mega thread How are you feeling?

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,577]

1 minute ago, Silent Dusk said:

Amen to that one, veteran is one game mode that not a lot of players like to tackle; however, my one friend, Matthew, has started tackling veteran together. And so far the hardest mission on veteran I can safely say is, drumroll please............

 

Blood and Iron. Three hits and you are burning in a metal coffin, and only two hits from artillery. I like to say I'm not that competitive, hence the reason I don't do sports. But sometimes I just want to see that sweet top score, but those instances are rare. The reason why I'm not competitive is that my ego is about as aired out as a popped balloon. So self-respect is out the window, and beating myself up is moving in, living the hermit life.

I agree, the reason I brought that criticism of Call of Duty World At War up is because it is supposed to be a game about WWII.

But it rarely does that right, AI had certain unfair advantages against the player, and unlimited ammo was one of them, which in my opinion, is lazy game design and not a good substitute for competent AI that is capable of chasing a player down when their guns run out. If game developers did not want too many situations where a player had more ammo than the AI did, make the AI aim better. If a player is simply too strategic for that to work, reward them for that skill, don't punish them for finding creative ways to evade detection, as long as they're not out of bounds or using glitches to achieve that.

COD WaW campaign would have been far better if it actually simulated a real life war situation.

[Silent Dusk 429]

4 minutes ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

I agree, the reason I brought that criticism of Call of Duty World At War up is because it is supposed to be a game about WWII.

But it rarely does that right, AI had certain unfair advantages against the player, and unlimited ammo was one of them, which in my opinion, is lazy game design and not a good substitute for competent AI that is capable of chasing a player down when their guns run out. If game developers did not want too many situations where a player had more ammo than the AI did, make the AI aim better. If a player is simply too strategic for that to work, reward them for that skill, don't punish them for finding creative ways to evade detection, as long as they're not out of bounds or using glitches to achieve that.

COD WaW campaign would have been far better if it actually simulated a real life war situation.

True, there are a lot of inaccuracies and problems with the game by itself. But still, you have to remember that this game was made in the early 2000s. And if you ask me, it was pretty good for its time anyway. That and they hit the nail right on the head with Japanese tactics. Spider holes, bonzi charges, that random guy sniping me from a tree. In fact, there are two videos made by the same person that explore the pros and cons of the game.

 

I'll look for them and put them in my next reply on the last video you watched.

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,577]

4 minutes ago, Silent Dusk said:

True, there are a lot of inaccuracies and problems with the game by itself. But still, you have to remember that this game was made in the early 2000s. And if you ask me, it was pretty good for its time anyway. That and they hit the nail right on the head with Japanese tactics. Spider holes, bonzi charges, that random guy sniping me from a tree. In fact, there are two videos made by the same person that explore the pros and cons of the game.

 

I'll look for them and put them in my next reply on the last video you watched.

Absolutely, Bonzi charges and sniping from tree in COD WaW were some of the best parts in the game, in my opinion, because this is quite literally some of the tactics they did use, trees provide cover so they are ideal for that situation. It's not just trees they used, they used what was known as spider holes to ambush you from below, they would come out and charge at you and the ambush would work if you were not prepared for it, it caught me out before plenty of times in that game. Earlier in the game they also used darkness of the night itself for cover and waited for your arrival. So there were some parts of the game that did impress me and got me thinking about the various tactics that were used in war.

It's just unfortunate that the game is dragged down by the technical issues I had mentioned earlier, because it did have potential to be better.

[Silent Dusk 429]

2 minutes ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

Absolutely, Bonzi charges and sniping from tree in COD WaW were some of the best parts in the game, in my opinion, because this is quite literally some of the tactics they did use, trees provide cover so they are ideal for that situation. It's not just trees they used, they used what was known as spider holes to ambush you from below, they would come out and charge at you and the ambush would work if you were not prepared for it, it caught me out before plenty of times in that game. Earlier in the game they also used darkness of the night itself for cover and waited for your arrival. So there were some parts of the game that did impress me and got me thinking about the various tactics that were used in war.

It's just unfortunate that the game is dragged down by the technical issues I had mentioned earlier, because it did have potential to be better.

Your point does have a lot of merit to it, like the infamous bonzi screw up glitch as I call it, when it happens you cant counter a bonzi charge. That and another one that I commonly run into is the sticky grenade. You can't throw back a grenade on your first attempt, but it still detonates just in your hand. And while we're on that topic, it's just bonzi charges that come out of the spider holes; there are also grenades that detonate as soon as they hit the ground. 

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,577]

15 minutes ago, Silent Dusk said:

Your point does have a lot of merit to it, like the infamous bonzi screw up glitch as I call it, when it happens you cant counter a bonzi charge. That and another one that I commonly run into is the sticky grenade. You can't throw back a grenade on your first attempt, but it still detonates just in your hand. And while we're on that topic, it's just bonzi charges that come out of the spider holes; there are also grenades that detonate as soon as they hit the ground. 

So we have discussed how we felt about COD WaW, it was a multi platform game not just on the Xbox 360, I suppose for its time it was technically impressive, but looking at it in hindsight, it is clearly a very flawed game. The Xbox 360 had even exclusive games at the time that were not very good either like Halo 3. I wished I had the original Halo on OG Xbox. I think the only exclusive games I got for that platform back then were Halo 2 and Project Gotham Racing 2, I got PGR3 later, and that had great music, PGR may not be as well received as Forza but it did feature licensed high end vehicles like the McLaren F1 LM, my favourite one in that game. I still have my Xbox 360, a slim version, the older ones broke so I cannot use those ones.

[Silent Dusk 429]

18 minutes ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

So we have discussed how we felt about COD WaW, it was a multi platform game not just on the Xbox 360, I suppose for its time it was technically impressive, but looking at it in hindsight, it is clearly a very flawed game. The Xbox 360 had even exclusive games at the time that were not very good either like Halo 3. I wished I had the original Halo on OG Xbox. I think the only exclusive games I got for that platform back then were Halo 2 and Project Gotham Racing 2, I got PGR3 later, and that had great music, PGR may not be as well received as Forza but it did feature licensed high end vehicles like the McLaren F1 LM, my favourite one in that game. I still have my Xbox 360, a slim version, the older ones broke so I cannot use those ones.

I will admit the XBOX 360 holds a strong place in my childhood, especially when it had Minecraft Story Mode, both parts one and two, but my favorite platform to play on to this day is the Super Nintendo. With games like Mario 3, Yoshi's Island, and Super Mario World.

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,577]

1 minute ago, Silent Dusk said:

I will admit the XBOX 360 holds a strong place in my childhood, especially when it had Minecraft Story Mode, both parts one and two, but my favorite platform to play on to this day is the Super Nintendo. With games like Mario 3, Yoshi's Island, and Super Mario World.

I feel the same way about Xbox 360, some of the things the platform did right was indeed Minecraft. The world sizes were limited, but those were due to the hardware, as allowing unlimited world sizes would've taken up too much space on the hard disk. And Xbox 360 had good racing games like I mentioned before, I still have my Xbox 360 collection, even though I had moved onto more advanced platforms like the Nintendo Switch and PC, I still admit the areas Xbox did excel at, there's even an arcade racing game I played on it called Outrun 2 which is fun.

When I play on my Nintendo Switch again I think I'll be playing Crash Bandicoot N Sane trilogy on it, though I do have Mario All Stars Collection on it, Super Mario 64 is a fun game to play too.

So minus the childhood part, I was not a child at the time I got my first Xbox 360 console, I do agree it had brought entertainment to people in a good way. Even though it lost the format war to Sony because of bluray outperforming HD DVD, DVD was usually enough for video games at the time, in both cases though during that generation, Nintendo Wii outsold both PS3 and Xbox 360 so that was moot, in the end it wasn't graphics or high end features that won the console war, it was whether or not the games were good enough to play.

[Silent Dusk 429]

1 hour ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

I feel the same way about Xbox 360, some of the things the platform did right was indeed Minecraft. The world sizes were limited, but those were due to the hardware, as allowing unlimited world sizes would've taken up too much space on the hard disk. And Xbox 360 had good racing games like I mentioned before, I still have my Xbox 360 collection, even though I had moved onto more advanced platforms like the Nintendo Switch and PC, I still admit the areas Xbox did excel at, there's even an arcade racing game I played on it called Outrun 2 which is fun.

When I play on my Nintendo Switch again I think I'll be playing Crash Bandicoot N Sane trilogy on it, though I do have Mario All Stars Collection on it, Super Mario 64 is a fun game to play too.

So minus the childhood part, I was not a child at the time I got my first Xbox 360 console, I do agree it had brought entertainment to people in a good way. Even though it lost the format war to Sony because of bluray outperforming HD DVD, DVD was usually enough for video games at the time, in both cases though during that generation, Nintendo Wii outsold both PS3 and Xbox 360 so that was moot, in the end it wasn't graphics or high end features that won the console war, it was whether or not the games were good enough to play.

Wise words, my dear DW. Wise. Words

[Longhaul 7,236]

How am I feeling?

I hurt.

I hurt in places that I forgot I could hurt.

And I have one more day to get through before I can fully relax and recover.

[EtchASketch 2,972]

30 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

How am I feeling?

I hurt.

I hurt in places that I forgot I could hurt.

And I have one more day to get through before I can fully relax and recover.

Oh noes! I'm so sorry, Longhaul. I do hope you'll feel better very soon.

♪Pain, pain, go away! Don't come back any day!♪ 

[ThePinkestofPones 5,622]

39 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

How am I feeling?

I hurt.

I hurt in places that I forgot I could hurt.

And I have one more day to get through before I can fully relax and recover.

Awwww, feel better Long

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,577]

29 minutes ago, ThePinkestofPones said:

Awwww, feel better Long

I've said it before that love is a superpower, and the more of us that share it, the stronger we are. Something I learned here, kindness can only triumph if we stick around to encourage it, pessimism is the same thing as giving up, there is no strength in that.

[ZiggWheelsManning 12,498]

Hungry, maybe a burrito meal will fix that  

[Acinonyx 882]

Like a broken machine spluttering along leaking black oil onto this forsaken tarmac as a cacophony of noise washes over me again and again. I'm tired...

[Slumberlumber 799]

Angry at myself. Let myself get cat-fished, again! Second time! Granted the last one happend 2-3 years ago, but still....least it gives me a chance to talk to my buddies here that I haven't spoken too in a few days cause of how busy I was. That's a bright side.

[Snoopy Fan 5,660]

2 hours ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

I've said it before that love is a superpower, and the more of us that share it, the stronger we are. Something I learned here, kindness can only triumph if we stick around to encourage it, pessimism is the same thing as giving up, there is no strength in that.

I like the way you think, Dawnshine.

[Lnx1ynight16 1,580]

Crying rn that's how im feeling

[Acinonyx 882]

How much longer can you keep doing this...

Edited Friday at 01:39 AM by Acinonyx
Formatting.

[Silent Dusk 429]

17 minutes ago, Lnx1ynight16 said:

Crying rn that's how im feeling

Very sorry to hear that, if you don't want to say why, I understand. But the people here can indeed help.

[Tropical Melody 7,065]

10 hours ago, Slumberlumber said:

Angry at myself. Let myself get cat-fished, again! Second time! Granted the last one happend 2-3 years ago, but still....least it gives me a chance to talk to my buddies here that I haven't spoken too in a few days cause of how busy I was. That's a bright side.

Crap, that sucks.  

 

[Raskolnikov 863]

Hungry, it's summer so my 1. inability to eat most foods in the morning, 2. inability to eat in hot weather, 3. inability to eat when reaaaally hungry (?!?) are grouping up to kick my ass :s

Going to have to eat... very... very... slowly.

[Bairro M Vagrant 1,348]

4 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

Hungry, it's summer so my 1. inability to eat most foods in the morning, 2. inability to eat in hot weather, 3. inability to eat when reaaaally hungry (?!?) are grouping up to kick my ass :s

Going to have to eat... very... very... slowly.

Let Vagrant stuff all that into your so weak muzzle!

[ExplosionMare 18,616]

I'm doing ok. I wish I could sleep longer but I can't since I have to go to work.

[Slumberlumber 799]

4 hours ago, Tropical Melody said:

Crap, that sucks.  

 

Fortunately everything is all fixed now. 

[Ice Princess Silky <3 16,883]

Hmm.... reflective and a little bit sad. Thinking that too much playfulness can be not such a good thing.