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« Reply #990 on: 01 July 2018, 23:07:02 »
D&D: Shadows Over Mystara was the only arcade machine in the Specialists' Mess on the base I was stationed at worth a damn, especially since there were severe restrictions on portable electronics at the time I was on the force.

I fed way more cash into the damn thing than I'd care to admit.

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« Reply #991 on: 01 July 2018, 23:14:15 »
D&D: Shadows Over Mystara was the only arcade machine in the Specialists' Mess on the base I was stationed at worth a damn, especially since there were severe restrictions on portable electronics at the time I was on the force.

I fed way more cash into the damn thing than I'd care to admit.

If I recall it was a four player side-scrolling beat-em up. I seem to recall the characters that could be played were a dwarf, elf, a warrior and a cleric or mage.

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« Reply #992 on: 01 July 2018, 23:22:11 »
Smells like a version of Gauntlet.

Of which I happen to own.

The Midwest Arcade PS2 disk, and ever PS version out there on videodisk.

Ah memories...

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« Reply #993 on: 01 July 2018, 23:53:45 »
If I recall it was a four player side-scrolling beat-em up. I seem to recall the characters that could be played were a dwarf, elf, a warrior and a cleric or mage.

There was also a thief.

Smells like a version of Gauntlet.

Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight.  The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability.  Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.
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« Reply #994 on: 01 July 2018, 23:58:57 »
There was also a thief.

Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight.  The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability.  Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.

I remember being told that the four man wail of anguish from myself and three other Sergeants when we stuffed up the Staff of Wizardry final strike silenced the entire bar.

Not that we noticed.  ::)

The desperate claw back to a picture finish was amazing but took all our concentration. I don't think we'll ever be able to do something like that ever again.

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« Reply #995 on: 02 July 2018, 00:02:47 »
Never got the Staff of Wizardry, but I do remember spending several dollars repeatedly killing myself with the Cursed Sword in order to turn it into the Legendary Sword.
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« Reply #996 on: 02 July 2018, 08:45:19 »
There was also a thief.

Sort of, but it was a side-scrolling beat'm up like Final Fight.  The game had a lot of diversity: each character had wildly different abilities and there were many branching options that gave it massive replayability.  Your characters had default equipment but you could find alternate weapons and armor that could give you different powers, some of which were very hard to find and very powerful.

Sounds Like either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara
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« Reply #997 on: 02 July 2018, 09:11:29 »
Sounds Like either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom

Tower of Doom was the first game. Shadows over Mystara was the seque though I never actually played ToD (on grounds of never actually encountering a machine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara

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« Reply #998 on: 02 July 2018, 09:34:45 »
Tower of Doom was the first game. Shadows over Mystara was the seque though I never actually played ToD (on grounds of never actually encountering a machine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Shadow_over_Mystara

Yeah...thought I had selected Shadows of Mystara as the second link....DOH!
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« Reply #999 on: 04 July 2018, 12:19:30 »
I saw that Assassin's Creed: Origins is on sale on the Playstation Store this week.  Having heard many good things about it from numerous friends, I decided to go head and try it out.  I'm really liking it so far.
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« Reply #1000 on: 11 July 2018, 04:36:05 »
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Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki (The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV) Famitsu Magazine Additional Cast Announcement

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Sure, the pic quality is potato level, but I've seen enough. They sure as hell weren't kidding when they said this would have the largest playable cast of all the Kiseki (Trails) games so far.

I'm just glad they're back.
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« Reply #1001 on: 12 July 2018, 12:58:32 »
Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Is the D&D game like one of the Gold Box series? Should I crack cartridge open and change a battery?
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« Reply #1002 on: 12 July 2018, 13:08:27 »
Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Is the D&D game like one of the Gold Box series? Should I crack cartridge open and change a battery?

Don't believe so, if by Gold Box you mean the wonderful SSI games like Pool of Radiance, and the rest.
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« Reply #1003 on: 14 July 2018, 01:18:09 »
Been playing a good slew of NES games on the NES Classic mini which it arrived in the morning, such as Punch Out, Metroid, Final Fantasy 1, the classic Donkey Kong arcade game, Gradius, and Super Mario Bros

Aaaaaaaaaand, on PC Steam, I played the Spiritual Successor to Descent called Overload days ago.  It's awesome so far.
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« Reply #1004 on: 15 July 2018, 10:50:45 »
Today I made ~50 km trip to town and back. Since I have got composite cable for family's Mega Drive and I have confirmed it works, I made a visit to video game store and brought back with me Altered Beast and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun.
Yesterday I was going to test those games and find out does D&D game need battery replacement. So I turned CRT TV on, I heard some cracking, and then TV went off and didn't go on again. And I just got composite cables for it too! xp

I still have some CRT monitors, like 19" Samsung Syncmaster 959NF. Do you happen to know of adapter or the like for composite (console) and VGA (monitor) cables?

CRT displays have been recommended for old consoles, because those round the pixels. Though I guess that applies only to PAL and NTSC quality displays and not for the ones that go up to 1600*1200 pixels.
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« Reply #1005 on: 15 July 2018, 17:31:02 »
I bought From the Depths earlier this week on Steam.  However, it seems to be learning curve thing trying to get use to.  It's sort of sandbox creative game of sorts, my computer being the old box it is (2009) with GeForce 8600 Nvidia 8600 GT can barely handle it and the original Void Destroyer games i bought.  xp
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« Reply #1006 on: 16 July 2018, 17:16:23 »
Recently via steam...

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« Reply #1007 on: 20 July 2018, 09:46:22 »
Stellaris- pretty good, though what bugs me is that I cant seem to find the tech tree so I dont know what comes next after I research something, and the combat is real time, which pretty much means no tactics are involved, just whoever has more ships and better tech wins.

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« Reply #1008 on: 23 July 2018, 16:50:39 »
Still playing Fallout 4, level 56 now...

Just don't play enough ya know? Like 8 hours a month, if that.

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« Reply #1009 on: 23 July 2018, 19:15:32 »
I divide my time between Skyrim, Wold of Tanks, and Star Trek Online.

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« Reply #1010 on: 24 July 2018, 00:34:53 »
Just beat the final boss in Convoy, going to do a bit more world exploring now.
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« Reply #1011 on: 29 July 2018, 14:08:51 »
Has anyone played ADOM or Nethack recently? Have there been other improvements since 90's besides graphics?
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« Reply #1012 on: 30 July 2018, 20:54:42 »
I've been playing a bit of "The Long Dark".
its a first person post apocalyptic survival game.
it has EPIC atmosphere.

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« Reply #1013 on: 31 July 2018, 06:48:44 »
Started with Xenonauts- the spiritual successor to the original X-COM game so ... I sent in a squad on an alien crash site...

Took 70% casualties. Ugh. I thought I knew how this game was played.  :(

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« Reply #1014 on: 31 July 2018, 13:47:34 »
Just finished a board of Naval Ops: Warship Gunner for PS2 last night, haven't played that game for over a year! Got me a nice bounty, trying to get 999 of each class destroyed, heard there was an in-game bonus. I've made the twin-hulled cruiser bonus twice, but sold it one time, this time I'm keeping her!

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« Reply #1015 on: 31 July 2018, 14:57:01 »
Wow, hang on to that game.  It's practically impossible to find anymore.

I keep hoping that it'll get re-released on PS4 the way a lot of other PS2 titles have been.
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« Reply #1016 on: 31 July 2018, 15:16:08 »
Started with Xenonauts- the spiritual successor to the original X-COM game so ... I sent in a squad on an alien crash site...

Took 70% casualties. Ugh. I thought I knew how this game was played.  :(

Xenonauts suffers from "enthusiast syndrome." That is, it was made by enthusiasts of the original X-Com - the kind of folks who have put thousands of hours into it - so they made it so it challenged them. It can be ridiculously difficult for the average gamer.
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« Reply #1017 on: 31 July 2018, 18:44:10 »
Stumbled on an SNES classic in stock at target today. already added an extra 50 games on top of the included ones

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« Reply #1018 on: 01 August 2018, 09:41:50 »
Xenonauts suffers from "enthusiast syndrome." That is, it was made by enthusiasts of the original X-Com - the kind of folks who have put thousands of hours into it - so they made it so it challenged them. It can be ridiculously difficult for the average gamer.
Good point. All this game is doing is making me want to play the original all over again too.  :o

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« Reply #1019 on: 01 August 2018, 14:05:28 »
About Xenonauts and X-COM:
Good point. All this game is doing is making me want to play the original all over again too.  :o
I was struggling with Xenonauts too. I give you some pointers based on my experiences.

Real military don't use shields, so I don't either. Still players tell they have had success with them. Are shields overpowered or what?

I use 4 riflemen, 2 assault (shotgunners), and 2 snipers/machine gunner. ALWAYS back up when advancing with enough points for reaction fire. When you open a door, have 2 or more soldiers around of it with full action points. One opens the door, others (shotgunners preferred) go in. And more soldiers need to protect the flanks. Loner (rifleman or machine gunner) can cover flank/rear while others advance.

If you plan to ambush an advancing enemy at short range (with a shotgun) and there is a corner, place your soldier along the wall (if possible) some distance away from the corner. Enemy has to round the corner to get LOS, and that makes a reaction shot at his side. Even better if enemy has his attention on your soldier at front of him (and behind a cover or a shield).

Concentrate firepower! Bring as many troops against as few enemies as possible! Beware enemy grenades however. In surprise and strong enemy encounters, throw grenades (smoke), fall back, and regroup.

You can increase strength of your soldiers by equipping them heavily. I equip them at their max capacity (or little over) that don't bring penalties. Soldiers with most of muscle should carry med gear or stun baton and as many grenades as they can.

Develop laser rifle ASAP. Lucky shot can take down even an android (whatever the game calls it) with a single hit.

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