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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2003, 03:43:36 am

Title: Of interest to geeks...
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2003, 03:43:36 am: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

On the other hand, I feel really ****ing filthy now that I've been told it's technically an RPG. Like I'm that much closer to those cosplay-addicted anime freaks now. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the shower for the next six hours, screaming and scrubbing furiosly at myself...
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 13, 2003, 03:54:41 am: Seems you're not the only one. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,16108.0.html) ;)
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Post by: Turnsky on July 13, 2003, 04:02:45 am: *hands stryke a scouring pad*
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Post by: neo_hermes on July 13, 2003, 08:23:16 am: looks like an interesting game
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Post by: Hippo on July 13, 2003, 08:33:36 am: RPG! Run!
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Post by: Grey Wolf on July 13, 2003, 06:03:41 pm: Mac. That means incompatible with my AMD 1800+. That means I'm not getting it.
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Post by: Nico on July 13, 2003, 06:11:12 pm: first line on the page:
EV: Nova for Windows is out!

I suppse that means PC :p
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Post by: Grey Wolf on July 13, 2003, 06:13:28 pm: Silly me, I was reading the sidebar :p
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2003, 06:21:45 pm: You think I run Macs, boy? You callin' me a Mac lover?

Oh, it's on, now...
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Post by: mikhael on July 16, 2003, 09:46:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
You think I run Macs, boy? You callin' me a Mac lover?

Oh, it's on, now...

Yes. you're a pansy little iBook toting, iMac loving, one button mouse obsessed freak.

And your mother dresses you funny.
Title: Re: Of interest to geeks...
Post by: ZylonBane on July 16, 2003, 11:03:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
On the other hand, I feel really ****ing filthy now that I've been told it's technically an RPG.
Deus Ex is "technically" an RPG too. :wtf:

Did you take an extra dose of your Rebel Without a Clue pills today?
Title: Re: Re: Of interest to geeks...
Post by: 01010 on July 16, 2003, 12:42:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Deus Ex is "technically" an RPG too. :wtf:

Did you take an extra dose of your Rebel Without a Clue pills today?

Someone's been taking their "make me a pedant" pills however.
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Post by: ZylonBane on July 16, 2003, 05:21:03 pm: Please point out where I resorted to pedantry.

PS-- Reading your sig killed several thousand of my brain cells. They shall be missed.
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Post by: an0n on July 16, 2003, 05:24:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
PS-- Reading your sig killed several thousand of my brain cells. They shall be missed.

Deeply.

But anyway, I agree. His sig sucks more balls than his mom did on that night back in '92. Damn, she was drunk.

*waits to be banned again*
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 16, 2003, 05:43:05 pm: I wuv you guys!
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 16, 2003, 07:59:32 pm: Technically, I don't care. Deus Ex was a shooter that paid lip service to the RPG formula. However, the plotline was almost completely linear, and there wasn't much that would mark an RPG except character development and a coherent plot- the two things nearly all shooters sorely lack. Taking a truck and painting it red does not turn it into an apple. However, the point might be lost upon certain unobservant people who tend not to think things through much at all. Or those who really want to pick a fight on some idiotic "point" so that they can in some small way compensate for the fact that they got stuffed into a locker the other day by one of those big bullies in the ninth grade. You know, the guys who you stole that oh-so-clever "extra dose of (insult) pills" crack from.

Also, do you have any idea how pathetic it is to try to start a technicality fight over a joke?

EVN, on the other hand, has the stilted narrative ("you are angered by"), the relative lack of linearity, and stupid nearly endless "leveling" (in the form of ships) that are found in all mediocre RPGs, and pretty much nowhere else. Also, unlike in EVO, piracy is rare and you're basically stuck ferrying stuff from point A to point B, sometimes after having been informed of such courier work at point C. And, occasionally, getting shot at in an inexplicably unexciting manner. Still vaguely addictive despite relatively poor campaign setup (another signature characteristic, at least for me), but... Well, if anyone wants to DL it, I recommend getting one of the TCs to go with.
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Post by: 01010 on July 17, 2003, 01:28:56 am: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane

PS-- Reading your sig killed several thousand of my brain cells. They shall be missed.

By all means feel free to continue reading then.

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But anyway, I agree. His sig sucks more balls than his mom did on that night back in '92. Damn, she was drunk.

'92, so you were what, all of five years old? I wouldn't believe it anyway because I'd say if anything that my mom has bigger balls than you anyway.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 17, 2003, 02:17:49 am: "Oh yeah? Well my mother has testicles!"

Way to parry there, dude.
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Post by: an0n on July 17, 2003, 05:41:43 am: [random-and-pointless]
My little sister was 5 in '92.
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Post by: 01010 on July 17, 2003, 12:16:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
"Oh yeah? Well my mother has testicles!"

Way to parry there, dude.

Throws them off :)