increase, so it would take less damage next time, so it meant he could literally leave his computer, go to lectures/etc and he'd still be fine when he came back...

I'm not saying that there weren't other tactics, I'm just saying that only one of them was really effective...

**Melissia**

Sounds like he was using a mod, actually. In SupCom1 and SupCom1:FA, there was no such upgrade without mods?

**MWHistorian**

Halo. I really dislike that game in every way conceivable.

Favorite games: Skyrim, Mass Effect, Silent Hill 3