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It was something to do with the NOLF.rez and NOLF2.rez files being misplaced during installation. I had to copy them from the cd to the correct places. Apparently it's a common problem, but I had to DIG to find the answer. A lot of games that use the LithTech engine apparently also have this problem, as I've seen several AVP2 forums complaining about this. I'll get through it as soon as I'm done with Return To Castle Wolfenstein, which has got me totally enthralled right now.

I finally got it running. Man, that LithTech stuff sure is sensitive. Quite the attractive game for it's time, though.

Scored a GREAT deal at a pawn shop t'other day. Guy had a stack of pc games he didn't know what to do with. I offered him 10 bucks and he sold 'em to me. Got No One Lives Forever, Full Throttle (Yay!), Clive Barker's Undying, The Dig (Yay X2!), and two old diskette pinball games. Ok, I've installed NOLF just fine, BUT, when I go to play it, it gives me this message. No Game Resources Specified It will do nothing after that. Now, I've looked online for this, but NOBODY seems to know what this is. I think it's a problem with the Lithtech engine, but I dunno. I can't seem to find a solution for this. I've had NOLF 2 for a couple of years, and it works just fine on my comp, but this one won't seem to run. HELP! Thanks in advance.

When I worked at a gaming store, we had a lock on our dumpster. Everyday for a week, someone cut the lock off with a bolt cutter and DESTROYED our back area, tossing shit everywhere. Ok, my boss thought, this ends today. He had me go to the drug store and buy a bunch of needles, the kind you put in syringes. We spread them around the inside of the dumpster. After that, no one EVER messed with our dumpster again. BTW, gaming stores almost NEVER throw out working stuff. 1 out of a 1000 things they throw out will actually work.

Sweet. So long as no CBFH or BATM on Expert shows up, it'll be all good. I can own most of the songs on Expert except those.

GAH! It's gonna be KOF '98 this year for the Neo-Geo tourney? AHHH! I spent the last 3 months practicing on Garou for NUTHING?!?! Oh well, I still got a little time to polish up on my KOF moves... I was seriously gonna try and host a Guitar Hero tourney this year guys, but the wankers I work for won't even let me know if I have that day off till the week before, so planning anything in advance is a washout.

Gunpei Yokoi may not get the recognition from the CONSUMERS that Miyamoto does, but he certainly gained his fair share of respect within the industry itself. Miyamoto is very much the public face of Nintendo. He's an affable guy who gets along well with the public. That's one of the reasons he gets so much attention. Sure, he is beyond brilliant with game and console design, no doubt, but he is simply the public face of the company. As for Crane, I always thought that the tennis game he made for the SNES was really underrated (and I LOATHE most sports games, but this was one of the few to really make me want to play more of it). And sure, A Boy and His Blob LOOKED outdated, but the design behind it was pure genius, and NO other game has really duplicated the feel of it. Crane simply evolved in a time before, when graphics HAD to take a back seat to gameplay because of hardware limitations, though I still marvel at the graphical achievements of Robot Tank.

Jim Croce. First off, you gotta escape the clutches of Leroy Brown, the Baddest Man in the Whole Damn Town. Leroy uses dirty tricks like swiping at you wtih the razor he keeps in his shoe and taking pot shots at you with the .32 gun he keeps just for fun. Grab the special afro icon and you turn into the "Jealous Man", who is capable of taking Leroy down. Next level, it's all about running as fast as you can from Jim. Superman makes an appearance here, but if you tug on his cape, he'll send you back to the previous level to face off with Leroy again. One part of the level contains high winds, and spitting will result in a huge loss of points. Grab the Lone Ranger's mask to turn into Slim, who can defeat the nefarious Jim. After Jim has been dealt with it's on to level 3...oh, wait. There is no level 3. Obscurity and the end of your career follow.

Well, you can't leave out Bushnell, of course. That's a given. Miyamoto, is another given. Hell, the Blue Sky Rangers could have an entire wing devoted to them and them alone.

Ok, I've worked at a game shop, and these people have to put up with HUUUUGE amounts of shit, so cut them some slack, ok? I've had angry moms brandishing copies of Goldeneye at me, saying it was MY fault that guys who got shot in the head die (go fug-ure!!), MORONS who asked me of the frickin' Gameboy was Y2K compatible, and assheads who literally needed someone to TEACH them how to play a game. It wasn't quite as bad as working at the pawn shop, but it was damn close, as you got the same sort of clientele there. Trust me, for every one employee who likes talking about his EQ character, there are 10,000 loser ass customers who come in there who have zero friends and simply want someone to talk to because only someone getting PAID to be nice to them will even glance in their direction. Seriously, I had this one guy who thought I was just his best bud in the world come in week after week to gush over the latest Dragonball Z (which I loathe) crap going around. He'd spend hours showing me in inscruitable detail every single step and motion that Gohan would go through to do his Kamehameha (worst...name...EVER) blast. There was another guy who would stop me on the street EVERY time he saw me to ask me how to get through this particular part of a game (like I had a photographic memory or something). Not fun at ALL working there. I don't like going to the Gamestop near my house. I've not gone in there one single time when someone asks me if I work there.

As far as game trading goes, I'd say Game X Change wins, especially with newer games. BUT, as far as finding stuff like decent old 2600 stuff, Vintage wins out. They also do lots more than games. Comics, movies, toys, RPG games, collectible games, miniatures. You name it.

Sweet. I just bought some HeroClix from Vintage tonight. I've been shopping at the main one in Tulsa since the day it opened.

Oooh, oooh, details! Why is Albert pissed at Oklahoma? I figured for sure that AA would be here in full force again.

That actually sounds more like Tecmo's Deception for the original Playstation.

Hey, I'm not taking it personal, far from it. I'm just suggesting you see the other side of the coin, so to speak. When you work at a place with the threat of constant bodily harm, all day long, you tend to lose your niceness in a hurry. You don't get that kind of thing working at Target. The place I work at now is 100 percent different (a pet store). I love it there, and the assholes are promptly dealt with by management. However, getting a gun shoved in your face (this was an EZ Pawn, btw) sort of changes your perspective on things. You become suspicious of EVERYBODY that comes in there, regulars or not. In one year's time, I had to go to court 3 times and go to the witness stand to testify against thieves that pawned stuff in our store. 3 times. Several years back, the owner of a little independent shop (who I happen to know), shot and killed a 16 year old kid who tried to rob him. The kid walked in and raised his pistol, and before he got it leveled, the guy blasted the kid in half with a shotgun he kept under the desk. There was a big uproar, but I was happy that he did it, because it sent a message to all the other idiot thieves out there. Don't try and rob a place that SELLS GUNS. I worked there for 3 years, and to this day, I still look at people in my current workplace and on the street to see if they might be carrying a gun somewhere (and I can spot a thief from a mile away, so the store I'm at now likes that a lot).

I think that every executive of a company should have a man who walks around with them 24/7 with a gun pointed at their head. The instant they make a stupid or unfair decision, BLAM! Next. That dude's lucky I didn't work there or he'd be out on his fat rear end faster than he could think about eating another twinkie. Stay after work and not get paid? Like hell. If they make them do that, that's against the law.

Lemme guess, Shadow460. Never worked retail before? Like I said..I USED to work at one. I had rules to follow too you know. I could NOT just discount something without the managers approval. And you know something, it sometimes takes a LONG time to do a pawn, as you've got a shitload of info you've got to input into the computer. This is exacerbated ten times if someone's selling jewelry and you have to test, weigh, and price EVERY single piece. It took me almost 3 hours one time to price up this witch's nasty ass ol' grandma jewelry. Tell me you wouldn't be ready to wrap your hands around some punk's throat when he doesn't want to spend a dollar on a NES cart after that. I've had jackasses who would literally try and get you down on DOLLAR items. I guess getting 10 cents off something gives these poor excuses for life some small satisfaction in the endless joke that is their existence. Seriously, I'm shedding tears that you had to stand in line for a few minutes. Maybe if 100 sorry scumbags didn't flood into the store at the same time like they were giving away free beer, it wouldn't be so bad. I treated everybody there the same way I was treated. AND I did carry a concealed gun, btw. My advice to you is to not go into a place with a chip on your shoulder, or you just might run afoul of that insane ex Navy Seal just waiting for someone to piss him off. (And yes, I did work with a guy like that. We called him Crazy John. Used to eat an entire JAR or habanero peppers every day for lunch, WITH tobasco on 'em.) Needless to say, working there was THE worst job experience of my life, and I'd starve to death before ever going back. The microwave thing does suck, though. ALWAYS ask to test something before you buy it. I got an awesome microwave from a pawn shop for 10 bucks. Still works almost 4 years later, and better than the brand new one they bought for my current workplace.

I used to work at a pawnshop (one of those big corporate type ones), and let me tell you, the customers that come in are NO better than the greasy guy behind the counter. I'd say that they are about 99.9% complete jackasses. Bottom feeders is what we used to call 'em. Now, these are the loan customers mind, but the ones buying aren't much better. While there, I was held up at gunpoint twice, had a thugged out homeboy take a swing at me (much to HIS dismay, let me assure you), and had the assistant manager (a good friend of mine) beat half to death in the parking lot, along with the girl that was working that night. I'd say that also, probably 5 or so times I had to physically remove someone from the store. You may hate pawn shops, but let me assure, most of the guys behind the counter hate you right back, mostly because they can't trust a SINGLE person walking in the door.

Why wasn't I told of the hidden breasts in Galaxian!?! <Goes off to play hours and hours of Galaxian> Seriously, though, it was either be booted out of office or eat a bullet from some seriously pissed off fanboy gamer. Now if we can just get that Thompson jerky out of office...

I love the Genesis RPG's. Phantasy Star 2 - 4, Warsong, the Shining series. Love al of 'em. I had a great deal of fun with my Genny back in the day. Streets of Rage 2...Sonic 2...F22 Interceptor...

I liked Castlevania 2 as well. I spent an entire weekend playing it and managed to finish it before I had to go back to school that Monday. To this day it's still my favorite Castlevania game because of the RPGish elements to it.

I have no qualms with Sony at all. In fact, I thought it was a ballsy move to tell Nintendo to kiss their collective asses and take their technology off to make the original Playstation. Some of my very fondest gaming memories were in front of my old PS1. Sure, it was kinda fun burning the skin off my thumb trying to roll the score over on Yar's Revenge, but NOTHING can beat that first time you played Metal Gear Solid or Resident Evil.

Dude, you seriously gotta sell me one of those CD-32s. Like, come on and stuff.

Seriously, someone with a HIM avatar telling someone else to get some self esteem? We've already mentioned the pot/kettle thing here, so I don't think it needs repeating. So, I guess that the millions of gamers who think that FF7 is THE single greatest game ever created are wrong then are they? Why does it win the best game ever made from so many contests? Why does Sephiroth win the Gamefaqs best character year after year? Every time I post on this site, I'm reminded of exactly WHY I hardly post here anymore. It used to be cool a couple of years ago, but now we've got all these whiners on here.

From the title, I thought this was a thread about who you think is the coolest video game character, not for some smartass comments about how lame you think someone ELSE'S favorite character is. I gotta give the nod to Solid Snake. The combination of Hayter's voice acting and his overall attitude make him a great character. And for the record, Sephiroth WAS a kick-ass villain. Yeah, he may have wanted to kill the world, but he skewered your girlfriend right in front of your eyes. Not many video game villains can boast of such a heinous act, and those that can certainly followed in Sehpy's wake.