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| Juke Joint Jezebel 1630th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):What have you learnt from video games?"
, posted Fri 28 Feb 15:07
interesting thread!
from fighting games:
- the "weakest" character can topple champions. don't underestimate anyone
from first person shooters:
- shoot into the shadows and sometimes prizes (blood, body parts, gibs, etc) come out!
- don't rocket jump when you've got the "enhanced damage" power-up
from infantry:
- no matter what you do, people will bitch. if you kill someone, you're a "lagger." if you run, you're a "pussy." screw what everyone else thinks and just do what you want to do
from rpgs:
- not every battle can be won by yourself
from WarCraft/StarCraft:
- timing and knowledge is everything. a small delay or the lack of the tiniest detail can cost you the game. know everything, don't make mistakes, and never stop working. sure, it's impossible, but at least try :D
that's about it, but i'm sure there's more. i'll type 'em up as they come to me
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| Hungrywolf 1866th Post
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|  "Re(4):What have you learnt from video games?"
, posted Fri 28 Feb 15:09
quote:
interesting thread!
from fighting games:
- the "weakest" character can topple champions. don't underestimate anyone
from first person shooters:
- shoot into the shadows and sometimes prizes (blood, body parts, gibs, etc) come out!
- don't rocket jump when you've got the "enhanced damage" power-up
from infantry:
- no matter what you do, people will bitch. if you kill someone, you're a "lagger." if you run, you're a "pussy." screw what everyone else thinks and just do what you want to do
from rpgs:
- not every battle can be won by yourself
from WarCraft/StarCraft:
- timing and knowledge is everything. a small delay or the lack of the tiniest detail can cost you the game. know everything, don't make mistakes, and never stop working. sure, it's impossible, but at least try :D
that's about it, but i'm sure there's more. i'll type 'em up as they come to me
Today when playing Master Quest I learned to appreciate the Biggoron Hammer as a full-time weapon.
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| Time Mage 1270th Post
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| "Re(1):What have you learnt from video games?" , posted Fri 28 Feb 17:11
- I've learned that when you get beaten really bad, with slashes through your body, with bolts and fireballs thrown at you, and even if meteors have fallen into you head, you only have to go to the next inn and spend a night there. You were nearly dead the night before, but you're great right now!
- I have also learned that if you can carry a limited amount of things, it doesn't matter if they are 8 keys or 8 two-metres-long swords, because you're carrying the same number!
- From Street Fighter I've learned that, somewhere in the world there's a guy with my body, a different head and nearly the same abilities as me. Surprisingly enough, that guy is my rival and friend.
- If you have a bazooka, and you need to enter a wooden door, go find the key!
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| Grave
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| "Re(1):What have you learnt from video games?" , posted Fri 28 Feb 20:37
Well.. even if you get a whole sword, handle and all, pulled through your chest, puppets can still wreck you if you're not careful.
Ninjas don't necessarily sneak around stealthily, but they can run on walls and when they kill a lot of things in rapid succession, they all fall apart at the same time, and it looks pretty damn cool.
Driving is much cooler if you use the e-brake on every turn.
Don't put too much useless information out there on the internet, or the information will form an entity that looks strangely like Colonel Campbell, or... aw, shit. Did ANYONE understand what MGS2 was supposed to be about?
I think the most profound and important thing a video game ever taught me, however, was "touch fuzzy, get dizzy."
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| Saint Rygar
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| "Re(1):What have you learnt from video games?" , posted Fri 28 Feb 23:35
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Saw this in another forum. Thought it might interesting to discuss this....
Depending on whether you want it in a more serious tone, or just make up some fun lines.
"I've learnt a lot about mythological and fantasy creatures."
"I've learnt that humans only appreciate people for what they have done after they are dead. That's the terms for Legends and Heroes."
"I've learnt to use my brains more trying to think of the possible combos humanly possible."
"I've learnt how to keep myself busy."
"I've learnt that you can carry a whole assorment of weapons and run like an olympic sprinter. And you can hide really large weapons(ie: rocket launchers) in your pockets and no one will notice."
"I've learnt that mushrooms make you stronger."
"I've learnt to put all my unused items in a stash box so i have inventory space to pick up useful items"
"I've learnt that you can kill your prostitutes after sex to get your money back."
What have you learnt?
funny and educational post 
I have learned some nice things like:
1.- Basic English and the interest to learn more just for the sake of understand the story of a game (later learn some japanese for the imports).
2.- Saving my money to use it in important things (buy more games) 
3.- Never give up even if it's a hard task. (brings back memories: ghost and goblins, 1943, battletoads, etc.)
4.- You always can beg for money with the pretext you lost the money for the bus from the school to your house and obtaining some extra games with it(dedicated to a friend who was sick enough to do that on the street. 
5.- Love the story of the games and the diversity of themes in them (Fantasy, Horror, Fighting, Skill, Thinking, etc).
6.- It's always nice to finish something and feel you did the required job with the best of your abilities, sometimes with a crowd giving you his support.
7.- You can always get up early and go with all your friends to wake up the owner of your local arcade just because you want to play. (note: the owner being a 60 years old lady who wants to sleep a little more on sunday)
8.- You can always go out of the disco if you are bored and go to play Samurai Showdown 2 and Xmen vs Street Fighter at 2 am. Then you buy some Caguamas (Beers) and drink them with the owner of the arcade.
9.- You can past a week without sleeping and just breaks to eat and go to the bath.
10.- Many many more on my head but that's enough for today. 
There's no one without scars on his heart even if it exist it's just a shadow soul...
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| Nate
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| "Re(5):What have you learnt from video games?" , posted Sat 1 Mar 14:14
I've learned that English-speaking people who fight in tournaments cannot actually properly speak English. And that people from non-Japanese countries often speak Japanese anyway. Must be geniuses.
I've learned that worldwide fighting tournaments often only get very few participants. Sometimes as few as 8.
I've learned that guards of castles and such can only do a few things. Specifically, they can die, tell you the same thing over and over, or scream "ENEMIES!" and then die.
I've learned that multiple characters can use flames, all of the same color, but only one can have "special" flames that can defeat a boss.
I've learned that if a character has spiky or otherwise sort of trendy-looking hair and blue eyes as well as a sword of some form, it is quite likely he is the main character.
Following the previous statement, if a character has silver hair and kind of creepy eyes as well as a different kind of sword, it is quite likely he is the villain.
I've learned that Ice and Water are TOTALLY different things. And Water apoparently does not have the same effect on Fire-based monsters as Ice would.
And lastly, I've learned that no matter what you're wearing armor-wise, you will almost always look exactly the same. It must be invisible.
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| DKW
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| "Part 1: As a player" , posted Sun 2 Mar 12:01
If a game appears on national news, it'll be a screaming, howling report about things not one person who actually plays the game gives a rat's butt about. Corollary: Unless it's a Bemani game, in which case the report will be about stupid junk everyone stopped giving a rat's butt about a year ago.
What video game ratings really mean:
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES: Too lazy to look for anything objectionable.
ANIMATED VIOLENCE MILD: Some Looney Toons-style violence and stuff.
ANIMATED VIOLENCE STRONG: Stronger than Looney Toons-style violence, and there usually is some blood, maybe.
LANGUAGE MILD: A few uses of the Z word. Possibly the Q word as well.
E: Nothing that'll get this game a screaming, howling report on national news.
T: Suitable for everyone who actually uses this damn system.
M: Contains stuff that'll (ha ha) prevent (ha ha) some stores from (ha ha ha) selling this game to minors (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha).
For any game that awards cash prizes, expect to spend at least as much time and effort winning this money as it takes to obtain the same amount from your regular job.
If the requirement for continuing is beating all the opposing cars, this means that either 1) exactly ONE of your opponents is an invincible monster that makes Tony Stewart look like a go-kart racer (Super Off-Road, California Speed), or 2) every damn race is so full of crashes and spins and wrecks and endless crazy crap that your finish position is the roll of a 10-sided die (Cruisin' series).
There are four types of fighting game bosses, the nearly unbeatable killing machines, the completely unbeatable killing machines, the pathetic, useless pushovers, and the "cheap" bosses that eventually turn out to be pathetic, useless pushovers.
"Forgettable", "meaningless", or "throwaway" games are about a billion times more fun than "absolute must-have" games.
"Boring" or "meaningless" fighting game storylines are every bit as compelling as the endless Mishima family squabbles or the wacky misadventures of the cartel with the funny name.
I wrote a review of WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth for GameFAQs where I was highly critical of never being able to know how hurt anyone was, never being able to pull of consistent reversals, and being on the bad end of obviously fixed matches, for which I got blasted. I don't know what's more disturbing, that there are a lot of players blindly loyal to a game that's gotten no megahype campaign that I'm aware of, or that they have no problem at all with never knowing how hurt anyone is, never being able to pull off consistent reversals, or being on the bad end of obviously fixed matches.
Wrestling games that depend on "mindless button mashing" are always far, far more enjoyable than those that use a horribly overcomplicated engine that I can never get used to and where I can do absolutely friggin' nothing but get my butt kicked.
Anything "intelligent", "revolutionary", "unorthodox" etc. etc. is a monumentally stupid idea that should be immediately scrapped (e.g. groove point scoring, no health/stamina bars in a wrestling game, tires that slide all over the road even worse).
A manufactured, forced happy ending is infinitely preferable to a manufactured, forced sad ending.
When a home system is not available anywhere, at all, for any price, it's a hot buy that everyone on the planet absolutely must have. The instant the system is widely available, it's hopelessly obsolete and out of date and underpowered. (As soon as some of its games become easily affordable, it's DEAD, baby.)
If the Beatmania IIDX characters represented the people who play it, Siren would be an obnoxious blowhard who responed to each and every question about the game with the vilest insult imaginable, Shi-low would be a stupid brat who repeated the same hyperlame insult over and over, Celica would fume and seethe and periodically scream something about going back to DDR, QJack would grumble about this or that genre being over/underrepresented, using the word "suck" a lot, Ereki would be a boiling cauldron of rage ready to rip the head off of anyone who showed the tiniest fondness for any other Bemani series (and lord help you if you mention the IIDX songs in DDR), Mika would blow smoke about the "superiority" of IIDX to everyone within shouting distance, and Tart & Toffee would be utterly obsessed with clearing the hardest hardest of the hard songs and have utter contempt for anyone who didn't do the same. (Exactly one person...maybe the Electro Tuned guy...would play it for the great music and acutally have some fun.)
Challenge = Way, way, way, way too hard
Game crammed to the gills with challenge = Crap
Player who loves challenge = Masochist
Player who thinks today's games are too easy = Player who needs therapy
As long there is one character that's an iota better than another character on the planet in any way, the fighting gamers will not be satisfied.
The panties are not coming off. Ever.
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