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Topic: Dumb Homeworld Moment
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Hisao Ichikawa -San
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posted February 23, 2001 10:20 PM
 
Okay, those of you here who've played Cataclysm (what, all four of you?) will find this really amusing.Cleaning up the Beast fleet at the end of a lengthy skirmish, decided that "Hey, I have a fully-charged Siege Cannon, why not shorten this considerably?" So I take aim at the remnants of the computer's Beast fleet, and fire. Only, I forgot to make sure I had a clear line of fire. Instead of vaporising a bunch of Beast fighters and corvettes, I nailed my own Dreadnaught squarely in the back. It didn't even explode, it just vanished, along with the Sentinels covering it and the sentinels on the surrounding ships. The other ships in that formation survived, mainly by virtue of being Big (1 other dreadnaught, and four Multi-Beam Frigates). I had to pause I was laughing at myself so hard. Okay, I had to share. What about you guys? Dumb gaming moments? -Hisao (up too damn late) ------------------
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DaveInACar
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posted February 24, 2001 06:28 PM
(red alert 2)
I saw a guy use his chronosphere to teleport his nine-ship aircraft carrier fleet into the middle of a continent. That was funny.I would mention the countless times I've deliberately done that to other people's tanks (dropped them in the ocean), but that was on purpose, so... One time this guy was force firing on my mirage tanks (they look like trees), which were right next to his war factory... apparently he has an inaccurate mouse hand, so he blew up his own war factory... that was also fun. Oh, and this one guy made the mistake of keeping a demolition truck in the middle of his base, and he had no air defenses to speak of, so I took it out with 2 harriers, and that in turn blew up most of his power and tech ladder... Uh, yeah. They're more like "ha ha, fell my wrath, idiot!" moments than "stupid" moments, but that's the best I can do. ------------------
Something I never expected to hear at a job interview:
*sniff sniff* Dave, you smell like Japanese glue. No, seriously.
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ThePet
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posted February 24, 2001 07:13 PM
I've had plenty of dumb gaming moments with the Rocket Launcher in Quake.*tries to rocket jump*
*team damamge is on*
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Jesse Dangerously
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posted February 25, 2001 09:55 AM
I remember when I was very young, playing Super Mario Brothers at my friend's house... in 1-1, I made the 1UP appear from the invisible block, and failed to pick it up before it slid right down the hole. Not being quite the paragon of mario mind melding I am today, my frantic scrabbles sent me almost immediately down the very same hole. Everyone laughed because they thought I was trying to go after it.IP: Logged |
DaveInACar
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posted February 25, 2001 11:29 AM
That reminds me of the four hundred times that my friend has blown himself up with his own proximity mines in Perfect Dark."Ha ha! Now nobody will get into my hideaway!!" *throws one last mine for good measure* *last mine blows up all the others* *he backs up to avoid the explosion and triggers the mines behind him* *I laugh* ------------------
Something I never expected to hear at a job interview:
*sniff sniff* Dave, you smell like Japanese glue. No, seriously.
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aslum
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posted February 25, 2001 01:08 PM
Don't get me started on Perfect Dark.
Having someone run up to you, disarm the crappy weapon you where using, equip it and kill you before you get around to equiping the Dragon.Superdragon at PB. Nuff said. Speaking of perfect dark though, the red guns, can't member the name ATM, but get two of them, set 'em on secondary mode (Magazine discharge), get max ammo. So sweet. fires slightly faster then it takes to empty a clip so if you time it right you can get a continues stream of bullets, with maybe a tenth of a second pauses every second. brnrnrnrnpppp. . . brnrnrnrnpppp. . . brnrnrnrnpppp. . . brnrnrnrnpppp. . . crap I just wasted 4 clips of ammo on you dude... how the hell did I still miss? And yeah, PD kicks so frikin' much ass... ------------------
Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys at the door who want to talk to us about this script for hamlet they've worked out. IP: Logged |
tv's Spatch
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posted February 25, 2001 01:16 PM
I was in 7th grade.
I had a friend in 9th grade. She was wicked rad. She was all punk-like and weird and really cool.Anyway, she came over one day and we decided to play Nintendo. So I started up Super Mario Brothers and she started to play and I went to the kitchen to get some soda, and when I came back, she'd already lost the game. And was rippin mad. I asked what happened and she said (a voice that started out normal but ended in a snarl) "I started out the game and ran into a bunch of these teddy bear like things, and I wanted to run up and jump all around them AND GIVE THEM ALL BIG HUGS RAAAAAAAGH" I couldn't stop laughing.
I miss her. Wonder where she is sometimes. IP: Logged |
Morat
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posted February 25, 2001 02:26 PM
Let's see..XCom. I was heading out on a mission against those aliens that turn your own crew into aliens. They're really hard to kill, and for some reason or another I was light on heavy weapons. So I arm two guys to the gills with alien grenades. These were "armed" grenades. I walk out of my ship, my guys clustered around, looking in every direction. Out of the night comes a single shot..nailing one of the grenade guys. He drops. The grenades go off. It kills several people, including two more with grenades. End result? One shot, completely dead team. Whoops. I saw the AI do something really stupid once. I walked off the top of a building (was wearing a flying suit). Directly below me was an alien. I was out of movement. He throws a grenade at me. It goes up, reaches the top of the arc (me) and falls right back down, obliterating him. Good job. 
I had a real destructive view to that game, though. I tossed grenades and high explosives in doors "just in case". I used incin. rounds to start fires so I could see. I let the aliens kill all the civilians because it made it easier to use blaster bombs...
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Trench
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posted February 26, 2001 02:28 AM
That's the Cyclone, Aslum. A cool weapon, but I don't like the reload time and with two of them they take up waaay too much of your field of vision. Just gimme the SuperDragon and I'll be happy. I just finished that game on Perfect Agent mode the other day. That game is obscenely hard! *is satisfied with self* ------------------
Whose weapon of mass destruction is that? It isn't mine!
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nebulous menace
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posted February 26, 2001 07:29 AM
Ah, X-Com. I had some great omnicide moments in that game. I mean, I think everyone has a "Whaddaya mean they can mind control my guys?" time. Knowing they can mind control your guys and STILL letting your guys go in with detpacks, that's stupid. X-Com is a great demonstration of the "cop" mindset in action. You start out, you're trying to save civilians and kill aliens. Then you find out that civilians can be turned into big lobster guys, and you're like "God will find his own." Then you go on a terror raid without lobster guys and you're like, "Well, they just picked the wrong place to live. Not my fault." IP: Logged |
tv's Spatch
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posted February 26, 2001 08:55 AM
Then you play Terror From The Deep where you go on a mission on a fifteen-freakin'-level cruise ship to find the last piddling stinking gray alien guy holed up somewhere behind a box or something and it takes three hours to find this stupid alien cause he's NOT MOVING and you can't multitask because it'll crash the game and RAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.IP: Logged |
ThePet
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posted February 26, 2001 08:58 AM
I never got into the sequals of X-Com. Are they worth playing through?[edited because sql is a database... sequal is the proper word.] [This message has been edited by ThePet (edited February 26, 2001).] IP: Logged | |
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