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Topic: General Gaming / Saddest Game Ending

has nobody brought up the nimian flyer series?
nimian flyer 1: ok, so this has no storyline whatsoever…
nimian legends: ok, so it’s technically a happy ending, but it’s still a downer when you actually reach it. Especially if you think you’re actually the same guy as in nimian flyer 2…
nimian flyer 2: It is an insanely difficult game. i recommend a slow computer… and when you win, you become the next big bad. YIKES.

Nimian hunter has 2 endings…the “good” ending is…you get turned into a statue. The bad ending is…you die and the demon goes ahead and destroys the life he’d restored to the world.

if those don’t qualify as depressing endings, I don’t know what does.

Topic: General Gaming / Who do you think is gaming's most underated games that are actually awesome,and deserve to be well known?

silent frontier ftw!
complex rts AND free! what could be better!…though, it does have a rather steep learning curve.
http://www.randomthoughts.net/games/sf/

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / 228 made easy

Originally posted by lolizard:

I like pie.

…what?

…anyways, i’ve finally made a video of how to get started on the whole process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObnNG-j1Z4U&feature=youtu.be

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / 228 made easy

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
…once again, my game was ended by the intrusion of real life. namely, my dad shut down the computer.

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / 228 made easy

...or at least quick.

disclaimer: I have only tested this via theory. my own attempt using this method is in progress.

summary: instead of trying to maximize mana/frame, and praying to the interrupt cat...stick to 15-25 R/O/X traps. Instead of trying to build up a full million damage, put grade 14' prismatics in every trap-and optimize the specials. (yellow-lime-(optional orange)-red-all others. ) lastly, limit angering to 10 grade 6's...and underanger giants. Ease up on angering around wave 60-70. You won't maximize your potential damage, but it'll only take a day or two, rather than a week or two.

wave-by-wave breakdown

wave: 1-7: supertrap start.

wave 7-20: you should get 20-25 R/O/X gems set up. put a few R/O/P at the back, yada yada. but put the rest of them at the front, followed by a maximum of 2-3 prismatics.

wave 20-70: you should get approx 1/2 of the track set up. by wave 70, you should have 400-600k mana pool. place the gems from the rear towards the start, to make it clear to yourself where your mana farm is, and where your damage gems are.

wave 70-120: get the other half of the track ready. optional: test your setup by angering wave 120(or a nearby runner wave) to have 15 mill hp each. they should all die by wave 130 (maybe 132, to account for slowed monsters).

120-150: stick grade 11-12 gems in around 100 towers.

wave 150-228: put most of the grade 14's in towers near the entrance. put them back into the traps 5-15 squares in front of the monsters, and replace with grade 11's-12's.

BONUS: if you have a yellow/lime/red gem in a tower, and an un-spec'd prismatic in a trap, you can drag the y/l/r onto the prismatic to spec it. If you take a gem from the inventory, and drag it onto a gem in a trap, you will only HUE the gem. this means you don't have to take the gems out of the inventory. otherwise, optimizing a gem's specials should be done in inventory.

Topic: General Gaming / Who should evolve in pokemon

Originally posted by brondo1:

i think all legends should evolve like zoroak evolves for example diar evolve into dialga

…zoroark is pseudo legenary at best, but I think it’s merely rare, not psuedo legendary. (Meanwhile, arcanine is classed as pseudo legendary thanks to that ridiculous goof in the paperback pokedex…anyways). Legendaries, in general, do not evolve. (There are a few that have multiple ‘forms’, like deoxys and shaymin(?), but I don’t think that any legendaries actually evolve. )

Topic: General Gaming / Discuss the Classics!

so, let me think…
pong, of course, is the ultimate classic.
snake. (under the name “rattlers race” on my windows 3.1 machine :D). iI changed the starting room to level 30 for lols…I rarely ever beat that room.
pipe. (also on my windows 3.1 machine). My skillz on that game have decayed over the years.

asteroids, missile command, and Tempest (yellow ship around a blue (later on, red) field). all of which are on a windows 98 machine. I spent weeks playing those.

from a (perhaps) more recent era:
pokemon, Red and blue versions :D.
zelda: ocarina of time

…

but ATTACK OF THE MEGAZORDS PWNS ALL!
I wore the cartridge out within about 2 weeks of receiving it. You see, the cartridge was based on a moving tape, not a solid state drive, and the led screen came with the cartridge. It’s THAT kind of old. (literally, all of the games I had for that gameboy precursor have died).

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Map 78

…And i’m going to attempt to beat all 228 waves again, shortly.
my latest calculation indacates it might be possible with a much smaller amount of firepower-a mere 600k, only 200k of which needs to be concentrated in around 5 gems (the rest should be bulk gems of around 4k damage…). wish me luck!

Topic: General Gaming / No Download MMOs

www.pardus.at

Topic: General Gaming / Looking for MMO that can be run on the crappiest computer ever but is still good.

pardus. browser-based, ap based, yet manages to be absolutely awesome despite that.
If you can get on kong, you can play pardus.

Topic: General Gaming / Weakest Weapons

a lvl 1 magikarp.
splash splash splash splash…

Topic: General Gaming / is it possible to cache fully loaded games in browser?

…
Find a site other than kongregate. sSome of them will let you load the entire page from offline. (freearcade.com used to, dunno if it still does…)

if you’re lucky, your computer+browser will cache the .SWF file even from kongregate, and you can hunt through your offline files, and play from there.

Topic: General Gaming / Cant Find Fun Water Erosion Simulator

um…creeper world (1 and 2)?
It’s probably not what you’re looking for, but there IS erosion (sometimes), and creeper does behave vaguely like water….or maybe more like a super-strong acid…but it’s definitely fun.

p.s. “sand sand sand” if you’re looking for something along the lines of powder game.

Topic: General Gaming / Tips For Caravaneer

ok…
first of all: build up your own group of people before you bother starting the storyline.
(unless you want the lame government storyline, which is boring, really…)

you’ll want anywhere from 5-16 people. GOOD people…like 8+ str and an absolute minimum of 6 agility (4 agility with 10 str is ok, but otherwise, not), Any more than 16 will start getting in your way.
a good, solid trade route: hara: fuel→ fort goks (or other nearby town): alchohol→ quabba: crude(finite amount!)→ hara.

go to the southwest corner to start the Desert patrol thing…
but talk to oswald raff (Quabba)before you declare war on the government so you can get a base pass from him, skipping the trickiest (non-combat) portion of the storyline. (one where you’d have to save in a different slot for every step if you played through normally).
oh, when talking to the ex-robber, do not mention the sheriff, and offer 20k right off the bat to save 30k.

When getting ready to fight the finall battle, equip everyone with sniper rifles and those golden colored grenades, both are available in quabba. start stocking up on military armor WELL before then.

warning: IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE THE BANDITS FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER…you are not ready to start the story line. And by handle, I mean handle at least 5 in a row. They’ll get a LOT tougher once you accept the convoys and combat engineer.

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / FAQs: Please read before posting.

Originally posted by bailey500:

Is there a way to reduce lag when you get to around wave 750? It looks like its not even moving anymore.

Yes. Reduce the amount of lime you’re using, and increase the amount of yellow. The gem will be a bit more more expensive for the effect, but it’ll be worth the reduction in lag.

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / A question

I don’t remember.

I vaguely recall it varying from map to map while I was doing my first run through the labyrinth. But yeah, just sell it, unlock a gem type of your choice, and make your own triple gem.

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / O.o (Show off thread)

If I only had the time…and premium. And a really solid computer.

Topic: General Gaming / No Download MMOs

pardus. Browser based, ap based…but awesome despite that. (and it IS an MMO). warning: requires some thought and reasearch to play well. pm me if you want more details.

runescape does some downloading, but it’s pretty small, and more recent java engines only give you a “run/don’t run” window rather than a “do you want to install” window.

both are free, with the option to pay for extra features. bonus points if you can build up enough support to bust into the paid section of pardus.

Topic: General Gaming / Runescape... how sad!

Originally posted by DaDude9211:

The idea of 5 dollars a month disgusts me personally… You can buy a big name, new release game every year, and play it as long as you like for that much!

But, I’ll admit although it’s not that fun, it’s not a bad game to play when you can always turn around and sell your account to someone you know. I sold mine to a kid at school for a gameboy color and 2 games, and the account was only level 24 with a high (for level 24 anyways) WC and fishing!

O.o!!!!

now I want to trade in my side account for an NES, ocarina of time, and super smash bros…and maybe a pokemon red/blue or gold/silver while I’m at it…
if only I could get that kind of deal :P.

Topic: General Gaming / Help me with caravaneer please.

[quote] 4. Whenever i get out of the ‘safe spot’ into where the rober get tough, how do i kill the ninjas, their too tough[/quote]
…BWAHAHAHAH!!!!!

those things? ahahah!
AHAHAHAH!…
sorry, but I recently went and took out some military convoys.

Restart, assign 10 agillity and 10 strength, then when you get into battle, take one shot, and run laps around the combat screen. The ninjas are PATHETIC!…(30 hp each).
now, what the sherrif was REALLY warning you about were the bandits even further to the northeast. They have rocket launchers. THOSE are what he warned you about, so don’t head there untill you’ve got at least 5 people.

Best animal? horses, but if you’re having trouble with those 30 hp, 9-12 ap ninjas, you’re not ready for them. You also need to be ready to run into quabba and buy a car (desert cat), fuel, and fuel containers, so you’ll want about…30k cash before attempting that. (buy shoes wherever, head to okadi, sell the shoes. easy 10-20k.)

Topic: General Gaming / Star Wars VS Halo with would win?

…when I say wars empire, I mean the wars empire from the movies. All others are lesser cannon, at best, and non-cannon at worst. even halo has multi-galaxy empires if you go far enough away from core cannon, but as far as i’m concerned, the major halo races controll about 20-50 systems, total, during the first game…and colonize most of the rest of the galaxy by the time you get to one of the more recent ones. Ok, I could be wrong about that, but I cannot figure out any other explanation for why humans, with around a dozen worlds if your being generous, could not be wiped out by the other major races, if said races saw them as a threat AND said races had over thousands of worlds…yet in later games there are reports of entire arms of the galaxy being controlled. rapid colonization is the only explanation i’ve been able to come up with.

hm…that’s funny…I though anikan managed to hit the shield generator, THEN slipped into the fighter bay, and THEN hit the reactor from within…
Guess i’ll have to watch that scene again.

…hm…

Topic: General Gaming / Star Wars VS Halo with would win?

Originally posted by DannyDaNinja:

Halos VS Death stars

hmm

Death stars really need star destroyers to back them up…they’re notoriously vulnerable to fighters. (actually, large ships in star wars are ALL incredibly vulnerable to fighters…) Since I imagine a spartan pilot would fly their ship about as well as a Jedi…well, you figure out the rest.

Of course, if someone managed to put a grate on the exhaust vent…that might be a different story.

Originally posted by stormtrooper261:

Even though numbers can win against almost anything, star wars has the numbers. And there is a limit if your not as technologly advanced then numbers wont win too often.

my rule of thumb is, wars empire only really controls 1/4 to 1/2 of the galaxy, unless you’re willing to restrict yourself purely to the original trilogy. If you even begin to touch the books, or take into account the term “unknown regions”, you begin to realize the empire probably doesn’t include the entire galaxy.

Halo, on the other hand, started out with a handful of planets/side, then moved to a fully colonized galaxy…so it really, really, depends on what point on the halo timeline you are talking about.

…halos orbital defense mac’s are enough to rip through pretty much any sheild (even borg cubes would probably have a bit of trouble adapting). The ship-based macs, however, are quite weak. I do not know how wars shields would stand up to those.

Still, to really get an idea of how their firepower compares, I’d need to see them shooting at an object of known size and composition.

…on the other hand, IF halo ships have really, really good aim, then they won’t need to have great weapon-power, as wars shields are useless at the generators themselves. (on a side note, this is why the star trek federation would pwn the wars empire in a fight).

proof that wars shields are weakest at the sheild generator itself?

episode 1: anikan is in a fighter. one of the people on the droid control station says “nothing can get through our sheilds”. now, obviously his saying that causes karma to weaken the shield a bit, but that’s still not enough to explain how a shot from a mere FIGHTER could get through it, certainly not if said individual could even have begun to believe his statement in the first place-unless, of course, the shield was extremely weak at that point to begin with.

There are other cases…we don’t hear “sheilds are failing” very often, what happens is we see the actual generator getting hit. As far as I can recall, EVERY time we see a generator get a direct hit, it is destroyed.
Aside from these weak points, wars sheilds are at least decent…maybe. it’s always hard to tell for sure how strong a shield is…but my guess is, in all OTHER locations over the ship, wars sheilds are significantly stronger than halo ships. I’m not sure.

so…would someone more familiar with halo bring me some idea of how accurate halo weponry is in ship to ship fights?
cause that’s what it’ll come down to.

Topic: General Gaming / Favorite retro game OST

the original soundtrack of mario, of course!
:P

oh, and all the old zelda games, too.

Topic: General Gaming / Star Wars VS Halo with would win?

Originally posted by bobeeto64:

halo would totally kick ass because first off they have plasma guns the lightsaber cannot deflect them the vehicals are much better more range and damage there would be more halo marines and aliens (both sides) then halo has the scarab and yea sure star wars has the death star but it can easily be glassed from the superior firepower of the covenant and UNSC. Halo also has much better tech for their weapons. the air vehicles are much better ( does star wars have air vehicles).the scarab can kick the ATATs asses easily and also the coventant and humans have more skill in battle. Elite VS Jedi = elite kicked ass!!!!!!! a hunter can easily kick hundreds of pp; and its shield is in-destructive it weights 2tons and can easily kill a bunch of clones and droids with one swipe

so i think its settled that Halo would domaniate star wars

HALO ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first fo all, lightsabers could probably stop a plasma bolt…unless it’s wide enough, of course-lightsaber beams are only so big.
land vehicles: I will concede that one.
after all, atat’s are the biggest embarrasment to the empire, ever. Well…second biggest, since the death star getting destroyed time and time again is probably a bigger embarrasment. I’m sure they have better vehicles…erm…lying around somewhere…in, er…some retired general’s private storage bunker. just not in quantity.

air vehicles: With the possible exception of tie fighters (and uber-massive ships like death stars), star wars ships are designed to be just as maneuverable in a gravity well+atmosphere as in space (good antigrav helps with this). their sheilds actually work pretty well in an atmosphere, too. and wars has air-only vehicles-the small ones are built much the same as fighters, but without life support and they are not as air-tight. but wars does have air-only vehicles.

‘a hunter’s…shield is in-destructive’…? did you mean indestructibibible[sic]? because few things are invincible in any sci-fi universe, period. any sheild used in a movie/game/continued series will have its limits (overheating, or running out of energy, etc). Hello ship bombardment? Surely halo ship against halo ground vehicle is a given? moving on…

halo may or may not actually be able to glass entire planets (sorry, I can’t remember the reference that very nearly proves that the covenenent calls bombardments glassings purely to scare everyone)…but meh, whatever.

numbers…the empire probably controls around a fourth of the galaxy, while the halo races expand throughout the various incarnations. (going from a few planets, to an arm of the galaxy, to colonizing the entire galaxy)…so numbers depends upon when in the halo series you refer to.

…you are right about stormtrooper armor, however. It’s purely psychological, and anti-punch, and useless for just about everything else.

All in all, I’d say it comes down to a matter of aim: I suspect that star-wars sheilds are slightly better than halo shields, and slightly more powerfull…but if halo ships have good enough aim, then they can hit the shield generators, where the shield itself is…incredibly weak. in such a case, halo would win. but if halo can’t aim well enough, they aren’t likely to take out a death star. (There will be one, I assure you. And it will have a weak spot. they always do, you know…but can halo hit it? I have no idea. )

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Topic: General Gaming / Feudalism 2 Foolproof Walkthrough

ok… So when I played, I got myself around…100 crossbowmen or something. then I went to sell them, and discovered that the last 2 in the que were glitched, flickering through all possible images. I can’t remember if I got NaN gold when I sold them or not, or if i’d already gotten NaN gold through some other glitch.