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  get married in it. : gmd
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    Lol my ex did that to some guy in game and that guy pretty much thought they were really married, she did... : vov1n
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      haha i was reading about this girl whose husband married some chick in game, and the in-game-wife started... : jenisthebest
      • hahahahahahah omg that's so pathetic : Milleh
      • hahaaha awesome : yAak
      • There's going to eventually laws passed related to this, and in the end, it'll still suck for the guys. : Sailor of Fortune
  • I hate you. :( : stelth
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  Eve Online Age of Conan (really a good game, just buggy, just as WoW was when it started) Civilization ... : TheMongbat
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    The state of AoC cannot be compared even remotely to the state of WoW at launch. AoC is so, so much wors... : asylumn
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      WoW improved faster and had more content in the pipeline, but in terms of launch, AoC's was better. Most ... : LoioshDwaggie
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        Yeah, people kind of romanticize the World of Warcraft launch; it was pretty terrible. : mittense
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          See, I think people do the opposite of romanticize, whatever you would call that. It certainly had issue... : asylumn
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            No, on the spectrum of MMO launches it was not good at all. It was virtually unplayable for me the first : mittense
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              People forget. You couldn't even -loot- enemies because of the lag. You'd go to loot, your character woul... : LoioshDwaggie
              • You couldn't even -loot- enemies because of the lag. You'd go to loot, your character would duck, and you : electroly
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                Re loot lag: If you were lucky, the loot bag would appear. Sometimes you'd just get stuck in the "I'm l... : Arcanum
                • I thought it was more humorous than anything. Characters sliding around crouched over. It was comedy gold : hoov1185
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              Mal'ganis was down for like an entire week on release. It was the main reason I went to Alliance on anoth... : TrptJim
              • It's amazing the stories people make up. Mal'Ganis was down for 3 days that's it, when it came back up it... : Chod
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          The SERVERS were problematic because they had no idea about the amount of people wanting to play. The CLI... : pancake humper
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            So? One is dependent on the other. If someone couldn't play the game because of server issues do you thin... : mittense
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              Not necessarily. Server troubles are different than having a piece of shit client. WoW's client was fine ... : pancake humper
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                World of Warcraft's launch had some shitty server problems that prevented people from playing it. It does... : mittense
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                  I just realized my reply was not to the root poster. He is saying WoW was just as buggy as AoC and I was ... : pancake humper
                  • I was saying that WoW was problematic at launch. I didn't break out server vs. client. I have no proble... : TheMongbat
                • Ultimately the launch means nothing. It's over in a month, people forget about it and what matters is whe... : Zek
            • A buggy client is a more severe problem than overloaded servers. Assuming the server-side systems are sca... : code-e255
          • do we really want to have this conversation. people are so very forgetful. : italiano3d
          • if you want to go here i will make a huge list of bugs the client had that were bad, and game breaking in... : italiano3d
      • WoW had some bad server problems at launch but the game was nearly flawless. AoC had pretty stable server... : Zek
      • when u say content in the pipeline what do u meane xactly, unless u ahve some information about what cont... : italiano3d
    • The constant lag every 10 minutes is #1 needs to be fixed yesterday. I recently raided Vystrix's lair ... : rhuntley12
  • LotRO perhaps? : SilverSnake
  • Meh, I just reupped. I'll worry about the litch king when it comes out. I'm not hardcore by any means s... : Horn
  • Word is there's no Lich King til March - and I don't think tier 6 is going to be near as worthless as peo... : Nihilist
  • Man I want to get in on some Civ4 with shackers but I've been unsuccessful with my attempts so far : ErikTehRed
  • I can't recommend AoC. Honestly it was ok at launch, but every patch they've made it worse and worse, and... : DerHuhnTeufel
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  Do it. : electroly
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    electroly, you are a bad influence on ex-WoWers! : jenisthebest
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      You should start playing again. :P : electroly
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        i have been sitting here all morning thinking that i'd rather go home and play WoW. BAH : jenisthebest
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          I would totally run you through RFD or whatever dungeon is appropriate for your level, too. I'm level 70... : electroly
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            well fine i'll reactivate tonight!!!!!!! : jenisthebest
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              Another life ruined. My job here is done. : electroly
              • I knew it, you're actually the devil. : CapnChaos
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                lol. poor jen. :( i was going to resub, but then I convinced myself to just hold off for the exp! : mwasher
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                  Wrath is going to be out for a long time mwasher, are you sure you want to wait?? You have to run ZA to ... : electroly
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                    *ISN'T going to be out for a long time : electroly
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                      Yes. I'm sure. :) : mwasher
                      • Just think of all the hours you could be pouring into the game just so your character can wear a slightly... : electroly
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  I am always tempted when there is a gaming lull. But then I remember all of the time I wasted playing tha... : hirosushima
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    It might be $15 a month but then you don't spend money on other games because you are playing WoW for 5 h... : stump
    • Yeah you definitely get your money worth in PLAYTIME. Enjoyment? So-so. : GodZilly
• If you do it you both will turn fat and then you'll stop having sex, and then you might as well get marri... : GodZilly
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  Go join the gym together? Think how awesome it would be if you spent 2 hours a day working out together ... : grandmasterlee
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    We already go to the gym. But that lasts an hour or two a day. : stelth
    • Go to the gym in WoW : gmd
  • this ^^^ : packav
• alternative ideas: read a book, help out at a soup kitchen, learn to do wood work, become a french chef,... : rosewood
• I know i was tempted last week i had access to a beta key, but no account to play on. Also the fact that ... : Iwannaacura
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  WoW is such a horrible game at 70 unless you are in a decent guild. : skitzo
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    And even still, you either get stuck in a guild full of casuals that do random things and hardly ever run... : skitzo
    • Back in the summer after the xpac, I had a blast running all the 70 instances especially on heroic, it wa... : rhuntley12
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    what? no its great! you play at 70 for a couple weeks, then you say "fuck it" and start an alt... =[ : yAak
    • i don't know how people can stomach leveling 1-70 all over again. if i had to run around killing zebras ... : electroly
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  start watching TV shows on DVD : jenisthebest
  • I watched all my Seinfeld and all my Family Guy. :\ I even watched the Seinfeld "Master of your domain" ... : stelth
• Do you REALLY want to get involved back in a never ending loot treadmill? Spending months to make a numb... : nukewinter
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  good god - go for a fucking walk. Get off your dead ass and exercise! : dedgecko
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    hehe... read a bit higher for one of my posts. ;) : stelth
    • it's funny how everyone assumes that somebody who plays wow gets no exercise lol. : xxiv
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  What a bunch of homos Christ almighty, it's fine if you don't like WoW but at least respect that it's : action roommate
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    Uhmm.. 70 is the destination if you are a casual player. : skitzo
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      Err the journey to 70 is the journey and 70 is the destination. : skitzo
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        Right. There's absolutely no fun or content to be had/played once you ding 70. My mistake. : action roommate
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          Not for the casual player, the amount of frustration associated with the grouping of random people that c... : skitzo
          • I'm just happy I don't know what either of those acronyms are. : Totenjaeger
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            First of all, unless you've done something really strange, you'll hit 70 well before you've done all the ... : action roommate
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              I believe you meant to finish that with 'Sometimes you get in a good one, most times you don't. : Totenjaeger
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                Actually, I find the opposite to be true. But whatever. : action roommate
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                  Bad pug groups have definitely been the exception for me. Of course, when you do get a bad group, it's o... : electroly
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                    Knowing when to cut your losses and run is crucial for grouping in WoW. A bad group is not going to learn... : Zek
                    • Early on they PM'd me and offered to pay me to stay (I was healing), so I obliged. Honestly after 10 or ... : electroly
            • Well, then I probably have some of the worst luck ever but I never seem to get into a good group. I also... : skitzo
            • i think running heroics is casual. at least, less casual players sure as hell aren't doing it. : dromo5
            • The way you play the game changes a lot at 70... personally, getting to 70 was much more fun than the thi : yAak
          • You just described every goal-oriented multilayer game ever. There are cool people that work together to... : fleabug
          • I get the feeling you haven't played in a while, because they added lots of 'casual' 70 content. Way more... : ZombieAcademy
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            i don't know, i'm pretty much the definition of casual player and i had a good time with wow. I just gro... : Mr.SEX
            • RIP Daorsainn : Ebu
          • I don't think you get it. : action wombmate
          • I've been playing as casual ever since our guild stopped raiding, and am still having fun. I underst... : atom519
          • i'm not in a guild at 55. when i hit 70, i still won't be, but if i'm not bored of it i'll certainly pla... : pointyelbows
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    I played for about 1.5 years and never even got a character to 70. : jenisthebest
    • have to play some more, it is a good workout. : gmd
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      i have a full epiced out shaman in retirement. good riddance i'll never work a second job again. : italiano3d
      • It only felt like a second job because you let it be that way. I am serious. : action wombmate
  • I respect it, but I still think it's a giant waste of time. I had several 70's and we were starting the ... : jingletard
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    It's always bothered me how angry ex-WoW players are about having played WoW. They look back on it and ar... : deveus1
    • IAWTP. I understand if someone didn't like the game, but trying to down-talk the game because of highly ... : action wombmate
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      It's like this with all MMOs. I think the reason is the sense of progression without a definitive end. Th... : Zek
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        I disagree that MMOs have to fall into the latter of your 2 categories. In fact one of the main aspects ... : action wombmate
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          That's because it has goals that are realistic for casual players, but you're still playing in order to l... : Zek
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            Would anyone play WoW if your character started fully leveled and equipped ... (though I would actually l : electroly
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              That's not casual at all though, I was thinking more along the lines of normal games minus the gear depen... : Zek
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                I think so, yeah. People like the social aspect, and believe it or not there are people that play becaus... : action wombmate
                • It's interesting, when I was still playing WoW, I was totally obsessed with the arena, and convinced myse... : Head Rush
      • I disagree that the hate is like this with all MMO's. You can talk to MMO gamers about DAOC or UO or the ... : deveus1
    • it's because you're one of those dudes who tried cocaine back in college and it was fun and all but you n... : mindfk
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      People quit out of frustration, it's only natural that they badmouth the game after they're done. I'd te... : jingletard
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        if I wasn't playing WoW I'd just watch TV or post on the Shack, so am I really wasting that time? i don'... : electroly
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          Yeah, I don't get why people talk about it that way. If you're just going to be sitting at home anyway th... : Zek
          • its a little different. i used to play WoW and i would skip out on hanging with friends and other activi... : handofthrawn
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            See - that's the giant problem with WoW. At some point in time, the player will make a decision about st : jingletard
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              you're telling me you can get dkp by submitting yourself to a GM in a parking lot?!?!?!! : electroly
              • T6 here i come : electroly
  • Completely agree. : OverloadUT
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  Have a kid : Slowtreme
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    He said they was bored, not looking for lifestyle change : WhiteHatVeteran
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      he wont be bored : Slowtreme
      • tru : hoov1185
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  how did people ever stay entertained before WoW. thousands of years with nothing to keep us all going. : NeoMoose
  • public executions : connor
  • beer and politics. : Horn
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    conscription : c0bra
    • and soon to be a profession in the latest expansion! : das_runt
    • hahahah : JINKY
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    It's funny how some people can't live without MMOs these days. It's like they forgot how to live life aft... : Ellissd
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      The same can be said for a lot of things, like the Internet. : Chod
      • Or electricity in general. : jenisthebest
      • I can live fairly comfortably without WoW. You take away my internet and we're going to have to fight. : Zuchu
  • Doom, Quake, CS mostly. : .sticks.
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    duke3d over phone lines : deviantpaul
    • ^^ this straight into Q2TDM. Also, Lithium/Key servers. <3 Tokay's Towers : atom519
• Avoid it as much as possible... take up something else you may enjoy. Read a book and discuss different p... : sjpeters79
• Play the ton of other great games out there. : baronzemo78
• Do it, if you get bored of it again just quit. Screw the haters. WoW is fun people, get over it. : atom519
• What games have you purchased in the last 7 months? : Endymion_
• For some reason I have the urge to play again to..... : jonin
• Avoid any screenshots or info about the WotLK expansion if don't want to get suckered in again... : x4nth3
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  My woman (arcane_) and I were doing the wow thing. We got into lotro instead this time. Althrough it has ... : re-verse
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    Dantastic and I play LOTRO too, it's fun. : jenisthebest
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      2nd'ed My girlfriend and I play LotRO, it's fun. : wykd
      • There are currently 4 couples that play, which is kinda neat. (Melwelen and Debwyn being the other pair,... : trOmblyj
• here's a fun game you can try, it's called "ouch ouch you're on my hair." : ejectorpod
• come and play again and come and play on the server Agmaggan there is alot of couples that play on this s... : Sanct1mon1a
• all of the weak bastards in this thread telling you not to play need to give it up and reinstall hahaha : grendel
• Play hide the cucumber instead! : hirez
• lol "we've been clean for 7 months" wtf is this? : dilutedq
• Tamakeri. : vikramwillrock
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  Plant a garden, learn a martial art, take up playing a musical instrument, learn a foreign language, trav... : Penis Brittle
  • infect Madagascar. Now I know you're crazy. : electroly
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  I'm going to play again when WotLK comes out and take a DK from 55 to 80 and probably get bored again and... : Psigun
  • thats honestly a good way to do it : yAak
• My Fiancee and I play on the Suramar relm. It is something we try to do about once a week or so for a di... : Awun
• fuck more : holinka

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  Turbo buttons : genjuro
  • ^^^ Doom ][ h4x : grayscale
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  Degauss button. : mechanicalgrape
  • ^^ haha i remember those : Iwannaacura
• Fucking with autoexec.bat : tomservo
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  Having to change jumpers on the motherboard to make trivial bios settings change. : OverloadUT
  • Wait we are listing things that made us want to jam a screwdriver in our eyes right? : OverloadUT
• TSRs. Who needs real multitasking? : electroly
• I remember on our Apple IIGS when we'd load certain programs from the floppy drive there's be a distinct ... : action wombmate
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  Really good midi music. And actually needing a joystick for something other than dust collection. : EvilDolemite
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    I remember in the 90s downloading MIDI and WAV files, as well as animated GIF pictures to decorate my awe... : Mmmmmoo
    • siren.gif : tomservo
  • Remember .mod files? : mechanicalgrape
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    Don't make me go back and play monkey island 2 again : cdbeckman
    • even better with an MT-32 omg : speon
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  One of my friends would degauss his huge 19" CRT when we were having lans and had all our monitors cluste... : Prozium
  • I loved doing that at LAN parties. When I'd die, I'd degauss and fuck everyone else's screens up. : rosewood
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  Modem init strings. Handshake sound. BBSs. : yakz
  • DWANGO. Hell, the Commodore 64 and Amiga as a whole. : yakz
  • Man, I had some nightmare scenarios with modem init strings. : ra1n
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    z-modem for life : egg5hen
    • y-modem/g represent : yakz
  • I remember the first time I heard a 28.8 and then a 56k and thing "Well, that is different..." : rosewood
• Gravis Ultrasound : GloriousCow
• Joysticks. God, I miss joysticks. They're so very intensely tactile and immersive. Shit, the only re... : Finestaut
• Shit like this: http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=3849 : eldersveld
• Decent game manuals. : -efx-
• YOU'VE GOT MAIL not really : dahanese
• the only thing i miss is being able to dump the gui and play games from a prompt. : cpt_gloval
• I think I enjoyed figuring out config.sys and autoexec stuff more than playing some of the games. : abrasion
• haha yes! : Jiven
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  Buckle Spring keyboards with the satisfying "KA THUNK" sound that so many people hated. : Drewus
  • no reason to ever give up those keyboards, i have two, one from '87, the other new : lja83
• holding down shift(?) in dos during bootup so it wouldn't load anything extra into ram then figuring out ... : synapse19
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  SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 pkunzip ram drives Dr. Sbaitso + curse words nicotine stainded beige cases ... : speon
  • fucking hell, I remember all of that........ also, Autoexec.bat and Config.sys : Drewus
  • Oh man, some of that stuff, especially the anarchist's cookbook. : DinK
  • I thought I was cool using prompt=$t $p$g : rosewood
• Quemm 386 and the boot disk. : Xin Jing Client 1a
• Config.sys and autoexec.bat. Except I don't really miss it that much. : crummynz
• nothing. It's so incredible being a PC enthusiast now. The competition, vitality and constant progress ... : sroylance
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  I kinda miss the modem sound. : moe6
  • My brother was connecting via modem once and turned on a Andrew WK song a few seconds later. I heard the... : helvetica
• Prodigy! UAMJ75C was my username. Good times were spent on bulletin boards. : helvetica
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  Having time to eat toast in-between screen changes in Journeyman Project. : spazzium
  • man, that game (? if it even qualified as a game) was boring. lol : Rigor Morts
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    First CD game I ever played. I'm pretty sure it came bundled with our very first cd drive : Drewus
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      Also the game sucked ass, but i fooled myself into thinking it was awesome just because it was on a cd : Drewus
      • Whatever. I'd kill for the music in that game. : spazzium
• simplicity : jayares
• Never officially "turning on" my crappy soundlbaster 16 labtech speakers... if you powered them on they w... : chilln
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  Thinking back, one of the coolest peripherals added to the comp : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest... : bombay
  • i think you mean meg : lja83

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  you need to play enemy territory quake wars : flagg209
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    I have. That sort of gameplay I suppose qualifies but for me there's something missing. Pretty much every... : OverloadUT
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      makes sense, ETQW shines when you have both teams with skilled players using voice chat. It is quite awe... : flagg209
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        Yeah, thinking more about it, I think it would definitely qualify if I were to play in a server where bot... : OverloadUT
        • A good game of ETQW is pretty awesome. The battle to reach the final objective on some of the maps can g... : Arcanum
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  I'd say Marvel Ultimate Alliance counts. Sure you can play it alone but you still need three more AI to h... : Jonathan
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    The big difference with that is that it's just like Diablo. Everyone is just randomly attacking guys. The... : OverloadUT
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      There's a reasonable amount of cooperation or tactics available if you have multiple players. Combo Power... : Jonathan
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        But it's not required to complete the challenges, which is what makes it fun for me. Cooperate or lose; t... : OverloadUT
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          Cooperate or lose is pretty much limited to either overwhelming numbers of opposing AI or Human opponents... : Jonathan
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            Overwhelming numbers is not necessary. All of the examples in my OP are games where there are an even num... : OverloadUT
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              if (overwhelming numbers of opposing AI) or (Human opponents) then Coop Requied. Also you still need to c... : Jonathan
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                I definitely will! I've heard that it's good in the past but I've never checked it out. : OverloadUT
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                  If I was doing the Star Trek Online game I'd point to Puzzle Pirates as the example of how to run a co-op... : Jonathan
                  • I'd point to Air Buccaneers ;) : OverloadUT
      • Especially with Boss fights. Normally a Boss fight is four lives versus the Boss but with multiple player... : Jonathan
• Oh, from the looks of it, Left 4 Dead will be the fourth one on my list, which is why I am looking forwar... : OverloadUT
• Some Sven Co-op maps. : crummynz
• Air Buccaneers sounds really cool. Wasn't Allegiance also like this? : ieGod
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  I'm not sure mandatory co-op as you describe would make for enough of a sound business proposition that y... : Attica Blue
  • Yeah, I definitely understand why there aren't that many of them. It's easy to pull off in an MMO because... : OverloadUT
• Ultimate co-op challenge: Play Super Mario Bros with one guy on movement and the other on running/jumping... : Zek
• Sonic 2? where 2nd player could use controller to play as Tails even though game was (1) player mode. : Iwannaacura
• -Warcraft 3 multiplayer (if you like RTS games) -Another aspect of WoW would be arena games. That's pre... : jlavrenz
• Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. : DasCracky
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  You could check out Schizoid on XBLA, haven't played it but apparently it's like a required co-op Geometr... : Zek
  • Is that the one that's like Ikaruga but each player is a different color and can't switch? I thought that... : OverloadUT
• my best gaming memories are still 5v5 CS matches, both in CAL and LAN. : maulla
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  splinter cell pandora/ct/whatever is one of the best multiplayer experiences in the history of gaming, bu... : Luminair
  • I completely agree. Now that my friends and I all have computers that can run it well (when it came out, ... : OverloadUT
• Alien Swarm for UT2004 http://www.blackcatgames.com/alienswarm.html Wow - two chances to plug it in o... : Hakujin
• The Lego series are great. Offers nice jump in/out coop play : headbone
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  I actually made a game like this for a 2D game programming class I took in college. My team and I made a... : Begawkiness
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    Is the name of your game... The Lost Vikings? ;) : OverloadUT
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      Haha no, but a little ways into development one of our friends showed that game to us. We hadn't seen it... : Begawkiness
      • Haha awesome. Yeah, your description reminded me of The Lost Vikings because it also had a guy who cou... : OverloadUT
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  cookie & cream! http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/adventuresofcookiecream/review.html : donkey99
  • sounds like a bad porno movie lol. : barichnikov

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• that is awesome :) i am too stupid to play this game myself but i love messing with other people's desig... : electroly
• Also made a walker http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105036 That's actually put to some good use... : Nali4Freedom
• haha holy shit all mine look so retardedly simple and worked by complete luck compared to that : synapse19
• I have looked at a lot of people's solutions for different puzzles and that is the most awesome one I hav... : OverloadUT
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  I'll probably use a variation on my mighty SKY HAMMER to do level 20: http://FantasticContraption.com/?d... : Kentor
  • hahaha awesome : mwasher
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  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=115586 : timmie
  • Cool, I think everyone else made a vehicle to ram the wall : crunkfunk
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    Oh my sweet fancy moses, this is awesome: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=75079 : timmie
    • The best are when they make a theme or a story out of it. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=... : hawke
    • Roar!! So awesome! : nevicata
  • that was beautiful : slickdoody
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  For some reason I can't see these :( I'm still stuck on that big ball one. I'll see if I can figure i... : Rag and Bone Man
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    That one only took me a few seconds: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=116614 : Zero|DPX
    • I also like the catapult approach for that one. : DinK
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  I did all of the 1st 16 levels with the same "Tank" concept. "Lotsa wheels on the ground" basically. ... : hawke
  • Hahaha, same here. : crummynz
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    yeah, same. as soon as the "tank" concept stopped working, i was fucked. i can't get 15 :( : electroly
    • woot i got it finally http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=116778 : electroly
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  haha this one took forever for me, it actually works!.. eventually! http://FantasticContraption.com/?d... : synapse19
  • (yes it's almost painful to watch) : synapse19
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  holy shit http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2872 : synapse19
  • jesus christ on a rocking chair, thats awesome. : Klebold
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  http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=15282 : synapse19
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    WHAT IN THE HECK : Zero|DPX
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      I like the ones that exploit the physics blowing up. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=90596 ... : hawke
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        that helicopter one is major hax. how do people figure this stuff out : electroly
        • Yeah, these are nuts. What makes the physics blow up? Do you need certain opposing forces or do you scre... : DinK
      • haha, they both made me laugh. : crummynz
  • haha holy shit i didn't know they could explode and break apart like that : electroly
  • That was too funny. : zanzares
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  Very awesome solution. Plz for people to be posting either really elegant or ridiculously (unnecessarily... : DinK
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    This one for lev 20 is cool: http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=116614 : Zero|DPX
    • I saw that one further up but it ain't level 20. This web page doesn't copy/paste right does it? : DinK
• Hey guys which way does the watery rod icon rotate, clockwise or counter-clockwise? LOLZ : Home Nugget
• great game but since im so unimaginative everything i makes looks like a cantilever bridge: http://suspe... : Klebold
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  Stage 13, unsettling http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=116817 : indosauros
  • That one is rad. : midgetherder
  • that one was erotic : Utopia
  • hahah, I love how it goes on to assault the two spheres after it wins. : terath
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  After watching some of these I feel immensely stupid. There are some brilliant designs out there. : Rag and Bone Man
  • Seriously, how the fuck do they do this? : Utopia
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  My Unpossible catapult: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105520 : yakz
  • shit... i've been working on a catapult for that level for like 3 hours. lol. nice. : Ormsbee
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  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=116960 my weird circular sling shot : Sanityjr
  • I love that level, it's fun to make crazy spinny stuff or catapults. Here's one I did, then overdid: ... : DinK
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  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=117409 simplest solution i can come up with for #19 : electroly
  • Mine is not as simple http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=117228 : Toxy
  • wow, extremely clever. : AMikaboshi
• I feel stupid, because I can't get tube. I've been trying for the past 2 hours and its just... WTF! : getfrisky

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• this guy : industro
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  Last year was kind of a snooze, I liked it better when it had more space back in '05. : arsonide
  • last year looked like it was one of the best, shacker wise. With filthysock being there and mad parties g... : moshman
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    whaaaaaaaat? you clearly werent hanging out with shackers in 07! : hirez
    • I was unemployeed back in 2003 and 2004... that was probably my best chance of going to QuakeCon... what ... : Maddog_Delphi97
    • Exactly, how can 07 be called a snooze? : -efx-
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17524575#itemanchor_17524575 : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Awesome, can't believe I didn't see that. Ta! : johnsto
    • The bad news is... I can't come to QuakeCon... my work schedule just won't let it happen. :[ : Maddog_Delphi97
• :( Next year. : hirosushima
• Me. : guido anchovy
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  I have interviews scheduled all week for jobs that I really need. I will try to show up dressed for su... : fleabug
  • Going for management? : RomSteady
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  Was going to, but won't now. : EvilDolemite
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    you gonna have a get together in lieu of quakecon? :D : mwasher
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      Maybe as long as the DFW QuakeCon attendees don't fling shit at us for it. I might want to do somethin... : EvilDolemite
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        I think we should all go out to dinner on Friday.. not casino. something new.. like Lamberts, Home Slice,... : wtf242
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          Lambert's fucking rules. I'd go there. Then hit some bars. : EvilDolemite
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            Let's do that then. I have not been for dinner yet and want to check it out : wtf242
            • Sounds good to me. Can even drag ]pm[chem out. : mwasher
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          Fools : Audhuml4
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            There's just no realistic way for me to go with my wife out of town. I'm bummed but then again, I live h... : EvilDolemite
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              you can't go when your wife is there, you can't go when your wife isn't there : RikiTiki2
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                Oh I could and would have gone if she was here. It's our agreement. It's that she's not here that makes... : EvilDolemite
                • she planned it that way! : mwasher
            • That's ok. You look too much like Steve anyways. It would be confusing and I'm pretty sure if you shook... : mrwolf710
      • Shit flinging commencing in 3...2.... : mrwolf710
• Couldn't get work to pay for the trip this year. : RyDogg1
• I'll be there, already on the way (Colorado atm). : famine101
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  i am going because dognose is : mr.sleepy
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    he is precisely why i'm staying well clear. you can't have that much awesome in one room! it would be lik... : Dave-A
    • having sleepy there kinda balances it.. : mwasher
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  I'll be there fool, even if its just me. I'll be playing TF2, yelling at people about how whatever class ... : socksta
  • You're going down. : omnova
• I'm there and I hope there will be more actual game playing this year since we have TF2 and Quake Live to... : mrwolf710