Cybergoth

Nathan Strum · August 3, 2009

That's an awesome number of views. Congrats, Nathan! :ponder:

Cybergoth · August 1, 2009

Perhaps this link will work?

This one did the trick! Very chillaxing

Jungle Drum's alright, but 10.000 times in 2 months?

10.000 approx. Whenever you'll turn on the radio, you'll hear it :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 30, 2009

Moby's good, I've seen him before at a larger venue(this show's going to cozier - at Warehouse Live, where I saw Ladytron). Dirty Vegas was the opening act, it was my first exposure to them - they put on a very energetic performance.

Rats, another 'tube vid that's not working for me!

Do they per chance have anything to do with

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I hope Placebo works out for you, fingers crossed!

For something totally different, I think I just discovered Europes 2009 "Summer Hit":

At least I'm prepared to hear that 10.000 times during the next two months :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 30, 2009

Whoah, Moby! :ponder: I'm green with envy!

Did you already manage to organize the Placebo trip?

Cybergoth · July 25, 2009

I was already busy typing the next entry as I received this :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 21, 2009

So I spent this fifth and final night exporing the giant map a bit, (of course dying another 20 times as well :ponder: )

This game is incredibly huge. I'd be surprised if I scratched more than 5% of it in these ~15 hours I was playing it. To fully explore all maps and fulfill all quests you're busy at least half a year I assume.

The difficulty is unbelievable for a RPG. It really requires a very high frustration tolerance

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see it's sequel "Might & Magic 2", but first it'll continue with something else.

Cybergoth · July 20, 2009

Silly me... I remembered a paragraph from the manual saying that one can only have one quest at a time until it's done. So I changed my mind and delivered the scroll first. The recipient in Erliquin just sent me further into another town called Dusk though, which I'm exploring right now.

Damn hard there once again...

Cybergoth · July 19, 2009

Made it to level three tonight! Yay, now my adventurers can move around a few squares without dying! :ponder:

Ok, ok, all kidding aside, I'm done now exploring a town called "Sorpigal" and the cave underneath it. I also got hired for my first quest now: A wizard asked me to deliver a scroll to his friend living in a town called Erliquin.

Well, right now I'm clueless as to where this town is located, so I decided to investigate another nearby cave first.

atari2600land · July 19, 2009

For me 90s was the boring music decade.

Wrong side of the planet I guess, my 90s sounded like this:

Cybergoth · July 18, 2009

Hehe, this really is the hardcorest RPG I've ever played. It took just three more hours to get all my party members upped to the 2nd level. Not that it has gotten any easier after that... :ponder:

atari2600land · July 16, 2009

I don't think I care much about years or decades, I like music as old as a Hank Williams song up to the most recent one from Lady Gaga :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 15, 2009

Hey, lucky you are! :ponder:

2009 has been such a financial disaster for me so far, I can be thankful if I can afford this CJ Ramone show around the corner:

=> http://www.musikkantine.de/kantine2/konzert01.html#cjra

Mezrabad · July 14, 2009

The irony of doing this for fun and yet dreading to do some of them paralyzes me like a deer brightened by headlights. "I must play this game to write about it, because I enjoy writing about games, but...I don't wanna play it!"

I always cover 5 games from each issue of my Power Play mags for my "Playing..." articles, so I'm usually just ignoring Sports/Simulation/Board games and Text Adventures. But those summer issues with only a dozen (mostly bad) games give me a hard time as well :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 10, 2009

Another strange thing that happened is that the shop in the town just disappeared. I can still walk into the door, but nothing triggers it active anymore. Not sure if I did something wrong, or if I'm experiencing a bug here...

That really is a confirmed bug! I found this info in a Wasteland gamefaq:

Always save after leaving a shop. Due to the nature of the autosave, if you leave a shop and then get attacked and die, the saved game location will be in the shop. When it loads up again, it kills the shop.

Included in the Interplay 10 year Anthology for PC are: Mind Shadow, Bard's Tale, Tass Times, Battle Chess, Wasteland, Dragon Wars, Castles, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Lord of the Rings, Out of this World. I think this came out in 1993!

Weird. Instead of Battle Chess or a European import game (Out of this World) they really should've added Neuromancer to the package. Else it looks pretty solid, I wish I'd own it as well

Okay...

On the fifth (and final) day I had a lot of fun when further exploring this town called Needles: One of my party members caught "Wasteland Herpes" from a hooker and later I blew up a fast food restaurant :ponder:

I think I saw ~1/3 of the game now. Despite a few flaws I mostly had a good time with it, albeit it didn't motivate me enough to continue playing it to the end. I'm sure back in the day I would've done it though

Cybergoth · July 9, 2009

Well, well... nothing much to report today...

I finished everything you can do in Quartz and went on to another town called "Needles". I'm just plain exploring it right now, it's seems it is controlled by some strange blood cult.

Progress is very slow. The endless amount of random battle sure is getting tiresome... :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 8, 2009

I think I was expecting something more along the lines of Apple II's version, but those graphics look great!

I agree, the DOS version seems to have the best graphics. I think Interplays next game, Neuromancer, should look best on the Amiga though

BTW: Is Neuromancer included in your anniversary package? It's missing in my RPG package, but at least Dragon Wars is part of it again.

Good luck and keep your rads down!

Thanks! (The first thing I did today was buying a Geiger Counter )

Else I continued exploring this Town called "Quartz". The majority of time I spent on a mission where I was rescuing the mayor of the town. Progress is slow, since there's RE encounters every 5 steps, it's getting almost a bit tedious here :ponder:

Another strange thing that happened is that the shop in the town just disappeared. I can still walk into the door, but nothing triggers it active anymore. Not sure if I did something wrong, or if I'm experiencing a bug here...

Cybergoth · July 7, 2009

Okay, progressing today wasn't as easy as yesterday. At first my party got almost slaughtered while exploring an old mine and later everyone was killed from radiation while trying to enter another settlement. (Thank heavens I found a character editor which was able to revive my fellow crew :ponder: )

I then had a little more luck at a camp of so called railroad nomades, albeit there wasn't really much to do there, so I went on to a town named Quartz. Pretty dangerous place, but I'm making my way so far

Cybergoth · July 6, 2009

Sounds like a plan! :ponder:

Cybergoth · July 4, 2009

When you lose, does the game tell you to take off an article of clothing?

Yup it does, Donna once had me take my shoes off

So stupid and yet so funny...

I don't remember which one it was, but I remember one of them having file names like suzie1 to suzie5 so you could skip playing the game and just rename the pictures. (That's how I became a hacker! ;))

Nathan Strum · July 1, 2009

All films were waaaay too long, boring, had strange hobbit erotic undertones, and Elijah Wood's constant wide-eyed and worried look throughout all three movies just made me want to reach into the screen and slap that look off his face!

I always wondered how much the trilogy would actually improve if one would just cut Frodo completely out of it :ponder:

Gollum: Careful, don't look into that water!

Frodo: Hm... Why?

Anyone want to buy a LOTR box set cheap?

No thanks. I bought a copy of Sin City instead, so I can see Frodo get dismembered whenever my LotR nightmares return

Nathan Strum · July 1, 2009

Do you mean that as, "There's nothing better in the theaters right now, so if you're bored and have nothing better to do you might as well go see them", or literally that you've seen no better movies than these two films?

I really mean it. I'm not good at describing movies, but I found this review bit from rottentomatoes pretty fitting:

"Spectacular and totally meaningless, like a video game transposed to the big screen and worked by a maniacal enthusiast."

Albeit I don't know why the reviewer thought that would sound negative and in any way support his :ponder: vote

But then I usually don't get movie reviewers at all. What's it with all those people watching action films and complaining about them being all mindless action afterwards? I don't go and see a social drama flic and then complain about the lame stunts, zero sex, missing explosions and lack of humor either, no?

And I don't get that critic either when someone says "it's like a video game". Don't they realize that they're complimenting it with that actually? After all, video games have been better than movies _ever_!

Nathan Strum · July 1, 2009

Hm... but why? There's nothing better. They beat Star Wars and LotR combined! :ponder:

Nathan Strum · June 30, 2009

Pixar shows why they're years ahead of Dreamworks in terms of not only exceptional animation, but compelling storytelling as well.

I'd assume Dreamworks can live with that. After all, with Transformers 2 they just killed every sci-fi action movie ever made. It makes T4 look 20 years older in direct comparison :ponder: