theres a open source total annihilation clone i really like called zero-k and they call new players âlobstersâ because many years ago the admin cracked down on people calling each other noobs (zero-k has a really tiny community and doesnt get many new players, so when people are shitty its generally considered to be bad for the game as a whole) and someone started calling them lobsters instead. you are a lobster if you build too many static defences (which are only situationally useful) and generally suck at the game. zero-k has public lobbies that are these huge 16v16 things in a game where the more people you have on a team the less each individual person actually has to do, so naturally theyâre called âlobsterpotsâ and attract the most trolls and cause enormous forum arguments over team tactics that consume the 20~ people who have been playing the game for over a decade, until one or two of them vows to never play again, then like 2 weeks pass and you see them back in the lobsterpot once more
zero-k is by far the best RTS, i donât think itâs even close anymore
yeah, nobody even comes close in terms of quality of life shit. being able to draw formations for your units and automate everything is soo good
They picked the right game (Total Annihilation) to use as a base, thatâs for sure. Cave Dog 4 lyfe
this sounds awesome and 7-10 years ago would have been fodder for my favorite type of games essay of that era (interviews with weirdoes who have been playing some weird game for years to the point where they have blood feuds with everyone else and can only speak in its bizarre jargon)
Hey speaking of Cave Dog: A video game thing I think about a lot is that they were the adult games division of Humongous Entertainment, the Putt Putt, Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish peeps
Wow, no thank you to that.
I think the only example of advertising that almost worked on me during the 90âs was a tv spot for FFVII the same weekend it was releasedâŠalthough I had already decided on it from following the gaming press from the moment it was announced a year or so earlier
FAKE EDIT: and I bought Virtua Cop 2 this week with no encouragement necessary
not being
there was actually an ad that traumatize me that i will not look up that had a dude with an intense stare and the ad folded out to reveal he was a gory decapitated head on a stick
somehow this got past my parents who were going through my dreamcast magazines as they were coming into the mail and tearing out/stapling together any pages they saw that were mildly sexy. i think its because it was a random gamepro magazine that my dad got me
(i still have the only dreamcast magazine that i got to before my parents did and hid away that had dead or alive girls in it and a two page spread of one of them in a bikini but what i was terrified actually was losing access to a overly complicated marvel vs capcom code that you used to unlock shadow lady and such because the other side of the page was a raunchy ad)
I am afraid that this will reveal how much of a dumbass I am, buuuut idk who that dude is or what that ad is supposed to make me feel! i immediately thought of this shoenice guy though
oh no! it does kinda look like shoenice and that is something heâd say while blacked out
Thereâs a part of CoD WWII where youâre riding in a truck and someoneâs literally like âHey not all Germans are badâ. This is a callback to Cod Advanced Warfare, where the 3d scanned model of Kevin Spacey looks you in the eyes as youâre driving around and says âWhat youâre seeing is Advanced Warfareâ
considering the germans drag your jewish squadmate off to be shot in the woods the game really gives you mixed messages. iâm partial to the ghost cowboy cutscene myself