Your first posts.

[Larenxis]

I had completely forgotten what my first post was. It makes sense that something about movies would get me in, but this post lacks zazz. Or possibly razzmatazz. But I followed this up with brief reviews of the films I had seen recently, and those had a little more charm to them.

Rear Window has my vote.

I'm surprised North by Northwest has so many votes. I only saw it once, but I found the storyline chaotic and I didn't care about the characters. What made it a classic?

Fun Fact: My spellcheck approves of the word razzmatazz.

 

[Evilbunny]

My first post was when somebody asked for theories as to why his cat kept licking his xbox 360. I replied,

Your cat is hungry. Feed it.

I don't know why I felt the need to make an account just to say that, but it made sense to me.

 

[Geoffrey42]

Fun Fact: My spellcheck approves of the word razzmatazz.

Funner Fact: My spellcheck disapproves of the word "spellcheck", but approves of "funner" and "razzmatazz".

On a side note, forget approval... I enthusiastically support the word "razzmatazz"!

 

[Magnetic2]

my first post was about using mediation as a way to disperse anxiety.

 

[John Galt]

Spoiler: The start of it all

Anyway, good review. Cerebral, but pleasingly unpretentious. Unlike that sentence. Go figure.

Anytime "cerebral" is used in a sentence, it loses it's 'Unpretentious' status. Certain words just feel that way. Heck, 'Unpretentious' actually sounds a bit like that.

Anyway, the review was very well written, good grammar, and didn't bludgeon you over the face with inaccuracies like certain other self-proclaimed "reviewers" on this site. Very well done for a first time review. As for better voice acting, I think the best voice for the FC mercs would have been Till Lindemann of Rammstein.

Hmm...seems good enough, the grammar and spelling is decent. Doesn't look like much has changed. Yep, I'm proud to not kick this post out into the rain like some homeless child.

 

[ShyWinter]

My first was on games I regret selling.

I regret selling "Freedom Fighters"

I'd get the urge to play it, then remember it's not there. I mean, the game is basically "Hitman" plus "Full Spectrum Warrior". I sold it to get the godfather game; worth it I suppose.

Nothing very groundbreaking. But this is the first website I actually bothered to join for the forums.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Hrm... I think my first post was bitching about Oblivion... let's see...

Yup. "Morrowind as life affirmation" thread.

I fell into Morrowind a few years back after my friend picked it up on the XBox. I (wisely, it was later determined) picked it up on the PC and thus was able to experience the joys of mods, fast load times, no crashes, and a generally better play experience. My friend came over and played on my PC for a time, and together we reached the conclusion that Morrowind really was a game intended for the PC. It was beautiful, easy to lose yourself in, and fully followed the mantra of "Be whatever you want, do whatever you want. This is not a game to play, it is a world to live in."

Oblivion was exactly the opposite. It felt like a game designed for the 360 and then ported to the PC.

The skills were paired down more than I liked. The quests were incredibly linear and had waypoints each step of the way. Every dungeon was created by a computer, not hand drawn, so they were all collections of the same ten dungeon "pieces" (see: CoX instances). Enemies and loot were entirely based on level. Every piece of loot laying out in the open was garbage. The game was finishable (and, in fact, easier) at level 1 and with fast travel only took about 3 hours if you were trying. When you were outside, you were either in the woods or it was snowing. When you were inside, you were in an aleyid (sp?) ruin, a fort, an aleyid ruin, an aleyid ruin, or a cave. What this means, for those keeping track, is that every time you passed a place to explore you knew what would be inside, exactly, because you knew all the indoor layouts and the enemies and loot were based on your level. Several NPCs could not be killed, several items could not be dropped, and the whole thing generally felt much more "on rails" than an Elder Scrolls game really had any right to. Finally, the whole UI was obviously designed for players who sat ten feet away from the screen.

To say that I was discouraged by Oblivion would be an understatement, however, I will admit that they did combat *right* in that game, which was a welcome change from Morrowind's route of "combat should hurt the gamer".

Also, first post.

- J

Gotta love that Oblivion.

- J

 

[fat american]

I have to say that if you just want mindless run and gun and you don't want to have to worry about "well what's my health?" Then regen is nice, but if you want to have to be a little more tactical because there aren't any health packs near by, then health packs are good. I don't necessarily prefer one or the other but one thing that really irks the hell out of me about healt packs is it can get hard to notice when you're about to die. In Half-Life the nice lady in the suit talks to you but sometimes that can get drowned out by gun fire. Where as in regen the only way you can tell you're about to die is extremely apparent(it's kind of hard to miss blood red screens and a heart thump). So my standing is whichever halth system fits the game and what pace of the game you want it to be.

All of my posts used to be pretty long winded but then I think I got it out of my system. My grammar has definitely gotten better though I do sometimes incorrectly spell words. But I'm not ashamed of this it is fairly smart and I don't sound like a complete idiot so that's good.

Edit:I also remeber having a hard time getting the words to come out for some reason. I re-typed it twice and I still tripped over my words. It was the post about whether or not you like regen health in a game.

 

[Jumplion]

Oh this will be fun:

I liked this game, but the open worldness was too open from the start to me.

I need to be confined in my room with the lights dimmed down, thankyou.

great as always.

Oh, how i hate memories.

 

[Easykill]

Why does everyone see the need to repeat what ten million people said before them? WE GET IT ALREADY! These are awesome though and Croshaw is the the man, I just wish theyd put that original fable video up... that was the funniest ever. (yes, i only registered to comment on this video- they better be paying him big money)

I read through ten pages of my early posts, and I'm pretty sure I've improved. At least, I hope I improved.

 

[stompy]

For example, I once made a thread about Aussie Rules Football and then went to sleep. I woke up the next day and found a 5 page discussion about gridiron (American Football) and all the aussies yelling about how this thread was once about Aussie Rules football.

Call it soccer, that's like holy water to us. The very mention of it burns...

Just before I type up my response, I'd like to clear this one thing up. AFL is a code of football, the type with the oval shape ball that Americans seem to love calling 'pigskins'.

To the OP: No, I don't HATE the US, it's just the culture is so dominant, and that American's have no regard for foreign cultures when they visit. I know people will contest this, but this is the opinion I have been presented, and I'd open for reasonable discussion.

This was in response to a thread titled "Why do you hate the US" after being a long-timer lurker... strangely, my typing's the same as my first time.

 

[Unmannedperson]

This is my first post...

 

[meatloaf231]

Please consider the following:

Gordon Freeman has toppled an incredibly advanced alien hierarchy on ITS OWN WORLD.
When this did not resolve everything, he was brought back to topple an entire government.

Governments/Oppressive alien factions: 0
Gordon freeman: 2

I signed up to let everyone know my opinions of whether or not Gordon Freeman was, in fact, a nancy boy.

He isn't.

 

[SargentToughie]

I recall my first post being on a thread asking what video game characters we would want to kill, by the time I finally posted I had a list of ten, it was rather amusing to me.

ooh, where to begin... lets start with the most obvious ones

1. Duke nukem, because his new game is never going to come out and I'm tired of hearing about it!
2. I'm not even going to start on Mario, everyone else that has an account here has him covered
3. Dias Flac from star ocean 2, because he is portrayed as this godlike warrior throughout the entire first disk and when he finally joins your team (if he joins your team) he's so freaking weak that your better off with freaking furry lover Noel!
4. Mayor from A.W. days of ruin, because for a nameless sub character he sure suffers from a horrible case of Doushe...itis?
5. Every list has to have a five
6. The lawn gnome from half live 2 ep.2 (I named him Rodger). That little rocket man caused me so much pain and suffering on the road to those 30 gamerpoints that I really was wanting to put a bullet in his head by the end of it. (the car parts were the worst).
7. Anyone that has evered appeared in a final fantasy game... 'nuff said
8. Kate from GTA 4, yeah I said it. I could'nt stand her
9. Team _____ grunt from pokemon, They're everywhere!
10. Dracula from castlevania (pick one... any one) because he NEVER EVER DIES!

Yay for lists

 

[werepossum]

Yes, it IS embarrassing. Thank you very much for bringing it to my attention. I can't believe I signed up to do a fart joke. I don't even like fart jokes.

Dang. I wanted to suggest First Assault Recon Team. Or perhaps First Recon Encounter Detachment. (Hey, here comes F.R.E.D.)

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Obviously, this is just opinion, but I truly dislike the Half-Life series, specifically the games Half-Life 2 and beyond.

My dislike of Half-Life 2 is an odd thing. Valve made a great engine, made believable and mostly likeable characters, a rich and beautiful world and set up an exciting back story. But I found HL2 to be one of the most sterile and least engaging games I have ever played. I wanted to like it, but I just didn't. Obviously this is just my opinion, and the franchise has enough fans to ensure it's survival well into the future.

I'd love to see KotOR and Neverwinter Nights sequels, but I want them done properly, which is a nice way of saying I don't want Obsidian anywhere near them. Similarly, I want Fallout 3 to be good. I am a keenly aware if the issues that Oblivion had, and I hope that Bethesda are too.

With the Nintendo franchises, while I enjoy the games, it wouldn't hurt to try some new ideas.

Here's my first post. I don't think I did too badly, luckily.

I've since changed my mind about Half Life 2.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Pokemon Diamond/Pearl lived up to the hype. I had decided after playing GSC that I was going to lay down my Pokegear and let the series go on without me. The hype of DP hit me hard, though, and I succumbed because I needed something to do with my DS. 300 hours logged in that game, and I don't regret a single Poketastic one of them.

He he.

 

[PurpleRain]

I was wondering what sort of post I first made to start it all off. Was it a speech of some sort? Did I remark that it was my first time and how I want to warm up to this place? Was it an agressive attack on a game of some sort or perhaps a personal detail of my life? All these things were listed through my head as I went to find this blast from the past.

And this is what I got:

I'm a Half Life whore... so my votes with Episode 2. I just love the Half Life story so much.

Yeah, not much has changed I guess.

 

[fat american]

to seargant toughie

Spoiler: I guess this made you happy then

Kate got killed by the guido douche bag if you chose the revenge path

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Hmm. This is a little bit embarassing but after seeing the new Prince Of Persia video, I've done a complete U-Turn on my first post which was in a thread where loads of people thought that GTA should have been killed off before GTA4 was even released:

Everyone really wants to kill GTA before 4 comes out? The one game that really looks like that it's gonna deliver on what the series could be? Are you all crazy? If gta4 sucks then the series should die, but until then I'm waiting with my fingers crossed to see if Rockstar can actually make a proper living breathing city work.

And this is one that might get a bit of controversy... Prince of persia should end now. Don't get me wrong, I love all of the prince games, especially warrior within. Despite the needless swearing and rubbish music, it was a fantastic game that mixed the best of the first game with better combat and fantastic run-away-from-the-big-nasty-thing sequences. But the series was a trilogy, and now they've announce three new games to the series and a damn movie.

I'd prefer to think of the series as a classic trilogy that will stand as three of the best action-adventure games ever made but it runs the danger of becoming yet another money spinning franchise... And it means no assassins creed 2 for a while. If ever. Which SUCKS.

Yup.. I stand by everything apart from the Prince Of Persia thing.