I'm disappointed

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:55 am

dwchang wrote:
Savia wrote:/me owns every Hero Quest expansion, set, and add-on ever produced

i bet i am teh only competitive card player on this websiet
*plays Taiga*
*plays Kird Ape*

Fuck your Kird Apes
Seriously.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:45 pm

*wrath of god*

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:28 pm

Fall_Child42 wrote:
dwchang wrote:
Savia wrote:/me owns every Hero Quest expansion, set, and add-on ever produced

i bet i am teh only competitive card player on this websiet
*plays Taiga*
*plays Kird Ape*
Fuck your Kird Apes
Seriously.

x2

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:36 pm

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:50 pm

Fall_Child42 wrote:
dwchang wrote:
Savia wrote:/me owns every Hero Quest expansion, set, and add-on ever produced

i bet i am teh only competitive card player on this websiet
*plays Taiga*
*plays Kird Ape*
Fuck your Kird Apes
Seriously.

*plays Forrest*
*plays Birds of Paradise*
*attacks with KIRD APE*

20/20
18/20

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:47 pm

dwchang wrote:*plays Forrest*

Life is like a deck of Magic cards.... you never know what you're gonna draw.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:55 pm

Sukunai wrote: Paradox makes/produces mainly shit. To compare, Paradox is the boochsack of wargaming

Name some of your tactical favs. I'm just curious if we have common ground.

Tactical games. Tactical games?! The ONLY ones worth playing of those are sims. What is there to realize from C&C? Nothing. Unrealistic, simplified, ridiculous. Starcraft is about as exciting as beating yourself with a plastic hammer, stabbing yourself with a knife, and using a musket about 500 years old to shoot yourself in the foot.

Paradox produces shit? I see no one else producing games with such a scope like theirs. Who else does grand strategy games that cover nearly a thousand years of history? Everybody elses focus is on one little pissy conflict, ooh, look at me, I'm conducting strategy in WWII, or, ooh, I'm jerking like Napoleon, watch me play this limited little campaign that ends no matter what you do, with a half-assed empire.

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:38 pm

Orwell wrote:
Sukunai wrote: Paradox makes/produces mainly shit. To compare, Paradox is the boochsack of wargaming

Name some of your tactical favs. I'm just curious if we have common ground.
Tactical games. Tactical games?! The ONLY ones worth playing of those are sims. What is there to realize from C&C? Nothing. Unrealistic, simplified, ridiculous. Starcraft is about as exciting as beating yourself with a plastic hammer, stabbing yourself with a knife, and using a musket about 500 years old to shoot yourself in the foot.

Paradox produces shit? I see no one else producing games with such a scope like theirs. Who else does grand strategy games that cover nearly a thousand years of history? Everybody elses focus is on one little pissy conflict, ooh, look at me, I'm conducting strategy in WWII, or, ooh, I'm jerking like Napoleon, watch me play this limited little campaign that ends no matter what you do, with a half-assed empire.

Hmm is he comparing C&C with Paradox?
Both games are worthless shit. Well worthless in that neither does much to simulate anything at all.

"Paradox produces shit? I see no one else producing games with such a scope like theirs." Just because no one else produces crappy games like Paradox doesn't mean Paradox wins by default.

"Who else does grand strategy games that cover nearly a thousand years of history?" All you get with a thousand years of shit, is, a thousand years of shit.

I'm not sure you've ever actually seen a real wargame before. So lacking a point of reference, the discussion is pointless.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:26 pm

You're not giving us a lot of references to go with either here, in fairness. I'm not sure why on earth Orwell brought in C&C, but it's unfair to go and call paradox "shit" either. Despite obvious deficiencies, at least several of their games I find extremely good, in particular HoI 2, especially when modded. I honestly don't see what one could call "shit" there - some of the balancing is occasionally wonky, but I've spent quite a number of sleepless nights over that. It's a very clever game and easily one of the best, if not the best, grand strategy ever made. What exactly is your problem with it?

I'm more of a Battlefront fanboy myself, my main tactical gaming steed is the Combat Mission series, but I've dabbled in a variety of things including Steel Panthers, Tactical Art of War, etc.; along with naval games that straddle the wargame spectrum like Carriers at War, Distant Guns, or Sonalysts' naval game series (though the latter is probably more in the simulation spectrum). As I said, my roots are in simulation games (originally just flights sims, but lately naval sims as well).

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:42 pm

:O

I love tactical games, I just haven't found any that are really good.

I love the Fire Emblem series, though that's really just a dumbed down tactics game (though great for long trips).

I had a fetish with Empire Earth for a long time, but then it just got boring after a while.

Starcraft bores me to tears (since it's so much like Empire Earth, and when I played it I had just gotten tired of empire earth), although Starcraft 2 looks somewhat promising.

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Slightly back on topic, I did manage to nab myself a nice copy of Mario Kart Wii, and the steering whell is fecking impossible to maneuver, although my little sister enjoys it immensly. I just stick with the gamecube controller. :O