The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:You should finish Ocarina of Time while you wait

I lost because I forgot how to reseed farms efficiently.

I lost to the Lumbees. New faction.

You should finish Ocarina of Time while you wait

Epignosis wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Epignosis wrote:In my younger days, I spent more time playing Age of Empires 2 than I did sleeping. It was also the only time I ever tried playing against people online. It got old quickly when everyone chose the Chinese and exploited a certain mechanic that ensured victory nearly every time before you even had a chance to upgrade your city once.

Playing this game online took the fun out of it for me, especially since my favorite part was doing those upgrades and, y'know, actually building an empire? I like the British for the longbowmen and the Japanese samurai

This came out a couple of years ago.

The fact that they came out with an expansion for a decade-old game proves its excellence. And this looks cool as hell.

Now I need a computer that can actually play games. Life is hard.

Epignosis wrote:In my younger days, I spent more time playing Age of Empires 2 than I did sleeping. It was also the only time I ever tried playing against people online. It got old quickly when everyone chose the Chinese and exploited a certain mechanic that ensured victory nearly every time before you even had a chance to upgrade your city once.

Playing this game online took the fun out of it for me, especially since my favorite part was doing those upgrades and, y'know, actually building an empire? I like the British for the longbowmen and the Japanese samurai

I have to pick only 5? Alas. Here we go!

1) Legend of Zelda: I'm gonna go ahead and lump the series together for the top one, but my two favorites are Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess (yeah, I cheated). Ocarina of TIme was the game that got me hooked on the series. Twilight Princess is so beautifully dark and different from OOT and its other 3D predecessors (Majora's Mask comes close with the darkness, but not quite the same) and it brought back the same vastness (in other words, more actual dungeons) that OOT had. I could go on for days, but I won't because y'all are probably tired of my Zelda ramblings on this site :P

2) Super Mario World: I grew up on this game, as well as older Marios, but this is my favorite. I love the Koopa Kids. I love side-scrollers. I love Yoshi, even though I frequently sacrifice him for my own survival. And I'm a food nerd, and all of the Worlds are named after food. This game makes me hungry.

3) Super Mario Galaxy 2: First one was fabulous. I hadn't really gotten into the 3D Mario games much before. We (and when I say "we" I refer to me and my brothers) played Mario 64 on a rented N64, but since we had rented it, we never really got any continuity, and when we finally bought the system, we had OOT with it and never really went back to Mario 64. I tried Super Mario Sunshine but didn't care much for it. I think my love for the side-scrolling Mario got in the way, and I felt a bit overwhelmed by the 3D aspect. But I borrowed the first one from a friend and absolutely LOVED it. For the first time playing a 3D Mario, I didn't feel like I was drowning in so much space. The second Galaxy improved on just about everything that I found flawed with the first one (and they were minor flaws): timed levels stopped the timer when you actually unlocked the star, it was less tedious to get from one World/Level to another (no finding it on the spaceship - just scrolling like a 2D Mario), Yoshi (need I say more?), and the Green Star mode unlocked after beating the game the first time (instead of one flying level after all of your hard work). I will shut up now.

4) Age of Empires II: Are we counting computer games? Good. We are now. I love creating things. I loved SimCity as a kid (mostly loved spending all of my money in about 5 minutes and destroying my city with disasters and Godzilla. I think I was doing it wrong), so I of course love the town-building aspect of Age of Empires. The second one expanded on what civilizations one could build and what sorts of military technology you could have depending on your chosen civilization. I don't think I was particularly good at the game, but I loved playing it anyway.

5) Tetris: I love puzzle games. There is no subsequent Tetris or Tetris-like game that has been as good as the original, in my opinion. And I'm a beast at it. 'Nuff said.

I have written a novel. Sorry not sorry.